How to Hard Reset Sony Xperia P

Sony Xperia P

This post will tell you how to hard reset a Sony Xperia P Android Smart phone. Before you hard reset your phone, you should take a backup for whatever data you may need later, especially contacts. You may backup your contacts using 'export' option in options menu of 'contacts'. You may also use the 'PC companion' software provided by Sony to take backup. Another option is to use the backup service provided by Google server.

How to Hard Reset Nokia C5 -00

In this post, we will see how to hard reset Nokia C5 phones. Nokia C5 phones are Symbian s60 phones. Hard resetting Nokia C5 is so simple. You can solve most of the non hardware problems with the phone by just doing a hard reset. Hard reseting will erase all data on phone including Contacts, applications, notes etc. After hard reset the phone will be as if you have bought it as a new one. So, before you hard reset your phone, don't forget to backup your all important data including contacts.

Hard reset Nokia C5 00

In the case of contacts, you may copy all the contacts into your SIM card. Or you may use the built in backup option available in phone which will backup contacts, applications, notes etc. You can see it in options somewhere in 'tools'->'Memory card'. You may also backup all your data using a Nokia PC suite or Ovi-suite.


To hard reset Nokia C5-00 and similar phones, follow given instructions:

1. Switch off the phone first

How to Hard Reset Samsung Galaxy Y or Young GT-S5360

This post is to tell you how to hard reset a Samsung Galaxy Young. Samsung Galaxy Young is an Android phone from Samsung with model number GT - S5360 which is often referred to as Galaxy Y. Before you hard reset, you should take a backup of all your important data that may be required later. You may get some help from Youtube videos demonstrating backup process.

How to Backup Samsung Galaxy Phones to Google account

How to Backup Android How to backup contacts in Samsung Galaxy Android phone

Samsung Galaxy Y ( Young ) GT S5360

For taking .apk backups for your applications in the phone you may use applications like 'Clean Master'. Data in your memory card and contacts in SIM card will not be lost during hard reset. All the settings will be reset to the default values because the whole operating system of the phone is refreshed. You can try the following method of hard reset even if your phone is not turning ON.

After taking backup, follow the given steps:

Sony Xperia Secret Menu for Service Test and Hard Reset

In Xperia series phones of Sony, there is a secret menu which has options for Service test and Hard reset of the phone. This menu is available almost all Xperia phones including Xperia Z, Xperia J, Xperia P, Xperia U, Xperia ION, Xperia S,Xperia E, Xperia L, Xperia tipo, Xperia arc, Xperia zola The menu can be made available by dialing a secret code in the dial-pad of the phone.

Dial pad of Sony Xperia P

The code is *#*#7378423#*#*. When you dial this code in the dialpad, the secret menu will appear which contains options:

1. Service Info
2. Service Settings
3. Service Tests
4. Customisation Settings

How to Hard Reset Nokia E63

This post will teach you how to hard reset Nokia E63, symbian smartphone. The same method can be

applied to hard reset similar E series phones, some other symbian phones and even some of the new Java phones from Nokia. Hard resetting is complete cleansing of phone memory and the firmware will repaired/reinstalled.

So when you hard reset your phone, it will result in loss of data including your contacts in phone memory and whatever you have stored in phone memory. To avoid loss of any important data, your can back up your data onto your memory card. There is an option provided in the phone to backup all the phone memory to memory card. To know how to backup your data, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPpqwhU4ErM

To hard reset your phone, Follow these instructions: