What to do Before Selling Phone

[ddark1]

I'm getting ready to sell my phone, it's rooted and custom rom flashed, what do I need to remove or how to clear info without losing the ROM. Also on my sdcard, their are several nandroid, will the next owner be able to get my info if he/she use one of the nandroids. Just want to clear all my info without removing apps i use to root and custom rom flash

 

[deathangel1496]

Just unlink your Gmail. Clear your texts and browser history. Cache, cookies, delete the nandroids. Those have all of your data

Sent from my clean optimus using a gameboy advance :3

 

[uberjam545]

you should see if you can sell it here, some dev that has a bunch of different phones might want to buy it and make stuff for us.

 

[jefboyardee]

Settings > Privacy > Factory data reset... Erases all data on phone

Dunno if that’ll unroot it, but can’t hurt to try.

 

[deathangel1496]

DONT FACTORY RESET!! that's how u permanent brick it. And he wants it rooted. Just do what I said. Make sure u delete nandroids and unlink any accounts

Sent from my clean optimus using a gameboy advance :3

 

[apinkel]

I agree, do not use the factory reset. Delete any personal data off the SD card, including the nandroid backups (leave the ROM zip file and recovery img), then reboot into recovery, clear cache and data and reflash the ROM.

Clearing data and reflashing the ROM will clear your google accounts (and any other accounts for that matter) and all of your personal data from the android system leaving a newly flashed ROM ready for the next user to sign into and start using. The recovery partition (used to flash the custom rom) will be left in tact so the next user can load a different custom ROM if they choose.

I haven't found an easy way to remove your phone number from the device but as soon as someone else activates the phone on their account it will wipe your phone number.

 

[Jessicalt1]

Factory reset can brick your phone and then you won't be getting anything for it. Go with the other suggestions.

 

[blackops1125]

Settings > Privacy > Factory data reset... Erases all data on phone

Dunno if that?ll unroot it, but can?t hurt to try.

If you dont know what you are doing then please dont offer advice! Leave it to the people that do have a clue!

 

[apinkel]

People make mistakes.

 

[jefboyardee]

Sprint people had me do it when they were going to replace a former opti, so I was mislead by “experts”... they said it returns it new condition... I was just passing that along...

 

[apinkel]

The original poster has a phone with a custom recorvery which is used to load a custom ROM. The standard android factory reset functionality does not play well with a custom recovery. These custom recoveries (as well as rooting and custom ROMs) are not supported by sprint.

Your suggestion is correct for someone who is running a stock phone but it can brick phones with custom recovery.

 

[jefboyardee]

Okay I got it my bad enough already etc etc

 

[sfhub]

If it were me, I would make sure to install Xionia CWMA custom recovery, then just do the privacy reset. It works ok with Xionia CWMA recovery because that one passes through commands it can't handle to LG's actual recovery and filters out stuff it can't handle.

The reason I would do it this way is you don't have as much control over what the next user does, and the first thing they do might be to do a privacy->reset, which would leave everyone in an unhappy situation if you had a custom recovery installed which couldn't handle privacy->reset.