Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 (Tablet)

Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 (Tablet)

Unfortunately it's often required to reset a device but the good news is resetting your Samsung Galaxy Tab back to its Factory settings is pretty easy.  There are two ways to reset you Galaxy Tab to factory settings depending on the condition of your Tab.

My Galaxy Tab mostly works, I just want to "Start Over" or "Reset" it.

1. On your Galaxy tab navigate to Menu > Settings > Privacy > Factory data reset
2. Confirm you want to reset your device. Tap on the "Reset Phone" option
3. Tap on the option "Erase Everything" once you are asked regarding cleaning its memory

At this point just wait for the device to reset. If it locks up, try rebooting your Tab by holding the Power button for 10 seconds.

My Galaxy Tab is messed up and I can't even use the menus

This hard reset can be done even if the device won't seem to power on.

1. Make sure that it is OFF.
2. Press the Volume Up and Power button simultaneously and hold them for few seconds.
3. When you see the logo appear, release the Power button (but keep holding the Volume Up button).
4. Next you'll see a menu where you can use the Volume Up & Volume Down buttons to navigate across. Check the option labeled as Wipe Data / Factory Reset using the Power button.

Samsung Wave II

Samsung Wave II

Hard reset your phone


Warning: This will remove ALL data on the phone (but not the MicroSD card).

First switch off your handset and remove your SIM card and Memory Card. Then turn on the phone and open the Dialer. Enter this code: *2767*3855# The reset process will start automatically and the phone will then reboot. There is no way of reversing once the process has started, so be careful!

Samsung Galaxy S / i9000 / Captivate

Samsung Galaxy S / i9000 / Captivate

Hard reset the phone

If the phone is on:
When on Home screen, press Menu - Settings - Privacy - Factory data reset - Reset Phone. Enter password and press Yes to confirm

If the phone is frozen:Turn phone off, or take the battery out and reinsert it. Hold the Volume Down key. Press and release the Power key. Use the Volume Down key to select Clear Storage. Press and release the Power key. Confirm by pressing Volume Up key.

Samsung Galaxy K Zoom Hard Reset

Samsung Galaxy K Zoom Hard Reset

Before you buy a new cell phone or new tablet, please try the following procedure to repair your device. First charge your battery, backup your important data if possible and in most cases take out SIM and SD card before factory reset. It is impossible to recover your data after doing a hard reset, so online backup is always important. For all of your data, a backup should be done on an external device, hard drive, raid system or media. With or without insurance, if your cell phone lost, damaged or stolen at least your invaluable data is backed up in a safe place. If you are about to sell your phone and you want to wipe your personal data, or if your phone affected with virus you have to do a hard reset. In some cases, you can delete the forgotten password or lock pattern from your device as well. All information is for devices with stock based ROMs. If you are using rooted device, always back up your EFS folder first, containing your IMEI info, etc.!

Turn off K Zoom Andorid phone. Press and hold both volume up + home + power. In the recovery menu select wipe data factory reset with Volume Down.

OR

From this menu you can reset your phone and sound settings to the factory default settings.

1. From a Home screen, tap Settings > Accounts > Back up and reset.

2. Tap Factory data reset. The Factory data reset screen displays reset information.

3. Tap Reset device, then follow the prompts to perform the reset.

Warning!

Performing a Factory data reset will erase all data from your phone and internal SD card, including your Google account, system and application data and settings, and downloaded applications. It will not erase current system software, bundled applications, and external SD card files such as music and photos.

If your device is frozen and unresponsive, press and hold   for 8-10 seconds. The device will reboot automatically.

If this does not solve the problem, perform a factory data reset. In Idle mode, open the application list and select Settings → Privacy → Factory data reset → Reset phone → Erase everything.

Use this method to hard reset your Samsung Galaxy K Zoom Android: Enter *2767*3855#. Warning! All your data including contacts, messages etc. will be lost! Copy all your necessary data/Contacts/Messages etc. to SIM or make backup to your PC before full reset! Take out SIM card before full reset.

Air Algerie plane with 116 people on board has crashed: Algerian aviation official

ALGIERS: ALGIERS: An Air Algerie flight that went missing en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers has crashed, an Algerian aviation official told Reuters on Thursday.

"I can confirm that it has crashed," the official said, declining to give details of where the plane was or what caused the accident.

The flight en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers went missing with 110 passengers and six crew members on board, almost half of them French citizens, officials said on Thursday.

Earlier, Burkino Faso transport minister Jean Bertin Ouedrago had said that the aircraft was asked to change route at 0138 GMT because of a storm in the area.

Two French fighter jets based in the region were dispatched to try to locate the airliner along its probable route, according to a French army spokesman. Niger security sources said planes flew over the border region with Mali to search for the flight.

Algeria's state news agency APS said authorities lost contact with flight AH 5017 an hour after it took off from Burkina Faso, but other officials gave differing accounts of the times of contact, adding to confusion about the fate of the flight and where it might be.

Swiftair, the private Spanish company that owns the aircraft, confirmed it had lost contact with the MD-83 operated by Air Algerie.

An Air Algerie representative in Burkina Faso, Kara Terki, told a news conference that all the passengers on the plane were in transit, either for Europe, the Middle East or Canada.

He said the passenger list included 50 French, 24 Burkinabe, eight Lebanese, four Algerians, two from Luxembourg, one Belgian, one Swiss, one Nigerian, one Cameroonian, one Ukrainian and one Romanian. Lebanese officials said there were at least 10 Lebanese citizens on the flight.

A spokeswoman for SEPLA, Spain's pilots union, said the six crew were from Spain. She could not give any further details.

Regional search

Swiftair said on its website the aircraft took off from Burkina Faso at 0117 GMT and was supposed to land in Algiers at 0510 GMT but never reached its destination.

An Algerian aviation official said the last contact Algerian authorities had with the missing Air Algerie aircraft was at 0155 GMT when it was flying over Gao, Mali.

Aviation authorities in Burkina say they handed the flight to the control tower in Niamey, Niger, at 1.38am (0138 GMT). They said the last contact with the flight was just after 4.30am (0330 GMT).

Burkina Faso minister Ouedrago said the flight asked the control tower in Niamey to change route at 0138 GMT because of a storm in the Sahara.

However, a source in the control tower in Niamey, who declined to be identified, said it had not been contacted by the plane, which in theory should have flown over Mali.

Burkinabe authorities have set up a crisis unit in Ouagadougou airport to provide information to families of people on the flight.

A diplomat in the Malian capital Bamako said that the north of the country — which lies on the plane's likely flight path — was struck by a powerful sandstorm overnight.

Aviation websites said the missing aircraft, one of four MD-83s owned by Swiftair, was 18 years old. The aircraft's two engines are made by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies.

US planemaker McDonnell Douglas, now part of Boeing , stopped producing the MD-80 airliner family in 1999 but it remains in widespread use. According to British consultancy Flightglobal Ascend, there are 482 MD-80 aircraft in operation, many of them in the United States.

"Boeing is aware of the report (on the missing aircraft). We are awaiting additional information," a spokesman for the planemaker said.

Swiftair has a relatively clean safety record, with five accidents since 1977, two of which caused a total of eight deaths, according to the Washington-based Flight Safety Foundation.

Air Algerie's last major accident was in 2003 when one of its planes crashed shortly after take-off from the southern city of Tamanrasset, killing 102 people. In February this year, 77 people died when an Algerian military transport plane crashed into a mountain in eastern Algeria.

Sony launches Xperia T3, the ‘slimmest’ 5.3-inch smartphone, at Rs 27,990

NEW DELHI: Sony has launched what it refers to as 'the slimmest 5.3-inch phone - Xperia T3, in India at Rs 27,990. Originally unveiled in June, the phone will be available in the country starting July 27.

The mid-range smartphone is 7mm thick so it's not the thinnest phone in the world (Gionee Elife S5.5 holds that record), but it weighs 148gram and sports a stainless steel frame. It will launch globally from the end of July 2014 and will be available in white, black and purple colours.

Unlike the Xperia T2 Ultra, Sony Xperia T3 sports a smaller 5.3-inch HD (720x1280p) TRILUMINOS display. Powered by a 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and 1GB RAM, the phone comes with 8GB internal storage and a microSD card slot that supports cards up to 32GB. It runs Android 4.4 KitKat.

The smartphone sports an 8MP rear camera with auto focus Sony Exmor RS for mobile image sensor and a 1.1MP front facing camera. The rear camera supports Full-HD video capture while the front-facing one supports 720p recording.

In terms of connectivity, Xperia T3 supports Wi-Fi, Miracast, NFC, LTE and A-GPS. It comes with 2500mAh battery promising standby time of up to 688 hours and talk time of up to 12 hours 46 minutes.

Plane crashes in Taiwan, more than 50 people killed

Firstly it was an malaysian airline MH370 dissappeared in air. So many lives has been lost. Slowly people started recovering from the incident then again a mystery appeared. This time it was malaysia airliner MH17 The Boeing 777-200ER airliner went down near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, about 50 km (31 mi) from the Ukraine–Russia border, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. The crash occurred in the conflict zone of the ongoing Donbass insurgency, in an area controlled by the Donbass People's Militia. Now it is taiwan.

TAIPEI, Taiwan: A plane making a second landing attempt in stormy weather crashed at an airport on a small Taiwanese island late on Wednesday, killing 51 people and injuring seven, fire officials said.

Taiwan was battered by Typhoon Matmo early Tuesday morning, and the Central Weather Bureau had forecast heavy rain through the evening, even though the centre of the storm was in mainland China.

The flight was heading from the capital, Taipei, to the island Penghu, halfway between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait. Pictures from the airport showed a handful of firefighters using flashlights to look at wreckage in the darkness.

Penghu is a lightly populated island that averages about two flights a day from Taipei.

Taiwan's Central News Agency cites the Civil Aviation Administration as saying the flight carried 54 passengers and four flight crew and was operated by a Taiwanese airline, TransAsia Airways.