I come from and extensive Blackberry background and there are a couple little terms I've seen that I need clarification on what they mean in WP7 world.
Hard Rest and Soft Reset(yep, that's it...for now)
In the BB world, hard reset is a battery pull and soft reset is just powering off/on.
In the RingRing7 readme file it said, "...be aware that once a ringtone is installed, at the moment, it can't be removed except via a hard reset." so I wanted to make sure I knew what a WP7 hard reset is. Thanks!
soft reset. when the power is off and turned back on.
hard reset. when you restore device to 'factory' settings.
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My TytnII freezes every time I turn on Bluetooth. The only way I can unfreeze it is by hard reset. Even after hard reset I can't turn on bluetooth without freezing the phone again. I have tried numerous ROMs but the problem remains. I would like to try uninstalling and reinstalling WM6. Can anyone tell me how to uninstall WM6?
Any other suggestions on how I can solve the Bluetooth problem would be most welcome. Thanks
By doing a hard reset you are reinstalling WM6. Are you installing any other apps that may be causing the problem.
I installed and removed some programs which caused my start menu to go funny.
Only way to solve this was a hard reset.
Press and hold the two soft keys with a - marked on them and then press the reset button on the bottom of the device with the stylus.
This will reset the whole device and you will loose all information, data, settings you have put onto or programmed into the device.#
I did this and left it as it should be out the box from the network
Tom
I think I cleared out everything before hard resetting. I used clear storage before the hard reset. I am sure I have hard reset correctly- using softkeys and reset hole-went to a white screen with blue print. I can only think that the version of WM6 in factory reset has become corrupted, hence my wish to uninstall. Thanks
Unlikely that your factory ROM got corrupted, but you can't UNINSTALL. You can only flash a the factory ROM again - do a search and you'll find the links to the factory ROMs for download. Better yet, flash to a cooked rom in the Upgrade forums, they're MUCH better!
Start > Settings > System > Remove Programs
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Later, Lew
I would say that if bluetooth locks your phone on different ROMS and after HARDRESET then its not a software issue as you have killed the software by installing ROMS and Hard Reset..
AH, didn't catch that he'd already tried different ROMs.
Have you tried different radio's? Don't think it'll help but...
Likely is time to send in for repair!
I searched and couldn't find anything on this. I'm running one of Dutty's older roms. The exact one I am not sure of. It has the cube and all. Anyhow, I was trying to find a good onscreen qwerty keyboard and I installed the HTC Touch Keyboard + Keypad from Dutty's sight. Things were going fine all day now it seems as if i can no longer access my text or emails from any of the possible links. Really odd. If any one has a clue as to what's causing this that would be awesome. Oh I uninstalled the cab but this didn't help. Thanks!
usually when I have a problem and I've tried everything I can think of to fix it, I hard reset. Unless you have a ton of programs installed and customized options, hard reset.
to hard reset your device (this will wipe it clean by the way) press and Hold both soft keys while inserting your stylus into the soft reset hole. you'll get a screen with instructions on what to do next.
Yeah I have a bunch of things i'd hate to lose. Thanks though, i'll keep that as a last resort.
if you download and install "Sprite Backup" it will save your entire phone settings including customization, cab installs, and just about everything else. So that way you can hard reset and then just load up sprite backup to restore everything.
my tilt is starting to get a mind of its own rings some times and not others, an goes slow.
the screen is set to stay on all the time but keeps going to sleep this is anotying when searching for bluetooth devices as if i dont keep pressing a button it goes off then it loses the search results
can i reset the machine but not have to re install all my apps?
Do a soft reset. Use the stylus and press into the small hole located beside the stylus location. If it does not work you'll have to do a hard reset, but you will loose your personal data if you don't backup them.
Give a look to the manual ...
Word of advice...
I had the same issue last week. Had to hard reset. works fine now.
If you have never backed up your files for a hard reset, be careful while using Sprite bkup. DO NOT have a lock code set when you back up. It will not remember your PIN when you restore, and you will have to hard reset again and start from scratch!!! Also my experience with Sprite did not restore Email properly. So I found deleting email settings before back up MUCH easier. Kaiser sets up most automatically anyway.
A lot of people here recommended
PIM backup. Search u will find.
Good luck!
My Tilt did a hard reset when today. I pusehd the button for a soft set, and it did a hard one. Anyone ever experience that?
I am suspicious of software. But haven't seen any comments about this problem in any threads on it.
Recently installed software is:
SBP Mobile Shell 3
Finger Suite
Touchpal
Any thoughts?
In order for a full hard reset to happen you need to press the key combination THEN press the green call pickup key.
If it did bypass all those then I guess there is a severe software error for it to manage it.
My only advice would be to be careful and keep a note if it happens again....
Yep. In fact I've found it hard to do a hard resset on my phone. I"ve done 2-3 times over the past 18 months, but haven't for a while.
It's really strange.
The good news is I had a 2 day old backup.
Strange indeeed. Normally the hard reset is done either by a combination of keys as you said or with the “clear storage” function in the settings menu.
However, recently I had a similar "mysterious" experience with a TyTN 1. I installed a new SPL and a new ROM and then I started filling it up with programs and then at one of the soft resets I noticed it was too slow starting up and it did a hard reset instead. What I did is I installed another SPL version (newer one) and I never had this problem again (so far).
Sorry. I'm blank. What is SPL, and what version did you install that helped?
Something really odd happened this morning.
I'm running Clean ROM WM6.5 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=587886
I was tweaking my phone's today screen, just adding new shortcuts to Easy Today Launcher http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=540158. Then my phone froze.
I soft reset, it starts up and kinda took a really long time at the windows mobile screen, so I decide to soft reset it again.
Then it kinda semi hard resetted on me?!?
I went through the whole first time startup settings, but at the end I find all my registry tweaks and programs are still there...seems like as if in windows I created a new user, so all my today screen settings and such are all gone.
I hard resetted at the end, because I don't know what the heck I might be missing.
anyone experienced something like this??
Yes.
Do a hard reset again, rebuilt+configure everything and make a backup of the system this time