I need someone to be BRUTALLY honest with me on this and tell me if there’s hope or not. It’s a S20+ and I need to know it there’s the possibility to regain photos from the device if its been wiped and factory reset.
To make a complex situation short. The phone was stolen from me but I think I found it being resold on Facebook marketplace. Now as a woman who lives alone in a big city notorious for phone theft, I only want to push to get this phone back if there’s the possibility I can retrieve my data from the physical device- otherwise I’m risking my safety for nothing as the thief could be part of a ring and frequent my area.
Thus, please be honest if my data could be retrieved from this wipes device if I got it back. Additionally, no nothing was back up on an external network that i can access like google photos or samsung drive. Thanks and appreciate the help.
It’s safe to say that the photos are not going to be retrieved as it would be very difficult (android has measures for such cases). If you were some sort of celebrity or something and they know that, they may go to more trouble but it would still be expensive and difficult.
One question though, was there an sd card in your device to which photos were saved to? If so, I don’t think that would be wiped, at least not in my experience wiping older droid phones. The sd card can be physically taken out and read by other phones/computers