So I have an LG Panther (the LG prototype WP7 device), but I've forgotten the lockscreen password (no, it's not a stolen phone before anyone asks) so I'm trying to figure out how to hard reset it. The trick of pressing the up and down volume buttons during startup as stated in the WP7 tips and tricks thread brings me to a debug screen, as seen below.
The text at the top says "User Profile, Usbserial, No-Download, Kitl-Enable" (the third option alternates between Download and No-Download every other time I boot into debug mode.) Once I get to this screen, it doesn't respond to any button presses and the only way to turn it off is to pull the battery.
Any ideas of what this screen is, and how to get a hard reset done? Is there a way to do it through the computer? I'm kind of guessing no, since there's no real WP7 sync mechanism other than Zune, but it doesn't hurt to ask I guess.
you can do a hardreset through your live id
logon to your hotmail and there must be an option to wipe the phone or to call your phone .
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Hello,
Can someone help please, I’ve overclocked my Qtek S200 (Prophet) to such a speed that my phone is not capable to run on.
The difficulty is, before I have done this I foolishly “Registered” in start-up menu for the overclocking software to run at 288 MHz.
Now when restarting, the phone is reaching a point of Window Mobile and then it’s either stops dead or restarting it self constantly.
I can guess the solution but don't know how to do it I need somehow to stop Overclocking software to be used during a boot up.
Or maybe even a hard-reset. (I did that already but it’ freezes at the point where I can see 3colors on the screen and nothing further. Any suggestions please?
The easyest way is to perform a Hard Reset. Make sure you have the power button, the camera and the comm manager button pressed while reset ing the S200. The other way is to take a look at the startup folder and see if there's a program that is automaticaly launched on startup that changes the speed of the device. The only thing you have to do is delete that entry...
Hope it helps.
RE: SOS
I did try it to do hard reset the way you said, in the end this really helped.
I removed the battery and left it for about an hour. Then plugged my USB cable, done what you normally do on Hard Reset, by pressing Photo button on the side and Comm. Button and pushed the pen. When phone stopped at the point where I could see 3 colours, at the bottom USB text appeared. I re-install new ROM and magic! My phone is back from the dead
My Artemis Orbit on O2 froze so I did a soft reset - no luck so I did a hard reset. The phone boots to the green screen which says 'Tap the screen to set up your Windows Mobile-based device etc'
However there is no cross to tap and screen taps do nothing.
I've flashed the ROM via the Bootloader screen (followed instructions to load the correct O2 Operator NBH file to the root of a Micro SD card) a few times but no luck.
I cannot find anything on this problem on the site but I can miss things!
Can anyone advise what I need to do?
Thanks,
Stew
Seems nobody knows what I should do here.
I can get to Bootloader and see ActiveSync but it won't go past the 'setup screen' where it asks for screen taps to align the screen. There is no 'cross' on display.
Which part of the software controls this?
On the inital screen there is no cross, but a screen tap anywhere should start the setup proceedure.
I cannot get a screen tap to be accepted anywhere. The Green Setup screen appears asking for a tap but that does nothing - I'm thinking a tap with a large hammer is coming to it soon! Only joking!
Is this a hardware fault I've got rather than a software problem?
There is no screen cover on it as I've read than can hamper screen taps.
My Touch Pro 2 kept reverting to the TouchFlo home screen within a couple of seconds of opening other applications (eg. click on a new email, and a second later it goes to TouchFlo. Soft resets didn't make any difference: nor did disabling TouchFlo (from the Settings/Today/Items menu) - it then just reverted to the Windows home screen instead. So I tried to hard reset the machine. I read that the way to do it is to hold send+end+power, but that didn't do anything. Some posts suggested that volume down+reset was the way to do it, so I tried that. I've now got a tricolour screen, which starts:
RHOD100 32M MI-BC
SPL-0.84.0000
A bit more searching suggests that this is the bootloader (?) screen that comes up when you want to flash a ROM, and I feel dangerously close to doing something expensive and irreversible. Any suggestions as to how to get out of this screen? Nothing obvious when I search the forums here. I was thinking of just taking out the battery. And any thoughts on how to hard reset - or how to stop deal with the original problem?
Thanks
You ain't going to mess anything up. You can flash a new rom from there though but there is no way to do it by accident. Don't you hard reset by holding down the green and red call buttons and soft reseting? I remember it being different from the Touch Pro 1.
you might head over to the rom section, read up on the "flashing your phone for the first time" thread. Answer is most likely in there.
Thanks for coming back so quickly guys. The ROM flashing thread didn't explain how to get out of the tricolour screen. Meanwhile I just took out the battery and that did the trick. I still couldn't hard reset using the send+end+power buttons as instructed here and in the manual. I was able to get to the Settings/System/Clear Storage menu and was eventually able to keep it open for long enough to enter "1234". That hasn't dealt with the original problem, though - switching back to TouchFlo after a couple of seconds in each application. It's also beeping incessantly. Any ideas?
It sounds like your device is registering a phantom End key press every couple of seconds. That would explain it popping you out to the home screen and the beeping. If your End key is indeed acting weird, that would also explain why you can't hard reset using the power+send+end key combination.
You should send it in for warranty replacement...
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...registering a phantom End key press every couple of seconds...
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That makes a lot of sense, thanks. Now that you mention it I realise that it's the same kind of beep and the same result as the End key.
I've only had it for 2 months. I'll get on to HTC.
I had to turn off my Htc Tilt 2 because t froze (I do this all the time by the way) But this time when I turned it back on, the lock screen wallpaper was a different color, and when I tried my password it didn't work, Now I;m not retarded (In know my password and I tried to eneter a lot of times) and I even tried "0000" cause that's ususally the default password. I also tried to hook it up to the computer to reset it or soemthing and I cant use it on the computer cause I have to unlock the phone first (Prett stupid) And I tried to soft reset it (Take the battery, press the reset) and that didn't work, What do I do?
I had the same issue....after many attempts to fix w/o a hard reset, I realized it was my only option...
To perform a Tilt 2 hard reset
1. With the device turned off, press and hold the TALK/SEND, END and POWER buttons until you see message on the screen.
2. Release the TALK/SEND, END and POWER buttons.
3. Press the VOLUME UP button to perform the hard reset, or press any other button to cancel the reset.
Yep, hard reset is your only option. There are many, many reports of TP2/Tilt2 mysteriously forgetting unlock passwords. Personally, I wouldn't use one with this phone.
Next time use a different lock app like S2U2. If you require enterprise level security on your device, then don't use it. As a general lock, it's wonderful, though.
I need help on this and unfortunately, being my dad's phone, I don't physically have it with me. Basically, it won't read his SIM so it's in emergency mode only, and then on top of that it's locked him out. He doesn't want to hard reset because he has some photos on the phone itself that he would lose and the PC won't recognise the phone (no clue what that's about). He got another SIM card and that didn't help.
Does anyone have some things I can try to resolve at least the lock issue?
Thanks!
What has him locked out? Is he locked out because of entering an incorrect PIN too many times? Is he locked out because of FRP, or Factory Reset Protection?
When it comes to losing photos if your dad uses Google photos and backup is turned on he won't be at a loss. He can open Google Photos on his PC and see if all of his photos are there.
If your Dad's PC will not recognize his device have him try a different USB Type-C cable.
Also, have your Dad boot into the bootloader and connect a USB cable and see if his PC recognizes his device. He can reach the bootloader by power the device off, pressing and holding the Volume Up button and the Power button at the same time.
I suggest booting to recovery and wiping the caches. Power off the device. Press and hold the Volume Down button and the Power button at the same time. Continue holding until you see the display light up.
Next, use the Volume Keys to scroll up or down to highlight the one that says Wipe Cache and use the Power button to select this option. Once the caches have been wiped select reboot system.
Sent from my Z2 Force using XDA Labs
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What has him locked out? Is he locked out because of entering an incorrect PIN too many times? Is he locked out because of FRP, or Factory Reset Protection?
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Ok, I had him look into the Google Photos sync and turns out he had unknowingly been syncing all along. I'm telling you, my dad isn't that old, but he is incredibly disorganised when it comes to tech and digital content, and the mobile world with online ecosystem logins is where he really lost track of things. Getting him to understand "Google", the "Outlook" account world, why you don't need a separate Skype account PER device... anyway...
So he says he never had his phone with any kind of lock screen lock. None whatsoever. He knows his inability to remember passwords and didn't want that hassle on his phone. So this is a lock he's never set up or asked for. So what is it, do you think? And since he didn't set it up would the stock code be available somewhere?