Sony Xperia 5 IV Hard Reset

How to hard reset Sony Xperia 5 IV? In this tutorial, you can learn step by step how to hard reset your Sony Xperia 5 IV and make it 100% clean.

You can delete all data on your SD card by navigating to Settings > Battery and device care > Storage > SD card > Format > Format SD card.

If your Sony Xperia 5 IV has any of these problems:

Freezing,
Overheating,
Boot looping,
Stop responding,
Poor performance,
Unexpected stucks,
Apps keep crashing,
Device is not opening,
Suspicious device activity,
Virus or malware infections,
Randomly reboots or restarts,
Shuts down without restarting,

Performing a hard reset process your Sony Xperia 5 IV as pretty easy to solving these problems and help your phone running better.

Except from all these problems if you want purchasing or switching to a new device, it is essential to remove your personal information from your old device.

Performing a hard reset will be remove all data from your smartphone.

Soft reset, also known as soft reboot, is the restarting or rebooting of a device like a computer, smartphone or tablet. It closes all applications and clears any data in random access memory. Soft resetting is usually performed to repair malfunctioning applications.

How to restart your android devices?

Sony Xperia 5 IV hard reset process, all data, including the following, will be deleted from your device.

Google account
System and app data
Settings
Downloaded apps
Music
Pictures
All other user data
Service provider apps and content
The decryption key for files on the SD card (You will not be able to use encrypted files on the SD card after your reset your device to factory defaults.)

Before the performing a hard reset your Sony Xperia 5 IV, please check to make sure your device is ready for reset by these following steps:

Charge your device to at least 70%.
Back up your data.
Know your PIN, pattern, or password.
Know Google Account username and password.
Delete your Google account.
Deactivate FRP(Factory Reset Protection)

How to Backup & Restore data on your android devices?

Factory Reset Protection (FRP) is a security feature on Android devices. This screen is displayed on devices with FRP that was rolled out starting from Android 5.1 (Lollipop OS).

How to remove FRP LOCK on your android devices?

How to hard reset your Sony Xperia 5 IV?

If your Sony Xperia 5 IV is unresponsive and cannot be turned on or you can't open your phone's settings app, the preferred reset method should be a hard reset from the recovery mode.

You can access the recovery mode using its power and volume buttons.

Perform a hard reset by following the steps below:

Power off your device and wait a few seconds.
Press and hold Volume Up + Power buttons together until recovery mode screen appears. (These button combinations can change on different modals.)
When you see the sony logo release the Power button, but keep holding Volume Up until the recovery mode screen comes.
Leave all the buttons when Recovery Mode screen appears.
Go to Wipe Data / Factory Reset option using Volume Down and press Power button to confirm it.
Go to Yes –Delete All User Data using Volume Down and press Power button to continue.
After the process finishes, go to Reboot System Now and press Power button.

Sony Xperia 5 IV hard reset process is takes a few minutes.

The initial start-up of the smartphone will take longer than usual, so do not interfere with the device and wait for the formatting process is finished.

Now, you can follow the instructions on the screen to set up your phone and prepare it for use.

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How to hard reset your Sony Xperia Premium with Sony Xperia Companion?

Be sure that your device has at least %50 charge life.
Power off your device and wait a few seconds.
Make sure you know your Google account username and password, used on your device.
Back up your content to a non-encrypted memory card or other non-internal memory.
Make sure that Xperia Companion is installed on your PC or Mac.
Open the Xperia Companion software on the computer and click Software Repair on the main screen.
Follow the on-screen instructions to reinstall the software and complete the repair.