Does anyone know how to wipe a Blackberry 7280?

[FreshPrince]

It was from Cingular...I'm trying to wipe the memory.

I already tried the incorrect password 10 times...this does not work.

Also, the security->wipe handheld option is not there.

any other way beside hooking it up to a PC and using the software?

 

[loup garou]

That's weird that the 10 password tries didn't work & wipe handheld isn't there...I think you'll have to hook it up and use the desktop manager. Or, if it's on a BES, you can wipe from there (I'm guessing it's not, because you'd probably know that).

 

[TechnoPro]

The password trick failed? Are you sure you did 10?

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: loup garou
That's weird that the 10 password tries didn't work & wipe handheld isn't there...I think you'll have to hook it up and use the desktop manager. Or, if it's on a BES, you can wipe from there (I'm guessing it's not, because you'd probably know that).

yup, that's only available from BES 4.0 and above and handhelds with 4.0 and above software

there's got to be a way to do it without the desktop software...grr

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: TechnoPro
The password trick failed? Are you sure you did 10?

I did about 20

 

[TechnoPro]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

Originally posted by: TechnoPro
The password trick failed? Are you sure you did 10?

I did about 20

Haha, you're like me in that respect. Did you seethis article?

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: TechnoPro

Originally posted by: FreshPrince

Originally posted by: TechnoPro
The password trick failed? Are you sure you did 10?

I did about 20

Haha, you're like me in that respect. Did you seethis article?

tried it, didn't help

guess I need to hook up to desktop software tomorrow...

 

[ghostman]

That's weird. I just wiped a 7280 recently using the 10 passwords trick. It prompts you to enter "blackberry," then shows you the password as you type rather than the *'s, then another word ("blackberry" again?), then it warns you it'll wipe it...

When I was doing it, I swear a few of my password attempts didn't register as attempts (the password prompt should show you: "Enter Password (#/10):" where # is the number of times you attempted).

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: ghostman
That's weird. I just wiped a 7280 recently using the 10 passwords trick. It prompts you to enter "blackberry," then shows you the password as you type rather than the *'s, then another word ("blackberry" again?), then it warns you it'll wipe it...

When I was doing it, I swear a few of my password attempts didn't register as attempts (the password prompt should show you: "Enter Password (#/10):" where # is the number of times you attempted).

from that I was able to reset it...

it turns out that if your password is say 5 characters and you only input 1 character password 20 times, it still does not register it as one wrong password. so, I entered 10 incorrect passwords all 5 characters in lengh....it worked!

thanks!