Comments on: BlackBerry adds “Reset to Factory Default” option

By: Ki

Ki — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:16:04 +0000

i us bought a BB 8330 off a friend. I want to erase everything on it….cuz right now all the email n everything is setup wit his email….how would i go bout signing him out of all of that so i dnt get his emails n i can set my own accounts to it?? im new to the blackberrry and all this server and network talk is confusing me. i jus want to clear all data n sign him out of the emails n aol n what not.

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:14:17 +0000

I just got a bb 8703E and i tried dowloading an app and now my screen is stuck on the hour glass. I have tried to take the battery out and that didnt do anything the hour glass just came back. I tried holding ALT+SHIFT/CAP+DELETE and it asked me if i want to reset and i pressed enter and i just started the hour glass again. any ideas without having to take it in to the store?

By: meg

meg — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:12:21 +0000

I got a new blackberry and tranfered all my info but it also tranfered my settings. i dont want those settings, i liked the default settings on the new phone. is there a way to reset those without wiping my data?

By: Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:51:38 +0000

To reset i to factory default go to the menu then click on the options thes security options then click ur menu button againd and choose wipe halndheld

By: josh

josh — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:20:32 +0000

so how is this done???

By: jie

jie — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:46:33 +0000

How do I reset data usage : exeeded 250kb and voice usage : exeeded 60 minutes on blackberry ?

By: Jeanz

Jeanz — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:57:09 +0000

How do I completely wipe my BlackBerry Storm back to factory specs to completely clean the device?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:50:13 +0000

Hi! I bought a blackberry curve from rogers and bring it back home with me to jamaica and now it cannot work with our network. can somebody help me.

By: jenny

jenny — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:29:00 +0000

Well i have factory reset mine, now i dont know how to re activate it, or get anything to happen. any suggestions as to what to do once you reset it?

By: Bader

Bader — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:26:24 +0000

can anybody help me please.. i just bought an BB 8820 and it is locked to Etisalat network carrier. is there any way i can unlock it to use different carriers ? what if i reset it to the factory defaults .. will i be able to use it on a a different carriers. thank you

By: Kanchou

Kanchou — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:27:18 +0000

Sending a blank policy dosn’t completly work. The user still wont have control to turn on and off the firewall.

By: bewood

bewood — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:50:12 +0000

Good call Jibi.Your absolutly right. Some of the features will still be disabled due to security reasons but probably not noticable to the average corporate/consumer users who only use half of the built in features. Only the real geeks who take full advantage of their devices would notice the difference.

By: Crunk

Crunk — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:55:29 +0000

I agree with…sending a “blank” policy is still a policy. Resetting it back to factory has been long overdue.

By: BBRules

BBRules — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:51:37 +0000

This feature is not that great since you can currently send a “blank” policy before sending the Erase commeand. What would be nice is if the Wipe Handheld option in the device would remove the IT Policy.

By: bewood

bewood — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:45:56 +0000

As a BES administrator you would think they would re-activate the device using a blank default policy before issuing the device to someone outside of their network. After the device is activated using the blank policy then you can simply “wipe handheld” through the security settings of the device. That would put the handheld back to default except it would keep the 3rd party apps just erasing all the data.

None the less that feature will save time for BES admins. Although it was possible to remove the policy before they made this update, sure is nice to have a built in feature now.