Factory reset Samsung Gear S2
Samsung Gear S2
How to reset or restore a Samsung Gear S2
If your smartwatch Samsung Gear S2 it works very slow, it hangs, you have a full memory and you want to erase everything or you want to sell it or give it away and you want nobody to be able to access your accounts and passwords you can do a factory reset so that it returns to be like the first day.
In the following steps we explain how to format the Samsung Gear S2 to erase all your information and make it totally clean as it came out of the store.
Keep in mind that a reset or return to the factory state on a smartwatch deletes all its content, so make a backup of your data before doing it if you don't want to lose everything.
There are two ways to do a reset on an Samsung Gear S2 one through the mobile options and another more complete from the recovery mode.
Restore from the options of Samsung Gear S2
Estimated time: 5 minutes.
If you want to make a reset using the device options to return to the factory state an Samsung Gear S2 you have to follow these simple steps:
1- First step:
Access the configuration menu or “Settings” of your Samsung Gear S2.
2- Second step:
Swipe or browse the screen until you reach “General” and click on General
3- Third step:
Click on “Restore” and confirm the selection by pressing the “Done” or “Confirm” button
4- Fourth step:
Your device Gear S2 from Samsung it will restart and take several minutes to start while restoring the device to its factory state and optimizing the applications pre-installed in the operative system Tizen-based wearable platform.
If these instructions have not worked, try to follow the following steps in your Gear S2:
Go to the “Settings” and then scroll to “General Administration”. Click on “Reset device” and then confirm by clicking on “Done”.
Go to “Settings” and then scroll until you find the “Gear Information” option. Click on “Reset equipment> restore factory values” and finally, click on “Done”.
Restore Samsung Gear S2 from a mobile phone
If you want to reset the Samsung Gear S2 from a linked mobile phone follow the next steps.
1- You must have installed the application “Galaxy Wearable” on the phone from which you want to perform the smartwatch format Samsung Gear S2.
2- Open the app “Galaxy Wearable”.
3- Click on the “Settings” option, then click on “Search for my watch” and finally click on “Restore”.
4- After this your smart watch will will turn off and restart with the factory settings of the operating system Tizen-based wearable platform.
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About the device:
Samsung Gear S2 is a watch / smartwatch / bracelet with dimensions of 49.8 x 42.3 x 11.4 mm (1.96 x 1.67 x 0.45 in), a weight of 47 grams, , a screen resolution of 1.2 inches (~43.5% screen-to-body ratio).
It has a processor Dual-core 1.0 GHz Cortex-A7, a graphics card Mali-400MP2, a RAM memory 512 MB RAM and an internal memory of 4 GB.
The Samsung Gear S2 comes from the factory with the Tizen-based wearable platform operating system.
