Hi guys --
My sister has over 2000 sentimental pictures on her LG G4 (that weren't backed up....go her) and the device started bootlooping today. I'm trying to find a safe solution to get the pictures without voiding the warranty. From my recent searches, the only solution I found was to install TWRP and pull the files through ADB commands, but I'll be honest, it's not something I've done before and I'm rather petrified of erasing the contents of her phone.
Does anyone have any advice on how I can get the contents from the internal SD off the phone with the bootlooping? Preferably w/o voiding the warranty, but if needed we can...
Put ur phone to freezer for 30 minutes. Then turn on your device and transfer ur files to pc..
xdaorxan said:
Put ur phone to freezer for 30 minutes. Then turn on your device and transfer ur files to pc..
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hey xdaorxan,
thanks for this reply, I did put it in the freezer and I was able to get it to boot, but I'm not having any luck transferring the files, as soon as I try to start the process the phone will freeze and resume its bootlooping. I also tried to set the phone to auto upload the pictures to google drive and it's not helping me as the phone can't even load.
Are you supposed to try to work the phone while its in the freezer?
Does battery charge matter?
Slybone said:
hey xdaorxan,
thanks for this reply, I did put it in the freezer and I was able to get it to boot, but I'm not having any luck transferring the files, as soon as I try to start the process the phone will freeze and resume its bootlooping. I also tried to set the phone to auto upload the pictures to google drive and it's not helping me as the phone can't even load.
Are you supposed to try to work the phone while its in the freezer?
Does battery charge matter?
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Just be sure that you have full battery. Then transfer files WHILE YOUR PHONE IN THE FREEZER. Because if u take ur phone from freezer, it will be getting hot and phone will get bootloop again.
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Hello there,
it is one of the best phone and the easiest to recover or update in my opinion but,
the issue of no memory card is really something bad for your files in case if something happened to the phone!
i know backup is so important but what if you phone crashed all of the sudden because of an application update and you will enter in the repeated boot loops and you have to reset the phone or flash new software!!
OH! Then your will loose everything in the mobile !
it is really sad it happened to me twice in2 weeks i lost allot of good pictures.
i am sure most of the phone users tried to recover the lost files and no one could do it because the phone is identified as MTP, no logical letter drive can be assigned to the phone!!!
All recover software’s couldn’t find the phone and even when i tried hexcomp from the market to recover the pictures, couldn’t do it.
my question for our developers is there any scripts can make the phone work as usb when it is switched off ??
or ,
is there any way to assign a logical drive to the phone instead of MTP so we can recover the lost files?
I don’t know why Goggle didn’t think of such problem because it happened to allot of people and I am not used to back up my files before because there were in memory card.
I really hope the developers will work on such issue because this is the worst thing I found it in the phone.
I might be wrong but I think you can pull everything off the phone using adb whilst in recovery mode?
Dropbox.
It can sync pictures as soon as you take them.
You can sync files between multiple devices, including uploading and downloading to your phone.
Titanium Backup can be synced to drop box.
Check it out,
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTc4MjI1MTU5
Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Galaxy Nexus.
i tried Pull before it took long time without doing nothing
i know dropbox and i know what it do
i am asking the DEVELOPERS:
1-is there any scripts can make the phone work as usb when it is switched off ??
2-is there any way to assign a logical drive to the phone instead of MTP so we can recover the lost files?
Thanks
husme2000 said:
i tried Pull before it took long time without doing nothing
i know dropbox and i know what it do
i am asking the DEVELOPERS:
1-is there any scripts can make the phone work as usb when it is switched off ??
2-is there any way to assign a logical drive to the phone instead of MTP so we can recover the lost files?
Thanks
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Theoretically you probably could write a CWM script to create a virtual folder and mount that as USB media via CWM. But it would require loading the script to the phone via ADB anyways.
This has also been discussed before:
[Any way to save data on a Nexus in a bootloop?]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1448633
So I connected it to my laptop to clean up some of my files and folders and to transfer some things onto my pc.
I remember deleting some folder called Mogo-Audiance or something along those lines, as well as another folder that seemed to be unimportant. I try to then move some music files from the download folder into my Music folder (transferring within the phone at this point) but it says theres some error and it can't be moved. I rebooted and replugged tried again no avail. Then tried moving a picture from phone to the computer. Error message again. Reboot once more and this time when I go into MTP only two files remain: Android and Viber. I check my phone itself and all my photos/videos/music are gone. Apps still remain intact however. I already tried Stellar Phoenix Recovery but it won't detect my phone.
Very frustrated and have no idea how to proceed.....
I attached some screenshots showing empty phone folders on pc and phone itself as well as recovery program being unable to detect phone.
Android 4.3 Jellybean-Carrier: WIND Mobile (Canada)
It cannot detect phone because it needs to Mount as USB mass storage device. No external storage= no UMS
You might be able to dump raw IMG somehow of storage and put on flash drive and try to recover... but takes lotta work.
Seems like you deleted something you shouldn't have. Take it as lesson learned to not just delete random files if you don't know what it is
ashclepdia said:
It cannot detect phone because it needs to Mount as USB mass storage device. No external storage= no UMS
You might be able to dump raw IMG somehow of storage and put on flash drive and try to recover... but takes lotta work.
Seems like you deleted something you shouldn't have. Take it as lesson learned to not just delete random files if you don't know what it is
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I'm actually about to cry. The photos I had on there were invaluable to me, please explain that way that you said I might be able to get it back.
taino001 said:
I'm actually about to cry. The photos I had on there were invaluable to me, please explain that way that you said I might be able to get it back.
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I'm sorry to hear that.
And also sorry to say I cannot help anymore than providing this information here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
As I said, it is a lengthy and maybe in depth process but MAY be possible. No guarantee.
I haven't ever had to try this tho so I cannot give any more or better info other than what is in that thread.
Just take your time, use Google for things you cannot understand(you may ask me or here in this thread also for clarification of some steps and if I can help I will) and try not to stress.
And one thing I will recommend for future use is to install G+ and turn on photo sync settings. I have this on. You get 15gb free storage for photos and will backup as you take pictures and videos OR whenever you tell it to.
Or you could use dropbox or similar as that also has a photo sync option available. These things are invaluable in terms of peace of mind for if situation like this ever occurs again.
Preface: my roommate who is as tech savvy as Fred Flintstone shattered his phone last night. I connected it to my PC and yanked all the files off in case shattering like that can cause it to not charge or anything that would prevent me from accessing it later...
now, the question. Are his contacts saved in one of those files? Apparently he didn't have them on his SIM OR on hi google account. So they must have been saved to his phone. Will they be recoverable from the files I just pulled from his phone? And if so, where?
nobody has any ideas? The only thing I could find with any reference to contacts was: \Android\data\com.android.contacts\cache\tmp
and they were all empty. Guess he's just gotta hope T-Mobile can pull em from a place I cant access
/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases
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/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases
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thank you so much for your reply. But I think I need to access root on the phone which I'm unable to do with a useless screen. There is no data/data options. can only get to Android/data. Is there a way to pull EVERYTHING off the phone, not just the files I was allowed by connecting as a media device
Yup you do need root. But if its already rooted, just power on, plug into the computer and adb pull the file you need.
I am trying to sell my wifes old S4 Mini after she dropped it and cracked the display. The problem I have is I want to factory reset it to clear any sensitive data.
Is it possible when the LCD will not come on at all? The phone does connect to my pc for file transfer fine.
If its not possible what files can I safely delete from the phone manually from the PC? After looking through the folders there is only the Android Data and OBB folders that need stuff deleting from.
If I can safely delete any from here is there a way to make sure they remain deleted and are not recoverable?
Cheers in advance!
Steveh8204 said:
I am trying to sell my wifes old S4 Mini after she dropped it and cracked the display. The problem I have is I want to factory reset it to clear any sensitive data.
Is it possible when the LCD will not come on at all? The phone does connect to my pc for file transfer fine.
If its not possible what files can I safely delete from the phone manually from the PC? After looking through the folders there is only the Android Data and OBB folders that need stuff deleting from.
If I can safely delete any from here is there a way to make sure they remain deleted and are not recoverable?
Cheers in advance!
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Hello,
you can check this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277765
un4saken said:
Hello,
you can check this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2277765
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Thanks, anyone got any idea how long it is before the Samsung logo comes up as the thread I read says you need to stop pressing Vol Up + Power + Home at this point?
I'm trying different times but I just cannot get it into bootloader, ADB isnt recognizing any devices.
It's fast, press power and immediately as it vibrates press home and vol+ but give it a minute to let the recovery boot, then connect if the command fastboot devices show a device you're good to go
I think flashing a stock with odin+pit file and repartition wipe all but this is risky
Hello,
I was moving files from the internal to the external card today when I noticed on some pictures it was slowing to a crawl and semi timing out. After it finished I checked them and most of them were corrupted. I proceeded to copy some extra files to the SD with no problems and I decided to reboot it.
It gets stuck on the LG Life's Good screen indefinitely. I tried removing the battery, going into the hard recovery menu, leaving it on the boot screen for a long time nada. It's still on warranty according to LG and they scheduled a courier to come pick it up tomorrow morning (~ in 22h). It might be the NAND is dying? or something else but most likely the data will be lost one way or another.
I am wondering if there is something I could try before they get it to make it work even for few minutes or if someone can tell me if & how - can I through the download mode backup contacts and sms somehow?
LG G3 D855
Stock Android 5.1 - never rooted
Thank you.
Can be closed, in my case the reason the phone was unabled to boot was the microsd. Only after ~ 2 years the samsung UHS-1 gave up :/