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If you’re about to sell or give away an old cell, or smart phone you need to ensure you don’t leave any personal information on it (failing to do so could result in identity theft). But deleting all phone numbers, incoming and outgoing calls, text messages,   and emails could take sometime, especially if you phone only allows you to delete one at a time.

Fortunately most phones have a complete reset option that allows you to quickly and safely delete all you personal information and set the phone back to its factory settings. To learn how to reset your phone you could consult your phones manual, or alternatively recellular.com has great data erasing instructions on their website for a large number of phones. Just select your brand of cell phone then the model and recellular.com will provide a PDF explaining how to reset your particular phone.

Click here to get reset instructions for your phone from recellular.com

Hat tip to Computer World for the idea for this post.

To learn how to protect your personal information when selling an old computer click here.