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Reset Android – Part 20

Androide 10 years ago 7 min read

You have two kinds of resets available for your Asus EEE Pad Transformer:

The Soft Reset, which will power it off, regardless of your tablet state, forcefully finishing all ongoing processes and making Android OS to restart in your next power up. This might solve mild problems including an unresponsive, freezed  or sluggish Asus EEE Pad Transformer.

The Hard Reset, which is equivalent to a factory reset and will roll back your Asus EEE Pad Transformer into a “blank slate” state, just when it came out from it’s factory, effectively erasing all your data, installed Apps and Games. This second reset mode is more appropriate if you plan  to sell or give away your tablet and do not want your information or paid apps to go with it.

Soft Reset your Asus EEE Pad Transformer

To perform a Soft Reset you can press and hold it’s POWER button located on the top-left corner of your Asus EEE Pad Transformer, for about 10 seconds. You will notice that your tablet will power off, signalling the successful (and forceful) shut down.  You may power it up again, by releasing the POWER button, waiting a couple of seconds, and pressing it again for 3 seconds, as you usually turn it on. You will have to wait a bit as your Asus EEE Pad Transformer restarts. A full restart like this is called a “COLD BOOT“.

Hard Reset your Asus EEE Pad Transformer

To perform a Hard Reset, you can go the easy way provided you still have working access to its Android OS, by following our generic  instructions posted in here. If you cannot access your Android OS because your tablet is not  fully working, then you can follow these instructions below:

  1. You start with your Asus EEE Pad Transformer powered OFF
  2. Press and Hold the VOLUME DOWN Button and the POWER button. Keep them pressed until a menu appears.
  3. When the Bootloader menu appears,  you may need to select the Factory Reset Option by pressing the volume down button.
  4. When your Factory Reset option is selected, you can Press the VOLUME UP button to start the hard reset process.

You will wait while your Asus EEE Pad Transformer performs the wipe out of your data and applications, rolling back it’s state into  factory default.

The definitive way of erasing all your stuff from inside your Samsung Galaxy ACE is by doing a hard reset: When you reset Android, the process will erase all your contacts, messages, installed applications and games, leaving your Samsung Galaxy ACE as if it just had got out of Samsung factory. This is why this process is also called “to factory default” your Android phone. Please follow these instructions to accomplish it:

  1. With the phone powered off, press and hod the following buttons, at the same time: Volume Up, Center / Enter button and Power button.
  2. Your Samsung Galaxy ACE will boot into a factory menu. You can move between options from the menu with the Volume Down / Volume Up buttons.
  3. You need to get into this RESTORE Menu and from there you need to select Wipe Data / Factory Reset
  4. Select YES with the Select / Enter Button: phone will be factory restored.
  5. After finishing, confirm the option REBOOT NOW to restart your Android phone
  6. Wait some minutes (your Android phone needs to work a bit) and Voilá

Another way to hard reset your Samsung Galaxy ACE

If you still have acces to the settings menu inside your Android OS inside your Samsung galaxy ACE, then you can follow the instructions depicted in this following video, which are also explained in our earlier post about hard reset android “the easy way”:

You may need to perform a hard reset on your Samsung Galaxy Ace if you want to sell or give your phone away and you do not want your personal data to be left inside it when turning it over to the new owner.

This tutorial will describe different ways to hard reset Android on your Samsung Galaxy S2.  Why would you like to reset Android on your phone ? As an example, you may want to sell it, or even give it away, but you don’t want your data to be in there. It may also happen that you just installed too much applications -or even the wrong ones, as it may also be the case- and your Samsung Galaxy S2 is unresponsive, acting up.

In any case, you may want first to backup everything inside your Samsung Galaxy S2 -provided that the phone’s health is up to it-. Once your data is secure somewhere else, you may proceed to hard reset Android and bring your Samsung Galaxy s2 back into factory default mode.

How to reset Android on Samsung Galaxy S2

This is the best way to reset Android on your Samsung Galaxy S2:

  1. Turn OFF your Samsung galaxy S2 phone (if the phone is unresponsive, please take out the battery, wait a couple of seconds and reinsert it).
  2. Press the Volume Down Button, and keep it pressed
  3. While keeping pressed the Volume Down Button, press and release the power button.
  4. Wait some seconds while the phone comes back to life, and from the hidden menu that will appear, select the “Clear Storage” option by using the Volume Down Button.
  5. Press and release the Power Button to execute the “Clear Storage” option.
  6. Your Samsung Galaxy S2 will ask your confirmation for the hard reset procedure: You confim it by pressing the Volume Up Button.

Voilá … your Samsung Galaxy S2 will be hard reset, cleaning up all your data.  If by any chance, following these instructions is not possible, or the results are not OK, then we present you with an alternative procedure to hard reset your Samsung Galaxy S2:

Alternative procedure to hard reset your Samsung Galaxy S2

  1. Turn the power off (or take out your phone’s battery, wait a couple of seconds  and reinsert it).
  2. Press the Volume Up, Home and Power Buttons simultaneously
  3. Wait until a Samsung Logo appears and release the Power Button.
  4. A “Boot Menu” will appear: Use the Volume Up / Down Buttons to highlight your choice and then press the Home Button to select it, performing a hard reset on your Samsung Galaxy S2 phone.

Time will come when may need to hard reset Android on your phone or tablet to factory settings. Performing a hard reset will erase all user data from the device, reverting it to a default status, just as when it came out of the factory. Why would you want to hard reset Android ?  Maybe you plan to sell or give away your Android device.

Perhaps your phone or tablet is behaving erratically and you just considered to hard reset Android to efectively eliminate any mis-configuration and software incompatibilities by wiping it completely clean. Whatever reason you may have,  you can hard reset Android right from it’s settings menu.

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In order to reset Android, you may need to perform a Soft reset: It is the same as -and may be accomplished by- removing the battery, waiting for some seconds and then placing back the battery on your Android phone.

This would effectively perform a soft reset Android while usually retaining all contacts, configuration and information previously saved in the phone.

A soft reset might prove useful if your Android phone has just freezed on you or perhaps it is behaving lagged, erraticaly or plainly weird.

Under any circumstance where a normal power off / power on recycle is impossible, you may try a Soft Reset to forcefully power your Android device down. After some seconds you may restore the battery on your phone and try to turn it on again in order to confirm that your problem has been corrected.

Soft reset Android Tablets

If you need to do a soft reset on your Android tablet, and it has no user replaceable battery, then you may search for your tablet brand / model on this website in order to get the soft reset Android procedure for your device.

Some Tablets got a small hole in the back, usually labeled “Reset”, where you can poke a pen tip or thin wire and momentaneously press a reset button. Other Android tablets need their power on/off button to be depressed for several seconds in order to invoke a soft reset Android mechanism.

Hard reset Android

A Hard reset Android is a way more serious procedure -like in “wipe all your data” serious- efectively leaving you with a “brand new like” factory restored Android device.

Everything will be wiped out, including your settings, alll of your personal data,  software installations, customizations, etc. Your Android device will be ready for a fresh start.   For a practical example, you may want or need to get your android device into factory default state, erasing all your personal data from it because you are selling, donating or giving your Android Phone or Tablet as a gift.

You will accomplish it through a hard reset android procedure.

Such hard reset procedure may be performed through a series of options inside Android operative system itself, which we will explain in our next post, or by some other means, usually pressing and holding for several seconds a pen tip inside the eventual “Reset Hole”  or pressing a secuence of buttons on your Android device, invoking a “hidden” (factory mode) menu which includes the “reset android to defaults” option.