I was told that, in order to retrieve some photos that I thought were downloaded onto my PC but apparently were not, I would have to root. But everything I've read about rooting says that this will wipe the memory, which would mean wiping the photos I'm trying to get at! Help! Please!
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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.
Hello there I updated my international firmware to unlocked/developer and I got a message saying that my password is correct but I need to reset my phone because the data was corrupt.
This is the first time I saw this message so I tried fixing this by formatting the data partition to ext4. I was able to get back but it reset my phone but I have a twrp backup.
However everytime I restore this backup, it does not recognize my pin. I can get into the phone using my finger print but I run into the phone automatically erasing the data if I try to browse the internal data.
I'm already on a clean rom install using a Google backup. I lost some of my pictures because doing dirty installs reset my camera's save location. I wish to try to retrieve my pictures from the twrp if it is possible. Does anyone have ideas?
Did you have the SD Card set as adoptable storage, or external storage that was encrypted? That might help with someone answering your post.
I feel your pain, I learned of adoptable storage the hard way when I was installing a rom and ended up wiping data because of the install method I was testing not working out, which also took out everything on my sdcard including my backups, it sounds goofy now, but at the time I didn't see it coming lol.
I think you may want to check the last few pages of @Sneakyghost 's HTC 10 firmware thread for discussion of a problem like yours, and someone has posted a link to help another user that had a similar problem to yours, unless that was you. It's in the HTC 10 guides and news section I believe.
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Hello there I updated my international firmware to unlocked/developer and I got a message saying that my password is correct but I need to reset my phone because the data was corrupt.
This is the first time I saw this message so I tried fixing this by formatting the data partition to ext4. I was able to get back but it reset my phone but I have a twrp backup.
However everytime I restore this backup, it does not recognize my pin. I can get into the phone using my finger print but I run into the phone automatically erasing the data if I try to browse the internal data.
I'm already on a clean rom install using a Google backup. I lost some of my pictures because doing dirty installs reset my camera's save location. I wish to try to retrieve my pictures from the twrp if it is possible. Does anyone have ideas?
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After restoring your nandroid you have to reboot into recovery and delete the three lockscreen files in data/system. Then reboot and you will need to re setup your pin and fingerprints.
Sorry deleted I thought this was my thread when waking up in the middle of the night.
Still have no answer. Even though I was mentioned.
Hi all,
I'm new here.
I have been asked to save the data of a GT-S5660 stuck in reboot loop here. There was no attempt to jailbrake the device.
As far as I know, the device is in it's original state.
I have recovered all the important data from the microSD card, being Images, Videos and Audio Records. The contacts had already been backed up by the owner.
My question is, if the internal "data" folder might contain any pictures or Videos or can I safely wipe and reset to factory settings?
There is no backup of the device itself, and since it is stuck in reboot loop I can not use the official software to backup.
I used adb shell to look into the internal memory and access to the data directory is denied.
I tried with "su" too but again, I get "permission denied".
I found an "Update.zip" here in the forum, which is for the GT-S5660 (that is the whole model name, no other letters after the "zero" ) and followed the instructions in that thread, but apart from applying the update without any error message, it did not give me root permissions.
Hence the question if there is anything worth saving in the "data" folder.
Thanks for any help
naicinhcet-soi said:
Hi all,
I'm new here.
I have been asked to save the data of a GT-S5660 stuck in reboot loop here. There was no attempt to jailbrake the device.
As far as I know, the device is in it's original state.
I have recovered all the important data from the microSD card, being Images, Videos and Audio Records. The contacts had already been backed up by the owner.
My question is, if the internal "data" folder might contain any pictures or Videos or can I safely wipe and reset to factory settings?
There is no backup of the device itself, and since it is stuck in reboot loop I can not use the official software to backup.
I used adb shell to look into the internal memory and access to the data directory is denied.
I tried with "su" too but again, I get "permission denied".
I found an "Update.zip" here in the forum, which is for the GT-S5660 (that is the whole model name, no other letters after the "zero" ) and followed the instructions in that thread, but apart from applying the update without any error message, it did not give me root permissions.
Hence the question if there is anything worth saving in the "data" folder.
Thanks for any help
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I tried to solve the boot loop with no success.
Has anyone an idea where to find the files to flash the device? I can't say I read all the threads about the GT-S5660 but the most, and all links to the ROM files are broken..
Hi, I recently moved some photos from the gallery into the secure folder's gallery and from there I sent them to the recycle bin and afterwards permanently deleted them. But I didnt realized that among the photos that I erased was one that I still need.
My questions is if I can recover the files that were deleted from the secure folder without rooting. My phone is not rooted.
If there isnt another way other then first rooting the phone and then trying to recover the photo could somebody provide a link to a thread with a tutorial for begginers maybe? My phone is a SM-G960F model.
Sorry to hear that. Is there any backup file of the deleted photos? If yes, you can recover the deleted photo you want from the backup file easily. If no, the only way is asking for help from pro shop or data recovery software like Dr.fone, Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android, Easeus MobiSaver, etc. Do remember that you need to make sure it not being overwritten by new data. And you need to root it before using such software. Of course, if the deleted photo saved on your SD card, you don't need to root your phone. Hope this will be your help.
Hi everyone,
unfortunately, I uninstalled an app and it deleted the folder with all backups as well. I am now searching for a way to recover deleted files from internal storage without root (since my phone isn't rooted and I can't root it either because it's a work phone). Does anyone know how I could do that?
3fe said:
Hi everyone,
unfortunately, I uninstalled an app and it deleted the folder with all backups as well. I am now searching for a way to recover deleted files from internal storage without root (since my phone isn't rooted and I can't root it either because it's a work phone). Does anyone know how I could do that?
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Hi, I had a similar issue deleting photos on another rooted device and still couldn't recover the files using rooted recovery apps... So although never finding a solution, all i can say is you could try some pc smartphone recovery software, and that might probably be the only way you can recover some of the files. Also in the mean time don't copy another files or install apps to the phone becuase that will overwrite deleted files making them totally/permanently lost.