Help Factory Resets

[aintnorock]

What exactly will a factory reset do? Will I lose all my apps? Will I lose any data? My tablet has been acting weird and spontaneously reboots. Wondering if a reset will fix that without losing everything.

 

[Hadron]

It will erase all user-installed apps and their data and reset all settings to default. So back up anything important before doing this.

That incidentally is all a factory reset does: clears everything you've put on the device. It doesn't touch the system software in any way.

As to whether a reset will fix your problem, that depends on what's causing it. If it's an app/data problem, cache corruption or similar, yes. If it's hardware or a bad system update (though those should be tested before distribution), no.

 

[aintnorock]

It will erase all user-installed apps and their data and reset all settings to default. So back up anything important before doing this.

That incidentally is all a factory reset does: clears everything you've put on the device. It doesn't touch the system software in any way.

As to whether a reset will fix your problem, that depends on what's causing it. If it's an app/data problem, cache corruption or similar, yes. If it's hardware or a bad system update (though those should be tested before distribution), no.

Great, clear answer. Just one more question - If the app has been moved to the SD card, will that be removed?

Thanks

 

[Hadron]

Yes, apps moved to SD will be erased as well.

(In any event that function only moves a part of the app, and the app wouldn't work, or even be recognised as being installed, without the parts that remain on the phone).