Imagio Reset Options

[teh]

Just wondering: does struggling to open the battery cover and pressing the red internal soft reset button with your stylus accomplish anything different than simply powering down and then up via the red external power/end button? My suspicion is that power cycling the phone and soft rebooting the phone with the internal button are the same, but I don't know for sure. I guess I'm wondering if the folks I've read about who are industriously drilling holes in the side of their cases to access the internal button could instead just do a simple power cycle, or do they know something about this that's not apparent? I suppose if the phone were so frozen that the power/end button was unresponsive, I'd pop off the back, but at that point, rather than soft reset, I'd more likely pull the battery for ten seconds just to insure a full memory clearance. But that's just me.

On a similar note, I've done hard resets into both the "factory default" and "custom configuration" roms, but can find no differences between them to the naked eye. Has anyone extracted both roms and compared the file sizes to see if there are subtle differences? I'm afraid I don't know how to see the rom file sizes on the phone, but I may not have the right tools to do so.

Finally, there are two methods of doing a hard reset on the Imagio, one via Settings> Memory> Clear storage, the other via pressing the phone hard key+power/end key+volume rocker down. Again, my suspicion that both methods do the same thing, but does anyone know for sure if that's the case? I've seen some posts here that indicate one method is a full factory "first birthday" reset while the other method retains some of your customization, but that seems unlikely to me. Anyone know for sure?