The Samsung Galaxy S8 amazed the world immediately after released to the public. Its fashionable appearance and powerful function reaped wide praise and plenty of fans. Many Samsung S7 users updated their S7 to S8 excitedly, and some of them choose to sell the old S7 or give it to others. But do you know how to deal with the contacts, messages, photos and other personal data on the S7 properly to prevent them from being revealed? This article will introduce a professional method to wipe a Samsung S7 completely.
The majority users will factory reset their Samsung S7 before selling or donating it , and believe this can permanently erase all the personal information. However, it is disappointing that factory reset makes little sense on protecting their privacy, because there are many recovery tools in the market which can restore android data after factory reset. Let’s perform an experiment:
- Factory reset your Samsung S7 by “Settings” > “Backup and reset” > “Factory data reset”.
- Install an android data recovery tool--take Jihosoft Android Phone Recovery for example.
- Select a file type you want to recover and connect your S7 to computer.
- Scan your S7 for deleted data.
- You will find all the deleted data is listed by category and will be retrieved by clicking “Recover”.
Completely wipe all data from Samsung Galaxy S7
Since the built-in factory reset cannot work as expected, resorting to third-party Samsung data erasing tools is a better choice for you. Jihosoft Mobile Privacy Eraser is highly recommended. With 3 erasing plans and 5 erasing algorithms, it can permanently clean private data on your Samsung S7 and make them unrecoverable.
Step 1: Install and launch Jihosoft Mobile Privacy Eraser.
Download this software and install it under the guidance. After installation has finished, double click the icon desktop to run it.
Step 2: Connect your Samsung S7 to computer.
Having opened this software, you will be asked to plug your phone to computer via a USB cable. To make sure your S7 can be identified by Jihosoft Mobile Privacy Eraser, please turn on USB debugging mode on it. If you have any problems, please follow this guide.
Step 3: Select an erasing plan.
This software offers 3 different erasing plans to fulfill different demands. You can choose to erase existing, deleted or all the data on your Samsung S7.
Step 4: Scan and choose data you want to erase.
After you choose one erasing plan, this software will scan your device automatically, and the result will be listed by category. Please mark those you want to erase.
Step 5: Choose a erasing algorithm and confirm erasing.
There are 5 alternative erasing algorithms ranked from low to high. The higher level algorithm you choose, the less possible to recover your data.
After this, please type “Erase” in the blank and your data will be permanently deleted.
