Selling your old laptop or phone? You might be handing over your data too

Re:Selling your old laptop or phone? You might be handing ov... by atmanactive on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @08:07PM (#43627685)

How to deal with an android phone or tablet which you can't switch on anymore but you are absolutely sure there is still your personal data on it?

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Re:Selling your old laptop or phone? You might be handing ov... by nja on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @09:46PM (#43628172)

I'm wondering the same! I have an old Android tablet that just boot-loops and has a swollen battery. I'd like to get rid of it but not sure how to wipe it first!

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Re:Selling your old laptop or phone? You might be handing ov... by nolist_policy on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @03:10AM (#43629588)

Break it open and shred the Mainboard.

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Re:Selling your old laptop or phone? You might be handing ov... by Nuent on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @12:40AM (#43628914)

If you can still open the recovery menu, you could wipe it from there. Otherwise, you should probably destroy the device/memory.

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Re:Selling your old laptop or phone? You might be handing ov... by atmanactive on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @05:20AM (#43630315)

if I could pinpoint the eMMC I could just drill a hole in it

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