How do i factory reset

how do i factory reset

It all depends on which phone you have. If you have the LG phones, you tap on menu and then on Settings>Storage. Scroll down to Personal data and you will see Factory Reset. If you own a Motorola, you want to tap on Settings>Privacy and you will see Factory Data Reset. You know that all the information stored on your phone will be erased and you have to start all over. You have to get a Google account (unless you already have one), set up all your Email accounts, etc. Everything on your SD card should; however, not be effected. Unless you absolutely have to do a factory reset, I advise against it, especially if you downloaded a lot of apps from the store.

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    how do i factory reset my phone to get rid of the previous owner? I got this from a neighbor cause he upgraded to a iPhone 5 and gave me his iPhone 4 and I can not do anything as it wants his password to do any downloading for voxer or itunes i can do anything on there but download so he said i have to factory reset it how do i do that i am a totally stumped on this
    can anyone help me

    Look harder...
    Settings -> general -> reset -> erase all contents and settings.

  • How do you factory reset your ipod once itsbeen disabled

    how do you factory reset a ipod touch once its been disabled?

    Place the iOS device in Recovery Mode and then connect to your computer and restore via iTunes. The iPod will be erased.
    iOS: Wrong passcode results in red disabled screen                          
    If recovery mode does not work try DFU mode.                         
    How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings         
    For how to restore:
    iTunes: Restoring iOS software
    To restore from backup see:
    iOS: How to back up
    If you restore from iCloud backup the apps will be automatically downloaded. If you restore from iTunes backup the apps and music have to be in the iTunes library since synced media like apps and music are not included in the backup of the iOS device that iTunes makes.
    You can redownload iTunes purchases by:
    Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

  • How do i factory reset and ipad given to me

    how do i factory reset an ipad given to me as a gift

    http://ipad.about.com/od/iPad_Guide/ss/How-To-Wipe-Your-iPad-And-Erase-Data.htm
     Cheers, Tom

  • HT1925 How do i factory reset an i pad 2 that is linked to some ones elses icloud to activate the i pad ? With the upgrade Ios7.0.4

    How do i factory reset an i pad 2 that is linked to some ones elses icloud to activate the i pad ? With the upgrade Ios7.0.4

    Hi DopeeBoii,
    It sounds like you may be having issues with Activation Lock in iOS 7; you may find the following article helpful:
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    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5818
    Regards,
    - Brenden

  • How do you factory reset a iphone 4s if it dont work in the setting

    how do you factory reset a iphone 4s if it dont work in the setting

    vic17santos wrote:
    how do you factory reset a iphone 4s
    1: Connect the device to Your computer and open iTunes.
    2: If the device appears in iTunes, select and click Restore on the Summary pane.
    Restoring  >  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
    Make sure you have the Current Version of iTunes Installed on your computer
    iTunes free download from www.itunes.com/download
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  • How to completly factory reset it

    my friends changed all IDs and paswords as well as disabling it. how can i factory reset it completly?

    http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3694#9006
    Configure your security software
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  • HT1430 how do i factory reset my ipad without the having the login password

    how do i factory reset my ipad without the having the login password

    You force your iPad into Recovery Mode.
    Recovery Mode
    1. Disconnect the USB cable from the device, but leave the other end of the cable connected to your computer's USB port.
    2. Turn off the device: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red slider appears, then slide the slider. Wait for the device to turn off.
    3. While pressing and holding the Home button, reconnect the USB cable to the device. The device should turn on.
    4. Continue holding the Home button until you see the "Connect to iTunes" screen. When this screen appears, release the Home button.
    5. iTunes should alert you that it has detected a device in recovery mode. Click OK, and then click Restore to restore the device.
    Note: You need to be patient and repeat the above many times to recover your iPad. Data will be lost.

  • How do I factory reset my Macbook Pro and then restore using my time machine back up?

    Hey guys,
    My Macbook Pro has slowed down & had more and more random crashed recently and a friend suggested doing a factory reset. My Macbook is about 3 1/2 years old now so it's about time I did something and this always used to work for me on PC's.
    I've kept a completely up to date time machine back-up since day 1 (I'll do another immediately before the reset.) and would rather use that to restore all my files. Will I have to reinstall all my apps with this? (Thats fine if I do, it would just be nice to know first) How do I do the factory reset & how to I restore from time machine afterwards.
    Many Thanks
    MegaBeaker

    First obtain an external hard drive to back up to. Go to your system preferences and look under Time Machine. Select your external hard drive as your backup drive then start a full backup.  Then follow these steps provided by Apple:
    In the menu bar, choose Apple menu > Restart. Once your Mac restarts (and the gray screen appears), hold down the Command and R keys.
    Select Disk Utility, then click Continue.
    Select your startup disk on the left, then click the Erase tab.
    Choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the Format menu, enter a name, then click Erase.Important:   Erasing the disk removes all the information from the disk. Be sure to back up the information you want to keep to an external device.
    After the disk is erased, choose Disk Utility > Quit Disk Utility.
    Select Reinstall OS X, click Continue, then follow the onscreen instructions.

  • How can i factory reset my ipad if i forgot the password to reset it in settings

    Forgot the password to allow me to factory reset my ipad

    How can I unlock my iPad if I forgot the passcode?
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    iOS: Device disabled after entering wrong passcode
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
    How can I unlock my iPad if I forgot the passcode?
    http://tinyurl.com/7ndy8tb
    How to Reset a Forgotten Password for an iOS Device
    http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-a-Forgotten-Password-for-an-iOS-Device
    Using iPhone/iPad Recovery Mode
    http://ipod.about.com/od/iphonetroubleshooting/a/Iphone-Recovery-Mode.htm
    You may have to do this several times.
    Saw this solution on another post about an iPad in a school environment. Might work on your iPad so you won't lose everything.
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    ‘iPad is disabled’ fix without resetting using iTunes
    Today I met my match with an iPad that had a passcode entered too many times, resulting in it displaying the message ‘iPad is disabled – Connect to iTunes’. This was a student iPad and since they use Notability for most of their work there was a chance that her files were not all backed up to the cloud. I really wanted to just re-activate the iPad instead of totally resetting it back to our default image.
    I reached out to my PLN on Twitter and had some help from a few people through retweets and a couple of clarification tweets. I love that so many are willing to help out so quickly. Through this I also learned that I look like Lt. Riker from Star Trek (thanks @FillineMachine).
    Through some trial and error (and a little sheer luck), I was able to reactivate the iPad without loosing any data. Note, this will only work on the computer it last synced with. Here’s how:
    1. Configurator is useless in reactivating a locked iPad. You will only be able to completely reformat the iPad using Configurator. If that’s ok with you, go for it – otherwise don’t waste your time trying to figure it out.
    2. Open iTunes with the iPad disconnected.
    3. Connect the iPad to the computer and wait for it to show up in the devices section in iTunes.
    4. Click on the iPad name when it appears and you will be given the option to restore a backup or setup as a new iPad (since it is locked).
    5. Click ‘Setup as new iPad’ and then click restore.
    6. The iPad will start backing up before it does the full restore and sync. CANCEL THE BACKUP IMMEDIATELY. You do this by clicking the small x in the status window in iTunes.
    7. When the backup cancels, it immediately starts syncing – cancel this as well using the same small x in the iTunes status window.
    8. The first stage in the restore process unlocks the iPad, you are basically just canceling out the restore process as soon as it reactivates the iPad.
    If done correctly, you will experience no data loss and the result will be a reactivated iPad. I have now tried this with about 5 iPads that were locked identically by students and each time it worked like a charm.
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Try it and good luck. You have nothing more to lose if it doesn't work for you.
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  • SPA301 - how make a factory reset?

    I wanna make a factory reset in my SPA301 any suggestion how to do that, thanks for your help.

    Hi Ricardo,
    You can do it via IVR present in the phone.
    http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/csbpipp/ip_phones/administration/guide/spa500_admin.pdf
    Check section "Using IVR on the Cisco SPA301 and Cisco SPA501G IP Phone"
    4—Factory Reset—Restores the phone to the factory default software
    and settings. Enter 1 to confirm or * to cancel.
    or you can use
    https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-14658

  • Have i phone 4s. phone is disabled and I cant remember info to reset. how can i factory reset?

    how can i reset a 4s that i forgot pass code to? I dont remember all the information when i set up account. Can i factory reset?

    Locked Out, Forgot Lock or Restrictions Passcode, or Need to Restore Your Device: Several Alternative Solutions
    A
    1. iOS- Forgotten passcode or device disabled after entering wrong passcode
    2. iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Wrong passcode results in red disabled screen
    3. Restoring iPod touch after forgotten passcode
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    6. iTunes 10 for Mac- Update and restore software on iPod, iPhone, or iPad
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                iPad,iPod,iPod Touch Recovery Mode
    You will need to restore your device as New to remove a Restrictions passcode. Go through the normal process to restore your device, but when you see the options to restore as New or from a backup, be sure to choose New.
    You can restore from a backup if you have one from BEFORE you set the restrictions passcode.
    Also, see iTunes- Restoring iOS software.

  • How does a factory reset work?

    HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC
    QC400AV
    Windows 7
    I have had a problem with my intel graphics drivers not responding and then recovering. Went online to a remote access technician and they said that I had a lot of internal applications that are not working and suggested I have one of "their guys" go in and do some work...
    I have personally reinstalled the drivers myself and yet the problem still persist. I must admit that my event log is full of errors. Something like 3 thousand in the 8 months I have had this computer. Brand new and it has errors dating from the moment I pulled it out of the box. How could this be?
    Even so I would like to give a factory reset a try. My question is, what exactly does it do? I understand files such as doc, pix, vids will be erased; applications too. Does it actually restore all system files or is it more like a band-aid that fixes errors?
    If there are better options what are they?
    Thank you for your time
    Donald
    This question was solved.
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    Factory Reset formats the hdd and does a complete reinstall of everything. Many times this corrects a flaky install from the factory. If you still have problems after doing the Factory Reset, check your drivers page for an update which might help>>HERE
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  • HT201304 How do you factory reset

    My debt card has been over charged and unauthorized fees have been charged too.
    Also how do you do factory reset. My phone has restrictions on it and I have forgotten the password

    Open itunes, connect iphone, click restore
    http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf

  • How do i factory reset my HP Pavilion dv6-6173cl Entertainment Notebook PC?

    well i am having a problem here on factory reseting my notebbok pc i just want to get rid of everything and start fresh again but when i do it ask me for a recovery disc which didnt come when i bought my computer any suggestions?
    Thanks you

    Most consumer computers haven't come with OS Discs or Recovery Discs since about 2004. If you didn't create your personal HP Recovery Media, please contact official HP customer support, via the HP Worldwide Support Portal, to check on the availability of HP Recovery Media for your computer. If in the USA, you can also order the HP Recovery Disc set "658862-001 Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit" from third party vendor ComputerSurgeons.com
    Alternatively, if you can still read the 25-digit Windows product key on the Microsoft COA affixed to the computer, you can install Windows 7 Home Premium using this key. Please see "How to Install Windows 7 Without the Disc" for instructions on how to download Windows 7 SP1, create the installation media, and install Windows 7 SP1 using the 25-digit product key from the Microsoft COA on your computer.Please see the HP Pavilion dv6-6173cl Entertainment Notebook PC Drivers page for Windows 7 drivers. 
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