good day to all and happy holidays
Most of the devices I have worked with in the past have always had a soft reset button, or a program that will 'act' as a fort reset button. is there such a thing for this device?
versus pulling the battery all the time.
thanks in advance
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=826207
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OK, I've not read a word of the manual, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. When I soft reset (stylus in the hole) the screen fade away and then it won't for the love of god restart. The first time I did this, I went a little pale. however, if I take out the battery for around five minutes and then plug it back in, it starts up again. Is this wrong?
Also, never quite been able to hard reset the damned thing. I press and hold the two "__" buttons whilst performing the reset, but the same thing happens and I'm never prompted for screen calibration or anything else I'd expect from a hard reset. SOMEBODY HOLD ME
Can someone please talk me through the EXACT and DETAILED procedure and result both a soft reset and hard reset?
For me, on my MDA Pro:
Soft reset: Insert tip of stylus into "reset" hole briefly. Screen fades away to blank and the machine then acts dead. No buttons will bring it back to life. Take the battery out and plug it back in, still dead. Come back after 30 minutes, still dead. It needs the battery removing for at least 5 minutes, maybe more like 10, then reinserting and it springs back to life.
Hard reset: Hold down the two "__" keys (above the 4 and 9 keys) whilst inserting the stylus tip into the reset hole briefly. Exactly the same thing happens as a soft reset - no hard reset is performed.
I'm pretty sure this is all wrong and my device is "special"
Not Right!!!
Xiasma: This is very wrong indeed. I've got access to the jasjar and Pro and neither one displays what you mentioned on yours. The procedure you described for both types of resets is correct. Try one more time holding down the 2 soft keys '_' for half a second then whilst holding them down push the stylus in the soft reset hole in at the back of the device (if in laptop mode).
If you still don't get a hard reset, I'm quite certain you have a faulty unit.
Let us know how you get on :?
Thanks, your reply is very much appreciated. Well, looks like it's a faulty unit, then. It doesn't really affect my day-to-day use, so I'm tempted to keep it until there's an official rom upgrade, RAM hike or something :wink:
have you tried turning the power off (using the...er...power button!) before poking at the reset button...see if that makes any difference?
Any joy with your MDA Pro hard or soft resetting?
xiasma: Have you had any luck with your MDA Pro either soft or hard resetting? I'm interested in knowing for personal reasons also, as I have had to exchange 2 units with t-mobile already, due to what I believe is a very buggy ROM, but I could be wrong and it could be something else. :?
Hi Newbie here.
My XDAii has just recently started to do a hard reset every time i press the power button. I have updated the rom but this still happend. Please can someone help.
Kind regards Nick
The first thing I would do would be to make sure that your soft reset switch (the one you poke the stylus into) isn't stuck in IE you may have pressed it at some stage and it hasn't un-pressed. If this is still in, and you press the power switch, it might hard reset.
No the sort reset switch is ok. but doesnt do any thing. i have replaed the switch but it still doesnt do any 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.
hard reset
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.
Another useful tip from me... ( i hope )
Instead of going through the whole process of shutting down your hero and restarting try this method for a quick reboot.
Hold down all 3 buttons call, end and menu.
Voila it reboots, useful for clawing some RAM back if it becomes a bit sluggish.
Here is the link for a hard reset too. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544554
Hey, thanks for the tip
Yeah, I was looking for the way to do that. Thanks!
Best tip ever!
Aw thanks, i`m glad it helped some of you
For some reason, whenever I try to do a hard reset, my tytn only does a soft reset.
That is, after pressing and holding the Left SOFT KEY and Right SOFT KEY, and at the same time, using the stylus to press the RESET button at the bottom of my tytn, I was NOT presented with a menu saying 'press R to reset, X to exit'. Instead, my tytn just reboots just as if I only pressed the RESET button alone.
Device details:
Hermes 200
IPL-1.04
SPL-2.10.Olipro
Flashed ROMs:
Stock ATT 6.1
FCW's 6.5 Stock-like ROM (D 3.62 by Josh)
I'm baffled at why there's no reaction to the hard reset. My searches not only did not yield any threads of issue resolution, but it also didn't yield any people having this similar problem.
As I purchased the phone off the black-market several years ago, I suspect that it could be because of some poor modified low-level firmware that was flashed before I bought it.
Any thoughts?
Is there anyway to do a hard reset via software, and not through the normal hard reset procedure? Or is there firmware that I can flash that contains the hard reset functionality?
Many thanks in advance!
assuming both your softkeys are working yes? To hard reset via software, run 'clear storage' from system settings.
Many thanks Macelius. Clear Storage did just the trick.
Additionally, since you brought it up, I think that my Left SOFT KEY may be starting to fail. It works roughly 1 out of 4 presses, so I thought it still worked but was not responsive because of laggy software.
Though of the 5-6 times I tried to Hard Reset, I guess the Left SOFT KEY didn't work once.
Thanks again Macelius. Good stuff.