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.
thats about all you can do. At this point it is not worth the risk other than if you can prove its yours you could contact police to report it … but stay out of it after that if you do to avoid any risks.