I need help.. I accidently encrypted my phone. I meant to encrypt my sd card and even then, I didnt realize what I was doing apparently. so now I cannot look at or use any of the files on \sdcard\externalsdcard\ and possibly other files as well. Is there a way I can permantly decrypt everything? Thanks in advanve. Hopefully someone can help.
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rooted on ruby. accidently formated my phone drive and not the sd drive. now when i try to to a nandroid, says there are a bunch of files it cant mount cause they are gone. how do i go about putting all the files needed back on my phones internal drive ?
do you have a copy of the backup on your computer?
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johnny0911 said:
do you have a copy of the backup on your computer?
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yes i do. just let me know what i need to do and i will try. thanks for your help in advance.
still there? just got my backup files setup on my computer from old nandroid backups. just let me know what i need to do to fix this. thanks.
anyone? come on this is killing me not being able to do a backup. please let me know what i need to do to fix my stupidness. thanks.
can someone please point me in the right direction. this is killing me.
take the backup and move it to your sd card on your phone, then restore with nandroid. let me know if this helps.
johnny
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got it all fixed. had to push files to sbin and do a few other things. my problem wasnt being able to restore, it wasnst able to backup.
ok, cool
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Soooo... my phone took the drop of death today and it is down for the count. Now before I file an insurance claim, I still need to recover many of the pics and files I have in there. I am rooted and have Clockwork Mod in there so I don't know if that helps. Please, PLEASE, someone help me do this
So it will not power on at all? Recovery? Anything?
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U did not have an sd card?
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albe070 said:
U did not have an sd card?
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Some roms save the pictures to the internal sd...
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The phone still powers on and functions. Its. Just the screen that is shot and without being able to mount the drive by pressing the buttons on screen, I need an alternative solution. The default was to save it internally so I just don't know how to access it. Maybe there's a solution from Samsung directly? I don't know which is the point and I'm reaching out to y'all for help ; A
So you should be able to get into recovery then. What recovery version did you have and I could try to tell you how many clicks of what button to get it to munt the internal storage. So then it can be seen by your pc.
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Hmmm... I finally feel like one of those people that ask for help but never quite know the pertinent information to get the help they need... I don't know what recovery version I have
At this point, just trying the buttons to the version you have is worth a shot Thanks in advance!
I'm sorry but in my cwm I can't mount the internal with recovery. I have the light blue cwm. I wish I had more for you.
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Get an mhl adapter so you can output to TV so you can see
Or use adb to pull files
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Brings up an interesting question, because I live in fear of something like this happening to me.
Is there anyway to tell the phone to access the "sdcard" that is ACTUALLY the sdcard? I have several apps that save important data, but they save it to "sdcard" and there is no way to change the path within most apps.
I hate having to make constant backups manually because at any moment all my data could be lost because this phone doesn't actually use the ACTUAL sdcard for data.
What kernel do you have? I assume you are rooted, download and install busybox via the market place on the PC, it will push to your phone. (so you are sure to have it installed).
Then download and use qtadb.
http://qtadb.wordpress.com/about/
All I did was trying to copy and paste some files onto my laptop and they all disappeared completely
Both my external and internal was completely wiped clean for no reason
I dont know what i say or do
Can anyone tell me what just happened or any advice to attempt to recover my data (i highly doubt there is)
FYI i have the important data backed up such as photo and text, everything else is gone
On your external, you could use something like Recuva. It is a data recovery software and I am pretty sure it's free.
Didn't work.... But thanks
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I had similar issue when I installed 4.2.2 roms. It wiped out internal storage most the times. So far it doesn't wipe external yet.. I'm just making sure my backups are on external anymore.. it sucks we don't know root cause of this...
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Alright so I did a Nandroid backup and it says no sd-ext found skipping or something like that. I heard it doesn't matter but it's really bothering me!!! Help!
when you was doing your nandroid back up it always says that because we dont partically use external sd to install apps so the nandroid just looks in your external for installed apps and if you dont which most of us dont have it skips the process totally normal bro
Well I accidentally deleted some stuff and now it's saying that and I'm sure it didn't before. I'd there anyway to fix it?
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Reptarrr said:
Well I accidentally deleted some stuff and now it's saying that and I'm sure it didn't before. I'd there anyway to fix it?
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I recommend wiping the sd card after backing up important files. After you wipe format the sd card and you should be able to use from there. I'm pretty sure some files are just corrupted.
Sorry for posting here, I just desperately need some help. I haven't been able to use my phone for about 5 days now. I need to know what to do, I'm so ****ing lost. I have a very unique situation (I feel), and I don't know where else to go. Basically, encryption ****ed up somehow and now I can't access my device via ADB, I might have lost ROOT, and I don't freakin know what to do next...I've never been in a bind this bad while rooting phones (done it for years now).
History on what happened: I had everything set up beautifully in CM11, I loved it, was smooth, everything worked.
Saw the encryption option in settings, decided to do it, and then the password I set up would not work. I wrote it down, I was extremely careful, I made sure I entered it properly both times. It just wouldn't work!.
Now I have no phone...I hope I didn't brick it permanently. I couldn't factory erase or anything through the CWM recovery I had. In the "mounts and storage" section, I was able to format the /system partition, but not the /data one. I believe that when I formatted the /system partition I somehow removed root, because now every time I try to exit CWM it says:
Root access is missing. Root device? THIS CANNOT BE UNDONE.
I tried saying yes, but it still asks every time. I am also unable to get the ls980 to be recognized by adb. I have cwm recovery open, and the phone is connected to the computer, but it doesn't see it. I suspect this is because I don't have root?
I am very confused, and could really use some help. The people at the sprint store have no idea...
Thanks!
Oooh, someone somewhere else said they had to remove all the drivers and reinstall. Before it recognize it. Not sure about cwm recovery but I know twrp had side load option. After you can see it in adb.
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secret.animal said:
Oooh, someone somewhere else said they had to remove all the drivers and reinstall. Before it recognize it. Not sure about cwm recovery but I know twrp had side load option. After you can see it in adb.
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Hmm Ok, will try that. In general, when accessing a phone with ADB, do you have to be rooted?
Also, in general, when accessing a phone with ADB, what do you need to have open on the phone? Just any screen of the recovery right?
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Hmm Ok, will try that. In general, when accessing a phone with ADB, do you have to be rooted?
Also, in general, when accessing a phone with ADB, what do you need to have open on the phone? Just any screen of the recovery right?
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You used to have to root with adb commands. Pushing a file over and such.
I want to say you should be able to. But Google it for sure. With cwm there may be something in advanced.
I'm using twrp.
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secret.animal said:
You used to have to root with adb commands. Pushing a file over and such.
I want to say you should be able to. But Google it for sure. With cwm there may be something in advanced.
I'm using twrp.
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**** dude...holy **** all I want to do is wipe my phone and put a rom on there. ****ing encryption is WAY better security than I ever thought it was..............
If that is the case, is it possible to root an encrypted phone from adb? Or do I need to learn to format the partitions first? Remember, I was already able to format the /system partition.
What may get you a better chance without doing partition damage or such would be .tot back to stock.
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I agree man...clockworkmod should have a sideload option on it. Try a diff USB cable what error message do you get ? Do you have access to your internal storage via recovery if so flash a backup I believe I remember reading that in the past somewhere through a diff device being encrypted
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I hate to tell you this, but you're going to end up having to TOT. Just by wiping system, you lost any chance of recovering any file you had, because the generated encryption key is stored in that partition. Good luck bud.
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jthein1989 said:
I hate to tell you this, but you're going to end up having to TOT. Just by wiping system, you lost any chance of recovering any file you had, because the generated encryption key is stored in that partition. Good luck bud.
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That's fine, I don't care about any file I had in there.
How do I TOT? I have no idea what it means but I want to get on with it. I have a nandroid of the stock android saved on my computer, I can use that to get started?