How to Reset Echo Spot to Factory Settings

You might reset Echo Spot smart speaker and reset settings to their factory default values, to correct faulty behavior, put it on a different Amazon account, or to prepare it for sale or gifting.  Further, when troubleshooting this speaker, it’s always best, before deciding that the Amazon Echo Spot is damaged, to attempt a factory hard reset.  In this piece thus, we offer these reset instructions that show how to factory reset echo spot.

What you Should Do First

Power up your Echo Spot before proceeding.

How to Reset Echo Spot Amazon Speaker to Factory Default Settings

1. Swipe Down from Screen Top

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

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

2. Tap the  Settings  Button

This is the gear-shaped icon near the top right edge of the main menu screen, as pointed at by the green arrow in the next picture.

The  Settings  screen then displays, as shown next.

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

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

You’re looking for the  Device Options  item.

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

See this item displayed next.

5. Tap the  Device Options  Item

This brings up the Device Options screen, as shown next.

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

7. Tap the  Reset to Factory Defaults  Option

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

8. Tap the Confirmation / Yes Button to Continue with How to Reset Echo Spot to Factory Settings

That is, tap the right arrow button in the lower right edge of the touchscreen, pointed at by the green arrow in the last picture.

The Reset of the Echo Spot to Factory Settings Begins

The Echo Spot then begins the hard factory reset.  It lets us know this by briefly displaying an orange light ring around the outer edge of the screen face, as shown next.

Echo Spot Goes Dark Briefly

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

Echo Spot Starts Booting

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

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

Various Logo Screens Then Appear

Then, the Echo logo screen appears, as the speaker erases all previously used WiFi and account information from its memory, as displayed next.

Then, the Optimization Process Begins  

Optimization consumes the most time during the hard reset process, taking several minutes to finish.  As it runs, the Amazon Spot displays a round progress bar ring that slowly advances while it optimizes its software and other resources.  Shown in the next three pictures.

 

 

Finally, the Echo Spot Reset to Factory Settings Process Finishes

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

Lastly, after several seconds, the hard reset finishes.  You’ll know it’s done successfully when the Select Device Language screen appears, as shown next.

At this point, the factory reset Echo Spot operation has finished, and you may now set up your Alexa Spot again, or get it ready to sell or gift.

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References for How to Reset Echo Spot to Factory Settings

1. Amazon Help: How to Reset your Echo Devices

Revision History

• 2019-04-12: Tweaked the tags list.
• 2018-12-04: First published.