mobile phone

[atkins]

when you delete a number from your mobile phone where does it go?

[Numbers]

Sim Card Heaven where all the numbers that have led good and blameless lives go.

[thewillow]

I guess that it will stay hidden in the memory, the same as deleted text messages.

[atkins]

u see. no 1 can answer this question, is there any mobile phone boffins newhere the numbers cant jst dissapear can they?

[jetboy]

if it is anything like deleting something on a pc they dont go anywhere it just destoys the path to the file so the phone sees that allocation space as empty and therefore overwrites it (i think)

[thewillow]

Atkins - I just answered it. They stay in the memory. Jetboy's right too. I read an article a couple of days ago, in The Observer, I think, amongst other things, it was about how the police solve crimes with the assistance of text messages which people think are deleted.

[madham]

Oh dear I hope the same doesn't apply to pictures!!!!

[thewillow]

madham - I'd guess it does. It would seem logical.

[darth vader]

thewillow that is slightly different and i am told is because all messages go through a relay station which takes a copy of the message (for criminal/legal purposes). When you delete a sim entry then correct the phone just loses the entry on the sim, but the sim memory addresses are not wiped i believe, so the entry remains there until it is wiped over by a new entry

[thejuggler]

That's like asking where does the dark go when you put a light on?