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Welcome, I'm filming this Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 and today I will show you how to reset
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the device through recovery mode and also remove a screen lock if you have one that
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you just don't know. Now going quickly over this, normally if you try to turn off the device when it has a screen
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lock as you can see I do have right now, so just simulate me trying to turn it off, try
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to pull down the notification panel, nothing happens, I try to bring up the menu to turn
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it off and it forces you to put in the pattern anyway to turn off the device which is fairly
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annoying and basically does nothing apart from annoying you. So we'll need to basically do it in a weird way
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Now before we get started do get a cable and simply connect to your computer and then connect
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this to your device. Now I'll close it because it's going to be easier for me to do it with a closed screen
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So once you have it ready to go you want to see the lock screen just for the purpose
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of you knowing when the device turns off because we will need to hold the power key and the
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volume down at the same time and you will hold both of those keys till the screen turns off
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So make sure you're interacting with it in some way just so you are aware that it's going
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to turn off. Power key volume down and once it turns off switch to power key volume up
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There we go, so it's now turning on
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And as you can see we're now in the recovery mode. So quickly going over this again, you want to see the lock screen just so you know when
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the screen turns off, meaning when the device itself will turn off because the timer for
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the screen timeout is quicker than the shut off, hard like reboot of the device when you're
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holding those keys, the power key and volume down. So when you're interacting with it you will exactly know when the screen turns off, meaning
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when the phone turns off. And once that happens you want to switch from power key and volume down to power key and
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volume up which is the key combination to boot it into the recovery mode
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Now once you're in the recovery mode you don't actually need the cable anymore so you can
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just throw it to the side, unplug it and then from here select the data wipe factory reset
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There we go, confirm it with power key. Then again using volume keys to navigate select factory data reset confirm with power key
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At the very bottom you should see data wipe complete at which point reboot system now
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will be selected by default so press power key once more to initiate the reboot
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And this will continue the process in the background so it will take it a little bit longer for the device to boot back up but once this is completed you will be presented
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with the Android setup screen. So I'll be back once that is visible
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And as you can see the process is now finished and you can set up your device however you like with the screen lock being completely removed as well
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