Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 1 year agoRepair Mode could hide your personal data while your Pixel phone is being fixedwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down13cross-posted to: android
arrow-up1121arrow-down1external-linkRepair Mode could hide your personal data while your Pixel phone is being fixedwww.androidauthority.comAvid Amoeba@lemmy.ca to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square14fedilinkcross-posted to: android
minus-squareAverageGoob@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down2·1 year agoLove the idea but as soon as you lose physical access, software won’t stop someone.
minus-squareNightOwl@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 year agoYeah, I would prefer being able to do a back up image of the phone and save it to my computer and then hand it in after doing a factory reset. Then just restore it when I get the phone back. Android sucks in this department compared to Apple.
minus-squaredigdug@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoYep, the only thing better than encryption is for the data to not be on the device at all.
minus-squareAbe Froman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoNow this would be very useful
minus-squaredarkkitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoyou can do this on device or using flashing utils. but you probably need root
Love the idea but as soon as you lose physical access, software won’t stop someone.
Yeah, I would prefer being able to do a back up image of the phone and save it to my computer and then hand it in after doing a factory reset. Then just restore it when I get the phone back. Android sucks in this department compared to Apple.
Yep, the only thing better than encryption is for the data to not be on the device at all.
Now this would be very useful
you can do this on device or using flashing utils.
but you probably need root