If ever your Sony Xperia Z1s starts suffering troubles, do not panic! Before you commence checking for deep issues in the Android os, you can actually check to perform a Soft and Hard Reset of your Sony Xperia Z1s. This manipulation can be quite elementary and may very well resolve troubles that can damage your Sony Xperia Z1s.
Before executing any of the operation below, understand that it truly is crucial to create a backup of your Sony Xperia Z1s. Even though the soft reset of your Sony Xperia Z1s should not induce data loss, the hard reset will erase all of the data. Perform a total backup of your Sony Xperia Z1s with its application or perhaps on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)
We are going to get started with the soft reset of your Sony Xperia Z1s, the most simple technique.
How to Soft Reset your Sony Xperia Z1s
The soft reset of your Sony Xperia Z1s will allow you to take care of simple concerns like a blocked apps, a battery that heats, a display that stop, the Sony Xperia Z1s that becomes slow…
The technique is quite simple:
- Concurrently press the Volume Down and Power key until the Sony Xperia Z1s restarts (about 20 seconds)
How to Hard Reset your Sony Xperia Z1s (Factory Settings)
The factory settings reset or hard reset is definitely a more radical solution. This technique will clear off all your data of your Sony Xperia Z1s and you are going to get a cell phone as it is when it is produced. You have to backup your valuable documents like your pics, contacts, conversation, records, … on your pc or on the cloud like Google Drive, DropBox, … prior to starting the hard reset job of your Sony Xperia Z1s.
To get back all your data following the reset, you can keep your documents to your Google Account. For that, go to:
- Settings -> System -> Advanced -> Backup
- Activate the backup
Right after you completed the backup, all you have to do is:
- System -> Advanced -> Reset options.
- Erase all data (factory reset) -> Reset phone
You have to type your security code (or PIN) and soon after it is made, select Erase Everything.
The Sony Xperia Z1s will delete all your data. It will normally take a little while. Soon after the task is done, your Sony Xperia Z1s will reboot with factory settings.
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About the Sony Xperia Z1s
The dimensions of your Sony Xperia Z1s is 73.9 mm x 145.7 mm x 9.0 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 162 g. The screen offers a resolution of 1080 x 1920px (FHD) for a usable surface of 64%.
The Sony Xperia Z1s smartphone makes use of one Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974AA processor and one Krait 400 (Quad-Core) with a 2.3 GHz clock speed. This smartphone doesn’t feature a 64-bit architecture processor.
Regarding the graphic part, the Sony Xperia Z1s uses the Qualcomm Adreno 330 graphics card with 2 GB. You can actually use 32 GB of memory.
The Sony Xperia Z1s battery is Li-Ion type with a full charge capacity of 3000 mAh amperes. The Sony Xperia Z1s was presented on January 2014 with Android 5.0 Lollipop
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