In this guide, we will show you the steps to restart the setup wizard on your Android device without doing a factory reset. Recently, I was testing out the newly unboxed Pixel 8 Pro on which I hadn’t signed in with my Google account, in other words, entirely skipped the initial setup screen that we were greeted with. This is because I first wanted to fiddle with a few ADB & Fastboot commands and tweak the device settings as per a few pre-determined factors.
Once that went through successfully, I could then transfer the data from my old device with ease. Or so I thought. While you could easily restore the data from the backed-up Google account by simply adding that account as and when required, that doesn’t seem to be the case with transferring data from an old device as that feature is nowhere to be found in the device, apart from the Setup Wizard.
But that wizard only comes up when you set up the device for the first time or if you have performed a data reset. If I ended up doing a reset, then I would have lost all the tweaks and settings that I had made earlier. So is there any other way to restart the setup wizard on Android without doing a factory reset? Well, it turns out there is one and in this guide, we will make you aware of just that. Follow along.
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How to Restart the Setup Wizard on Android [Without Factory Reset]
- First off, enable USB Debugging and connect your device to your PC via USB cable.
- Now download and extract Android SDK Platform Tools on your PC.
- Then head over to its address bar, type in CMD, and hit Enter. This will launch the Command Prompt.
- Now type in the below command. You might get a prompt, tap Allow/OK.
adb shell
Method 1: Without R00t
Just execute the below command in the CMD window and your task stands complete :
am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.google.android.setupwizard/.deferred.DeferredSetupWizardActivity
Method 2: Via Root
- To begin with, root your device via Magisk.
- Then type in the below command. You’ll get a SuperUser request, tap Grant.
su
- Now type in the following command to re-enable Setup Wizard
pm enable com.google.android.setupwizard/com.google.android.setupwizard.SetupWizardActivity
- Then type in the below command to set the setup complete status to False.
settings put secure user_setup_complete 0
- Finally, restart the device and you should get the Setup Wizard upon a reboot.
That’s it. These were the steps to restart the setup wizard on your Android device without doing a factory reset. If you have any queries concerning the aforementioned steps, do let us know in the comments. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
