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Echo Spot How to Factory Reset to Default Settings

Explains the Echo Spot How to Factory Reset to Default Settings procedure, to fix faulty behavior. Or do this to put it on a different Amazon account. You might also reset to prepare it for sale or gifting.  Furthermore, when troubleshooting, it’s usually best before deciding that the Spot has damage, to try a factory reset.  So in this piece, we give this reset routine next.

What You Should Do First

Power up your Echo Spot before proceeding.

Echo Spot How to Factory Reset to Default Settings: Step by Step

1. Next, Swipe Down from Screen Top

Pull down the main menu screen as shown in the next pictures.

The Echo Spot speaker. Showing swiping down from top of screen for the main menu.

This reveals the Echo Spot control menu, as shown next.

Continuing to swipe down toward screen center reveals main menu.

2. Then, Tap the  Settings Button

This is the gear-shaped icon near the top right edge of the screen.

The Main Menu screen, showing  the -Settings- button. You must go into the menus to reset the Echo Spot to factory settings.

The  Settings  screen then displays.

The -Settings- screen.

3. Next, Scroll Down the Settings Screen to Continue with Echo Spot How to Factory Reset to Default Settings

You can navigate the Settings screen by moving finger up on the Echo Spot touchscreen.

You’re looking for the  Device Options  item.

Showing a finger swiping up on the -Settings- page to scroll down through the list of settings.

4. Stop Swiping when you See the Device Options Menu Item

See this item displayed next.

The -Device Options- item.

5. Then, Tap the Device Options  Item

This brings up the Device Options screen.

The -Device Options- screen, at top of the options list.

6. Move Finger Up On Screen to Continue with Echo Spot How to Factory Reset to Default Settings

This scrolls down through the Device Options list.

You are looking for the  Reset to Factory Defaults   option, as shown next, pointed at by the green arrow.

The Echo Spot displaying the -Reset To Factory Defaults- option on the -Device Options- screen.

7. Tap the  Reset to Factory Defaults Option

You then get the Reset to Factory Defaults confirmation screen.  Here, Echo Spot warns that resetting will deregister it from our Amazon account. Then, it explains that we can register Echo Spot again. We can do that with either the same account, or a different Amazon account.  Finally, the Spot asks if we really want to deregister it.

The -Reset To Factory Defaults- screen, showing the -Yes-Continue- button.

8. Tap the Confirmation / Yes Button

That is, tap the right arrow button in the lower right edge of the touchscreen.

The Reset of the Echo Spot to Factory Default Settings Begins

The Echo Spot then begins the hard factory reset.  It lets us know this by briefly displaying an orange light ring.

The speaker, showing orange light ring as the Factory Reset operation starts.

Echo Spot Goes Dark Briefly

Next, after several seconds, the unit powers off, and accordingly, the screen goes blank and dark.

The Echo Spot with dark screen during reboot.

 

Echo Spot Starts Booting

After another few seconds, the smart speaker comes on again and begins booting.  The Amazon logo screen first appears.

The speaker booting, showing the Amazon logo screen.

Next, a sort of Wait screen displays, with a white light ring and flashing blue dots, as shown next.

The speaker displaying its -Wait- screen.

Various Logo Screens Then Appear

Then, the Echo logo screen appears, as the speaker erases all user data from its memory.

The speaker while booting, showing its -echo- logo wait screen.

Then, the Optimization Process Begins

Optimization consumes the most time during the hard reset process, taking several minutes to finish.  As it runs, the Spot displays a round progress bar ring. That ring slowly advances while the speaker optimizes the software and other resources.

The Echo Spot showing the start of its -Optimizing- operation during reset.

 

In middle of the -Optimizing- operation.

 

The Echo Spot finishing up optimization after reset to factory settings.

Echo Spot How to Factory Reset to Default Settings: Now Complete

Then after system optimization finishes, the Spot speaker displays the blue Getting Your Device Online… screen, as shown next.

The Echo Spot displaying its -Getting Your Device Online- screen after it reset to factory settings.

Lastly, after several seconds, the hard reset finishes.  You’ll know it’s complete when the Select Device Language screen appears.

The -Select Device Language- screen.

At this point, the reset operation is complete. So you may now set up your Echo Spot again, or get it ready to sell or gift.

Other Echo Spot Posts

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References for Echo Spot How to Factory Reset to Default Settings

    1. Amazon Help: How to Reset your Echo Devices
    2. Where to Buy an Echo Spot
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