How to Soft & Hard Reset your Nokia X

If someday your Nokia X starts knowing issues, you should not stress! Before you commence searching for deep issues found in the Android os, you may also try to do a Soft and Hard Reset of your Nokia X. This manipulation is usually relatively convenient and may resolve issues that could impact your Nokia X.

Before doing any one of the hacks in this article, remember that it is important to make a copy of your Nokia X. Albeit the soft reset of your Nokia X will not result in loss of data, the hard reset is going to delete the whole data. Generate a complete copy of the Nokia X thanks to its software or simply on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)

We are going to start with the soft reset of your Nokia X, the simplest method.

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How to Soft Reset your Nokia X

The soft reset of the Nokia X is going to allow you to fix easy concerns like a crashed application, a battery that heats, a screen that freeze, the Nokia X that becomes slow…

The process is definitely quite simple:

  • Concurrently push the Volume Down and Power button until the Nokia X restarts (roughly 20 seconds)

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How to Hard Reset your Nokia X (Factory Settings)

The factory settings reset or hard reset is without question a bit more radical remedy. This procedure is going to remove all your data of the Nokia X and you will find a mobile phone as it is when it is produced. You really should save your principal files like your pics, apps, messages, movies, … on your computer or on a hosting site like Google Drive, DropBox, … before starting the hard reset process of your Nokia X.

To recover all your documents after the reset, you should preserve your documents to your Google Account. For that, go to:

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

Once you made the backup, all you must do is:

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

You will need to write your security code (or PIN) and once it is done, go with Erase Everything.

Your Nokia X is going to get rid of all your information. It will take a short time. Now that the process is finished, the Nokia X is going to restart with factory configuration.

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About the Nokia X

The dimensions of the Nokia X is 63.0 mm x 115.5 mm x 10.0 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 128 g. The screen offers a resolution of 480 x 800px (LowRes) for a usable surface of 62%.

The Nokia X smartphone makes use of one Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225 processor and one ARM Cortex-A5 (Dual-Core) with a 1 GHz clock speed. The following smartphone hasn’t got a 64-bit architecture processor.

Regarding the graphic part, the Nokia X incorporates Qualcomm Adreno 203 graphics card with 512 MB. You’ll be able to use 4 GB of memory.

The Nokia X battery is Li-Ion type with a full charge power of 1500 mAh amperes. The Nokia X was launched on February 2014 with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

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