[NilaBaby]

Hi...

I am using Nokia 2700 Classic. I am going to sell my mobile. I am scared about, that the buyer may recover my deleted photos, videos & other personal data like messages... How can I prevent my data from recovering that using recovery software?

Please help me...

Thanks in advance...

[petrib · Accepted solution]

Just reformat the phone. No data PC-based recovery software will be able to access the phone memory, but just the memory card (and you can keep the memory card, if you don't trust reformatting it is enough).

You can, if you want to satisfy your deepest fears, first fill up the phone memory with junk (instead of real data), and then clean it up. Unlike magnetic media, overwriting flash memory will destroy the original content completely.

[NilaBaby]

Thank you so much petrib...

[miome]

Hi, am using 2700 classic  accidentally I deleted one photo and document from my mobile it's in phone memory how to I recover that.

Please help me

[petrib]

There is no practical/cheap way to recover a delete photo in phone memory.

The bits might still be there in the memory (until something overwrites them), but there are no mechanisms available for the user to "undelete" it. There are also no PC tools that could access phone memory to undelete a file, either. If it was on a memory card, using a file system where a deleted file is only marked as deleted, but still there in reality, then a PC tool could undelete it.

A data recovery service company could possibly find the relevant memory blocks and piece together the photo, but that'd be a costly service (without any guarantees, especially if you have kept on using the phone with risk that the memory blocks get overwritten by new data, and no guarantees that your phone will survive the operation).

Kroll Ontrack is an international service provider that has specialized in data recovery services (among other related things), but as said, it'd be expensive, and without any guarantees for success, or that you get back a working phone after their attempt:

http://www.krollontrack.com/

Of course, there are also other similar companies with similar services, so this is just an example.

[jegsaw]

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NilaBaby wrote:

Hi...

I am using Nokia 2700 Classic. I am going to sell my mobile. I am scared about, that the buyer may recover my deleted photos, videos & other personal data like messages... How can I prevent my data from recovering that using recovery software?

Please help me...

Thanks in advance...

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[jegsaw]

Are u sure that data recovery from internal memory is not possible through software because I have a same problem is data formation is enough. If some one do deletion of data first than format the whole mobile and then mobile software is re installed is it cause any effect on recovery of data   

[petrib]

For the truly suspicious/paranoid, the way to ensure that flash memory is totally erased, is to expose the phone to x-rays, or to just destroy the phone by hammering it to pieces, instead of recycling it.

Of course, the truly suspicious/paranoid shouldn't even be using a mobile phone in the first place.

Otherwise, just reset it to factory settings and reformat it, and sell or donate it after that.

[jegsaw]

thank you for reply sir i have one more question do you know why software cannot seeked to the internal memory 

[jegsaw]

and this is for all the sets 

[petrib]

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jegsaw wrote:

thank you for reply sir i have one more question do you know why software cannot seeked to the internal memory 

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It depends on what you mean. The Nokia PC Suite can on many PCs show some folders of the phone memory, but not all of them, and not with full access (i.e., not folders Nokia does not wish to show).

This is how the phone has been designed (to prevent full access to the phone memory and the file system there).

So, if you use PC Suite, you only see those files and folders that are freely accessible (e.g., photos and music), and if you try to use USB mass storag mode, you don't see the phone memory at all.

So, I suppose, the answer to your question (why) is: Because Nokia has designed the system that way.

[jegsaw]

OK its mean it is not possible to seek the internal memory because of design of nokia sets 

[jegsaw]

thank u for reply