How To Reset Goggle Home, Mini& Max?

The Google Assistant-controlled Home Mini provides us with a huge load of value for our money with incredible sound, responsive microphones, and plenty of other smart features going from brilliant home control to the capacity to go about as a language mediator.

The first generation or original Google Home Mini is an outstanding player for a savvy home irrespective of its size, with first-and outsider developers, who have made a wide range of intelligent abilities and many features that are controlled by the super responsive Google Assistant. Its reasonable and affordable rate makes it quite popular and is found in almost every third household.

Method To Reset Goggle Home,Mini & Max

Talking about the first-gen Google Home Mini, it doesn’t have a committed factory reset button. Rather than that, it utilizes the Microphone Mute button on the backside of the gadget to serve the purpose.

We should also take note of the fact that a reset can’t be performed using the Google Home Application.
Now, the steps as to how Google Home Mini can be reset are as follows – :

Step 1: Look for a circle etched into the base –

To locate this factory reset button, we can look for a tiny and outlined circle that would be etched on the bottom of the device and towards the lower end. It should now be easily located.

Step-2: Press and hold the factory reset button –

The reset button is close to where the power cord connects and is situated on the level part of the lower part of the speaker. It’s a very tiny circle. Now, we long press and hold this factory reset button.

Step 3: After a few seconds –

After we press and hold the factory reset button, then immediately after 5 seconds our device will start the factory reset process.

Also, after these 5 seconds we will hear a sound, more like a warning, that our device is about to completely reset Google Home.

This is just a signal for us to let us know that we are on the right track and also if someone has pressed this button by mistake then this sound will warn them as well.

Step-4: Continue to hold –

Afterward, we should further continue to hold this button a little longer, for about 10 more seconds. We must continue holding and pressing this button till we can hear a tone.

Once we hear this tone, we can release the button. With this, we can now wait for the speaker to reset and restart and our job here is done.

How To Reset Goggle Home Mini Gen 2?

The current generation or the gen-2 speaker, the Goggle Nest Mini costs about $50. It is pretty reasonable and thus popular.

The Google Nest Mini doesn’t have a committed FDR button like the first-gen speaker has.

Instead, it utilizes the microphone on and off button for this purpose. We need to slide this microphone button to the off position.

We will then be able to listen to the Google Assistant announcing that the microphone button is off. After this, we shall see the lights on the top of the speaker pulse orange.

Apart from this, resetting a Google Home Mini (first-gen) and resetting a Goggle Nest Mini (second or current-gen) are somewhat the same.

After the above-mentioned step, the rest of the steps to reset this further are the same as mentioned above for the first-gen.

How To Reset Goggle Home Mini To Factory Reset?

We can now reset the gadget and restore the same by just holding down the factory data reset button. It is also called the FDR button.

A factory data reset deletes all information put away on the gadget, including settings and any private information that is available on the device.

Performing a factory reset takes about a minute at the most and is just the same like we reset the Google Home Mini.

We can now follow the steps mentioned under the topic ‘How To Reset Goggle Home Mini?’ to further go with this process and we are good to go!

How To Reset Goggle Home Mini Without A Button?

Just like the Google Home Mini gen-2, it utilizes the microphone button and does not have a factory reset button.
The steps mentioned under the heading ‘How To Reset Goggle Home Mini Gen 2?’ gives the answer for this.

Just Need To Reboot?

In the event that we are attempting to reboot our Google Home Mini as opposed to performing an all-out factory reset process, we can now attempt a basic power cycle. Let us see some points for this process 

We should start this process by unplugging our device. Keep it unplugged for about a minute. Make sure of the fact that the device is unplugged for a minute or above but not less than a minute. After this, we plug the device back in.

We can also use the Google Home App to go with this process. Simply go to the Settings menu and under that, the Device Settings option.

Then we need to press the More button, which is basically the three dots that will be shown there. Lastly, we select the Reboot option. With this we can reboot our device using this app as well.

How To Reset Your Google Mini If The Usual Process Doesn’t Work?

If our speaker is making much trouble and creating a ruckus, it probably won’t respond to the typical reset process we talked about earlier. On the off chance that we can’t get the speaker to reset,

Google has thus incorporated a reinforcement technique for resetting the Google Mini device indeed.

An expression of caution: It’s tedious and dreary. Yet, it ought to work regardless of whether the essential strategy falls flat. Follow these steps to further go with this :

Step-1 : We start by unplugging our Google Mini. We then wait for about 10-12 seconds and plug it back in. We have to wait till all the lights (four) which are on the top of the speaker, light up.

Step-2 : We then need to repeat Step-1 for 10 more times to get a result. This 11 times, including the first time in the first step and then 10 more times in the second step, should be done in quick succession.

Step-3 : Now, the last time, the 11th time we plug our device back in, it should take longer to restart than any other time. This is now resetting and when it turns back on, it will be factory reset indeed.

Final Talk 

We can now use our Google Home Mini device with utmost ease. Whether it is the first-gen model or the second-gen model, this article tells us how to reset these models and fix any other issues concerning this device.