Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Factory Reset on Android Device

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Factory reset is a very useful default feature which it’s in all Android devices, this feature can be very important in many hard situations, if you made some modifications, or you delete everything from your device, except the Android itself, if you we’ll go and you’ll make a factory reset, your device will look like new.
If you ask yourself “what does a factory reset do?”it’s good to know that, factory reset feature allows you to delete everything on your device (contacts, call logs, SMS messages, applications or data, have also an option to erase all information stored in the memory card (photos, videos, or any type of data stored in memory card).
When you want to sell your Android device Factory reset is a great tool, in this way your buyer don’t can access your private information, another situation when you can use the Factory Reset function it is also if your device begin to move slowly because you have installed many applications, when you make some wrong updates in your device and it’s hard to know what not work correctly, for example some firmware are not compatible with the others and they recommend you to make a Factory Reset.
It’s also very useful when updating to another firmware. Some types of firmware are not compatible with the others and they will require you to do a factory reset.
Be carefully because if you made a factory reset isn’t any way to recover your date after that, if you didn’t do a backup before.
Please note that there isn’t any way to recover data after a factory reset if you didn’t perform backups before.
For make an android backup you will normally need to have a root level access on your Android device and ClockworkMod installed

How factory reset on Android devices ?

It’s very easy to make a factory reset in your Android device:
Settings > Backup & reset > Factory data reset > Reset phone
Note: If you want to erase USB storage, you can check Erase USB storage for make this. 
After these operations, please check if in your device it’s on factory parameters and nothing remains on the smartphone.
I made a short video about “how factory reset on Android devices “to see how this thing is done:

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