THIS IS HOW TO HARD RESET THE SPV C500

[Guest traesdad]

I have an SMT 5600....will the reset process work with it? I have tried many times following directions to the letter and can't seem to get it to do this....advice.....read entire thread already and can't seem to locate direction...thanks a ton for this thread and the entire group

God save the king

[Guest squall]

yes it will work. Timing is awkward. you could also use the clear storage option from the accessories folder (if your phone has it)

[Guest LHospita1]

I have the 5600, will those apps such as Photo Album or Photo Contacts be there after hard reset? How about the mMode?

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

They should be there and mMode should definately be there.

If a standard application is removed by a hard reset then the app

can be found on the cd that came with the phone.

[Guest LHospita1]

the "apps" folder on my 5600 oem cd is empty... i mean the folder is there, but nothing inside.

[Guest travisb]

I need to do a Hard Reset for the first time after CoPilot crashed my phone once too often for it's liking.

Quick question. As most of my apps are installed on the SD card, how does the hard reset affect them, seeing as the card isn't wiped?

[Guest Brody]

You'll need to reinstall the ones that make registry changes upon installation...

[Guest Confucious]

If you copy your start menu before you do the hard reset it makes life easier - otherwise none of your apps will show and you either have to re-install them all or at least recreate the start menu.

HTH

[Guest travisb]

Thanx for that Confucious.

[Guest travisb]

Reset went smoothly with no apparent disasters (that I can tell!). Now have to see if its made CoPilot behave itself :roll:

[Guest RT87]

Just had to do this now, phone wouldnt boot up after I installed the xmas homescreen and deleted an old one... lost my contacts by the sounds of it. :evil: :evil: :evil:

[Guest fozzie]

... lost my contacts by the sounds of it. :evil:  :evil:  :evil:

Just re-sync your phone with your PC and your contacts will all be back; the beauty of ActiveSync :)

[Guest BEARSUE]

ALL HAIL PEANUT YOUR A LEGEND THANKS FOR YOUR ADVICE

REGARDS

THE BEAR :( 8) :)

[Guest slamming_sammy1]

thanks Peanut!!

works great for me - I have a Audiovox smt5600 and it kept rebooting itself after some java game crashed it and I had to do a Hard Reset and ran across this thread and I figured I just try your instruction, and it worked great.

[Guest smt5600user]

I interupted ActiveSync 3.8 and my Audiovox SMT5600 froze. The Power button did nothing. Removing and replacing the battery caused the phone to freeze on the "Audiovox" boot-up screen. I followed your instructions and they worked as advertised. Fortunately, I have a backup of all my data, but now I'm worried that this could happen again.

Why does Microsoft suck?

[Guest joliver]

Works fine with de T-Mobile SDA Business, Thanks at all...

[Guest ga!nusha]

it's also called "cold reset" :arrow:

[Guest steve_hocking]

Having being buggering around with new home screens I seem to have buggered a bit too far... :oops: So I tried hard-resetting and it wouldn't. :shock: Then I remembered I had the free 16mb mini-sd card Orange are supplying with crap trial software. As soon as I removed this it was all sorted!!! :lol:

[Guest goctavian]

very nice man, thanks, i'll needed that badly because my phone doesn't start afther uninstalling the longhorn theme. Now i'm happy :lol:

[Guest smt_5600er]

I am sure I am not the first one to have this problem. I was trying to removed a theme that i had installed. the phone said it will remove some files when i reboot the phone. so i did, now its stuk on the audiovox boot screen...!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111~~~~~~````````` HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!>

[Guest smt_5600er]

i resolved my issue. i had to hold the softkeys down and power up.

[Guest pierre]

Hi, anyone knows how does Sprite act? Does it backup everything really? Because if it's the case, a hard reset should not make a difference if we put everything back like before with Sprite.

[Guest pierre]

Hmm..?

[Guest motorolampx200]

I have unlocked my C500 through c500-unlocker but will my phone be locked again when I hard reset the phone? Anyone?

[Guest squall]

i assume you sim unlocked via imei-check.co.uk or similar,

Sim unlock will stay through hard resets, and rom updates