If you are giving away your BlackBerry Bold 9000 series or you are selling it to some one else then you may want to delete all the data on it before releasing it.
1. On your BlackBerry Go to the Home screen and select Options.
2. Click on Security Options.
3. Next click on Security Wipe.
4. Now you can select what you would like to wipe on your handheld:
- Emails, Contacts, Etc- User Installed Applications- Media Card
5. Check the box for any of the above options.
6. Type BlackBerry.
7. Click on Wipe.
Now all your data on the BlackBerry will now be removed.
This is a really simple way to hard reset the BlackBerry Bold smartphone. If your BlackBerry Bold is frozen or for some reason you need it to have it hard reset then here's how:
1. Pull out the battery from the device and wait for a while around 10 seconds should do.
2. Now put back the battery and it should be resetted. Replace the battery.
If you are lazy and don't want to remove the battery you can also try a soft reset first.
Here's how to do a soft reset.
Press alt+shift+del all the same time.
Another way is to do it via the menu
1. Select Options.
2. Select Security Options.
3. Choose General Settings.
4. Then tap on Menu key.
5. Select Wipe Handheld.
This will wipe out all the data on the device.
