1. First, turn off your phone using the POWER button.
2. Press the Volume Up(+) button and the POWER button for a few seconds.
3. When Boot Mode appears, release all buttons.
4. Using the Volume Up(+) key, select Recovery and confirm with the Volume Down(-) key.
5. When the Android image appears, press the POWER buttons for a few seconds and press the Volume Up(+) button once.
6. Highlight the wipe data / factory reset menu option. Use the Volume Up(+)/Down(-) keys to navigate through the menu items and the POWER key to confirm your selection.
7. Now you need to confirm 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. Restart your phone, select "reboot system now" and press the POWER button once.
Hard Reset - advantages and disadvantages CAT S61?
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 get a completely clean phone from user settings and data. Removal of viruses that cause inconvenience in work and give permanent errors. Solving various problems on the device, for example, with a camera, Wi-Fi or other applications.
Disadvantages of Hard Reset:
All your data and media files will be deleted. The need to back up all data and contacts. It is possible that not all viruses will be removed from your phone.
What needs to be done before the Hard Reset operation.
Before doing a hard reset, be sure to remember the login / password to access your google account. Also, before resetting, you must first log out of your google account. In this case, after performing a factory reset, the phone will not ask for any logins and passwords and you can use your device. If after resetting the settings you cannot log into your Google account, then you need to find instructions for bypassing the FRP lock for your phone model. Owners of new phone models do not get to bypass the protection of the FRP and will need to contact the official service center.
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 remains in the memory of your phone, then it can be saved in the following ways:
Sync your data with Google contacts, Google drive. Create a backup using Titanium Backup. Transfer important data to your PC using service programs for your smartphone model.