When you have a problem with your cell phone or with the software of your mobile device, which you cannot solve. One of the most efficient ways to repair it is to format the operating system. In this way, you will be able to restart your phone’s firmware and thereby fix almost any type of problem that arises and that it is related to the software.
By restoring the values of your phone or tablet you can repair almost anything, from the slowness of the system, to the fact that there is some common error within it that could affect its performance, making it much slower, which will be repaired with formatting the cell phone.
This is usually taken as one of the simplest solutions since it guarantees that the entire system returns from 0 and thus you can reinstall all those applications that are presenting a problem due to synchronization or update.
When restoring the device to its factory version, you will lose all the data that you have in it, this includes photos, videos, applications, contacts and settings.
How to format a tablet or mobile from the PC
Thanks to all the tools that you can find on the web, it is possible to format your phone or your Tablet from the comfort of your PC. This may interest you if the manual method is a bit complicated for you. To format your mobile or tablet from the PC, you just have to follow the following steps without skipping any:
- To begin, you must have your mobile drivers previously installed inside your PC so that in this way the system can recognize it without any problems.
- After that, you will need to install the ADB and FastBoot application on your computer.
- Now, you need to grab your phone and turn it off your phone. After that, you will have to press and hold the buttons: power and volume down, all this simultaneously. You must wait for the device to start.
- When you have started your phone, you will proceed to connect the cell phone to your computer. For this, you must use a USB cable.
- After that, you must run the ADB and FastBoot command window in order to start the process. For this, you must enter each of the commands that you will see on the screen, and then press between. You can see that each command will be represented in quotation marks, so within the commands, you will not need to add them to send them.
- You must start with ” fastboot erase cache ” this will be the command that will delete the cache, all this without even formatting the device.
- Once this step is ready, you must enter the “fastboot reboot” in order to start restarting your mobile. From this point, you can verify if the problem that plagued your phone can be solved. If, on the other hand, you do not find anything regarding this, it will be necessary for you to continue with the following steps.
- In this step, you will be able to access a factory restore, and you will do all of this with the ” fastboot erase userdata ” command.
- When the whole process is finished, you will be able to access the “fastboot reboot” again to be able to restart the device.
How to restore Android cell phone from PC with Universal ADB Helper
To start you must have all the drivers for your Android phone installed inside your computer. When it is installed, you must follow the following steps:
- Start by connecting the Android device to your computer using the USB cable.
- When it has been connected and your PC has recognized the device, proceed to run the Universal ADB Helper tool.
- Inside the screen, you will see that you will only have a single option which is ” Reboot ” after that, you must press the ” Bootloader ” option.
- There, you will see that you will be able to choose the option that says “ Factory Reset via Fastboot ”.
If all these commands fail to have any effect, your phone may not be recognized by the computer. And this, in turn, can be caused by a connection problem with the USB cable.