Android Phone Data Recovery: How to Permanently Delete Data on Internal Memory?

Thursday, July 14, 2016

How to Permanently Delete Data on Internal Memory?

“Could I permanently delete data on her mobile phone, because I want to sell my phone to a stranger for a good deal?” Asked by Katy on a forum. The first solution comes up one’s mind should be performed a factory reset on the device, nevertheless, whether this kind of way can remove your phone data for good or not? With the advanced technology, a growing number of software have appeared to help us recover data from a mobile phone, which is supposed to be a piece of good news but otherwise to be terribly evil. Dangerous lurks in our personal information such as password, account, and contacts. Some treacherous people use this software to steal this private information for their personal interests. We have to defend ourselves against such illegal behavior so as to avoid belonging loss.

Why Phone data can be recovered?

The theory for Mobile phone data recovery is the same as that works for a personal computer. Even if the data on the phone or computer was simply deleted, they were still stored on the hard disk because they have been written in it. Thus, as long as people use a data recovery tool, then these data will be retrieved, which leads to a risk of information leaking.

Could we permanently get our data off mobile phones?

Put a mask on your actual phone data. Phone data can be continuously overwritten, data recovery tools can only recover the newest data that covered the old data. Thus, data recovery tool cannot restore the old data from cell phone. Namely, you ought to fill your memory full with useless information, then empty it. Repeat that procedure as much as you can. This will overwrite new data onto your old data which will decrease the chance for someone else to recover your important private data. For further information security, I would like to recommend encrypting your device before you are getting ready to wipe it. The encryption process will scramble the data on your device and, even if the wipe doesn't fully delete the data, a special key will be required to unscramble it.

To encrypt your device on stock Android, enter settings, click on Security, and select Encrypt phone. The feature may be located under different options on other devices. The next step is to perform a factory data reset. Then it would already be kind of done. If you are still concerned about security, you can repeat the two steps above.

If you want to check if you have deleted your personal phone data, you can download Gihosoft free data recovery software for Android for Windows (Another version of Android data recovery for Mac )to see if the software can restore them.