Post by zakaqere on Aug 8, 2006 18:52:53 GMT 1
I discovered this quite by accident.
I had bricked my palm with IBM's Java JVM and I wasn't sure how.
But Java JVM must respond to sysAppLaunchCmdReset because it put my Life Drive into a reset loop. Safe-Mode resets failed too.
By the time I decided to go for a hard reset my palm was a flashing green/orange doorstop. So I waited 12 hrs to drain the battery and sped up the process by plugging the palm into an unpowered usb hub(my keyboard). I could hear the HDISK whirring like crazy
In the morning I powered up my pilot. ACK! my palm was still entrapped by the evil tendrils of the Reset Loop.
So I did a hard reset before I bricked again. But I have a password and encryption on my device so the quick erase option was not available. I selected secure erase. However wiping a 4gb harddrive takes time even with single pass filewiping, especially considering has about 900KB/s write speed. So after about 1.5 seconds I pressed the reset button a second time. And it was as if I had selected the nonexistent quick erase option. The only damadge that happened to the files on the microdrive was a few missing files replaced by files name entirely in numbers, 11203, 11204, 1136, etc.
I had bricked my palm with IBM's Java JVM and I wasn't sure how.
But Java JVM must respond to sysAppLaunchCmdReset because it put my Life Drive into a reset loop. Safe-Mode resets failed too.
By the time I decided to go for a hard reset my palm was a flashing green/orange doorstop. So I waited 12 hrs to drain the battery and sped up the process by plugging the palm into an unpowered usb hub(my keyboard). I could hear the HDISK whirring like crazy
In the morning I powered up my pilot. ACK! my palm was still entrapped by the evil tendrils of the Reset Loop.
So I did a hard reset before I bricked again. But I have a password and encryption on my device so the quick erase option was not available. I selected secure erase. However wiping a 4gb harddrive takes time even with single pass filewiping, especially considering has about 900KB/s write speed. So after about 1.5 seconds I pressed the reset button a second time. And it was as if I had selected the nonexistent quick erase option. The only damadge that happened to the files on the microdrive was a few missing files replaced by files name entirely in numbers, 11203, 11204, 1136, etc.