Is there any way to sensibly recover the contents of a HTC S710 thats been hard reset?
Short of sending it off to a secruity specialist. I'm looking for something like the DOS undelete comand, or along those lines.
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Hello guys,
I bought an xda atom and decided to sell it becaues the screen is too small to view file such as excel or words.
I need to know if there is any way that I can permanently delete the files that I deleted so that the person who bought my atom cannot recovery the deleted files.
Thanks in advance for your answer.
Hard Reset it...
Hi rain, you mean just resetting by pushing something inside the small one next to the USB slot on the left, does it all?
That easy?
No, that's a soft reset...
Hard reset means that everything is erased from your PocketPC, and you will only have the out of the box settings. Check if you have a small application called "Clear Storage" in settings panel control-> it will do the job for you. If not ask arround or check the manual on how to perform hard reset on HTC Atom.
Cheers,
Raul
Hi Rain, I could not locate any Clear Storage under settings. I search inside the Personal, System and Connections tabs, but none has what you said.
Even if we hard-reset, would any undeleter or recovery software run from computer able to trace the file and recover it?
I don't think that there exists such software... , for pocketpc side i mean.
A hard reset is like a format to your desktop's harddrive , everything is erased and only what is in the extended rom is installed on your device.(extended rom is a hidden to user folder that contains the cab files with OEMs customisation files)
So you will loose all your apps , contacts, notes, appointments...everything that was inputed but you...that is why there are back-up utilities available
Cheers,
Raul
I checked the user handbook. The way to hard reset is to press the on/off button while pressing the soft reset button at the same time.
Thanks for your reply, rain.
Hey
I've got this ASUS smartphone I'm giving away (its got a cracked screen) - and because its ASUS I cant flash it.
Is there a way to wipe the Messages, Contacts and email settings through activesync, I can see program files windows dirs etc...?
Thanksn
you can hard reset it. just search for the combination of how to hard reset your asus and you'll be ok.
The only way for this phone is through the phone interface of which I cannot access (http://www.hardreset.eu/asus_p750_hard_reset_soft_reset_en.html)
Doesn't make sense. there's always a way to hard reset using the Hardware buttons only since a Hardreset is supposed to solve the issue of having problems using your touchscreen or the Interface in general. find it .. and you're ok
Are you saying theres nothing I can do with remote filesystem access through activesync.
if you go to active sync and uncheck the sync options for contacts, callender and emails, doesnt this wipe them off the device?
The other option in to rename the pim file on the device to something else, soft reset, then you can delete the pim file. worked for me when i lent out my prophet to a mate for a while (although i didnt delete the file, just hid it out of prying eyes
yup, these are good options as well.
when you sync with nothing it erases everything. messages and call history won't be wiped.. for messages you can rename cemail.vol and pim.vol and then delete them.
tho if your screen is cracked.. i see no reason why not to save yourself the trouble and just hard reset
yh thats true
there should be a way to hard reset using clear storage in software, unless the screen is dead dead and cant be used... (or is that just wm6? its been a while since i used wm5 lol)
you can hard reset using software in WM5 to my knowledge.. but he can't since his screen can't be used (as far as i understand).
if he can still sync, might be able to use my mobiler to access the functions on the device whilst synced via the computer, goto clear stoarge and activate it... should work... long winded yes lol, but short of knowing how to hardware reset i dont know.
Hello Everyone,
Thank god for this website!!!
PLEASE HELP! URGENT!
My 02 XDA Atom was playing up, everytime i kept starting the phone it would hang on windows startup window causing me so much frustration i hit the phone smashing my screen :-( so hard to buy a new screen and replace it. When i replaced it the phone obviously kept hanging on windows startup. i must of done a soft reset maybe 20 times and the last time i must of accidently hit the power and reset buttons at the same time and the phone did a hard reset and i lost everything back to factory default aahhhhhhh!!!!!!!
Unfortantely i had very vital information on it such as sms's, contacts, appointments etc. Im absolutely lost completely without this data. And no i didnt do a backup other than the occasion hot sync to my laptop.
Does anyone know or can they help with the recovery of all this information. The info seemed to be stored on the phone and not on the sim.
i hope someone can
Thanks Everyone
n1010981 said:
Hello Everyone,
Thank god for this website!!!
PLEASE HELP! URGENT!
My 02 XDA Atom was playing up, everytime i kept starting the phone it would hang on windows startup window causing me so much frustration i hit the phone smashing my screen :-( so hard to buy a new screen and replace it. When i replaced it the phone obviously kept hanging on windows startup. i must of done a soft reset maybe 20 times and the last time i must of accidently hit the power and reset buttons at the same time and the phone did a hard reset and i lost everything back to factory default aahhhhhhh!!!!!!!
Unfortantely i had very vital information on it such as sms's, contacts, appointments etc. Im absolutely lost completely without this data. And no i didnt do a backup other than the occasion hot sync to my laptop.
Does anyone know or can they help with the recovery of all this information. The info seemed to be stored on the phone and not on the sim.
i hope someone can
Thanks Everyone
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Hi,
You could try to connect your phone to your PC as an external HD and do a recovery with some app like Recuva
Dirk
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that's bad news
Dirk
if i hard reset my treo 750 ...that already has the upgraded WM6.1..will it erase the WM6.1 and restore it back to WM5 that it originally came with?
Oh it definitely will not erase your WM6.1 upgrade, only personal data, so rest assured WM6.1 is there to stay. The only way you would erase WM6.1 is if you flash another ROM, naturally.
I myself have hard reset many times one after the other (to test program compatibility with this Chinese ROM I'm using) and WM6.1 has returned to life again and again. There has got to be a limit as to how much your device will appreciate continuous Hard Resets in a row, though. I relate Hard Resets similar to formatting a memory card, there's always consideration for how many file deletions flash memory can take.
thanks,
ive been having problems with my treo 'auto soft resetting' and i think for last resort im going to have to do the hard reset..and cross my fingers!
Do you know if I have my Treo ported to Metropcs and I hard reset....will I lose my settings?
If I perform a hard reset, what do I loose? what do I keeep? IE I am aware I will loose all the data i hav DLed on it but do I have to reprogram the phone and all?
Here's your answer, copied directly from the TP2 user's manual:
Performing a hard reset
If a normal reset does not solve a system problem, you can perform a hard (full) reset. After a hard reset, the device is restored to its default settings—the way it was when you first purchased it and turned it on. You
will lose any programs you installed, data you entered, and settings you customized on your device, and only Windows Mobile® software and other pre-installed programs will remain.
Warning! Your device will be set back to factory default settings. Make sure that any additional installed programs and/or user data have been backed up before you perform a hard reset.
Important If Encrypt files when placed on a storage card is enabled, backup all files from the storage card before using Clear Storage, hard reset, or updating the operating system. Otherwise you will no longer be able to
access the encrypted files on the storage card. Use ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center to transfer files between your storage card and computer. After the procedure, copy your files back to the storage card.
Thank you for the reply. I have read that (in fact it was the first thing I read, and I as said I understand I will loose my files and what not) and it doesn't answer my question about programing on the verizon network. The reason why I asked is because the programing was a difficult process for several reasons that I wont get into.
Sorry, I wasn't (and still am not) clear about what you mean by "reprogramming". The hard reset leaves you with a phone that is the same as it was when you first opened the box EXCEPT that you do not need to initiate phone service. There are no contacts, no emails, no preference settings, but you can immediately make and receive phone calls. There are some free cabs that you can use to backup much of your data before doing the hard reset. This will reduce some of the pain of losing so much of what you put into the phone before doing the hard reset.
Thanks that does answer my question. When you get a phone you have to go through verizon programming dial *228 before using it. If you dont think i need to do this, then i should be al set
On a hard reset, you will need to dial *228 to activate the phone.