I dropped my phone and it is now completely unusable because the screen is damaged and does not respond. In fact when I turn it on it tells me the screen is unusable for touch input.
I do remember that I at one point in time went into the LG backup settings and configured it to automatically make backups and, if memory serves, I set it to keep 2 or 3 older backups.
Is there an online website where I can go view what backups are available and possible download / access my messages and photos?
Password?
sillycat said:
I dropped my phone and it is now completely unusable because the screen is damaged and does not respond. In fact when I turn it on it tells me the screen is unusable for touch input.
I do remember that I at one point in time went into the LG backup settings and configured it to automatically make backups and, if memory serves, I set it to keep 2 or 3 older backups.
Is there an online website where I can go view what backups are available and possible download / access my messages and photos?
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I want to add that I don't recall registering a user name and password for the LG online backup service, so I don't know how this would work. On my previous phones (Samsung) I did have to register a password for their online service.
The only things that are backed up online (to your google account) are app data, wifi passwords and preferences.
No cloud backup available in LG Backup. Backups are stored either in the device or in the sd card.
USB OTG cable and an external mouse
I just found a way to control my phone by plugging in a USB OTG cable and a normal external mouse. Using this I can unlock the phone and control it as per normal, so I can backup what I want and check my existing settings.
About my question above: Evidently the default included LG backup doesn't do Cloud based backups. There are however numerous backup programs that does, including "LG Backup Plus" which appears to not be a default app on this phone, at least it is not on the Vodaphone derivative that we get in South Africa.
The Internal memory is encrypted by default, But i cannot find a way to encrypt the micro-sd card and that`s where i store all my data, photo`s, video`s ect.
If i loose my phone or it`s stolen the micro-sd can easly be removed and read on multitude of devices.
So what am i missing, Maybe i am blind and have missed the option.
Thanks.
Backup Rule #1 Never encrypt backup data.
YOU are the one most likely to get locked out, permanently.
No one will be able to recover the data if this happens, you will be boned.
Meh anyone trying to steal my phone will see red... and lots of it.
Don't flash your phone when out and about. Stay in real time were your attention needs to be!!!
Phone in pocket, out of sight.
Never lay the phone down; get in the habit of putting it in your pocket in unsecured locations.
If the data is that sensitive it probably shouldn't be on the phone...
Always have redundant safeguards for if the data is compromised. Plan ahead!
A rootkit could turn your Android into an open book...
Our family took the technically free at&t deal to switch to the galaxy s22 phone (256 GB model) by trading in our galaxy s7 phones, and I've been tinkering with the settings, turning a whole host of stuff off because forget auto-installing apps and whatnot, but when I was copying my old phone's pictures over manually (forgot about smart switch, sue me [but don't pls]), the process slowed down very much. Every 15 seconds or so, my windows would give the Asterisk sound, but the green progress bar wouldn't make it past the 1% mark, and when trying to close the file window on my desktop, it'd take the same 15 seconds time to do so, and to stop this I had to unplug the phone from my desktop. Then I had to upload everything to dropbox and download it through the app onto my phone just to export it that way.
Since im still making sense of the phone, is there a concrete reason behind this slowdown, some phone setting or whatnot, because i uninstalled/reinstalled the Samsung USB Phone/Device Drivers from the software downloads portion of samsung, and there's no speed increase. My galaxy s7 was faster, so unless this is a quirk of the firmware itself or something else....idk, help pls?
One or more of the files may be corrupted.
I ran into this the other day on my N10+ going from SD card to a OTG flashstick with a 50gb folder with more than a dozen subfolders and 20 loose media files. It kept crashing on the last 2 or 3gb. I tried copying a couple different ways, nothing worked until I discovered a corrupted avi file and deleted it.
Copied it straight up.
Find the root cause, it could be malware that inadvertently got downloaded. This includes jpegs.
I doubt its malware, all the pictures I did were from the default camera app on my old phone, and I figure if I did it through smart switch it wouldn't have any problems, but ill look through my pictures, delete some, maybe put mcafee livesafe on there and run a few scans to see if it picks up anything before I uninstall it (seriously, the app is a resource hog no matter what hardware its on, mobile or not). ill make another reply if I find some kind of resolutiuon and result(s)
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I doubt its malware, all the pictures I did were from the default camera app on my old phone, and I figure if I did it through smart switch it wouldn't have any problems, but ill look through my pictures, delete some, maybe put mcafee livesafe on there and run a few scans to see if it picks up anything before I uninstall it (seriously, the app is a resource hog no matter what hardware its on, mobile or not). ill make another reply if I find some kind of resolutiuon and result(s)
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Never use SmartSwitch to backup critical data especially media. Never clone media files ie music databases. Never password protect backups. Keep it rock stupid simple.
Copy/paste then compare size, and folder/file count. Inspect at least some of the data for readability.
Malware is always possible. The scripted jpegs on Android tend to only effect the folder they're in. Was that avi file I found malware? Who knows? I don't care as I just delete it and move on unless it raises its ugly head again. The point is I found the cause and removed it.
The scripted Android jpeg I encountered did it's thing when opened. It damaged many loose files but no files that where in folders. Some files I repaired, the rest I deleted. The malware jpeg I deleted first though and it was only by cause and effect that I found it. Fortunately it was the download folder so it's reign of terror was brief; had that been a large database it could turn into a digital blood bath.
All downloads go to the download folder and stay there until vetted. Check all files by opening them there before moving them elsewhere. Delete any unknown ones without opening. Any file that is in doubt especially apks, executables scan with online Virustotal.
Keep email in the cloud ie Gmail.
I'm running on Pie but haven't had any malware damage in over 2 years and it's in part because of how I handle all downloads... carefully.
I did mine manually, I never touched smart switch for my phone, but I did a scan with the mcafee security app on my phone, and it didnt find anything sketchy on there, used the at&t mobile security app that was on there before I uninstalled it (adb is da best :3 ) and it didnt find anything hinky. I scanned the manual backups of my pictures on my desktop with mcafee livesafe and superantispyware and neither of them found anything bad, unless i should use more scan programs, but whether its on my phone or desktop, I think I got enough, anymore and im just hoarding antivirus programs, and I don't wanna do that
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I did mine manually, I never touched smart switch for my phone, but I did a scan with the mcafee security app on my phone, and it didnt find anything sketchy on there, used the at&t mobile security app that was on there before I uninstalled it (adb is da best :3 ) and it didnt find anything hinky. I scanned the manual backups of my pictures on my desktop with mcafee livesafe and superantispyware and neither of them found anything bad, unless i should use more scan programs, but whether its on my phone or desktop, I think I got enough, anymore and im just hoarding antivirus programs, and I don't wanna do that
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Over the years I found 2 scripted jpegs that were found by observing what happened when they were opened. There's no guarantee malware will be detected.
I ran a Malwarebytes scan occasionally. It found a trojan preloader I missed in the download folder, which I police daily now. This one downloaded itself, it slipped through the Samsung browser in spite of settings.
On Android antivirus is a waste of resources. Most victims install or download the malware themselves.
However anytime Android behaves strangely malware should be considered a possibility.
No idea how that file that screwed up my transfer got corrupted or if it was malware.
It acted like malware, regardless, deleting it fixed the issue. It took some time to track it down. Point being when you see odd behavior you don't ignore it, you find the root cause.
I think I fixed it somehow? I searched for reset in the settings and found reset network settings, reset accessibility settings, and reset all settings, so I chose reset all settings after backing up my current settings. After my phone restarted, I plugged in my phone and tried copying a 500MB sized file to my internal storage, and despite it taking a full minute, it actually finished without the problems I had before. Granted, now it seems only for the one file I just did, because after I tried one file and tried to do another, it stopped about halfway into copying a 400MB range file and gave me the same problems again. ffs fml
hopefully this is my last post (I swear if it isnt im tearing up the cable I got), because after trying multiple cables we got and different usb ports, I think I identified the culprit(s): my USB-C cable (the one I use to charge it) and my desktop's front-facing USB ports.
My desktop is an XPS 8700, and its taken on some age and some injuries due to power surges and what not, most of all the front-facing USB ports are wiggly as all hell, and occasionally choose which cables to like and which to not like. So I took the cable I usually use to charge it with and plugged it into a different usb port and tried copying over a set of files totaling 1GB+change to the internal storage, lo and behold, it copied over and no stopping halfway and cancelling the transfer because of it. Then I tried another USB-C cable we got (from a different piece of hardware) and used it on my front-usb ports, did the same thing again, 100% completion like the others did
The end result is my desktop being an ornery POS as usual and choosing which USB port likes which USB cable no matter how good I take care of both pieces of hardware. In the end, ill probably be getting a few more cables for our three phones and keep the cable I usually use with it for a different piece of hardware. This was one rabbit hole of a goose chase
I have been having some trouble with transferring settings and data from myGalaxy S7 to this V+5g. The tmobile store said they'd do it for me, probably to get me to take the phone?
Then, they couldn't do it. They installed Samsung Switch and then discovered that they couldn't use it! So they tried transferring something via BT. Then they discovered that nothing would transfer, beyond one simple Google identity, which I could have set up by simply entering my ID and password. So they switched to plan B: Ignore me when I came in to the store to complain that I cant actually use this phone!
So they left me to complain by phone, where they could ignore me ad infinitum! For this reason, when I found out that I was locked into a 2 year contract with this phone I cant use, I put a complaint in to the FCC.
MEANWHILE I tried to install some programs individually. Firstly Doubletwist. Then I discovered some idiosyncrasies of this phone. I need to get 60GB of music onto this phone. But the music wont go onto the phone. Firstly, if I can get the phone seen by my MacBookPro (by enabling debugging, enabling File Transfer by USB and by starting doubletwist on the phone and computer), the music will transfer, excruciatingly slowly! And it does seem to go onto my 128GB SD card. But it does stop every two GB or so. Then, it simply wont restart. Nothing I can do will get the Revvl seen again by DT on the MBP.
Does anyone think that t his inability to get this phone to transfer data or files might be something actually wrong with the phone? I discovered that tmobile were thrilled to get rid of this phone (10 minutes before the Revvl VI 5G came out?) but I am not sure yet that a Revvl VI 5g would be any more compatible with my Samsung Galaxy S7 than this model V 5g? So I am wondering if this problem which I have had and which the Tmobile store also had is the same problem with the phone itself? Especially where the store were so insistent that they didnt want to help me. After which TMobile were careful to tell me that they couldn't take the phone back because I had got it from a store!
Since closed down!
Or has anyone else had these problems?
Is it possible to get rid of the password unlock screen on a galaxy note 10 plus witout losing any of the data on the phone. Set a password to unlock the phone, and now its a pain in the ass, I want to go back to the way I had it before where it was open all the time. Im concerned if some needs to contact my wife in case of emergency, they cant get into phone.
I always wondered about this myself. I never used the lock screen or finger print scanner.
Don't even know if they work
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You have a SD card slot, use it. Get a .5-1tb V30 rated Sandisk Extreme card and use it as a data drive.
All critical data goes here including installable copies of all your apps, and system apps. Backup photos here too, but do not have "dcim" in that backup folder's name. At least if do need to factory reset it will be easy.
Never encrypt any data drive including the SD card and redundantly back up its data.
Double tap and ApkExport, may not work on Android 11 and higher.