How Do I Clear A Tablet?

[gordiescotland1]

Hi there I am taking a tablet back to Brighthouse tomorrow as I can no longer afford it I want to clear it as I dont want people looking at my history a lot of fiancial history on it as well as health anxiety pages etc on friday I reset it to factory settings and it deleted everything and it was back to as I got it all apps and everything were gone do I just do the same again.

[ukbod2015]

Yes - - make sure you have backed up any personal items prior to doing this.

[gordiescotland1]

I will do but will what I said originally clear it and all history?

[Prudie]

I'm not sure it will clear it up for those who know how to find it. Isn't that why we are always told to smash up or drill through a hard drive before dumping a computer?

[ukbod2015]

Yes everything goes.

[Pete65]

I agree with Prudie.
I did a factory reset on a Samsung tablet. Everything gone? No!
There were some bits of info still in there.
Not much, but some.

[hc4361]

I have a tablet - what's a RAM pack?

[hc4361]

You mean memory cards?

[gordiescotland1]

It is Samsung 12.2 inch tablet

[douglas9401]

I think methyl's trying to 'sex up' IT, hc4361. :-)

[gordiescotland1]

It is a 3G ram 32b storage I have not added any ram only apps wouldnt know how to add ram don't even know what it is !!

[alavahalf]

On the edge of the tablet you will have what's known as a 'Ram Slot' .. this is where you add a small card to expand the memory.
If you press the ege of this card it should pop out... that's if you have one fitted.
Have a look at this video at 1.35 he points out the slot concerned.

[VHG]

Even if you do put it back to factory settings will they take it back as it has been used?

[gordiescotland1]

Yes they said it was like I leased it £648 for a year ridiculous!!

[hc4361]

Sorry to labour a point but a RAM pack is not the same as a memory card. RAM packs give extra RAM which make the machine work faster, memory cards give extra storage.

[Prudie]

I'd also like to repeat what I said. there has been many a tale of hard-drives ending up in India etc with people's personal details on. I know we are told to destroy hard-drives before dumping a PC, I've seen many questions over the years on here about the best way to do it - so if it's just a case of returning to factory settings why does this happen?

[fiction-factory]

And there have been stories of people buying 'new' (returned) PCs containing personal info and maybe things like porn (not suggesting that in your case gordie)