How to Hard Reset Samsung Smartphone

How to do a hard reset on samsung smartphone its free and easy okay for those people who might not know where the hard reset on a Samsung smartphone is let me very quickly tell you what it is and what it's useful for.

To begin with it's useful in case you are no longer able to log in to your phone because you forgot your password or your PIN number and a hard reset will reset your smartphone back to factory default settings.

Now keep in mind this also means that it will delete and wipe out everything on the phone which includes your phone numbers, your contact lists,videos, pictures, text messages, anything that you had on the phone so in essence you'll end up with a phone just like as if you took it out of the box for the first time and powered it ON and saw the welcome setup screen for the first time one last thing before you get started with the procedure this does work on most Samsung Galaxy phones.


However do keep in mind it will not work on the galaxy s1 through the s10 that requires a different procedure.


Let's get started by powering off your smart phone pressing the power button pressing power off and you get the Samsung logo and the little blue circle after powered off.

What you want to do that is hold down two buttons the volume button in the up position and the power button press them all two at the same time until you get the Samsung Galaxy powered by Android on the screen and then you can release those buttons.

And you will see the the green Android robot and then it'll say no command don't worry it normal and you get the first menu now to move up and down the menus you use your volume button and you want to go ahead and move down the menu until you get to wipe data / factory reset.

And you slightly press the power button to select that and then the next prompt is to confirm Yes or No so you want to move it down with the volume button again - Yes.

And select it with the power button and then you get this last menu and this one you don't have to move it anywhere you have to take the first item reboot system now and you press the power button and that will begin the reset and on the bottom it gives you some information here like wiping data formatting data formatting cache and once it's finished you'll get the Samsung Galaxy powered by Android on the screen that will disappear and then your mobile is sucessfully reset and restart.