Reset/reload on every switch-on?

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"PDAMobileCafe-HOME" <pdamobilecafe@earthlink.net> wrote

>Shutdown (Soft reset utility freeware)
>With Shutdown for Pocket PCs you can easy perform a soft restart of your
>device. Of course, you can suspend your device there. The dialog style has
>the same appearance like the Microsoft Windows XP Shutdown dialog.

Thank you for this!

Is there any way to do a hard reset, followed by the run of the
Backup/Restory program to reload everything from an SD card? Or
perhaps to restore an O/S image (would be a LOT faster) - these
solutions are available for PCs; I think one is called Deep Freeze or
something like that, and the reasons are the same: start off with a
known clean environment.


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"Alan Smith" <alan@hidden.email> wrote

>your pda OS is already in ePROM. It is there without needing any reloading
>((E P) Read Only Memory chip). If you mean your added programs and data this
>is *not* the OS- see the above paragraph

I used the wrong terminology.

The O/S is in FLASH and should survive what is called a "hard reset".

PDAs use additional FLASH to store applications. A hard reset wipes
this but a soft reset does not.

PDAs also use battery backed up CMOS RAM to store application data and
configs. A hard reset wipes this too but a soft reset doesn't.

Ideally, I would like to restore a PDA to the state where anything in
FLASH is untouched but the RAM is wiped. There doesn't appear to be a
way of doing this. A soft reset doesn't wipe anything (except stuff
you've just typed in in say Word) and a hard reset wipes out all the
applications too.

When I referred to doing some sort of block restore, I was thinking of
restoring the FLASH used to store applications. Typically, this might
be only 10MB.

I realise the above is a simplification.


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