Hard reset LG E450 (L5 2) if it stays on the logo

It seems to be a fairly common problem. Several readers have already told us what has happened to them and now it has happened to me too. Me LG L5 II (O LG E450) stays on the logo and does not start. Before that misfortune, he had been frozen in an application he was using. I turned it off, turned it back on, and it got stuck on the logo screen. For longer than I waited it did not start normally.

The first thing one should do in such cases is to try basic procedures: take out the battery for 5 or 10 minutes and take out the SIM card and SD memory card. Put the battery in after that time, turn it on and see if it is solved. Well, none of that worked for me. The only solution that remained was to do what is technically called a hard reset (synonymous with “Restore factory settings”).

Make him a Hard Reset to a phone means to return it to the factory state, that is, to the state it was when it was new. Doing this procedure means that all the data saved in the internal memory will be erased (applications, games, photos, etc.) and all the phone’s settings will return to their initial or factory state. Keep this in mind before performing this procedure on your phone.

Well, to the point. If your phone got stuck on the logo screen and it doesn’t go from there, you can try to Hard Reset it. Here’s how to do it on an LG L5. Its exact model is the E450, although it surely works with the LG E450G.

Hard Reset LG E450 (L5 2)

There are two possible ways to do it; both have worked for me on an LG L5 II. You must first turn off the phone and then try one of the following two procedures (repeat, with the phone turned off):

• Press at the same time botón de Encendido (Power) + botón de acceso rápido (el que está arriba de los botones de volumen) + Volumen menos
• Press at the same time botón de Encendido (Power) + Inicio + Volumen más y menos (pulsar en el medio de los dos botones de volumen)

For whatever method you have used, release all buttons when the LG logo appears. If there is no serious problem behind it, the phone should start normally after doing this. A screen with Korean language buttons (Chinese, Japanese, or similar) may appear. This is the initial setup screen. Normally the first button that appears is the one that will allow you to change the language to start with the initial configuration.

How to restore Android from FACTORY (format, reset)

Reset LG L5 II (E450) from Recovery Mode

Modo recovery in LG Optimus L5 II

This is a third alternative to reset this phone model and most Android phones. In the recovery mode of the phone there is an option called «wipe data/factory reset«, Which allows you to restore the factory settings (same as above). You just have to choose this option (using the volume keys) and press on it (start button) to carry out the process.

It is not entirely clear how to enter the recovery mode of the LG L5 II (E450). Here I indicate two options that can be tried. As before, first turn off the phone and then do any of the following three procedures (repeat, with the phone turned off):

• Turn on the phone normally. When the LG logo appears, press the Volume minus button and hold it down. Drop it when you start the recovery mode.
• Press at the same time botón de encendido (Power) + Inicio + Volumen más
• Press at the same time botón de encendido (Power) + Inicio + Volumen menos

In the last two cases, when the keys light up, release all of them except the Start key. Release this key when you enter recovery mode.

In my case none of this worked and probably this has to do with the fact that the bootloader is locked. This is another topic so for now we will stay here.

3 ways to enter Android recovery mode (Recovery)

About the LG L5 II E455

Everything said about the E450 model applies to the E455.

About the LG L5 II E460

In theory, the Hard Reset on this phone is done by following the steps below:

1. Turn it off.
2. Smash at the same time botón de encendido + Inicio + Volumen menos, for a time of 10 seconds.
3. When the LG logo appears release all buttons.
4. This process must be confirmed by the user: confirmation is done by pressing the power button twice.

Apparently this model it has no recovery mode.

There is. If for some reason you want to factory reset your phone and you cannot enter Settings> Security> Factory data reset (Hard Reset from Settings), you can apply this procedure. If your phone got frozen on the logo, won’t start or won’t turn on, luckily you have this wildcard in case of these problems.

Update: Review the factory restore Android article to find several ways to reset the device, in case the solution proposed here does not work or does not fix the problem. In theory, all the ways proposed there do the same thing, but sometimes one way of resetting the device can be more effective than another.