Hard Reset / Factory Reset Huawei Y9s – Remove Pattern/Lock/Password

Does your smartphone became slow? it hangs? you want to reset it to restore its speed to the same level when you bought your smartphone? Is there ‘Insufficient Storage’ error on your smartphone? Have you forgot your lockscreen password? In this tutorial, we are going to guide on How to reset/ factory reset Huawei Y9s? How to bypass screen lock/ password in Huawei Y9s? (Bypassing screen lock becomes necessary, when user forgets lockscreen password or pattern and want to bypass the same.). Apart from this, we will also going to learn How to restore defaults on Huawei Y9s? How to wipe all data in Huawei Y9s?.

Introduction

With the ongoing time, smartphones becoming stronger, fast, and powerful than ever before. Thanks to the powerful hardware which has brought evolution in smartphone industry. But there are few problems, which exists since anticipation. There comes the time when we are not sure about certain features specific to our device. With the time, smartphones usually become slow, and then we need to reset. In this guide, we have provided solutions for slower devices, the whether they hang or get slow, or bypass lock screen password protection, or in case ‘insufficient storage’ error appeared on screen and storage become full. Sometimes one needs to reset the device, when they want to give device to someone in the family or sell it, and want that nobody should be able to access files and passwords.

In the following tutorial we explained in detail on how to format/ reset Huawei Y9s and make it fully smooth and fast as you bought on first day out of the store.

About Huawei Y9s

The smartphone gets a Chipset Kirin 710F (12 nm), CPU Octa-core (4×2.2 GHz Cortex-A73 & 4×1.7 GHz Cortex-A53), GPU Mali-G51 MP4, Internal 128GB 6GB RAM, Triple Camera setup includes 48 MP, f/1.8, (wide), 1/2.0″, 0.8µm, PDAF / 8 MP, f/2.4, 13mm (ultrawide) / 2 MP, f/2.4, (depth), Display 6.59 inches, 106.6 cm (~84.7% screen-to-body ratio), LTPS IPS capacitive touchscreen, 1080 x 2340 pixels resolution, 19.5:9 ratio (~391 ppi density).

Now, lets move on to the procedures to reset Huawei Y9s. There are two ways, one is through Settings/ Options, and for another one we have to boot the device into the recovery mode. Though we suggest, you should go through the recovery mode option, which is more effective since it clean up the device while the cache files are not being accessed by the Android OS of the device, and device is in turned off condition and running in recovery mode.

Before You Begin – Prerequisites

• Make sure that your device Huawei Y9s is turned on and accessible.
• Ensure to check battery charging level your device, make sure that device’s battery is charged to at least to 75%, as it might take up to 1 hour to complete the process.. It there is less than 50% power remaining on the battery, then it is suggested to keep the device plugged in while performing the reset operation.
• Backup everything on your device! Make sure to take backup of your device as the process removes all of the personal information and files.
• We recommend to remove microSD card/ memory card before doing the factory reset.
• The process mentioned in this article applies to almost all the devices, made by various manufacturers. The process supports various Operating System (OS)/ User Interface (UI) variants, but the key combinations/ things may be slightly different based on the smartphone model of the brand.

Method 1: Factory Reset Huawei Y9s from Settings – Normal Mode

Before You Begin – Things to Check

Step 1: First of all, navigate to the Settings which has cogwheel icon, and then scroll down to the bottom and select System to continue, where you can configure Language, Time, Backup, and system updates.

Step 2: Then, just navigate to About Phone/ Advanced menu, which displays the advanced option and about operating system information of your device. Select Reset options, from where you can reset Network, apps or Device completely.

Step 3: Now, just Select Erase all data (factory reset). The factory data reset will restore the device like it is bought just now out of the box.

Step 4: On the next screen, just Select Reset Phone or Reset Tablet, which is located at the bottom of the screen.

Step 5: Then, on the next screen,  you will be asked to confirm whether you’re sure that you want to reset the device or it was pressed accidentally, just select the option Erase Everything . You must be aware that all data would be deleted from phone, including backup copies stored on internal storage of your device and the process can’t be undone, including images, audio files, documents, contacts, call logs and other data would be permanently erased. The data you have uploaded online including Google Drive data, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. would not be deleted.

Step 6: If there is no pattern lock or password is set, then process should went smooth. Otherwise, draw screen pattern and enter the screen unlock password/ pin to continue. Now at this stage,  the device would Reboot and would show ongoing progress screen indicating that the data is being erased.

Step 7: After operating system finishes deleting all of the the data on the device, the Huawei Y9s device would now restart/ reboot once again, which usually takes several minutes to boot after reset. Now, there comes the screen similar to the one which arrived just after when you bought and unboxed your device first time from the sales box.

Method 2: Factory Reset Huawei Y9s – Hard Reset or Recovery Mode

The biggest drawback of Android Operating System is that the Android devices become slower over time, and usually starts facing random slowdowns, glitches, among other issues. That is that time when we need to find a solution to return our device to normal functions. The slowdowns can be also caused by viruses, and if the issues won’t get fixed with virus scans and repairs, then only option is left is ‘Recovery Mode’.

Recovery Model in Android enables devices to reboot as fresh start without any virus or other issues that were previously causing the troubles. In recovery mode, we can access the Android device before the Android operating system itself is fully loaded. Recovery mode enables you to make the changes which is normally impossible while device is running. We can get root access, restore backup of the OS, which resets the device and deletes all user data.

Factory Reset Huawei Y9s from Recovery Mode

Step 1: Press and hold the power button for a few seconds, then a menu will appear with options like Power Off and Restart. Select Power Off.