How to Soft & Hard Reset your Huawei Honor 5X

If for some reason Huawei Honor 5X starts experiencing complications, do not panic! Before you think checking for deep glitches found in the Android os, you can try to do a Soft and Hard Reset of your Huawei Honor 5X. This modification is reasonably user-friendly and will often resolve complications that can alter your Huawei Honor 5X.

Before making any of the actions listed below, understand that it truly is important to make a backup of your Huawei Honor 5X. Albeit the soft reset of your Huawei Honor 5X will not lead to loss of data, the hard reset is going to clear all the data. Do an entire backup of your Huawei Honor 5X thanks to its software or on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)

We will commence with the soft reset of your Huawei Honor 5X, the least difficult option.

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How to Soft Reset your Huawei Honor 5X

The soft reset of your Huawei Honor 5X should allow you to solve easy errors like a clogged apps, a battery that heats, a display that freeze, the Huawei Honor 5X that becomes slow…

The method is going to be very simple:

  • Simultaneously push the Volume Down and Power button until the Huawei Honor 5X restarts (approximately 20 seconds)

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How to Hard Reset your Huawei Honor 5X (Factory Settings)

The factory settings reset or hard reset is certainly a bit more radical remedy. This method is going to delete all the information of your Huawei Honor 5X and you will find a cell phone as it is when it is created. You will need to keep your essential files like your images, emails, messages, movies, … on your own computer or on the cloud like Google Drive, DropBox, … before commencing the hard reset procedure of your Huawei Honor 5X.

To get back all your info soon after the reset, you can actually conserve your data to your Google Account. For that, look at:

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

Once you finished the backup, all you have to do is:

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

You will require to enter your security code (or PIN) and soon after it is completed, go for Erase Everything.

Your Huawei Honor 5X is going to delete all your data. It will last a short time. Once the process is completed, your Huawei Honor 5X is going to reboot with factory configuration.

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About the Huawei Honor 5X

The dimensions of the Huawei Honor 5X is 76.3 mm x 151.3 mm x 8.2 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 158 g. The screen offers a resolution of 1080 x 1920px (FHD) for a usable surface of 72%.

The Huawei Honor 5X mobile phone uses one Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 MSM8939v2 processor and one 4×1.7 GHz ARM Cortex-A53+ 4×1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 (Octa-Core) with a 1.7 GHz clock speed. This smartphone includes a 64-bit architecture processor.

As for the graphic part, the Huawei Honor 5X functions with the Qualcomm Adreno 405 graphics card with 2 GB. You are able to use 16 GB of memory.

The Huawei Honor 5X battery is Li-Polymer type with a maximum capacity of 3000 mAh amperes. The Huawei Honor 5X was unveiled on October 2015 with Android 5.0 Lollipop

A problem with the Huawei Honor 5X? Contact the support: HUAWEI Support

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