USSD codes part 2...make ur android phone safe from Hard Reset and Soft Reset USSD code

“Necessity is the mother of invention”. When someone said this, he/she didn’t think whether the “invention” is going to be used for the welfare of mankind or for the destruction of it. They (the inventors) were just like the hunters who were hunting in the field of science to discover something new which can ease the mankind.

 However the humans, for whom they were hunting, weren’t all the same. They mended the inventions, the discovery according to their own use.  Like someone used nuclear reaction to establish a Tower of free clean nuclear energy to suffice the growing energy need of population while someone used it to develop nuclear arsenal to put an end to the war to make a firm stand in the war of nations.

Everything, every discovery, every invention has its benevolent and malevolent properties that just depend on the persons using them. Like the android operating system, an open – source operating system developed by Google initially , which is booming these days as the best ever operating system for smart-phones as compared to windows for Nokia, IOS for I-phones and etc.

As it is open source, so it is being developed simultaneously by different developer day to day and simultaneously its vulnerability is increasing from the threats too. 

In continuation from my recent post on the use of USSD codes as a method to erase your phone data from your phone browser(click here to read it) here I am again with two USSD code which can give soft and hard reset to your android phone.

Soft Reset Code for Android: *#*#7780#*#*:- This USSD code will simply put your phone to default settings. It will delete your phone account setting, system and application data settings and downloaded applications.

However it won’t delete your default applications, natural software and files on memory card.  

Hard Reset Code for Android: *2767*3855#:- This USSD code will put your phone in FACTORY settings (a shortcut for factory setting to your phone with bypassing the passwords you have set to access this setting).

It will simply clear all the setting, all the internal memory, all the files which you have in your phone till now. In short it will make your phone new like as just out of Factory (the reason because of which it is called as Factory reset mode).

If you run this USSD code, your firmware will be re-installed. However if you run this code , neither you will get any notification nor any permission requests, the only way to stop it is to pull  battery out of your phone , however I don’t know how it will effect to your phone if you do this in the middle of the process. 

So if you want to feel safe for your phone either handover your phone on trust-able guys or make it secure by using access code or pattern lock feature because you don’t know that whether the person you are handling your phone is either angel or demon from his/her mind .