How to hard reset your android phone

I have mentioned in a previous post about how to unlock your phone when you have forgotten your lock pattern. In that post i have mentioned that you need to hard reset your phone, If you forgot everything which needs to get back your lock pattern.

This post will provide you a solution to hard reset your android phone, when you lost every other method to bring back your phone. This method is basically for Google G1 android phone and this may work on other devices as well.

Generally a hard reset to your mobile phone includes some codes or procedure to format and this method require a few ideas and technical buddies can easily do this. The process is equivalent of re-installing an operating system on your PC. Note that data on your SD card still remains and you would need to follow another process to remove it.
With the hard reset, you need to re-download your applications and settings and follow the procedure mentioned below to get a hard reset for your phone –

1. Turn Off your mobile phone.
2. Hold the HOME button and RED Power button for 30 seconds until you see a triangle with an exclamation mark at the centre. Keep holding it even though the G1 logo shows up.
3. Now you have the following four options –
   • ALT + L Toggle log text display between exclamation and menu options
   • ALT + S Apply SD card Update
   • ALT + W Wipe data and factory reset
   • HOME + BACK for reboot of your mobile
     

If you hard reset your mobile phone then you need to re-register your mobile phone.