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How To Factory Reset Galaxy A Quantum From Settings, Recovery & Code?

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Dear friends, this tutorial will help you to factory reset your Galaxy A Quantum From Settings, Recovery and using the secret code.

The Samsung Galaxy A Quantum is a premium Smartphone from the Galaxy A series with a quite strange name than it’s predecessors. As always like the other Galaxy Smartphones it has got a 6.7 inches Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display, 8GB RAM, 128GB storage, Android 10 firmware (One UI 2), 64MP quad camera, under display finger print sensor, Octa core processor etc.

The Galaxy A Quantum has the model numbers SM-A716N and SM-A716SS.

Further, lets come to the point rather than deviating from our main point here which is to factory data reset/hard reset the Samsung Galaxy A Quantum from settings, from the recovery mode and by using secret code.

Before proceeding with the steps lets get an idea, why do we need to hard/factory data reset your Galaxy A Quantum and what is the whole process.

What is a Factory Data Reset/Hard Reset?

A Factory data reset or hard reset will bring back your phone to the way it came from the factory. It will erase all your personal data and settings including but not limited to apps, contacts, messages, call logs, photos etc.

Why do we need to Factory Data Reset/Hard Reset and what are the benefits of it?

Factory Data Reset/Hard Reset will come in handy in situations were phone is lagging. sluggish in performance, facing app crashes frequently, getting error message that certain apps can’t be installed etc. The main and most disturbing condition can be a bootloop after a firmware upgrade or root installation.

A periodic factory data reset may improve your phones performance because it will remove unwanted data accumulated overtime. But always remember to take a backup of all your phone data before performing a Factory Data Reset/Hard Reset.

Now lets proceed to the steps.

Before proceeding make sure that you took complete backup of all your apps, contacts, notes etc before resetting your Galaxy A Quantum.

There are three different methods are available for resetting your Samsung Galaxy A Quantum. So lets split the process based on different methods.

Steps to Hard/Factory Data Reset a Samsung Galaxy A Quantum

1st Method:

1. Hard Resetting Samsung A Quantum From Settings Menu

To reset your Galaxy A Quantum from the settings menu please follow the path, Settings->General Management->Reset->Factory Data Reset->Reset.

For some this maybe a little bit difficult to digest so we have all the screenshots which will give you a visual idea about resetting your A Quantum.

1. Tap on “Settings”.

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2. Tap on “General management”.

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3. Tap on “Reset”.

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4. Tap on “Factory data reset”.

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5. Now here tap on “reset” button at the bottom. Your will be asked to enter the phone’s unlock PIN. Just enter it to reset our device.

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2nd Method:

2. Hard Resetting Samsung Galaxy A Quantum From The Recovery Menu

For this first you need to switch of your Galaxy A Quantum. Then you need to press and hold the “Vol Up”+”Power” buttons at the same time and need to release the “Power” button once you see your phone’s model on your screen while holding to the “Vol Up” button. Now you will be entered into the android recovery which will be similar to the one shown below.

Now here select the option “wipe data/factory reset”. You can use the “Vol Up” and “Vol Down” buttons to toggle through the options and “Power” button to confirm a selection.

3rd Method

3. Hard Resetting Samsung Galaxy A Quantum using the Secret Code

This is the 3rd and the final method to factory data reset/hard reset your Galaxy A Quantum. This method uses a secret code for that.

And the code is: *2767*3855#

For some models this code does not work so don’t panic if the code is not working for you. You still have other two methods right.

Also this code may not ask for confirmation so be very cautious while entering this code.

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If you have faced any issues while trying to factory data reset/hard reset your Galaxy A Quantum, please feel free to post it in the comment section below, don’t worry I will help you as fast as I can.

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