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Technical Question: Recovering a lost file byte-for-byte

Hi all,
My girlfriend has an XDA-II that - on a whim - decided to hard reset itself. (It has done this once before for me aswell.)
Most of the lost files are of no consequence because a backup is available. However, there is one Word document that we would like to recover that is not backed up. The device has not been used since the hard reset.
I presume that it is likely that the text contents of this Word file are likely to still be in tact somewhere in the RAM (i.e. the bytes are unlikely to have been overwritten just yet). I suppose then that it must be possible - at least theoretically - to obtain a dump of all the contents of the volatile RAM memory (perhaps writing out the contents of RAM to a PC hard drive in one dump).
With this resulting RAM dump I could then search it for words that we know are definitely in the file to obtain most of the text back again.
I was wondering if anyone knows of any program for the XDA-II (or PC) that will copy the ENTIRE contents of all device RAM - byte-for-byte - to the PC.
Failing this, can anyone suggest any way whatsoever to view/copy RAM contents byte-for-byte?
Many Thanks,
Rob

you can undelete media like hd's magnetic storage and flash
because they dont fill in 0's in the bits when they delete they just free up the storage and overwrite the data next time data is saved
ram however goes 100% blank when power is not supplied
so ram cant be undeleted and data cant be recovered from it
which is why newer devices with 2005 place data in flash and not in ram
so their device dont goes blank when a hardreset or dead batt happens

Thanks
Not the feedback I was hoping to get! But thankyou very much all the same for letting me know.
Cheers.
Rob

[Q] Remove OrangeUK Bloatwear (after root)

The Memory on the Desire is very limited. Orange have not helped this. I want to remove UNO, Tetris, That bowling game, The Traffic camera etc. In order to claw back that precious 10Mb or so, and be rid of the low disk space icon.
I've just rooted my phone. (can see and open the superuser icon). I followed this, and it worked: http://www.thedroiddemos.com/2010/0...desire-with-unrevoked-3-21-video-walkthrough/
Was under the impression that this would allow me to uninstall the Pre-loaded Orange apps. Clearly not. SO...
Installed titanium backup. Tried to uninstall UNO, Didnt work. Tried to Force uninstall uno, didnt work and scared me to death with a strange android logo + exclamation mark.
My phone is fine, but UNO is still there clinging to that precious Mb of space.
Please can someone explain how to get rid of this bloatware? Preferably without having to flash a new ROM.

Best thing is to just debrand the phone and put a stock WWE ROM onto it. then you can re-root that and have some fun.
Just download a stock ROM from HERE (I recommend 2.29.405.2), make a gold card and run the RUU file with the gold card in the phone and HTC Sync showing connected on the PC

Sorry to burst your bubble, but uninstalling those apps wont give you ANY extra space you can use, neither will flashing a different rom.
The orange bloatware is on the system partition, you want space on the data partition.
The only way to get more space is apps2sd. I recommended flashing a custom rom that supports olschool apps2sd and partition your sdcard.

But flashing a stock ROM will at least get rid of them!

Well... thats me a bit gutted then.
Does this mean that all the ringtones/notifications are also on the System Partition?
The low disk space icon has been a real pain. My contract is only a tenner a month. Might just wait till after xmas and get the new Desire HD.
Was watching a video on Youtube about root explorer, and how that might be an option to remove preloaded guff, but I guess it was a different carrier.
Cheers for the help guys.

Yes, the internal memory is for apps you download and data for apps you use on the phone

Look in the forum for " HOW TO: Delete System Applications On Rooted Phones"
They can be deleted and it does get space back !...
I got rid of all the odd demo's etc... and the media ( rigntones etc )... fab... and yes my phone is fast once more !!...
A new rom ...if you want .. no need ...
but you have to be ROOT !!! ( unrevoked + gold card )

It does NOT get the space back, System apps are on the /system partition which downloaded apps aren't saved to

You might get some space back (if your lucky) by going into application settings and clear data for these apps. Will probably only be a small amount though.

Cheers m8, have been through and done that.
One other question... if its not possible to delete these apps to get more space and be rid of the "low disk space" notification... is there a way to stop the notification showing so early? It seems to pop up once I get to about 15mb... it doesnt really need to be there till im down to the last 5mb does it?

It's true that you won't get space back by deleting apps form /system but you can move apps (that don't update often) from /data to /system to fill the system partition again and gain some space back in /data.

How to regain lost internal memory

I bought my Wildfire S in Singapore. It's S-On so I can't do anything about internal memory issues yet. The phone only ever had about 30MB free at the most after me installing some very basic apps, and it constantly prevented new apps from being installed with that "Not enough memory" error. Then something began chewing up memory no matter what I did - and I tried everything mentioned on these and other forums. I've become a minor expert at messing with the SDK as a result. Eventually basic functions stopped working, and the phone started rebooting randomly because it was down to a few hundred kilobytes of free RAM. I almost - almost - threw the thing against a wall and went out and got another phone.
However, I have solved the problem to a point. I did a simple factory reset, and now with everything installed including Google+ and Facebook (which are memory hogs), and everything I can moved to the SD card, I'm sitting at around 75MB free constantly i.e. half the memory. The phone now runs as fast as it can (which is sluggish because it's the Wildfire S, but much better than it was), and I have no memory issues. It's not a Nokia N9 or an iPhone 4Gs, but it's not a bad little unit now.
TL;DR no matter where you bought your phone, do a factory reset. You'll be glad you did.

get cyanogen mod7 for ur phone a safe build and extract it with 7zip the use fastboot
fastboot flash boot boot.img
it contains recovery already now copy the zip downloaded to a root of sd card
sdcard/update/....zip
now boot into recovery factory data reset then wipe dalvik data and install zip from sd
here u go
free memory+
app2sd

I'm not sure what you mean (and haven't tried all that), but I'm fairly certain you can't over-write/boot any other system files on an S-On phone. It just won't work. Unless you S-Off the phone manually, or HTC release an unlocked bootloader, there's nothing you can do except what I've offered.
The temporary rooting via the SDK and Zerg file doesn't allow overwriting of the system files either. S-On is a *****.

Have you tried removing the security?

A factory reset did my WildfireS a great deal good. I'm wary of installing Facebook and merging contacts because I think that's what ate all the memory and made Contact Storage take so much space.
Now I have all the same apps installed from before (except Facebook) and I have 92mb free.

Where did you get your phone from t0lkien1?
Mine is a T-Mobile UK handset, and they put all their own extra rubbish on the phone, eating into they little 128mb that there is internatly. I think there as about 20mb free when I got it. Was running version 1.34
Even with my phone as S-ON i've managed to get the stock European rom 1.30 and it is close to 60mb free. Plus no more T-Mobile splash screens and apps. Such a difference.

[Q] How do I return back to stock?

[HTC Desire 816 LTE A5_UL S-ON]
Yeah, I know, there's lots of info on this subject, but I seem to have tried everything and a little desperate right now.
So here's the story. I made a rocky mistake installing Cyanogenmod on my 816. It's working fine and all, but I decided I want Sense back. My SD card got a little broken, so the recovery image that was on there is gone. So I started reading. The first problem was that HTC Sync Manager was not recognizing my device, apparently it only does when the phone is running Sense on it, so I can't use the hard reset from there. Also HBOOT's factory reset just returns me back to clean Cyanogenmod.
I've tried getting S-OFF to install 816 RUU from the forums here, but I've had no luck since the tools (firewater, rumrunner) are failing on me.
Is there any hope for me?

Best thing you can do is clear all internal storage space and download an Nandroid Backup. Since the clockworkmod backup is on the root of the phone you'll need to make a folder with the same name and manually transfer each file from the Nandroid on internal storage to the root of the phone where the ClockworkMod backup folder is located since this phone only has 8GB and any ROM automatically reserves 4GB. Even stock. Reason being to transfer each file one by one is because using a file manager such as ES file explorer; you'll notice it says it has 3.xxGB free when the backup is 1.9xGB. Using Cut and paste won't work either since the device copies before deleting it from the current location e.g. Internal Storage. I had the exact same problem and this worked for me. Let me know if you want a more detailed explanation.
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[Q] ISE fix - post 1 click root fix

LG TRIBUTE m#LGLS660 - VM
AV 4.4.2
KV 3.4.0+
BUILD # KOT49I.LS660ZV5
I did the 1 click root fix via http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g3/general/guide-root-lg-firmwares-kitkat-lollipop-t3056951
Generally it worked fine , the problem is that i did this with the explicit goal of only fixing the SD writing and storage issues
the phone only has roughly 2 gigs and 80% kitkat soaks up and not that im like app happy or anything but it makes app installation even weaker than an older cheaper phone thus killing a lot of the reason to have this fairly nice phone except for the camera which is fundamentally a non-prime reason to have this phone just a bonus.
So i installed the NextApp SDfix from the app store and applied its fix , and nothing especially changed , i also then installed link2SD
for further memory management. I can see a lot of info and i see how the system basically has the primary system memory with a legacy/emulated storage space as 2 seperate but basically same partition.
Then it recognizes as a entirely seperate ext memory the sd card , now since having tweaked with both these apps and everything generally running fine , i've moved this and that and dont have barely the basics installed i.e instagram/twitter/ ect ,... the system has about on the system drive some 300mb free obviously not a lot space in this age it is being very selective of what it will install and download from the app store , i was luckily able to reinstall CLEANMASTER after uninstalling it but i can't reinstall FACEBOOK
or download and install next to anything else that i've tried i keep getting the same error , the SD card is nearly entirely free with plenty of space soooooo
long story , made longer How can i adjust this , How can i maybe fool the o/s to think the SD card is the primary partition or something similar can i undo this? (not the root i know i can undo the root and or just start fresh from a hardreset or something
Any Input is appreciated , i am as the name so obviously suggests a new rooter not very experienced in android sw , though i was able to tweak around with iphone3s and jailbreak them which admittedly was rather fun.
Im only wanting this just so i stop getting that blasted insufficient storage error blasted google
this is technically a repost as i did post this in that said thread above but i wasnt sure if it was the right place for the inquiry.