Help Safe factory resetting for NFC/Android pay?

[nx1977]

Seem to recall from years ago if you had android pay set up and factory reset you would lose the ability to use NFC payments forever.

Is this still the case? Is there a safe way to android pay before resetting the device?

I also plan to encrypt the device before resetting.

 

[csiemers]

If you do a factory reset all you have to do is to re-setup Android Pay (just like any apps) to use it again.

 

[nx1977]

Thanks assume the NFC secure section isn't locked out as it used to one upon a time?

 

[mikedt]

Seem to recall from years ago if you had android pay set up and factory reset you would lose the ability to use NFC payments forever.

Is this still the case? Is there a safe way to android pay before resetting the device?

I also plan to encrypt the device before resetting.

You set encryption after you've reset the device, because factory resetting will wipe out everything anyway, including any encrypted data. Factory reset does what it says, i.e. puts it back to as it came from the factory, except for any Android system updates that came afterwards. NFC will still work as it should, including payments, and I've never heard of anything otherwise.

 

[nx1977]

You set encryption after you've reset the device, because factory resetting will wipe out everything anyway, including any encrypted data. Factory reset does what it says, i.e. puts it back to as it came from the factory, except for any Android system updates that came afterwards. NFC will still work as it should, including payments, and I've never heard of anything otherwise.

Thanks.

But encryption should be done before the FDR as a reset only marks data areas as available again for use. Data which was in them can be recovered.

If you encrypt, THEN reset the decryption key is lost so any data cannot be recovered.

See - http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/26/8661461/android-factory-reset-disk-encryption-resale