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Originally Posted by PinCushionQueen View Post
What exactly do you mean by 'hard reset'? Will removing the battery for >10 secs wipe it back to factory state? I thought you had to flash the device for that. I was planning on picking up a spare battery but hate to be on a short time limit if I'm switching it out for a fresh one.
Well in my experience, a hard reset is the powering down of the device by removing its power, as opposed to a soft reset usually triggered by pressing the reset button within the devices software. A hard reset doesn't give the device time to do some of the things it would normally do during a soft reset, which isn't always a good thing, but can sometimes fix certain issues.

To better answer the question, no I don't believe that it will reset to factory if you remove it from power for that long. The type of storage it uses should be non-volatile which means it can retain data without being powered (similar to a memory stick, and the opposite of RAM).
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