Looking to move to a better and newer smartphone? It has become common practice to upgrade to a newer mobile device from one to three years.
But before you sell, donate or discard the old, be sure to completely erase all your personal data and information.
Your old mobile phone contains all sorts of personal data such as user names, passwords, addresses and phone numbers of your contacts, family photos, etc.
If your personal information happens to fall into the wrong hands, you could become the next victim of identity theft!
recently I did a test where I bought a bunch of equipment used off of craigslist and eBay to see if I could find personal data about them. I found a surprising amount of personal data, including photos, phone numbers, addresses, emails, text messages and even passwords!
While most of us think that we are safe if we do a factory reset on our mobile device, this is not always the case. On some Android phones, although some of the phones had a factory reset, I was still able to find data on them.
To ensure that your device is deleted from your data, follow these tips below
- Wipe your device: for mobile phones, you want to do a factory reset. The software to do this is built into the phone.
- factory reset Android: Menu> Settings> Privacy> Factory Reset
- factory reset iPhone :. Settings> General> Reset> Reset All Settings
- Blackberry factory reset .: Options> Security Options> General Settings> Menu> Wipe Handheld
- Windows 7 phone factory reset: .. Settings> about> Reset phone
- on other operating systems or phones based on Symbian, you will need to do a search on your phone online, such as "phone name, model number, Reset Carrier Factory."
- Remember remove or wipe all media, such as SD cards or SIM cards. So these are cheap, it is best to cut them in half with scissors or reuse.
- Still not if you got all your data off? Get a drill and drill a lot of holes in the device and its hard drive, or hit it with a hammer. This can be fun, but it can also make it less salable. 🙂
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