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Welcome! In front of me is a Samsung Galaxy Fold 4 and today I'll show you
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how you can hard reset this device through recovery mode. So to get started there is a couple things that I'm going to mention. Number
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one, when doing this, when you have your Google account or Samsung account
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anything like that logged in and your device has a screen lock like I do right
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now, when you do this the device will become FRP locked so later on you will
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need to verify either the Google account or a Samsung account. Now Google account
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can be removed, can be removed probably in the future, though right now at the
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moment of recording this it has like one of the newer patches and there isn't a
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way that I found so far to bypass this. And when it comes down to Samsung
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account that just flat out from what I remember can't be removed no matter
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what. So if it's logged into Google account hopefully later on I can make a
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video on how to bypass this. So if you will need that maybe in the future I
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will hopefully provide that but at the moment of recording this there isn't a
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way just yet. Another thing is we will need a computer and a cable for this
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process. So I do have one plugged in already to my computer and we can already
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plug it in, just connect it, we'll start charging and because this is Samsung we
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can expect annoyances all around. Why would everything be wouldn't be easy? So
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to to start we will need to turn off the device but if you ever try to turn off a
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device when you actually have a lock screen you'll quickly realize that the
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damn device tells you to confirm your pattern. It's just an annoyance when you
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can hold party and volume down longer and this will just forcibly reboot the
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device and give us what we need anyway. F off Samsung with this, no one cares. So
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like I said we're gonna hold party and volume down because if you have a
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pattern that you don't know you kind of can't turn it off the normal way. Now
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another thing that I'll mention is when holding party and volume down I do recommend interacting with the device or display just like I don't know start
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drawing some random patterns just don't let go of the screen so it won't just
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turn off the backlight. The reason for that is when we see the screen once it
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actually turns off, not sure why it does this, once it turns off you know that the
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device actually turned off and not the screen itself and we do need that because
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at that point once the device turns off you want to switch from volume parking
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volume down to volume up. So anyway I'm gonna do that right now
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Party, volume, volume down. Like I said I'm interacting with the display turned off
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so I'm gonna switch to party volume up. And there we go. As you can see this will take us to the recovery mode. Now
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from here we can get rid of the cable. We just needed that cable to boot into this
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specific mode. Now from here you will want to use a volume keys to navigate
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through the visible options in order to select wipe data factory reset, confirm
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it with the power key and select factory data reset. This will begin wiping data
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It only takes a split second as you can see and it's already finished. Error up
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complete and reboot system now will be selected by default so press party once
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again to initiate that reboot. This will continue the process in the background
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so the device will take a little bit longer to boot back up but once it's
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completed we'll then be presented with Android setup screen. So I'll be back
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once that is visible. And as you can see the process is now finished and I can set up your phone
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however you want. So if you found this video helpful don't forget to hit like
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