Power Button broken. Factory reset from PC?

[stevebo]

My Motorola Droid Razr Maxx has a broken power button. I've tried to reset using Power Button & Volume Up, Power Button & Volume Down, Power Button & Volume Up & Volume Down ... all with no response whatsoever.

I figured I'd try to sell the unit and someone might buy in on eBay, but I want to factory reset it first, which I can't do if the unit won't power up.

Is it possible to power it up / factory reset it from my PC using the USB cable?

Many thanks,
Steve

 

[grenefroggie]

I think you have to have developer options with USB debugging enabled to do a reset from ADB. You can give it a try, but it has to be in fastboot mode.

 

[stevebo]

Hi grenefroggie,

Many thanks for the reply!

While I may have USB debugging enabled because I use PDANet, I'm pretty sure the phone is not in fastboot mode.

The real question I have is that if I sell this unit on eBay (there seems to be a market for broken Razr Maxx phones) and I pull the Sim Card and Memory Card, will anyone be able to read my sensitive personal information?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[CJM]

You may need the Motorola fastoot, called mfastboot. Then connect your phone to your pc, open command prompt & type "adb reboot bootloader". That should get you into the bootloader. Then type "fastboot -w" (or mfastboot -w), depending on what you'll need. That'll wipe the user data/cache.

 

[grenefroggie]

What ^^ said!