There are many times when people factory reset their android phone. Mostly they do it when their memory gets full, the performance of the device becomes slow due to a heavy of applications, there is some malware related issue with the smartphone, or when people are selling it or giving it away to someone.

The procedure of factory reset is designed to be such that whenever user does a reset, every data and setting gets deleted from one's phone, which takes the phone back to the same condition in which it was when it came out of the factory, thus giving continuance to the term 'factory' reset

How to Do a Factory Reset?

To do a reset, all one needs to do is go to their Android phone's Settings section. From there, go to the System settings, where you will find the advanced choice. In the section, the is a choice called reset, which you need to select so as to do a factory reset. Remember, always back up your high-ranking data such as contacts, music and other things you find important before execution a factory reset.


Is Data Recoverable After a Factory Reset?

Yes, it must be familiar that Android data is recoverable even after one does a reset. This is a very important thing, because it might be of help to the people who lost something important data, and it might be harmful for those who did a factory reset to secure their data.

There are various tools and software’s that are available with which you can extract your smart phones deleted data. All one needs to do is check out for them on the internet, download them and use them for extracting deleted data from a mobile phone.

Now the question is, can we still secure our data? The answer to that is also yes. You can still secure your data.

Built-in Encryption of Android Devices-

Before Android released their operating system Marshmallow 6.0, the Android Smartphones did not come with default encryption. One needed to put it up before doing work a factory reset so that their recovered data cannot be directly.

But since the Marshmallow 6.0 update, the smartphone comes with encryption that has been already enabled, meaning that even if you recover your phone's data, you would not be able to entrance directly without going through the encryption.


Cloud Backup-

Cloud backup is one more thing you need to look at. Most smart phones these days sync some important data on Google Drive from where you can recover it on a new device or even your older one even after a factory reset just by access your Google account.

However, there's no guarantee that cloud backups such as Google Drive is completely safe or secure. In fact, it's the exact opposite of safe or secure. There have been many cases of cloud storages of people being hacked and their data being stolen, so always remember to keep only unimportant or important data on your Google cloud storage