A Factory reset is a hard reset that would eventually restore you phone back to the factory settings erasing the user data and settings while not messing up with the SD card and the System partition. Doing a factory reset has some advantages for a few purposes.
In some circumstances it can even be handy to just start over especially if you have some minor issues and you assume the issues are Data related. If rooted, it’s a great way to wipe the Data and Cache area’s to prepare to change the ROM of the device.
Factory reset in phones are just like brainwashing human beings with shock treatment.
It’s a function which Android provides to handle situations like:
- If your smartphone is lagging too often.
- Your phone is filled with adds
- If some kind of virus has gripped your phone. Etc.
Factory reset usually is harmless for a couple of times, but resetting phone too often, I mean who would like to wipe their data to often?
Doing this on your phone can potentially get rid of lot of problems plaguing your handset, and is sometimes even the only option when things go terribly wrong.
We’d like to ask our readers how often do you factory reset your phone? Share us your experience using the comment box below.
I hardly ever factory reset except once when i tried installing an app and my phone just got frozen with no access to my pix or even contact details. Maybe cos i hardly use my phone for a long period, it doesnt develop issues to warrant a factory reset
Can’t remember when last did factory reset on my phone. But it been a good get out of bad situation for me before.
I do factory reset when my phone misbehave
I hardly do it but i’ve not done a factory reset on my present phone and it close to a year. I can’t afford to loose certain infos
Presently my phone needs factory reset but I can’t cause of some settings
I’ve never done it. Never had a reason to
Every 2months. I even did it last month
Once in 6 months
Just did that last month.
But i normally do that every 2 month
I’m planning to do a factory reset on my phone cos it lags a lot ……i guess it has accumulated a bunch of jargons over time
I factory reset my phone once it starts misbehaving… Especially when unwanted files keep poping up in ma storage
Last option. Anything that will ever make me to reset my phone would be a very though one. I do hav a lot of applications in my phone. To install them back is always stressful
can’t remember when I did it last.
I hardly do that. There are limitations to what i do with my phone. It might have it’s benefits but i don’t do it
Eversince have been using my current device,I avnt reset it to factory settings bcuz the phone has been working fyn…but back in the days of my Nokia phone na every week sef I dey reset am
Please, how do I make my downloads from play store go to memory card instead of internal storage?
Always scare of factory reset my phone…the fear of loosing data, files have got backup for
The last time I did this was a costly mistake. However I had the opportunity to let go of data I would ordinarily find difficulty in deleting.
Please can you give us a tutorial on how to backup things on our phone to SD card or computer b4 carrying out a factory reset??
I factory reset my phone when it is misfiring
Been using my phone since November, no reset yet. I don’t need it yet. We go to hospital only when we are sick naa
please bros i have a oppo r388t android and i cant use the 3g network only edge showing instead