johnnybirdman
Android Enthusiast
EDIT: As opposed to the 'long' way (below) I suggest doing the factory resent under SETTINGS>PRIVACY.
I did the factory reset method because after the long method I started to get a lot of random reboots. Could have been an app I installed but the Droid seemed better after the factory reset, FWIW.
J.
ORIGINAL POST:
Did a hard reset more or less just to see if/how it would work. Found out that with the google sync, once I reset my phone it downloaded and installed all the applications I had installed prior to the reset. Wow, so easy.
It did NOT keep the icons/widgits/shortcuts I had setup, nor some other account setting, but that is not hard to remedy.
I followed the instructions I found in a another post to reset.
Hard Reset
1. Power off phone
2. Use hardware keyboard
3. Press and hold the 'X' key and Power button until you see a screen with an exclamation point inside a triangle
4. Press and hold the Volume Up key then press the Camera button (I had to do this twice) to get menu screen (Linux back-end becomes VERY apparent here)
5. Using the D-pad, select one of the Wipe options (specifically Wipe Data/Factory Reset)
6. Confirm your selection and wait for it to complete
7. Reboot the device
http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid/15813-droid-will-not-turn.html#post95497
I did the factory reset method because after the long method I started to get a lot of random reboots. Could have been an app I installed but the Droid seemed better after the factory reset, FWIW.
J.
ORIGINAL POST:
Did a hard reset more or less just to see if/how it would work. Found out that with the google sync, once I reset my phone it downloaded and installed all the applications I had installed prior to the reset. Wow, so easy.
It did NOT keep the icons/widgits/shortcuts I had setup, nor some other account setting, but that is not hard to remedy.
I followed the instructions I found in a another post to reset.
Hard Reset
1. Power off phone
2. Use hardware keyboard
3. Press and hold the 'X' key and Power button until you see a screen with an exclamation point inside a triangle
4. Press and hold the Volume Up key then press the Camera button (I had to do this twice) to get menu screen (Linux back-end becomes VERY apparent here)
5. Using the D-pad, select one of the Wipe options (specifically Wipe Data/Factory Reset)
6. Confirm your selection and wait for it to complete
7. Reboot the device
http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid/15813-droid-will-not-turn.html#post95497