# Exactly what happens when reset my XBee with short wiring?

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**Category:** XBee - 802.15.4\
**Created:** [June 7, 2012, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/exactly-what-happens-when-reset-my-xbee-with-short-wiring/1854 "2012-06-07T11:55:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![lucybrennan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lucybrennan](https://forums.digi.com/u/lucybrennan)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2012, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/exactly-what-happens-when-reset-my-xbee-with-short-wiring/1854/1 "2012-06-07T11:55:04Z")

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I don’t have an XBee reset button on my Arduino, so I reset the XBee modem by shortwiring pin 5 and 10. But exactly what effect does that have? I thougt it reset all registers to some default factory value, but now I have come to believe that it simply restarts. And if so, then exactly what does it mean to restart?

Lucy

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**Author:** ![lynnl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/22d042/32.png) [@lynnl](https://forums.digi.com/u/lynnl)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/exactly-what-happens-when-reset-my-xbee-with-short-wiring/1854/2 "2012-06-11T16:36:39Z")

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You are correct - it restarts the XBee. Some network things are reset, and some are saved/restored from the last session.

You must use the ‘RE’ command to restore factory defaults.