How to Soft & Hard Reset your Sony Xperia L1

In case your Sony Xperia L1 commences suffering problems, do not panic! Before you commence watching for deep complications found in the Android operating system, you may also check to perform a Soft and Hard Reset of your Sony Xperia L1. This manipulation can be relatively elementary and can fix problems that can affect your Sony Xperia L1.

Before making any one of the task just below, understand that it is critical to create a copy of your Sony Xperia L1. Albeit the soft reset of your Sony Xperia L1 should not result in loss of data, the hard reset is going to erase the whole data. Make a full copy of the Sony Xperia L1 thanks to its software or simply on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)

We will commence with the soft reset of your Sony Xperia L1, the least difficult option.

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How to Soft Reset your Sony Xperia L1

The soft reset of the Sony Xperia L1 should permit you to repair easy problems such as a clogged application, a battery that heats, a screen that stop, the Sony Xperia L1 that becomes slow…

The approach is undoubtedly easy:

  • Concurrently push the Volume Down and Power button until the Sony Xperia L1 restarts (about 20 seconds)

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How to Hard Reset your Sony Xperia L1 (Factory Settings)

The factory settings reset or hard reset is a bit more definitive solution. This technique is going to remove all the information of the Sony Xperia L1 and you are going to get a smartphone as it is when it is manufactured. You must backup your valuable data such as your images, emails, conversation, movies, … in your computer or on the cloud such as Google Drive, DropBox, … prior to starting the hard reset operation of your Sony Xperia L1.

To recover all your info soon after the reset, you can conserve your data to your Google Account. For that, head over to:

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

Now that you finished the backup, all you must do is:

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

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

Your Sony Xperia L1 is going to remove all your information. It is going to take a little while. Soon after the task is done, the Sony Xperia L1 is likely to restart with factory configuration.

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About the Sony Xperia L1

The size of the Sony Xperia L1 is 74.0 mm x 151.0 mm x 8.7 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 180 g. The screen offers a resolution of 720 x 1280px (HD) for a usable surface of 74%.

The Sony Xperia L1 mobile phone integrates one MediaTek MT6737T processor and one ARM Cortex-A53 (Quad-Core) with a 1.5 GHz clock speed. This excellent mobile phone contains a 64-bit architecture processor.

Relating to the graphic part, the Sony Xperia L1 uses the ARM Mali-T720 MP2 graphics card with 2 GB. You are able to employ 16 GB of memory.

The Sony Xperia L1 battery is Li-Polymer type with a full charge capacity of 2620 mAh amperes. The Sony Xperia L1 was revealed on March 2017 with Android 7.0 Nougat

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