2. At the second stage, start pressing the Volume Up(+) and POWER and POWER buttons for a few seconds.
3. When Boot Mode appears, release all the keys.
4. Select Recovery by using the Volume Up(+) key for navigation and confirm the selection by clicking Volume Down(-).
5. Select from the menu item wipe data / factory reset Use the Volume Up(+)/Down(-) buttons and confirm by pressing the POWER button.
6. Now, confirm the operation, select Yes and press the POWER button once.
7. Overload the phone, select reboot system now and press the POWER button once.
Hard Reset - advantages and disadvantages Itel S21?
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 block applications on the device and give persistent errors. Solving various problems on the device that arise due to the conflict of applications.
Disadvantages of Hard Reset:
Permanently deletes all data on the device. The need to have an up-to-date backup of your data, contacts, settings and media files. Not all viruses on Android can be removed even after returning to factory settings.
What needs to be done before the Hard Reset operation.
If you are going to do a hard reset on your phone, then be sure to make sure that you know the access data for your google account. Before a hard reset, you must first log out of your google account. In this case, after performing a factory reset, the phone will not be locked by the FRP. In case you have already done a factory reset and cannot remember the login and password for logging into your Google account, for most models there are instructions for bypassing protection (FRP). 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:
Sync your data with Google contacts, Google drive. Backup your contacts and information. Using the service programs for your phone model, you can transfer important data to your PC.