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Calculator Community => TI Calculators => General Calculator Help => Topic started by: Freyaday on April 28, 2011, 04:04:46 pm

Title: Boot Options
Post by: Freyaday on April 28, 2011, 04:04:46 pm
I've heard mention of several things one can do to the 84 series calcs by holding down different buttons when turning the calc on. How many are there, what are the button combinations, and what do they do?
Title: Re: Boot Options
Post by: Eeems on April 28, 2011, 04:13:37 pm
Remove one battery, hold down delete put the battery back in. This will boot to a mode where all you can do is send an OS to it. It's useful for when you install third party OS's and want to send a new OS and the third party one doesn't have link support in any way yet :)
Title: Re: Boot Options
Post by: turiqwalrus on April 28, 2011, 04:46:18 pm
left-right-on is press-to-test.
IIRC, it disables programs, applications, and groups and doesn't give control of them back until you send something to the calc D:
Title: Re: Boot Options
Post by: Freyaday on April 28, 2011, 04:49:24 pm
Actually, Press-to-test is worse than that. Apps and Programs are only saved if they are disabled, and all other RAM and Archive is cleared.
Title: Re: Boot Options
Post by: Mighty Moose on April 28, 2011, 04:52:15 pm
[8]-[5]-[On] deletes all programs and apps (if you accept)
[8]-[2]-[On] deletes all apps and programs for singapore (again, if you accept)
Battery Pull-[Clear]-[On] boots your calc without parsing the VAT (basically without looking for any programs in memory :D)
Title: Re: Boot Options
Post by: thepenguin77 on April 28, 2011, 06:00:31 pm
Quote from: Freyaday on April 28, 2011, 04:49:24 pm
Actually, Press-to-test is worse than that. Apps and Programs are only saved if they are disabled, and all other RAM and Archive is cleared.

That's definitely not true. It just deletes your groups, nothing else.


And to add the the list.