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.
That was my original worry but I’m fairly certain they got nothing valuable off the phone. I knew the phone was stolen and changed all important passwords from my laptop once I got home. The phone was pinged as stolen on Verizons system the next morning so I’m certain they wiped it as soon as they could. I’ll still keep a close eye on my accounts though.