[remmurdgnis]

Hard Reset using the hardware buttons (send and end keys pressed and held while inserting stylus into soft reset hole) WILL NOT erase your storage data! It will prompt you to reformat, but per my experience today the data on the 8Gig storage was preserved.

I could not find this answer in the forum or anywhere online, so hopefully this will help the next person when their OMNIA I910 freaks out and hangs.

If this is common knowledge I apologize for the post, but I called Samsung and they insisted a hard reset would also kill my Storage Data... A real nice manager in at the local Verizon store was kind enough to let me Hard Reset his phone before I tried it on mine and suddenly my data was still there after the format.

Hopefully this post will appear in the searh engines for the future.

Thanks to everyone here for all the excellent information!