How To Reset A Blackberry Phone To Factory Settings

Feb 6, 2010 by Shahbaaz

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Smartphones are viable to grow technical problems with time just as humans are to ill health.

In this case, we are talking about a Blackberry smartphone and if it’s troubling you lately maybe, due to a potentially harmful third party application that you installed unknowingly or something else.

Or if you accidentally manipulated your Blackberry’s settings to something you’d otherwise hate, here is a solution to get rid of all these buggy software problems.

This article will guide you in a very detailed step-by-step instruction chronology to reset your blackberry phone.

Here is how to reset your Blackberry to factory settings. And there are actually two ways to do it – soft reset and hard reset. But before you begin with any of the two, to avoid losing data, try to backup your device data using Blackberry Desktop Manager.

Soft Reset :

To soft reset your Blackberry smartphone, you can either pop out the battery after turning off the phone and then plug in back to restart the device. This will deal with any temporary and minute problems with the Blackberry software.

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Hard Reset:

To hard reset your blackberry, you must –

Backup all data on your Blackberry phone, if it’s not meant to be lost or wiped out.
Make sure you have no problem with power supply to your PC , or if you are using a laptop, make sure it’s adequately charged (this applies only when a computer to reset your device).
Make sure you charge your battery to avoid permanent device breakdowns in case of shortage of battery power.
Exit all the third party applications like games or instant messengers.
Click-Select the Settings Option (in some case appears just as “Option”) from the Homescreen Menu.
From the Options menu, use your trackball to scroll-down and click-select Security Options.
Now, select and click ‘General Settings’ from the menu.

This should display your phone’s general settings like Number of password attempts, security timeout, etc., etc.,
Click the menu key on the phone (the key with the Blackberry logo just on left to the track ball) and select ‘Wipe Handheld’.
A warning message appears on the screen which should read “ Warning, all application data will be lost! Message service and other services will be turned off.”
If you want to wipe out the third party apps as well, select the check box that appears just below to this message, otherwise, just proceed to next step.
Click on ‘Continue’ to proceed with the reset or cancel if you were just going through the procedure.
This causes the blackberry phone to reset to its factory (default) settings and it must take hardly 3 minutes to make it happen.
It is natural for the device to display blank screen for a while or (and) restart itself after the factory settings have been restored.
At the start up, for the first time, you’ll be prompted to configure basic settings for your blackberry phone, which you may skip, if you plan to do it later.

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