What should I do with my old mobile phone?

First, turn waste into treasure and reuse waste.

Under normal circumstances, old mobile phones can still be turned on normally, and their functions are basically intact. As long as you use your brain a little, you can turn them into valuables, such as electronic photo albums, driving recorders, security monitors and so on. Related apps include quick map browsing, professional edition of driving recorder and pocket butler collection terminal.

Second, exchange money or things after the information is completely cleared.

It is difficult to completely erase the information of the mobile phone, and it is impossible to format and restore the factory settings. Just like the words written on paper with a hard pen, after the color is removed, the traces of writing are still there, and professionals can still read their contents. The correct way to deal with it is to use the software like "Privacy Cleanup Master" to clean up photos, videos, address books and chat records. In the mobile phone, the factory settings are restored and formatted, and then a large number of irrelevant data, such as TV dramas or irrelevant pictures, are copied on the mobile phone until the storage of the mobile phone is full, and finally the irrelevant data is formatted and copied for more than three times. If ordinary people find it troublesome, they can find a special privacy data cleaning agency, and the charge is about 50- 100 yuan. Ensure that the information is completely cleared before it can be sold to second-hand merchants or replaced with other goods.

Exchange old mobile phones for goods

Third, give it to relatives and friends to continue to use.

At present, the service life of mobile phones is generally more than three years, and it is a pity to dispose of them in one or two years. It is better to give the eliminated mobile phones to the elderly or children at home, and the functions basically meet their needs. Remember not to send your mobile phone to people who are "too far away". The farther away, the greater the possibility that your mobile phone will be resold to the second-hand market. However, after netizens listed "sending parents' old mobile phones" as the seven unfilial acts, would you still do so?

Old mobile phone to send parents

Fourth, the recycling of disassembled parts.

It's really an old or damaged mobile phone. Interested lovers can take it apart to understand its internal structure, or make it into a teaching model, or make some interesting small objects, such as a motor can be made into a vibrating toothbrush, a USB fan, a microphone and a speaker can be made into a remote monitor and so on.

Disassembly and utilization of old mobile phones

trade in the old for the new

Of course, if the mobile phone is not too old, you can also participate in the trade-in activities of mobile phone manufacturers and exchange the old mobile phone for cash to offset part of the money for buying a new mobile phone. Mobile phone manufacturers that can trade in old ones are Apple, Xiaomi, Huawei, Samsung, Meizu, OPPO and so on. Waste mobile phones recycled by manufacturers can usually be used for second-hand sales, parts maintenance, precious metal extraction and so on. However, before replacing the old one with the new one, please press the second operation to completely clear the information. Poster of a mobile phone manufacturer's trade-in

2. Physical damage

If the above methods are not suitable, then the safest way is to deal with the ultimate solution of old mobile phones, that is, physical destruction. Physical damage is physical damage to the mobile phone, such as knocking, smashing, burning, throwing and so on. It is worth noting that the internal components of mobile phones contain a variety of heavy metals, which will cause great harm to human body and the environment. Therefore, please don't throw away the physically destroyed mobile phone at will, wrap it in a plastic bag and put it in the trash can marked "hazardous waste".