In case your Elephone S3 starts experiencing issues, really do not worry! Right before you commence searching for complex glitches found in the Android operating system, you can actually check to perform a Soft and Hard Reset of your Elephone S3. This adjustment is reasonably user-friendly and may very well solve issues that could damage your Elephone S3.
Right before running any of the hacks listed below, take into account that it truly is imperative to create a copy of your Elephone S3. Even if the soft reset of your Elephone S3 should not cause loss of data, the hard reset will erase all the data. Perform a complete copy of your Elephone S3 thanks to its application or alternatively on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)
We are going to begin with the soft reset of your Elephone S3, the most simple method.
How to Soft Reset your Elephone S3
The soft reset of your Elephone S3 is likely to permit you to solve minor errors like a crashed application, a battery that heats, a display that freeze, the Elephone S3 that becomes slow…
The approach is easy:
- Simultaneously push the Volume Down and Power key until the Elephone S3 restarts (approximately 20 seconds)
How to Hard Reset your Elephone S3 (Factory Settings)
The factory settings reset or hard reset is going to be a bit more radical remedy. This procedure will delete all the information of your Elephone S3 and you can expect to get a cell phone as it is when it is created. You should save your essential documents like your images, contacts, messages, videos, … on your own computer or on a hosting site like Google Drive, DropBox, … before you start the hard reset procedure of your Elephone S3.
To get back all your data following the reset, you can preserve your documents to your Google Account. For that, go to:
- Settings -> System -> Advanced -> Backup
- Activate the backup
Now that you generated the backup, all you might want to do is:
- System -> Advanced -> Reset options.
- Erase all data (factory reset) -> Reset phone
You have to write your security code (or PIN) and as soon it is done, go with Erase Everything.
The Elephone S3 will get rid of all your information. It will last a short time. As soon the operation is done, your Elephone S3 will reboot with factory settings.
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About the Elephone S3
The dimensions of your Elephone S3 is 70.5 mm x 142.0 mm x 8.3 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 140 g. The screen offers a resolution of 1080 x 1920px (FHD) for a usable surface of 74%.
The Elephone S3 mobile phone makes use of one MediaTek MT6753 (1.3GHz) processor and one ARM Cortex-A53 (Octa-Core) with a 1.3 GHz clock speed. The following smartphone has a 64-bit architecture processor.
As for the graphic part, the Elephone S3 incorporates ARM Mali-T720 MP3 graphics card with 2 GB. You can actually use 16 GB of memory.
The Elephone S3 battery is Li-Polymer type with a full charge power of 2100 mAh amperes. The Elephone S3 was unveiled on April 2016 with Android 6.0 Marshmallow
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