How to Reset Windows Phone 7

To reset your Windows Phone 7, you must ask yourself whether you need to do a hard Reset Windows Phone 7 or a soft Reset Windows Phone 7.Hard Reset Windows Phone 7 is a general term used to format your phone and restore your default factory settings and a soft Reset Windows Phone 7 is performed when your phone has instability problems or it hangs quite often.

How to hard reset Windows Phone 7

Hard resetting your Windows Phone 7 to factory settings means you are going to erase everything from your mobile including your personal data Emails, Contacts, Text Messages, etc. So it’s better to backup of your data when you are going to hard reset Windows Phone 7 mobile phone. you can apply the following step-by-step guide to reset Windows mobile phone.

Step 1: Slide left or taps the “Arrow” icon on Windows Phone 7 Start screen.

Step 2: choose “Settings” and then scroll down to “About” menu.

Step 3: click on the “reset your phone” button to hard reset your Windows Phone 7 device.

How to hard reset Windows Phone 7

There is no soft reset function button in Windows Phone 7 like long-time Windows Mobile users know from the Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 timeframe. The soft reset flushes out your data in the RAM memory and gives you a faster running OS on your mobile device. Earlier on your windows mobile 6.5 and above, you normally had to press down certain keys on your device or you’d have to use a pin or a stylus to press the reset button inside the phone panel and so on.

• Press and hold the power button to switch off your Windows Phone 7 device;
• Press and hold the power button to switch on your Windows Phone 7 device;

The described on/off cycling results in the same behavior of soft reset -for example, Windows Mobile 6.5.3, but Windows Phone 7 is rock solid and stable that you probably do not need both of the reset methods.

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