In case your Sony Xperia XZ appears suffering problems, do not stress! Right before you commence looking for fussy issues found in the Android os, you can also try to do a Soft and Hard Reset of your Sony Xperia XZ. This adjustment is going to be relatively user-friendly and can solve problems that can damage your Sony Xperia XZ.
Right before performing any of the actions listed below, bear in mind that it is critical to make a backup of your Sony Xperia XZ. Even if the soft reset of your Sony Xperia XZ will not result in data loss, the hard reset will erase all of the data. Make an entire backup of your Sony Xperia XZ with its software or alternatively on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)
We will start with the soft reset of your Sony Xperia XZ, the easiest technique.
How to Soft Reset your Sony Xperia XZ
The soft reset of your Sony Xperia XZ should permit you to fix easy problems such as a blocked application, a battery that heats, a display that freeze, the Sony Xperia XZ that becomes slow…
The methodology is quite simple:
- Concurrently press the Volume Down and Power key until the Sony Xperia XZ restarts (roughly 20 seconds)
How to Hard Reset your Sony Xperia XZ (Factory Settings)
The factory settings reset or hard reset is definitely a more definitive possibility. This procedure will delete all the information of your Sony Xperia XZ and you are going to obtain a smartphone as it is when it is produced. You must save your important files such as your images, contacts, messages, videos, … on your own computer or on a hosting site such as Google Drive, DropBox, … before beginning the hard reset procedure of your Sony Xperia XZ.
To recover all your data soon after the reset, you can save your data to your Google Account. For that, head over to:
- Settings -> System -> Advanced -> Backup
- Activate the backup
Right after you finished the backup, all you must do is:
- System -> Advanced -> Reset options.
- Erase all data (factory reset) -> Reset phone
You will need to type your security code (or PIN) and now that it is completed, go with Erase Everything.
The Sony Xperia XZ will remove all your information. It should take a short time. Now that the operation is done, your Sony Xperia XZ is likely to restart with factory setup.
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About the Sony Xperia XZ
The dimensions of the Sony Xperia XZ is 72.0 mm x 146.0 mm x 8.1 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 161 g. The screen offers a resolution of 1080 x 1920px (FHD) for a usable surface of 71%.
The Sony Xperia XZ mobile phone makes use of one Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 MSM8996 2.2GHz processor and one Dual cluster Kryo 2×2.2GHz + 2×1.6GHz (Quad-Core) with a 2.2 GHz clock speed. The following mobile phone comes with a 64-bit architecture processor.
Related the graphic part, the Sony Xperia XZ functions with the Adreno 530 624MHz graphics card with 4 GB. You can actually use 64 GB of memory.
The Sony Xperia XZ battery is Li-Polymer type with a maximum power of 2900 mAh amperes. The Sony Xperia XZ was presented on September 2016 with Android 6.0 Marshmallow
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