The Need for Hard-Reset Buttons (aka How Spb Pocket Plus killed my device)
In response to my earlier post on How to hard-reset your HTC Wizard, some folks wrote me to ask why, if they can use the ‘Clear Storage’ method of performing a hard-reset, would they ever consider contorting their fingers and then make sure they hit the right buttons in the correct order in a sort of Merlin*-esque game.
The answer, gentle reader, is simple – what do you do if the device won’t boot correctly?
Case in point:
Earlier this month I drove downtown for a Microsoft / Avanade event. After I parked my car, I picked up my device and noticed that 1) it had rebooted on its own and 2) it was stuck on the Qtek screen (actions that were a bit disconcerting and not good, respectively). It might be a good thing to note that the last thing I had done before I left my house was to install Spb Pocket Plus as I had recently hard-reset my device after I was particularly naughty with some experimentations and gotten it into a ‘bad place’.
First instinct was, of course, to try the obvious – soft-reset it. Nope. Soft-reset it a few more times. Nope (..as if). A quick moment of desperation creeped in and the next thing I knew, I heard myself eliciting some soft pleading-type noises rather unbecoming of a six-foot-four, two-hundred-forty pound man. Since I had just ‘re-built’ my device and I was away from my computer, I was trying to avoid a hard-reset since I didn’t have any of my apps on my mini-SD card. No such luck.
I had no choice but to perform a hard-reset (using the hardware buttons) and see what happened. Thankfully, my device popped back to life without issue. While I was re-installing my applications later that evening, I started doing some research on Spb Pocket Plus (since it was the last app I installed before my device got itself in a bind) and I found this pinned thread over at MoDaCo. What I thought was particularly curious was that I had previously installed Spb Pocket Plus without incident. So, when I installed it this time, I un-checked ‘Safe Mode’ and have not had any issues since.
-Nino
*my sister had one of these.. ‘Mindbender’ was my favorite game. For those who want to re-live the olden days, check out this virtual Merlin