How to hard reset a Venue Pro?

Jim Coleman · Nov 10, 2010

Does anyone know how to hard reset a Venue Pro?

My understanding is that this is a required step after changing the SD card, as it forces the OS to set up the new card (in whatever arcane way it needs to) in order to start using it as storage.

New Venue Pro owners will want to know this.

Also, if anyone successfully manages to do this, and get their Venue Pro to recognise their SD cards, please let us know.

gshocker · Nov 10, 2010

In the settings under about phone there is a reset option.. I am guessing that this would wipe the phone and re-setup.

Jim Coleman · Nov 10, 2010

gshocker said:
In the settings under about phone there is a reset option.. I am guessing that this would wipe the phone and re-setup.

I was talking about hardware buttons, but it seems it is...

Power off

Hold down CAMERA and VOLUME DOWN buttons

Press Power button whilst still holding the other two buttons down until it boots.

Se4nH4x · Nov 10, 2010

"How to: Go to about phone, reset phone, say yes, wait for screen to turn off, pull battery, pull card, insert card, boot, go through welcome steps, enjoy"

- credits kltye

kltye · Nov 11, 2010

Se4nH4x said:
"How to: Go to about phone, reset phone, say yes, wait for screen to turn off, pull battery, pull card, insert card, boot, go through welcome steps, enjoy"

- credits kltye

If you'd like to try, you can also try to pull card, insert new card, THEN do the hard reset. It sounds like that should work too.

1plus19 · May 1, 2011

thanks this is really useful.

alodar1 · May 1, 2011

kltye said:
If you'd like to try, you can also try to pull card, insert new card, THEN do the hard reset. It sounds like that should work too.

you could try it this way. If you do though let me know first...odds are in favor of brick

Follow the other steps...work like a charm.

liyev · May 31, 2011

Jim Coleman said:
Does anyone know how to hard reset a Venue Pro?

My understanding is that this is a required step after changing the SD card, as it forces the OS to set up the new card (in whatever arcane way it needs to) in order to start using it as storage.

New Venue Pro owners will want to know this.

Also, if anyone successfully manages to do this, and get their Venue Pro to recognise their SD cards, please let us know.

have you successfully hard reset your dell venue pro? I am trying to hard reset, but have been stuck for a long time...

thanks

alodar1 · Jun 1, 2011

liyev said:
have you successfully hard reset your dell venue pro? I am trying to hard reset, but have been stuck for a long time...

thanks

NO rumors here. There are NO HARDWARE HARD RESET BUTTON COMBINATIONS for the Dell. NONE.

the Camera, volume, up/down/Power is NOT a hard reset.

Only hard reset is available with Start, settings, About, Reset Phone....

Thats it. Anything else...as far as we know...is a misstatement. Other phones like The Focus or the HD7 do have HW button combinations...the Dell does not

Igoran · Jun 11, 2011

Sadly...
Have a DVP hardware buttons combintion to update firmware from PC when it can't boot OS? Like tri-color bootloader mode from HTC.
Or it doesn't have any hardware modes at all?
For example, if i change sd card and "something goes wrong" and it not boot with new or old sd card. It's bricked in that case?

slight22 · Jun 14, 2011

So then can we judt drop a 32gig memory card in and go with it?

venelar · Jun 14, 2011

slight22 said:
So then can we judt drop a 32gig memory card in and go with it?

No. You have to reset the device, then before it reboots (at the dell screen) pull the battery. Then swap the card, then power back on.

There is a sd card thread in this section.

alodar1 · Jun 14, 2011

Igoran said:
Sadly...
Have a DVP hardware buttons combintion to update firmware from PC when it can't boot OS? Like tri-color bootloader mode from HTC.
Or it doesn't have any hardware modes at all?
For example, if i change sd card and "something goes wrong" and it not boot with new or old sd card. It's bricked in that case?

Nothing man.....no white horse coming if you trash your phone by pulling the card before a hard reset.

There is a way out...IF...and ONLY IF, you have a backup. I could say go read about this....but I'll tell you instead.

When you update your phone....7008 -> to any new update, a back up is made during the process. IF...IF IF you were logged on as a guest in Zune while doing this backup, no backup will be retained. If you were logged on to Zune as a user, then the back is retained.

If something goes wrong and you find that you cannot boot...then try the key combination listed above. That should place you in what is called the Download mode or Computer Connect mode. IF IF IF you have that backup, the backup will restore in this mode. There is no way to force it though.

Rules about backups:

A backup will ONLY work if the card size remains the same. A 16g card backup will NOT restore onto a 32g card.

Restores ONLY work same size to same size.

hihi2u2 · Nov 1, 2011

Is there anywhere you can fix this problem

Hi there,

I lost my backup and lost my original card so is there any hardware reset or ability to flash the phone via pc ?

Reinstalling to factory reset ?

Please help, now I got a bricked phone ... ...

alodar1 said:
Nothing man.....no white horse coming if you trash your phone by pulling the card before a hard reset.

There is a way out...IF...and ONLY IF, you have a backup. I could say go read about this....but I'll tell you instead.

When you update your phone....7008 -> to any new update, a back up is made during the process. IF...IF IF you were logged on as a guest in Zune while doing this backup, no backup will be retained. If you were logged on to Zune as a user, then the back is retained.

If something goes wrong and you find that you cannot boot...then try the key combination listed above. That should place you in what is called the Download mode or Computer Connect mode. IF IF IF you have that backup, the backup will restore in this mode. There is no way to force it though.

Rules about backups:

A backup will ONLY work if the card size remains the same. A 16g card backup will NOT restore onto a 32g card.

Restores ONLY work same size to same size.

nikkpap · Aug 24, 2012

Hi to all , is there any way to re- install the first firmare lets say my phone was on 7.0.0 my manufactor and i did a language update from a nokia lumnia to have greek on dell, i swred up my phone. now if i will make an OTA update to the latest it will restore everything or i have to make a firmware restore first... thanks my email is nikkpap@gmai.com

Technosquid · Aug 24, 2012

nikkpap said:
Hi to all , is there any way to re- install the first firmare lets say my phone was on 7.0.0 my manufactor and i did a language update from a nokia lumnia to have greek on dell, i swred up my phone. now if i will make an OTA update to the latest it will restore everything or i have to make a firmware restore first... thanks my email is nikkpap@gmai.com

You have to install the fresh ROM using this guide:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1411300

The ROM from either of the two following links (the multiupload link in the thread is broken.) It's the stock ROM version, build 7004.
http://sdrv.ms/JrpmR6
http://d-h.st/sNY

I remember reading in the thread linked below, some anecdotes about the DVP only working with english language pack. I can't find the posts at the moment because search xda search is currently disabled.
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1306415

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