Today we’re going to talk about how should you hard reset your Dell Venue Pro and most importantly, why. Released in November 2010 by Dell, it belongs to the Windows Phones category, having a Windows Phone 7 as the OS. The device comes with an AMOLED display of 4.1 inches, protected by Corning Gorilla Glass. Regarding the memory, the device comes with an internal capacity varying between 8 and 16GB and a microSD up to 32GB, but which is not user accessible.
The phone is fitted with an 1GHz Scorpio CPU, an Adreno 200 GPU, a Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon, and a QWERTY keyboard. Unfortunately, the Java application is missing, but it makes up by the 5MP camera, equipped with LED flash, Geo-tagging and autofocus. The Li-Ion 1400 mAh battery gives you an autonomy which runs from up to 400h in stand-by, to up to 7h talking.
How to Hard Reset the Dell Venue Pro
Why should you hard reset your Venue Pro? Because it has slown down its function, it has been virused or, simply because you want to erase everything from the phone. Be warned, any hard reset procedure wipes the terminal clean off and deletes any bytes of data from the internal memory. If you have something stored on the SD card it will not be affected, unless you specifically request so.
As always, before proceeding with the steps, it’s strongly recommended to make a back-up of all files. In order to restore your device to factory settings, you have to follow the next steps:
- Press the Start button and go to Applications.
- From the Applications menu, choose Settings.
- Under system press About.
- Press the Reset Your Phone button.
Restoring from the Recovery Mode
This second method allows you to perform the same process as above but from the phone’s own recovery mode. This means that Android itself does not have to be accessible and it should clear things out when you have forgotten the Dell Venue Pro’s lockscreen password:
- Press and hold the Power, Volume Down and Camera buttons until the phone vibrates. When this happens, release the Power button but keep pressing the other two.
- Shortly after a warning message asking if you really want to format the device will appear. At this stage, it’s also safe to release the Volume Down and Camera buttons.
- Now tap on the Windows key to confirm that you want to format the Venue.
- Tap the same key again for another confirmation and the procedure should start.
Now, this was the official and easy way of returning the Venue Pro to factory settings. When the phone is unresponsive or bricked, there should be a way of booting the operating system into safe mode and restoring the firmware from there. Unfortunately, such ways were not implemented and the only thing left to do in one of these cases is to install a fresh new ROM. While the steps of that procedure are out of our scope, you can follow this guide. You can also try the official Dell Venue Pro support page.
