Patter Forgotten... Can't Access Settings file - HTC One X

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.

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[Q] Unlock bootloader + root without data wipe?

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.

Few questions on using Titanium back up on GNEX.

I've used Titanium to do my back-ups on my old Galaxy Vibrant, so I have a general understanding of how it works. My question is this though, when I did back-ups in the past, they were saved to the SD card (I think), but the GNEX doesn't have an SD card. So if I do a back-up, won't the back-up I just made get erased when I wipe data before flashing a new ROM? Also, what about my pictures, will they get erased? I have hundreds of pictures on my phone, maybe even over 1000 TBH. I don't want to have to reload everything again. And last, does Titanium back-up your progress in games? I seem to remember that it does, but I don't remember for sure.
Any guides out there for doing Titanium back-ups on the Gnex? Why didn't those silly people just give us an sd card slot
ok even though it does not have a physically removable sd card it still does not get wiped when flashing roms and wiping the data cache partition. only if you do a factory data reset from the phone's settings. I've never needed to do that so dont worry i have 1000's of pics too. I'd back em up just in case on your laptop for safe measure though anyways. also when you backup th apps it does not save game progress unless you backup the app's data. then it should save preferences and progress and all that good stuff. Thank me if it helps!!
Ok, another thing I just thought of. After I flash the new ROM and enter my email, the phone is going to start automatically downloading all my apps, obviously I don't want to do that since I'm going to restore them with Titanium. How do I turn off the auto-downloading of apps?
After I flash the new ROM and enter my email, the phone is going to start automatically downloading all my apps
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No it won't. It only restores your apps if you decide to not turn off the "restore my apps and settings" option. It's on by default, simply turn it off after you've entered your Gmail account. It's the next or the second screen after you logged into your Gmail account.
Ok, now my phone doesn't want to mount when I connect it to my computer. It charges, it just won't mount. ftw....
Hotstuff5964 said:
Ok, now my phone doesn't want to mount when I connect it to my computer. It charges, it just won't mount. ftw....
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Not sure about the mount issue but I will tell you to definitely leave the auto restore on and let the market automatically download your apps after a wipe. You want to do this because it will automatically install the apps where as titanium will take forever and you have to manually tap install. Then once the apps are installed go to titanium and just backup so data only which is you game progress and preferences and such. I found this out the hard way lol
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In my experience, the restore and wipe cache (maybe wipe data too) only clean the system/ or /cache, and leave the sdcard/ untouched. So the data backup by Titanium back-ups should work rightly.
BTW, I have some problem about using Titanium back-ups. If I always want to keep the newest backup of both application and system data, are the any useful script?
Although there's a script could backup the new application that installed after last backup, but what about the new system app/data? Because sometimes I may have change ROM and it will add some new system app/data.
So far, I use the script that backup all the system/application data. But I wonder it may leave duplicate backup to some app, that's the condition I want to avoid.
Any idea?

[Q] No Google Services on newly rooted s3

I recently rooted my at&t S3 and up until recently I haven't been able to use any google services. I first noticed it with the google play store when I opened the app it would say "No Connection" with a box underneath that said retry. No mater what I do it still persists. I've cleared the cache, attempted to uninstall updates but i would be stuck on the uninstall page indefinitely. I looked in the google accounts I was using and signed out of both of them but when I try to sign back in it tells me it can't establish a connection? I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve me having to hard reset
imjustbeingian said:
I recently rooted my at&t S3 and up until recently I haven't been able to use any google services. I first noticed it with the google play store when I opened the app it would say "No Connection" with a box underneath that said retry. No mater what I do it still persists. I've cleared the cache, attempted to uninstall updates but i would be stuck on the uninstall page indefinitely. I looked in the google accounts I was using and signed out of both of them but when I try to sign back in it tells me it can't establish a connection? I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve me having to hard reset
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Do you have a internet connection (3G-4G)? Are you notification icons gray or blue? (Blue = connected with Google)
Check to make sure you APNs to make sure they all match. You can also try to clear your Play Store's cache/data as well as clear your accounts info.
BWolf56 said:
Do you have a internet connection (3G-4G)? Are you notification icons gray or blue? (Blue = connected with Google)
Check to make sure you APNs to make sure they all match. You can also try to clear your Play Store's cache/data as well as clear your accounts info.
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I have a steady connection. I've tried on wifi along with 4G and still nothing. I haven't been getting any notifications from google. Cleared all account data as well. I think the problem started when I used root app delete to clear up some unused system apps. I didn't disable any apps that that looked harmful but after the problem I enabled them all again.
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I have a steady connection. I've tried on wifi along with 4G and still nothing. I haven't been getting any notifications from google. Cleared all account data as well. I think the problem started when I used root app delete to clear up some unused system apps. I didn't disable any apps that that looked harmful but after the problem I enabled them all again.
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Well then, chances are that you will have to reset it. Backup your stuff first though.
Apps/data -> Titanium Backup
Copy your personal files on a external SD or on your pc and contacts to your sim if they're not sync'd with your google account.
Playing with system apps is never a good idea (unless you really know what you're doing)
Another option would be to grab pre-rooted stock Odin for your carrier, you will still need to backup though.
BWolf56 said:
Well then, chances are that you will have to reset it. Backup your stuff first though.
Apps/data -> Titanium Backup
Copy your personal files on a external SD or on your pc and contacts to your sim if they're not sync'd with your google account.
Playing with system apps is never a good idea (unless you really know what you're doing)
Another option would be to grab pre-rooted stock Odin for your carrier, you will still need to backup though.
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I figured I'd end up resetting where do I find a thread on how to backup? I have titanium backup but I have no idea how to recover the files after the factory reset
imjustbeingian said:
I figured I'd end up resetting where do I find a thread on how to backup? I have titanium backup but I have no idea how to recover the files after the factory reset
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TiBu will make a folder on your internal SD (named Titanium Backup), just save that folder on your pc or External SD if you're worried about your internal storage getting wiped.
Once your phone is back up, just restore with TiBu *don't restore any system apps*
BWolf56 said:
TiBu will make a folder on your internal SD (named Titanium Backup), just save that folder on your pc or External SD if you're worried about your internal storage getting wiped.
Once your phone is back up, just restore with TiBu *don't restore any system apps*
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Awesome, thanks for the help.

[Q] Full Backup

Hi all,
I have to make a full backup of my M8.
I want to save, easy-going and at the option of restore all my data after an hard reset, all application and savegames.
I want to restore, automatically, all apps after the first boot and then I want to "copy" the savegames...
1. If I copy all data stored on both memory, will I copy all savegames and cache, right?
2. If it's wrong, what I have to do?
3. HTC Backup/Google Drive Backup can be useful for my aim?
The photos, audios, videos are on MicroSd, and the contacts are on my Google Account.
3. There is anything else to backup?
Thank you in advance,
.Fè
.Fè said:
Hi all,
I have to make a full backup of my M8.
I want to save, easy-going and at the option of restore all my data after an hard reset, all application and savegames.
I want to restore, automatically, all apps after the first boot and then I want to "copy" the savegames...
1. If I copy all data stored on both memory, will I copy all savegames and cache, right?
2. If it's wrong, what I have to do?
3. HTC Backup/Google Drive Backup can be useful for my aim?
The photos, audios, videos are on MicroSd, and the contacts are on my Google Account.
3. There is anything else to backup?
Thank you in advance,
.Fè
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Just do a backup in recovery. Save it to your extSD.
Stock phone, or rooted/modded?
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.Fè said:
The photos, audios, videos are on MicroSd, and the contacts are on my Google Account.
3. There is anything else to backup?
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If your personal photos and videos are only saved to your removable SD, than they are not backed up. Even if on the phone's internal storage and backed up to removable SD; I'd still recommend to also back these up off-phone. Either simply by periodically copying them to a computer, or using cloud solutions (which also have the option to backup your photos automatically).
This ^^^^
Never trust only your phone, or SD card to keep your stuff safe.
First af all, thank u everyone.
I don't have a rooted/modded phone, then I can't go in recovery mode and made a full backup.
Then, I've to hard reset my phone, but I want to save anywhere (I have a lots of space on Google Drive) my data, especially savegames, photos and videos...
For the videos and photos, I think that a simple upload to my Cloud could resolve the problem...but, how to save savegames? What are the folder that I have to backup?
Can I use the HTC account/Google Drive account to make a backup of my phone? Is it safe?
After restoring, How can I download, automatically, just the apps that are installed today on my phone?
Thank you
I actually have no idea how HTC Backup works, or if its capable of doing what you want (backing up app data like game saves). I've used Titanium Backup (root required) and nandroids for so long, I never tried HTC Backup.
But I've seen Helium suggested on XDA for non-rooted users to backup app data: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup
Again, I haven't personally used it. But its made by the same dev is Clockworkmod, which is saying something.
redpoint73 said:
I actually have no idea how HTC Backup works, or if its capable of doing what you want (backing up app data like game saves). I've used Titanium Backup (root required) and nandroids for so long, I never tried HTC Backup.
But I've seen Helium suggested on XDA for non-rooted users to backup app data: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup
Again, I haven't personally used it. But its made by the same dev is Clockworkmod, which is saying something.
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Thank you...I'm sure I will analyze Helium and I will try it...I've already heard about it but I haven't tried it yet
Damn...I have an issue with the USB connector and I can't connect my phone to the pc...Now, I can't use Helium because I don't have root and I must connect my phone to pc...
.Fè said:
Damn...I have an issue with the USB connector and I can't connect my phone to the pc....
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Was this an existing issue you knew about, or something you just discovered? Reason I ask, is that majority of USB connectivity issues are due to drivers on the PC, USB spec on the PC(USB 3.0 doesn't play well), or bad cable.
Or do you know for fact the USB port on the phone is damaged?
redpoint73 said:
Was this an existing issue you knew about, or something you just discovered? Reason I ask, is that majority of USB connectivity issues are due to drivers on the PC, USB spec on the PC(USB 3.0 doesn't play well), or bad cable.
Or do you know for fact the USB port on the phone is damaged?
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I have this issue from 3/4 days, maybe, because I've tested a bad charger with my phone. Now I've slow charge and I can't connect my phone to the pc...
Now, I want to make a backup before send my phone to the assistance..
First of all, I've copied all data from the internal memory to the external one and I will backup all data on the external memory.
Now, I can try to go to "Account and ..." and make a Backup on both HTC Account and Google Account. Savegames doesn't matter by now...

How could I restore Deleted WhatsApp Messages

For some reason I Deleted a WhatsApp chat around 10 days ago (around 1/11) (all the messages from that chat are deleted)
And I have uninstalled WhatsApp and installed it again to see if I can restore back the messages..
But it fails...
And I have also deleted that contact person in the contact book on that day....
So is there any way I can restore that WhatsApp chat?
I have looked up a few solution. One is Wondershare Dr.Fone to restore...
But it have to be rooted to be proceeded ( I have the Dr.Fone and it said root failed so I think I have to root the 5x myself)
But I do not want the data be wiped after root ( I am afraid the whatsapp messages I want to restore will be wiped out also)
Thanks everyone!!!!!
Would anyone can help?
You cant root without unlocking bootloader.....
mcerk02 said:
You cant root without unlocking bootloader.....
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then is there any way to NOT wipe any data to root 5X? ( as my ultimate goal is to restore deleted whatsapp messages)
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then is there any way to NOT wipe any data to root 5X? ( as my ultimate goal is to restore deleted whatsapp messages)
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then is there any way to NOT wipe any data to root 5X? ( as my ultimate goal is to restore deleted whatsapp messages)
then is there any way to NOT wipe any data to root 5X? ( as my ultimate goal is to restore deleted whatsapp messages)
then is there any way to NOT wipe any data to root 5X? ( as my ultimate goal is to restore deleted whatsapp messages)
There is no way to root without wiping your data. The Whatsapp backups are located on your internal storage so you can just copy them from there to your computer and back after rooting. Having said that, I don't think you will be able to restore the messages as Whatsapp only keeps the most recent backup and that backup won't have those messages anymore (unless the backup was made before you deleted them). It could be possible to restore the contact but that's about it.

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