How to Soft & Hard Reset your Huawei P20 Pro

If for some reason Huawei P20 Pro appears having troubles, you should not stress! Before you think checking for fussy complications found in the Android operating system, you can try to do a Soft and Hard Reset of your Huawei P20 Pro. This modification is in fact reasonably elementary and may very well solve troubles that may affect your Huawei P20 Pro.

Before engaging in any of the hacks in this article, understand that it is essential to make a backup of your Huawei P20 Pro. Even though the soft reset of your Huawei P20 Pro will not induce loss of data, the hard reset is going to erase all the data. Make a complete backup of the Huawei P20 Pro with its program or alternatively on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)

We are going to begin with the soft reset of your Huawei P20 Pro, the least complicated technique.

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How to Soft Reset your Huawei P20 Pro

The soft reset of the Huawei P20 Pro should let you to repair minor errors such as a clogged application, a battery that heats, a screen that stop, the Huawei P20 Pro that becomes slow…

The process is going to be very simple:

  • Concurrently press the Volume Down and Power key until the Huawei P20 Pro restarts (about 20 seconds)

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How to Hard Reset your Huawei P20 Pro (Factory Settings)

The factory settings reset or hard reset is a bit more radical solution. This process is going to erase all your data of the Huawei P20 Pro and you will obtain a cell phone as it is when it is made. You have to keep your important data such as your images, contacts, text messages, videos, … on your pc or on the cloud such as Google Drive, DropBox, … before starting the hard reset operation of your Huawei P20 Pro.

To recover all your data after the reset, you can backup your documents to your Google Account. To do that , go to:

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

Once you finished the backup, all you should do is:

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

You will be required to type your security code (or PIN) and soon after it is done, choose Erase Everything.

Your Huawei P20 Pro is going to get rid of all your data. It will take a little while. As soon the procedure is finished, the Huawei P20 Pro is likely to reboot with factory configuration.

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About the Huawei P20 Pro

The size of your Huawei P20 Pro is 73.9 mm x 155.0 mm x 7.8 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 180 g. The screen offers a resolution of 1080 x 2240px (FHD+) for a usable surface of 85%.

The Huawei P20 Pro mobile phone works with one Huawei HiSilicon KIRIN 970 processor and one 4x 2.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A73 + 4x 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 (Octa-Core) with a 2.4 GHz clock speed. This excellent smartphone comes with a 64-bit architecture processor.

Relating to the graphic part, the Huawei P20 Pro takes advantage of Mali G72 MP12 graphics card with 6 GB. You can make use of 128 GB of memory.

The Huawei P20 Pro battery is Li-Polymer type with a maximum power of 4000 mAh amperes. The Huawei P20 Pro was revealed on March 2018 with Android 8.0 Oreo

A problem with the Huawei P20 Pro? Contact the support: HUAWEI Support

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