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Originally Posted by paulsalter
for the Samsung, that must be local data, contacts from google would have been wiped if you did a reset
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I did do a full Samsung reset to factory default, and a fresh isntall of latet firmware yet the address book survived!.
But this was a samsung galaxy PRo android phone, which does not use the google contacts system- instead it had a horrible system that linked only to it's own Kies desktop software ( on the rare occasions that you get that software to actually work). Actually getting contacts from that into google was a nightmare - I had to go via excel then I had to patch up lots of fields that did not populate properly. Keis, in its wisdom, has no print facility so we had to make our paper back up of the contacts list by grabbing screen images one at a time, as we scrolled the list!
it is probably safe to assume that a modern Goggle phone would do a better job of wiping stuff if log in was changed. but that's content "stuff" as in emails, addresses, not apps as in games, utilities....
I can see why Kobo does an all or nothing approach, because all content is in a single big database.
On , say ,a Sony or a kindle reader, you could change /delete/ deregister your store login account data but all local content would be intact still, at least until you forced a a sync with the store servers. & even then I'd expect side-loaded epubs/ mobi files to be left as-is..