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Welcome. In front of me I have the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 and today I'll show you how
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you can hard reset this device through recovery mode. So before we actually get started I'm gonna quickly mention a couple things. Number one
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this process does remove things like screen lock. Let's see if I have one. I do not. So I'm gonna
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quickly set one up and while I'm doing that I'm gonna quickly mention that even though it removes
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screen locks it will not remove Google accounts or Samsung accounts. Samsung accounts in particular
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if you perform this the device basically will become locked and you will need to either I
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believe confirm the pin, pattern, password that was previously used or obviously log in with the
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Samsung account. Google accounts typically can be bypassed though at the time of recording this
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and neither the Flip 4 nor the Fold 4 have a working bypass for Google account. So I'm just
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kind of mentioning this right now. If you do this and you're logged into either one of those at this
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moment, if you don't know your pattern, password or pin, whatever it is, the device will become
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locked and like I said at the time of recording it there is no way to bypass this. Hopefully
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later on there will be. So if there is I'm gonna record that but at the moment we don't have one
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So let me quickly set one up. I'm gonna go with a pattern
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So there we go. You can see that I do have a pattern right now. Now one more thing that we
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will need is a cable that is plugged into your computer. So I have one prepared right over here
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And it's basically good to go. But before we actually begin, I'm gonna mention how we need to
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do this because Samsung will require you to put in your screen lock in order to turn off the device
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So if you will see that I get to boot options and I try to power it off, it basically forces me to
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put in my screen lock. But there is a way to bypass this by holding power key and volume down
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so both of those keys, for longer. So you will keep on holding them. You do want to also interact
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with the display so it doesn't time out like it did for me right now. Once you're holding it
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because when you're interacting with it and the screen actually goes black, it means that the
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phone turned off. Once that happens you want to immediately switch from volume down to volume up
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So I'm gonna do this right now. Now we can plug in our phone right away
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Nice battery percentage. And hold power key, volume down. Disregard this. Now I'm gonna just kind of mess around with the display
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It turned off. So switch to volume up and power key. When you see the Galaxy Edition, I think we can let go of the keys. Yep. And it will boot us into
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recovery mode. And additionally, we can also unplug it. The cable was only needed to get us
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into this mode. So from here, you will need to use volume keys to navigate up and down in order
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to select wipe data, factory reset, and then confirm it with power key. Select the second
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option, which for some reason is in Cyrillic. Okay. But that basically confirms the factory
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reset. And at the bottom, you should see last entry, very last one, which is data wipe complete
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at which point reboot system now will be selected by default. So press power key to initiate that
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reboot. Now, this will continue the process of resetting the device in the background
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So give it like a minute or two minutes, I believe like a minute should be enough
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And it should finish it up, at which point we will be presented with Android setup screen
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So I'll be back once that is visible. Nope. And as you can see, it is now finished. And you can set up your phone however you like
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Now, for me, I believe this phone will probably be locked. So I will need to verify it. But
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in your case, if you weren't logged into anything, you should be good to go
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So anyway, if you found this video helpful, don't forget to hit like, subscribe and thanks for watching
