New Mod on Imagio
 

Can you guess what it is?http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/s...24c0440644.jpg

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Hmm, some sort of light to act as a flash?

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Back cover is off with a light in the background?

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Ha, no flash and the cover is off. It is a little more rudimentary mod....

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soft reset hole :)

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A reset button hole!

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Bing!

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I was sick of trying to pull the damn thing off when the memory usage would get too high and I was on the crapper and about flipped my phone into the toilet while trying to pry the cover off. I saw that it really didn't matter if it was sealed so I put a 3/32" hole there. It was hard to line up and it was not perfectly centered, since it was on the curved edge of the phone but it was plenty close to hit the reset. It is fairly unnoticeable and function far outweighs the aesthetics.

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I love the ingenuity. I just installed the soft reset and it works great. Your idea reminds me of countless modifications I've made to my 1/8 scale race buggies. Bust out the drill or dremmel and make it work better!

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Glad I could stimulate your thinking! :P

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thanks for reminding me to do this when i get my tp2 tomorrow

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Perfect!

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Why not just use Clean RAM, SSK Resources and Soft Reset in SPB Mobile Shell 3.5? Better GUI, never remove your battery cover and no drilling holes in your phone?

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Save for when it's locked up, can't you also just power it off and back on? Or is that different than a soft reset?

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lol you know so far I haven't had any lock ups on my TP2, but this isn't a bad idea. Having to take the battery cover off is gonna be a pain, and I know it'll happen at least once given how many times I used it with the tp1.

Did they put the button under the battery cover because defective TP's and diamonds were getting back to them broken at the reset button from too much use?

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how do you do this ? now that i have the tp2 this is annoying when installing cabs/changing registry edits and you have to soft reset. i usually mess stuff up so i need to know how to do this exactly.

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TM-freakin-I geesh!!

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To remove the cover easily take your stylus and pry up in the stylus hole, run your finger nail around the cover, it will come right off. A few time doing this it will get easier

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And the slot will gouge up more and the little plastic flanges will eventually break off. I am complete happy with the little barely noticeable hole. It has been so useful already. One day I had to soft reset my phone about 5 times in ten minutes, it was well worth putting the hole in it.

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I used a drill and marked as close as I could to the resets location. Drill very slowly and start with 1/8th drill bit then go to a 3/32 or what ever size would allow you to easily reset. I would take your time and you should be fine.

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Duh, why not just turn your phone off and back on again?? I've had my phone almost a month and only reset it once -- and then didn't realize I could just turn it off and on. If you are having to reset that often, something is wrong with your phone.

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Noob.

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With all respect, please explain what a soft reset does that the power switch doesn't?

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if your phone is locked up the power switch does you no good.

a lot of people like tweaking the hell out of their phones and tend to lock them up frequently when trying out new things.

having to pull the back cover every time is a pain.

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heres a great reset tool

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The phone often locks up and when you are in a hurry to make a call or do something else and the soft reset is a quick easy way to get up and running. The shut down is okay but I don't how many times I could not get to it or the phone locks before I can get to the shut down button.

It is just an old school way of convenience. If you can't see the need, don't do it.

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I just press the END (red button) and power down, then press it again, power up. Haven't had lockup yet, thank God! Only installed WMWifiRouter, dotFred Task Manager and YouTube (original didn't work.) But yeah, when you're on bootloader screen you're stuck with having to take cover out. Not that you need to be in bootloader yet, no HSPL, but you soon will be...(PRAYING, HOPEFULLY) ;)

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phil that is to funny i was just thinking about doing that to mine! bravo

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i was just thinking how necessary this is... and will be drilling mine shortly

the phone can lock requiring a reset or battery pull.

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I understand why you did this but i have to side with those who question the need. My phone has never locked up to the point that a soft reset didnt do the trick (either via the power button or a soft reset tweak).

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Well I drilled the hole before i saw this post and i have to side with the whole drillers.

1. Read the "broken buttons" thread. My power button broke. Functions- but not that easy to press anymore and i don't want it totally broken.

2. When you are testing out a lot of software that is in alpha stage, often the phone locks up to the point that the buttons don't do anything.

If you are a person that is just happy to have a stock phone and not fool around with it, then ya, the hole is not necessary. But if you like to test out a lot of different things (that may have not been specifically designed for your phone because no one else bought it so they aren't bothering developing anything for it) then the hole comes in pretty handy.

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i have to add to number 2. I noticed that this last time i flashed a rom, there is a app that i intsall that does not tell me to soft reset after but i know i have to as the phone is really laggy. just after i soft reset it is not laggy anymore.

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Thats cool. Like I said, I understand why you might want to do this I just haven't had that extreme situation occur yet. Hope I never do!

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Either you are very passive and tolerate a slow running phone or you haven't put many external apps on your phone. The problem is that the power button SUCKS. I can at times shut it down BUT it takes 10-15 secs or more to go thru the bloatware shutdown graphics, PLUS I will often be busy doing something and go do something else while it restarts and forget to start the phone back up again and I will miss calls or once again have to wait for it to run its paces starting up. The soft reset button bypasses waiting for the shut down screen AND automatically starts right back up with no prompting.