Update: Hard-reset your Pro when you get it (conspiracy?) - Page 5

Insoc · #41 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 11:03 PM

I have read on the Diamond site that you need to soft reset three times to bypass the customizations... Don't know if it is true...

nerdtalker · #42 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 11:32 PM

I hard reset in the hopes that the texting speed would be improved in threaded SMS, but the gains are temporary. Before you populate your contacts, it seems really fast, but as soon as you've entered contacts, it goes back to being slow.

It's almost like the overlay which opens up when you're entering a contact name lookup is being done again, but isn't showing up, just wasting cycles.

**Cicatrize** · #43 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by hotboy8628

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Layouts\e0010409]
"Ime File"="\windows\compime.dll"
"Layout Text"="COMP IME"
use this and then go into settin input and enable auto correction!

This doesn't work. At least not for the hardware kbd.

**ScrapMaker** · #44 (**permalink**) 10-29-2008, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by esqueue

Crap, I looked at this post only after I hard reseted

This was also quite tricky. I had to use both hands and my mouth to hold the stylus LOL.

What? Read the first post. No stylus necessary.

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Originally Posted by Not_A_Stain

Can we not do a hard reset from the settings? Clear storage? Does that not work?

Sure does.

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Originally Posted by CountryDevil

My understanding the updates done by critical and crew were built into a new ROM and the pones were flashed. If that is the case then no, you won't lose the updates done after a hard reset.

Yes, whatever is on your phone now, be it updates or not, is all that was in the ROM to begin with. A hard reset will not change that.

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Originally Posted by speck

Please forgive a newbie question. I got my phone from bestbuy and the guy there set it all up. If I hard reset, I assume I will need to enter whatever information he did originally. Can I get this information off the device, and then re-enter it?

I am having quite a few quirky problems with my TP and I'm willing to give a hard reset a chance.

Your phone will come up after customizations, and will work just fine. You will have to customize it again though, with your contacts, and other settings. Phone-wise it should be fine. I didn't even have to re-run the IOTA, my data worked perfectly right after the hard-reset.

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Originally Posted by Edwood

Why would you need to hard reset a blank phone from the factory? First thing that happens when you power it up for the very first time is that it goes through installing Sprint customizations. It's basically hard reset (or never set) at the factory.

All that would tell me is that the phone was previously turned on and played with.

When I bought my Touch Pro from Best Buy, I had to wait for the Sprint Customizations to install before it was ready to be activated.

Not necessarily true. When installing a ROM it is a good idea (and widely recommended in these forums, as well as at XDA, to hard reset your phone several times. I don't know the exact reason for this, but I assume that sometimes files are not copied properly, but it usually fixes weird glitches/problems. I normally hard-reset 2 or 3 times after loading a ROM.

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Originally Posted by hotboy8628

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Layouts\e0010409]
"Ime File"="\windows\compime.dll"
"Layout Text"="COMP IME"
use this and then go into settin input and enable auto correction!

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by FoxRacR17

I did this yesterday just 'cause I was bored, and it certainly fixed the lag I had whenever I slid out the keyboard. Some times it seemed like the screen took 5 seconds to switch, but now its almost instant. Sadly though i still have the texting lag sometimes. I wish someone could fix that, sometimes I will have my whole message typed out before it catches up or even starts showing on the screen. Very annoying. But overall it improved the quickness of things.

Exactly! That's a real bummer, because I can usually pound out a message faster on PCMKeyboard than I can with all the lag the hardware keyboard is creating. -- What's weird is that my friends 6700 does this too... I wonder if they are using some ridiculously slow keyboard controller?

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Originally Posted by Roninllc

So, what is the deal with the customizations on this phone??? I hard reset twice and still had to go through them. The ole "soft reset before customization run" trick didn't seem to work. Anyone have any additional info on this?

Why would you not want the Sprint customizations to run? Do you have some sort of misconception that it's better to skip these?

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Originally Posted by esqueue

The op should paste this on the first page. this is a major benefit IMO.

I didn't see any kind of solution provided. Plus I really don't have the same issue as he does.

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Originally Posted by Insoc

I have read on the Diamond site that you need to soft reset three times to bypass the customizations... Don't know if it is true...

Again, why skip them? Out of curiosity...

Insoc · #45 (**permalink**) 10-30-2008, 12:16 AM

This did not fix my keyboard screen flipping problem...

MeTA-4z · #46 (**permalink**) 10-30-2008, 12:37 AM

Hey Scrap, are the 2 ways of hard resetting you posted on the 1st page seperate options to reset or steps? Like, do we have to "clear storage" and then follow the button procedure?

Edwood · #47 (**permalink**) 10-30-2008, 06:06 AM

Hard resetting by two different methods seems redundant. But what the heck. I'm desperate to fix my piss poor battery life. Must be some kind of glitch, battery life is absurdly short.

**stroths** · #48 (**permalink**) 10-30-2008, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by MeTA-4z

Hey Scrap, are the 2 ways of hard resetting you posted on the 1st page seperate options to reset or steps? Like, do we have to "clear storage" and then follow the button procedure?

It's 2 separate methods to do it, but with the same result.

Insoc · #49 (**permalink**) 10-30-2008, 11:22 AM

Someone asked how to skip the customization, I simply provided a untested response...

I know that some people want to skip them to free up resources, load only the cabs they want, or they don't like TF3D...

**ScrapMaker** · #50 (**permalink**) 10-30-2008, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by stroths

It's 2 separate methods to do it, but with the same result.

Bingo, and I updated the first post.

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Originally Posted by Insoc

Someone asked how to skip the customization, I simply provided a untested response...

I know that some people want to skip them to free up resources, load only the cabs they want, or they don't like TF3D...

Gotcha, I just figure people would want the Sprint stuff on there, or they might run into problems. Now, once we have custom ROMs, we will have a better selection of niceties...