This article describes how to do a factory reset, also known as a hard reset, on your RCA tablet. Detailed instructions are given for both RCA Android and RCA Windows tablets. Further instructions are given for how to do a factory reset on Android tablets that are not able to fully boot up.
RCA tablets are popular and portable, meaning that they're exposed to a lot of malware, viruses, and accidents. If your RCA tablet got infected with a new virus or if you screwed up your system settings because you lost power while the tablet was updating, then you might need to do a factory reset, and return everything to its original settings. There are a couple of different ways you can do this, depending on what kind of tablet you have and what the problem is.
Before doing anything else, back up any photos, videos, and other files that you want to save onto the cloud or a storage device. After you finish the reset, you won't be able to recover them.
Android OS, Tablet Booting Up
If your tablet is still running but you need to do a factory reset, RCA Android tablets have a reset feature installed that you can easily use.
If something has gone seriously wrong and you can't even get your operating system going, then you aren't going to be able to access the Settings app, so the above method won't work for you. In that case, you are going to have to do a reset in recovery mode.
If your tablet is still running but you need to do a factory reset, you'll find that the reset procedure on an RCA Windows tablet is a little more complicated.
If you have any problems with these instructions, you can use RCA's Help options, which you can find here.
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