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Re: PSA: Hard-reset your Pro when you get it

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Originally Posted by esqueue View Post
Crap, I looked at this post only after I hard reseted


This was also quite tricky. I had to use both hands and my mouth to hold the stylus LOL.
What? Read the first post. No stylus necessary.

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Originally Posted by Not_A_Stain View Post
Can we not do a hard reset from the settings? Clear storage? Does that not work?
Sure does.

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Originally Posted by CountryDevil View Post
My understanding the updates done by critical and crew were built into a new ROM and the pones were flashed. If that is the case then no, you won't lose the updates done after a hard reset.
Yes, whatever is on your phone now, be it updates or not, is all that was in the ROM to begin with. A hard reset will not change that.

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Originally Posted by speck View Post
Please forgive a newbie question. I got my phone from bestbuy and the guy there set it all up. If I hard reset, I assume I will need to enter whatever information he did originally. Can I get this information off the device, and then re-enter it?

I am having quite a few quirky problems with my TP and I'm willing to give a hard reset a chance.
Your phone will come up after customizations, and will work just fine. You will have to customize it again though, with your contacts, and other settings. Phone-wise it should be fine. I didn't even have to re-run the IOTA, my data worked perfectly right after the hard-reset.

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Originally Posted by Edwood View Post
Why would you need to hard reset a blank phone from the factory? First thing that happens when you power it up for the very first time is that it goes through installing Sprint customizations. It's basically hard reset (or never set) at the factory.

All that would tell me is that the phone was previously turned on and played with.

When I bought my Touch Pro from Best Buy, I had to wait for the Sprint Customizations to install before it was ready to be activated.
Not necessarily true. When installing a ROM it is a good idea (and widely recommended in these forums, as well as at XDA, to hard reset your phone several times. I don't know the exact reason for this, but I assume that sometimes files are not copied properly, but it usually fixes weird glitches/problems. I normally hard-reset 2 or 3 times after loading a ROM.

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Originally Posted by hotboy8628 View Post
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Layouts\e0010409]
"Ime File"="\windows\compime.dll"
"Layout Text"="COMP IME"
use this and then go into settin input and enable auto correction!
Thanks!

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Originally Posted by FoxRacR17 View Post
I did this yesterday just 'cause I was bored, and it certainly fixed the lag I had whenever I slid out the keyboard. Some times it seemed like the screen took 5 seconds to switch, but now its almost instant. Sadly though i still have the texting lag sometimes. I wish someone could fix that, sometimes I will have my whole message typed out before it catches up or even starts showing on the screen. Very annoying. But overall it improved the quickness of things.
Exactly! That's a real bummer, because I can usually pound out a message faster on PCMKeyboard than I can with all the lag the hardware keyboard is creating. -- What's weird is that my friends 6700 does this too... I wonder if they are using some ridiculously slow keyboard controller?

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Originally Posted by Roninllc View Post
So, what is the deal with the customizations on this phone??? I hard reset twice and still had to go through them. The ole "soft reset before customization run" trick didn't seem to work. Anyone have any additional info on this?
Why would you not want the Sprint customizations to run? Do you have some sort of misconception that it's better to skip these?

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Originally Posted by esqueue View Post
The op should paste this on the first page. this is a major benefit IMO.
I didn't see any kind of solution provided. Plus I really don't have the same issue as he does.

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Originally Posted by Insoc View Post
I have read on the Diamond site that you need to soft reset three times to bypass the customizations... Don't know if it is true...
Again, why skip them? Out of curiosity...
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