How to Easily Master Format LENOVO A316i with Safety Hard Reset?

Troubleshot when Android LENOVO A316i get problems. This is cheap Lenovo smartphone with 4 inches LCD screen which use Android Jelly Bean operating system. This phone have 4 GB internal memory but can expand again using external memory up to 32 GB using microSD. LENOVO A316i have dual core processor with 1.3Ghz clock speed. Although LENOVO A316i price is not expensive but it already have standard features like GPS, Bluetooth, Wifi Teeter Hotspot, camera and some other more.

 

What is Advantage of LENOVO A316i Specifications:

GSM 3G HSDPA
LCD 4 inches
Internal memory 4 GB
RAM 512 MB
External memory microSD, up to 32 GB
Main Camera 2 MP, 1600 x 1200 pixels
Processor Dual-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A7
GPU Mali-400
Operating system Android OS, v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
Battery Li-Ion 1300 mAh

 

How to Fix or Problem Solving for Recovery LENOVO A316i hang or not responding or malfunctions or stuck or freezing or bricked ?

For standard user, this phone can use for daily activity like check email, run some chatting, browse Internet, listen to the music, watch movie and playing some games. The good thing for gamer mania, the LENOVO A316i also have GPU which is needed for some game applications. We can also download some other applications from Google Play Store as far as we already login with Google account, but we can not download many applications at this phone because it have memory limitation. Some applications also can make LENOVO A316i get problems like hang or stuck or bricks or broken or blank or freeze or boot logo loop or LCD touch screen not responding. If we get this problems, then we have to force soft reset or force shutdown or reboot or reset to clean temporary files and cache. If the problems still happen, then we have to do hard reset or master format LENOVO A316i. Please backup all important data before doing hard reset, because all data will be remove or wipe when performing hard reset.

 

How to Force Shutdown or Force Soft Reset or Reboot or Restart LENOVO A316i ?

The hang problems or some other trouble can make our LENOVO A316i can not work normally or sometime not responsive with our finger touch. In this case we have to force shutdown or force soft reset or reboot by open the back case and remove the battery, wait about 5 minutes and we can put the battery again in the correct positions. Press POWER button to turn ON the phone. When this phone still work normally, we also can do reboot or restart by press and hold POWER button for several seconds until pop-up menu appear, choose Reboot / Power Off menu. This soft reset will not delete or uninstall any data and applications, we can do soft reset or reboot anytime we want.

 

Option 1, Hard Reset LENOVO A316i with menu setting:

1. Turn on the LENOVO A316i
2. We suggest to charge the battery full
3. Make sure you already backup all important data, because it will deleted from LENOVO A316i
4. Go to Menu Setting > Storage > Factory Data Reset
5. Choose Reset Phone, continue with Erase Everything
6. The LENOVO A316i will do the master reset until it finish

 

#Option 2, Hard Reset LENOVO A316i with Hardware Button key:

1. Confirm and make sure that LENOVO A316i Battery is fully charge or not empty
2. Turn off LENOVO A316i
3. Press together : POWER + VOLUME UP about several second, that the warning will appear at the LENOVO A316i
4. Choose: Reset Device or Wipe data or Clear eMMC
5. Make sure we already sure than we know that our application and data will be loose or clear while Resetting LENOVO A316i

 

How to Restore and Reinstall Clean Android Operating system / firmware at LENOVO A316i (reformat) ?

By default LENOVO A316i have Android Jelly Bean operating system, maybe because of some situations or applications error can make the LENOVO A316i become trouble or corrupt or broken. Sometime this problem can make this phone act not normal or sometime can not turn on or boot logo only. In this case, we should do reinstall or restore clean factory default Android operating system. We should have to know that the clean and factory default Android operating system already saved safely inside LENOVO A316i ROM. Therefore if we get OS trouble, we can easily reinstall or restore the operating system without connect with other gadgets. Just follow the steps to hard reset above, then the operating system or firmware will be reinstall automatically.

 

How to Unlock or Fix or Bypass or Solutions for LENOVO A316i forgot password code or security lock screen pattern or pin (lost password)?

We always suggest to give security protections for keep our data more secure at our LENOVO A316i. There are several options to protect, but we usually recommended to use screen lock pattern for faster and easy access, but some user still like to use password pin protections. The problems happen when we forget the answer for security screen lock pattern or password pin protections. But do not worry, because Android already have easy steps to bypass or unlock forgot security protection using Google account. Please try to give several time wrong answer continuously until LENOVO A316i freeze or locked for 30 seconds. At this time we can find at the LCD phone Forgot Password / Pattern button, press this button then we have to give Gmail account username and password that we have already signed in before. Please make sure the Internet connection is active. If we can not access Google account username and password, then we have to do hard reset or master steps above.

 

How to Improve Performance LENOVO A316i to make run more faster?

Some users of LENOVO A316i have problems with slow speed to run applications after use for several months. Usually this problem happen because there are too many applications run. The very important things when we want to run our phone is make sure the RAM is enough or not empty, especially our LENOVO A316i RAM is only 512 MB, which is limited if we want to do more multitasking applications. However, please try to reduce installed applications to give more free RAM. If we still want to make our LENOVO A316i performance run faster again like new, then we have to consider do hard reset or master format. But after doing hard reset, we suggest to install only important applications to make the LENOVO A316i speed not become slowly again.

 

Is That Any Secret Code for Doing Format LENOVO A316i ?

There is no secret hidden code for LENOVO A316i to make it back to factory default. Do the options above to hard reset it.

 

How to Upgrade LENOVO A316i to Android ver.5 Lollipop ?

As far as we know, the official operating system or firmware for LENOVO A316i is only until Jelly Bean, this phone will not get any Android Kitkat or Lollipop version. However, using Android Jelly Bean operating system still give good performance and can install many new applications from Google Play Store.