This tutorial will help you to factory reset Samsung Galaxy M21s from settings, recovery and secret code.
As you all know the latest M Series Smartphone from Samsung, the Galaxy M21s released on November 6th 2020 is a monster phone with 6.4 inches Super AMOLED touchscreen display having 420 nits brightness and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection on top of it, 128GB storage, 6GB RAM, 64 MP triple camera, rear mounted fingerprint sensor and a lot more.
Even if the phone comes with unmatched specs there are situations were you have to perform a factory data reset to improve/resolve an issue. So lets go through the steps to factory data reset your M21s.
Please note that this tutorial includes;
- How To Factory Reset Samsung Galaxy M21s From Settings, Recovery & using the secret Code?
As already said this tutorial will help you in factory data resetting/hard resetting your Galaxy M21s Smartphone from settings, recovery mode and by using secret code.
Table of Contents
Before proceeding with the steps lets get an idea. Why do we need to hard/factory data reset your Galaxy M21s? 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 of your Galaxy M21s.
There are three different methods are available for resetting your M21s. So lets split the process based on different methods.
Steps to Hard/Factory Data Reset a Galaxy M21s
1st Method:
1. Hard Resetting Galaxy M21s From Settings Menu
To reset your Galaxy M21s 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 M21s.
1. Tap on “Settings”.
2. Tap on “General management”.
3. Tap on “Reset”.
4. Tap on “Factory data reset”.
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.
2nd Method:
2. Hard Resetting Samsung Galaxy M21s From The Recovery Menu
For this first you need to switch of your M21s. 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 M21s using the Secret Code
This is the 3rd and the final method to factory data reset/hard reset your Galaxy M21s. 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.
Hope this tutorial helped you factory data resetting your Smartphone.
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- How To Hard Reset Galaxy M21s From Settings, Recovery & Code?
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