How to Soft & Hard Reset your Sony Xperia R1

If your Sony Xperia R1 appears having issues, you should not stress! Right before you begin seeking for complex glitches located in the Android operating system, you can also check to make a Soft and Hard Reset of your Sony Xperia R1. This task is reasonably elementary and could very well resolve issues that may damage your Sony Xperia R1.

Right before performing any one of the hacks listed below, remember that it truly is critical to make a copy of your Sony Xperia R1. Even if the soft reset of your Sony Xperia R1 is not going to be responsible for data loss, the hard reset is going to erase all the data. Perform a complete copy of the Sony Xperia R1 thanks to its program or simply on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)

We will begin with the soft reset of your Sony Xperia R1, the most simple process.

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How to Soft Reset your Sony Xperia R1

The soft reset of the Sony Xperia R1 probably will let you to fix small problems such as a blocked apps, a battery that heats, a screen that stop, the Sony Xperia R1 that becomes slow…

The method is undoubtedly very simple:

  • Simultaneously push the Volume Down and Power button until the Sony Xperia R1 restarts (approximately 20 seconds)

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How to Hard Reset your Sony Xperia R1 (Factory Settings)

The factory settings reset or hard reset is undoubtedly a more definitive solution. This process is going to delete all the information of the Sony Xperia R1 and you can expect to get a smartphone as it is when it is created. You will have to keep your valuable documents such as your images, contacts, text messages, videos, … on your computer or on the cloud such as Google Drive, DropBox, … before starting the hard reset procedure of your Sony Xperia R1.

To get back all your info soon after the reset, you should save your documents to your Google Account. For that, look at:

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

Right after you generated the backup, all you might want to do is:

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

You need to type your security code (or PIN) and soon after it is made, go for Erase Everything.

The Sony Xperia R1 is going to delete all the data. It should take a short time. Once the task is done, the Sony Xperia R1 will reboot with factory settings.

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About the Sony Xperia R1

The dimensions of your amazing Sony Xperia R1 is 73.2 mm x 146.0 mm x 8.9 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 154 g. The screen offers a resolution of 720 x 1280px (HD) for a usable surface of 69%.

The Sony Xperia R1 mobile phone makes use of one Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 MSM8937 processor and one 4×1.4GHz ARM Cortex A53 + 4×1.1GHz ARM Cortex-A53 (Octa-Core) with a 1.4 GHz clock speed. This smartphone contains a 64-bit architecture processor.

Relating to the graphic part, the Sony Xperia R1 functions with the Qualcomm Adreno 505 graphics card with 2 GB. You are able to employ 16 GB of memory.

The Sony Xperia R1 battery is Li-Polymer type with a full charge capacity of 2620 mAh amperes. The Sony Xperia R1 was revealed on December 2017 with Android 8.0 Oreo

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