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Some clarifications about TRIM and factory reset.

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(@biscuty)
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One week ago I deleted some photos on my phone and then I factory reset to sell it. (Oreo with FDE by default) :

 

- It's possible to recover something after I deleted them also from the trash? Or TRIM/garbage collection did everything after some minutes? Probably only fragments of bits would remain (we are not talking about encryption)

-with a factory reset, new encryption key, /data /cache are deleted and the old user blocks are sent to TRIM?

 

realistically, what's still there? Paranoid but also for personal knowledge.

   
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(@jonliuf)
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Does a factory reset remove the previous user blocks from TRIM and erase the new encryption key from /data/cache?

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(@lauryfriese)
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What's still there?


   
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vsa77
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It's my understanding a factory reset makes recovery impossible. It's not that everything gets deleted. When you enter setup and go through the process, the user directory is overwritten, which destroys the old data.


   
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