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Question re: selling phone

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  • 20-03-2014 9:40pm
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    TJ Mackie
    Registered Users Posts: 419 ✭✭


    Quick question guys - got a new phone this week (Nexus 5) and have agreed to sell my Samsung S3 to a guy.

    I've copied over everything I need, and I just want to wipe my old phone now. Is a Factory Reset sufficient or is there anything else I should do?

    Thanks


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    [Deleted User]
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    If it was me I'd do a wipe cache and factory reset.


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    TJ Mackie
    Registered Users Posts: 419 ✭✭TJ Mackie


    Deleted User wrote: »
    If it was me I'd do a wipe cache and factory reset.

    How would one wipe cache?

    I'm slightly technically challenged :o


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    irishpancake
    Registered Users Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭irishpancake


    TJ Mackie wrote: »
    How would one wipe cache?

    I'm slightly technically challenged :o

    Settings/Storage/Cached Data.....tap this, you get an option to wipe all cached data for all apps.....tap OK

    If you can get into recovery, you could wipe the cache partition there, but its the same thing.


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    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    I would go through phone after doing a factory reset to see if things are left. I bought a second hand phone off a guy who done a factory reset and I was deleting pic of his child for ages. He must have just had the child as he had a ton of pics and it it was a todler.


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    acalmenvoy
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    What I'd do is install a custom recovery, then format the internal sd card, then factory reset. That should wipe everything.


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    Gokei
    Closed Accounts Posts: 795 ✭✭✭Gokei


    acalmenvoy wrote: »
    What I'd do is install a custom recovery, then format the internal sd card, then factory reset. That should wipe everything.

    He said he technically challenged


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