ZDNET's key takeaways Soft restart fixes most Roku glitches without erasing your settings.Factory reset wipes everything and ...

Always remember to do a backup of your data because you may lose it in the process. Speaking of the process, it may take quite a lot of time, so it's better to keep your PC plug-in to charge. N.B.

When you tap delete on your Android phone, a file might disappear from your view. But it's not really gone. You've erased the index of that file, but the file itself is still in the phone's storage.

To perform a hard reset on the Nook tablet, you first must access the Factory Reset screen. A factory reset, also known as a hard reset, deregisters your device with Amazon and wipes all data from the ...

A factory reset is usually deemed among the last options when dealing with complex system issues in mobile devices. This reset wipes all user data including downloaded apps, saved photos, videos, ...

ChromeOS is a lightweight operating system that stores all data mainly in the cloud. There are hardly any locally stored files, with the exception of data from Android apps and Linux apps. These apps ...

Elyse Betters Picaro is the former Editor-in-Chief of Pocket-lint and the former Operations Manager for Valnet's Consumer Tech brands, including Pocket-lint, Android Police, and XDA. She is based in ...

Resetting an iPad can help in several ways. It can fix software-related issues, clear memory, and storage, and reset the device to its original factory settings. This can be especially useful if the ...

Dealing with problems on the Apple iPad requires a careful troubleshooting approach to work systematically through several common solutions. If nothing works and iOS is failing to respond, the final ...

You bought a smartphone so it could become your external brain, filled with all the phone numbers, links, contacts, and data you don’t really want–or need–to keep in your head. So why would you want ...