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Selling my FUZE - need advice

Hey,
My wife listed my FUZE for me on eBay along with a couple other windows phones I've been told to get rid of...
I've never sold a smartphone before, what steps past a hard reset should I take to sell it safely?
Thanks
Link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180472314891&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT:p:p

Assuming you are not leaving an SD card installed ...
I'd say the simplest way to zap everything is to do what you have done - a hard reset. If you really want to be sure, fill up the free space with rubbish files, then delete them when the phone is full.

Factory Reset VS Out of the box (Differences)

I was going to exchange my phone for a new one before my 30 days is up which is tomorrow, so I did a factory reset. They ended up not letting me because they knew about the GPS problem and said there is a fix coming. I also had my email disappear and wanted to just get a fresh device before I am stuck for 2 years.
So I wanted to see if anyone else who has done a factory reset has noticed the same or differences from before they reset it.
1. Data icon (3G,E) still shows while WiFi is connected. Before the data icon wouldn't show.
2. Facebook pictures sync works much better and actually sync's pictures. Also its doesn't take 20 clicks to select the contacts to DL.
3. Phone overall doesn't seem laggy as much and much more responsive.
4. When I open messages the first time it keeps asking if I want to set a limit, which I have to say no every time. Very annoying, not sure why it keeps asking,
Note: I haven't rooted this time (I was before) yet and I have less apps installed. I haven't installed the official FB app in case it was conflicting, but I doubt it.
I will add more if I notice anything else. Today is the 3rd day since the reset.

Curious to see what replies you receive. And you're saying AT&T wouldn't return it even though there is a "known-issue" with the phone?

RootPhisher said:
Curious to see what replies you receive. And you're saying AT&T wouldn't return it even though there is a "known-issue" with the phone?
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Yea, thats BS. if the return policy is 30 days you should be able to return it. And who gives a **** if there is a fix on the way. It doesnt work right now, and you signed a 2-year agreement for a phone to have a working GPS unit which doesnt; breech of contract.

iceman4357 said:
Yea, thats BS. if the return policy is 30 days you should be able to return it. And who gives a **** if there is a fix on the way. It doesnt work right now, and you signed a 2-year agreement for a phone to have a working GPS unit which doesnt; breech of contract.
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They wouldn't let me exchange it, I probably could of returned it, but not sure if I can deal with going back to the Fuze with WinMo. At least I turned the Fuze into a portable Garmin GPS with internet calling via WiFi.

(psst. just tell them it shuts down randomly for no apparent reason.)
I exchanged mine for this (real) reason. It was ridiculous. My Captivate continued to shut down at least 2-3 times a day. I even contacted Samsung about this issue and they said to just exchange it.
I did a Factory reset and hoped that it would fix the problem. Three hours after doing so, it shut down on me again. I have had it. I just exchanged it.
Sorry I can't really help you with the different between stock and a factory reset device since I didn't really take notice of it. Although, after the reset, I went to Settings - About Phone - System Tutorial and clicked Begin. Nothing happened. Yesterday, with my new device after the exchange, the Begin button took me to the Tutorial.

I had 3G connectivitiy problems before, and after doing the odin restore those problems are gone. It may have been poor network conditions for a couple days, but either way, my problem no longer exists.

Help an idiot, please

I was not thinking and I sold my phone on Ebay, whats worse is that it was bought by someone out of the country. I didn't think much about the consequences until the nagging question of why someone would buy a phone that will only work on a carrier here in the states, US Cellular. Now I am very concerned. The buyer has already paid for the phone and for shipping. My number one option could be to just cancel the sale and refund the buyers money and eat the shipping. I have began researching how to securely wipe an Android phone and the best answer I have found is to encrypt the phone before I do a factory reset. The problem is that I have already factory reset the phone. In fact, the phone was rooted and rommed and I Oddined the stock recovery back onto the phone. Here are details about the phone. It is a SM-N900R4 US Cellular Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Since I bought the phone new from the carrier I have installed and wiped numerous Roms. I'm not looking for anyone to stick there neck out there and give me guarantees, I just want to know if there is anything I can do to be reasonably sure that the phone is secure. What about apps like IShredder, are they worth the effort. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks

Update, its 5:00am, I encrypted the phone, installed ishredder, ran the app a couple of times. I rerooted the phone using cf autoroot, downloaded a simple data recovery app, and am finding old data Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.

danp12 said:
I was not thinking and I sold my phone on Ebay, whats worse is that it was bought by someone out of the country. I didn't think much about the consequences until the nagging question of why someone would buy a phone that will only work on a carrier here in the states, US Cellular. Now I am very concerned. The buyer has already paid for the phone and for shipping. My number one option could be to just cancel the sale and refund the buyers money and eat the shipping. I have began researching how to securely wipe an Android phone and the best answer I have found is to encrypt the phone before I do a factory reset. The problem is that I have already factory reset the phone. In fact, the phone was rooted and rommed and I Oddined the stock recovery back onto the phone. Here are details about the phone. It is a SM-N900R4 US Cellular Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Since I bought the phone new from the carrier I have installed and wiped numerous Roms. I'm not looking for anyone to stick there neck out there and give me guarantees, I just want to know if there is anything I can do to be reasonably sure that the phone is secure. What about apps like IShredder, are they worth the effort. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks
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I think a factory reset is quite enough, you can wipe the internal storage as well. Just use Odin to flash a stock firmware and recovery and you should be good to go

If you are extra paranoid
Fill the memory with data.
Data and cache partitions are the most important.
Fill it with anything, delete it and fill it again. Seven times.
That will make it as hard as possible to recover any info.
But unless your a giant ass that has annoyed thousands around the world, put all your personal info on your phone. Advertise that fact.
Then be silly enough to advertise to all your enemy's that your selling your phone on eBay...
The standard wipe will likely be enough.

So I made the decision to refund the money and cancel the sale. I am shocked at how easy it is to find pictures, contacts, documents etc. after I encrypted the phone, deleted the data, used iShredder and wrote the drive at least 20 times at 3 cycles per time. I run a simple app called Disk Digger and I can still find data on the phone. Unreal. I think the iShredder app is simply not writing data in all of the areas of the phones memory. In fact, the more times I run iShredder and the more times I run disk digger, the more data I find This phone is connected to so much info like Paypal, Amazon, email, Bank Accounts etc. What a shame, my recommendation for anyone is the first thing you do when you pull your android phone out of the box is to Encrypt the drive, that way down the road when you delete the keys your data is safe. I have unloaded phones in the past but I never really thought much about it until I just really felt like the person buying it was buying it for nefarious purposes.

danp12 said:
So I made the decision to refund the money and cancel the sale. I am shocked at how easy it is to find pictures, contacts, documents etc. after I encrypted the phone, deleted the data, used iShredder and wrote the drive at least 20 times at 3 cycles per time. I run a simple app called Disk Digger and I can still find data on the phone. Unreal. I think the iShredder app is simply not writing data in all of the areas of the phones memory. In fact, the more times I run iShredder and the more times I run disk digger, the more data I find This phone is connected to so much info like Paypal, Amazon, email, Bank Accounts etc. What a shame, my recommendation for anyone is the first thing you do when you pull your android phone out of the box is to Encrypt the drive, that way down the road when you delete the keys your data is safe. I have unloaded phones in the past but I never really thought much about it until I just really felt like the person buying it was buying it for nefarious purposes.
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Nothing from apps is stored on the internal sd card.
It's all stored on the data and cache partitions in the internal memory.
Partitions you can't touch without root.
There will always be data of some type left in the memory.
That's just how the memory works.
I have yet to find anything that will wipe the entire device properly automatically..
It has to be done manually.

htc u11 water damaged

hello,
please i want a solution to get my data from htc u11 after water damaged,
the sea water entered the phone before one month and i sent it to service center but they said it didn't work, after one month i plug the charger and it worked just on the boot screen and stuck there and the buttons are not working , and all the pictures were taken in the service center,
please help me to get the data

Hello there my friend. Sorry to hear that you lost your data. May be its a good lesson and you back it up now to the cloud, and specially when you wet your phone (not waiting a month to it). THERE IS NO PHONE THAT IS 100% WATER SUBMERSIBLE, most of cases is half an hour on non deep normal water.
Not sure in what country you are but that paper seems not to be from HTC. You should send the phone to HTC, and for sure U11 its pretty new, it should be under warranty still.
Back to your main problem. If the phone doesn't boot up, its complicated since the internal memory is encrypted, and you don't have a easy way to access to it not even having your buttons working. Sorry. Easeus (company that make great software for recovery and cloning), has an app for HTC for recovering data, may be you can give it a try: https://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/mobile-device-recovery/htc-data-recovery.htm
From now, try to use free services like google photos or if you have amazon prime the amazon drive that will give you unlimited space for photos backup. Saving photos to SD its better than internal, but if you lose the phone you lose the SD too. Crossed fingers that may be the app can recover something for you.

Assuming the USB port works but the buttons and touchscreen do not, if you can somehow get back to download mode you could try to unlock the bootloader and temp boot a special TWRP pack to dump the data(it would have your encryption password so you'll need to pack it yourself). I'm suggesting unlock and TWRP because it seems like the current ROM is not booting. Most service centers would wipe data before working though, hopefully you aren't that unlucky.

In all honesty it looks to me like the camera board is knackered, which contains the nfc chip and camera hardware.
The fact the phone can get as far as it can is almost promising. You must try to select download mode if your buttons still work. If not then you're stuck. If they do work then try flashing the stock firmware zip from an external sdcard. If it takes then it might boot. Reflashing the same firmware doesn't wipe any data. It just resets the firmware as stock, leaving your apps etc intact.
I believe it is running marshmallow august update, previous to nougat so your internal memory may not be encrypted, as previously stated, unless you encrypted it yourself. You will need the full Marshmallow 2gb update ruu zip, rename to 0pja10000.zip, copy to a class 10 microsd, place in phone and boot to download mode and flash it.
You might get somewhere, you might not. If it fails to flash then the phone is finished. If it flashes but doesn't boot its finished, if it boots BONUS!. There is also the possibility that the phone has been wiped in the store. If so your data may be gone forever BUT.. THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT!!.
Im not specifically promoting this app in any way its just that it is the only one I know of that does this and actually works, "Diskdigger". Its worth trying but it may not have any data to recover and if it does have an sd card in that is 64gb or more.
Only USA and Taiwan have "uh oh protection". A one time unconditional swap for another phone within, i think, 12 months.
Hope this helps.

deftoner said:
Hello there my friend. Sorry to hear that you lost your data. May be its a good lesson and you back it up now to the cloud, and specially when you wet your phone (not waiting a month to it). THERE IS NO PHONE THAT IS 100% WATER SUBMERSIBLE, most of cases is half an hour on non deep normal water.
Not sure in what country you are but that paper seems not to be from HTC. You should send the phone to HTC, and for sure U11 its pretty new, it should be under warranty still.
Back to your main problem. If the phone doesn't boot up, its complicated since the internal memory is encrypted, and you don't have a easy way to access to it not even having your buttons working. Sorry. Easeus (company that make great software for recovery and cloning), has an app for HTC for recovering data, may be you can give it a try: https://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/mobile-device-recovery/htc-data-recovery.htm
From now, try to use free services like google photos or if you have amazon prime the amazon drive that will give you unlimited space for photos backup. Saving photos to SD its better than internal, but if you lose the phone you lose the SD too. Crossed fingers that may be the app can recover something for you.
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I think comtel is the authorized service provider for HTC phones in the emirates.

deftoner said:
Hello there my friend. Sorry to hear that you lost your data. May be its a good lesson and you back it up now to the cloud, and specially when you wet your phone (not waiting a month to it). THERE IS NO PHONE THAT IS 100% WATER SUBMERSIBLE, most of cases is half an hour on non deep normal water.
Not sure in what country you are but that paper seems not to be from HTC. You should send the phone to HTC, and for sure U11 its pretty new, it should be under warranty still.
Back to your main problem. If the phone doesn't boot up, its complicated since the internal memory is encrypted, and you don't have a easy way to access to it not even having your buttons working. Sorry. Easeus (company that make great software for recovery and cloning), has an app for HTC for recovering data, may be you can give it a try: https://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/mobile-device-recovery/htc-data-recovery.htm
From now, try to use free services like google photos or if you have amazon prime the amazon drive that will give you unlimited space for photos backup. Saving photos to SD its better than internal, but if you lose the phone you lose the SD too. Crossed fingers that may be the app can recover something for you.
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Thank you
But i sent it to service center htc asked me to send it there

Free Google Photos Storage

So my Pixel 1 ordered on release date two years ago started crashing and locking up every time I made a call. I've factory reset, and tried different sim cards with no luck. I was thinking about upgrading anyway, so this put me over the edge. Otherwise, this phone seems to work flawlessly.
My question, if I keep it and figure out a way to sync photos taken from my Pixel 3 to the Pixel 1, can I keep uploading to Google Photos for free? If this is possible, does anyone have a suggestion for a method?

May be, if it is working.