Disposing of a mobile phone

Aug 15, 2021 Last reply: 4 years ago 28 Replies

I'd imagine the 'elf n' safe tea brigade would have your guts for garters for that! You can't do f*ck all nowadays.

Look up mobile mop up on the web, they claim to be able to clear any left over data and recycle what can be recycled. Obviously remove the sim first though. Brian

Depends where you live

If you login to those apps on a PC, many/most have a way to remotely logout connected devices ...

No, the deal was that they had to do it at the Guardian offices so that the journalists could witness it too; otherwise the security people would have used it to back-track to the sources.

If she was organised, all data (like photos) would have been directed to a memory card which can be removed.

In message snipped-for-privacy@brightview.co.uk>, at

17:04:28 on Sun, 15 Aug 2021, JoeJoe snipped-for-privacy@mail.com remarked:

Have you tried putting it in the freezer overnight, that sometimes brings such a battery back to life, at least temporarily.

An angle grinder is the traditional tool for such jobs on this forum.

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