It is important to note that Samsung and Android have never claimed a factory reset as being an effective tool at wiping personal data. The testers were surprisingly able to recover over 750 text message, facebook and email communications, 250 personal contacts along with certain personal details and documents and a staggering 40,000 plus pictures that included hundreds of nude selfies. Planning on selling your used Android phones and tablets or giving it away to a charitable donation bank? Have you done so in the past? You might want to know that a recent study conducted by popular security software maker Avast, discovered that Android’s factory reset failed to permanently wipe out your personal data, including all those pictures you had stored there at some point in time.Īvast put to the test the default factory reset effectiveness by testing 20 android phones purchased from eBay.
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