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Welcome. In front of me is a TCL 205 and today I'll show you how you can hard
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reset this device through recovery mode. Now this process will also remove things like screen lock so if you have one that
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you don't know I can get rid of it this way. Unfortunately you will also get rid
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of everything else on the phone like contacts, photos, videos and all that
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stuff. And one more thing to mention if you have a Google account signed in to
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this phone like I do I'll quickly show you. It's under accounts. You can see I do
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have a Google account signed in so when I perform this in order to get rid of
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the screen lock, meaning when the device is locked obviously, the device will
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become FRP locked so later on after the actual reset is finished you'll need to
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verify throughout the setup process either the previously set up protection which in this case is a pattern or by just signing into the Google account
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that was previously logged in to this phone. Now for the people that are
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wondering I will also be making a video on how you can bypass
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this so you can just completely get rid of this without actually verifying
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anything but that will be in a separate video. So now get going with this
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one. You can see that I do have a pattern set and I'll progress from the lock screen as though I don't know my pattern. So hold par key, select power off
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and once the phone turns off you wanna hold par key and the volume up. Now after a
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couple seconds you should see the TCL logo on a screen. There we go. So keep holding for a
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couple more seconds and then let go of the keys. Now once you see the recovery mode you will want to use the volume keys to
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navigate. In order to select wipe data, factory reset, confirm it with par key
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select factory data reset, again confirm with that. The bottom you'll see data wipe
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or wiping data and then data wipe complete should be and that finishes it off
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There we go. Took a little bit longer than it normally does but once it's
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finished as you can see data wipe complete, reboot system now will be selected by default so press par key once again to confirm that option and
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this will continue the process in the background. So the device might be
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booting up a little bit longer than you might be used to, that's completely fine. Once the actual thing has been finished, the factory reset that is happening in
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background, you'll be presented with the Android setup screen. So I'll be back
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once that is visible. And you can see the process is now finished and you can set
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up your device however you like. So if you found this very helpful don't forget to hit like, subscribe and thanks for watching
