Protect
Encrypt your smartphone
Caution: If you forget your encryption code, you cannot
recover the data stored on your smartphone or memory
card. Encrypting your files can take an hour or more.
Leave your smartphone plugged in, and be careful not to
interrupt the process.
Encryption protects the accounts, settings, apps, and
files on your smartphone, so that people cannot access
them if your smartphone is stolen.
To encrypt your smartphone and require a PIN or
password whenever you turn on your smartphone:
Find it: Tap Ap ps >
Settings
>
Security
>
Encrypt
phone
Backup & restore
Your Google™ account data is backed up online. So, if
you reset or replace your smartphone, just log into your
Google account to restore the contacts, events, and
other details you synced with the account. To choose
what syncs with the account, tap Apps >
Settings
>
Accounts & sync
, tap your Google™ account, and check
things to sync. Please note that text messages, call logs,
and items stored on your smartphone will not be
restored. To restore your Google Play™ Store apps, see
“Take Care of your apps”.
Reset
To reset your smartphone to factory settings and erase all
the data on your smartphone, tap Apps >
Settings
>
Privacy
>
Factory Data Reset
>
Reset Phone
.
Warning: All downloaded apps and user data on your
smartphone will be deleted. Data on your micro SIM card
and microSD memory card will not be deleted.
Protect
Quick start: Protect
Screen lock
SIM lock
Encrypt your smartphone
Backup & restore
Reset
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