How to Soft & Hard Reset your Gionee Elife S5.1

If someday your Gionee Elife S5.1 commences knowing issues, do not overreact! Before you start searching for deep complications found in the Android os, you should check to make a Soft and Hard Reset of your Gionee Elife S5.1. This manipulation is quite elementary and may very well fix issues that can damage your Gionee Elife S5.1.

Before making any one of the task just below, take into account that it really is essential to create a copy of your Gionee Elife S5.1. Albeit the soft reset of the Gionee Elife S5.1 does not induce loss of data, the hard reset is going to clear the whole data. Do a complete copy of your Gionee Elife S5.1 with its software or on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)

We are going to begin with the soft reset of your Gionee Elife S5.1, the simplest method.

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How to Soft Reset your Gionee Elife S5.1

The soft reset of your Gionee Elife S5.1 probably will allow you to take care of small problems like a blocked application, a battery that heats, a screen that freeze, the Gionee Elife S5.1 that becomes slow…

The methodology is definitely very easy:

  • Simultaneously push the Volume Down and Power key until the Gionee Elife S5.1 restarts (roughly 20 seconds)

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How to Hard Reset your Gionee Elife S5.1 (Factory Settings)

The factory settings reset or hard reset is definitely a bit more radical alternative. This process is going to erase all the information of your Gionee Elife S5.1 and you are going to find a mobile phone as it is when it is produced. You will need to backup your important files like your photos, apps, text messages, videos, … on your own pc or on a hosting site like Google Drive, DropBox, … before starting the hard reset procedure of your Gionee Elife S5.1.

To get back all your documents after the reset, you can save your data to your Google Account. For that, head over to:

  • Settings -> System -> Advanced -> Backup
  • Activate the backup

Right after you generated the backup, all you have to do is:

  • System -> Advanced -> Reset options.
  • Erase all data (factory reset) -> Reset phone

You have to write your security code (or PIN) and now that it is completed, select Erase Everything.

The Gionee Elife S5.1 is going to delete all your data. It will normally take a little while. Once the procedure is finished, your Gionee Elife S5.1 will restart with factory configuration.

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About the Gionee Elife S5.1

The size of your Gionee Elife S5.1 is 67.4 mm x 139.8 mm x 5.2 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 140 g. The screen offers a resolution of 720 x 1280px (HD) for a usable surface of 67%.

The Gionee Elife S5.1 mobile phone integrates one Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8926 processor and one ARM Cortex-A7 (Quad-Core) with a 1.2 GHz clock speed. The following mobile phone doesn’t include a 64-bit architecture processor.

Related the graphic part, the Gionee Elife S5.1 uses the Qualcomm Adreno 305 graphics card with 1 GB. You are able to employ 16 GB of memory.

The Gionee Elife S5.1 battery is Li-Ion type with a maximum capacity of 2100 mAh amperes. The Gionee Elife S5.1 was unveiled on November 2014 with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

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