How to format or hard reset your samsung android device ?

SAMSUNG DEVICES

To perform a hard reset on Samsung Galaxy android phone or tablet, you need to do this:

1. Disconnect your device from PC and then power off your device. Wait for 4-5 seconds after screen goes off. If you can’t power off using power key, then remove battery and place it back after few seconds.
2. This step isn’t same for Samsung phones and tablets, so let’s see them separately:
   • On Samsung Galaxy phones, do this: press and hold Volume Up + Power + Home together until your see Samsung’s logo. That’s it, easy.
   • However on Samsung Galaxy tablets, if your tablet has the Home button in the middle (like Tab Pro and Note Pro tablets) then it’s same as phones: press and hold Volume Up + Power + Home together until your see Samsung’s logo.
     Otherwise: Try these methods:
   • Method 1: press and hold Power and Volume Down buttons together until you see two icons in the middle of the screen. Press Volume Down once to move to Recovery option, and then select using the Volume Up button (not Power button) to enter recovery mode.
   • Method 2: press and hold Power and Volume Down until you see recovery mode. You might see Samsung logo come and go one or two times but don’t leave the two buttons, keep holding them until you see blue text with recovery written at top. (Alternatively, use Power and Volume Up until you see recovery mode.)
3. You’ll enter the recovery mode. You must be able to see the text ‘Android system recovery <3e>’ written at the top of it. (FYI, 3e recovery is Samsung’s default recovery tat comes with every Samsung Galaxy device.) → In recovery, use Volume buttons to browse up and down between the options and Home/Power button to select an option.
4. Move to the option, wipe data/factory reset option and then select it using the Power button.
5. On next screen, move to ‘Yes — delete all user data’ option and select it, to confirm the data wipe/factory reset of your Samsung Galaxy device.
6. Hard Reset will start and will wipe all your data from the device, and once the format is complete, you’ll be back into recovery.
7. Move to option ‘reboot system now’ and select it to reboot your device.

That’s it. Device should reboot fine now, and it will be just like a new device now.