If ever your Nokia 8 starts experiencing problems, you should not panic! Just before you start seeking for complex errors found in the Android os, you can actually try to perform a Soft and Hard Reset of your Nokia 8. This task is quite convenient and will often resolve problems that may threaten your Nokia 8.
Just before running any one of the actions listed below, keep in mind that it truly is important to make a backup of your Nokia 8. Even though the soft reset of your Nokia 8 should not induce loss of data, the hard reset will delete all the data. Do a full backup of your Nokia 8 thanks to its application or simply on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)
We will begin with the soft reset of your Nokia 8, the least difficult method.
How to Soft Reset your Nokia 8
The soft reset of your Nokia 8 probably will let you to solve easy problems like a blocked apps, a battery that heats, a screen that freeze, the Nokia 8 that becomes slow…
The solution is undoubtedly very simple:
- Concurrently push the Volume Down and Power button until the Nokia 8 restarts (approximately 20 seconds)
How to Hard Reset your Nokia 8 (Factory Settings)
The factory settings reset or hard reset is definitely a more radical option. This procedure will get rid of all the data of your Nokia 8 and you are going to find a smartphone as it is when it is manufactured. You will have to save your valuable data like your photos, emails, conversation, videos, … on your computer or on a hosting site like Google Drive, DropBox, … prior to starting the hard reset operation of your Nokia 8.
To retrieve all your document following the reset, you can backup your data to your Google Account. For that, look at:
- Settings -> System -> Advanced -> Backup
- Activate the backup
As soon you completed the backup, all you might want 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 Nokia 8 will remove all the data. It will take a little while. Now that the procedure is finished, your Nokia 8 will restart with factory setup.
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About the Nokia 8
The dimensions of the Nokia 8 is 73.7 mm x 151.5 mm x 7.9 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 160 g. The screen offers a resolution of 1440 x 2560px (QHD) for a usable surface of 69%.
The Nokia 8 smartphone integrates one Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor and one 4x 2.45 GHz Kryo + 4x 2.15 GHz Kryo (Octa-Core) with a 2.45 GHz clock speed. This excellent mobile phone comes with a 64-bit architecture processor.
Regarding the graphic part, the Nokia 8 uses the Qualcomm Adreno 540 graphics card with 6 GB of LPDDR4X RAM type. You are able to make use of 128 GB of memory. The UFS Storage 2.1 technology is utilized for the memory.
The Nokia 8 battery is Li-Polymer type with a full charge capacity of 3090 mAh amperes. The Nokia 8 was revealed on August 2017 with Android 8.0 Oreo
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