screen is completely busted
is there a way to access phone internal memory and retrieve pictures and other files from phone memory without fixing the screen?
Unless you're talking about the gs2, all pictures and files are on the external sdcard and if you wanna pull your data partition just run adb pull /data
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phonehunter59 said:
Unless you're talking about the gs2, all pictures and files are on the external sdcard and if you wanna pull your data partition just run adb pull /data
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can u explain adb pull / data?
my sister is trying to get files from a program she installed from her internal memory
If you are getting data from an app your best bet is to make an odin flashable of your data to restore later when you have a working screen...that can be done by following this guide http://www.freeyourandroid.com/guide/building_roms_for_odin
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phonehunter59 said:
If you are getting data from an app your best bet is to make an odin flashable of your data to restore later when you have a working screen...that can be done by following this guide http://www.freeyourandroid.com/guide/building_roms_for_odin
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She is not getting a new screen, she is getting a new phone so she needs to get the data off of this one
If it's the same model, it will still work, but if it's different even if you can pull data from an individual app, it will probably force close
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She is not getting a new screen, she is getting a new phone so she needs to get the data off of this one
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hello, if i may ask..what kind of data is she attempting to retrieve? pictures? videos? etc?? the only information that is usually stored on the internal memory is specific apps and operating system data.
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Is anyone using Zinio with their A100? If so, how do you manage your memory? I need to free up some memory or move it to the SD card but do not know how. Any help would be greatly appreciated...
You might want to take a look at the SD mount swap by crossix. It mounts your SD card as internal, so if you have a 32gb card you get 32gb internal storage. Well after formatting and android taking space its like 29gb but you get my point. Here's a screenshot of it running on mine, note internal storage.
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I've tried to get that mod to work several times and can't.
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I've tried to get that mod to work several times and can't.
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Yeah it seems to be tricky for some people to get going. I'll assume you use an Acer based ICS and not CM9 like I used for my screenshot, but download the zip, extract the install-recovery.sh file, paste it into /system/etc so it looks like /system/etc/install-recovery.sh then set permissions, uncheck every box, save. Re open permissions and set it to
XXX
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Save.
Reboot, wait a minute. Like seriously a minute, not a few seconds. Then check storage. Depending what file manager you use you will have to mount system as writable, in root explorer its a R/W button up top, in ES file manager its in settings, check root explorer, allow root, mount system as writable check box. Others may be different but I've uses those two and it works.
If you use CM9 its different, but I can walk you through that method as well.
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wchildress said:
Is anyone using Zinio with their A100? If so, how do you manage your memory? I need to free up some memory or move it to the SD card but do not know how. Any help would be greatly appreciated...
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You could manually move the files from /sdcard/com.zinio.mobile.android.reader to /mnt/external_sd, but when you try to access the magazine again from Zinio it will redownload the files to the original location. If you do not have an available internet connection, then the pages will display as all black. There is not a single file that you can select to open the magazine in Zinio, the magazine is downloaded as seperate apdfs, jpgs, and html files.
Thanks, I tried it again, and I still cannot get it to work, maybe I'm an idiot...
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Thanks, I tried it again, and I still cannot get it to work, maybe I'm an idiot...
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Not to insult you, but it is unzipped and end with .sh right? I know its odd but its happened plenty of times before.
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LOL, Yes
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LOL, Yes
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OK just checking. A lot of people miss those things, makes me /facepalm when I spent 2 hours trying to help someone and they're like "wait, unzip it?"
Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.
Yeah, I understand, I just tried the whole thing over again. It must be the ROM I'm using.
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Yeah, I understand, I just tried the whole thing over again. It must be the ROM I'm using.
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I've run it on two cm9 releases every flex reaper and taboonay, always works doing as I mentioned. I assume your /system is rw if you put it into /system/etc. Other option is script manager to run it on boot, that's how I use it in cm9.
Tapatalked from my Galaxy S II.
I have have done it both ways, I must be doing something wrong.
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I'm using the flex reap extreme edition, and prefer root explorer.
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So I unlocked the bootloader and rooted the phone, and forgot that the phone gets wiped. I downloaded a couple programs but most don't even recognize that the phone is attached.
I've read that dumping everything from the phone to an external HDD can recover pics, but I'm not to familiar with ADB commands besides reboot, bootloader, and recovery.
So, can anyone with more experience help me please?
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Well if you already factory reset...aka...booted your phone up after unlocking...
Your data is gone.
adb pull / c:\phone
Or adb pull /sdcard/ c:\phone
That'll dump your entire phone or the second one will just dump the sdcard. If there is anything on there. To a folder called phone on the root of the c drive.
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thedudejdog said:
adb pull / /phone/
Or adb pull /sdcard/ /phone/
That'll dump your entire phone or the second one will just dump the sdcard. If there is anything on there. To a folder called phone on the root of the c drive.
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A-hemn...
You mentioned having some difficulty getting the device recognized consistently by different programs, most likely driver issues. Follow efrant's guide here to get your driver issues sorted and ensure adb is set up correctly. To test adb type:
adb devices
which should give you a response. If not you are still having issues.
Also, be aware if you unlocked the phone with the data you need still on the phone, the data is most likely irrecoverable.
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A-hemn...
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If you want to put it in your SDK folder, I suppose that would work too
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If you want to put it in your SDK folder, I suppose that would work too
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That'll put it on the C:/ drive.
I don't believe adb will accept backslashes.
You cannot "dump" anything with ADB commands. The pull command will only copy files to you computer -- it will not do a bit-wise dump. So if you unlocked your device, there are no files to copy...
The dd shell command can dump partitions to somewhere on your device, but you can't dump the userdata partition because dd has no where to save it to. (I suppose it could be possible if you find some way to mount your device in Linux, or have a drive on your computer mounted in Android, but outside of /data.
And as far as I know, there are no android apps that can recover files from an ext4 partition.
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Assuming your data hasn't already been wrote over or zero'd out...
Data recovery isn't exactly the easiest process.
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Considering how quickly the unlock process takes to complete, I think its safe to assume it does not zero out the partition. If the OP has not written much data to the partition he may get lucky and recover quite a bit of it. As efrant mentioned, if the OP can get the partition mounted in linux he could have a shot. Here is one procedure from another owner who was in a similar situation. Not for the faint of heart..but depending on how important the data was may be an option.
Thanks guys, just gave up. Lots of pics, but vids and contacts were backed up. The music was on my computer and so I didn't care about that.
Thanks to everyone that helped though.
In RomToolBox they have an option to have a adb wireless everytime I have tried to use the "adb push" command it is always telling me that i am trying to send the file to a "read only system" I checked my permissions on both my internal and external SD card and they all have full permissions(777) it will also give me a "error: protocol fault(no status) error
Any suggestions? I am running LiquidSmoothRC7
I also attached a screenie as you can see I have tried multiple times
Try /mnt/storage/sdcard0 for internal and /mnt/storage/sdcard1 for external .
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its still giving me the same problem
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Do you have developer options turned on with android debugging?
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Yes I do uhh this is a bummer
I changed the root access to apps and adb and it still gives me problems I'm just gonna try to run it through a wire.
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neim81094 said:
Yes I do uhh this is a bummer
I changed the root access to apps and adb and it still gives me problems I'm just gonna try to run it through a wire.
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Are you running a stock kernel? It might not be an insecure kernel (meaning allowing root access to adb) but you shouldn't need root for putting stuff to the memory card.
Try using /data/media for internal memory card.
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I'm using a modified kernel. I don't know it could be because everyone in my family was using the internet maybe I'm going to try now I'll be the only one on right now
Ok I found the fix which sounds mediocre but at least I got it working
For the path for the original file I used the \ (C:\file.ext) but I had to use the / for the dir I wanted it to go to on my phone (/storage/sdcard0/file.ext)
Thanks alot for helping me I posted a screenie on what I mean
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This is a weird question- So I factory erased my phone. No problem. I also booted into recovery Clockwork recovery on my S3 by ATT to wipe data hoping this would clear and wipe everything from my phone.
It did not.
So as I'm searching threads how can I clear my phone including the internal storage? Every time I've wiped my phone all the files including downloads, pictures, come right back... How is this possible???
Yes I am rooted but I'm not running any special ROMS.
So how can I fully clear my phone so it's 100% wiped?
Silly question I know...
**I should also mention that I know my files are not on the SD card* I'm not that stupid..LOL
Kal*El said:
This is a weird question- So I factory erased my phone. No problem. I also booted into recovery Clockwork recovery on my S3 by ATT to wipe data hoping this would clear and wipe everything from my phone.
It did not.
So as I'm searching threads how can I clear my phone including the internal storage? Every time I've wiped my phone all the files including downloads, pictures, come right back... How is this possible???
Yes I am rooted but I'm not running any special ROMS.
So how can I fully clear my phone so it's 100% wiped?
Silly question I know...
**I should also mention that I know my files are not on the SD card* I'm not that stupid..LOL
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Format options are either under advanced or mounts and storage.
Careful not to format your external though.
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KorGuy123 said:
Format options are either under advanced or mounts and storage.
Careful not to format your external though.
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Ok I'll give it a go and see if that works.
** Thanks for the option** I was also able to format using the Format option in Windows. I never thought to do that as if an error would occur.
Thank you very much
Do you know of a way where I can view all of my files on the phones (ex: phone icon..system sounds such as ring tones etc)
Where the heck is that crap located? I have an ATT phone and I HATE those silly ring tones but I don't know how to get rid of them. It appears they are part of the system files.
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Do you know of a way where I can view all of my files on the phones (ex: phone icon..system sounds such as ring tones etc)
Where the heck is that crap located? I have an ATT phone and I HATE those silly ring tones but I don't know how to get rid of them. It appears they are part of the system files.
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Goto /system folder by using any
file explore..
Use es explorer beacuse its free..
Don't forget to to mark root access in es explorer setting..
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usmslm102 said:
Goto /system folder by using any
file explore..
Use es explorer beacuse its free..
Don't forget to to mark root access in es explorer setting..
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Sure thing... Is there anything that I can use within Windows that will do the same thing so I don't have to work from the phone....SFTP??
**Looks like ES Explorer has a remote option**
Trying now.. Thanks
Kal*El said:
Sure thing... Is there anything that I can use within Windows that will do the same thing so I don't have to work from the phone....SFTP??
**Looks like ES Explorer has a remote option**
Trying now.. Thanks
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by using es explorer you can remotely mange your files...
you can create ftp server but the condition is both pc and mobile should connected to same network...
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so the phone is telling me i'm using 11.5 of my 12 gigs of available space. i can't find it. i attached a screen shot to show how the numbers aren't adding up. when i open it up on the computer it's the same thing. but i'm not finding gigs worth of files. i didn't do the math but a rough estimate is barely even 1 gig of data i can find. can anybody help with this?
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so the phone is telling me i'm using 11.5 of my 12 gigs of available space. i can't find it. i attached a screen shot to show how the numbers aren't adding up. when i open it up on the computer it's the same thing. but i'm not finding gigs worth of files. i didn't do the math but a rough estimate is barely even 1 gig of data i can find. can anybody help with this?
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If you have too many nandroid backups it will fill up your card. I was down to 500mb, but after deleting three old nandroids, I now have 5 gb free.
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Pull everything you want to keep off the card and format the internal card. It looks like a hidden file maybe taking up a huge chunk of space.
ra4013 said:
If you have too many nandroid backups it will fill up your card. I was down to 500mb, but after deleting three old nandroids, I now have 5 gb free.
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i can't seem to find them, would you happen to know what folder to look in? i go through phases of being a flash-o-holic and i do my due diligence in making backups.
edit: i answered my own question, just went into recovery and deleted them from there. doooood, it was like friggin magic. deleted the 8 or 9 backups dating back till april, kept the last two or three, and wadda ya know, 9 gig free...
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Pull everything you want to keep off the card and format the internal card. It looks like a hidden file maybe taking up a huge chunk of space.
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what exactly do you mean? i ask because this same situation happened on the last two roms i was on, and prior to those two and this one i did factory resets before flashing. is there something the flash wouldn't erase? are you talking about a different method?
Clean flashing does not clear your internal sd card. It only wipes your data partition (without touching the data/media folder), cache, and the system partition when using custom recovery.
Download disk usage from the market. When you open it, choose the "Root required" option then choose /data. That should show you what's using your storage.
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Download disk usage from the market. When you open it, choose the "Root required" option then choose /data. That should show you what's using your storage.
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I'm having the same issue. Download the disk usage app and followed those steps. After choosing /data, it started scanning and then the phone reboots
eddalysse said:
I'm having the same issue. Download the disk usage app and followed those steps. After choosing /data, it started scanning and then the phone reboots
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Did that happen more than once? I've never seen that happen before.
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I tried it a couple of times, always reboots at 87% of the scan. Before it reboots it's scanning a folder named data/lost+found it stops and a second later reboots
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I tried it a couple of times, always reboots at 87% of the scan. Before it reboots it's scanning a folder named data/lost+found it stops and a second later reboots
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You can safely delete that folder and try again.
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I tried to delete the folder using root explorer apps, it won't delete it