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Encrypt your smartphone
Caution: If you forget your encryption code, you cannot
recover the data stored on your smartphone. Encrypting your
files can take an hour or more. Leave your smartphone plugged
in, and be careful not to interrupt the process.
Encryption protects the accounts, settings, apps, and files on
your smartphone, so that people cannot access them if your
smartphone is stolen.
To encrypt your smartphone and require a PIN or password
whenever you turn on your smartphone:
Find it: Tap Apps
>
phone
Backup & restore
Your Google account data is backed up online. If you reset or
replace your smartphone, just log in to your Google account to
restore the contacts, events, and other details you synced with
the account. To choose what syncs with the account, tap
Apps
>
>
Settings
and check things to sync. Please note that text messages, call
logs, and items stored on your smartphone will not be restored.
To restore your Google Play Store apps, see "Take care of your
apps" on page 14.
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Protect
>
>
Settings
Security
Encrypt
, tap your Google account,
Google
Reset
To reset your smartphone to factory settings and erase all the
data on your smartphone, tap Apps
>
Factory Data Reset
>
Reset Phone
Warning: All downloaded apps and user data on your
smartphone will be deleted. Data on the cloud will not be
deleted.
>
>
Settings
Privacy
.
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