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Can I wipe a Galaxy S4 Mini with dead screen and digitizer?

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I have here a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini (GT-I9195). It has met a terrible fate on a parking lot, and is damaged beyond repair: broken screen and digitizer, battery bent out of shape. Apart from these terrible wounds, it appears to still be working fine: it boots and vibrates, the side and home buttons work fine, and USB access is operational. In particular, I was able to backup all that I wanted using MTP. We are going to buy a replacement of course (though finding a good 4.3" phone is not easy nowadays). **My question is: can I wipe this phone? If yes, how?** Obviously, anything involving reading or touching the screen is a no-go: that part is truly fully dead. I am hoping I can access and blindly use some kind of boot menu using only the side keys, or that I can somehow perform that over USB, or that I can press or short some internal reset switch inside the phone. (Software would preferably be run from Linux, but Windows 7 or 10 is also possible.)
Asked by Adrien Beau (113 rep)
Dec 31, 2016, 07:40 AM
Last activity: Dec 31, 2016, 10:04 AM