Completely Wipe Personal Data from Samsung Before Selling

"Recently, I buy a new iPhone 12 instead of old Samsung,The old Phone store a lot of important information,like my family's phone numbers, email address, my bank account, Apple ID, photos,  emails and more.I want to keep my private data safe before selling the old Samsung.In order to avoid some of the important data exposed, I hope to find an approach to permanently delete the Samsung phone data."-Tracy

Smart phone now occupy a central role in most people’s day-to-day lives, anyone planning to get rid of their old Phone and wanna bug a new phone to replace should take a few precautionary measures to ensure that all of their data is completely wiped from the old device before releasing it back into the wild.You’ll definitely want to back up and then wipe your personal data on your Phone before sending it on its way. After all, you probably want to hold onto your photos, contacts and more.As you know,back up data from mobile phone is always easy than wipe data on phone without restoring.

However,there are so much powerful phone data recovery tool can recover your phone data even if you have deleted it on phone by clicking the “deleted” option.If you know how to wipe all personal data permanently and factory reset your smartphone then you are quite safe.Please follow this article, we will show you how to permanently erase all personal data on your Samsung phone or tablet before you selling it with two simple ways.

Solution 1:Erase Personal Data on Samsung With Data Eraser

The Data Eraser, which supports to erase all data on Samsung phone without restoring,even some professional Phone data recovery software is not able to restore them.The data Eraser can help you  permanently erase content from your Samsung Phone easily,all the Samsung phone models are applicable,including Samsung Galaxy S20/S11/S10/S9/S8/S7,Samsung Galaxy Note 10/9/8/7/6 and more.



Step 1. Connect your old Samsung device to the computer with the USB cable.
Enable USB debugging on your Samsung device before the connection. Then the program window will display as below. Click on “Erase All Data” option on the window.



Step 2. Enter:delete” on the window to confirm the order and click on “Erase Now” to move on.

1)Please close all background Apps,such as Music
2)Please wait for updates to be completed if there are any running on the device.
3)Please make sure you have backed up any needed data.



Now,please type"deleted" to confirm.

Note:If you don’t want to delete all data,or you suddenly think out that you forget to back up some data so you can’t erase them all right now,you can choose the data types to erase it.

Step 3. The Data Eraser Start to Erase Personal Data On Samsung Phone
Now the program will start to wipe your personal data on phone like contacts, SMS, photos, apps, and other personal information. This process will take a short time, depending on the data storage on the device.




Step 4.Factory Data Reset Or Wipe All System Settings
After the completely wipe all your Samsung data, please follow the instruction on the device and tap “Factory Data Reset” or “Erase All Content “on the device to wipe all system settings.



The Data Eraser has permanently erased all existing and deleted files on phone's internal and external storage using a professional method.However, to clear all system data and setting,a factory data reset is needed.

Solution 2:Permanently Wipe All Data from Samsung with Mobile Transfer

Step 1.Run the Mobile Transfer and Connect your Samsung phone with your computer

Download and install The Mobile Transfer on your computer,launch it and connect your computer with your old Samsung via the USB cable.



If the connection is successful, your Phone will appear in the software interface, as shown below.



Step 2.Choose“Erase Your Old Phone”to click
After launching Mobile Transfer, In the software interface on the left, there are several modes listed.where you need to click‘Erase All Data’,this deletion mode allow you to wipe all data without recovering,like SMS, call log,contacts, safari bookmarks, photos.



Step 3.Set Your Samsung phone as a new one before selling
Deletion process may take you some time, please be patient, keep mobile phone to stay connecting with the computer.




The Mobile Transfer is what a useful tool for mobile phones user,it can help you solve the problem that completely delete all personal data from Samsung before selling.In addition,cause the deleted process is unrecoverable,so you need to backup your old Phone data first.You can use The Mobile Transfer to backup the data on your old Phone to computer, or directly transfer data to your new iPhone 6s with it! Sounds so perfect?Why not have a try now?