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″ A keyboard input button factory reset is used to restore the device to its original manufacturer settings. Doing so will effectively erase all of the data, settings, and applications that were previously on the device.″

I don't think that is the case. The author has taken this quote from the amateur site that is the first in the reference list.

AFAIK, a factory reset only returns the system settings to their original ; it does not affect data or (directly) installed applications.

The point of a factory reset is to recover settings that may have been altered by the user or the installation of applications. Applications may then become unusable, but no data is deleted as such by the reset. 60.231.232.112 (talk) 02:33, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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I noticed there's a link to service menu in this article, but that page is actually a redirect to Services menu, which is something completely different. Interestingly, there was also a link to Services menu under "See also", actually labeled as such, not just through a redirect. Not sure why that was there, but I've removed it as it has nothing to do with the topic of this article. But I'm reluctant to remove the "service menu" link, because I think the problem is with that redirect, not the link. That page should contain information about the type of service menu this article is referring to, and just have one of those "not to be confused with" lines at the top. So I think the link should stay here, and that redirect should just be fixed.

What does everyone else think?

flarn2006 [u t c] time: 14:11, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• hard reset
• (non-economic) defaulting
• the precosmic state (before the Big Bang)