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And following me is a Google Pixel 7a and today I will show you how you can
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hard reset this phone through recovery mode. Doing so will also allow you to get rid of a screen lock if you have one set on
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a device that you just don't know. Now unfortunately if you are also logged in
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to a Google account which probably almost everyone will be, this will lock
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the device. I know FRP lock as it's called. And for those that don't know
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what that is it's basically Android's equivalent of iCloud lock. And it is a
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little bit crappier so I will be making a video on how you can bypass this and
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then completely remove it for everyone who is interested in that. And obviously
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for specifically the people that don't know either their screen lock nor their
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Google account. So this will kind of get rid of it. But jumping back to this
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video let's begin by turning off our device. Now before I do so I'm gonna
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quickly lock it just so you can see I have a pattern set on the device and I'll
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progress from the lock screen as though I don't know it. So number one we're
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gonna hold power key and volume up which will bring up our boot options and here
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you're just gonna select turn off or power off. Once the device is off you
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want to hold power and volume down at the same time. This will boot us into
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bootloader so using volume buttons you want to select recovery mode which will
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appear right here like this and then confirm it with power button. Give it a
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second and you will see the Android with no command. So to get past this hold
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power button and press volume up once which will redirect us to the recovery
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mode. In here using volume buttons again you want to scroll down in order to
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select wipe data factory reset. Once it's selected confirm it with the power
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button and select factory data reset and confirm it. It's gonna give you
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formatting data and then data wipe complete at which point reboot system
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now will be selected by default. So press power button once again this will
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initiate a reboot and continue to reset out the device and the background. Now it
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will take it just a little bit longer to boot back up than you might be used to that is because it is continuing the reset in the background but once it's
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finished you will be presented with Android setup screen. And as you can see the process is now finished and can set up your device
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however you like. So if you found this very helpful don't forget to hit like
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