The electronic devices are prone to failures, but in many cases due to the user's lack of knowledge, he modifies something that he should not and we find that the Android device stops working correctly. Depending on the fault there are many possible solutions, but when there is no alternative, we resort to the call
hard reset or reset factory settings
and today we show you
how to do a hard reset
.
Before moving forward I must warn you that we are going to carry out actions on the device that
will mean the total loss of the data stored in it
, so make sure you make a backup.
What is a hard reset?
When we talk about hard reset on mobile devices, we mean to restore the factory settings.
When we talk about factory settings we refer to everything, we will restore the operating system as it came from the factory.
This means that we will lose all the applications that we have installed, updates, photos, downloaded files, etc. Sometimes there is no choice but to
resort to the hard reset to return to the original state of the phone
and thus solve some type of malfunction.
If our Android device has suffered some type of update at the operating system level, for example if we have updated it from Android 5.0 to Android 6.0,
this update will be kept after the hard reset
. In other words, what
is maintained is the operating system version, but all the settings are reset to their initial values
.
How to make a hard reset or restore factory settings.
The easiest way to do a hard reset is to go to the phone settings and look for the option
"Factory data reset"
. Depending on the model, this option will be found in the section of security settings, backup and reset settings
(LG devices)
, etc.
If for some reason we can not turn on the Android device, we can press the key combination
"upload volume + power button"
and enter the
"recovery"
mode from which we can do the hard reset. Each model has its own key combination to enter the recovery, but the most common is the one described above.
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How to make a hard reset or restore factory settings