i lost all my messages/emails and some of my contants after i upgraded to wm6
i only backed up my fotos/ringtones
i didnt think it would erase messages
is there any chance for recovery? )':
xdabestx said:
i lost all my messages/emails and some of my contants after i upgraded to wm6
i only backed up my fotos/ringtones
i didnt think it would erase messages
is there any chance for recovery? )':
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did you backup before upgrading ?
if no than i dont think you can get them back...
xdabestx said:
i lost all my messages/emails and some of my contants after i upgraded to wm6
i only backed up my fotos/ringtones
i didnt think it would erase messages
is there any chance for recovery? )':
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Tip for future refference, save your contacts to your sim card not your phone. That way they'll always be there. Whenever flashing a new ROM everything gets deleted it's like getting a new phone. So always backup anything you want. There's no chance for recovery that I know of man. I hope this helped you for the future though!
ouch it seems im badly .... up
thx anyway <.<
xdabestx said:
ouch it seems im badly .... up
thx anyway <.<
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No problem man you can always check the stickies in this forum. They contain a lot of useful information.
Eliphas said:
Tip for future refference, save your contacts to your sim card not your phone. That way they'll always be there. Whenever flashing a new ROM everything gets deleted it's like getting a new phone. So always backup anything you want. There's no chance for recovery that I know of man. I hope this helped you for the future though!
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Other thing is that you copy all of your folders when you activesync to your computer, so when you flash again you can copy them back to your phone.
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Other thing is that you copy all of your folders when you activesync to your computer, so when you flash again you can copy them back to your phone.
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So like I previously stated BACKUP YOUR FILES.
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I read alot of times the suggestion is to format the sd card. My question is since I am still new is do I simply move what I want to save (pictures) to my PC and then format? Do all the folders get automatically put back?
Thanks
vcaewagner said:
I read alot of times the suggestion is to format the sd card. My question is since I am still new is do I simply move what I want to save (pictures) to my PC and then format? Do all the folders get automatically put back?
Thanks
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Copy the data you want to your PC, format it, and copy the data back. Formatting destroys all data on the card.
Will the folders on the card now be put back on at some point by the phone itself?
vcaewagner said:
Will the folders on the card now be put back on at some point by the phone itself?
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Anything you didn't put there yourself, or download to it (e.g. in a browser, through Beautiful Widgets, or photos), yes.
Thanks. I am one of those noob's that was de-flowered in the world of flashing roms by Frozen 1.01. Went to 1.02 and was late to work becuase of 1.1 coming out last night. Thanks for what you all do and how much help you guys give to guys like me.
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Thanks. I am one of those noob's that was de-flowered in the world of flashing roms by Frozen 1.01. Went to 1.02 and was late to work becuase of 1.1 coming out last night. Thanks for what you all do and how much help you guys give to guys like me.
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Thanks for your support!
I'm also still pretty new too. What is the benefit of formatting the sd card? I've never done it but I flash different roms all the time to check them out.
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I unlocked my Bootloader today and without knowing basically wiped my SD card of all personal files including music, text message backup files, my backup root files, ALL files. I honestly dont care to recover all files that were deleted but am dying to get my pictures back. Is there anyway i can get them back without the guide used to get back all deleted files as seen in this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705 guide? I was trying it but it doesnt wanna play right with my laptop(Windows 8 and it keeps saying i dont have "permission", even though im the main and only user). I tried the disk digger app but its finding all kind of random pictures i never remember and things like that, just too much. So please if anyone knows anyway i can get them back share some insight.
Anything????
That was a super fast bump...you could try recovering everything with disk digger and trying to pick out what you're looking for after it finishes. The recovery applications look for anything that has not been overwritten in memory (even if it was deleted), it won't pick and choose the most recently saved stuff for you; you usually need to do that yourself.
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That was a super fast bump...you could try recovering everything with disk digger and trying to pick out what you're looking for after it finishes. The recovery applications look for anything that has not been overwritten in memory (even if it was deleted), it won't pick and choose the most recently saved stuff for you; you usually need to do that yourself.
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I Meant DiskDigger On My Phone, It Takes ALL Pictures. But That may be My best Option, Idk But Thanks
Any other ideas?
Did you try this? It's right on the front page of the general forum.
pfmiller said:
Did you try this? It's right on the front page of the general forum.
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Thats the guide i was talking about didnt work
NexusS4gFreak said:
Thats the guide i was talking about didnt work
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Then you are out of luck
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Hi, apparently some genius developing CWM decided it would be fun to allow the factory partition to be formatted with the newest versions of CWM (I'm on 6.0.4.6). Well guess what, I managed to format it on my GNex (it's quite easy to do actually).
Anyways, I've lost my IMEI data and unable to access mobile network (data connectivity is fine, however, surprisingly). Somebody please help me restore my IMEI because I don't have a nandroid backup either.
Thanks a lot!
Deleted, did a search on IMEI and found a bunch of threads. Reading them now...
pherder said:
Deleted, did a search on IMEI and found a bunch of threads. Reading them now...
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Paul how did you manage to mess up your phone? Was it the same way I did? The thing is, all is not lost, I'm absolutely certain of that. It's not a brick until it absolutely and completely refuses to power up...
@osm0sis, can you please help me out here? I know there was even an IMEI changing tool but most probably considered illegal or something by the "powers that be" and hence removed most likely. I just need my original phone IMEI back, that's all. Thanks a lot!
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Paul how did you manage to mess up your phone? Was it the same way I did? The thing is, all is not lost, I'm absolutely certain of that. It's not a brick until it absolutely and completely refuses to power up...
@osm0sis, can you please help me out here? I know there was even an IMEI changing tool but most probably considered illegal or something by the "powers that be" and hence removed most likely. I just need my original phone IMEI back, that's all. Thanks a lot!
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I think I screwed up and flashed my phone with the wrong image (LTE instead of CDMA) that wiped the factory info and all the attempts I have tried do not do anything to get the phone back. I have a nice tablet that just upgraded to 4.3 via WiFi since it isn't on the Verizon network.
Paul
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I think I screwed up and flashed my phone with the wrong image (LTE instead of CDMA) that wiped the factory info and all the attempts I have tried do not do anything to get the phone back. I have a nice tablet that just upgraded to 4.3 via WiFi since it isn't on the Verizon network.
Paul
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My maguro CWM thread has all the info you need explained several times. Check it out.
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My maguro CWM thread has all the info you need explained several times. Check it out.
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i have gone through your cwm thread. it's suggested taking it to a shop and getting it fixed with spt box or something. unfortunately, i can't do that because nobody in my location has anything even remotely similar to one of those. apart from that, i've done everything i could think of, flashed radios, flashed stock samsung rom, flashed google factory images. what else would you suggest?
i don't have a prior nandroid either
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Problem solved. Took it to repair shop and got it fixed. Everyone that helped or tried to help, thanks a lot! Mods please close thread, thanks!
I was thinking more along the lines of restoring a backup and grabbing what you need to fix Factory from Radio, which was detailed a couple of times.
Glad you got it fixed, nonetheless. :good:
rahimali said:
Problem solved. Took it to repair shop and got it fixed. Everyone that helped or tried to help, thanks a lot! Mods please close thread, thanks!
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Did you ask them how they fixed it?? we need to know so we can help others..:--))
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I was thinking more along the lines of restoring a backup and grabbing what you need to fix Factory from Radio, which was detailed a couple of times.
Glad you got it fixed, nonetheless. :good:
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i didn't have a nandroid, nothing in factory since i had wiped it accidentally via the new cwm's new ""feature". i didn't like twrp until now but i ain't budging from it now that cwm has screwed me up so bad!
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Did you ask them how they fixed it?? we need to know so we can help others..:--))
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the guy connected it to a couple of external devices which in turn were connected to his pc, i guess one of them was something along the lines of an spt box, the other thing looked like a miniature spaceship, so maybe ET was involved in fixing it as well...
Not CWM's fault, though I definitely understand your sentiment. But "with great power.."
I make damn sure I know what I'm pressing Yes on when I'm wiping.
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Not CWM's fault, though I definitely understand your sentiment. But "with great power.."
I make damn sure I know what I'm pressing Yes on when I'm wiping.
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with great power comes great tragedy
anyways, I was just browsing through my phone with root explorer and with twrp's file manager and surprisingly there's no efs folder there! is that normal?
i've taken a twrp nandroid backup to include efs as well but i'm thinking to take a raw backup as well as described here. i've also copied the /factory and /data/radio folders.
i was wondering whether flashing a stock samsung ROM might result in the creation of the efs folder? on yakju 4.2.2 stock google image right now...
Nah efs is the partition but it's mounted to /factory :good:
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Nah efs is the partition but it's mounted to /factory :good:
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That's great thanks!., I'll clean flash 4.3 yakju in a day or two and see if the IMEI sticks after the wipes. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to backup using EFS Commander or the terminal/shell commands (got error both ways) so I'm hoping the TWRP backup (without MD5) and manual file copy should be sufficient insurance...
Hey guys, i just got a used M8 and the previous owner hard reset it before giving it to me..
So i lost everything from the internal sd, could someone upload a back up for me?
I'm looking mostly for the items in the following folders:
.data
.showme
DCIM
Download
Music
and the root of the sd..
Thanks in advance for any help!
Of course the previous owner deleted everything , but you lost it.....that's kinda weird because what is your stuff doing on another person's phone ! What you expect ?
If an app needs it's folder it will create it. Not sure what your problem is ?
I didn't had my stuff on the phone. I wrote that i want back the stock stuff that htc put's in storage, like stock photos, music etc..
Anyone?
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Anyone?
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Had this happen, as I factory resetted (from bootloader) because I was having random reboots. Wasn't expecting to lose all the preloaded media, to be honest I usually weed out any unwanted stuff anyway, but though that surely that stuff should survive a factory reset. Thankfully, after updating firmware the reboots appear to have gone.
Below is a thread for restoring T-Mobile preload I found, as I have the international model I wouldnt be using this but was going to have a look at the compressed archive to see if anything can be extracted.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714522
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Had this happen, as I factory resetted (from bootloader) because I was having random reboots. Wasn't expecting to lose all the preloaded media, to be honest I usually weed out any unwanted stuff anyway, but though that surely that stuff should survive a factory reset. Thankfully, after updating firmware the reboots appear to have gone.
Below is a thread for restoring T-Mobile preload I found, as I have the international model I wouldnt be using this but was going to have a look at the compressed archive to see if anything can be extracted.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2714522
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This archive only has some apk's and some png's for the camera effects. I already have those since i'm using a custom rom.
I just want to get back the preloaded pictures, music etc..
anko184 said:
This archive only has some apk's and some png's for the camera effects. I already have those since i'm using a custom rom.
I just want to get back the preloaded pictures, music etc..
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Ah, no use then. I just tweeted HTC UK to see what they say, worth a shot as I can't find these things anywhere else. I'll let you know what they say.:fingers-crossed:
gsmyth said:
Ah, no use then. I just tweeted HTC UK to see what they say, worth a shot as I can't find these things anywhere else. I'll let you know what they say.:fingers-crossed:
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Thanks mate, i really appreciate it!
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Thanks mate, i really appreciate it!
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HTC's response at the link below. I hadnt backed anything up as I thought this stuff was 'built-in' and store internally and so wouldnt be affected. I hadn't really set the phone up properly, which is also why I didnt try to back up anything. So unless someone who is possibly rooted can extract the files there doesnt seem to be any other way of getting them.
https://twitter.com/HTC_UK/status/508933586758553600
Hello, my phone just deleted itself after it restarted itself.. i have ICE ROM and it never happened before. I didnt make backup with twrp recovery before so i couldnt recover it. Is there any chance to bring it back? It restarted somehow in thr twrp recovery mode and automatically wiped. Thanks for help.
It also somehow deleted my SD card. Is it even possible? Lost 1,1k photos and 1.2+k songs. Holy mother.
Okay so now i know the reason. My loveky GF accidentaly removed my phone from the google account and it forced my phone to delete itself. Is there any chance that i can return it back to normal?
FTWDiesel said:
It also somehow deleted my SD card. Is it even possible? Lost 1,1k photos and 1.2+k songs. Holy mother.
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FTWDiesel said:
Okay so now i know the reason. My loveky GF accidentaly removed my phone from the google account and it forced my phone to delete itself. Is there any chance that i can return it back to normal?
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What was on your SD is probably gone forever. You don't use Google Photos to back up pics? Unlimited storage there.
Run the appropriate RUU for your device, and when you sign in to Google you should be able to restore it back to what is was, more or less. Photos and songs will probably be gone though.
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What was on your SD is probably gone forever. You don't use Google Photos to back up pics? Unlimited storage there.
Run the appropriate RUU for your device, and when you sign in to Google you should be able to restore it back to what is was, more or less. Photos and songs will probably be gone though.
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No, cause google photos kept my photos return back in my phone after i deleted them. Strange. What is RUU? I signed back in google and nothing really hapopened
FTWDiesel said:
No, cause google photos kept my photos return back in my phone after i deleted them. Strange. What is RUU? I signed back in google and nothing really hapopened
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RUU is ROM Update Utility.
What does it say next to "OS" in download mode? With that info I could direct you to the proper RUU for your device.
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RUU is ROM Update Utility.
What does it say next to "OS" in download mode? With that info I could direct you to the proper RUU for your device.
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It says 2.41.401.3
I have the idea his OS still works but all info is gone. As he says he signed into Google and nothing happened. I might misinterpreted that part. Maybe the OP can shine a light on that particular part.
FTWDiesel said:
It also somehow deleted my SD card. Is it even possible? Lost 1,1k photos and 1.2+k songs. Holy mother.
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WoW... we're not talking about the intern Storage, we're talking about a MicroSD card here right?
Damn.... Google sure is clean in their wipes.
Mr Hofs said:
I have the idea his OS still works but all info is gone. As he says he signed into Google and nothing happened. I might misinterpreted that part. Maybe the OP can shine a light on that particular part.
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I mean that it didnt start to sync.
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I mean that it didnt start to sync.
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Now i am still a bit confused. Does your phone boot into a working OS ? I'm asking this because xunholy is giving the option to perform a RUU which isn't necessary if the phone still works.
I actually flashed LeeDroid rom now and it works.
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Now i am still a bit confused. Does your phone boot into a working OS ? I'm asking this because xunholy is giving the option to perform a RUU which isn't necessary if the phone still works.
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I guess i womt be able to restore dates
FTWDiesel said:
I actually flashed LeeDroid rom now and it works.
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Ah oke. Cool. Well i have the feeling that you can't restore the data.
Mr Hofs said:
Ah oke. Cool. Well i have the feeling that you can't restore the data.
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Nevermind. Thank you anyway.