Q&A for How to Reset an Alcatel Phone

You can't skip start up, as it loads essential files and services that make your phone work.

When you reset your phone, the setup guide after you restart your phone will ask you to setup your Google account.

No. Performing a hard reset will not affect your phone number. Your call logs will be deleted, and if your contacts aren't saved to your sim, then they will be gone after.

The only way you can restore your photos is if you backed them up somehow, like using a SIM card or Google Photos. The restoration process will depend on how you backed up the photos.

Go to Settings and close all running background applications.

You can't; this is a built-in Google feature designed to protect the phones. When a phone is wiped -- either remotely or by the person who has the phone -- to try to bypass the lock, the phone will ask you to enter one of the Google profiles that was previously on the phone.

Yes, you can.

You can connect your device via a USB cable to a computer and download an MP3 file, or connect to another phone via Bluetooth and transfer a file that way.