Tips and tricks for solving problems at SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H. If we really like to take selfie than we have to consider buy Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime, because it have 5 megapixel front camera which is big enough to take self photography for upload to social media or save for personal purpose. If we want more megapixel, SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H have 8 megapixel main camera at back side and also include with light LED flash. RAM is one of consideration for having Android and SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / G530H have 1 GB to give better performance using Android smartphone. I we need more space for save our files and get more installed applications, we can add more space by use external memory up to 64 megapixel.
What are the different between SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME VS SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME DUOS TV
Samsung also release SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME DUOS TV SM-G530BT, by specification all features and hardware are similar between both of them . But like the name SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME DUOS TV SM-G530BT have internal TV tuner, so we can have local television program without using Internet connection, just use available television provider signal broadcasting. If we have problem with SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME DUOS TV SM-G530BT then we also can use this page procedure for fix or doing hard reset.
What is Advantage of SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H Specifications:
GSM 3G HSDPA for SM-G530F
DUAL GSM-GSM For SM-G530H
LCD 5 inches
Internal memory 8 GB
RAM 1 GB
External memory microSD, up to 64 GB
Main Camera 8 MP, 2592 х 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Front Camera 5 megapixel
Processor Quad-core 1.2 GHz from Qualcomm
Operating system Android OS, v4.4.2 (Kitkat)
Battery Li-Ion 2600 mAh
How to Fix or Problem Solving for Recovery SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H hang or not responding or malfunctions or stuck or freezing or bricked ?
SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H have 8 GB for internal memory with 1 GB RAM, with this kind of capacity we can install many applications from Google Play Store kind of social media or chatting applications like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Line, WeChat, BBM and others. But we have to know some applications from Google Play Store are not always compatible with out phone, by any change we could get this kind of applications installed at our SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H and will make some strange situations like hang or stuck or bricks or broken or frozen or boot logo loop or LCD touch screen not responding. If we get this problem, then we have to force shutdown or force soft reset or reboot our SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H to clean some temporary files or cache. If the problem still happen, then we have to do hard reset or master format our Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime, but please remember to do backup all important data because all data and installed applications will be wipe when doing hard reset.
How to Force Shutdown or Force Soft Reset or Reboot or Restart SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H ?
When we use our SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H, sometime it can act strange or hang or LCD touch screen not responsive with our finger touch. At this situations, we have to force shutdown or force soft reset or force restart to clean cache and temporary files. The very easy steps when our phone get this trouble is open the back case cover and remove the battery. Wait about 5 seconds or more then please put again the battery inside SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H. Press Power button to turn ON our phone. We already done cycle steps of soft reset. We also can do soft reset or reboot anytime we want, because this steps will not remove any important data and will not remove applications as well. If our phone still work normally, doing soft reset or restart can be done by press and hold POWER button until pop-up menu appear, then please choose Shutdown / Reboot / Turn Off options.
#Option 1, How to Hard Reset SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H with software menu:
- Turn on SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H
- Make sure SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H battery already charge properly
- Go to menu:Setting >General tab> Backup & Reset > Factory data reset > Reset device
- ChooseErase Everything
- SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H will do the process to Master Reset to Factory Default
#Option 2, How to Hard Reset SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H with Hardware key button:
- Make sure the battery of SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H charge properly
- Turn off SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H
- Press and hold together :Power Button + Volume Up + Home Button
- If the button at number 3 not work, we can try with press and hold togetherPower Button + Volume Up Button
- If we see the menu at LCD screen, chooseWipe Data/Factory ResetwithVolume Buttonto select and usePower Buttonto ok or enter.
- The SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H will doing the process of restoring to factory default.
How to Restore and Reinstall Clean Android Operating system / firmware at SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H (Reformat) ?
Sometime because of installation crash, our SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H act strange or not normal. Sometime the LCD touch screen not responsive or phone become stuck or reboot by itself. If we know that the problems comes from the applications, maybe we still can try to uninstall that applications, but the problems happen when we have trouble with the damage operating systems, the result will be almost similar with applications trouble. Therefore, we should have to reinstall or reformat our SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H. First we have to know, that the factory default Android operating system or firmware file source has already saved safely inside SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H ROM. If we need to reformat or reinstall Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime, then we do not need to copy anything or connect to other device, just choose one of the following steps to hard reset above, then the clean factory default operating system will reinstall automatically to our SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H.
How to Unlock or Fix or Bypass or Solutions for SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H forgot password code or security lock screen pattern or pin (lost password)?
Some users have very important data or confidential images or video at their phone. Therefore we always suggest all Android users to give more security protections. How to give security protections at SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H? There are some default build-in security protections at Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime, but usually we recommended to use screen lock pattern because it is easy and faster to use. Some other people also like to use other built-in security protections like Face Unlock, Gesture, Password Pin protection and others. Please access Security from menu setting and we can follow the steps to activate the security protection. The problems start happen when we forget the answer of security protections. But do not worry, because we can unlock or bypass forgotten security protection using Google account or Gmail account. Please give several time wrong answer continuously until the phone locked or freeze about 30 seconds, at this time we will find Forgot Password / Pattern button, press this button to unlock using Google account that we have already signed in before. If we can not access Google account, then we have to do hard reset or master format with hardware button at steps above.
How to Improve Performance SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H to make run more faster?
The specifications of SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H use quad core processor with 1.2 Ghz clock speed. This phone have 1 GB RAM for multitasking purpose. With that specifications, mostly this phone will run fast to access some applications. But some users maybe get problems with slow speed performance or lag of performance. Usually, the slow speed effect happen because there are too many applications run in the background. Some applications which has installed from Google Play Store will keep run in the background without any notification because they have to wait some command or update data. If too many applications run in the background at the same time, then the RAM and processor resources will be insufficient and will make Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime become slowly. If we want to make our SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H performance run faster again like new, then we have to consider doing hard reset or master format.
Is That Any Secret Code for Doing Format SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H ?
We can try to use secret code for doing hard reset SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H is*2767*3855#.But please remember to always be careful typing that code, because the SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H will doing hard reset and remove all data and installed applications.
How to Upgrade SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H to Android Lollipop Official Update ?
The specifications SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H are good enough to run Android Lollipop, because use quad core processor with 1 GB RAM. Although until we make this article Samsung still not give any information about the Android Lollipop update for SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME SM-G530F / SM-G530H but this phone does not have problem to run it. We just have to wait for official Android Lollipop update for Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime and try to check it from menu Setting > About > Software update.
Update about Android Lollipop firmware upgrade: Now Samsung already release official Android Lollipop operating system for SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME. There are some improvement such as SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME battery is more stronger more then 1 hour if compare with previous firmware. To Upgrade you can do using OTA update or using computer and install with ODIN applications and the last choice is bring our SAMSUNG GALAXY GRAND PRIME to Samsung authorize service center to upgrade with new Android Lollipop operating system operating system.
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! I have samsung galaxy grand prime smg-530 and its touch at the bottom of screen is not working. I guess its a firmware issue as this problem has started after I tried doing Tsw update.
I tried restarting my phone, rebooting system after wiping cache but nothing worked. Please help
Hi, lets assume that your Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime still use official firmware, because we do not understand about your statement that you have done doing Tsw update. However, usually this problems can not fix with reboot or soft reset. You need to do hard reset either using #option 1 above if your phone still can boot properly, or using #option 2 if you want to force hard reset or reformat Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime to factory default. All you installed apps and data will be wipe or erase and we need to setup again from beginning.
Can i turn my samsung grand prime on by pressing volume down key plus home button and then plugging in a charger? I need help😣
Hi, before doing hard reset using hardware button combination key, you should charge your phone at least 50%, because it is very dangerous performing reformat with limited battery, when hard reset operation stop in the middle of process, then your Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime will get hard brick and can not use anymore.