How to Easily Master Format HTC ONE M8 with Safety Hard Reset?

Tips and tricks for solving problem at HTC ONE M8. The new HTC ONE family at 2014 released with code name HTC M8 or also known as All New HTC One. This phone have bigger screen size if compare by previous HTC One M7, this HTC ONE M8 use 5 inches LCD screen with full HD screen at 1080 x 1920 pixels. This phone have internal memory at 16GB or 32 GB, but if you need more memory to save images or movie, we can add microSD external memory up to 128GB. Other interesting area when using HTC ONE M8 is the dual camera at 4 ultrapixel with dual LED Flash which will give us good quality camera pictures if compare with other smartphone. We also can record movie up to 1080p at 60fps with stereo voice recorder as well.

 

What is Advantage of HTC ONE M8  Specifications:

GSM 3G HSDPA and 4G LTE
LCD 5 inches FULL HD touch screen with Super LCD 3
Internal memory 32 GB or 64 GB
RAM 2GB
Beats Audio sound system
Main Camera Dual 4 Ultrapixel, 2688 x 1520 pixels, autofocus, optical image stabilization, Dual LED flash
Big camera sensor 1/3 inches
Front camera for Video conference
Processor Quad-core 2.3 GHz or 2.5 GHz Krait 400
GPU Adreno 330
Operating system Android OS, v4.4.2 (KitKat)
Battery Li-ion 2600 mAh battery

 

How to Fix or Problem Solving for Recovery HTC ONE M8 hang or not responding or malfunctions or stuck or freezing or bricked ?

When we use Android, especially who have good specifications, the user should use it as much as we need. We can use HTC ONE M8 for doing our job, fun with entertainment, and also playing small or big games without any problems, because it have good specifications and big 2GB RAM. There are many applications from Google Play Store, some of apps are free and some of them need to be purchase. But as we know, because there are too many applications from many developer, sometime the applications it self does not always compatible with our HTC ONE M8. Maybe not many, but one or more apps can make our HTC ONE M8 become hang or stuck or bricks or broken or frozen or LCD touch screen not responding. At this situations we should force soft reset or force reboot our phone to make it work from fresh state again after delete the temporary files or caches, but if the problem still happen, then we should do hard reset or master format.

 

How to Force Soft Reset or Force Reboot or Force Restart HTC ONE M8  ?

What should we do when the HTC ONE M8 hang or stuck when we run an application? Because the battery of HTC ONE M8 is not removable, then we can not open and release the battery when the phone stuck or LCD touch screen not responding. But we should have to force soft reset HTC ONE M8 by press and hold for several seconds the POWER BUTTON until the phone turn off and display HTC logo for restart by itself. If the HTC ONE M8 still not stuck but we need to do soft reset or reboot or restart, then we should press and hold POWER BUTTON until the pop-up menu appear at LCD screen. Choose Reboot / Restart to process soft reset. Please remember, doing soft reset or reboot or restart is safe to do anytime we want, because soft reset will not remove any installed applications or important data from our phone.

 

#Option 1, Hard Reset HTC ONE M8 with menu setting:

This is the option that we can do if HTC ONE M8 still can access the menu setting, then try to reset HTC ONE M8 with this step:

1. Turn on the HTC ONE M8
2. We suggest to charge the battery full
3. Make sure you already backup all important data, because it will deleted from HTC ONE M8
4. Go to Menu Setting > Storage > Factory Data Reset
5. Choose Reset Phone, continue with Erase Everything
6. The HTC ONE M8 will do the master reset until it finish

 

#Option 2, Hard Reset HTC ONE M8 with hardware button key:

In some situations, the LCD of HTC ONE M8 is not responding, so nothing happen when we  navigate or touch the HTC ONE M8, in this step try to hard reset with hardware key by this step:

1. Make sure you have fully charge the HTC ONE M8 battery
2. Backup all important data as you can, because all data will be erased
3. You can do this at any conditions phone On or Off
4. Press together Power Button + Volume Down together for several second until the white menu appear
5. Navigate menu with Volume button to go to Factory Reset, to choose or enter press POWER Button
6. The HTC ONE M8 will do the master reset for several minutes, just wait until it finish.

 

How to Restore and Reinstall Clean Android Operating system / firmware at HTC ONE M8?

The factory default Android operating system of HTC ONE M8 is Android Kitkat version 4.4.2, if we never do upgrade OTA (over the air), then the default operating system will not change. We should know that the file source of Android Kitkat operating system or firmware already saved safely inside HTC ONE M8 ROM. Therefore we does not need to copy any files or connect to any gadget if we need to reinstall or restore clean Android operating system to our HTC ONE M8. Just follow the steps to hard reset or master format above, then the clean factory default Android operating system will reinstall or restore automatically. Please remember, doing hard reset or master format or reinstall the operating system will clean or wipe all important data from our smartphone, that is why we always suggest all user to backup all important data to any other device like USB flash disk or external microSD card before doing hard reset or reinstall. Sure, this HTC ONE M8 can support OTG USB Host to connect with any flash disk.

 

How to Unlock or Fix or Bypass or Solutions for HTC ONE M8 forgot password code or security lock screen pattern or pin (lost password)?

It is very important to give more security protections for our HTC ONE M8. This way will make our important data and applications more safety when the phone away from us and not all unauthorized people can use our phone easily. HTC ONE M8 have several options to choose when we need to give security protection, but for basic recommendation, we always suggest user to use screen lock pattern to make it easy to access at any situations, but some user still like to use password pin protections. The problem happen when we forget the answer of our screen lock pattern or password pin protections. But we should not have to be worry, because Android already have some simple steps to bypass or unlock forgotten security pattern or pin password by using Google account or Gmail username and password. Please try to give several time wrong answer continuously until the phone locked or frozen for several seconds, then the Forgot Password / Pattern will be appear, press this button and follow the steps to input Google account username and password that we have already signed in before. Please make sure your Internet connection is active when we would like to bypass or unlock security screen lock pattern or password pin protection. If we can not access Google account from this phone, then we should do hard reset or master format with hardware button steps above.

 

How to Improve Performance HTC ONE M8 to make run more faster?

HTC ONE M8 have very good specifications, this phone will run smooth when we do many multitasking applications. But as we know there always some limitations for all specifications. This is also happen when there are too many applications run together in the background, then this conditions will make the HTC ONE M8 run more slowly because every applications will keep some memory RAM and also use processor resource when doing job or update. Usually the user will not aware about the background applications process, because some apps will run automatically in the background when we finish install from Google Play Store. Therefore, we should not install some not important application, or we should uninstall some not use applications to give more free RAM and processor resources. If we need to make our HTC ONE M8 performance run faster again like new, then we should consider to do hard reset or master format.

 

Is That Any Secret Code for Doing Format HTC ONE M8 ?

There is no secret hidden code for HTC ONE M8 to make it back to factory default. Do the options above to hard reset it.

 

How to make Longer Life for HTC ONE M8 Battery Saving Not Fast to Drain ?

The HTC ONE M8 have 2600 mAh battery capacity, actually this battery capacity size is not too big, that’s why some users have problem with battery fast to drain or battery fast discharge. Unfortunately we can not upgrade the battery of HTC ONE M8 easily because this phone battery is non removable. But we can do some options to make the battery life of HTC ONE M8 longer. Fist please reduce the LCD brightness from Menu Setting > Display > Brightness, please remove the auto brightness and set the light inteisty as comfort to use. Disable not use connectivity like bluetooth or GPS or Wifi. Please use only appropriate Internet data connections, turn of LTE or 3G it you want to always at 2G for battery saving. But of course this condition will make our transfer data become slowly, choose as you want.