Permanently Delete Contacts from Android Phone Before Selling

Contact is one of the important media for you to keep in touch with outside world, it is always storing your family, friends, business partners, customers’ phone numbers and important information. Thus, contact has been seen as the most important data on mobile phone. I believe you do not exactly fundamentally disclose your personal information. However, with the development of technology, you might always buying the latest release of the mode instead of the old one, then you may make your old phone is resold or donated. Suppose your Android phone is resold, you need to remove all contacts information deeply. In fact, you are already in a dangerous situation after the above operation. I have to tell you, even if you wipe all contacts and reset your old Android phone, but the eraser data still can be recovered with a few simple steps.

There is no doubt that before you plan to buy a new mobile phone, you must ensure that you have deleted contacts thoroughly on your old Android device. Confirm phone number and Gmail account Android phone will never be restored. By reading this guide, you can eliminate the Android phone Gmail account through a few simple steps and then remove all contacts on Android phone permanently.

Before selling the old Android phone and plan to buy an new Samsung Galaxy S20？We must to deleted all contacts, phone numbers and Gmail Account on Android phone permanently without restored. Today we teach you a easy methods to remove Gmail account on Android phone,and erasing all deleted/existing contacts on Android phone permanently.

By the same method, you can clear SMS, e-mail, contacts, photos and other data from Android phone within a few mouse clicks under the Android Data Eraser software. Even though the Erased Data Recovery software can not retrieve any deleted android data forever. So, you can never worry about your personal information will be stolen or put online. More importantly, the data eraser program supports all Android phones like HTC, LG, Motorola, Sony, ZTE and other.

Guides to Remove Android Contacts Permanently Before Resell

Part 1 Delete Gmail Account on Android to Wipe Contacts

Now we will show you the details about removing Gmail account from Android.

Step 1 Go to "Settings" > "Accounts". Select "Google" and select the account you want.



Step 2 Tap the menu icon. Select "Remove account".



Step 3 Click "Remove account" on the pop up and confirm to delete your Google account from Android.  Note that removing the account will delete all of its messages, contacts, and other data from the device.



After that, your Google account has been removed from your Android phone. To tell you the truth, removing your Android contacts by wiping Google account is not mean that you have erased contacts permanently. It still has any ways to get deleted contacts back with the help of Erased Data Recovery program. If you want to remove Android contacts without restoring, you can read on Part 2 as follow:

Part 2: Permanently Delete Contacts from Android by Android Data Eraser

Step 1: Install Android Data Eraser on a Computer
 
Only a few mouse clicks are needed, you can download and install the program. The main screen of the program is shown as follows:



Step 2: Select "Erasing" Option
 
After installing, you can open this tool. This Android Data Eraser tool has 4 models you can choose from. However, we choose Erase Your Old Phone this time, which leads to everything erasing function.



Step 3: Erase Your Android Phone Files
 
In this step, everything is set up well and the program will start wiping the device once the operation is confirmed. So please make sure all your data is backed up. Click Erase Now button to start the erasing process. It will take a while to complete the task depending on how many files and apps stored on the device.



Note: you can use the program to back up your Android device first, because after deleting, you can not retrieve them forever.

Only with the help of the third-party tools, you can erase your content permanently via this software including contacts, text messages and other files. Try to remove these files on your Android phone such as LG, Motorola, Sony and more.

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