We have recently discovered how to recover Whatsapp chats, an essential practice when we are about to change smartphones but also particularly useful in case of deep cleaning of the device. But how do you clean an Android phone? Here is the difference between the various modes.
Of course, this guide aims to illustrate the various recovery modes and how to reach the relevant item in the smartphone menu. Any kind of backup activity will need to be done before starting this procedure.
First, let's go to the smartphone settings, reachable from the Home screen by lowering the notification curtain and selecting the gear icon usually present under the brightness slider. Alternatively, it will be possible to navigate within the application menu to the Settings item.
At this point we will have to scroll to the item relating to the System, Advanced or, alternatively, Backup and Restore directly. There is no hard and fast rule as each producer will have its own categorization method.
Once inside the reset or system restore submenu, we will find at least two items:
This term means a reset of all factory settings, which therefore also involves the loss of the WiFi passwords, the associated Bluetooth devices and, if specified, also the settings relating to the applications.
The phone will be restored to its original state, deleting all applications and, by selecting the appropriate option, also the internal memory. This way the phone will be very similar to when it was purchased and may take several minutes and some automatic restarts but the overall experience will be restored to its starting point while ensuring, in most cases, an improvement in performance. .
If, on the other hand, you are still in doubt about updating to the new version of Google's operating system, we recommend that you take a look at our guide on the importance of updating to Android 11.