Completely wiping phone

skimklaw

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Trying to find out if anyone has any experience with this.

If I do everything through the OS on my thunderbolt (as I have already done)

Clearing SD card

Factory Reset

Will that completely wipe/zero my data for resale, or do I need to do something else to make any data I have completely unrecoverable.

IE I could take the SD card out and format/zero data it via my desktop, but not sure how to accomplish the same for the internal memory.

Thanks,

Skim
 

defcon999

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Trying to find out if anyone has any experience with this.

If I do everything through the OS on my thunderbolt (as I have already done)

Clearing SD card

Factory Reset

Will that completely wipe/zero my data for resale, or do I need to do something else to make any data I have completely unrecoverable.

IE I could take the SD card out and format/zero data it via my desktop, but not sure how to accomplish the same for the internal memory.

Thanks,

Skim

Is your phone rooted?. If that is the case, you might want to UNROOT it (see STICKY Threads UNROOTING - ROOTZWIKI)

You can go into RECOVERY --> MOUNT --> scroll down to SDCARD and Format it --> Format /system

that will take get rid of everything but not UNROOT. You can always advertise it as an ROOTED phone.