QUESTION: PPC-6700 and Soft Reset Function

AudioVox PPC-6700 (Sprint PCS)

Would doing this procedure in these following steps also be
considered the same as a "Soft Reset"?

First - Using CommManager to turn off Phone, (including
Bluetooth, and Wireless if these were also ON).

Second - Use top-mounted button to turn off backlight and
whatever else in the phone.

Third - Remove/and or replace the battery with a spare
battery.

Fourth - Press and briefly hold the top-mounted button again
to restart the phone again. (Sprint Logo Screen appears
until complete system boot again.

To repeat, does the above battery replacing procedure
simulate a Soft Reset?

Thanks for any comments. ---Juan

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At 01 May 2007 18:55:46 +0000 Juan Pablo wrote:

> Would doing this procedure in these following steps also be
> considered the same as a "Soft Reset"?
>
> First - Using CommManager to turn off Phone, (including
> Bluetooth, and Wireless if these were also ON).
>
> Second - Use top-mounted button to turn off backlight and
> whatever else in the phone.
>
> Third - Remove/and or replace the battery with a spare
> battery.
>
> Fourth - Press and briefly hold the top-mounted button again
> to restart the phone again. (Sprint Logo Screen appears
> until complete system boot again.
>
> To repeat, does the above battery replacing procedure
> simulate a Soft Reset?
>
> Thanks for any comments. ---Juan

Sure. You can also simply replace the battery and power on (steps 3+4)
without shutting anything else down first if you prefer. However,
powering down with a long press of the power button (and answering the
shutdown dialog) is safer, because it ensures cached data
(registry/settings changes, PIM edits, etc.) is written to persistent
memory first.





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On Tue, 01 May 2007 14:00:38 -0600, Todd Allcock
<[email protected]> wrote:

>At 01 May 2007 18:55:46 +0000 Juan Pablo wrote:
>
>> Would doing this procedure in these following steps also be
>> considered the same as a "Soft Reset"?
>>
>> First - Using CommManager to turn off Phone, (including
>> Bluetooth, and Wireless if these were also ON).
>>
>> Second - Use top-mounted button to turn off backlight and
>> whatever else in the phone.
>>
>> Third - Remove/and or replace the battery with a spare
>> battery.
>>
>> Fourth - Press and briefly hold the top-mounted button again
>> to restart the phone again. (Sprint Logo Screen appears
>> until complete system boot again.
>>
>> To repeat, does the above battery replacing procedure
>> simulate a Soft Reset?
>>
>> Thanks for any comments. ---Juan
>
>Sure. You can also simply replace the battery and power on (steps 3+4)
>without shutting anything else down first if you prefer. However,
>powering down with a long press of the power button (and answering the
>shutdown dialog) is safer, because it ensures cached data
>(registry/settings changes, PIM edits, etc.) is written to persistent
>memory first.
>
When I Press and Hold down the top power button here is what
happens, no matter how long I keep pressing-and-holding that
top button:
*The backlight turns off
*The Bluetooth and Phone lamps are still blinking
*Again tapping and/or pressing-and-holding the power button
will not "do" anything, AND the backlight remains
"permanently" OFF.
*Now, to make the now-darkened screen barely legible, I must
either use a bright flashlight held at an angle closely to
the screen, or take the 6700 out in the sunlight to do this:

*Tap the Battery symbol to display the Battery Condition
screen.
*At bottom of screen tap the underlined word, "backlight".
*On Backlight screen tap the Brightness tab.
*Now, for some damn unknown reason I consistently found the
Battery (Screen) Brightness to be defaulted back to "off".
The Brightness pointer had "self-moved" completely to the
left-side of the scale, which translates to Brightness OFF.
*Moving that pointer back towards the right-side restores
the screen's backlight.
*Tap the "OK" ,and all is restored, back-to-normal screen
brightness......AGAIN!

Recall that doing all of the above stuff is while the screen
is in near-total, barely legible darkness!

*Next, tap "OK", on the next page or pages until I get back
to my "normal" Phone or Home pages.

Note:
Apparently tapping all of those OKs only closes down the
Brightness screen, and gets me back to my original normal
pages, BUT DOES NOT make the Backlight-ON as permanent.

This PPC-6700 also has too many "other issues" to render it
a viable Phone-activated device, included among the many:

The Bluetooth has unstable linking to my Uniden ELBT595
multi-handset Landline/Mobile cordless phone system.
Whereas, my LG-350 has absolutely flawless, totally reliable
Bluetooth linking to my Uniden ELBT595 cordless system.

I still like this PPC-6700, for it's:
PDA functions, and it's ---
Nice slider keyboard and horizontal screen flipping,
and.....
Nifty hassle-free (unlike the Palm OS) Wi-Fi hotspot
sniffing and accessing.

I am seriously thinking of de-activating this 6700, and just
carry it in my trousers pocket only for PDA and Wi-Wi
usage as I formally did with my old Sony 70 (with that
quirky Palm OS, and quirky Wi-Fi accessing).
Then re-activating that totally reliable Phone-Bluetooth
LG-350 again.

Too bad the (Qualcom) CDMA cell phones do not use that
fantastic SIM card system as the GSM phones do.
Then, I would be able to quickly and easily switch
back-and-forth between phones as needed!
Using the LG-350 at home and the PPC-6700 when elsewhere.

Perhaps someday ::SIGH:: "they" will invent a better more
reliable "smart phone", similar in concept to the 6700 for
all of my one-device needs.

Cheers. ---Juan

On 2007-05-02, Juan Pablo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Too bad the (Qualcom) CDMA cell phones do not use that
> fantastic SIM card system as the GSM phones do.
> Then, I would be able to quickly and easily switch
> back-and-forth between phones as needed!
> Using the LG-350 at home and the PPC-6700 when elsewhere.

Actually, Qualcomm CDMA phones do have SIM (or R-UIM) cards:

http://www.cdmatech.com/products/ruim.jsp

Asian CDMA phones use them. They'll also work in a GSM phone if you
need that for roaming. I think China Unicom insisted they had to have
them (they run (ran?) both a CDMA network and a GSM network), and
the CDMA operators in other countries picked them up too.

It is the US CDMA carriers which choose not to use them.

Dennis Ferguson