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Clearing memory

On my Palm III I could remove the battery and press the reset. That would clear the memory. How do I do it on a Prism?

Use the reset tool, while holding down the Power button.

Then release the tool, then release the power button.

The screen should say:
Erase all data? yes=UP no=DOWN use your scroll button for up.

All should be back to factory settings/apps.

Hope you had a HS backup mod. Mine has saved me about 1 or 2 or 3 million times.

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Are you wanting to erase EVERYTHING from your Prism? If so then do what gbgood says.

If you you just want to clean the memory up a bit there is a nice free program called "Victor 3.5" It will clean your memory but NOT wipe out your Prism. (You can get it at freewarepalm.com.)

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Originally posted by Azdeadwood
Are you wanting to erase EVERYTHING from your Prism?

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Doing a hard-reset, as gbgood prescribed above, should probably be sufficient. However, if you want to be real sure you can try what I did with my wife's, company issued, Palm Vx before we returned it.

• First I did the hard reset.
• I then installed Pocket Chess v1.1. I did this by beaming the application from my Prism to the Vx.
• I then did a " . 2", which enables debug mode. (That is tap tap 2.) I did this for it opens the serial port, thus increasing the power drain.
• I then turned the backlight on, also to increase the power drain. This of course would not apply to a Prism, but you could turn the brightness all the way up.
• I then did a " . 3" which turns auto-off off. If you do this one right the Palm device will respond "[No Auto-Off]". The " . 2" given above the device gives no indication if you did it right or not.
• Then I then ran Pocket Chess playing itself, at the highest level. This keeps the processor consciously busy, thus maximizing the power drain.

Potter, are you saying that a hard reset will NOT erase all but factory settings?

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Originally posted by gbgood
Potter, are you saying that a hard reset will NOT erase all but factory settings?

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you could submit your prism to an intense magnetic field... any nuke testing sites where you live? maybe the microwave could do in a pinch.

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