How to factory reset Google TV Streamer

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Google TV Streamer is the latest streaming video platform from Google. It replaces Chromecast with Google TV — but actually does much more than that with the addition of hardware support that allows it to serve as a proper smart home hub.

You likely won’t need to do this often, but it is helpful to know how to factory reset Google TV Streamer. Maybe you just want to start from scratch. Maybe something went wonky. The reasons don’t matter. The ability to start over does. We touched briefly on how to reset things in our full Google TV Streamer review, but here are the full steps.

The easy way

There are two ways to factory reset Google TV Streamer. One uses a little piece of hardware — a button on the back of the device itself. And it’s extremely easy to do.

Warning: This method

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