How to Restart Setup Wizard on Android [Without Factory Reset]

In this guide, we will show you the steps to restart the setup wizard on your Android device without doing a factory reset. Recently, I was testing out the newly unboxed Pixel 8 Pro on which I hadn’t signed in with my Google account, in other words, entirely skipped the initial setup screen that we were greeted with. This is because I first wanted to fiddle with a few ADB & Fastboot commands and tweak the device settings as per a few pre-determined factors.

Once that went through successfully, I could then transfer the data from my old device with ease. Or so I thought. While you could easily restore the data from the backed-up Google account by simply adding that account as and when required, that doesn’t seem to be the case with transferring data from an old device as that feature is nowhere to be found in the device, apart from the Setup Wizard.

But that wizard only comes up when you set up the device for the first time or if you have performed a data reset. If I ended up doing a reset, then I would have lost all the tweaks and settings that I had made earlier. So is there any other way to restart the setup wizard on Android without doing a factory reset? Well, it turns out there is one and in this guide, we will make you aware of just that. Follow along.

  • How to Restart the Setup Wizard on Android [Without Factory Reset] Method 1: Without R00t Method 2: Via Root

How to Restart the Setup Wizard on Android [Without Factory Reset]

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  1. First off, enable USB Debugging and connect your device to your PC via USB cable.
  2. Now download and extract Android SDK Platform Tools on your PC.
  3. Then head over to its address bar, type in CMD, and hit Enter. This will launch the Command Prompt.
  4. Now type in the below command. You might get a prompt, tap Allow/OK. adb shell

Method 1: Without R00t

Just execute the below command in the CMD window and your task stands complete :

am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.google.android.setupwizard/.deferred.DeferredSetupWizardActivity

Method 2: Via Root

  1. To begin with, root your device via Magisk.
  2. Then type in the below command. You’ll get a SuperUser request, tap Grant. su
  3. Now type in the following command to re-enable Setup Wizard pm enable com.google.android.setupwizard/com.google.android.setupwizard.SetupWizardActivity
  4. Then type in the below command to set the setup complete status to False. settings put secure user_setup_complete 0
  5. Finally, restart the device and you should get the Setup Wizard upon a reboot.
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  • TecnoLogic 1 year ago Reply The non-root method is not working on my A13 Tecno phone. I’m getting the “permission denial: requires android.permission.BIND_DEVICE_ADMIN” Attempted to solve doing”pm grant permission.BIND_DEVICE_ADMIN” but then the shell command give another permission error: requires com.android.setupwizard.SETUP stuck at this point. How do I get this right without factory reset? Thanks for all the useful input on this site, btw. Saved me a lot of times on multiple devices👍
  • Arthur Sexton 1 year ago Reply Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cmp=com.google.android.setupwizard/.deferred.DeferredSetupWizardActivity } Error type 3 Error: Activity class {com.google.android.setupwizard/com.google.android.setupwizard.deferred.DeferredSetupWizardActivity} does not exist.

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