TP2 just tried to force me to Hard Reset.. how/why?

**boredandtattooed** · #1 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 09:36 AM

sorry i couldnt get a screen shot of the message but ive never seen it before ever..

soft reset my phone, dual boot poped up, chose windows, and got something like this: this was on an all black screen and the text took up the whole window

Your phone will not boot due to (something) or an unautorized download.. please press volume up to hard reset your device, or any other button to cancel.. this will erase all info and reset your device to factory settings...

hadnt downloaded anything in a few days.. it was just a soft reset like i do most mornings.. id never seen that screen like that before..

needless-to-say, i cancel the hard reset and dual boot showed again, clicked windows and it booted perfectly... dunno why, but my phone wanted a hard reset, but in the end didnt actually need it..

anyone seen this screen, in this fashion before??

**orangekid** · #2 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 09:39 AM

Wow, that sounds incredible, I've never seen that, but sounds like a crazy anomaly.

**boredandtattooed** · #3 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 09:42 AM

yeah me either, especially on an all black screen like that.... i have shake and save assigned to long talk key, but it wouldnt open to get the screenshot, shouldve took a pic of it with one of my other devices

demonlordoftheround · #4 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 11:03 AM

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; AOSP on XDANDROID MSM Build/ECLAIR) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17)

That's a new one. Some kind of safemode? Never had the phone tell me it needed a hard reset. Very strange.

jimmyz · #5 (**permalink**) 07-13-2010, 11:12 PM

Is this the screen that you saw? I had this happen on the original (6.1) sprint rom a couple of times- very annoying- I was never able to figure out why it happened although it always seemed to be associated with a soft reset in an area with poor coverage

krwshl · #6 (**permalink**) 07-14-2010, 12:29 AM

That happened to me once out of the blue with 6.1

brokensparrow · #7 (**permalink**) 07-14-2010, 01:10 AM

That happened to me on stock 6.5 after I installed the lookup(?) app. I forget the name.. but its the app that does virus checks and you can also ping it to update your location through a browser. I always ignore the prompt and it let me run the phone without any problems. I uninstalled the app and it went away.

**boredandtattooed** · #8 (**permalink**) 07-14-2010, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by jimmyz

Is this the screen that you saw? I had this happen on the original (6.1) sprint rom a couple of times- very annoying- I was never able to figure out why it happened although it always seemed to be associated with a soft reset in an area with poor coverage

yup, thats exactly the screen i saw... i didnt do the hard reset and instead just soft reset again, and didnt get the error.. im on stock 6.5 and have been since it was released and never saw that screen till now...

it went away, so im not worried, just threw me off a bit seeing it...

ginuwine1981 · #9 (**permalink**) 07-14-2010, 10:36 AM

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 8.12; MSIEMobile6.0) Sprint T7380)

ya it happened to me after i installed lookout program...uninstalled that and few others then soft reset and phone works fine and even runs better/faster!