If your Elephone M1 starts knowing troubles, you should not overreact! Right before you start seeking for complicated complications found in the Android operating system, you can check to make a Soft and Hard Reset of your Elephone M1. This manipulation is quite user-friendly and will often fix troubles that may affect your Elephone M1.
Right before executing any one of the task below, bear in mind that it is imperative to make a copy of your Elephone M1. Albeit the soft reset of the Elephone M1 should not induce data loss, the hard reset is going to delete all the data. Generate a full copy of your Elephone M1 thanks to its software or on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)
We will start with the soft reset of your Elephone M1, the least complicated solution.
How to Soft Reset your Elephone M1
The soft reset of your Elephone M1 probably will allow you to solve minor concerns like a crashed application, a battery that heats, a screen that stop, the Elephone M1 that becomes slow…
The process is quite simple:
- Concurrently press the Volume Down and Power button until the Elephone M1 restarts (roughly 20 seconds)
How to Hard Reset your Elephone M1 (Factory Settings)
The factory settings reset or hard reset is definitely a more definitive remedy. This process is going to remove all your data of your Elephone M1 and you will get a cell phone as it is when it is created. You will have to backup your essential files like your photos, contacts, messages, movies, … on your own computer or on the cloud like Google Drive, DropBox, … before you start the hard reset operation of your Elephone M1.
To get back all your info just after the reset, you can keep your data to your Google Account. For that, go to:
- Settings -> System -> Advanced -> Backup
- Activate the backup
As soon you finished the backup, all you have to do is:
- System -> Advanced -> Reset options.
- Erase all data (factory reset) -> Reset phone
You will be needing to type your security code (or PIN) and once it is completed, look for Erase Everything.
The Elephone M1 is going to remove all the data. It should take a little while. As soon the operation is finished, your Elephone M1 will restart with factory configuration.
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About the Elephone M1
The size of your amazing Elephone M1 is 78.0 mm x 150.9 mm x 7.6 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 151 g. The screen offers a resolution of 720 x 1280px (HD) for a usable surface of 70%.
The Elephone M1 mobile phone integrates one MediaTek MT6735A processor and one ARM Cortex-A53 (Quad-Core) with a 1.3 GHz clock speed. This mobile phone provides a 64-bit architecture processor.
As for the graphic part, the Elephone M1 functions with the ARM Mali-T720 MP2 graphics card with 2 GB. You can actually use 16 GB of memory.
The Elephone M1 battery is Li-Polymer type with a full charge power of 2780 mAh amperes. The Elephone M1 was presented on February 2014 with Android 5.0 Lollipop
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