How do you do a soft reset?

[manhattan123]

Hi all,

I might be using the term wrong, but I'm looking to do what I thought was called a soft reset on the Note 8. (When I try searching for instructions, it just basically tells me how to do a restart with the power button.) And I'm definitely not looking to do a factory reset.

What I am looking to do is a process that I could do on my older Motorolas, where you pushed a combination of buttons (I think it was the volume up button and the power button simultaneously), you would see the Android man lying on his back, then there would be several lines of options that you could scroll through, one of which was wipe cache partition.

Maybe I'm not timing the button pushes correctly, but I can't seem to get it now. Can you do it on the Note 8 running Android Pie?

Thanks for any tips.

 

[mustang7757]

Hi all,

I might be using the term wrong, but I'm looking to do what I thought was called a soft reset on the Note 8. (When I try searching for instructions, it just basically tells me how to do a restart with the power button.) And I'm definitely not looking to do a factory reset.

What I am looking to do is a process that I could do on my older Motorolas, where you pushed a combination of buttons (I think it was the volume up button and the power button simultaneously), you would see the Android man lying on his back, then there would be several lines of options that you could scroll through, one of which was wipe cache partition.

Maybe I'm not timing the button pushes correctly, but I can't seem to get it now. Can you do it on the Note 8 running Android Pie?

Thanks for any tips.

Try this

 

[manhattan123]

Hi Mustang,

Thanks for the response. I'll give it a shot. Will this give me the option of wipe cache partition? As noted, I'm not looking just to do a normal reboot.

 

[mustang7757]

Hi Mustang,

Thanks for the response. I'll give it a shot. Will this give me the option of wipe cache partition? As noted, I'm not looking just to do a normal reboot.

Hi, yes this will take you to recovery and can clear cache also before you reboot.

 

[tatootie67]

This is something I do after any security updates

 

[manhattan123]

Yeah, I wanted to do it right after the update to Pie, but for the life of me couldn't remember the button combinations from my Motorola days, and, tbh, didn't really try too hard to pursue it. But lately the Note's seemed sort of sluggish, so I wanted to do the cache partition wipe.