The screen on my G2 only shows black and white lines for some reason; it's obviously broken.
I'd like to perform a factory reset on the device before I send it in for warranty service.
I know that I can get to the boot menu by holding volume down while powering on, but I don't know exactly what to press after that.
I was hoping someone could tell me the exact key sequence for doing this.
Thanks in advance.
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In case anyone cares, I figured out that after you get into the boot menu, press volume down once, power button once, then volume up. The phone will vibrate. Wait a while before rebooting.
Don't waste your time, send it back ASAP!
I'd just like to wipe the device since I have Visionary (etc) installed, not sure how thoroughly they check that stuff for warranty purposes.
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Hi people. having a bit of a crisis. my mini s wont startup any more? it just hands at the 'windows mobile' graphic?
anyone know any genuis solutions to help me get it working again?
pretty please *crying*
mark
Have you tried to give it some time? When i had old version of Polish official WM5 ROM from Era operator, my Wizard took more than 5 minutes to boot (instead of less than a minute with newer ROM). Also, sometimes it did hang in the process. What seemed to help (though i have no idea why) was not allowing the backlight to go off by tapping the screen once in a while during the boot process.
left it on, with charger plugged in to maintain juice all morning and its not gone any further
And how about keeping the device awake - tapping the screen during boot process?
it stays permanently awake from reset
What i meant, is that when my device booted, after a while the backlight went off. if i didn't tap the screen to turn it back on, the device simply hung. Then again, that was probably just a problem of my ROM/software combination, since i never saw anyone else describing such problem. If you have your data backed up, you might try a hard reset, if not, maybe someone else can give you a bit more useful advice
it just stays on. no tapping required.
is a hard reset the same as holding down the power button til it turns off because ive done that a few times now
any suggestions?
nope, hard reset is holding the comm manager and voice memo buttons pressed and pressing the side reset button. Keep these buttons down until you get a question if you want to restore your factory defaults (you'll have to press the call button if you do). Be arare that you'll lose all the data on your phone (those on the storage card will stay intact) - all the files, contacts, messages. I hope you have a backup of those...
strangely enough, held down those three buttons and instead of asking me to hard reset it vibrated and then popped the txt mesages screen up?
very bizare
must have been retaining the boot graphic on top of the apps?
thanks for the help!
mark
Well, i must admit - that sure is odd.
there is another way to hard reset - turn off your device completely (holding the power button for a few secs, and answer the popup message asking if you want to power down "yes" (from your earlier posts i understand that it worked). When the phone is completely off (no LED blinking), press the two side buttons i mentioned earlier (voice command and comm manager) and while holding them power the phone up just as you normally do - by power button. Keep both side buttons down until you get the question about resetting. If you hold the buttons and it gets to the windows mobile screen, then one of them might be faulty.
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I just thought o0f something else - if the SMS window pops up, it would mean that the device is actually booted, so it should connect with activesync. Maybe connecting it to the PC, opening the device's folder, and navigating to /windows/startup folder. Thye problem might be caused by one of the applications run on start, so try moving (not deleting) all items from startup to some location on your PC. Then do a soft reset (the reset button on the side). If it boots, post the list of apps you had in startup, maybe we can figure out which one was causing trouble and put all others back to startup. If not, then the problem is somewhere deeper in the system, and a hard reset will probably be necessary.
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If someone could post detailed instructions on how to hard reset (via vol up/dwn/power buttons) the surround it would be much appreciated.
What I am looking for specifically is were the instructions say "Follow the instructions on screen"
My display is not working but I would like to hard reset it to c if that will help or at least get all my personal stuff off before i send it back.
I used Windows Live "Find My Phone" to Hard Reset it also I believe you can do it from Zune also.
1. Turn off or pull the battery/replace battery.
2. Hold both volume up and volume down keys
3. Press the power on button and continue to hold vol up/down keys for about 10 seconds past the vibration.
4. Press volume down once more to erase.
It should reboot on its own after that, but if not pull the battery again and reboot. The reset process only takes a few seconds at most once you press volume down, so if you don't see any screen after that assume its dead and wiped. Good luck.
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1. Turn off or pull the battery/replace battery.
2. Hold both volume up and volume down keys
3. Press the power on button and continue to hold vol up/down keys for about 10 seconds past the vibration.
4. Press volume down once more to erase.
It should reboot on its own after that, but if not pull the battery again and reboot. The reset process only takes a few seconds at most once you press volume down, so if you don't see any screen after that assume its dead and wiped. Good luck.
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Thanks for that post man, I know someone that just got the HTC Surround yesterday and I know I will be the one to do any tweaking or moding to it. This kind of info is just what I come to these forums to find. Got to love XDA.
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Thanks for that post man, I know someone that just got the HTC Surround yesterday and I know I will be the one to do any tweaking or moding to it. This kind of info is just what I come to these forums to find. Got to love XDA.
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It's only because I have wiped my surround many times... I am on my third one now. Long live XDA!
Hey guys. I have a N7 with a broken screen I want to sell on ebay ("for parts"). The device's screen is broken... but if someone could fix it the device would work fine. Either way it is impossible to unlock / get into the device because of the broken screen.
I want to wipe the device before the auction ends (so personal info/passwords get deleted etc) but cannot figure out how to do a factory reset via usb.
Can someone help me out on the steps I would take to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Hey guys. I have a N7 with a broken screen I want to sell on ebay ("for parts"). The device's screen is broken... but if someone could fix it the device would work fine. Either way it is impossible to unlock / get into the device because of the broken screen.
I want to wipe the device before the auction ends (so personal info/passwords get deleted etc) but cannot figure out how to do a factory reset via usb.
Can someone help me out on the steps I would take to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
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You can follow the below steps if you can see the screen but not interact with it:
1.If your tablet is on, power it off.
2.Press and hold Power until the device powers on, then immediately press and hold Volume Down (while still pressing Power). You will see the word Start with an arrow drawn around it.
3.Press Volume Down twice to designate Recovery mode.
4.Press Power to restart into Recovery mode. You will see an image of an Android robot with a red exclamation mark.
5.While holding down Power, press Volume Up.
6.Use the volume keys to scroll to "wipe data/factory reset" and press Power to select it.
7.Scroll down to "Yes - erase all user data" and press Power to select it.
If you can't see the screen, the steps above should still work or another user who has the device handy may be able to help you determine how many presses it will take in step 6.
Thought Id ask here before I give up.
Been having a problem with my nexus.
The power button started acting up recently.
I've tried replacement and also made sure the mechanical button works inside someone else's device and it works fine.
My problem is that the button seems to loop or not work at all. For instance the device wont boot (Gets stuck in a loop) unless I hold the power down until the boot has completed, then if I let go it will usually stay on.
But then the power button is unresponsive unless I hold it again which in turn puts it back into a loop. I can hold it down for 10 secs then release then I get power down option but if I select it it goes back into a loop.
Ive tried a recovery which hasn't fixed it and tried using computer to flash a new image but I cant unlock boot loader as when I manipulate the button on the screen where I have to accept. It then goes into a boot loop again causing the device to not unlock/relock.
Im pulling whatever hair I have left out here and am about to give up unless anyone else has any ideas? Its as though the power button either works but sticks on. Or doesn't work at all. depending if I've held it on for a while or not.
Many Thanks
I just bought and installed this unit in my 2010 Prius from a seller on Ali Express
I want to install a custom ROM on it but first I want to make sure I can successfully boot into recovery in case something goes horribly wrong. The seller REALLY doesn't want to share that information with me, so I was wondering if someone here might know how this is done.
If you have a reset button...
Press it (with toothpick) and hold it pressed until you see blinking the lights of buttons...then release and press it again until you see the lollipop logo. Release it and you will be on recovery menu.
You can move on different options from recovery by pressing quickly the reset button and choose an option by holding pressed the reset
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If you have a reset button...
Press it (with toothpick) and hold it pressed until you see blinking the lights of buttons...then release and press it again until you see the lollipop logo. Release it and you will be on recovery menu.
You can move on different options from recovery by pressing quickly the reset button and choose an option by holding pressed the reset
if I did help you, please hit "thanks" button
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So I tried that, but on my unit when you press the reset button all the light go out and stay out until the button is released. The only time I can get the lights around the buttons to flash three times is when I release the reset button and hold down the power button. But when I release the power button and hold it down again after the flashes it just repeats the three flashes again like the first time. If I release the power button at any time it just loads up like normal. If I hold it down again when the lollipop logo comes on it just goes blank and repeats the three flashes again. If I press the reset button it just resets the unit again, if I hold it down it does nothing until I let go, then it resets the unit again like normal.
The three flashes seem like they mean something but I can't figure out how to get to the next step of actually starting the recovery. I want to flash a custom rom but I am afraid to do it without the safety net of being able to get into recovery if I need to, you know?
any update
I also want to buy this unit, but I'm just not sure:
Does it connect to all the functions of the Prius 3? Camera? Microphone? Steeringwheel buttons? Other?
Or do you need extra modules? Which?
Are you enabled to edit the basic car functions from it at least?
Found the thread on google, waiting for someone custom rom it, its good, everything works excepts its buggy, sometimes camera dont work etc that is why i also want a simlle custom rom on it
Edit: solved here : https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...pment/mtcd-intel-sofia-units-wifi-3g-t3533154
Could you explain me how? I have same screen but I don't even get those 3 lights pushing both reset + power at same time. Thanks
Hey guys, so I have this media and my camera doesnt work, I just bought this car and when i put to reverse just yellow triangle appears, i found on google that they might be a solution in my factory settings, but I dont know the password, so do any of you know it, i would apreciate any kind of help, thanks.