During the regular usage of your phone, the memory of your device gets flooded with new apps, videos, and files. Some app & files come in-built while others are downloaded for various personal and professional reasons. After a certain point, you feel your phone has begun to slow down. At times, it does hang and even completely freezes.
You rush to a solution nearby, and probably the first thing an expert will suggest to you is: reset your phone to the factory settings.
Factory Resetting your Android phone will return it to the same state it was in the first time you turned it on. So naturally, all the files and apps you’ve stored will be wiped out. That’s why we call it a factory-setting state.
But does Factory Resetting make your smartphone function smooth again? Is it a sure-shot way to fix the issues like hanging, freezing, and auto-restart?
Let’s dig into this topic a bit deeper and comprehend what Factory reset does to your smartphone.
What’s factory resetting on Android phones?
As the name suggests, Factory Reset brings all the settings in your phone to the status with which it came out of the factory. It is virtually the same as reinstalling the system/window on a computer. Your phone will feel fresh as all the data and files you’ve stored in during the usage will be erased. Although it may not ensure your phone function as a new one, a Factory reset is pretty much a viable option when your phone needs a fresh start. Plus, it won't cause any damage to your device
Under what circumstances Factory Resetting is Recommended?
As you use your smartphone for various purposes, you need to create and download files on it. Furthermore, you accumulate various apps over a period of time. With all this accumulation come cache data that occupies the ROM in your Smartphone and burdens your memory.
If you don’t clean up the data, your phone starts to slow down and keeps freezing. This is when you’re advised to restore your phone to factory settings.
Another reason why Factory Reset becomes essential is having your phone disrupted by any corrupt app. Whether the app has viruses or some other glitch, a faulty app can cause severe functionality issues in your smartphone. Sometimes, its adverse effect remains there in your phone even after the app is deleted. In such circumstances, Factory Reset is the best choice.
The updated or reinstalled system, if poorly coordinated with the hardware components, will cause malfunctions to your phones, such as freezing issues, inexplicable power failures, or crashes. At this time, you can choose to restore factory settings.
How to perform Factory Reset on your Smartphone?
This is simple, given your phone is in working condition. All you need to do is:
- Restart your device. Upon Start, swipe over to the All apps list, then select
- Tap on System, and then About> Reset your phone
- You get two warning messages, asking you if you're absolutely sure to restore your phone to its factory settings.
- Here choose Yes in both messages. It might take a little while for the process to complete.
In case your phone is unresponsive, you may need to reset your phone using the hardware buttons.
Follow these steps to Reset your unresponsive Smartphone
- Press and hold the Volume down and Power buttons (about 10 to 15 seconds). You’ll feel a vibration on your device.
- Immediately after the vibration starts, you need to press and hold the Volume down button. This may bring a large exclamation mark on your screen.
- Then you need to press the following four buttons in this order: Volume up, Volume down, Power, and Volume down.
- This will put your device in the reset process. Allow it to complete and restart itself.
Does your phone run as new if restored to factory settings?
It helps to clean up faulty apps and files from your device. Also, your RAM will feel fresh. Certainly, the phone’s functionality and speed do improve. Also, you will see the issues of hanging, freezing, slow working has gone.
Restoring factory settings will clean up data from your phone. You need to download your frequently used apps again after that. This action is just equivalent to curing the symptoms without actually treating the disease.
Is it due to the aging of your phone? Aging is only part of the problem. The more important reason is...
Among the various hardware components of your phone, only the battery and the LED screen are prone to aging; other key components, such as the processor, are exempted from it.
The freezing of your old phone is not caused by the aging of its hardware components, but by the increasingly large system and apps, the running of which requires higher processor performance and larger storage capacity.
Tips:
1. Uninstall unused apps from your phone in a timely manner.
2. Clear your cache on a regular basis.
3. Prevent your phone from being dropped frequently. Taking good care of your device is what we want to convey.
What to do before a factory reset?
Warning: Restoring factory settings will clean up your memory. All your photos, videos, notes, contacts, SMS messages as well as most of the third-party apps you've installed will all be erased. Please remember to perform a data backup before restoring your phone.
Other than that, you should delete saved passwords from your browsers and apps.
Make sure the associated accounts are un-synced. Also, log out of your Google accounts
Don’t forget to take your SIM card and any external storage out of the device.
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