How to Hard Reset to Unlock Android Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017).

Hard Reset Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017). If your phone is locked by forgotten password or security pattern lock, you will unable to log in and use your phone to make any call or text message. You will be stuck at security prompt screen until you entered correct information on this screen. There is no other method to fix this problem. The only way you can use to fix this problem is performing hard reset on your Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017). By performing hard reset on your Android device you will restore all your settings to default factory settings. So. it will automatically delete your data and file stored at phone internal memory. Also, it will set your screen password to empty. Therefore, after performing hard reset on this device you can use your phone again without password prompted. 

Before this guide proceeds, let we know what is Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) specs. 

Specifications	Detail
Display	4.7 inches Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
CPU	Octa-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU	Mali-T830
Chipset	Exynos 7870 Octa
Operating System	Android OS, v6.0.1 (Marshmallow)
Memory	2 GB
Camera	13 MP (primary Camera) 8 MP (Secondary Camera)

Now, let we proceed our guide below.

Hard Reset Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017).

1. To follow this guide, make sure your device is Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017)
2. During hard reset process, all data are wiped. We highly recommend to backup everything before proceeding this guide.
3. Turn off your device.
4. Once it completely turns off, now turn it on again by press and hold three buttons at the same time.

• Volume Up button + Home Button + Power Button.



Hard Reset Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) 

5. Now, release all button if you see Samsung Galaxy A3 Logo appear on your phone screen.

   

   Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) logo

6. Now, wait a minute and you will see a white android logo with a blue background. at this step will take a while.

   

   white android logo

7. Now your device will enter Android system recovery mode, the screen will look like a picture as shown below.



android system recovery

8. To proceed master reset on this device, you can navigate all menu on this screen using volume up or volume down and use the power button to confirm.
9. Now highlight wipe data/factory reset using volume down button.
10. Then press the power button to confirm.
11. On the next screen, you can highlight Yes to confirm next step.
12. Just wait hard reset process until the system says successfully.
13. On the final step, you can highlight reboot system now to reboot your device.
14. And now your Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) was unlocked.

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