If you have an HTC Evo 4G and it is not working as it should, you may need to reset Android in order for your phone to return into to factory condition.
Also, if you forgot the pattern lock code, by following this tutorial and successfully resetting Android inside your HTC Evo 4G, you will regain command of it.
Today we’ll show you two easy ways to reset Android on your HTC Evo 4G.
A word of advice: By resetting Android, on your HTC Evo 4G, all contacts, messages, apps installed and personal data will be deleted.
If you still have access into your HTC Evo 4G operative system, then you may just want to perform a backup of all your information.
Reset Android on the HTC EVO 4G
This method may prove effective to reset Android if you have no access to the Android operating system, either because it is damaged or because you forgot the lock pattern.
You will need to enter into a custom recovery menu inside your HTC Evo 4G, which will restore the phone into factory settings.
You must follow these steps:
- Turn off the phone properly. If it does not want to power off, just take it’s battery for some seconds.
- Press and hold the VOLUME DOWN button
- Press and then release the POWER button (while pressing the VOLUME DOWN button)
- If you did it right, you will see the recovery menu on your HTC Evo 4G display.
- With your phone’s volume buttons navigate into “Clear Storage” and confirm with power button
- Use the VOLUME UP button to confirm the process
- After a few minutes the phone will reboot in factory default state.
RESET ANDROID ON HTC EVO 4G if it is still in working state
We will use the standard factory reset option inside your HTC Evo 4G’s Android operating system:
From your phone’s main screen, get into settings menu. You need to navigate and tap into Settings> Backup and Restore > Restore Factory Data > Reset phone > Erase everything. Wait a few minutes and your phone will restart as if just bought: Completely clean and in default settings.
You will learn in this tutorial how to hard reset Android on your HTC Explorer. This phone had an acceptable degree of popularity, hence it is possible that today perhaps you bought second hand, or found it on the back of a drawer and are planning to sell it or even give it away.
Whatever suits you! But then, maybe it has been protected bv Android’s Pattern block password and now you do not remember it!
Or perhaps it is clogged, full of apps and games that turns the HTC Explorer quite unusable. The solution is to perform a hard reset on your HTC Explorer and thus the phone will regain factory default status. It will forget all your settings, apps, games, messages, contacts, etc.
We will show you two different methods for performing a hard reset on the Android inside your HTC Explorer. One of these methods will be used when you have no access to the device’s menu. The second method will be implemented from within the Android operating system menu of the HTC Explorer.
Reset Android on your HTC Explorer through buttons
To hard reset Android using a combination of buttons, you need to have the device with 50% battery at least. If you are unsure of how much battery you have your device, connect your HTC Explorer to the battery charger for at least an hour before proceeding
- We need to start with the phone powered off. It you cannot turn it off, you may remove the battery and wait 5 seconds before putting it back inside.
- Keep the volume down button pressed while you press the POWER button for a few seconds.
- Wait until the screen depicts three androids
- Release the volume button to enter the recovery mode on your HTC Explorer.
- Go down with the volume buttons, select “Factory Reset” and use the power button to confirm.
- Wait until the process is done and you have a factory defaulted HTC Explorer.
Unlock HTC Explorer Android on through the menu
Another way to do this process is to run the factory reset from the Settings menu, available from the Android’s OS Main screen: To do so, we get into Settings> Internal Storage and SD> Reset phone> Erase everything.
With these simple steps you can successfully reset Android on the HTC Explorer.
Have Android on your HTC One been starting to missbehave and act up? Maybe it constantly needs to restart, or pauses itself in the middle of something important, or any other problem that can be caused by a overload of information on the device. Or maybe you just forgot the lock pattern on your HTC One and are now unable to use it anymore.
In any of these situations you’ll need to perform a hard reset on your device.
Please bear in mind that a hard reset on your device will eliminate all the information you have added to it, like installed apps, contacts, etc. It would be wise to do a backup of all your information before starting the steps for performing a hard reset on your HTC One. To do a backup you can use any of the many applications available in Google Play.
Hard Reset for HTC One
We will show you two methods of how to perform a factory reset of the HTC One. They are equally useful, the only difference being that one of them is to be performed when you have access to the phone, and the other method is used when we can not access the main menu phone, meaning that we will have to reset the phone using the hardware, not the software.
Hard Reset for HTC One from the menu
To perform a hard reset on your HTC One from the menu:
Go to Settings> Backup and Restore> Delete all data> OK. This process will erase all data on the phone.
Hard Reset for HTC One with buttons (hardware)
The process is simple, following these steps:
- With the phone turned off, hold down the less volume button while you press the power button
- Wait until the Android symbol appears on the screen and release de buttons.
- Scroll down to the the “Factory data reset” using the less volume button and press the power button to confirm.
These are the only steps needed to have a successful hard reset the HTC One with buttons
With these two ways we can perform and successfully achieve a hard reset on the HTC One, as usual if you have any doubts, please leave us a comment and we will be glad to help.