How to Soft & Hard Reset your Xiaomi Mi2s

If ever your Xiaomi Mi2s commences experiencing problems, tend not to stress! Right before you start looking for complex issues in the Android operating system, you can try to do a Soft and Hard Reset of your Xiaomi Mi2s. This task can be reasonably user-friendly and will often solve problems that could affect your Xiaomi Mi2s.

Right before making any of the actions just below, keep in mind that it is essential to create a backup of your Xiaomi Mi2s. Albeit the soft reset of your Xiaomi Mi2s does not lead to loss of data, the hard reset will erase all of the data. Perform a total backup of the Xiaomi Mi2s with its software or alternatively on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)

We will start with the soft reset of your Xiaomi Mi2s, the simplest method.

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How to Soft Reset your Xiaomi Mi2s

The soft reset of the Xiaomi Mi2s probably will let you to solve minor concerns like a blocked application, a battery that heats, a display that stop, the Xiaomi Mi2s that becomes slow…

The approach is undoubtedly very simple:

  • Simultaneously press the Volume Down and Power button until the Xiaomi Mi2s restarts (about 20 seconds)

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How to Hard Reset your Xiaomi Mi2s (Factory Settings)

The factory settings reset or hard reset is undoubtedly a bit more definitive solution. This technique will remove all the data of the Xiaomi Mi2s and you will find a mobile phone as it is when it is created. You have to backup your principal data like your images, apps, text messages, videos, … on your own computer or on the cloud like Google Drive, DropBox, … before starting the hard reset operation of your Xiaomi Mi2s.

To restore all your documents after the reset, you can actually keep your documents to your Google Account. For that, head to:

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

Once you finished the backup, all you need to do is:

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

You will be needing to enter your security code (or PIN) and once it is made, choose Erase Everything.

The Xiaomi Mi2s will delete all the data. It is going to take a short time. Now that the task is completed, the Xiaomi Mi2s is going to restart with factory settings.

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About the Xiaomi Mi2s

The dimensions of the Xiaomi Mi2s is 62.0 mm x 126.0 mm x 10.0 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 145 g. The screen offers a resolution of 720 x 1280px (HD) for a usable surface of 65%.

The Xiaomi Mi2s mobile phone works with one Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 APQ8064T processor and one Krait 300 (Quad-Core) with a 1.9 GHz clock speed. The following mobile phone hasn’t got a 64-bit architecture processor.

Relating to the graphic part, the Xiaomi Mi2s incorporates Qualcomm Adreno 320 graphics card with 2 GB. You can actually make use of 32 GB of memory.

The Xiaomi Mi2s battery is Li-Ion type with a full charge capacity of 2000 mAh amperes. The Xiaomi Mi2s was revealed on April 2013 with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

A problem with the Xiaomi Mi2s? Contact the support: Xiaomi Support

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