SPV locked

[Guest hero_of_time89]

ok, here's the problem, i have had an orange spv c500 for a while now, only thing is, for a while, i actually lost it... well, i recently found it again, yay!, but one problem, i couldn't rememebr the code to get into it, so i tried but it is giving me a message saying 'device locked' what do i do!! i really like the phone but i can't get in... is there anything i can do to get in without losing all my data. if not, how would i got about doing a reset on it?

and sorry if this has been posted somewhere else... bleh

Edited April 8, 2006 by hero_of_time89

[Guest Crispy]

I think the easiest, if not only, solution would be to hard reset the phone. This can be done as follows;

Power off the phone and unplug it from the computer.

1. Press and hold soft1 and soft2 keys.

2. Press and hold power button for around 1 to 1.5 seconds. Release power button. Keep hold soft1 and soft2 keys.

3. Later, screen shoould show instructions to ask user to press '0' key to reset to factory default.

4. Press '0' within the timeout period, which is only several seconds only.

5. If no instruction is shown on the screen, repeat steps 1 to 4.

The timing is sensitive.

Hope it helps ;)

[Guest hero_of_time89]

thanks, just to check though, if i do this will it uninstall the windows software that is on it? or just my data?

[Guest Disco Stu]

You lose all your personal data and files but the Windows/network operating system is left intact. In fact it will be completely rewritten and returned to factory state.