Erasing data from smart phone with no display.

[hurley842002]

As some of you may have seen in another post, I dropped a dumbbell on my Galaxy S8+ and had to go through insurance to get a replacement. I received my replacement, but have to send the damaged phone back, problem is, the screen is completely blacked out, so I have no clue how to do a hard reset before sending my old phone (full of passwords, bank info, etc.) back to the insurance company. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

[kidicarus13]

Neodymium magnet

[00tec]

I would use your new one as a guide and get it to the boot menu and count button presses (vol up/down) to navigate to the factory reset option.

In addition, next time, just tell em you lost it so you don't have to deal with return.

[hurley842002]

Well I did some more research after posting this, and was able to log into "Android device manager" and erase from there. I may still do the magnet thing to be sure.

[electronman1729]

put it in the microwave

[Mazin]

Your not that important to worry about it bro

Take it out and shoot it with a 50, bury the rest 12' deep and deficate on it before you fill it back up.

[Irving]

Could you take it to a local provider store and ask them to plug it in and erase everything?

[BushMasterBoy]

Open it up. Find the flash chip where the data is stored. Drill a crater in the chip large enough that the hackers can't recover the data. Don't drill all the way through the chip.
The memory storage chip should look like in the pics below.

https://www.androidauthority.com/sam...memory-589979/

[brutal]

Oddly, the insurance and deductible on my new S8 makes it more likely to be "lost" than have a cracked screen or other damage.

Just another boating accident if it ever happens.

[hurley842002]

Oddly, the insurance and deductible on my new S8 makes it more likely to be "lost" than have a cracked screen or other damage.

Just another boating accident if it ever happens.

In hindsight I should have declared it lost, as the deductible is the same either way.