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Could I have reset my MPx220?
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Posted by: conspiracy

I was in Florida over the weekend and was having trouble with my MPx, so I decided to "reboot". I had a little trouble getting it to turn off and back on, but when I eventually did, it was wiped clean -- as if it were brand new. No contacts, settings, pictures, ringtones, etc.

Is there a way I could have legitimately reset my phone completely? And, is there anyway to get the previous files back (pictures particularly).

thanks

Posted by: mtf97tj

If you pushed Power and the Action button, that woul do it. That is the only way I am aware of doing a restore to default.

Pictures, no because of memory type - unless they were saved to memory card, then yes cause i have done it many times

- reset does not effect memory cards, but could screw applications up if you install them to the card, not the phone (registry stuff)

Posted by: conspiracy

thanks for the info. Pretty sure I had the phone closed at the time. Not sure which is the action key.

Not a big deal, I just had to activesync my contacts back and set up some email accounts again. Pictures weren't that big of a deal.

Thanks though.

Is there an app that will backup my entire phone config to my laptop?

Posted by: Dekkerd

Yep. I did this at the gate in Dulles, on the way back from Xmas. Somehow I hard reset the phone with only the power button. Anything in main memeroy was toast, storage card was OK. Only advice I can give is keep everything in an organized folder on your computer, so you can sync, then drag/drop/reinstall quickly.

Posted by: cortez

check out Sprite Backup software... it will save you a ton of time if you have to hard reset the phone and reinstall everything. i make it a practice to hard reset once a month and within 7 minutes, all of my applications, home screens, etc. are restored to the phone. i don't backup contacts and mail because i can just resync everything.

one nice thing is that you can save the backup file to your PC and your miniSD card. i place a copy of the Sprite cab (install) file on the miniSD card and install it from there, then i can quickly restore everything.