[metsfan]

Originally Posted by SanFrancisco

FANTASTIC PROGRAM. I am donating and I hope other BBF members have too.

This saves wear and tear on my cases that I have always had to pull apart to do the battery reset.

FANTASTIC PROGRAM..... oh, already said that.

Thanks! Much appreciated.

[rivviepop]

Hey I donated, where's my limited edition signed copy in D&G gold leaf like you promised, metsfan? Man, !@#^nig developers...

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[RoadRider]

Just donated also. Thank you!!!

[metsfan]

Originally Posted by rivviepop

Hey I donated, where's my limited edition signed copy in D&G gold leaf like you promised, metsfan? Man, !@#^nig developers...

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It's uhh... in the mail. Thanks for the donation.

[wvmd]

Absolutely love the program - will donate also....

I did have a Javaexception error after I installed it - and tried to run it the first time. This was resolved by pulling the battery. It runs fine now.

Thanks again!

[freemantle]

Originally Posted by rivviepop

When you get a chance, can you use a watch and post your startup times like mine? More for my personal curiosity, as you aren't the first person to comment their Pearl reboots in a minute or whatever...

I was beta testing another app (I do the beta testing thing on GetJar.com and submit reports) and it locked me up so hard (hard, I say!) that almost required a battery pull (*) -- I ended up doing a SoftReset anyways just in case, and got to watch that fabulous spinning hourglass.

(*) amazingly I let it sit long enough and the RIM OS eventually caught it as a nasty bad app and shut it down on it's own, about 3 seconds before I was going to yank the battery.

Soft reset - 0953:00 Reset
0954:01 Security Certificates
0954:06 EDGE

Battery Pull 0957:00 Bat pulled
0957:55 Security Certificates
0958:13 EDGE

[rivviepop]

Originally Posted by rivviepop

1m 55s: first initial screen 'blip' that means it's almost loaded up
2m 21s: that blip to a bright white screen right before the home screen shows
2m 29s: home screen, radio attached to cell tower

I just applied the DST patch, and sitting at home I could do a battery pull to compare the times (yeah took me awhile).

1m 18s: that blip to a bright white screen right before the home screen
1m 30s: radio and lowercase 'edge' attached

...so, like everyone else experiences there's *something* different about a soft vs. hard (battery) reset - this is the same hardware, same OS, and same apps (well more or less, few new things) installed.

[mjwood0]

Who cares how long it takes... at least I don't have to pull apart my rubberized case every time I want to reset...

Great app!

[rivviepop]

Originally Posted by mjwood0

Who cares how long it takes... at least I don't have to pull apart my rubberized case every time I want to reset...

Thanks for these excellent words of wisdom, I don't know how I could have survived without them. Wow. The point here is that we're having a discussion that this *does* matter to us, and we're discussing why a soft reset would take longer than a battery pull -- it may or may not be of use to a future version of Soft Reset, but it's knowlege gained nonetheless. Perhaps with these inputs metsfan may discover a newer/alternate way of doing a reset that's even better than it currently is, which is the whole point.

But we're glad you don't care! It was worth spamming everyone to let them know, huh? I don't know what's worse - threadjacking or threadspamming.

[ron.pepper@sympatico.ca]

Originally Posted by metsfan

At the moment, no. There may be a way for me to have it automatically push the "Reset Now" button when that window pops up, but I think there's no way to stop it from coming up. I'll look into it automatically pushing the button.

Anyway to convince you to make one for the 8700XXX? I have an R(ogers). Any other 8700 users out there???

[metsfan]

Originally Posted by ron.pepper@sympatico.ca

Anyway to convince you to make one for the 8700XXX? I have an R(ogers). Any other 8700 users out there???

Have you tried it? I don't see why it won't work on the 8700 as is.

[RoadRider]

Originally Posted by ron.pepper@sympatico.ca

Anyway to convince you to make one for the 8700XXX? I have an R(ogers). Any other 8700 users out there???

8700 can be reset from the keypad, alt-shft-del I believe.

[abcomputin]

1:55 to Security Certificates
0:17 more to EDGE

However, this won't possibly break the battery cover!

[ron.pepper@sympatico.ca]

Originally Posted by metsfan

Have you tried it? I don't see why it won't work on the 8700 as is.

Tried it, I get "Symbol "code module manager.promptforresetifrequired"not found.

Dont know what that means but it aint good!!

[ron.pepper@sympatico.ca]

Originally Posted by RoadRider

8700 can be reset from the keypad, alt-shft-del I believe.

Negatory on the alt shift del strategy!! Does not work on my 8700R.

[RoadRider]

Maybe it's alt-shift-backspace (don't have an 8700 anymore). Anyway, it is described in one of the stickys.

[ron.pepper@sympatico.ca]

Originally Posted by RoadRider

Maybe it's alt-shift-backspace (don't have an 8700 anymore). Anyway, it is described in one of the stickys.

Thanks for alerting me to this it's ALT CAPS DEL. No more taking off the oh so shaky loose cover.

Thanks again

[tchen811]

Does anyone know how I can make it work? When I tried to delete aa_DeleteToReset, I get a message saying I can't delete since it is required by IT policy application control....

[John Clark]

SoftReset no longer needs to be deleted to work. If you install the latest version in the first post of this thread you should have an icon on the home screen that will allow you to reset the device. Works well.

[tchen811]

Originally Posted by John Clark

SoftReset no longer needs to be deleted to work. If you install the latest version in the first post of this thread you should have an icon on the home screen that will allow you to reset the device. Works well.

When I tried to run the app and choose the reset button, it gave me a message that aa_DeleteToReset already exists and gave me instructions on deleting it.