How to Soft & Hard Reset your YU Yunicorn

If someday your YU Yunicorn appears experiencing troubles, you should not stress! Just before you start watching for fussy errors in the Android os, you can actually check to perform a Soft and Hard Reset of your YU Yunicorn. This manipulation is going to be reasonably convenient and may fix troubles that can impact your YU Yunicorn.

Just before executing any one of the operation in this article, do not forget that it really is imperative to create a copy of your YU Yunicorn. Even if the soft reset of the YU Yunicorn does not be responsible for data loss, the hard reset is going to erase the whole data. Do a total copy of the YU Yunicorn with its software or on the Cloud (Google Drive, DropBox, …)

We will start with the soft reset of your YU Yunicorn, the most basic solution.

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How to Soft Reset your YU Yunicorn

The soft reset of the YU Yunicorn is likely to let you to solve easy problems like a clogged application, a battery that heats, a display that stop, the YU Yunicorn that becomes slow…

The technique is undoubtedly very easy:

  • Concurrently push the Volume Down and Power button until the YU Yunicorn restarts (approximately 20 seconds)

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How to Hard Reset your YU Yunicorn (Factory Settings)

The factory settings reset or hard reset is without question a bit more definitive possibility. This procedure is going to remove all the data of the YU Yunicorn and you can expect to find a mobile phone as it is when it is manufactured. You must keep your important documents like your photos, contacts, messages, videos, … in your computer or on a hosting site like Google Drive, DropBox, … prior to starting the hard reset operation of your YU Yunicorn.

To restore all your document after the reset, you can save your data to your Google Account. For that, head over to:

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

Once you generated the backup, all you should do is:

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

You have to type your security code (or PIN) and as soon it is done, go with Erase Everything.

The YU Yunicorn is going to delete all the data. It will take a short time. Now that the procedure is completed, the YU Yunicorn should reboot with factory settings.

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About the YU Yunicorn

The dimensions of the YU Yunicorn is 75.4 mm x 153.3 mm x 8.5 mm (width x height x depth) for a net weight of 172 g. The screen offers a resolution of 1080 x 1920px (FHD) for a usable surface of 72%.

The YU Yunicorn 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 smartphone comes with a 64-bit architecture processor.

Relating to the graphic part, the YU Yunicorn includes the Arm Mali-T860 MP2 graphics card with 4 GB. You can make use of 32 GB of memory.

The YU Yunicorn battery is Li-Polymer type with a full charge capacity of 4000 mAh amperes. The YU Yunicorn was unveiled on June 2016 with Android 5.0 Lollipop

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