Update: This tutorial is for non-rooted phones. Need to wipe your G1 because the phone is corrupted or frozen, eg, your G1 keeps rebooting over and over again without getting to the desktop/home page? Are you a non-geek/newbie and not sure how your phone got messed up? Ready to sell your soul to Satan to get out of your predicament and able to use your G1, again? Have your friends asked “Why are you carrying that brick?” or “What are you pounding on the table and why are you swearing at it?” “Did your phone really do that you your mother?” Is your G1 so clogged up that it’s time to soak it in Liquid Drano? Well help has arrived. Here is how you do a factory wipe or hard reset. (Note: this procedure assumes you can’t get to the G1′s reset “button” located in the Android OS settings menu and you DO NOT know what the terms “jailbreak” or “root” mean.) The hard reset (or wipe) will put your phone back to the way it was when you first opened the box. Inside Information: THIS IS THE “SECRET” PROCEDURE T-MOBILE TECH SUPPORT HAS NON-GEEK CONSUMERS GO THROUGH AS A LAST RESORT WHEN THE G1 CANNOT RECOVER FROM A CRASH. (This is done before the CSR says to send the phone back for a replacement.) Sidenote: Don’t feel bad, these phones do a lot nowadays, they crash often and need to be reset. And sometimes the phone will freeze and refuse to reboot. This procedure should save your butt. My video covers both hard and soft resets. WARNING: The hard reset procedure erases all third party …
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