Grayed out factory reset - Samsung Galaxy A8 (2018) Questions & Answers

Hi all!
I have a friend who has an A8 2018. It was sold to him by some guy. And unfortunately he did not check everything. When he got home and about factory reset, he noticed that the factory reset is grayed out.
He tried to enter recovery but it just booted to start the device.
Hope someone can help.

mejonoobpoako said:
Hi all!
I have a friend who has an A8 2018. It was sold to him by some guy. And unfortunately he did not check everything. When he got home and about factory reset, he noticed that the factory reset is grayed out.
He tried to enter recovery but it just booted to start the device.
Hope someone can help.
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you can either factory reset via stock recovery or flash the stock firmware via Odin then factory reset in stock recovery if the first option doesnt work

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Today I wanted to reset my phone, I backed up everything and tapped on "reset". Now my phone has been showing an Android logo and says erasing for at least a half an hour. I tried to reset from recovery also but when I chose Recovery it displayed the same Android again.
I am running stock Android 4.4.2 with stock recovery. Bootloader is also locked. I have great experience in Android, however I have never faced an issue like this! Please help, thank you!
I'd recommend to reset via factory image. There's a tutorial in the General section
experience7 said:
I'd recommend to reset via factory image. There's a tutorial in the General section
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It seems I was a bit impatient. Now it is showing the bootlogo! I didn't suppose that it takes so much time! Btw thanks for the quick answer!

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Use helium for recovery data
Peluche321 said:
Use helium for recovery data
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Before or after the a Flash? Thanks for the reply.

[Q] Factory Reset cannot performed after root is removed

Before I do factory reset, I removed the root under SuperSU settings.
But unfortunately, when I try to do factory reset, my phone rebooted twice and starts normally.
THE ROOT GET BACK AGAIN AND FACTORY RESET DOES NOT DONE!
It seems recovery mode has some problem, don't know what problem is it.
Is any way to fix it? MY PHONE IS ZENFONE 5 (T00J)
David.Tay said:
Before I do factory reset, I removed the root under SuperSU settings.
But unfortunately, when I try to do factory reset, my phone rebooted twice and starts normally.
THE ROOT GET BACK AGAIN AND FACTORY RESET DOES NOT DONE!
It seems recovery mode has some problem, don't know what problem is it.
Is any way to fix it? MY PHONE IS ZENFONE 5 (T00J)
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Sounds like your device comes prerooted and if that's the case you can't remove it with a factory reset. This is common among Chinese devices.
zelendel said:
Sounds like your device comes prerooted and if that's the case you can't remove it with a factory reset. This is common among Chinese devices.
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My device is not prerooted. Before I rooting it, my device still can do factory reset. But after I rooted I can't do it anymore.
It seems like the recovery mode is dead or whatever, do you know how to fix it?
Dont worry all you need to do is to flash the frimware for your device using CWM/TWRP.
You can find your frimware from this site.
http://www.asuszenfoneblog.com/search/label/Firmware
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I was wondering if it would be safe to factory reset my phone after unrooting it with SuperSU. Many months back I rooted my phone with Towelroot and now I want to factory reset my phone because of many problems I have been having. I was wondering if it would be safe to unroot my phone with SuperSU and then do a factory reset with no problem.
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Hi,
I was wondering if it would be safe to factory reset my phone after unrooting it with SuperSU. Many months back I rooted my phone with Towelroot and now I want to factory reset my phone because of many problems I have been having. I was wondering if it would be safe to unroot my phone with SuperSU and then do a factory reset with no problem.
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My phone kept on restarting on its own and kept getting stuck in small boot loops so I decided to unroot it. I'm now going to do a factory reset and hopefully everything will be fine.
Mon431 said:
My phone kept on restarting on its own and kept getting stuck in small boot loops so I decided to unroot it. I'm now going to do a factory reset and hopefully everything will be fine.
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Problem with that is that my phone wont let me do a factory reset by going into the settings menu and then selecting backup & reset and then going into the factory reset menu. Once there and i try to tap the reset tab, it does nothing at all. Is there another way that i can reset my device?
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