Google Home Mini smart speaker with factory default reset In progress, showing scanning white lights on top.
Here we answer the question: How to hard reset Google Home Mini? You might hard reset your Mini to get it ready for sale or re gifting. Or, you want to connect it to a new Google account. Or you wish to log it into a new Wi-Fi network. Whatever your mission, this post will help you achieve it. To see how to hard reset Google Home Mini, follow the directions below.
Note that if you want to repair bizarre behavior, you may not have to run a complete hard reset. So, before hard resetting, try powering off the Mini for fifteen seconds. Turn it off by unplugging its AC power cable. Then, wait fifteen seconds. Finally, turn it on again. Cycling the power to the Mini often restores proper function.
But if simple power cycling does not fix the problem, read on. Or if you wish not to fix a problem but to give the unit away or sell it, then again, read on.
Warning. Know that once hard reset, you cannot work the Mini from the Google account where you had it connected before. To control the Mini again, run through the setup routine. In that routine, relink the speaker to that account once again, via the Google Home app. Or, connect it to another Google account. Either way, the choice is yours.
After boot completes, go on to step 2.
Find this button in the orange area on the bottom of the Mini Google Home, near the power cord USB plug.
One light on the top then lights up yellow, as shown next. Then, the Google assistant warns you that you’re about to hard reset the device. It announces that if you wish to bail out of the hard reset, release the reset button now. But keep holding the button in to perform the hard reset.
The first yellow light then comes on. Next, one more turns on every few seconds until the entire row of four lights up. Hard reset begins shortly after, as long as you keep the hard reset button firmly depressed.
Do not power off the Mini during the reset. Why? Because doing so could render it permanently damaged (bricked).
Let go of the button when the unit emits a short chime chord sound and the yellow lights go dark.
Hard reset begins once the lights go out and the unit stays dark for several seconds, as shown next.
After a pause, the white lights come back on. They show a scanning marquee pattern for three or five seconds, as shown next.
After some seconds, the Mini lights again goes dark as the reset finishes up. Then, the reboot after that hard reset starts, as shown next.
After several to ten seconds, the lights come back on, colored dim gray. They show a sort of scanning pattern, as shown next. This means that a reboot after the reset is in progress.
Several seconds into the reboot, the lights turn multi-colored as shown next.
Then, you hear the startup complete music and then the unit speaks, “Welcome to Google Home. To get started, download the Google Home app on a phone or tablet.”
This means that the Mini can now accept setup commands from the Google Home App. The Home Mini shows this by displaying the four white blips across its top. These lights show a dimming and then brightening pattern. See this in the next picture.
You may now give your Google Home Mini to another. You need not fear that they’ll access your settings or other personal info. Or, set it up again on your existing account, perhaps with a different Wi-Fi network or device name.
The light row then turns white with the four dots glowing. Then, the unit stays in setup mode until you run the setup procedure. Please note that the speaker will not function until fully set up and linked to a Google account.
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