Since I recently bricked my Universal for the second time it made me think why this could have happened. The symptons are known. Your machine hangs in the splash screen (not the Serial or USB boot screen), you can flash another rom, but this does not help, and MTTY Task 28 gives an error.
I think I know what happened in my case. Both times (and I do flash my ROM a lot) I did not completely press the two soft keys on the keyboard really well when resetting with the stylus. The system the proceeded with a normal soft reset, and knowing this is not right I immediately repeated the process (holding the two soft-keys, reset stylus, and typing 0 on query) while the soft reset was still in process. I think this bricks the device.
Opinions?
Doodle said:
I did not completely press the two soft keys on the keyboard really well when resetting with the stylus. The system the proceeded with a normal soft reset, and knowing this is not right I immediately repeated the process (holding the two soft-keys, reset stylus, and typing 0 on query) while the soft reset was still in process. I think this bricks the device.
Opinions?
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YES, that is definitely the wrong way to put your device on bootloader mode. You need to press 3 buttons all at the same time namely:
1st: Power Button
2nd: Back Light Button
3rd: Reset Pin Hole
Who gave you the idea to press the 2 soft keys on the keyboard?
He was talking about the Hard-Reset you have to do AFTER flashing.
NiTeSHiFT said:
He was talking about the Hard-Reset you have to do AFTER flashing.
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I had never done a HARD RESET after reflashing. I followed the on screen instructions to just press 2 buttons namely (Soft Boot):
1st: Power Button
2nd: Reset Pin Hole
But NEVER a hard reset and I had not encountered any problems yet.
what the original poster really talking about is doing a hard reset WHILE a hard reset is starting. in which case you can take two views:
1) let the first one finish. that's the way it's designed and tested. starting another one is an exception nobody tested for.
2) a hard reset is a 'start from scratch' event. from ANYWHERE a hard reset should take you to a known good place. even from the middle of a hard reset.
from experience (designing complex hardware/frimware systems) either one SHOULD be right; but only one was in the designers mind at the time
take your choice (but pick that one)!
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I had my original ROM back up to SD yesterday by performing a hard reset (hold on/off key then press the soft-reset button), then successful copy "CE + Boot to SD" to the card. But today, I can't perform the hard reset anymore. When I hold on/off key then press the soft-reset button, there is no option for me to choose, it only look like a soft reset. BTW, I did not neither change, modify or install anything since yesterday.
Anyone has any suggestion? Tks.
hhmmm never knew you could hardreset xda1's that way i believed that you needed to stick the stylus into the small hole on the otherside of the connector as in 1 hole for softreset and 1 hole for hardreset
Yes, the hard reset button on xda 1 is the tiny hole next to headset socket, push once, leave for 1 minute then push once more for fresh factory reboot. This procedure MUST be carried out after flashing phone.
I'm sorry I did call the wrong name for that procedure.
The problem is when I did successful unlock my Siemens SX 56 via ActiveSync by install the Special Edition rom 1.2, I couldn't enter the "bootloader" by hold on/off key then press the soft-reset button. Anyone pls help.
hi there not sure if my phone is a universal but looks like the pic in the front. anyway i was installin WM6 and when install getdata or sumfink it just went to this blank sceen which says serial v2.01. what do i do nothing works ive tried soft/hard rest nuthin! HELP!!!!!!!
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hi there not sure if my phone is a universal but looks like the pic in the front. anyway i was installin WM6 and when install getdata or sumfink it just went to this blank sceen which says serial v2.01. what do i do nothing works ive tried soft/hard rest nuthin! HELP!!!!!!!
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Remove the battery for 15 minutes or so then re-insert it and try to restart your machine. Note: hard reset requires you to hold down the two - (dash) keys and press the reset button. Some folk (perhaps not you) think that pressing the reset button with the stylus is a hard reset, but that is just a soft one. Good Luck.
you are in the boot loader mode ... read the topic with title :
all of you stuck in bootloader... goodluck.
yes, i know it's such a noob question, and for someone flashing my device for almost like twice a week, this should be something i already know...
but believe it or not, i don't...
so please, can anybody here be kind enough to tell me how to reboot my device? is it the same thing as soft-resetting??
thanks for the good souls!
Soft reset : Put stylus in hole
Hard reset (erase all datas) : Press the two soft keys (the ones with : "-"), press reset with stylus while maintaining the two keys, when you see boot screen stop pressing all keys and press the green key.
thanks aje_fr!!!!
Hey
I hope some one could help me on this small problem.
I just tryng to resest my XDA IIs back to defaults, clear all on the memory.
Im running WM6 and im a bit lost on how to do a hard reset please help me.
Thank You
Dal.
Hard Reset
If this is new ROM you should go to Boot Loader first.
How to make Hard Reset:
1.Perform Soft Reset
2.Push Record and Camera button at the same time and hold them until the Boot Loader screen shows up.
P.S. You should do step 2. before the Radio version/ROM version appear in the right bottom of the screen.
3.“Enable KITL” must be NO, “Clean Registry Hive” must be YES, “Format Storage” must be YES
P.S. Use the Record and Camera buttons for navigation.
4.Press Mail button.(Do not touch anything until the white screen disappears)
NOTE: IF YOU WANT TO GET RID OT THE PASSWORD(WITHOUT DELETING YOUR FILES) YOU SHOULD PERFORM NO/YES/NO PROCEDURE!
That's it! Good Luck!
After trying to upgrade my Dell, it no longer will turn on. Please tell that I really do not have that so called "300 dollar paper weight". Is there anything that can be done.
Ok, I have upgraded the rom on a HImalaya device (NOT an Axim) several times, and with those devices, after you upgrade the rom you need to do a SPECIFIC hard reset.
Pressing the normal power button or other buttons to wake it up doesn't work.
On our device it involves holding down the reset button, camera and record (it will be different on yours).
This takes us to a screen where we need to change three settings (such as cleaning the registry hives) before the device starts up.
You need to figure out what the specific reset combination is for your phone (generally it isn't the same as the hard reset you would usually use ETC on a Himalaya device the normal hard reset is reset plus power, but the reset after bootloader is reset, camera and record).
Hope this helps.
Thank you for you help. I got it working.
would you share how you did this?
Hard Reset for X50 is Hold Power Button and Push Reset Button