i've searched the forums, but the number of problems where "hard reset" is offered as a solution makes it difficult to find out how one actually does it !
the wiki doesn't appear to say how either
i've done it a hundred times but it's been a while - my good phone broke and i'm back to this old thing !
anyway, it's playing up a bit, and a good old hard reset i reckon will sort it. be most obliged if someone could post the key combination that does it. ta muchly!
s'ok. i figured it out. soft reset + power button. simple!
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Hi everybody,
I have been trying out various softwares (install/uninstall) on Jasjar and was planning to do a hard reset to go back to original factory settings (like a format and complete reinstall WinXP on my desktop PC) and only install the selected few I liked and need.
Reading these threads for hours gave me the hint the hard reset is not going to do that for me. I am still a little confused; would somebody please describe what HR is on a Jasjar?
If not a HR is what I am looking for, how should I clean up all the tracks of junk (former programs that I deleted or tried to delete, but got an error message).
(Please, be easy on me and detailed, I am not a tech geek, have not even gone into registry yet…)
Thank you for your help!
IZ
A Hard Reset will do exactly what you want. As long as you haven't been playing silly buggers creating your own ext.rom.. -- given that you haven't touched the registry yet, I doubt you have..
Hold down all the required buttons, and press the Reset button at the back, wait 20 mins for it to rebuild itself, and you'll have a nice fresh Jasjar ready to go.
The only thing you may be confusing it with is a Soft Reset, and that's literally like turning your PC off. Nothing is gone, no information lost, it just reboots it.
How to I hard reset the TyTN?
guano said:
How to I hard reset the TyTN?
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by searching before posting:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Resets
I had no idea this model also was named as Hermes, but thanks! (and I did search the forum, but with words "hard reset TyTN"
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by searching before posting:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Resets
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@POF
Thanks
WBR
ReyTech.
Hi
I am trying to do a hard reset, i have searched all the forum and the wiki, and tried to press on the soft keys
but still nothing happened, the device just boots normally and it doesnot display any message as the wiki suggested.
am i missing any thing here? or the soft keys are different than those i am pressing
littelly i am pressing on the RED and Green keys under the screen, is that right?
btw
the result i get fro mthis process is it the same as clearing the storage result from the settings?
wrong keys, not the red and green ones, the two key that look like a -
one more thing, even if you do press the right keys, it may take some tries before you get it right, press and hold those two keys and keep holding after you reset
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by searching before posting:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Resets
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Bit unfair of you. I know you are experts but your search engine is not brilliant. I tried hard reset TyTN OR hard reset kaiser to no end, with what I thought were the right amount of + AND. How are lowly persons like us supposed to know that the Kaiser & Hermes are the same?
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How are lowly persons like us supposed to know that the Kaiser & Hermes are the same?
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The Kaiser & Hermes are NOT the same. The Hermes is also known as the TYTN, and the Kaiser as the TYTN II.
You have posted in the Hermes section asking about the TYTN, so we are assuming this is the phone you have.
If you are still having problems, the keys you must press are the two soft keys, directly below the screen. While holding these two, press the reset button and release it straight away. The screen should immediately show the hard reset confirmation, and you can then release the soft keys.
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Bit unfair of you. I know you are experts but your search engine is not brilliant. I tried hard reset TyTN OR hard reset kaiser to no end, with what I thought were the right amount of + AND. How are lowly persons like us supposed to know that the Kaiser & Hermes are the same?
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Odd,i searched for "tytn hard reset" and had the answer on the first result.
The search turned up this>
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=000825...reset&sa=Search&cof=FORID:0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8.
Of which the very first result was this>
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-283462.html
which in turn lead to this>
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Resets
It appears that the search engine,while maybe not brilliant, does its job quite effectively.
I've just gotten my T-Mobile MDA Pro, and i am very happy with it
however, a few things
1. How do i hard reset? being my first WM5 pda, i cant find how to hard reset (total factory reset) the thing...
2. How do i get out of ozVGA?!?? in the last 5 mins i just set it to true vga... how do i get back to normal? soft reset wont work, just keeps rebooting to true VGA... kinda panicking at the moment...
Help would be much appreciated on this one...
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omg... breath... i have sorted the VGA problem... man i am sweating buckets now
See, ive wanted a Universal ever since the rumours started nearly 2 years ago... and now i have one i nearly brick it in the same day... and the problem in the end was me being a dumbass and not reading the readme
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Google!
If you must know, press and hold the backlight (lightbulb) button and use the stylus to press the reset button. Hold the backlight until you get a menu with three options. Use the dpad up button to move from item to item, use the down button to select yes or no. Set Clean Registry and Format Storage to YES and press the middle dpad button to reboot. This also works for the QTEK 9100
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PS please use helpful topic titles, and you'll get help much faster.
Hi, thanks for the info.
sorry about the title, I was kinda preoccupied with my malfunctioning PDA... and I guess I should've used the search, too...
But you got VGA working right?
I wasn't sure if you needed any further help on that...
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hi, a friend just gave me his wizard to fix some issues, while trying to hard reset it, i found out that the small reset button is broken.....a sharp pin inserted goes all the way in......
any help / alternative?
i was thinking of flashing it with wm6 rom
hehe. good idea.
I think XPShut has a soft reset feature.
Aside from that, the power button will usually still shut off a phone, except when it's really screwed up. If you're adventurous, seek out the repair manual and disassemble the thing...
Hi,
I have tried and tried to do a hard reset but the phone only soft resets.
i press and hold both soft keys under the screen (the "-" key above the Q and the "-" key above the P) and then i poke the reset button on the side of the phone. It will only soft reset. I've tried this when the phone was turned on and turned off.
I've even tried pressing the left soft key first and then the right, I've reversed the order . . .
Nothing I try will let me do a hard reset!
Any ideas?
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No doubt you're doing it, but you have to push both soft keys at the same time as when you push in the stylus. Push both keys extremely hard with your right hand, and enter the stylus with the other.
Otherwise you could just try flashing one of DCD's rom's. That ought to get it to the hard reset status you want anyway right?
hey scotcha12345,
I tried pushing both keys at the same time too (then poked the reset). But it still won't hard reset.
I would like to do a hard reset because I'm sending this phone back to vzw.
I just want to clear the memory of any personal stuff.
I did the Settings>System>Clear Storage thing but I want to be REALLY sure that everything is gone and a hard reset seems like my best bet. (But, of course, the phone won't hard reset.)
Since it does not look like I'll be able to hard reset can anyone confirm that the Clear Storage thing does what a hard reset would do at least in terms of clearing anything personal and getting rid of programs that vzw might not like? (It has the stock ROM so I'm good there.) From what I can tell, I should be ok with Clear Storage but I would still rather do the hard reset.
and just to be clear, I've tried pushing all three (both soft keys and reset button with stylus) at the same time, too.
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2 other suggestions:
1st:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Titan
Scroll down to: Downgrading -- Official Carrier ROMs & associated radios with flashing guides
You could reflash with that. It's the original ROM and radio, so there should be no problem, thus avoiding any warranty deal breaking. (fairly quick and easy)
2nd
I'm pretty sure in the past I've seen a program that has a button that you can just push that does a Hard Reset...looking for it.
I've never done the Clear Storage, so I'm no help there.
Have you tried using the soft keys on the face of the phone? The ones above the windows and ok buttons. I've only used these and never the ones on the keyboard.
Ivan
try doing it by pressing the two softkeys obave the send and end buttons and then prees the reset button with the stylus BUT KEEP PRESSING THE TWO SOFT KEYS, DON'T RELEASE THEM UNTIL YOU SEE THE HARD RESET SCREEN...
btonetbone & nelsongruebr
Thanks, that did the trick.
(Sorry for the long response time. I was in a coma for the last 6 months.)
to answer your earlier question about the "clear storage" method... yeah, that does the same hard reset as when you press the two softkeys (on face of phone) + reset button.
The "clear storage" is the only method for the xv6900 users to hardreset since they don't have softkeys.
Ive hardreset both ways on my xv6800 with the same result.