Hello,
I just sold my 10.1 so I can hopefully get my hands on a 7.7 when the time comes . How should I wipe everything so the data isn't recoverable? Is going into settings and restoring to default enough?
Thanks
Go to Settings-} Privacy-} Personal Data.... Do a full factory data reset, takes your Tab back to how it was when you took it out of the box. That's all you need to do.
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Not sure where your from but if your in the US... Might want to hold on to your 10.1.
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@Southphilly thank you for your response. And I am from the US I'll figure it out
As far as i know, the full factory reset will not clean the storage, so you should take it into account
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no... the full factory reset doesn't clear the sdcard (internal storage)
so.. do the full factory reset, and then go to the sdcard and erase everything... ( through kies or something) and that should do it...
and even then there are ways to recover the data in the sdcard.. but its kind of advanced stuff that i don't think anything there would be worth the time to do it...
EDIT: Flash memory writes data differently than regular hard drives, so what I posted may not even work.
Factory Reset is not enough
I am a computer forensics/information security pro.
I can tell you wholeheartedly that a factory reset is not enough. You still need to format all storage devices. That should be enough if you sell your device to the average user.
If you sell it to someone who has even basic forensics/data recovery skills or access to the proper tools, they will be still be able to recover nearly all of the data. The only real way to truly protect your data is to overwrite every single bit of all of the storage devices, as well as a Factory Reset.
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All,
Hoping to call on your expertise...
My XDA IIi recently crashed and stayed that way probably about an hour before I spotted it, soft reset didn't work so I removed the battery. Bad idea.
From what I can gather numerous programs still running in background had actually worn down the battery. Not knowing this I removed the battery to reset the device. Un be known to me at the time, the backup battery was faulty and not holding a charge and the unit affectively did a hard reset.
so now I've lost all my data on the device. I note from reading other posts this generally means your screwed and the data is gone with the underlying message to backup device regularly.
However speaking to UK firms like ontrack data recovery for a fee they claim to be able to recovery data from your device and I don't mean the areas referred to as 'storage' and 'storage card'.
How come they can do it, yet no tools exist for the consumer? It sounded from other posts that it was technically impossible, yet for £300 they seem pretty confident.
Am I missing something?
Any help appreciated... lost some pictures and video of my baby boy, born just a few days ago...
Thanks,
PPCDude
as far as i know you cant recover the data any more then you can recover the stuff in your ram on your pc if you close it without saving
sdram will loose the data if it loose power
unlike flash and hd's where even if you delete data it's still there
untill the sectors the data was on is later overwritten with new data
Hello,
I had a problem with my phone, after removing some software I found that my phone wouldn't restart, (this think this might have been due to lack of space on the programs memory as I had a lot of stuf installed). it'd just stick on the windows mobile screen.
the only way that I could find to get it working again was a hard reset, (soft resets wouldn't work, it just hung on the windows mobile screen).
so, I turned it off, and turned it back on again held down the two buttons, waited till it asked me if I wanted to format and pressed send to ok this...
now the pone works, but i've lost all the data that was on it (expected).
is there any file recovery software that anyone knows of as I'd like to try to recover my old text and mms messages as well as some pictures and documents that were stored on the phone.
Many thanks,
Danny.
Well you are a bit late on this one. The time to install recovery software is before you need it. It can only recover what you have backed up. A hard reset is essentially a total erase and reset but I suspect you knew that. I use Sprite Backup and have several years of excellent results with it. SPB also makes a good backup program. Both are well worth the money and should actually be the first thing you install on your phone.
I've not heard of anyone recovering data from a hard reset. This is actually why most users keep the bulk of their data on the memory card. Good luck.
thezoltar said:
This is actually why most users keep the bulk of their data on the memory card.
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What he said...or she. I'm not bored enough to look you up, Zoltar, but that seems like a masculine name to me. I certainly wouldn't name my daughter Zoltar, for example...my son, on the other hand, would do well to respect me in the fact that I didn't give him a weird name.
Getting back to the issue. Forewarned is forearmed. Get yourself an SD card, and a backup tool. It's too late for this round (read: you're screwed), but there's bound to be a next time, if you're hanging around on this site. Also, keep your contacts synced to a computer, and copy the most critical ones to your SIM card, as well. It won't make them appear twice, and it's much easier to get contacts from SIM back onto a to phone than the other way around. At least this way, if you have to do a hard reset in the field, you don't lose those critical numbers.
K bye,
Myrddin
Jeez....talk about silly names....
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Jeez....talk about silly names....
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Glad someone caught that...
~M
well...
I usually say that backups are someting that you tell other people to make whilst believing disaster will never strike you.
anyway... my stuff was backed up to a memory card, but the memory card stopped being recognised by the phone last week,
I've read several stories online about cards doing this. seems that they loose their formatting as the card now can't be read in a card reader and shows up as not formatted. now I'll get may card reader out and see if I can recover some of the data using data recovery software.
Also, I did take backups of my messages using PIMbackup... only after it was too late did I read the developers site telling me that media messages are not backed up because the media part of the message is an attachment.
so I'm left with the end result that my backups are not worth the effort i put into making them.
OK, looking at it from a different angle.
if there is no recovery software that can be run on the phone, is there any way that the phone can be recognised as a fat partition to a computer? then I could just scan the partition with regular tools that would be used to recover data from a normal hard drive.
I am looking for solutions of this kind also...
my PC to see my xda as an accessible fat partition so that i can scan it with a recovery application.. or ..
a recovery application written fro Windows Mobile
dose any one have answers?
thanks
lost data on pda
can I make a disk image of my pda and scan that with a recovery application on my pc?
lost data on pda
can I make a disk image of my pda and scan that with a recovery application on my pc?
It is not too late!
I was able to recover most of my files, after performing a hard reset, using Raise Data Recovery (ufsexplorer.mobi)
My Grand Prime doesn't recognize any of my microSD cards (I have three that work with all my other devices except this phone). Before I accept that the connector is broken and file for a warranty replacement I want to try out a couple things.
One thing I was reading is to uninstall/install the microSD drivers from the Device Manager. However, I can't find the Device Manager...where is it located?
Another suggestions was to perform a Reset, and if that doesn't fix it, a Factory Reset. All I can find, as far as resets, is the Factory Reset. How do you perform this regular reset and what is the difference?
Then someone on Android Central said that the Android OS could be the problem. I responded to this guy letting him know the phone's running 5.1.1, but I haven't heard back from him. Is anyone familiar with this, cuz it doesn't make much sense to me.
If anyone has any other suggestions they'd be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Adam
God this was funny xD. There's no device manager on android. To do a factory reset, pull the battery out, put it back in and before turning it on press the Volume UP and home button and turn it on. Quit releasing the power once you see Samsung on the screen. Then using the volume keys, select Wipe Data and use the power button to confirm.
fabiossilva21 said:
God this was funny xD. There's no device manager on android. To do a factory reset, pull the battery out, put it back in and before turning it on press the Volume UP and home button and turn it on. Quit releasing the power once you see Samsung on the screen. Then using the volume keys, select Wipe Data and use the power button to confirm.
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Ok, so I'm not crazy; I had never been aware of a device manager either. Is there even such thing as a sd card driver either?! Same thing with a Reset that isn't a Factory Reset..? This problem is just really pissing me off cuz I called the Metro store I bought the phone at the same day to ask if I could come back and exchange it, it's obviously a lemon, and they said no! I have to go thru the warranty. If they try n charge me any extra money for a new phone I won't be happy. I know how these companies work. They pass you off to 10 different people, with the hold time increasing each time, until you get to someone that can actually help you and cancel the made up charge. They know they're dealing with someone who's already frustrated and figure that you'll just give up and pay.
No there are no drivers in Linux/android as far as I'm aware, however there are modules that make your hardware load but that should nit be an issue. The only reset there is, is the Factory reset. Try it, if it doesnt work either, go to the store and claim your warranty!
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No there are no drivers in Linux/android as far as I'm aware, however there are modules that make your hardware load but that should nit be an issue. The only reset there is, is the Factory reset. Try it, if it doesnt work either, go to the store and claim your warranty!
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Have you ever heard of a problem, most likely hardware related, being fixed with a Factory Reset? Also, is there an App that copies all Contacts saved to the Device into a file that fan be imported back into the phone, after the reset? The Contacts I have saved to Google are cluttered with old, outdated ones, ones of people I forge,t but might remember one day, and be happy I still have them, etc. So I just keep the Contacts I currently use on the Device to make things less complicated. Thanks.
Adam O'Blivion said:
Have you ever heard of a problem, most likely hardware related, being fixed with a Factory Reset? Also, is there an App that copies all Contacts saved to the Device into a file that fan be imported back into the phone, after the reset? The Contacts I have saved to Google are cluttered with old, outdated ones, ones of people I forge,t but might remember one day, and be happy I still have them, etc. So I just keep the Contacts I currently use on the Device to make things less complicated. Thanks.
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Nope sorry don't know any app like that I always use the google sync!
Hello,
I am noob i would like to know i purchased galaxy s5 and now i sold it... I had family pics there but i wiped data and wiped cache from receory before sale.
Is there still any chance for someone to connect mobile use recovery software and recover media etc...
Just asking for safe side.
is it possible to recover data from internal? yes. but if they started using the phone at all once rec'd, then its likely corrupted. when selling a phone, its best to wipe, then transfer completely useless stuf fonto the internal to overwrite and corrupt data to make it far more difficult to recover. That being said, recovering data in this way is usually a long and arduous process that 99.999% of people likely wouldnt bother doing. I wouldnt worry about it unless you had some super sensitive stuff on the internal at the time of wiping, even then, the chances are very remote of it being an issue
efuzone said:
Hello,
I am noob i would like to know i purchased galaxy s5 and now i sold it... I had family pics there but i wiped data and wiped cache from receory before sale.
Is there still any chance for someone to connect mobile use recovery software and recover media etc...
Just asking for safe side.
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Though there are very less chances because you have wiped the data. But yes people are now technical enough to recover from the less expected place.
I am selling a Nexus 7 (2012) which will no longer boot. Since it won't boot I can't do a factory reset to erase my account details. I've changed my Gmail password, but I've noticed that despite this my other Android devices (e.g. my phone) can still read my old Gmail emails, even though I haven't entered my new Google password on those devices. More worryingly, they can also access my Chrome bookmarks and cookies, so can access some secure sites using the login credentials stored in my Google/Chrome account.
Since it's not inconceivable that the buyer of the device could repair it, is there anything I can do to prevent them accessing my personal data?
Get a copy of the Nexus Root Kit and under the advanced options see if you and remotely boot twrp. If you can you will likely be able to format the data. (If you can, the device is likely fixable.)
If you can't, some could in theory remove the chips from the motherboard to read the data. Unlikely, but it can be done. I would break the motherboard and trash in this case if I was worried about the data. You could still ebay the rest of the unit for $10 or so...
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psiphi said:
Get a copy of the Nexus Root Kit and under the advanced options see if you and remotely boot twrp. If you can you will likely be able to format the data. (If you can, the device is likely fixable.)
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Presumably this isn't an option for me as the device doesn't power on at all?
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Presumably this isn't an option for me as the device doesn't power on at all?
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Unless it is the screen that is broken, or the battery, or the power button... But the easy answer is destroy the motherboard...
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