Update: Hard-reset your Pro when you get it (conspiracy?) - Page 2

**cornelious2** · #11 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 03:22 PM

all the reset button does is kill the power to the phone momentarily, to skip the reset, you just need to start from a powered off state.

Ph33zy · #12 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ScrapMaker

I would have thought the phone would be fine, out of the box (since it was hard-reset by the factory,) but I had issues with a lot of things. Especially sluggishness. Sometimes I would type an entire sentence with the hardware keyboard before it showed the text on the screen.

I also had other little "quirks."

Here's a list of things that were fixed by a hard-reset:

-Low earpiece/speaker volume (now it's just as loud as it was with the "Lite" fix floating around by badboy, but without having the fix installed.
-Loud crackling sounds from speaker, even at moderate volumes. (gone. still sounds like too much bass, but no crackles.)
-Ability to get the T9 menu by hitting FN+Spacebar (did nothing before.)
-Text appears quickly with hardware keyboard now.

I'm sure it fixed other stuff too... but I just thought I would throw this out there, because most people, including myself, would assume the phone would work fine off the stock ROM/hard-reset.

This just gives more credence to the practice of hard-resetting your phone a few times after a custom ROM flash...

Did you let customizations run? For some reason when I reboot before customizations kick in, it won't let me load Windows until it finishes customization.

**Cicatrize** · #13 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 03:57 PM

Add me to the list of people who didn't hard reset and has none of these problems. The keyboard can be a little sluggish at times, but it's not bad.

My hardware date is 10/13/08

steveholtam · #14 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 04:55 PM

I agree with the OP on doing a hard reset after leaving the store. My Touch Pro had some quirks that I thought were standard with the new phone. A few days later I messed up the phone, and had to hard reset. Now quite a few of those quirks are gone, and the phone seems to be better off overall. So listen to the OP!

**TurboFool** · #15 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 04:57 PM

Well, I'm now hard resetting for an entirely different reason (made some changes with Advanced Configuration and now I can't answer incoming calls), so we'll see if I notice any differences.

jawxx · #16 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 05:22 PM

I have the text delay... and it sucks... I suppose now is the time to hard reset if I do it. I've modded and hacked but not too much yet. Probably get it back where it is now in like 20 minutes or so... but Idk if I want to lol. Still wanna hear more opinions about if this helped.

gobmonster · #17 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by TurboFool

Well, I'm now hard resetting for an entirely different reason (made some changes with Advanced Configuration and now I can't answer incoming calls), so we'll see if I notice any differences.

Uh, could you say which uber dangerous configuration that was? I dont want that to happen to me!!!

And i have hard reset my phone at all, nothing noticeable bothering me

Edit* I know what it is, i just called my phone to see if i have the same problem and i do.

Its the internet disconnect time tweak, it did the same to my mogul... looks like i'll have to hard reset after all. I just got it running soooooo good to! I think im going to wait till i have the time to reinstall all my software, i have a lot already

**TheRealHotshot** · #18 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 05:29 PM

Thanks for the info when I get my touch pro imma do a hard reset 1st

nerdtalker · #19 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by jawxx

I have the text delay... and it sucks... I suppose now is the time to hard reset if I do it. I've modded and hacked but not too much yet. Probably get it back where it is now in like 20 minutes or so... but Idk if I want to lol. Still wanna hear more opinions about if this helped.

I have keyboard lag, especially when composing messages in the threaded SMS view. Is this the lag that everyone is alluding to, or is there a different sort?

I think I will try hard resetting, but I have to back everything up using SPB Backup first, as I don't keep good activesync habits.

**ScrapMaker** · #20 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by nerdtalker

I have keyboard lag, especially when composing messages in the threaded SMS view. Is this the lag that everyone is alluding to, or is there a different sort?

I think I will try hard resetting, but I have to back everything up using SPB Backup first, as I don't keep good activesync habits.

Yes, it was quite bad. It was UNBELIEVABLY bad when I had T9 on, but was still bad with ABC mode.

Now ABC mode is nearly instant, and T9 is still quite fast.

I am updating the first post to instruct how to hard-reset.