If ever your Gionee S8 starts knowing complications, really do not panic! Before you begin searching for complex problems located in the Android operating system, you can try to make a Soft and Hard Reset of your Gionee S8. This adjustment can be reasonably convenient and may very well solve complications that could damage your Gionee S8.
Before engaging in any of the hacks just below, bear in mind that it truly is important to make a copy of your Gionee S8. Albeit the soft reset of your Gionee S8 should not induce loss of data, the hard reset will erase all of the data. Generate a complete copy of the Gionee S8 thanks to its program or alternatively on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)
We are going to start with the soft reset of your Gionee S8, the least complicated method.
How to Soft Reset your Gionee S8
The soft reset of the Gionee S8 probably will let you to correct easy problems such as a crashed apps, a battery that heats, a display that freeze, the Gionee S8 that becomes slow…
The solution is going to be quite simple:
- Simultaneously push the Volume Down and Power key until the Gionee S8 restarts (approximately 20 seconds)
How to Hard Reset your Gionee S8 (Factory Settings)
The factory settings reset or hard reset is certainly a bit more definitive option. This method will get rid of all the data of the Gionee S8 and you will get a mobile phone as it is when it is produced. You must keep your principal files such as your photos, emails, chat, videos, … on your own computer or on the cloud such as Google Drive, DropBox, … before you start the hard reset operation of your Gionee S8.
To recover all your info soon 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 finished the backup, all you need to do is:
- System -> Advanced -> Reset options.
- Erase all data (factory reset) -> Reset phone
You have to enter your security code (or PIN) and now that it is done, select Erase Everything.
The Gionee S8 will delete all your data. It should take a little while. Once the process is finished, the Gionee S8 is going to reboot with factory settings.
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About the Gionee S8
The dimensions of your Gionee S8 is 74.9 mm x 154.3 mm x 7.0 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 147 g. The screen offers a resolution of 1080 x 1920px (FHD) for a usable surface of 72%.
The Gionee S8 mobile phone makes use of one MediaTek Helio P10 (MT6755) 1.8GHz processor and one 4×1.8Ghz ARM Cortex-A53+ 4×1.1 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 (Octa-Core) with a 1.8 GHz clock speed. This excellent smartphone has a 64-bit architecture processor.
As for the graphic part, the Gionee S8 functions with the Arm Mali-T860 MP2 graphics card with 4 GB. You’ll be able to use 64 GB of memory.
The Gionee S8 battery is Li-Ion type with a maximum capacity of 3000 mAh amperes. The Gionee S8 was revealed on December 2015 with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
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