Selling mobile phones - how to safely remove all personal info?

longtimelurker54

Hi,

We have some old mobile phones we'd like to try and flog on ebay. Please can anyone tell us the best way to safely remove personal data, old numbers etc., from the handset before we do so. And any other advice for selling these on ebay?

Many thx in advance.

mluton

Just do a factory reset on the phones if possible. For any memory card media, run a disk wiper that ensures data cannot be recovered.

longtimelurker54

Hi Mluton

Many thx for your reply. How do I do a factory reset please - can you advise?

I don't think they have media cards as they're all quite ancient!

Thx again.

mluton

longtimelurker54 wrote: »

Hi Mluton

Many thx for your reply. How do I do a factory reset please - can you advise?

I don't think they have media cards as they're all quite ancient!

Thx again.

Depends on the phone model but a quick Google should bring up the results.