How to Reset Droid to Factory Settings
If your Motorola Droid is freezing and doing odd things then you can reset Droid to factory settings using a Android OS options or even if your device is not working and your are unable to turn it ON there is also another option to hard reset Droid phone. Lets see how to hard reset Droid to factory settings in both conditions.
NOTE: Everything that you have installed, added or imported in your device will be removed, so before performing Motorola Droid hard reset, backup your all device data. MicroSD data will not be affected by hard reset so don’t need to worry about it.
- Reset Droid
- Reset Droid (if Android OS is not loading)
1- Reset Droid
Step-1
Press “Home” button, press “Menu” button and then tap on “Settings”.
Step-2
Tap on “Privacy”
Step-3
Tap on “Factory data reset”
Step-4
Tap on “Reset Phone” button
Step-5
Tap on “Erase Everything” button and your are done
2- Reset Droid (if Android OS is not loading)
If there is some major problem with your device and OS is even not loading then you can use this reset method to restore your droid.
Step-1
Turn off your device.
Step-2
Press and hold “Power key” + “x” until you get a warning sign
Step-3
After this press and hold “Volume Up” + “Camera” buttons to show the recovery menu.
Step-4
When recovery menu appears select “Wipe data/factory reset” option using directional keys next to the keyboad and press “Center” button to confirm.
Step-5
Confirm the selection, wait for it to complete and reboot your device. You are done.
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Tags: Android, Android 2.0, Android 2.0.1, Droid, Factory Reset, Factory Settings, Hard Reset, Motorola, reset
Is this hard reset or soft reset?
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I reset my Droid and now its working fine, thanks buddy.
just recently completely reset my phone to factory settings and even got a more accessible gmail account to use. my problem is that when i go into the android market to download some apps, the market gives me the ‘connection timed out’ error and none of my apps download. what’s up with that? it doesn’t even pick up my apps that i had saved on my SD card.
I don’t know who you are, but I freaking love whoever posted this up here. It works, and I got my droid back!!! Thanks again!!!!
my camera button is not working, how can i get to the menu so that i factory reset my motorola milestone