How to Hard Reset Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (N7100)

Samsung Galaxy Note II N7100

This post is to show you how to hard reset Samsung Galaxy Note II. Samsung Galaxy Note 2 a.k.a N7100 can be easily hard reset  using a 3 button combination. You have to press and hold 3 buttons together for a while after switching off the phone. The steps are as follows:

• Switch off the phone first. (If your phone is problem is not turning on, you can try only this method of reseting)
• Wait for some seconds (~30s).
• Now press and hold the following buttons together : Home button, power button and volume up button.
• Keep these three buttons pressed together until you see the Samsung logo.
• You will be led to the menu.
• You can use volume up or down buttons to highlight an option and power button to select that option.
• select ' Wipe data / Factory reset '. (Pressing volume down buttons thrice to highlight the option and power button once to select it).
• Then from the coming menu, select the option 'Yes - delete all user data'. (volume down 7 times and power buttons once).
• Your phone will get reset within few seconds. Then you will come to see the menu.
• You may wipe cache partition to clean the cache partition.
• To do it, select 'wipe cache partition' .
• After wiping cache partition you will reach in the same menu.
• Select 'Reboot System now'.

Your phone will restart and the phone will be reset. I am adding a video of hard resetting Samsung Galaxy Note 2 N 7100 here. This video will help you to do the complete hardware reset (OS or firmware restore) operation.

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