Repair Mode lets technicians fix your Android phone without seeing your personal files or apps. Here's how to enable it.

Before you hand your Android phone over to a repair shop, there's one privacy setting you should turn on to keep your apps and personal data protected.

(Reuters) - Fitting older versions of Google's Inc popular Android software to cheaper cellphones could send the repair costs of global telecoms operators up as much as $2 billion (1.3 billion pounds) ...