[hammondfra]

Thanks for the help gator2k83 ...and yeah I was a little over zealous with the term I used, but I was a little tired of f'ing with it anymore and wanted to treat it like a brick.

I coulnd't get pa-s-s-ed the code lock screen so no USB connection. Nothing worked, no charging (no lights lit up at all), no sliding the keyboard, no touch screen, none of the keys on the keyboard responded absolutely nothing; just boot-up to the lock code screen and freeze there.

I just ended up doing a manual hard reset.

hold both soft keys and hit the reset button on the button...worked like a charm.