04-09-2006, 03:41 PM
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How Often Do You Willingly Hard Reset?
Ed posted a question a few days back asking how often people with WM 5 machines were subjected to unwanted hard resets. While I was one of those who hasn't ever had my WM 5 machine rebel against me with a hard reset, it got me wondering - how often do we willingly hard-reset our devices? Aside from ROM updates or bad apps, the only real reason I see to do this is to rebuild from scratch for maintenance purposes. While I used to re-format my Windows machines quarterly to get a fresh start, this slipped to twice a year and now yearly - and I feel my WM devices are going much the same route (Less voluntary hard resets now than ever). So how often do you hard reset willingly - and why?
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04-09-2006, 04:09 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Sep 2006
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As of now... seems like people hard-reset for ROM upgrades 
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04-09-2006, 06:37 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 193
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I reset my X30 last weekend for the first time since i got it almost 2 years ago. It was just running really slow and it was just time to clean it off.
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04-09-2006, 07:03 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 20
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I"ve only done one hard reset so far, my device was running slow. I think maintence is the main reason I use, it helps to clean up all those files left by demo software and freebees I try.
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04-09-2006, 07:31 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 192
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During the early months of WM devices, before there were any backup apps, I had to hard reset pretty often as I ran into app problems and OS performance problems. Now with the fantastic SPB Backup I don't really have a need to go through a full hard reset. I'm mostly using the system-only restore option when I run into trouble so I don't worry about losing documents, emails or PIM data if I haven't sync'd it.
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04-09-2006, 08:41 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 276
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I only keep about 20 or so applications on my 4700 and I keep a copy of all the latest revisions on my PC. For me doing a hard reset (or clean reset if you still use Wm5...I feel sorry for you few) isn't a big deal and sometimes I'll do it just to clean the cooties that collect while trialing (is that a verb ?) new software. I've read where some people take 3-4 days 8O to re-load everything. They must have every song since Elvis's Jailhouse Rock loaded on their PPC.
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04-09-2006, 08:53 PM
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The last time I hard-reset for maintenance was June, so ten months now. That's a new record for me! 8)
However, I like to do a hard-reset before I restore a (formerly Sprite, now Spb) backup, so I've hard-reset a few times since then for restoration purposes.
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04-09-2006, 10:25 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
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I voted for 6-12 months, but my first hard reset on my SP5 happened a week ago (after owning it for 4 months) when I updated the ROM. I normally will reset the device after about 6 mths just to get it going properly again 
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04-09-2006, 10:48 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 8,228
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I only hard reset when absolutely necessary, and only when a ROM upgrade looks like something I want. It takes me at least 3 hours after a hard reset to get moderate functionality back and another 2-3 weeks to finally get everything tweaked out as I like it.
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04-09-2006, 11:59 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 8
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I hard reset only if something goes wrong on the HW side and I need to replace the part. My rx3115 is not getting any ROM updates anytime soon .
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