1. To start, turn off your phone with the POWER button.
2. Press the Volume Up(+) and POWER keys together for a few seconds.
3. Release all buttons when you see the Boot Mode information.
4. Select the Recovery line from the menu. Use Volume Up(+) to navigate through menu items and Volume Down(-) to confirm.
5. Use the Volume Up(+)/Down(-) buttons to navigate to the wipe data / factory reset menu item and press the POWER button to confirm your selection.
6. Confirm the reset operation, select Yes. Use the Volume Up(+)/Down(-) buttons to navigate through the menu items and the POWER button to confirm your selection.
7. Restart your phone, select "reboot system now" and confirm with the POWER button.
Hard Reset - advantages and disadvantages Geotel A1 ?
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 completely clear the phone from user information. Removing viruses that have entered your phone. Solving problems that have arisen due to the installation of some applications on the phone and have not disappeared after they were removed from the phone.
Disadvantages of Hard Reset:
All your contacts, data and media files will be deleted. The need to back up contacts from the phone book, settings and media files. Unfortunately, in some cases, not all viruses on Android will be removed, even after a hard reset.
What needs to be done before the Hard Reset operation.
If you want to do a hard reset on your phone, then make sure you know the login / password for your google account. ÒYou can sign out of your google account before resetting. To use your device immediately without any problems. If, after a factory reset, the phone is locked because you cannot log into your Google account, then you need to find instructions for bypassing the FRP lock for your phone model. It is not possible to bypass the FRP protection on some new phone models, and for this you 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 (contacts, photos, videos) remains in the memory of your phone, then it can be saved in several ways:
Synchronize your data and contacts with Google. Using the Titanium Backup program, create a backup. With the service programs for your phone, you can transfer important data to your PC.