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How to hard reset Tmobile SDA USA (Tornado)

Anyone know how to reset the phone to factory default without turn on the phone?
After I installed a program, the phone can not starup anymore. It is freezing at the T-Mobile welcome screen.
Thanks

Nenermind
after seraching the forum I found answer
destrozeitor said:
You can reset the phone while is off. Press and hold down the 2 external buttons down the screen (start and contacts buttons), and then press for a 1.5 seconds (important) the power button. Release them. If you have done all ok, you must see a screen telling you to press "0" to reset your phone to factory. If it starts normally repeat the process.
This is the same procedure used in HTC Typhoon models.
Good Luck!
Note that you will lost all your settings / data / etc, except files stored in your memmory card.
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After reseting, the phone looks like still freezing. But after about 4-5 minutes waiting, yes.....it works.

You have to release only the power button and not the two soft-key 8)

Tilt not working...sitting at Windows Mobile Screen

I did the Hard-SPL and followed the instructions to a T. The phone rebooted after the hards-spl and everything worked fine. I installed BlackBerry Connect to my device and it rebooted. Now it just sits at the windows mobile screen and won't proceed any farther. Anybody have an idea why? Or what I can do to get it working again? I did the HardSPL using windows XP and not vista.
When I enter the bootload this is what I get.
KAIS*0 MFG
SPL-1.0.OliPof
CPLD-8
Serial
Please help.

Anybody have any ideas?

Go to the wiki and look up how to flash from a microSD card, then flash a clean copy of whatever rom you had put on there so you can get a fresh start. Unless something is physically broken with the phone, that will save it. Saved me plenty of times.

Just had to do a hard reset. Fixed the problem. Loaded new HTC ROM everything is up and running.

How did you do the hard reset? I can't even get it to work. (hold right & left soft keys and press/release reset until some screen I never get)

rbryant said:
How did you do the hard reset? I can't even get it to work. (hold right & left soft keys and press/release reset until some screen I never get)
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hold the left and right soft keys while pressing the reset button simutaneously for 5 seconds.

alltheway said:
Just had to do a hard reset. Fixed the problem. Loaded new HTC ROM everything is up and running.
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congrats, glad u fixed it.
what new htc rom

Thanks! That worked! Now to reinstall BB Connect on the device not the SD card. . .

rbryant said:
How did you do the hard reset? I can't even get it to work. (hold right & left soft keys and press/release reset until some screen I never get)
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continue holding the left/right soft key after you put the stylus to reset, and the extra screen will show up.

can i hard reset by doing the clear storage thing?

gula187 said:
can i hard reset by doing the clear storage thing?
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no, u have to do the left & right soft keys and reset all at the same time for 5 secs. thats the only way i know of to do a hard reset.

P1Tater said:
no, u have to do the left & right soft keys and reset all at the same time for 5 secs. thats the only way i know of to do a hard reset.
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i held the cam.+ power button and held the reset button and its doin the same thing it does when i soft reset it

all 3 actions must be at the same time and hold for 5 secs. if you get the short vibrate, just keep trying over and over. it wont hurt anything. at least it never did to mine.

Yep, you cannot install the BB connect software to the SD card & then reset. Your device will be looking for the BB connect software before the device SD card has booted & come online.
HOWEVER,
with SK Tools you can go into the startup folder & reorder the start up files. If you move BB Connect down to the end of the start up sequence it might work. Well, it did for me. Ylu have to go in after installing though, & before the reset & change the start up sequence down so that it's the last item to auto start.
You will have this type of problem with any program you install to the SD card where the program has a higher priority auto start because as I said before, you have an item trying to boot before it's operating files are available. Therefore, you stop the whole boot sequence because it can't move on to the next start up item without finding the start item it's looking for.
AS for the Hard reset. I find the easiest way to do this is:
1. Soft Reset.
2. while the device is soft resetting depress both soft keys.
3. When you get to the first boot screen depress the soft reset key & hold while simultaneously holding the soft keys.
4. follow the instructions on the screen, i.e. push send (green phone button) to restore, etc...
Works every time for me.

P1Tater said:
all 3 actions must be at the same time and hold for 5 secs. if you get the short vibrate, just keep trying over and over. it wont hurt anything. at least it never did to mine.
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This is not random!
When I press:
RightSoft + LeftSoft it always works.
LeftSoft + RightSoft it never works.
Sequence is important. Not sure if it is left or right first though.
If other can confirm, could someone put it in the wiki, please. I've pulled a lot of hair over this topic.

gula187 said:
i held the cam.+ power button and held the reset button and its doin the same thing it does when i soft reset it
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that is to enter BootLoader NOT to start a Hard reset. when holding the power AND the camera button then resetting using the stlyus you should see the tri-color screen listing your SPL, Kaiser model, and one more thing i forget right now
EDIT - Make sure you are not pressing the ok button while going into BootLoader as the way the buttons are laied out its easy to press the ok by mistake.

Ugh.. What did I do and how do I fix it?

So what did I do....
I installed .net 3.5 compact on my phone, and then installed Advanced config and made a few TF3D tweaks. Everything seemed to work ok. I then installed hTorch and it worked.
I then installed dotfred's taskmanager and then did another TF3D tweak. (The cache size one) and then did a soft reboot.
Now my phone doesn't even work. I can barly boot up and when it does boot up I get all of these error about ***.exe can run because it is not a valid
application.
Im thinking it was the .net 3.5 maybe.. or the dotfreds... no idea really.
Phew... so What'd I do wrong? I cant figure out how to un-install the stuff I put on it, because active sync wont run because it wont load on my phone. I literally cant do anything on my phone. The time doesn't even show. All I can see is the battery, reception and that it is on vibrate. I cant even change the volume.
Thanks for any help... I would love a way to do it w/o losing all of my numbers but that maybe the only way. (but I dont even know how to do it like that)

cableguy84 said:
So what did I do....
I installed .net 3.5 compact on my phone, and then installed Advanced config and made a few TF3D tweaks. Everything seemed to work ok. I then installed hTorch and it worked.
I then installed dotfred's taskmanager and then did another TF3D tweak. (The cache size one) and then did a soft reboot.
Now my phone doesn't even work. I can barly boot up and when it does boot up I get all of these error about ***.exe can run because it is not a valid
application.
Im thinking it was the .net 3.5 maybe.. or the dotfreds... no idea really.
Phew... so What'd I do wrong? I cant figure out how to un-install the stuff I put on it, because active sync wont run because it wont load on my phone. I literally cant do anything on my phone. The time doesn't even show. All I can see is the battery, reception and that it is on vibrate. I cant even change the volume.
Thanks for any help... I would love a way to do it w/o losing all of my numbers but that maybe the only way. (but I dont even know how to do it like that)
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The simplest would be a hard reset but will cause you to loose data, to do this press the the volume down button while pressing the reset button (next to the usb port) then it will ask if you want to hard reset so press the volume up. This will place your phone back to factory defaults.

Any idea how this happened? I would like to do all of this over again, just not sure what I did / didnt do...

I cant get this thing to hard reset.... ugh!
I have tried pressing and holding the volume down button and then pressing and holding the reset button next to the USB and it just keeps rebooting. (Also tried the center button and the volume button at the same time and then hitting and/or holding the reset button.)
Whats odd is sometimes is comes up with my password prompt and it works, other times that same password prompt comes up but my password doesnt work....

Wow... after about 15 reset, and 5-10 times trying to hard reset it... it just started to work all of a sudden..
I'm afraid to reset it again. No idea whats going on... worst part is that I work in IT so I'm really confused as to what is going on.

Hard reset is performed by doing the following.
1. Press the volume down button.
2. Press the action button.
3. Press reset button with stylus.
Press all of the above mentioned sections and continue pressing until you are prompted to perform a Hard Reset.
hchavarria said:
The simplest ... press the the volume down button while pressing the reset button (next to the usb port) then it will ask if you want to hard reset so press the volume up. This will place your phone back to factory defaults.
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This is the method for entering bootloader mode, not Hard Resetting the device.

If you have your phone synced to outlook, you should be able to restore your contacts. Also I save all my contacs to sim via sim manager.

a bit of advice which I use... always backup ur phone after installing a program. After each single install do the backup, you should have Sprite Backup which came with ur phone. This way, you can go back to any one point in time to see what F'ed up, takes a bit longer but its worth it.
This doesnt solve ur current problem but at least u can make sure it doesnt happen again... and fyi, everyone ends up hard resetting their phone at some point in their life and lose all data... ur not the first and wont be the last so breath and take it easy.

LG Incite -Hard Reset

I'm trying to find out if anyone knows how to hard reset this phone with the physical keys. My phone has stopped booting all the way and the screen doesn't respond. I need to wipe it before returning it, but cannot get into it enough to clear storage.
Thx

Hard Reset with physical buttons
rsamson said:
I'm trying to find out if anyone knows how to hard reset this phone with the physical keys. My phone has stopped booting all the way and the screen doesn't respond. I need to wipe it before returning it, but cannot get into it enough to clear storage.
Thx
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I need the same advice

See enclosed page from Incite manual.

Lg incite hard reset
To perform a hard reset
• A Hard Reset should only be performed after all other trouble shooting options have been exhausted.
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. Any programs you installed, data you entered, and settings you
customized on your device will be lost.
1. Power the device ON
2. Tap Start > Settings > System tab > Clear Storage.
3. Enter 1234 for the password twice.
4. Press Enter.
5. Select what to reset.
You have to enter your password and confirm again for hard reset. However when you forget your
password, the only way to hard reset the device is via the hard key sequence.
1. Power the device OFF.
2. Press and hold the following hard keys in sequence.
left side - down rocker button - right side camera button - front right phone button
Keep pressing keys until your LCD screen turns on.
Align screen will appear if you success hard key reset.

1. Remove & replace the battery 1st
2. Hold down at the same time:
Volume Down + Camera + Power until the Windows Mobile screen appears.
DONE

dwny said:
1. Remove & replace the battery 1st
2. Hold down at the same time:
Volume Down + Camera + Power until the Windows Mobile screen appears.
DONE
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Fail. Any other ideas?

Used it today, worked fine.

Works...
brogrimm said:
Fail. Any other ideas?
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Confirm it works....Make sure the sequence of keys is ...volume....camera....power key. Hold till WM 6.1 screen comes on.
Don't forget to put battery back before reset

i am also unable to perfor m a hard reset doing the key sequence..please help!!

Another solution
If you followed the steps above and the phone is still not hard resetting, you can try to enter Emergency Download mode and update the ROM. My phone would not hard reset and just kept getting stuck at the AT&T logo screen. I downloaded the V10X ROM update from the LG website and followed the instructions contained in the update. After the update, the phone works perfectly.

chappatti said:
Confirm it works....Make sure the sequence of keys is ...volume....camera....power key. Hold till WM 6.1 screen comes on.
Don't forget to put battery back before reset
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and until green right goes off. (while WM green screen on)

The process works without flaw unless you are not properly holding the buttons or for the right amount of time. I have posted the directions in a tutorial and you are welcome to take a look, try it and I am sure if you follow it, it will work for you.
1. Resetting Device
2. Flashing Original ROM

I have been hard reset my phone!
I now,Align Screen not working.And i can't continue setup my phone!
Help me!!

niindark said:
I have been hard reset my phone!
I now,Align Screen not working.And i can't continue setup my phone!
Help me!!
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i am in the same situation. how do you get the incite in emergency download mode?

ditto
josefcrist said:
i am in the same situation. how do you get the incite in emergency download mode?
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me to, just got mine yesterday

Hard reset-> Not coming up with same as instructions

Well for any of you that saw my long post about problems, I give up. Trying to hard reset.
BUT...
Instructions I find say this:
Turn the power off. If your Samsung Captivate is frozen, pull the battery out and reinsert it
Hold the Volume Down button
Press and release the Power button
You are now presented with a menu that allows for Fastbook, Recovery, Clear Storage, and Simlock
Select Clear Storage by pressing the Volume Down button
Press and release the Power button
Now simply confirm your decision: Volume Up for YES and Volume Down for NO
But when I do that I get a completely different menu. I get this:
Reboot System Now
Reinstall packages
Delete all user Data
Delete Cache Data
I finally use d Delte all user data and that did it.
But to make a long story a alot shorter, it is booting up with all these Sorry messages about differen Google process not starting. And I do see the finance clock screen I had messed with that still had a stock quote in it. So, I'm sure it is not fully hard resetting.
Any ideas?
[EDIT]
Tried another hard rest, and it came up with this big yellow triangle wiht an android mopping the floor, and saying Downloading... Do not turn off target!!!
WTF???
[EDIT2]
What I wonder may be the problem now is, I had rooted the phone. I did it with the method described on this forum, or maybe the other one I frequent, that edited one item in the Update file, and that file is still on the phone. I think I'll hunt down that thread and post a question about this there.

Good News!
For anyone reading this and is interested, the fix was to apply the factory rom. I utilized info in this thread.