For those of you who wish to perform a hard reset, you may follow the following steps:
- Switch off / Power off your phone
- Hold the CALL, CANCEL & POWER BUTTON for about 5 seconds
- A screen will pop up showing you instructions like step no. 4
- Click on the Call button to continue with formatting/resetting or Cancel button to abort.
If step 2 is done correctly, Step 3 will show up, else the Omnia will just boot up like normal.
Note: This hard reset does not erase the 16GB memory. If you wish to reset everything, use the software hard reset by going to Settings > Hard Reset.
Additional Notes for: UPGRADING / DOWNGRADING
For those of you who are doing a hard reset (as I did to rectify Omnia ROM version detected problem during updates), you may also try the following:
- Get your favourite registry edit
- change HKCU\Control Panel\Version\CustomVersion from DZHK3 to any version number that is lower than the one you are trying to install
This will allow you to upgrade or downgrade your ROM to any version. This needs to be done because Omnia updates only allow upgrades to newer versions but not downgrades to older versions.
February 28th, 2009
Today I just updated my Omnia from the old ROM i900DZHK3 (updated 2 Jan 2009) to i900DZIA5 (updated 28 Feb 2009). Apparantly I was told that there were some nice updates to the ROM this time round. It never ceases to amaze me that Samsung is still providing ROM updates to this phone even after its been out in the market for about 8 months now?!
Each time I do an update, its like I’m getting a new phone all together. So what’s new in the update? Well I was told it has the following goodies:
- New settings for enhanced GPS.
- Ability to update when omnia is connected to PC via ActiveSync
- Phonebook listing has been improved (Alphabet listing removed… its too small anyway unless you have a stylus)
- Volume control is now finger friendly (again without having the need for a stylus)
- Favourite Settings, a finger friendly application that access some of the settings
- “Share pix” program which is something like Shozu, for uploading of videos and images (Supports Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket, Friendster, MySpace)
- New Game – Asphalt: Elite Racing 4 Ver 1.2.0
- Omnia Online widgets, now you can download more widgets. Old widgets are gone
- Opera 9.5 build 15746
The ‘My Storage’ has been cleared and some stuffs are included here
- The asphalt game is installed here (so is the cab file)
- 2 music files, TheOMNIA and BeyongSamsung
- Kung Fu Panda trailer
- Transformers trailer
- Omnia video tutorial
- Omnia launch video (Introduction and Episodes)
NOTE: When I tried to update the rom from i900DZHK3 to i900DZIA5, the update program told me that I already had the latest ROM. If you face this problem then you should read the following post on how to rectify the problem: http://www.ourplaypen.com/2009/02/28/samsung-omnia-resetsamsung-omnia-reset/
You may download your own ROM from http://www.samsungmobile.com/promotion/omnia/index.jsp. Upgrade your phone today if you haven’t done so already. You’ll notice a marked improvement in the performance of your phone.
February 28th, 2009
