so today we're going to come to you with
a video about how to reset your phone to
get back in if you've forgotten your PIN
now
I included that you can use this sort of
thing to reset your phone but I'm
actually just going to do it now so
right now I can unlock this phone and
you can see I can unlock it so clearly I
know my password I'll bring this closer
perfect so I can reset this phone but
what we want to know is what happens if
you say you forget your password so by
default your phone does not have a key
combo on it or a pin or anything like
that
it's just like the long press which it
comes standard on every phone so what
we're going to do is we're going to
going to pretend okay we can't do it
we've powered off now normally if your
systems at a point where you're going to
have to reset your phone no matter
whether you power it off and back on is
not going to matter no matter what your
PIN it's still going to say it's locked
yeah and that you have to reset it
through your Google account or any
various number of other ways but if you
don't have those options this is nice to
have what I'm going to do I'm going to
hold the volume down button as the same
time as I'm powering on so as you can
see it's not on right now so if I press
both at once I get a little buzz and
haptic feedback so we get our normal
Android as if we were starting up and
then we also get a sort of system-config
Android now we're given a few options
the first one that it's selected on
right now is reboot system now then we
have apply updates from ADB and then we
have wipe data / factory reset
and that's what we're going to want to
do now this is going to delete all of
your data and because of that you have
to be very careful and if you can unlock
it another way and maintain your data
you're going to want to do it like that
if you have that option so to select
that I'm just going to hit the power
button again but I just want to go over
one thing really quick my combo on this
phone is power and volume down some
phones are power volume up some phones
are power both volumes summer power home
and so you really have to look up your
phone
this is ZTE ah just as an FYI so I'm
actually going to hit it right now and
it makes you scroll down and I do want
to delete all user data I'm going hate
yes and it's wiping data formatting data
now this takes too much longer
I'll cut the video off but I'll just
cover a few other things this phone
right here is running Android 4.1 well
that's just sort of a standard thing the
power and volume buttons are preset to
different things all right so it says
the data wipes complete so we're going
to reboot it now and see what happens so
I'm going to hit the power once again to
reboot the system now and this is just
going to be a standard fresh start
and you notice we don't get a little
debug you our debugger Android so this
is the normal start procedure now this
phone on first boots after resets is
really weird it performs incredibly
slowly and poorly so I don't think I'm
actually going to go into anything
but what I will do is I will show you
that it's been completely reset and
unlocked so this should start pretty
quick the only reason this boot is
taking so long is because it's a first
boot normally first boots don't take the
or normally the boot on this phone
especially doesn't take that long
and this is interesting I haven't seen
it take this long and I especially go
menu buttons turning on I don't remember
taking this long but here we go alright
so that's all my apps
this is stupid stuff I don't want but as
you can see performing really slowly
like I predicted but this is sort of
yeah and it's trying to connect to a
network to activate because this is
actually through Virgin Mobile but uh
that quits out once you reset the phone
this is a complete reset you'll notice
if I lock unlock I just have my button
again now all my apps are gone so you'll
notice I had some games in here and
you'll notice those are all gone it's
just the standard apps they come with
the phone but that's not too big of a
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