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How To: Reset 25 Popular Phones

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23. Blackberry Torch 9860

If you’ve ever wanted to reformat your smartphone and start fresh, but weren't certain which was the best way, this list is almost sure to tell you how.


Unlike most Blackberries, the Torch does not have a QWERTY keypad, so it’s reset methods are slightly different.

 

Soft Reset:

Press and hold the Power button to turn off the device.

 

Factory Reset:

Open Options from the Application panel. Scroll down to Security and select it, followed by Security Wipe. Upon selecting Security Wipe, you’ll be given a list of checkboxes allowing you to choose which data to wipe/reset. After that, enter the text phase for confirmation and select Wipe Data.

 

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mkrijt 12/14/2011 10:31 AM
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You can also do a hard reset of your nokia N8 doing the following (This wipes the entire phone memory and settings fresh to how it was (or should be) when you bought it):
-Turn off your phone
-Hold “Volume Down + Camera Key + Menu Key” and press power button until your phone vibrates.
-Wait until screen show properly… and welcome back!!

This can however lead to other problems, so be carefull....

Memnarchon 12/14/2011 11:25 AM
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The only problem that leads is the loss of the Qt libraries. It supposed to be solved in the Symbian Anna update but the loss of the Qt libraries still happens. People at nokia (and other) forums asking how to retrieve them back. Simple. Just install an application from Nokia Ovi Suite that requires Qt libraries and it will automatically download it.

Memnarchon 12/14/2011 11:32 AM
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Also you can hard reset by pressing the following *#7370#. This is the hard reset. The soft reset is *#7780#.