[Guide] How to Hard Reset Android LG K4 to Remove PIN, Pattern Lock, Forgotten Password.

Hard Reset LG K4. This device has many version, among others are K120E (Europe); K130E (Russia); K121 (Canada), Today's guidebelajar will explain to you how to perform hard reset on LG K4 smartphone. LG K4 is the smartphone with 4,5 Inchi IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, work on Android OS, v5.1.1 (Lollipop) and supported with Quad-core 1.0 GHz Cortex-A53 Processor, chipset Mediatek MT6735M, GPU Mali-T720MP2. combined with 1 GB of RAM and 5 MP on Primary camera and 2 MP on secondary camera. This LG K4 is released on 2016, January.

Hard reset process is also called a master reset or factory reset. Here are some reasons why should we perform hard reset on our Android smartphone device ;

• Because we will sell our LG K4 Android phones.
• Our LG K4 has been lagging and stuck on android logo, this call with bootloop
• There are many bug on LG K4.
• We have forgotten on PIN or Patern Lock at LG K4.
• We will give our LG K4 away to some one else, and we don't want that one know everything about our secret data, so we have to erase all data before back up it.
• Because We want to remove all personal data and setting that was stored in LG K4.device.
• and many other reason.

How to Force Shutdown or Soft Reset or Reboot or Restart LG K4.

If your LG K4 start to act not normal or the LG K4 freeze in the middle when running applications, You need to force shutdown or soft reset using several steps. The recommended and easy steps to force soft reset for LG K4 is by removing the battery after remove the back case carefully. Wait about 5 seconds then put again the battery at the right positions. Doing soft reset will remove any temporary files and cache which sometime can make our LG K4 become stuck or not work properly. We can also doing restart while the phone still work or ON by press and hold Power button until pop-up menu appear to shutdown or turn off or restart. Doing soft reset is safe, nothing will be remove or uninstall, therefore we can do this soft reset anytime we want.

1st Method. Hard Reset LG K4 Using Menu :

1. Make sure your batery is fully charged, Recomended you have 80% of battery capacity
2. Then Backup your LG K4. see this guide
3. Go to menu: System Setting >
4. Select Backup and Reset >
5. Factory Data Reset > 
6. Reset Phone
7. Choose Erase everything to confirm that you already to perform hard reset on LG K4
8. LG K4 will continue to hard reset process to restore factory default.

2ndMethode. Hard Reset LG K4 Using Hardware Keys:

1. Make sure your battery is fully charged, we recommend that your battery has 80% power
2. Always BackUp your important data that store in LG K4. see this guide
3. Turn Off your LG K4 by hold and press Power Button for a second.
4. Release any SIM card and SD card that was installed on your LG K4 smartphone.
5. Then press and hold a combination key Volume Down + Power button at the same time.



Hard Reset Android LG K4

6. Release the Power button only, while keep pressing the Volume Down.And then press once more the Power button.
7. Then, You should release all buttons when the Factory Mode appears on the LG K4 screen.
8. Wait a while, you will enter Factory Data reset to erase all user data and restore default setting.
9. On this screen you can use Volume Up or Volume down button to select menu, and excute your choice using power button. 
10. If you select Yes your phone will start erase all user data and restore default setting, and your phone will show screen like this picture.
    
11. You can wait a while for  LG K4 to reboot system
12. Done, your hard reset process success now.