There are N number of possible ways to backup before unlocking the bootloader. Share the best possible way to back up the device. Backup requires :
Backing up all the installed device data
All the media in the phone
Pretty much like how the phone was before factory reset
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Hi all! I had to do factory reset and I lost some photos.Looking after something that would be able to recover my photos I found out there are some apps for recovering,but all need root permission.If I root my phone I would have a chance to recover photos?
Edit: I did factory reset from bootloader mode
Gaminglady said:
Hi all! I had to do factory reset and I lost some photos.Looking after something that would be able to recover my photos I found out there are some apps for recovering,but all need root permission.If I root my phone I would have a chance to recover photos?
Edit: I did factory reset from bootloader mode
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depends on your version of android and if you can enable usb mass storage, have a look here>>>>>http://www.asoftech.com/articles/recover-deleted-photos-from-android.html
I tried Asoftech and others like that (Recuva,Card data recovery etc.) .Most of them didn't recognize my phone..
That's why I started thinking about rooting.And anyway I would like to have root.I saw there are so much cool apps.But now the most important thing is recovering my photos and maybe apps that need root permissions are better?
Most of those programs need a usb device to work. MTP what HTC now is offering is commonly not supported. Best chance is to unlock the bootloader and flash a custom recovery which lets you mount the sdcard as a usb drive and then try to recover lost data.
No guarantees !
Hey guys,
If I encrypt my M8, then do a full Nandroid backup to the SDcard, can this backup be restored to any device or is it device-specific?
Also, am I right in assuming that a backup of an encrypted handset can even be restored? If so, how is unencryption performed after the restore?
Just want to clarify as I'm unsure of 'best practice' when making a full backup.
I'd prefer to make encrypted backups and then store the SDcard safely, but if an encrypted backup is in fact device-specific, it almost seems counterproductive.
Anyone?
Just want to know an encrypted phone can be backed up and then restored before actually encrypting my M8!
I don't think you can make a backup if you encrypt your phone. Or even flash any files from recovery. The data will be encrypted and CWM can't access them AFAIK..at least not the HTC encryption.
And backups are not tied to the device as such.
You could make a nand backup with a tool that makes backups while you're booted into Android. Such as Online Nandroid Backup.
Thank you :good:
As mentioned in the initial post I'm using Nandroid Online Backup, so I kind of assumed that as the phone is effectively 'decrypted' whilst I'm booted into the Android, the Nandroid backup would be fully restorable.
But even if that is indeed the case, would the actual backup on the SDCard itself be encrypted data .. or unencrypted due to the decryption which is performed once booted into Android?
My ideal scenario is to have an encrypted M8 + an encrypted SDCard backup. But I assume there would be no way to restore an encrypted SDCard backup .. other than to the original handset/Device ID on which it was first created.
Unless I'm missing something?
westeight said:
Thank you :good:
As mentioned in the initial post I'm using Nandroid Online Backup, so I kind of assumed that as the phone is effectively 'decrypted' whilst I'm booted into the Android, the Nandroid backup would be fully restorable.
But even if that is indeed the case, would the actual backup on the SDCard itself be encrypted data .. or unencrypted due to the decryption which is performed once booted into Android?
My ideal scenario is to have an encrypted M8 + an encrypted SDCard backup. But I assume there would be no way to restore an encrypted SDCard backup .. other than to the original handset/Device ID on which it was first created.
Unless I'm missing something?
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The backup would be unencrypted if you save it to the SD card. Unless you encrypt the SD card also, which is done separately. Not sure how that would work out though..never tried it You might wanna check the support for the Online Nandroid tool for that info.
As for the restoring backup to devices, since the backup is unencrypted and it's not tied to any device, it would be possible to restore it to other phones or just simply unpack it.
Thanks WarCow :good:
I guess the safest thing is to encrypt, reboot/decrypt, then backup and then bury my SDCard somewhere safe!
westeight said:
Thanks WarCow :good:
I guess the safest thing is to encrypt, reboot/decrypt, then backup and then bury my SDCard somewhere safe!
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Except that decryption will require factory resetting your phone It's such a hassle. Also keep in mind that encryption will slow the phone down a bit compared to being unencrypted.
WarCow said:
Except that decryption will require factory resetting your phone It's such a hassle. Also keep in mind that encryption will slow the phone down a bit compared to being unencrypted.
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Yes, I have noticed the difference: my personal phone is unencrypted and my work phone is encrypted. Both are M8s and there is a noticeable bootup lag. Performance wise, the difference is minimal and therefore tolerable.
But sadly I don't have a choice with the work phone.
Really just wanted to make sure that any encrypted device can be backup and subsequently restored. Now I'm confident it can, I have no trouble with resetting.
I can upgrade AndroidHD from 10.1 to 10.2 while I'm at it! :victory:
I just recently upgraded to an S5 from my S3 that is currently running CM and is rooted. I want to restore to factory defaults or at least wipe my current personal date from it that way I can pass it on to someone who wants it for parts. I am trying to retrieve pictures from the phone but every-time I connect the phone via USB to my computer it shows up as a media device and I can't explore files on the phone as normal.
The screen on the phone is busted so I can't see a thing. What steps should I take to complete the above? I don't even need to unroot or restore to stock ROM, just retrieve data and wipe.
Hello
I want to ask it's possible to restore data after factory reset, such as photos, videos, etc?
Maybe in this site there is pre rooted rom which have ability to restore?
Thanks for advice.
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Sunrise2000 said:
Hello
I want to ask it's possible to restore data after factory reset, such as photos, videos, etc?
Maybe in this site there is pre rooted rom which have ability to restore?
Thanks for advice.
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It depends on the time you want to spent on this and there is no guarantee at all.
Most importantly you have to stop using your device as every second android is running it may overwrite the data you deleted.
Once overwritten you're lost. Well there are companies may restoring even those but this is also a very expensive journey.
Then the next question is do you have twrp installed or not?
You definitively need a rooted device and besides that twrp would be the best starting point to avoid more data loss.
Then you would dump your data/media partition with dd then copy that image over to your pc and starting data rescue on that image.
I've never used that before but there is a send command tool when the device is in download mode. This way you should be able to backup even without root..
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Hi,
I'd like to root my phone in order to fix the awful mic volume in various apps but it seems unlocking it through normal means will end up with a factory reset, is there a way past this?
You can make an adb backup because there is no way of unlocking without losing data (i was dreaming about it too, without success). There is no real way and as i already stated is better using adb backup.
I backed up everything on mi-cloud. Wanted just to root the phone and keep using miui. Not sure if that's what caused it, but I was getting bunch of force-closures after restoring backup from cloud. So I said what-a-hell and installed lineage. It's not lightning fast as miui was, but I just like it better.