Really? I sure hope a full mem reset can? :O

X.x

What I hate the most, though, is when the teacher blocks your 84+ with the PTT mode, then won't even bother disabling it at the end of the test. Final day of school, you return home not realizing. You turn on your calc and can't access PRGM menu until someone sends you something, but no one can. And you don't know any other way than RAM clear to disable it, so you lose your entire game progress.

Or worst: when the teacher resets your RAM before the test, or even worse, both Archive and RAM. Fortunately, on a TI-Nspire it's much harder to do so, though, since he has to remove a battery, put it back then when rebooting he needs to go through the maintenance menu (which means he needs to know the correct key combination, which isn't even gonna be the same on newer Nspires).

Over here for any test we could use our calc as much as we wanted in math, but the way test questions were written rendered every possible program unuseable. Programs gave the awnser, not the entire solution to the problem (that you were forced to write down and counted for 75% of the question score)

Actually, I think that is what the reset button on the back of the Nspire is for -- erasing all data

Maybe it's only for clearing the RAM in case of a crash....not surprising....Zens have the same thing, as do many other MP3 Players.....

You do know that anything in the Documents is in flash, right? The only stuff in RAM is the stuff you have open, and it is still backed up in archive when loaded.

EDIT: BTW, to get rid of the no-prog mode you can hook it to the computer. Works like a charm, and you don't actually have to send anything.

Actually, one idea I heard was making a loop connector. You could send yourself stuff, and consequently unlock the calc. just send L1

That's right.

Special Connector with the wire soldered back into the connector, rather than into another connector.

Plus, I don't know if that method really works. I just saw it somewhere. It could short the USB connector if you do it wrong and possibly kill the calc, or at least the USB connector.

About the reset button on the Nspire:
-v1.1 to 1.7 : the button deleted all files from the Nspire, or if in 84+ mode, did a full reset (RAM + ROM clear)
-v2.0 and 2.0.1 : the button just reboots the calc, and if in 84+ mode, does only a RAM clear

Mhmm strange I swear I did try the button in 1.1 and lost nothing. I wonder if you need to hold it for a specific amount of time?