How to prepare your phone before selling it

How to prepare your phone before selling it

It is a New Year and you may probably want to replace your smartphone you have been using for several years. Beside this, you may need money to deal with an emergency. You may decide to get rid of your phone. Whatever the case maybe, you have to prepare your phone for sale so as to get the best deal from the sale. Some tips to prepare your smartphone for sale includes.

Backup your smartphone

Phones can automatically back up your data as far as they are connected to the internet. However, you should still check to ensure that you backup all your pictures, videos, and other important files before you sell your phone. With the backup, you can access your data whenever you want. In addition, don’t forget to remove your SD card.

Delete personal information

After backing up your device, do not forget to delete your personal information from your phone. Sensitive information like your ATM card details, contact numbers and emails should be removed. This will prevent whoever is buying your smartphone from using the information against you or to defraud Friends and family.

Find out the value

The street value for different phones depends on the brand. So, before you sell it, you should find out the street value so that you don’t sell it at a giveaway price. This is very important if you want to get the best price.

Where do you want to sell your phone?

Do you want to sell your phone online or offline? The most likely offline platform to sell your phone is computer village in Ikeja where you will never get a good bargain. There are also quite a number of online platforms where you can also sell it. So, you have to weigh your options.

Clean the device

A clean and neat smartphone is likely to be bought quicker than an ugly looking one. You can use white spirit to softly clean or wipe the phone.

Decide what to do with the accessories

In Nigeria, fairly used phones are never sold with accessories. But if you want more money, you may include chargers, earphones, and cases. So, decide on what to do with the accessories.

Things to Note before Buying Power Bank

5 Things Nigerians Should Know Before Buying a Power Bank

Power is yet to be regular or stable in Nigeria. Hence, Nigerians are searching for alternatives to keep their phones, laptops and other devices charged. Interestingly, it seems phones are getting more
attention as there are now power banks which you can use to charge your phone when there is prolonged lack of power. As power banks have become very useful, it is very important that users know some things when they are buying one. This is important because there are many complaints about power banks like it takes ages to charge, it is substandard and/or its efficiency is less than 50%. You don’t want to spend money on this.

Weight of the Power Bank

Power banks come in different sizes and weight. You buy a portable one over a bulky one so that it will not become a burden when moving around.

Brand of the Power Bank

The brand of a power bank is vital. You already know the reliable brands that are popular for quality, durability, and resale value. Some of these brands may be expensive but you are guaranteed that you will use it for a long time. Despite this, you still have to be careful so that the brand name is not different from the package. Hence, don’t patronize touts.

Power output of the Power Bank

The power output of a power bank is the reason you are buying it. If the power output is low, you don’t need to buy it. A power bank needs at least 2 amperages to charge. So you should check if the power bank is has 2.1 amp output.

Power capacity of the Power Bank

For every power bank you want to buy, it must be 2.5 times more than the capacity of your phone. In other words, if the battery of your phone is 4000mAh, you should buy a power bank that is 10,000 mAh. You will only use about 6,700 mAh to charge. This is better than buying the one with the same mAh with your phone.

Quality of the Power Bank

Nigeria has become a dumping ground for different substandard products including power banks. Besides buying a brand, it is important to be careful not to buy a fake one because you have many in the market.

How to Root Motorola Moto E

Motorola’s new budget android smartphone Moto E is now received the root method. You can easily gain root access by flashing SuperSU app on your mobile by custom recovery. So, first you need to install the TWRP recovery and then flash the SuperSU. Its a hard one for the new users of Android. Don’t worry about it. We have compiled a step by step guide for you to easily get a root access for your device. A user named as “deej_roamer” from XDA Developers forum has found this method. We are clearly inform you that, all the credits goes to the original developer. If you are a new user to Android, you might doesn’t know about the root. For those who don’t know the meaning, here is it. It allows other files or data from third party to access system files. This will give the function to do customization of user interface, some apps which also comes in Custom ROM. After rooting your mobile, you can do any kind of process that need a root access for ROM installation, ClockWorkMod Recovery, and some other apps that need a root access.


The Motorola Moto E is comes with the latest Android 4.4.2 Kitkat Operating System. It has comes with 5 Mega Pixel Primary camera that supports 2592 ? 1944 Pixels and there is no secondary camera. It have the main feature of the 4.3 Capacitive Touch Screen that supports 540 x 960 Pixels. The mobile has the internal Memory of 4 GB and there is an external memory card slot also which supports up to 32 GB. And it comes with 1 GB of RAM which is much enough for playing high end graphics games and more apps. This is the one of the best budget android smartphone in market compared with other mobiles which is comes with Qualcomm Snapdragon Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex A7 processor.


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  Warning:

• We are not responsible for any damages that may happened due to using this guide. If any problem happens that related to installing, we will help you to solve it.
• Rooting is voids your warranty of your phone.
• Rooting the phone will not flash the phone. So, you won’t lost the files after that.
• Use this guide at your own risk. We shall not have any liability or responsibility for whatever happens to you and your device by using the instructions in this guide.
• The instructions provided in this tutorial for educational purpose only. There is no guarantee that these steps will work for your device.
• The steps given in this tutorial is only to use with Motorola Moto E. And the model number is XT1022, XT1025. Applying this guide to any other device or any other model may produce many problems.
• Read and Understand the whole tutorial first, before going to perform the steps.

Pre Requirements:

• A Motorola Moto E Android Smartphone.
• A PC or Laptop with Working Internet connection.
• We recommend you to take a backup of your data in the mobile using PC suite or any other method. After the process, the data won’t be deleted. In case if you miss some data you can restore it from the backup file.

• SMS – How to Backup Messages
• Contacts – Sync with Gmail App
• Videos, Images, Songs and Other Files – Copy to internal / External SD card or System
• APN Settings – Take Manual Note from “Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”

• Then maintain minimum 60% charge in your mobile’s battery. This will help your device to don’t get switched off.
• And Enable USB Debugging –
• Then Disable any antiviruses and firewalls in your PC or Laptop. Because these tools may interrupts the process.

Download Files:
The following files are need to perform the process in the guide. So, download the following files one by one. And make sure that you have downloaded all the files. If the following download links were broken. Inform us to re post the download files.

• TWRP recovery Image – moto_e_twrp2.7.0.0_v1.2.img (10.03 MB) – here
• Super SU – UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.99.zip (1.18 MB) – here

How to Install TWRP Recovery & Root Motorola Moto E:

• Move the “UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.99.zip” to the SD Card.
• Make sure you have installed USB drivers on your PC.
• First you need to unlock the bootloader.
• Don’t delete the ADB folder that downloaded while unlocking the bootloader.
• Move the downloaded recovery img file to the ADB folder.
• Then Connect the phone to the Computer using the original USB Data Cable that you got it when you bought the phone. Using other kind of cables may not be detected by the PC or laptop. So only we are recommend you to use the original cable.
• Now reboot the phone in to Fastboot mode. For that, switch off the phone, Press and Hold the “Volume Down + Power” buttons together.
• Now open the Command Prompt in the ADB folder. For that, Press and hold the Shift key then right click on the mouse. Then choose the Open Command Prompt here.
• Then Type the following command in Command Prompt:-

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

• Then it will install the Recovery on your mobile. After installation your device will be rebooted. If not, type the following:-

fastboot reboot

• To root the phone you have to flash the Super SU on Recovery. So, open the recovery by typing the following:-

adb reboot recovery

• Now select the option to install the zip file. Browse and select the Super SU file from the SD card that you moved earlier.
• Follow the instructions on your mobile.
• It will take some long time to complete the process.
• After the installation, reboot the phone.
• First boot takes some long time. Don’t worry about it.
• If your device stuck on the boot screen, re do the process again.
• If you want to check your phone is rooted or not, download and install the Root Checker app from Google play.

You made it easily! Your mobile has rooted and TWRP custom Recovery has installed successfully. If you face any kind of problem, trouble or have any issue that may be difficult to understand how to do it with this guide, then don’t stop to inform us. Do share in comment section in case if you face any problems or met any errors in firmware update process. Your problems, suggestions or any other issues will be clarified and the correct answer or solution for your problem will be given to your comment as soon as possible.