Install: OTA or alx/cod
Use:
Run the application from the home screen/applications. It has an icon now! Click the big Reset button, and then choose "Reset Now" when it asks you to reset. If you choose "Reset Later", you'll have to delete a code module to force a reset. Clicking the big Reset button again will give you those instructions.

Click Cancel instead if you run the app but don't actually want to reset.

Metsfan,
Great job! This works very well. Keeps me from having to remove the battery cover all the time!

What is full link, I tried this link from my BB but got HTTP Error 404: Not Found.
geekandproud.net/blackberry/softreset/softreset.jad
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

I tried the first part of the link "geekandproud.net/blackberry" and from there I was able to see the app folder.
I will like to know why it didn't work when I typed the full address, maybe I did something wrong.

Thanks again

Thanks a bunch MetsFan!!!!! 8100 needed this badly. Very generous of you to provide this to us!

BTW- using the full URL work perfectly for me. For those that it didn't work for, what emulation mode is your browser set to? Mine is set to Blackberry.

Why not just have it as an app on your screen... click it and it asks for a reset.

Can you do a "Soft Reset Moderator" program too!!

shortcut in the works?

btw this is the real deal.

I have noticed with this "tool" it actually does a full soft reset. My phone took about 1-2 minutes to come up after applying this.

Usually a battery pull and my phone is back up in 30 seconds.

I've been trying to write that, but I haven't been able to make it work. I'm going to keep trying, but this seems like a good compromise until I can figure it out.

I'm not being intentionally stoopid.. But why do I need this app?

I usually go 30-40 days between pulling the battery as my 8700g is rock stable.

Does this do anything a battery pull doesn't do? Without out pulling the battery that is..

Congrats to the author BTW. Anyone who releases a free app to any user population generates good karma for him/herself.

Thanks in spite of my ignorance

It just does it without pulling the battery. The Seidio case users really hate pulling their batteries because it's hard on their case.

This app is quite useful to many.

As for why you'd want to, I don't often but there are some times I do. In fact just now, I installed an application that requires a restart (overwrote old version), and accidentally said no instead of yes when it asked to reboot. This prevents me from having to take the battery out to do it.

Holy cow. I don't think my Pearl has ever booted in less that 1-2 minutes, just today I had to do 4 battery pulls in a row (testing an app that locks up a Pearl for a developer) and spent way too much time watching my handset reboot.

metsfan - thanks for another one! ;)

Well if the app locks up the Pearl, then this won't be of much use to you, because you won't be able to navigate to use it. But you're welcome.

haha no, won't help there nope. But I do the same as you, in that I might try a bunch of apps/games from getjar.com and then delete them all (not working, crap, whatever) in one session *then* do a battery pull reboot instead of choosing Yes when asked. This is where SoftReset earns it's meal ticket...

New version already coming in the next few days. Doesn't require you to manually delete anything, unless you miss the popup asking you to reboot. Run the program, press the Reset button, and it'll ask you to reboot.

great work look forward to it...lets go mets

Sorry im i noob. But what does this app do?

It reboots a Pearl without having to take the battery out. This is something we could not do up till this point.

@big1big: if you're a little unsure what this is all about still, the Treo(s) have the same type of issue; here's a good article to read that will explain it:

Treonauts | A Simpler Soft Reset

metsfan is providing us with the same sort of applet to solve the same problem, but on a BlackBerry device.

Okat thanks for the info Hommie

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8100/4.2.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/100)

This is a great utility. Thanks!

Version 0.2!

Before installing this I recommend deleting (in this order) SoftReset, and _DeleteToReset from your BB.

This version no longer requires a manual delete of an application, unless you don't hit the "Reset Now" button that appears when you run it. Then you'll have to manually delete a code modules but it tells you what to do.

Install: OTA or alx/cod
Use:
Run the application from the home screen/applications. It has an icon now! Click the big Reset button, and then choose "Reset Now" when it asks you to reset. If you choose "Reset Later", you'll have to delete a code module to force a reset. Clicking the big Reset button again will give you those instructions.

Click Cancel instead if you run the app but don't actually want to reset.

thanks going to install it right now....great work

Testing out the new 0.2, when I click Reset ("my what a big reset button you have, little blackberry") and the hourglass spins for a few seconds I get the notice to reboot, but it also includes some text like "Notice 1 of 5". Is this normal?

(I have no ability to 'see' the other 4 notices, if they exist?)

thanks!

Yeah, that's normal. I don't really know about that message much either. I think the BB will automatically ask you again at some point if you don't reset there, and on the 5th it'll just do it. But I'm not sure, I've never seen another one.

Metsfan ... you da man!!!

hey metsfan,

love the app... use it all the time.

can you update your first post in this thread with updates to the program. It will get hard to sift through the whole thread for new versions.

thanks

Works great, less than a minute to restart...

Thank You from Italy!!!!!!

Great application!!!!

How the heck do you guys do this? I have a Pearl with .64 OS (latest T-Mobile official), and I just sat here using the second hand on my watch:

-press Restart Now and it resets-

1m 55s: first initial screen 'blip' that means it's almost loaded up
2m 21s: that blip to a bright white screen right before the home screen shows
2m 29s: home screen, radio attached to cell tower

How in the world are you cats getting your devices to reboot in under a minute?

I'm on Rogers in Canada, and I have loaded the Cingular .71 OS with just a couple of 3rd party app. Along with everything that I don't use deleted. I guess that makes the difference, or some of the Pearls are just faster..

Great job with this program, I get sick of pulling out my battery all the time to reset it. Great idea, and great implementation

When you get a chance, can you use a watch and post your startup times like mine? More for my personal curiosity, as you aren't the first person to comment their Pearl reboots in a minute or whatever...

I was beta testing another app (I do the beta testing thing on GetJar.com and submit reports) and it locked me up so hard (hard, I say!) that almost required a battery pull (*) -- I ended up doing a SoftReset anyways just in case, and got to watch that fabulous spinning hourglass.

(*) amazingly I let it sit long enough and the RIM OS eventually caught it as a nasty bad app and shut it down on it's own, about 3 seconds before I was going to yank the battery.

Interesting....

Using SoftReset:
2:15 to the TMobile splash screen
2:25 to "verify security settings"
2:35 to Home screen and attached to EDGE signal....


Removing the battery:
1:05 to the TMobile splash screen
1:15 to "verify security settings"
1:25 to home screen and attached to EDGE signal...

Is it possible to just have the BB reset when you hit the reset botton.

Super Bump!!!!

FANTASTIC PROGRAM. I am donating and I hope other BBF members have too.

This saves wear and tear on my cases that I have always had to pull apart to do the battery reset.

FANTASTIC PROGRAM..... oh, already said that.

At the moment, no. There may be a way for me to have it automatically push the "Reset Now" button when that window pops up, but I think there's no way to stop it from coming up. I'll look into it automatically pushing the button.