If someday your Sony Xperia XA starts having problems, tend not to overreact! Just before you commence looking for complicated problems in the Android os, you can check to do a Soft and Hard Reset of your Sony Xperia XA. This manipulation is going to be generally simple and will often fix problems that could alter your Sony Xperia XA.
Just before executing any one of the hacks below, understand that it is essential to make a copy of your Sony Xperia XA. Even though the soft reset of the Sony Xperia XA does not lead to data loss, the hard reset is going to delete the whole data. Perform a total copy of your Sony Xperia XA with its software or alternatively on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)
We are going to commence with the soft reset of your Sony Xperia XA, the least complicated process.
How to Soft Reset your Sony Xperia XA
The soft reset of your Sony Xperia XA is likely to allow you to fix easy complications like a crashed application, a battery that heats, a display that stop, the Sony Xperia XA that becomes slow…
The approach is undoubtedly very simple:
- Simultaneously press the Volume Down and Power button until the Sony Xperia XA restarts (roughly 20 seconds)
How to Hard Reset your Sony Xperia XA (Factory Settings)
The factory settings reset or hard reset is without question a bit more radical alternative. This procedure is going to clear off all the data of your Sony Xperia XA and you will obtain a mobile phone as it is when it is created. You will surely have to save your principal documents like your photos, emails, chat, records, … in your pc or on a hosting site like Google Drive, DropBox, … before starting the hard reset operation of your Sony Xperia XA.
To recover all your data after the reset, you can actually preserve your data to your Google Account. For that, look at:
- Settings -> System -> Advanced -> Backup
- Activate the backup
Once you generated the backup, all you have to 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 completed, go with Erase Everything.
Your Sony Xperia XA is going to erase all the data. It will take a short time. Once the procedure is finished, your Sony Xperia XA is likely to reboot with factory settings.
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About the Sony Xperia XA
The size of your amazing Sony Xperia XA is 66.8 mm x 143.6 mm x 7.9 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 137 g. The screen offers a resolution of 720 x 1280px (HD) for a usable surface of 71%.
The Sony Xperia XA mobile phone uses one MediaTek Helio P10 (MT6755) 1.8GHz processor and one 4×1.8Ghz ARM Cortex-A53+ 4×1.1 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 (Octa-Core) with a 1.8 GHz clock speed. This excellent mobile phone comes with a 64-bit architecture processor.
Regarding the graphic part, the Sony Xperia XA uses the Arm Mali-T860 MP2 graphics card with 2 GB. You can use 16 GB of memory.
The Sony Xperia XA battery is Li-Polymer type with a full charge power of 2300 mAh amperes. The Sony Xperia XA was presented on May 2016 with Android 6.0 Marshmallow
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