Meteorquake
Lurker
Having been a PC-only person I'm not that experienced with mobiles but I got one (Prestigio Multiphone PSP5455 Duo) and in due course got some miserable malware on it.
To my surprise/dismay, the factory reset did nothing of the sort - a real reset would have been hard-written and so removed the malware, but the reset on this to factory condition did not remove the malware. I downloaded the zipped OS from the prestigio site and it was blocked from being installed over the upgrade menu, etc. There were a few old links to home-produced upgrades to the next Android OS but the links were no longer there.
So, two questions -
1. Is there any way of getting my phone back to normality. It's a terrible shame to throw away a physically perfectly functional phone.
2. The question of the hard reset not really being one at all (i.e. malware can infect the resetter) is very disturbing to me and worries me whether if I get another phone the same might happen. What % of phones have a GENUINE reset that can't be infiltrated, and are there any brands etc in particular to be recommended in that respect? I go for the cheaper phones as I use them only for the basics - phone, text, GPS/Maps, memory files to view - and don't care for 99% of stuff on a phone - but I would consider a genuine reset to be an absolute essential.
Thanks for any answers you may give,
David
To my surprise/dismay, the factory reset did nothing of the sort - a real reset would have been hard-written and so removed the malware, but the reset on this to factory condition did not remove the malware. I downloaded the zipped OS from the prestigio site and it was blocked from being installed over the upgrade menu, etc. There were a few old links to home-produced upgrades to the next Android OS but the links were no longer there.
So, two questions -
1. Is there any way of getting my phone back to normality. It's a terrible shame to throw away a physically perfectly functional phone.
2. The question of the hard reset not really being one at all (i.e. malware can infect the resetter) is very disturbing to me and worries me whether if I get another phone the same might happen. What % of phones have a GENUINE reset that can't be infiltrated, and are there any brands etc in particular to be recommended in that respect? I go for the cheaper phones as I use them only for the basics - phone, text, GPS/Maps, memory files to view - and don't care for 99% of stuff on a phone - but I would consider a genuine reset to be an absolute essential.
Thanks for any answers you may give,
David