How to Reset Sky Elite P55 - Hard (Factory) & Soft Reset

• Soft Reset
• Factory Hard Reset
• Hard Reset

Soft Reset

• This method doesn’t involve wiping of any data and as the name suggests, it’s a soft reset wherein the phone is rebooted to kill the running processes, clear the RAM and temporary cache
• This is to ensure that your Sky Elite P55 is freed from sluggishness and the performance is boosted

It is very important that you need to take a backup of your data before performing the following two steps

Factory Hard Reset

• This process involves wiping of all the settings and data on your mobile phone
• Factory Hard Reset restores all the factory defaults on the device and makes it brand new software wise.
• This process is typically used when your device is lagging, infected with bugs, facing software-related issues
• This method is particularly useful, if you forgot your pattern/PIN/ pass code and have to bypass it.

Hard Reset

• A hard reset is generally performed when you want to erase all the data on your phone.
• Usually, this method is opted when you remember your PIN/pattern/pass code, but you want to sell your phone and thus want to wipe all the personal data before handing it to someone.

Pre-requisites

Before getting ready for a war, the army needs training, weaponry, arsenal, and many more things. Likewise, it would only help if you met some prerequisites. Don’t worry about that because the prerequisites are just the handy steps you ought to complete to secure your vital data.

Let’s get into the details –

Create a backup of all your essential data

• First things first, the central service of Android smartphones is to keep our data safe, but what if I say that you’re going to lose all your data after resetting your Android smartphone?
• Yeah, you heard that right! Resetting smartphones clears the entire storage data, contacts, call logs, Wi-Fi passwords, and everything to restart your device with all refreshed functions.
• Therefore, you would need to create a backup of your entire data before starting the reset process to keep it safe and never lose it.

Unlink the Google account

• The following prerequisite requires unlinking or removing the Google accounts from your phone before resetting it.
• Again, it’s a necessary prerequisite for creating a data backup because it directly correlates with your access to your smartphone.
• Fundamentally, if you aren’t signing out of all your Google accounts before resetting your phone, the Account Recovery step will stop you from using your phone after the reset process.
• That’s why unlink all your Google accounts and capture a screenshot of that Gmail credentials to never miss in the future.

Charge your smartphone

• The last important prerequisite step here is charging your phone’s battery to at least 40%.
• It’s again a mandatory prerequisite because it’ll create some problems if your phone gets switched off between processes.
• It can make your phone stuck inside a boot loop too! So please charge your phone first at least 40% before initializing any below procedure to reset your Android smartphone.

Methods to reset Sky Elite P55

After analyzing several comments about the complexity that many techies found while resetting their android smartphones, we created the below guide entirely based on the three simplest and the best methods.

After all, it’ll be your choice to pick the most convenient method. We’re listing one simple approach that will end within the front-end of your phone, one hard reset method in need of backend recovery functions, and the last soft reset method which is the simple reboot for killing most of the running processes.

Choose your desired procedure and get started –

1. How to System Factory Reset Sky Elite P55

First, let’s start with the easiest method to reset your Android Smartphone, which starts and ends only within the smartphone’s Settings app. It’s the procedure you can call the piece of cake just because of the simplicity you will handle within the first method.

However, nothing would become as easy because you still need to make some effort from your side, but still, when we confront all these three methods, somehow we believe that the first method as the simplest one. Time to initiate the procedure-

• It would first start with your Smartphone’s Settings app. Open the Settings app(gear icon) from the home screen or the app menu.
• After checking the Settings menu, scroll down till the end, and you’ll soon observe a tab named About Phone. Hit it!

• Observe the About Phone menu. If you’re getting an Advanced tab there, click on it ASAP, or scroll down until you notice the Reset button.
• Click that Reset button instantly, and you’ll shortly have a glance at the Reset menu.

• Scroll down, locate the Factory Data Reset tab and tap it promptly.

• You should now glance at all the conditions shown on the screen, including the knowledge about the upcoming data loss, after reading that, tap the Reset button.

• Draw the pattern or key in the PIN code if you’ve enabled the screen lock on your phone.
• Finally, you’ll see a message listed below telling you about your personal information loss by resetting. All you have to do is to click the Delete All button simultaneously.

• Now, you’ll see your phone getting switched off, and it’s nothing but just the initialization of the resetting process. Just wait for a few minutes, and your phone will get rebooted soon with all the initial features, data, and system settings.

2. How to Hard Reset Sky Elite P55

It happens with some guys, as they aren’t able to employ the first procedure, and it can happen by having several bugs and viruses in your smartphone.

However, there is no need to worry about that, coz we’ve got two more methods you can employ simply and reset your smartphone easily. We first have the Hard Reset method, which will need you to boot your phone on recovery mode.

First things first, let’s get started with the convenient steps –

• Click and hold the Power button of your smartphone and click the Power Off button on the prompted menu.
• Wait until you see the dark screen or for your smartphone to get switched off.

• After successfully seeing the dark screen, you can start the process.
• First, click and hold the Power button and Volume down button together on your phone.
• If it doesn’t take you to the recovery menu, you would have to try the Power button + Volume Up pattern.
• After getting a glance at the company logo, you can stop holding both these buttons, and soon you’ll observe the recovery menu.
• As for the controls, you would have to use the hardware buttons here like the ~ Volume Up button for navigating upward, Volume Down button for moving downward, and Power button to select the option.

• Continue to press the Volume down button and navigate the cursor towards the “Wipe Cache partition.” Then, press the power button to wipe the cache partition of your phone.
• It won’t take more than a minute and will take you back to the main recovery menu. Again, press the Volume Down button continuously to navigate the cursor on the “Wipe Data / Factory Reset” named section.

• Finally, hit the Power button (more than 5 seconds) without losing a single moment, and soon your phone will get rebooted at the initial stage.

3. How to Soft Reset Sky Elite P55

After going through both the above methods, you would be thinking, what’s the soft reset method, because most guys haven’t heard yet about this one. So let me tell you that the Soft Reset process is simply nothing but rebooting your smartphone.

How can smartphone reboot retain the word RESET? That’s what you are currently thinking, right? It’s simple, as whenever you reboot your Android smartphone, most stuck processes and unwanted bugs get instantly vanished, which means RESET at the other side.

So if you want to Soft reset your smartphone, you can follow the below procedure –

• Firstly, click and hold the Power button, exactly as you did in the above procedure.
• Now on, you’ll observe a promptly generated Power Off menu—click the Power Off button there.

• Wait for a few minutes until the switching-off process gets completed.
• After seeing the full black screen, again press and hold the Power button for a few seconds.
• Release that Power button after seeing the company logo on your phone.

That’s it! You finally have soft reset your device, with precisely no complexities.

Difference between Hard Reset and Soft Reset

Final words

Finally, we hope you have understood each of the methods required to clear the bugs, data, viruses, and running processes on your android phone. Simply put, you know best which technique stands for which benefits and which has the limitations that you would want to avoid.

You’re ready to reset your Sky Elite P55 smartphone, and there is nothing stopping you anymore. Go ahead and proceed with any of your desired methods above and reset your phone ASAP.

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)