How to Permanent Erase All Data on Android Phone and Tablet

"I want to buy a new Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and I want to permanently erase all contents and settings from my old HTC phone, including contacts, WhatsApp chat history, notes, pictures, videos, and text messages and other personal informations. I know that sometimes when we delete some data and ever factory reset our Android device, the data seems to have been removed, but some professional data recovery tool can still recover it with only a few steps. What is the effective way to completely wipe all data from an Android phone or tablet, so that all the erased data can not being restored?" - Asked by Susane.

Yes, even if the built-in factory settings restoring is the most widely recommended methods, and most of Android users are using it to wipe all data on Android device. But, there is a hidden bug laid on it once you did not take it seriously. I found out occasionally that the data you remove with the default factory reset can still being found and recovered by some powerful data recovery tool, just like the Android Data Recovery. It's very deadly to get your private contents exposed to someone who you are not familiar with. What's worse, you never don't know what he or she will going to do with the found data from your old Android device. May be nothing or may be exposure your personal privacy or steal your hard making money from your electronic accounts without any notice. Therefore, you should pay attention to data wiping when selling your old Android phone or tablet.

The deleted data is still available unless it was overwritten by new data. In fact, it’s pretty hard to get it done manually, but it can be easy with the help of a 3rd party tool. Android Data Eraser is a comprehensive erased tool, which enables you to permanently wipe all data and settings such as text messages, WhatsApp messages, contacts, call logs, photos, videos, notes, account ID and other personal information from your Android phone or tablet with ease, ensure 100% safe and no any possibility of recovery, even the most professional Android data recovery tool. And the program apply to almost all Android brands, including Samsung, HTC, LG, ZTE, Huawei, Sony, Motolora, Acer, Dell and so on.

       

Note: Before wiping your Android device, please remember back up data from Android to computer. Once the wiping is completed, nothing can be recovered.

How to Wipe Your Android Phone & Tablet Without Restored

Completely wipe all personal data from Android devices without rooting, restore the device to factory setting.

Step 1. Connect your Android device to the computer

After installation, connect your Android device to your computer by using an USB cable.

Note: If you phone or tablet have not enable the USB debugging, you need to following the tips on the program's window to enable it on your Android device.

Step 2. Confirm the order of wiping

Once your device is recognized, you can see the window as below, click on "Erase All Data" and move on.

To let the program wipe all data on your Android device, you need to type "delete" on the text box to confirm the order, then click "Erase Now".

After that, the program will begin erasing data like contacts, messages, music, movies, photos, apps, and other personal contents on your device. This process will not take too much of time, depending on the data storage on the device.

Step 3. Reset all settings on your Android device

When the process finished, you need to follow the tips of the program to factory reset your device so as to finish the whole wiping process.

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Android Data Eraser: Permanent Wipe Android Phone Before Selling

More and more news report highlighted the sheer amount of data that is now routinely stored on our smartphones and how little heed some of us pay to what happens to our personal information. So that you always leak out your own privacy like contacts, text messages, account info, etc. to public unconsciously. Obviously, this action have a large potential danger, especially when your personal information is known by criminals.

Why You Need to Erase All Data on Android Phone Before Selling

Maybe you've ever heard lots of news about the incorrect erasing data like "Motorola accidentally shipped out 100 refurbished Xoom tablets without properly wiping the previous owners' information" and so on, so it is worth a reminder of what you need to do when selling, returning or otherwise disposing of an Android device, including phones and tablets. It is undeniable that with the popularity of Android or other smartphones, people have enjoyed more and more pleasures and convenient that they never imagine before, but on other side, it also improve the dangers of leaking out personal information. Thus, in the high speed digital society, you need to learn how to manage and protect your personal privacy from stealing by unauthorized persons.

To protect your personal information, one of the most important thing is to wipe all data on Android phone before selling, returning to factory or disposing of your phone with zero opportunity for restoring. Many Android users is tending to return their device to factory setting to achieve the goal of erasing Android phone data, but actually, if you want, you can find back these deleted or formatted data from your device with a recovery tool like Android Contents Recovery, etc. Therefore, in order to 100% ensure the data is erased permanently, you have to ask help from a third-party program: Android data wipe app. With it, you'll never worry about the deleted data can be restored by any other program.

Key Features of the Best Android Data Eraser

- Easily erase all data and contents from your Android phones and tablets, including text messages, contacts, call history, accounts info, password and other data stored on the devices.
- Supports almost all Android phones, such as Samsung, HTC, Motorala, LG, and so on.
- You can erase data on Android phone selectively or in a batch.

More Powerful Features

- Erase all data from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
- Transfer data from phone to phone (Android-iDevices-Symbian)
- Backup & Restore phone data (Android & iDevices & Symbian)

       

How to Perform Android Data Eraser To Wipe Your Android

A good third-party program will provide users with the simplest operation steps and fastest speed, so does this Android Eraser software. No matter whether you're using the similar products before, you can handle this tool as easy as 1-2-3. Before we start the progress, you may need to use the Android Data Manager to backup data on computer, you can also direct use this Android Data Eraser to backup your Android to PC.

Backup Android to PC with Android Data Manager

Below is the detailed steps of wiping Android phones. You only need to follow the instructions.

Step 1. Run the Program and Connect Your Device to PC

Install and launch the program on your computer. Then using the USB cable to connect your Samsung, HTC or other Android phones to computer. When the device is checked by the program, you'll see a interface just like this:

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Step 2. Erase All Data on Your Android

The default setting of the program is to erase all contents on your device, here you can click the box besides the data type to save this kind of file on your phone. Otherwise, you can directly click "Erase Now" on the main interface to finish the process.

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In addition don't forget to the microSD card inside your Android device. Data on it, including pictures and videos, as well as some application data, generally isn't erased with third-party program or format factory setting. So for this kinds of data, you can connect the card to computer and format it directly. If you're really paranoid, use one of those overwriting formatting programs. Or at the very least, just take it out of the device you're getting rid of.

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How to Permanent Delete Everything on Android Phone/Tablet

Main reasons to give up Android and go back to iPhone

Popele who are used to using Android mobile phone must have had the same problems that the Android phone does wierd things from time to time. For instance, switching from speakerphone to handeld does not always work. Essential apps like Skype, CityMaps2Go and various transportation/ticketing apps are not working normally on Android phone. What's worst, the battery life of Android mobile phone just does not get you through a day. It would be an annoything thing to recharge you phone everyday but you need to read on posts and want the phone to last longer. In that cases, even we experience big screen, wonderful freedom and flexibility with Android mobile phone, you may still want to give it up and switch to Apple iPhone.

How to deal with your old Android phone? Whether you are going to give it to your friend, trade it on eBay, or donate it to a charitable institution, it is handy to know how to wipe all data on the phone completely. During the daily use of the Android phone, you must save lots of personal information off of the device, such as contacts, text messages, photos, account information, passwords and so on. Most people probably think that performing a factory reset on the device is enough. However, they are wrong. All the orginal data on a factory resetting phone can be easily recovered by third-party data recovery software. In this guide, we are going to show you how to wipe all Android data completely and permanently.

Why need to use special tool to erase Android data?

The tool you need to help perfroming the complete data erasing process on your Android phone is Android Data Eraser (for Windows 10/8/7/XP/Vista). It is specialize in wiping all files and personal information on any Android devices, including Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola, ZTE, Meizu, etc. With the software, you can choose to delete all data like contacts, SMS, phone numbers, photos, user names, passwords, emails and many more from your Android mobile phone, or just the deleted files only. After erasing with Android Data Eraser, you will get your Android device to a clean slate and nothing can be found or recovered from the phone.

Next, we will wrote an illustrated step-by-step guide to show you how easy it is to erase Android data by using this data eraser program! Before that, please free download the trial version of the software from the download button as below to get ready. Windows and Mac version are both available, you can download the right version according to your own situation.

       

How to Erase Data from Android Devices Completely

Note: Since the deletion performed by this software is permanent, we kindly suggest you backup your important information at first before you start the erasing on your phone. You can directly use this Android Data Eraser to backup your Android data to PC, or using the Andriod Data Transfer tool.

Backup data from Android to PC

Step 1. Run the software and connect your Android device

First of all, connect your Android phone or tablet to the computer with a USB cable and launch the installed Coolmuster data eraser software. Once the connection is successful, the software will automatically detect your device and show it on the program interface. Choose whether you want to erase all data or just the deleted files.

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Step 2. Start to wipe all Android data

Finally, give a click on the button of "Start" to delete what you want from your Android phone or tablet at once. All erasing task only costs you a few seconds. After that, you will get a totally new Android device as you wish.

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Android Data Eraser - Permanently Erase Your Old Android Device

Decide to sell or donate your old Android phone or tablet, but want to keep your personal data out of the wrong hands?  Android Data Eraser helps to protect your personal data by erasing all of them from your old Android devices, safely and permanently. The program compatible with Samsung, HTC, LG, Sony, Motolora, Google, Acer, ZTE, HuaWei and so on.
Erase existing data: Wipe off everything on your Android phone and tablet in 1 click.
Erase deleted data: Deeply scan your Android and erase all deleted data in the phone memory.

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