You are using your smartphone for a long time and now you find the performance of your Samsung phone is decreased very much.
It is not responding as fast as it was working whey you purchased it. Now giving a factory reset to your smartphone can fix many issues and can improve performance and battery life.
Hard reset, factory reset, master reset and format of smartphone all are same terms and do the same task so don’t be confused in between these terms.
There are more than one way to factory reset locked Samsung phone with or without password. You can hard reset your Samsung mobile if you have its password or phone is unlocked.
But it becomes somehow tricky if you don’t have Samsung mobile password and you want to do hard reset it.
In this post, we have discussed all possible ways to reset Samsung phone. We have discussed Samsung phone hard reset process in simplest way so that everyone can understand it quickly.
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Why we need to Factory reset Samsung phone
We all know that there are many reasons when someone needs to reset its Samsung smartphone. Some of the main reasons for doing a factory or hard reset are as follows:
- Samsung mobile is very slow.
- Having many bugs in it.
- Mobile is virus/malware infected.
- Want to sell your Samsung mobile.
- Handing over mobile to technician for repair.
- Want to share mobile with friends or family member.
- Samsung mobile is locked and forgot password.
- Revert back to default system settings which cause problems and hard to undone.
- It will uninstall unwanted third party apps installed in mobile.
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Note: Giving a factory reset will erase everything from your Samsung phone including contacts, SMS, photos, videos, files and documents so make sure to take a complete backup of your smartphone.
It will also remove all settings, account logins and installed third party apps. So do a factory reset on your own risk.
You can easily format or reset your Samsung phone in a few clicks. But it can be very serious to you as doing a hard reset or factory reset will erase all of your data stored in your device and saved settings.
So we recommend you to proceed this step very carefully and never (r) never forget to take complete backup of your smartphone.
Recommendation: 1) Make sure you have taken complete backup of your mobile. 2) You Samsung mobile battery is more than 50% charged.
Finally if you have made your mind to format your Samsung phone or tablet then follow the simple steps to hard reset your mobile:
- Go to system Settings in Samsung phone.
- Scroll down and click on General Management.
- Click on Reset option.
- Now click on Factory Data Reset.
- Again tap on Reset.
- Finally click on Delete All to confirm the process.
- Wait for some time.
- You mobile will reboot after some time.
- Do the initial required setup.
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