2. Press and hold the Volume Up(+) and POWER buttons at the same time for a few seconds.
3. Now, release the held buttons when you see the exclamation mark.
4. To open Recovery Mode, hold down the Volume Up(+) button for a few seconds.
5. Use the volume buttons to select wipe data / factory reset and press the POWER button to confirm.
6. Approve the reset operation, select Yes from the menu and confirm by pressing the POWER button.
7. When Recovery Mode appears on the screen again, select "reboot system now" using the POWER button.
Hard Reset - advantages and disadvantages CloudFone Excite 501d?
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. Remove viruses and malware that block applications on the device. You will be able to solve various problems on the device, for example, with bluetooth or other applications.
Disadvantages of Hard Reset:
All data and applications will be permanently deleted. The need to have an up-to-date backup of your data, contacts, settings and media files. After returning to factory settings, some viruses may remain in the phone.
What needs to be done before the Hard Reset operation.
In order to use the phone after a hard reset and it is not blocked by the FRP, make sure that you know the login / password to your google account. You need to log out of your google account before resetting. In this case, after performing a factory reset, the phone will not ask for any logins and passwords and you can immediately use your phone. If after a hard reset you cannot remember the login and password for entering your Google account, then you need to find instructions on bypassing the FRP blocking. 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 remains in the memory of your phone, then there are the following options to save it:
Sync your data 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.