I'm just getting into supporting phones as an IT guy, and that's a portion of why I've come here to ask questions about my own phone.
Something I need to learn and understand: how much is left behind when you do a "factory data reset" using the option installed in the OS?
I have been trained from long ago that nothing is ever erased from a hard drive, unless you follow certain steps to make it statistically unrecoverable (utilities like DBAN, for example). But phones with a ROM are a new beast to me.
What exactly is gone when I reset my phone, and what is there that could be recovered when I donate/sell my handset and move to a new one, or I have to answer that question for a user upgrading at work?
Something I need to learn and understand: how much is left behind when you do a "factory data reset" using the option installed in the OS?
I have been trained from long ago that nothing is ever erased from a hard drive, unless you follow certain steps to make it statistically unrecoverable (utilities like DBAN, for example). But phones with a ROM are a new beast to me.
What exactly is gone when I reset my phone, and what is there that could be recovered when I donate/sell my handset and move to a new one, or I have to answer that question for a user upgrading at work?
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