Almost every modern person of any gender and age has a smartphone or tablet with a touch screen and Internet access. Ease of use, communication anywhere in the world, a large number of functions in one device the size of a palm makes it indispensable. But active work, a long call or an Internet session, a game can lead to overheating of the device, as well as to slow down the system in response to user actions. In common people - to freeze. But the biggest problem is if the phone freezes and does not react at all to you. How to reboot Samsung Galaxy or any other model? Read about it in the article.
How to restart Samsung (phone)
There are several ways. So, how to restart Samsung if it freezes:
- Hold the lock / on / off button for 10-20 seconds. The phone will turn off and reboot, its further work should be stable.
- If the battery is pulled out from your phone, you can remove the back panel and remove the battery, wait a couple of seconds and insert it back. It remains to collect and turn on the phone. But often this cannot be done, because both the battery and the phone itself will deteriorate.
- If the back cover cannot be removed, it is necessary to hold down the lock / on / off and volume down buttons simultaneously and hold for 5-7 seconds.
How to restart the Samsung tablet
Rebooting the tablet will be more difficult than with the phone. But you can try all the same methods as with a smartphone: pinching buttons at the same time, pulling out the battery, if possible.
If none of the above methods helps, you can wait until the tablet runs out of battery, it will turn itself off, and after charging, you can turn it on without problems if there are no technical problems. If you do not want to wait or have an assumption that the gadget is frozen due to problems with the processor, electronics, etc., then you can immediately contact the service center.
Hard reset, or Hard reset
If the phone freezes and glitches constantly, the question arises of how to restart Samsung so that its further work does not fail. In this situation, a hard reboot of the system can help him. The smartphone will reboot in such a way that the system will be restored to the factory state, and all files, contacts, messages, etc. will be deleted. Therefore, it is worth taking care of safety in advance and dumping them on a computer.
To perform Hard reset, you need to perform the following sequence of actions:
- Turn off the phone completely, while the battery must be charged.
- Press 3 buttons at the same time: lock / turn on / off, increase volume and “home” (located on the front panel of the phone under the screen).
- Release only after the inscription appears with the name of the phone.
- A blue or black screen will appear - you are in the Recovery menu of the smartphone.
- Here you need to select the Wipe data / factory reset categories , then Yes - delete all user data, the last Reboot system now. You can navigate through the menu with the volume up / down buttons, and confirm the selection of an item by pressing the lock button. That's it, the reboot process is complete.
Prevent phone freezes
So that the phone or tablet does not freeze or does not do this regularly, you need to make sure that the equipment does not overheat. There are special applications for this that inform the user if the temperature of the processor exceeds the norm. The most famous utility that controls the temperature of the processor and applications that overheat the device or take up too much RAM is Clean Master. Thanks to it, you can also control the filling of memory and clear it of excess (cache, unnecessary files, etc.). Or drive in the search for Play Market "temperature control" and select the desired application.