Picture of the Amazon Echo Spot Alexa speaker, displaying its Select Device Language screen.

How to Reset Echo Spot Smart Speaker

You might reset Echo Spot smart speaker and reset settings to their factory default values, to fix 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 resetting.  You won’t be able to reset it with the Echo Spot powered off.

How to Reset Echo Spot Smart Speaker

1. Swipe down from Screen Top

Next, pull down the main menu screen as shown in the next pictures.

Picture of a finger swiping down from the top of the screen on the Amazon Echo Spot speaker, to pull down the main menu.
Amazon Echo Spot speaker. Showing swiping down from top of screen for the main menu.

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

Picture of a finger continuing to swipe down toward the center of the Amazon Echo Spot speaker screen, to reveal its main menu.
Continuing to swipe down toward screen center reveals main menu.

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.

Picture of the speaker's Main Menu screen, with the Settings button highlighted.
Displaying the speaker’s Main Menu screen, with the Settings button highlighted.

The Settings screen then displays, as shown next.

Picture of the Amazon Echo Spot Alexa speaker, displaying its Settings screen.
Amazon Echo Spot Alexa speaker, displaying its Settings screen.

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

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





Now you’re looking for the Device Options item.

Picture of the speaker's Settings screen. Showing a finger swiping up to scroll down through the list of settings.
The speaker’s Settings screen. Showing a finger swiping up to scroll down through the list of settings.

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

See this item displayed next.

Picture of the Amazon Echo Spot speaker, showing its Settings menu, with the Device Options item highlighted.
Amazon Echo Spot speaker, showing its Settings menu, with the Device Options item highlighted.

5. Then Tap the Device Options Item

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

Picture of the speaker, displaying its Device Options screen, at top of the options list.
The speaker displaying its Device Options screen, at top of the options list.

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

This then scrolls down through the Device Options list.

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

Picture of the Amazon Echo Spot smart speaker, showing the Reset To Factory Defaults option highlighted on its Device Options screen.
Amazon Echo Spot smart speaker, showing the Reset To Factory Defaults option highlighted on its Device Options screen.

7. Tap the Reset to Factory Defaults Option

The Reset to Factory Defaults confirmation screen then appears.

Here, Echo Spot warns us that resetting will deregister it from our Amazon account. Then, after the factory reset finishes, it further 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.

Picture of the speaker, displaying its Reset To Factory Defaults screen, with the Yes-Continue button highlighted.
The speaker displaying its Reset To Factory Defaults screen, with the Yes-Continue button highlighted.

8. Tap the Confirmation / Yes Button

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 Begins

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

Picture of the Amazon Echo Spot speaker, showing orange light ring as Factory Reset operation starts.
Amazon Echo Spot speaker, showing orange light ring as 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. Shown next.

Picture of the speaker with dark screen. It is powered off.
The speaker with dark screen. It is powered off.

Echo Spot Starts Booting

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

Picture of the Amazon Echo Spot speaker booting, showing the Amazon logo screen.
Amazon Echo Spot speaker booting, showing the Amazon logo screen.

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

Picture of the speaker booting, and displaying its Wait screen.
Showing the speaker booting, and displaying its Wait screen.

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.

Picture of the Amazon Echo Spot visual speaker booting, showing its Echo logo wait screen.
Amazon Echo Spot visual speaker 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 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.

Picture of the speaker, showing the start of its Optimizing operation.
The speaker showing the start of its Optimizing operation.

 

Picture of the Amazon Echo Spot Alexa speaker, in middle of Optimizing operation.
Amazon Echo Spot Alexa speaker, in middle of Optimizing operation.

 

Picture of the speaker, finishing up optimization after factory reset.
The speaker, finishing up optimization after factory reset.

Finally, the Echo Spot Reset Process Finishes

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

Picture of the Amazon Echo Spot speaker with Alexa, displaying its Getting Your Device Online screen.
Amazon Echo Spot speaker with Alexa, displaying its Getting Your Device Online screen.

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.

Picture of the Amazon Echo Spot Alexa speaker, displaying its Select Device Language screen.
Amazon Echo Spot Alexa speaker, displaying its Select Device Language screen.

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

  1. Amazon Help: How to Reset your Echo Devices

Revision History

  • 2020-04-12: Added more tags.
  • 2018-12-10: First published.