thierry2064

I have this now, hard reset is very easy (no need to push on the reset button et the back), but after tapping Yes on the "Erase all data", the reset loop is still here.

I waited for two weeks for the battery to drain, no luck. Before I buy an soldering iron, I would like to know how many of you had this before ? And among those, who got it solved by draining or disconnecting the battery ?

Alphasmart User

Did you try a warm reset first? (press and hold page up and then press reset)?

You don't tap "erase all data" on the screen. you press the page up key to conform the hard reset.

What kind of Palm _PDA are you trying to hard reset? If it is one of those devices with the flash ram (for example the T5 and the TX) then removing the battery will NOT erase anything.

However if it has normal RAM, removing the battery should erase the RAM.

I don't know if the battery is build in, requiring a soldering iron, but if you tell me your _PDA model I'll look it up.

Gregte

You don't need to unsolder the battery to temporarily disconnect it. All you need to do is to short its two wires together, briefly, at the two point where they are soldered onto the TX's mother board.

This will trip the circuit breaker that is built into the battery. The breaker will remain tripped, disconnecting the battery from the TX, for a minute or so, then it will reset itself and you are ready to go.

dmitrygr

DO NOT short the battery! it's a lithium ion, and it can explode easily if you do that.

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wozofoz

Can you confirm you meant to say that you pushed the 5WayNav (DPad) UP.

I haven't tried this but you may want to

Hard Reset by 4 Buttons
You can read about it in full at TamsPalm but this is the basic steps:

1) While the device is resetting, hold all four hard buttons (home, calendar, tasks and web)
2) When the black progress bar on the first screen reaches 100% it should stay until you let go of the buttons.
3) Let go of the buttons and the split second the device switches to the grey palm powered screen reapply the buttons.
4) Wait a few seconds and release the buttons. With any luck you will be shown the “Are you sure you wish to erase all data screen.”
5) Press 5WayNav UP to complete the hard reset.

All the best, woz of oz

Gregte

It will not explode because it has short circuit protection. It has an automatic resetting circuit breaker built into it specifically for the very fact that a shorted lithium ion battery can explode or burst into flame if shorted.

I have done this to my battery on more than one occasion. Shorting it immediately trips the breaker. It then takes a minute or more for the breaker to reset itself.

dmitrygr

last time i tried, my table had a hole in it, my carpet was melted, and my room was full of thick grey smoke. so i guess my breaker was not as good as yours...

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thierry2064

Yes, sorry for mistaking, I press the 5way up on my TX.
My breaker works (I tried before seeing Dmitry's e-mail), but although I shorted the battery, I am still in the reset loop.
@Gregte, should the palm wake on its own after the breaker resets itself ? Or should it wake with the power button ? Mine just do nothing, until I plug it in, which makes it wake and go back in the reset loop. I'll let it charge tonight and try again tomorrow. But hope is diminishing...

Alphasmart User

I don't know if a zero out reset would work because Palm's website says Treo 650 and T5 only, and they have been very unclear about if it would work on the TX or not.

A zero out reset basically formats the entire _memory card, and overwrites everything in internal _memory. (there is some data a hard reset does not erase in NVFS devices. you can find the instructions here http://kb.palm.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=PalmSupportKB,ts=Palm_External20 01,Case=obj(887)#zeroout

I am not sure if this will work with the TX.

phreakonaleash

Thanks for the link woz

If you watch the youtube video I linked to there, you can see my T|X in the exact same hard rest loop as yours sounds to be in; the only solutoin I found was to send it to palm to fix it up... I did this with 4 devices before discovering the charger was bad...

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kiteandcamera

If you restore your handheld from the backup on your PC or external memory card, AND it contains the problem causing the resets, you simply reintroduce the problem back to your handheld. This is a common problem. You need to delete the backup set from your external card if you do use a backup program. Also, move the backup files from your PC to another location to your hard drive and delte the PC bakcup files for your handheld. Now perform a hotsynch and gradually reload your apps. This is a confusing and painful process, but you really are looking to freshly install your apps and data by avoiding the re-introduction of a problem that previously existed.

phreakonaleash

OP said they couldn't hard reset at all.

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thierry2064

Thanks for answering. But who is OP ? Actually I can hard reset very easilly, just have to press the power button during the reset loop and then press the 5ways up button at the prompt.

Can anyone (who already shorted his TX's battery) answer this question : should the palm wake on its own after the breaker resets itself (after the battery was shorted)? Or should it wake with the power button ? None of this happened with my TX. Its screen just stays black, until I plug it in, which makes it wake and go back in the reset loop. I know the battery is full as it keep on resetting for all day after unpluging.

Gregte

It may wake on its own or it may take a press of the power button. But, if the battery disconnect solved the problem, whether shorted or unsoldered, it would not go into a reset loop.