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Originally Posted by Benz145 View Post
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).
Ahhhh.... Thanks for the clarification I've been using Palm OS for the past 5yrs and in the Palm world a 'hard reset' means wiping all apps and personal info from the device and restoring it to factory state. Newer Palms use NVFS too so that all data insn't lost if the battery dies.
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