How to prepare Android smartphone for sale?
Have you decided to sell my old phone? He needs a certain preparation. Let's discuss how to do it.
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Today, people began to update their phones much more often. But the old gadget is usually transferred to a relative or sold. In this article, we will analyze how to prepare android for sale.
If he does not have the best appearance, then without replacing its parts is unlikely to be done, but you can establish the performance of the system.
Active users always have a lot of information on the phone that I would not want to lose at all. Therefore, first of all, take care of maintaining security data. Such an operation is performed with several methods, but we will only talk about one possible option.
Stage 1. Create a backup copy of important information
Complete the synchronization of contacts, calendar and mail with Google. This is the easiest way to transmit information.
Create a backup of applications and data saved in them. For these purposes, Titanium Backup is perfect, or its analogue option is Easy Backup & Restore, which allows you to preserve SMS messages, challenges, dictionary and bookmarks in addition. You can save everything on the memory card or in the cloud.
Connect the device to the PC and transfer from it music, video and photo, and other necessary data.
Stage 2. Clean the memory card
If you want to sell your phone with a flash drive, then delete all the information from it in advance:
- Open the settings
- Find the section "Memory"
- Choose its cleaning
- But the simple removal of information is not enough, since with proper skills, all files can be restored using utilities. Therefore, it is better to use a utility that can rewrite the free space many times, which will not leave a single chance to restore your data
Stage 3. Hard Reset or flashing
How to prepare a smartphone for sale?
This is an important operation that can only be performed after creating a backup for all the necessary data. After the discharge, the device will be restored back to the factory parameters.
- Go to the settings
- Next, select the restoration and reset
- Click on the full reset of parameters to factory
- You will have a warning that everything will be deleted from memory. Confirm your actions and the process will start
Separately, it is worth mentioning the moment when third -party firmware is on your phone. Immediately warn the buyer about this fact. If he is not against using it, then just get around the usual reset of settings. If you have to return the standard firmware, then you need to load the factory ROM to the gadget.