Are you tired of the slowness of your smartphone, or do you have non-stop bugs that prevent you from using your OPPO A16 in a normal way? If you are faced with a blocked smartphone, you have only a few solutions left to restart it. We will precisely, through this guide, show you how to force an OPPO A16 to restart! To do this, we will first explain to you in which situation it is relevant to restart it forcefully. Then, secondly, the different techniques to force restart your OPPO A16.

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When is it necessary to force restart your OPPO A16?

Before explaining to you how to force restart your OPPO A16, we will first take a look at the different circumstances in which it may be necessary to do so. You should know that restarting your phone is an ordinary procedure that is important to perform regularly, even if your OPPO A16 is working properly. Indeed, we have become so dependent on our phones that we tend to keep them on all the time. Leaving a smartphone permanently on has some negative effects. Indeed, the more time passes, you will accumulate small bugs that will disturb the operation of your OPPO A16. It is therefore necessary, from time to time, to restart it.

Now we come to the facts. If you are here it means that you cannot perform this simple procedure. You must therefore suffer from bugs that prevent you from doing so. Here are the cases in which it may make sense to perform this procedure:

  • Your OPPO A16 is no longer responding, you are stuck viewing an application. You can first, via the » Application manager  »Try to close the problematic application. You can reach this menu by pressing the key with the three vertical bars at the bottom of your screen.
  • Your OPPO A16 is totally frozen and even by pressing the power key it does not turn off or restart. Therefore, it will be necessary to apply one of the two techniques that we will explain to you below. You are probably the target of a bug in the Android operating system which prevents any action on your OPPO A16. This phenomenon is often called a “freeeze”.

The different techniques to force restart an OPPO A16?

After investigating the cause of the concern that causes you to force restart your OPPO A16 , now is the time to introduce you to the three techniques you can use. In the event that you have too frequent bugs on your smartphone, it may be useful to format your OPPO A16.

Perform a classic forced restart of your OPPO A16

We start by presenting the first and simplest method. We advise you to start with this before embarking on a more complex technique. This technique has the advantage of simply reboot your OPPO A16. Normally the ordinary procedure would be that you leave your power button pressed for a few seconds to see the power-up menu appear with the options "shut down", "restart" and "emergency mode". That said, in the event that after a few tries it does not appear and that your OPPO A16 remains frozen, you must use the forced restart procedure, nothing could be simpler:

  • Press your power key and volume down button at the same time.
  • Hold for a few moments until your OPPO A16 vibrates and the logo appears on the screen.
  • Your smartphone will now restart normally.

If this manipulation was not enough to unlock it, you will have to try one of the following.

Force extend an OPPO A16

Before going through the secure mode of your OPPO A16, we advise you to try to force the extinction of your smartphone and to try to turn it on normally later. You should allow your smartphone to be free from bugs. The handling is not much different from that of the forced restart:

  • Press the power button on your OPPO A16.
  • Hold the button down for at least ten seconds
  • Your smartphone will now turn off.
  • You will only have to launch a restart and check that there is no particular bug.

Use safe mode to force your OPPO A16 to restart

At the end of this article, assuming that despite the first two attempts, you still cannot restart your OPPO A16. You only have one option left, use safe mode to force restart your OPPO A16. This manipulation is not particularly complicated, you will simply have to use the secure mode of your smartphone which is a little different from normal use of it. This mode aims to operate the phone only with the minimum, essential for its proper functioning. You will suddenly only operational native applications. This will also allow you to identify the cause of your bug. Assuming that your OPPO A16 is working correctly in secure mode, it is surely one of your applications (not up to date? ) that is causing your problems. Check out the procedure below:

  • Turn off your OPPO A16 with one of the two techniques seen above.
  • Turn on your OPPO A16.
  • Keep the volume button down when you see the logo appear.
  • Your smartphone will restart in secure mode.

If you want a lot of tutorials to become the king of the OPPO A16, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: OPPO A16.