Folders kept after factory reset?!


AgentSuave

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12 Jun 2021
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Hi,
I sold this phone a few days ago, so I did a factory reset, apps were gone, welcome screen appeared, all was well, but I noticed that some folders in internal storage weren't wiped, like the the Camera, Pictures, Downloads, and a few others, so I wiped them myself.
But only after selling it I forgot to check the whatsapp folder, which isn't in the storage root anymore, but at <storage>/Android\media\com.whatsapp.
Does the Android\media\ folder gets unequivocally wiped in a factory reset? Because although the whatsapp app was gone from the homescreen, I don't want other people checking my pictures in that folder, or those pictures to appear once they install whatsapp.

I used the factory reset through the settings app, and then it rebooted to the recovery to wipe the phone, however the recovery wasn't the original but TWRP. Is this significant?
 
If you did a "factory reset" in TWRP, the files on the device were not deleted. You should have done a "Format Data" in TWRP. Then the phone will reset and format the data partition.
 

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