Is their a method of unlocking the bootloader and rooting the phone (Verizon LTE Version) without losing my data and settings? I want to install cwm and flash a few tweaks but at his point do not want to have to set the phone back up again. Not having root and cwm prevents the back up I need. Is their a way to back up the data partition without root and restore it later after the unlock and root?
You only lose data when you unlock the bootloader and from what I have read you need to unlock the bootloader to get root. You can backup the contents of your /sd card/ so you can backup your app data but I don't think you'll be able to keep system data. If you have a Google account synced it keeps most of this backed up anyway though.
That is the way I understand it as well, was hoping that their would be a better way to do it. I have transferred over 10 gigs of pictures and music t the phone and with mpt it took loooooong time to transfer all that stuff. I know google will restore the apps and some settings like wifi, but then one has to open all the apps you need a log in for and set them up as well.
havent really used MTP much so i dont know whats faster that or transferring over FTP.. maybe that could help you a bit
No. Bootloader unlock = wipe. No questions, no two ways around it.
adb pull /mnt/sdcard *
Back up the whole sdcard partition.
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well long story short... unrelated to anything herein... i have two EVO phones. one is a replacement phone for the current active phone. Sprint sent it to me, cause they couldn't figure out why Google's market wouldn't download apps to my phone. (I solved that problem on my own) but in the mean time i had this replacement phone, so I decided to test things out...
I have fully rooted the test phone, and I am using DamageControl v3.2.3. I installed apps on this phone over wifi.. and started to think that now i need to move my data over from the current active phone.
I have titanium backup paid version. On the test phone, i have backed up the phone going through the root and unlocking of NAND process. Pretty cool application.
I also have "lookout" installed on the active phone, and it is current.
My question is, best i can tell much of the application data seems to be on the SDRAM card. Is that not the case? what data is actually lost during a root proces or NAND unlocking process?
Since Titanium backup requires root access I really can't back up the current phone using that application. I have some backup with the "lookout" application. But i was wondering when the device gets flashed... what exactly is getting writen over.
i see a folder called Mail on the SD card... it is about 50mb... is that where my mail messages are from my different POP3 accounts? on the test phone, all of the mail account settings are not there obviously... but if i add the email accounts will it read the mail from the SDcard created using the other phone?
here is the data I like to migrate over from the rootless phone to the rooted phone.
1. mail messages from about 12 mail accounts
2. Mail account settings
3. layout of the different Sense walls (or whatever they are called) ..you know the faces with all of the icons you see when you look at the phone (there are 7)
4. phone call history
5. SMS messages and history
6. application settings
7. Browser bookmarks (and settings)
i can see my pictures and video are located on my sdram card, but not sure about the above items....
can you help? I am a skilled IT network pro, but not too skilled in the phone's unix like workings... can you help?
There are probably several ways you can do this, but I think it will be easier to accomplish this if you root your rootless phone. Once that phone is rooted you can use titanium or make a nandroid back up and restore on the phone that already has root. Both nandroid backup and titanium backups are saved on the SD card. If rooting is not an option your going to have to look for an app that can make backups without root. There might be one out there but I dont know of any.
it is not clear to me, what exactly is lost when I root. There are warnings that states:
"wipe all of your data so brace for that. backup or what not"
doesn't that mean I will loose user data in step 1 of the toastcfh process before i am able to install (or run) titanium backup?
the warning is not really clear to me exactly what is going on....
I am not against rooting, the rootless phone. Do think Sprint would care if I send them a rooted phone I suppose i could de-root, the rooted phone. I remember seeing somebody having a process for that... not sure.
need some help clearing up some of this... thanks!
I'm trying to root GN but it seems that we MUST unlock bootloader to root.
I know how to do it but just worrying about what will be wipe with unlock, I've just spent whole afternoon setting up this phone and don't want to do it again?
Will I loss:
-Launcher setting? ADW setting?
-Downloaded application? and their setting?
-Do I have to redo all the widget?
I just want to use juicedefender and RE but don't want go through all the trouble again
I think unlocking the boot loader wipes the device. Make a titanium backup first an extract the back up from the sdcard then restore once complete.
dannyfly said:
I'm trying to root GN but it seems that we MUST unlock bootloader to root.
I know how to do it but just worrying about what will be wipe with unlock, I've just spent whole afternoon setting up this phone and don't want to do it again?
Will I loss:
-Launcher setting? ADW setting?
-Downloaded application? and their setting?
-Do I have to redo all the widget?
I just want to use juicedefender and RE but don't want go through all the trouble again
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As far as I've seen, Google has programmed the device to wipe the /data partition when the unlock command is executed.
This will wipe all application settings including downloaded applications, widgets and the Launcher as they are all stored on the /data partition.
If you dislike this, Google is the place to file the complaint as this is their standard procedure on all their Google "Nexus" devices.
The only upside will be, once you've unlocked, you'll be able to gain root access and be able to have complete control over the device including full backups of all settings to prevent ever having to re-set them again. Unless of course you start flashing lots of custom ROMs which are imcompatible with each other, but that is perhaps another story.
Hope that helps!
mklass said:
I think unlocking the boot loader wipes the device. Make a titanium backup first an extract the back up from the sdcard then restore once complete.
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I've never used Titantium backup, but many people seem to say a lot of positive things about it. I've also read Titantium backup requires root access.
The Android security structure ONLY allows the root user full unlimited access to the /data partition. Otherwise, each application is assigned a linux UID/GID and only allowed access to their respective directory. According to the Android security structure, no application should be able to access another aplication's directory w/o sharing the same signing key or having root access.
I could be wrong, but I'm definitely certain regarding Android's security structure for "sandboxing" the applications.
Hope that helps clarify!
Hello,
I have an HTC One X with loads of data as it had internal memory of 32 GB. Recently one of the kids in my house kept attempting pattern and it got locked. I have the option to sign in through gmail which I did but to no avail probably as my phone is not connected to any wifi. How can I access my phone without losing data? If I wipe cache or factory reset will that remove data on my phone? Is there any way I can do this without losing data? IT is NOT rooted.
I have found out about ADB and sqlite but I don't know how to use them plz explain anyone. I need your help
Some of your data is likely saved in the cloud, like contacts and hangouts chat. If you were only able to install a custom recovery, you could transfer all your data.
Turbine1991 said:
Some of your data is likely saved in the cloud, like contacts and hangouts chat. If you were only able to install a custom recovery, you could transfer all your data.
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No it's not saved anywhere that's the issue. I would need to have to use a tool to do that which I think is not possible.
TL:dr first; Got the dreaded red and blues, is there anyway to recover while keeping my data?
I was messing around in the hidden menu, selected the first option (HW test), it restarted, and now I get a secure boot error. I can access Twrp, and USB download mode. Just now made a full backup in Twrp, and copied the internal storage. To the best of my knowledge, I can't backup my texts from here, nor my Spotify library. Is there any way I can recover from this without loosing my data? (D855, 32 GB, just in case that'll help)
After looking at a few threads, it looks like a simple reflash of the kernel/boot.IMG will fix it. Am I correct?
Hello,
I have a friend that accidentally deleted her photos on her LG G4. I don't have a physical access to the phones (she lives far away), but I know this is a H815 on stock Marshmallow, locked bootloader.
While I have some experience in this kind of things, each phone has its particularities... I could:
use DiskDigger, but this requires root access, or
dump the userdata partition (with commands such as dd, cat...), but again, it requires root access.
I'm thinking about rooting the phone while minimizing writing to the userdata, in order to have a minimum loss of deleted pictures.
So I read a few topics on XDA about the LG G4. I saw it's possible to make a full backup in download mode. It it was possible to dump each byte of the partition so I could look for removed pictures, it would be awesome and my probleme would be solved! Or is it only a backup tool (that reads only existing files)? Can someone tell me about this tool?
Another way would be unlocking the bootloader in order to gain root access (for instance via a custom recovery), but it will involve a data wipe I'm afraid I could not recover anything from, if it's a low-level wipe.
I would appreciate any hint
Thanks!
a-m13 said:
Hello,
I have a friend that accidentally deleted her photos on her LG G4. I don't have a physical access to the phones (she lives far away), but I know this is a H815 on stock Marshmallow, locked bootloader.
While I have some experience in this kind of things, each phone has its particularities... I could:
use DiskDigger, but this requires root access, or
dump the userdata partition (with commands such as dd, cat...), but again, it requires root access.
I'm thinking about rooting the phone while minimizing writing to the userdata, in order to have a minimum loss of deleted pictures.
So I read a few topics on XDA about the LG G4. I saw it's possible to make a full backup in download mode. It it was possible to dump each byte of the partition so I could look for removed pictures, it would be awesome and my probleme would be solved! Or is it only a backup tool (that reads only existing files)? Can someone tell me about this tool?
Another way would be unlocking the bootloader in order to gain root access (for instance via a custom recovery), but it will involve a data wipe I'm afraid I could not recover anything from, if it's a low-level wipe.
I would appreciate any hint
Thanks!
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No root required just check my signature for the DLM backup method
Ensure that you are using the full back-up which also takes care of user data partition
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