1. To start the hard reset procedure, the phone must be turned off.
2. Connect the Micro USB cable to your laptop or charger.
3. Press the Volume Up(+) and POWER buttons at the same time for a few seconds.
4. While holding these buttons, connect this cable to your phone.
5. Release all buttons when you see the CAT logo on the phone screen.
6. Use the Volume Up(+)/Down(-) buttons to highlight the wipe data / factory reset item and confirm with the POWER button.
7. Approve the operation, select Yes. Use the Volume Up(+)/Down(-) buttons to navigate through the menu items and the POWER button to confirm your selection.
8. To complete the operation, reboot the phone, select "reboot system now" and confirm with the POWER button.
Hard Reset - advantages and disadvantages CAT S32?
In simple words, Hard Reset means hard resetting the phone. As a result, the system automatically returns to the factory settings and the system is completely cleared. Contacts, correspondence, application, files, search queries, passwords - all of this is deleted from the device's memory.
Benefits of Hard Reset:
The ability to reset the phone to factory settings. Removal of viruses that interfere with the normal functioning of the device. Solving various problems that arose on the device after installing some applications and did not disappear after uninstalling them.
Disadvantages of Hard Reset:
All your data stored in the phone will be permanently deleted. The need to have an up-to-date backup of your data, contacts, settings and media files. In rare cases, it is impossible to remove some viruses from Android, even after a hard reset.
What needs to be done before the Hard Reset operation.
So that after a hard reset the phone is not blocked by the FRP, make sure that you know the login / password to your google account. You can sign out of your google account before resetting. In this case, after performing a factory reset, you can immediately use your device. If after a hard reset you cannot remember the login password to enter your Google account, then you need to use the instructions for bypassing the FRP lock for your phone model. You will need to contact the official service center to bypass the FRP protection on some new phone models.
After performing a hard reset, your device will be completely wiped clean. Everything that was in the memory of your device will be deleted.
What can be done to avoid losing important information?
If important information (contacts, sms, photos, videos) remains in the memory of your device, then there are the following options to save it:
Synchronize your phone with Google contacts, Google drive. Create a backup using Titanium Backup or other programs. Using the service programs for your phone model, you can transfer important data to your PC.