Time for Factory Reset

MY ANDROID PHONE needs a factory reset. It's more than five years old, has a cracked screen and a worn charging port, and its battery is well-worn.

by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel

MY ANDROID PHONE needs a factory reset. It's more than five years old, has a cracked screen and a worn charging port, and its battery is well-worn.

I watch it go from being fully charged to less than 10 per cent power in three hours. It feels very warm to touch. I think I have rogue app that's causing a problem so I'm looking at either a factory reset followed by restoring the phone's services from its saved settings in the cloud. I wouldn't mind losing all the images and videos stored in the phone's memory.

Any ideas?

In addition to recommending I keep the phone connected to mains power during my reset procedure, Redditers suggest I screencap my essential screens so I know how I had things set up. I have a "Start" folder containing my essentials.

Gmail
Chrome
Enpass (paid)
LinkedIn (paid)
Contacts
OneDrive (paid)
Instagram (time suck)
Calendar
Outlook
Yahoo Mail
TippLive (time suck)
Feedly (deleting paid)
Flickr (paid)
Zoho Campaigns (paid)
Bluesky (must map a domain there)
Threads

My Front Page

Theta because I use the Theta V camera in classes
Zoho CRM because I want to connect with actions
Messenger because I have its notifications turned off
Slack because I have its notifications turned off
Teams because I have its notifications turned off
Messages
Readwise for daily reviews
Phone because sometimes I can't see incoming calls on screen
Camera to review gallery
Obsidian because I sync content
Amplenote--must curate and remove
Airtable (paid)
Bing gets better every week
WhatsApp because I have its notifications turned off
Notion used in some of my teaching
Swarm because I want to remain mayor
Perplexity better than Google search
Microblog (paid)
Kindle (paid content)
Instapaper (paid)
iA Writer (paid)
Stoop Inbox (paid)

My Second Page

3C Android Tools Battery Manager (paid)
AZ Screen Recorder (paid)
Otter (paid)
Samsung Health (because  I want the watch0
Marco Polo (paid)
Spreaker (paid)
Spreaker Studio
Device Care

[Bernie Goldbach has owned a Note since they stopped catching fire.]

phones