Planning on factory resetting your mobile phone and you’re not sure if indeed it will affect your sim card if you leave the sim card in the phone while performing a factory reset on your mobile phone, I’m here to clear your mind.
To answer your questions of should i remove my sim card before factory reset my mobile phone?
Or probably leave the sim card right inside the phone as nothing will happen to it whilst resetting my phone.
The truth is, most people don’t really understand what factory reset means, and this is why you see questions like this pop up on the internet;
Does factory reset affect sim card?
Before going straight to the answer, let me explain to you that factory resetting a phone is different from resetting a sim card. I don’t really think an individual or a user can reset a sim card other than the network provider.
Should i remove my sim card before factory reset
There’s no need to remove your sim card before factory reset your mobile phone because your sim card won’t be affected by the reset. Absolutely nothing will happen to the sim after you reset your mobile phone.
Most people do think that since a sim card is inside the mobile phone, factory reset will indeed affect the sim card and also remove or erase data from the sim card. But I’m telling you that such thing will never happen, I did my findings before writing this post.
I first backed up my phone, left my sim card inside the phone and boom pressed on the button to factory reset my phone. After it was done, my contacts and even my messages were untouched or unaffected with the hard reset.
I tried it a couple of times to be quite sure and I’m telling you that absolutely nothing happened to my sim card, and no data was erased from the sim card.
Prior to that, I first contacted my network provider and they assured me that nothing will happen to the sim as they are the only eligible person to reset the sim card. And what they said was true, nothing happened to my sim card, nothing was affected and no data was erased from the sim card.
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This isn’t just about my sim card, but also applied to any other sim card. So looking at the question of should i remove my sim card before factory reset, I say there’s no need to do that cause your sim card will be untouched, it won’t reset.
Does factory reset erase sim card?
No. Factory reset does not erase the sim card but rather the phone itself as the sim card will be untouched during the factory reset.
It is only your network provider that can erase your sim card or reset your sim card. There’s no harm in trying, all you need to do is to backup your phone and hard reset your phone. You will see that your sim card won’t be affected at all but rather only your mobile phone will be erased.
Whatever I write on this website, I first of all do a research before writing and I’m assuring you that I factory reset my phone, and my sim card was not affected. All my sim data was available immediately I rebooted my phone, only my phone data was erased
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Afterwards I restored my backed up data back to my phone.
Can i do a factory reset without a sim card?
Yes of course, you can do a factory reset without a SIM card as sim card has nothing to do with resetting a mobile phone. Most people that are afraid of losing their sim card data, thinking that factory reset will also erase their sim don’t leave their sim card inside their phone while performing a factory reset on their phone.
There’s no place where it states you must leave your sim card inside your phone while performing a factory hard reset on the phone even though nothing will happen to the sim card.
If you’re not comfortable with leaving your sim card inside your phone during factory reset, kindly pull out the SIM card from your phone, and do your factory reset.
However, make sure you backed up your phone cause that’s what matters most in this aspect and not the sim card itself. Remember, we’re still focused on the topic of the post should i remove my sim card before factory reset.
So there’s no need asking can you do a factory reset without a sim card because there’s no law or rule that states you must do a factory reset with your sim card right inside your phone else the factory reset won’t work.
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With or without the sim card, you can factory reset your mobile phone as it doesn’t concern or have anything to do with your sim card or even the micro SD card.
Do you remove SIM card before erasing iPhone?
It is not a must to remove or leave your sim card inside your phone before erasing your iphone, without or without your sim card you can easily erase your iphone.
Mind you, if you leave your sim card inside and erased your iphone, your sim card will not be affected but rather your phone only. However, I tried this using a factory unlocked iPhone xs max though I do believe it is the same with the locked iPhone.
So what I’m trying to tell you is that there’s no need to remove your sim unless you’re very scared to death of loosing your sim card information even though nothing will happen to the sim, no data will be lost during the process.
Does removing SIM card reset phone
Absolutely no. Removing a sim card does not reset the phone and does nothing to the phone other than the contacts stored in the sim will disappear and if they are indeed stored in the sim card.
You can remove your sim card from your phone but make sure that all your contacts are not stored in the sim else you won’t see them on your phone. Once you remove the sim card from your mobile phone, you’re also removing your contacts from your phone as well.should i remove my sim card before factory reset.
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Can I still use my phone after a factory reset
Once you’re done with the factory reset, you can start using your phone by first restoring your backed up data and files to your phone, and you’re good to go.
Once everything is in order and there’s was no issues, you can start to use your phone. Factory resetting a phone means setting the phone back to its original state or the way it was when you first opened it from the box.
There’s nothing much to say about this on should i remove my sim card before factory reset, and I do hope to have cleared your fear on resetting your phone while sim card is inside your phone.
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If you have more questions based on this topic of should i remove my sim card before factory reset, I’m here to assist you and to clear your mind so kindly drop your comments below.
This article proved to be very helpful because I’ve been using a Samsung Galaxy On 7 Pro since 2016 August and it being a gift from my granddaughters, I couldn’t say no to it. Then some problem occurred with the SAMSUNG logo being stuck and the phone not starting up. I’m no tech wizard but am pretty sure that resetting the device would’ve surely affected my pictures. More than the pictures itself, for me what was important were the messages and the contact information of all the members of the family.
Maxson C. Guerrero, 73
Cultivator, Mexico.