Comments on: How To Hard Reset an Android Phone

By: Lorna

Lorna — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:03:12 +0000

You are correct on that assumption Kelly. The hard reset is where you hold the buttons you mention down until phone restarts. That is what you can do when you install an application that won’t let you start your phone back up as the reader below you lol. The other is the factory data reset.

By: Agrima

Agrima — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:55:26 +0000

Owhhh my God
how to hard reset my android??
whereas, my android has been locked and I can’t unlocked again..!!!!!!

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:12:02 +0000

Isn’t what you’re refering to above as a “Hard Reset,” truely a, “Factory Data Reset?”
I was told a Hard Rest was when you turn the phone off, then while off, you hold down the volume while simultaniosuly turning the phone back on, and then you’re given a menu.
Kind of like when reformatting a computer. Much different.
BUT
I wouldn’t know. My good friend does it on his droid all the time and claims it’s just like getting it out of the box (he’s one of those people who builds PC’s, etc.). Me on the other hand, I cannot get mine to do it, no matter what variation I try on my droid.
I’ve also Done the reset you described 10 times now!
Alas, I still get old applications I uninstalled, info I recycled off onto my pc, my sd card still has trash on it when I view it on the pc, new thumbnails are back,
AND
get this

By: Jason Goh

Jason Goh — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:03:32 +0000

@soya_cincau google told me this http://is.gd/iqF0l lol

By: Jason Goh

Jason Goh — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:03:22 +0000

@clintonjeff found it http://is.gd/iqF0l

By: Darren Humphries

Darren Humphries — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:10:56 +0000

Ya, changes have happened in each new version of Android. Glad you figured it out!

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:22:03 +0000

I was looking in the wrong place. It is not where you listed in my phone. The reset option is under “Settings/Privacy”

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:18:57 +0000

I have the same problem. I tried to reset my phone after the initial playing with period and there is no option for a factory reset. I have formatted my memory card. I have a Samsung Epic 4G running 2.1-update1 from Sprint. I was able to do a factory reset once before. I had to reset because I installed some application that was very malicious… Now there is no option for a factory data reset.

By: Darren Humphries

Darren Humphries — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:40:22 +0000

What phone do you have?

By: ashley

ashley — Fri, 07 May 2010 05:38:08 +0000

I go to the SD and phone storage setting and I don’t have the option To format factor reset option? Any ideas