I'm sure this is answered all over the place but I can't seem to locate a definitive answer.
A lot of roms cooks advise hard resetting device after flashing - won't his return it to the way it was when I bought it? i.e. with the rom from Orange (in my case) instead of the one I just flashed.
No, with flashing your device you overwrite the existing Rom (the Orange Rom). Every Hard Reset returns the state of your device to the standard settings of the flashed Rom.
Thanks for the fast reply Borbosch
Why is it recommended?
If you flash your phone you change te factory rom and settings. But what does the hard reset what flashing a rom not does.
IE Why is it necessary to do a hard reset?
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following on from the original question how do i hard reset after flashing?
when i use the power and volumedown method i just get a loading screen thay does not go away????
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if i hard reset my phone, will it put it back to the rom that i purchased the phone with? ive upgraded to a different rom and im selling teh phone and i want it back to what i got it as.
The simple answer to that question is no, you will not get back the original ROM. If you want that one back you have to reflash it.
Hard resetting only format the user area, the IPL, SPL and OS area are untouched.
ok so i can just choose the rom for my provider from this site:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Wizard_Upgrades
and just flash it and it should be good to go? also, which Cingular rom should i choose because there is like 5 to choose from
You may get the newest version available
I bought a VPA Compact V a couple months ago to replace my Orange M700 and LOVE it.
Unfortunately Last Night I was playing with password features, and created a password by mistake. I've tried to remember what I typed in and was told it was not valid and asked for my password again! There is an option to reset your password but it is grayed out!
So I called up Vodaphone and they walked me through a hard reset (which I could not do for some reason, instead of getting the white screen, I always get the standard vodaphone one)
After a few attempts they told be I'd just have to return it to and be without phone for up to three weeks which is outreagous! I have had NO issues before this time and really need my kaiser for work. I know I am risking a public scalding and accusations of being a thief but I can assure you I am legit (I've got the bills to prove it!), but given my low post count I can see why you may have your doubts.
I don't really want to do a hard reset if I don't have to, but I think that it is my only choice. My old M2000 (blue angel) looses data if the battery is not in, can I do a similar thing with the kasier?
Thanks in advance,
WWWeed.........
does anyone know if WM6 prevents you from hard-resetting while the device is requesting a password?
Did you follow the steps in the wiki to do a hard reset with just the hard keys on the phone?
You should be able to use the "Clear Storage" icon in the settings without having to know the password if I remember well. That triggers a Hard reset too. But I'd just go with the hard key method too, only takes a couple of seconds...
The Kaiser will not lose any of its memory if you remove the battery.
At this point, you have 2 options. The first is to perform a hard reset; the process is documented in the Kaiser Wiki. Your second option is to download the OEM ROM that your phone shipped with, enter bootloader manually (also in the Wiki) and reflash the device. Either way, you will lose any data not on an SD card.
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Did you follow the steps in the wiki to do a hard reset with just the hard keys on the phone?
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Yes I did, but instead of getting the white screen asking me if I want to clear the storage, I get the standard vodaphone splash screen
kilrah said:
You should be able to use the "Clear Storage" icon in the settings without having to know the password if I remember well.
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I cant get to that screen, I need to type my password in before that!
NotATreoFan said:
Your second option is to download the OEM ROM that your phone shipped with, enter bootloader manually (also in the Wiki) and reflash the device. Either way, you will lose any data not on an SD card.
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I have a problem with this, I cant find the rom installed on this device. I have tryed 3.08.161.0 (Radio 1.64.08.21) UK Vodafone that can found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=365058
however the device starts to flash, gets to 1% and gives me an error (error 294: invalid vendor id)
Does WM6 prevent you from performing a hard reset while asking for a password?
Can I install any of the spl's on this site (so I can flash another rom) with just the bootloader? or is there any way of installing roms without using active sync?
Thanks again guys for your help! I assure you it is much appreciated!
I found a rom that works! Unfornatly I dont know much about it. The name of it is v1615_3.28.161.1.zip
I've uploaded it to rapidshare Here
It is an offical untouched rom from vodaphone directly.
WWWeed said:
Yes I did, but instead of getting the white screen asking me if I want to clear the storage, I get the standard vodaphone splash screen
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You might not be holding the 2 keys long enough. You need to hold them for several seconds after you pressed the reset button.
WWWeed said:
Does WM6 prevent you from performing a hard reset while asking for a password?
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It can't, the button method does the job before WM6 would get loaded.
But I guess if you've been able to flash you shouldn't need the advice anyway. Still, you should do a hard reset after flashing to be sure all previous and/or incionsistent settings are cleared.
Hold the two soft keys then poke the soft reset button with the stylus while holding the soft keys - hold them until you see a new screen, make sure they are fully pressed. then a while screen will come up and you press the "send" key to go through with the hard reset (reset to factory settings).
Hi,
I do not know if anyone has met this issue before.
i was fine until yesterday when i installed this app which shows the pic of the caller.
After the uninstalation it said that i needed a soft reset to finish the process.
I did one but then it did a hardreset.
I installed the rom again, and after certain customisations, that needed a soft reset, a hard one is beeing performed right now.
What can i do please?
Thannk you
flash a stock rom => hard reset => flash a custom rom => hard reset.
dollar wallper
thanks for the tip.
It worked!!!
Now another small issue.
Is there a way to get rid of the dollar that appears in the beginning of the soft reset?
read this thread
or this
or search for splash screen .
do not forget to do before HardSPLs
Hi guys
Sorry I did a bit of a search but not getting the answers I want to know.
When flashing between cooked roms when I had my hermes i used to hard reset > flash stock > hard reset > flash cooked >hard reset > hard reset
With my diamond i just hard reset > mtty format > flash new rom > hard reset.
I am new to Blackstone and am now trying to figure out do I need to flash to a stock rom or can I run mtty before flashing a new rom? is this not needed with the Blackstone/Touch HD?
Thanks for any info
FrAsErTaG said:
Hi guys
Sorry I did a bit of a search but not getting the answers I want to know.
When flashing between cooked roms when I had my hermes i used to hard reset > flash stock > hard reset > flash cooked >hard reset > hard reset
With my diamond i just hard reset > mtty format > flash new rom > hard reset.
I am new to Blackstone and am now trying to figure out do I need to flash to a stock rom or can I run mtty before flashing a new rom? is this not needed with the Blackstone/Touch HD?
Thanks for any info
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If you flash any roms, you should always do a hardreset after flashing.
Thats it,
and to Boost your Touch HD use HD Tweak or Advance Configurator
proace069 said:
If you flash any roms, you should always do a hardreset after flashing.
Thats it,
and to Boost your Touch HD use HD Tweak or Advance Configurator
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sometimes i hard reset, sometimes i dont, i never experienced any problems, never could find an answer why we should hard reset after flash, since when flashing a rom , a new one dont leave any of the old stuff left. Dont know so much about it but i suspect its some superstition involved
anyhow, it wont hurt to do one just in case
I normally just flash and then hard reset (just to be safe and because the chefs often say to do so) I have on the odd occasion just flashed and not hard reset and that also worked fine for me.
I see however that a few frequent flashers have been experiencing problems and the suggested fix for this is as you used to do on your hermes, ie first flash to stock and then to cooked rom again. I have never had to do this (so far at least ).
To be safe I would just hard reset after flashing and only if getting funny errors that others aren't experiencing then I would consider going to stock first before again flashing to cooked.
+1, would agree with ClydeB1, after each flash I would generally perform a hard reset before automatic configuration takes place (generally by removing battery, re-inserting, and then hard reset). I have heard people say to perform 2 hard resets, but I have never experienced any improvement doing this after testing on many roms. I have however at times noticed a slight responsive improvement after one, but not on all roms.
I have never had to reflash stock before flashing cooked roms, but I do know people who have done, though this is only if problems occur.
Only reason why I have ever had to reflash stock was when I had a upgrade rom code error, BLAC100 stays in bootloader caused by flashing process stalling half way through, and this has only happened once and I've flashed 100's of roms
Thanks for the information guys!!
Hello All,
I am using un-contract HTC Pure windows 6.5 phone in india. Now I am facing some issue with my mobile so I want to hard reset my phone. But I am worried about one thing is, do I need to unlock my phone again after hard resetting mobile ?
I have unlock code which is given to me by AT&T at the time of purchasing this mobile.
Hard reset
Hard reset will restore everything of the operating system in its factory issue so you will loose your datas and configuration yes.
Hi
I am new to this forum.
I bought HTC diamond 2 recently. It is my first smartphone, so I am a little nooby with it. Anyway, it has the stock windows 6.1 installed. So, I may go off topic, but I wanted to ask:
1 - If I am about to upgrade my phone to WM6.5, will my warranty still be working with another OS than the stock one?
2 - If I install (or flash or whatever you call it) my phone to WM6.5 and then perform the hard reset (push the reset button on the back of th phone), will the phone run wm6.5 or the stock wm6.1 after the reset?
I hope you understood the questions, sorry for my wretched grammar.
If you install an official WM6.5 ROM from HTC you won't loose warranty (I guess)
A hard reset will reset your phone to the factory settings of the latest flashed ROM. So if you flash a 6.5 ROM and do a hard reset your phone will still be on that 6.5 ROM.
Attention: pushing the reset button is not a hard reset - it's a soft reset
And a soft reset won't kill your data or configuration
So, what exactly does the soft reset and hard reset? Where is the difference? And how do I perform the hard reset then?
hard reset:
RTFM or this: http://digital.uwants.com/viewthread.php?tid=8061717
there also is an option in WinMo to do a hard reset, but I cannot tell you how to navigate there in a non-german version
difference of these resets: http://www.astraware.com/support/showQuestion.php?id=111
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Hard reset will restore everything of the operating system in its factory issue so you will loose your datas and configuration yes.
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So you mean I need to unlock my phone again ? If it is the case, Will my previous unlock code work ?
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So you mean I need to unlock my phone again ? If it is the case, Will my previous unlock code work ?
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Yes, it will work