Can't get the dang factory reset to work.... - HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G

Once I activate it, it just spins and spins and won't reset.
I'm having trouble getting android market to work and was advised to reset the tab.
Now what can I do to fix the danf thing?

Bigum1969 said:
Now what can I do to fix the danf thing?
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Therefore I have to understand what you really did. What do you mean with "activate"? Have to set-off the fast-boot? Have you first reset and enter the boot-loader? What really happens and where?

I think the op is trying to factory reset the flyer and the busy indicator just spins./freeze. I also experienced this and had to reset the flyer. The market was acting up then I works fine 2-3 days later.
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I had market issues as well and a factory reset and formatting of all the storage worked for me. Takes a bit for everything to settle. How long has it been spinning/did it spin?
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Use the Bootloader to reset
If you aren't trying this from the bootloader you should try that, you will need to disable Fast Boot under the Power menu in your settings. Turn the tablet all the way off, and then power it back up by holding Vol - and Power at the same time until you get the BugDroid's skating across the bottom screen, you use Vol +/- to navigate and Power to select, one option should be a factory reset.
IF you are already trying it this way, I dunno what else you would do other than placing a factory ROM zip and having the bootloader flash it!

Thanks everyone for the advice... I'm going to try and get to the bootloader.

glitzbd said:
If you aren't trying this from the bootloader you should try that, you will need to disable Fast Boot under the Power menu in your settings. Turn the tablet all the way off, and then power it back up by holding Vol - and Power at the same time until you get the BugDroid's skating across the bottom screen, you use Vol +/- to navigate and Power to select, one option should be a factory reset.
IF you are already trying it this way, I dunno what else you would do other than placing a factory ROM zip and having the bootloader flash it!
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my flyer doesn't even HAVE a factory reset button under privacy. Yeah I know its weird. I'm starting to suspect I bought some skinned version of the flyer.
But the power off, volume down and power button worked for me though. I still didn't seem to fix the problem even after factory reset, I don't know what kind of flyer I got. I believe its UK version.

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Hard Reset Verizon Touch Pro

I have a Verizon Touch Pro and the phone wont boot into windows. I tried this but it wont hard reset...
"With the device turned on, press and hold the VOLUME DOWN and CENTER buttons, then press the RESET button with the stylus tip.
Continue pressing the RESET, VOLUME DOWN and CENTER buttons until screen."
I called customer support they said only way to hard reset was thru windows - Clear Storage.
Anyone have any ideas.
I can get into the bootloader fine. Dont really feel like going through a replacement.
Nevermind, just found it.
Instructions from the user manual
1. Turn off the power.
2. Press and hold the ENTER (Center) key, and then press the POWER key.
3. Release the POWER key, but continue pressing the ENTER key until you see the following message on
the screen.....
Cant believe a tier 2 tech at verizon couldnt find this.
ramik911 said:
I have a Verizon Touch Pro and the phone wont boot into windows. I tried this but it wont hard reset...
"With the device turned on, press and hold the VOLUME DOWN and CENTER buttons, then press the RESET button with the stylus tip.
Continue pressing the RESET, VOLUME DOWN and CENTER buttons until screen."
I called customer support they said only way to hard reset was thru windows - Clear Storage.
Anyone have any ideas.
I can get into the bootloader fine. Dont really feel like going through a replacement.
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actually i work for verizon and i bought the touchpro the first day it was released and I had to do a hard reset shortly after i received it because of all the tinkering i was doing with it. anyways, the only way to hard reset the xv6850 is to do the clear storage process. the method of holding down the buttons and doing a soft reset WILL NOT WORK on the verizon version. yes and i am very aware of the idiocy that is our technical staff. anyways hope this helps.
I'm trying to figure something out and I don't yet own a touch pro-the answer may effect my buying.
After you preform a hard reset and go through the screen calibration, does the ROM install any software? I mean does it give you an auto prompt that says something like customizing your device? If you've ever hard reset a xv6800 or used a custom UC rom you'll know what I mean.
I have some theories about making the device faster or removing some stuff based on the way our xv6800 was. Mnasr87, do you know the contents of the Verizon extROM?
ramik911 said:
Nevermind, just found it.
Instructions from the user manual
1. Turn off the power.
2. Press and hold the ENTER (Center) key, and then press the POWER key.
3. Release the POWER key, but continue pressing the ENTER key until you see the following message on
the screen.....
Cant believe a tier 2 tech at verizon couldnt find this.
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Correct way is to hold down the center key and press in the reset button.
Cycomachead said:
I'm trying to figure something out and I don't yet own a touch pro-the answer may effect my buying.
After you preform a hard reset and go through the screen calibration, does the ROM install any software? I mean does it give you an auto prompt that says something like customizing your device? If you've ever hard reset a xv6800 or used a custom UC rom you'll know what I mean.
I have some theories about making the device faster or removing some stuff based on the way our xv6800 was. Mnasr87, do you know the contents of the Verizon extROM?
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i'm sorry i don't know what the contents of the extROM is but i do know that it does go through the customization screen after doing a hard reset. i hope that helps in the process of hacking the touch pro pm me if you come up with anything, tc.
open clear storage in settings/systems and enter 1 2 3 4
it will restore to the original rom
mnasr87 said:
i'm sorry i don't know what the contents of the extROM is but i do know that it does go through the customization screen after doing a hard reset. i hope that helps in the process of hacking the touch pro pm me if you come up with anything, tc.
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Thanks, I posted a thread about bypassing customizations to possibly speed up the verizon rom. Usually Verizon has a couple cabs that monitor registry changes and slow things down. But if you bypass the customizations I still don't know what else there is missing (good and bad.)
But knowing I can bypass customizations and that there are now custom roms is a good thing! Now, I need to start begging my parents.
ramik911 said:
Nevermind, just found it.
Instructions from the user manual
1. Turn off the power.
2. Press and hold the ENTER (Center) key, and then press the POWER key.
3. Release the POWER key, but continue pressing the ENTER key until you see the following message on
the screen.....
Cant believe a tier 2 tech at verizon couldnt find this.
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this works for the xv6850, the verizon touch pro. but technically you should simply tap the power button and not hold it down too long and don't let go of the center button until you see the hard reset screen.
ramik911 said:
Nevermind, just found it.
Instructions from the user manual
1. Turn off the power.
2. Press and hold the ENTER (Center) key, and then press the POWER key.
3. Release the POWER key, but continue pressing the ENTER key until you see the following message on
the screen.....
Cant believe a tier 2 tech at verizon couldnt find this.
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lol cant figure it out cause they dont have the right information in the 611 knowledgebase. laughed so hard when i saw that.
[email protected] said:
open clear storage in settings/systems and enter 1 2 3 4
it will restore to the original rom
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This was quick easy and painless. Thank you. I was trying to do it the other way listed online which was not working.
That was phone upside down hold volume down press the enter key and then hold down the reset button. This was almost impossible to do with only 2 hands lol. Also it wouldn't work.
when the phone is off, jus hold center and volume down then hold power. make sure there all being held down.
Out of all methods listed, the only two that work for my Verizon XV6850 are hold the center button and reset button, and of course the clear storage icon in system settings. Just tried them all. The other ones just bring up a screen for completely powering off the device.
mnasr87 said:
actually i work for verizon and i bought the touchpro the first day it was released and I had to do a hard reset shortly after i received it because of all the tinkering i was doing with it. anyways, the only way to hard reset the xv6850 is to do the clear storage process. the method of holding down the buttons and doing a soft reset WILL NOT WORK on the verizon version. yes and i am very aware of the idiocy that is our technical staff. anyways hope this helps.
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Just did a hard reset on my Verizon Touch Pro by powering off , holding the center button and pressing power. Screen popped right and and inicated it would erase all data press vol up to continue. SO it DOES work...............
GrandMasterB said:
Just did a hard reset on my Verizon Touch Pro by powering off , holding the center button and pressing power. Screen popped right and and inicated it would erase all data press vol up to continue. SO it DOES work...............
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This is also the ONLY way my Verizon TP hard resets as well. However, I was flashing my friends vzw TP and his won't do it any way but the clear storage way? What gives? Whats causing the difference?
Just as a couple of the guys said before..... For a Verizon Touch Pro not sure about anything else..... but a simple power off...... press and hold the center button... power up and BAM!
all that holding the volume button down....press the reset.... double tapping is totally wrong.....
What in the world is the Center button?
also just wondering if there is another way to HR besides going to settings and clear storage does it do anything different?
hard resetting on Verizon
i think that they disable the way with the down arrow and the other stuff i think that the only way that you can do it on a Verizon phone is by doing it with the whole clear memory thing and 1234 or if you can find a rom that works and so far i have only found one rom that see to works right . and also the one in the manual doesn't seem to work either
I found this thread looking to hard reset my xv6850. Tried everything, but only one method worked for me. I figured I would post here for others trying to hard reset:
with the power on
hold down the center button
press the reset button
btw ... rom ver 1.08.605.4
ramik911 said:
Nevermind, just found it.
Instructions from the user manual
1. Turn off the power.
2. Press and hold the ENTER (Center) key, and then press the POWER key.
3. Release the POWER key, but continue pressing the ENTER key until you see the following message on
the screen.....
Cant believe a tier 2 tech at verizon couldnt find this.
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this works perfectly fince

Screen doesn't turn off

Hi,
Just swapped my note to a Lumia. Running 12070.
I got this issue that the screen don't turn itself off when i leave the phone alone.
The time is set to one minute but nothing happens after that. If i reboot the phone it will work a couple of times as usual, but then after a bit it is the same again.
I have done several factory resets withot any luck. Btw there is something really strange with the factory reset. When i start the phone up after the reset it remembers my Nokia account name? How could that be so? It's like the reset isn't quite resetting everything.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
EDIT:
*facepalm to myself* found the error...
The camera button was half pressed down by the softcover. Now the screen functions normally
But the mystery with remembering my Nokia account after factory reset is still a big ???
soft reset with hardware button, or hard reset with phone menu?
if you really want to hard reset it, try this, hardware method:
presse volume down+power+camera 5 sec together, wait the vibration.
then stop pressing only power button but keep pressure on volume - and camera, wait reboot
tell us
fabulous69 said:
soft reset with hardware button, or hard reset with phone menu?
if you really want to hard reset it, try this, hardware method:
presse volume down+power+camera 5 sec together, wait the vibration.
then stop pressing only power button but keep pressure on volume - and camera, wait reboot
tell us
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Actually i have tried both methods with the same result.
Very wierd.

Evo lte is stuck in lock screen, feeling withdrawal symptoms already

ok so I'm new to this forum, was suggested to go here when i got my first smartphone.
So basically my idiot friends were messing with my phone with the pattern lock. They messed it up 15 times and now I have to sign in with my gmail. But the problem is that whenever I try to sign in, it gives me invalid username/password. I know I'm putting in the right password and right username because I've done it about a million times on my computer and tried to unlock my phone about the same amount of times. I've also tried all my other gmails that my phone is registered with but none work.
I'm still on stock ICS because im new to the android world and haven't gotten around to figuring out everything. Thanks for helping!
Okay first did you possibly have your Android debugging on? If not the only way us a factory reset. You can reset it by turning it off, hold down power and volume down. While holding volume down let go of the power. Then using your volume keys select factory reset and select with the power button.
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alright thanks! but when do i let go of the power button? when i tried it, it booted up into safe mode
don404303 said:
alright thanks! but when do i let go of the power button? when i tried it, it booted up into safe mode
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Okay so first press down the Vol. Down button. Next press the power button firmly for 3 seconds. DO NOT let go of the Volume down button till a white screen (Your bootloader) appears. Then use the volume buttons to select factory reset (If it's not there look for bootloader or somthing like that) press the power button to select.
Volia your phone is now factory reset!
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[Q] Galaxy S5 Screen not shutting off when charging

I updated to Lollipop a several days ago through Kies. My battery life was not good so I did a factory reset. I reinstalled my apps and set up the phone the way I wanted it and it worked properly for a couple of days, still not happy with battery life. Yesterday I found that when I set the phone on the wireless charger the wireless charging notification came on lighting up the screen and the screen would not shut off. I googled it and all I find is to go to developer options and uncheck the stay awake which I have done, it was not checked so I checked and unchecked it same thing happens. I restarted the phone several times. I made sure Daydream is off. I uninstalled the last apps I installed. I tried to plug the wire into the phone to charge it same thing happens. I found that if I unlock the phone then set it on the charger it will time off ok, but if a notification comes in the screen lights up and does not shut down. I found that if I push the power button the screen goes off and stays off until a notification comes in and the screen lights up and stays on. My next step is to factory reset again but I wanted to see if anyone has another suggestion before I reset. Any help will be appreciated.
You may try wiping the cache. I'm assuming you didn't have this problem before the factory reset and not immediately after the factory reset. Now this is just a suggestion but I'd try this before I did a factory reset. I'm guessing you are not rooted and you are running stock so your recovery will be stock. To enter recovery power off your phone then while off hold the volume up, power, and home button at the same time. Hold and you'll see "Recovery Booting" in the upper left. You can let go of the buttons now. You should have stock recovery now booted up. Using the volume keys scroll down and pick "wipe cache partition" Use the power button to select. Once it's done and it won't take long. It will be on "Reboot" go ahead and select that. With any luck that may solve your problem.
Corwinder said:
You may try wiping the cache. I'm assuming you didn't have this problem before the factory reset and not immediately after the factory reset. Now this is just a suggestion but I'd try this before I did a factory reset. I'm guessing you are not rooted and you are running stock so your recovery will be stock. To enter recovery power off your phone then while off hold the volume up, power, and home button at the same time. Hold and you'll see "Recovery Booting" in the upper left. You can let go of the buttons now. You should have stock recovery now booted up. Using the volume keys scroll down and pick "wipe cache partition" Use the power button to select. Once it's done and it won't take long. It will be on "Reboot" go ahead and select that. With any luck that may solve your problem.
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You are correct that I did not have the problem before or after the factory reset and I am on stock and not rooted. I am trying your suggestions now and will report back thank you.
Thank you for the suggestions however it did not solve the problem, but after I wiped the cache I found that the T-Mobile My Account was staying in the notifications and showing that I was close to my 3GB high speed data. I turned off the notifications and now I have a normal working phone again that shuts off the screen when charging.
frankjerkyass said:
Thank you for the suggestions however it did not solve the problem, but after I wiped the cache I found that the T-Mobile My Account was staying in the notifications and showing that I was close to my 3GB high speed data. I turned off the notifications and now I have a normal working phone again that shuts off the screen when charging.
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Glad to hear it. Yeah, I would have suggested shutting off those notifications just so they don't bother you. Anytime I want to know what T-Mobile has to say I just open up the app and look. I'm on wifi 90% of my time so I don't see using my quota anytime soon.
My sister updated her phone and somehow keep screen on while charging got enabled as well.
I had to enable developer settings (double tap build number 5 times) and uncheck keep screen on while charging.
nba1341 said:
My sister updated her phone and somehow keep screen on while charging got enabled as well.
I had to enable developer settings (double tap build number 5 times) and uncheck keep screen on while charging.
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Same thing happened to my wife's phone.
Little surprised to see this enabled on a pure stock device.

I effed up again....

Sooo.... HDX 8.9 Saturn... Rooted using Kingroot, and Disabled OTA... and the home launcher... so I'm at the point where windows explorer opens up the kindle, but i don't see anything because I had a password on it, and ADB won't let me install a new launcher to fix my mistake... Does anyone know the fix to this or can point me to the right path?
I guess your one option is hard reset from stock recovery.
You need working adb. I suppose after the hard reset adb access will appear. But no guarantees.
Will that not disable adb anyways?
I said: "no guarantees". but I dont see other option anyway.
Can't get into recovery... What are the buttons to be holding... Vol Up + Power, right?
Just hold vol up immediately after power on.
ONYXis said:
Just hold vol up immediately after power on.
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Right I did that, got in, but it cycled out almost instantly... I tried a few more times, and left it alone.. now it won't respond to anything, not even when I plug it in... argh... Looks like its permanently dead.
i dont think that this is possible
try to leave it in charge or hold power button long, above 3 min.
Right I did that, got in, but it cycled out almost instantly...
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just clarifying, hold vol up immediately after power on, without holding power button.
I left it on the charger overnight, and now it won't respond...
That is how I got into recovery, then it cycled out... I tried to go into recovery with only the volume up, and it wouldn't let me, and then this happened....
i'm going to hold off until Saturday, and leave it for about 5 hours on the charger... See if that does something
Yeah, so I left it in the charger overnight, and there is no response no matter what button combo I do....
so what the heck happened... I didn't do anything in recovery, unless it did something when it flashed out...
Well, I finally did the factory reset... I have the notification panel and the home buttons panel... Settings doesn't work, neither does wireless, and I have a flickering screen.
Amazon said they will send me a new one...
Search Partially works, except that I can't really turn on wifi to download an apk or turn on ADB using the option... wonder what would happen if I tried ADB now... not much point anyways since I'll get a new one, just loose root.... I can live with the new UI

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