Who here has accidentally wiped their blackberry?

**Nismotic** · 03-03-2008, 10:15 PM

*raises hand*

So I forgot the password for some reason while on a business trip and deleted EVERYTHING on my phone.

That sucked.

Discuss.

**jimmers** · 03-03-2008, 10:21 PM

OMG....how awful.

You really are Michael from "The Office" aren't you? LOL

**jsanders** · 03-03-2008, 10:22 PM

eh, you really didn't need all that data anyway, obvioously.

**mz831** · 03-03-2008, 10:29 PM

o i wiped it that didnt happpen but now my emai i have w blackberry i cant find the folder wher eu click to compose or check it i have to check it threw messages and i dont like thst and i used to be abe to go to my bank online now and i cant

**Blacklatino** · 03-03-2008, 10:53 PM

You should be able to resend your service books from the BIS websiteand/ or upload your backup files thru your BB Desktop manager on your computer.

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**Blacklatino** · 03-03-2008, 10:55 PM

.........and no wipe outs - not yet

. Good Luck.

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**mz831** · 03-03-2008, 11:40 PM

so how do i retrieve my email icon back up that has my email addy underneath it

**JazzeeJEF** · 03-04-2008, 11:31 AM

Thank goodness I have yet to have this problem!!

**15.pushing.51** · 12-03-2009, 01:56 PM

i just wiped my friends by accident yesterday.

**carolmiss** · 12-03-2009, 07:18 PM

I have wiped my bbm so many times I'm afraid to do anything new to my bb. I started writing down my friends pins so I could request them again if I blow it again.

So basically u r not alone when it comes to accidentally wiped your bb.

**364ll** · 01-18-2010, 03:09 PM

*raises hand*
3 times !

**Mysterio2783** · 01-18-2010, 07:32 PM

I didn't accidentally erase my phone data, but I DID accidentally start reformating my sd card while my bb was plugged in and when I realized and stopped it, it became corrupted so I ended up having to format it anyways. 3000 songs, and 700 ringtones gone just like that.

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**mookish** · 01-18-2010, 10:04 PM

How can you accidently wipe a bb when there are certain intentional steps that need to be taken first, it's not like you hit a button and the phone wipes...

**amazinglygraceless** · 01-18-2010, 10:40 PM

Originally Posted by mookish

How can you accidently wipe a bb when there are certain intentional steps that need to be taken first, it's not like you hit a button and the phone wipes...

Forgetting password, stopping OS install midstream, trying to use the MFI
without understanding how it works and a whole bunch of other things that
gets posted around here.

**dany8907** · 01-18-2010, 10:47 PM

Haha don't even get me started.
I was playing around with Bbsak to see what it does. I was curious. I accidently wiped my berry. I took me about a day and a half to get my bb up and running again becuz I only had it a week and I had to learn a bunch of things. I hope I never do that again.

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**dx169** · 01-18-2010, 10:56 PM

Nope, haven't accidentally done anything like that to my BB yet. I think I'm too careful.

**davidnc** · 01-19-2010, 04:17 AM

Originally Posted by mookish

How can you accidently wipe a bb when there are certain intentional steps that need to be taken first, it's not like you hit a button and the phone wipes...

...so what is the next button or screen that pops up if you press Options Icon>Security options>General settings> and then the BB menu button and after you scroll to "WipeHandheld"

sounds like you might know

I have never been further then that ?

Makes me think it would wipe but idk if you get one more warning or not

**Chrisy** · 01-19-2010, 04:41 AM

Had a 552 Reload Error that led to a 507 Error which in turn wiped my OS and data.

Learned a lot about fixing a bricked BlackBerry and restoring.

It wasn't an accident; but it sure wasn't intentional either!

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**bluz** · 01-19-2010, 10:10 AM

not me,never.

**CanuckBB** · 01-19-2010, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by DavidNC

...so what is the next button or screen that pops up if you press Options Icon>Security options>General settings> and then the BB menu button and after you scroll to "WipeHandheld"

sounds like you might know

I have never been further then that ?

Makes me think it would wipe but idk if you get one more warning or not

It asks you to type in 'blackberry' to confirm.

**tfp** · 01-19-2010, 12:04 PM

thats why i can't figure out how you 'accidentally' wipe a blackberry from fogetting the password. did you accidentally type 'blackberry' as well when it asked you to confirm the wipe? the OP said they 'accidentally' wiped it from a forgotten password. not from unplugging it midway through an os install. so, like a few others, how do you 'accidentally' wipe a blackberry?

**wojotiger** · 01-19-2010, 12:42 PM

guilty as charged! **hand raised**

**Username00089** · 01-19-2010, 12:46 PM

My 11 year old brother tried to get into my 22 year old sister's Blackberry a
couple of weeks ago and entered the wrong password to the limit and wiped her
phone. Needless to say she was pretty pissed and of course I was laughing and
told her that's what she gets for virtually never doing a backup. After I once went
over things about the phone with her for a half hour and told her to do a regular
backup. Women, can't live with 'em. The end