Please reset the registry before you upgrade Firmware,it can Greatly reduce the erro

Please reset the registry before you upgrade Firmware,it can Greatly reduce the error.
in the offical 0.94 the new backup folder is DISK - BACKUP now.

i agree, everytime I update to new firmware. I clear registry then update then clear registry again.

how to clear registry???

1. Shutdown the M8
2. Push and hold the ON/Off Button (at the Top) AND the M Button until you can read the message "...clear registry"
3.Shutdown again
4. Push and hold the Music Button (on the right) AND the M Button, to update the firmware

Originally Posted by wpeters9

1. Shutdown the M8
2. Push and hold the ON/Off Button (at the Top) AND the M Button until you can read the message "...clear registry"
3.Shutdown again
4. Push and hold the Music Button (on the right) AND the M Button, to update the firmware

4. Push the power button and the music button, not the M

power button + music button it's for upgrade the firmware

Thanks for the tip!

Upgrading M8 firmware also reset registry, so it isn't necessary to clear registry before upgrading firware...

Yeah, that is what I thought. When we upgrade the firmware, it should automatically clear registry. but it's not hard to do the clear registry anyway. So before I upgrade the firmware I will clear registry first.

I suspect that the M button and the music button are one and the same thing. I have tried holding down the power button at the same time as the each of the other buttons and I do not receive a message about resetting the registry. There is a setting for Deletion of data and system restore in the settings/system menu. Is this the same thing?

Originally Posted by Motorcycleboy

I suspect that the M button and the music button are one and the same thing. I have tried holding down the power button at the same time as the each of the other buttons and I do not receive a message about resetting the registry. There is a setting for Deletion of data and system restore in the settings/system menu. Is this the same thing?

Hmm do you press those buttons when you have your M8 powered? If yes you have to shut down the M8 and then try to press M Button plus Startbutton (on top) to clear your registries.

I dont know if system restore is the same...

According to the Meizu.com website you clear the registry by holding down the power button and M button (the big oval button at the bottom) during startup. The clear registry screen should appear then restart continues automatically.

I have found that this appears to make no difference as applications continue to open. Maybe, it only clears the user settings and maybe the application's registry entries if there are any.

It is not clear how much of the registry is over-written during a FW upgrade. Are only important registry entries revised or is the whole registry over-written?

It could be that the failure to clear the registry before upgrades of the firmware is the reason why some M8 users find that important functions like SMS and activesync fail to function after the upgrade.

So the solution for a real clean registry would be to put back the original of CE ?

It must be a version with the basic informations of the M8, but... WHERE ?

Or if somebody can find a registry from a M8 which has never served...(?)

Motorcycleboy, "clearing registries" will give you the same result as flashing the same firmware that you already have. The whole registry will be overwritten, all user files (except \Disk) will be deleted.

Originally Posted by dao89

Motorcycleboy, "clearing registries" will give you the same result as flashing the same firmware that you already have. The whole registry will be overwritten, all user files (except \Disk) will be deleted.

If this is so then there is no need to reset the registry before a firmware upgrade, as as the original poster claimed. There is still the question of why a firmware upgrade disables certain functions for some M8 users and not others. After all we are all using the same hardware, so why are we getting inconsistant results?