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Recover your lost files??is a dream for GN?

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

HTC Touch Pro 2 / Rhodium: Device lock bypass

Hello.
My HTC Touch Pro 2 encountered the following problem:
Additional to the PIN (for SIM-Card) I have also set a 4 digit PIN to lock the device, which is activated automatically after 5 minutes.
After accidentally deep discharge of the battery (forgot my phone in the drawer of my desk for over a week) and loading the battery afterwards, the phone refuses to unlock the device. The inputting device lock code, which is 100% correct, does not work anymore- no matter whether I type it on the touch screen or keyboard.
Even after several soft reset - not change. The PIN (for SIM-Card) works but the device-Lock PIN does not. No possibility to unlocked the device – it tells me always “entered code is wrong”. Even after connecting to a PC, the computer does not recognize the phone - so I cannot even read out the data of the phone via a computer.
On the phone are important data, photos, entries that I will not delete!
HTC has got - as usual – no idea of their own devices and the German support on the phone told me that I should buy myself a new cell phone - very helpful!
A hardware reset / reset of the device, I do not want to do otherwise the data all are gone.
Is there a way to circumvent/ bypass the device lock and hack the data in some way out my phone?
The emergency plan, which I do not want to try by now, would be a hardware reset and subsequent data recovery using the software "File Scavenger ®" This works very, very good with defective USB sticks and accidentally deleted computer hard disc drives (deleted system volume information etc.) . Unfortunately I have no idea what kind of memory, the HTC Touch Pro 2 uses (it's been no SD card inserted in the device).
And I do not know how the phone reset works - simple device reset witch clears memory only (which would not be that serious) or if the entire memory will be overwritten (which would be fatal).
Maybe someone has a solution and can help me, how to get my data out of my cell phone. Thank you!

If you have the data on the SD card, why worry? Photos, music, etc should all be on the SD card, not the phone itself.
Either way, I doubt you'll be able to recovery anything. Good luck.

If your data is on the sd card/sim card then I would pop it out and do a hard reset on the phone. Put it back in and hope for the best after the reset.
If your data is on the phone you are screwed. When you do a hard reset it will do lots of writing to the nand memory, and overwrite anything you might try to scan for data recovery.
I have never heard of anyone finding a way to get into the data on these phones when the pin didn't work. It is also the reason I never used that feature.

onairgraphics said:
(it's been no SD card inserted in the device).
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OP mentioned that he does not have a SD card inserted into the device. I think that is why he is so concerned!
Any updates there OP?

Persistent Adware despite TWRP wipe of all data

I got a nasty bit of adware from the internet--clicked a banner by mistake. Now I get popups telling me my SIM card is 58% infected, etc, and it wants to redirect me to download some app to remove it, etc. I never downloaded their app, but the persistent popups need to go.
I've tried running ~5 anti-virus/anti adware apps, none of which can even identify a suspicious program. I've done factory resets, which seem to fix the issue for 2 weeks, but then the popups recur. I figured it was either somewhere deep in my phone that didn't get erased with a factory reset, or it was being synced to my phone from my linked google account (I use project FI, and have to have a google account linked to the phone to have service).
So most recently, I installed TWRP, and wiped everything (cache, dalvik, data, system...completely removed the OS). While the phone was in that state, I used my laptop and cleared all my google sync data, removed all stored google data, and reset all settings to default. I then reinstalled stock Bullhead Oreo 8.1 over a USB. However, it again worked fine for 2 weeks before popups returned.
Is there some deep recess in my phone that I am not effectively deleting? Could it be syncing over my google account somehow (I don't have this problem on any other device with my google account on it)? Could it actually be my SIM card that infected?
I appreciate your help!

It's possible for a Sim card to get malware, but I haven't heard of anything specific. Are you restoring apps from Google? And if so, are there any sketchy apps you're restoring? Those are the only two areas I can think of where malware could be coming from. A complete os restore with the factory image should remove any malware. I'd get a new SIM card from your carrier, then restore the firmware. Use the flash-all batch file in the factory image.
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Thanks for the reply. I don't restore apps as best as I can tell. When I reset the phone I select the option that says "start from scratch" or something like that, and at every choice during setup I choose to not import anything. I do have to link the phone to my google account for my Project Fi service, which does sync my contacts, so possibly something something gets transferred that way? Like I mentioned above, I've scrubbed my google data every way I could find.
I don't have any risky apps, just standard ones from the play store (outlook, pandora, etc). No risky online websurfing, just the one banner I clicked some months ago. I even rooted my phone not too long ago and used the ES File Explorer to try and find suspicious looking files, but didn't find anything. Phone is no longer rooted since flashing factory image recently.
My phone even had the bootlooper issue common to Nexus 5Xs, and I sent it to LG for free repair. They replaced some hardware (not exactly sure what), but still had the popup problem occur 2 weeks later. Bootlooping was fixed though.
I talked to Project Fi about a SIM card. They weren't keen on sending me a new one, but I'll try them again.

Recovery Mode via Pixel

My brother died unexpectedly two weeks ago and I am trying to access data on his Google Pixel 2 XL. At this time, I have access to the google account that he used with the phone but I changed the password so "Find My Device" via Google cannot locate his device. I've verified that the phone was backed up at some point on the day he died, but am unsure of the time and am unsure of exactly what was backed up. I've done lots of research online and I've come to the conclusion that the only way to access the phone now is to enter recovery mode via the phone and wipe the phone and restore from the back up. I've found conflicting information about what the downside is to this approach. First, I know that I can only restore what was backed up. I'm okay with that. But I saw somewhere that the passcode for the phone is still necessary if you want to go this route. Is this true? I do not have the passcode and do not want to get stuck in the middle of trying to restore the phone. Second, will this approach erase all logins and passwords for all the apps that he currently had on the phone? What problems could this approach create as I try to further piece together his digital accounts/ information? Would it be possible to find out what his passcode was? This would help with all the other devices he has.
Finally, is there any way to look at the backup stored on the google drive without wiping and recovering the data to the actual phone? I do not want to do anything illegal; I'm just trying to piece together his last days. I'm the legal next of kin.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Someone else made a very similar post the other day....
The best thing to do do is this: https://support.google.com/accounts/troubleshooter/6357590
This is the only legal way to try and access someones account after death, and even then it my be limited:
In certain circumstances we may provide content from a deceased user's account. In all of these cases, our primary responsibility is to keep people's information secure, safe, and private. We cannot provide passwords or other login details. Any decision to satisfy a request about a deceased user will be made only after a careful review.
If Google themselves cannot provide password and logins, or data, then sorry, but no one here is able or going to help you break google security.
Knowing the passcode of one device wont help you with others, they can be different
Not knowing what youre hoping to recover, no one can tell you whether it accessible via google services
Depending on the phone there may be a lock that survives recovery wiping and is linked to the account, because its designed for preventing exactly what youre trying to do, and beat security.
Security is there for a reason, and not trivial.
So i refer you again to the google link above....
And a good reminder to not forget to enable inactive account manager, to avoid all this yourself: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en

npchilders said:
My brother died unexpectedly two weeks ago and I am trying to access data on his Google Pixel 2 XL.
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When setting up a device after a factory reset Android will ask for the email address and password of the last account used. Based upon your post, you have that information so you will be able to continue. If I recall correctly it won't ask for the pin as that is a local security feature and not backed up. His contacts and text messages should be restored after the factory reset. Usernames and passwords for non-Google apps may be restored, if I recall correctly, but keys for 2FA apps will not be restored. If your brother used 2FA you won't be able to access the accounts using 2FA unless he had backup codes stored somewhere on his PC.
Unfortunately, there is no way to look at the backup, as Google doesn't make the backup visible to the user in Google Drive.

Thank you.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
When setting up a device after a factory reset Android will ask for the email address and password of the last account used. Based upon your post, you have that information so you will be able to continue. If I recall correctly it won't ask for the pin as that is a local security feature and not backed up. His contacts and text messages should be restored after the factory reset. Usernames and passwords for non-Google apps may be restored, if I recall correctly, but keys for 2FA apps will not be restored. If your brother used 2FA you won't be able to access the accounts using 2FA unless he had backup codes stored somewhere on his PC.
Unfortunately, there is no way to look at the backup, as Google doesn't make the backup visible to the user in Google Drive.
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Thank you! I have the information I need. I was just concerned that I would need a passcode and then I would get stuck. Otherwise, I located the backup on the google drive and can see that it was actually backed up on the day he died, so there should be very little data loss. Thanks so much.

6 yr old son somehow erased phone

My wife has a PIN on her phone. She told our 6 yr old to put the phone down as she put my our other children to bed, and when she came back the phone was erased and reset. He couldn't have got in to the phone and through the menus. Does the phone reset and wipe everything after too many failed attempts at the PIN? Is there anyway out of this? I am familiar with rooting phones. Is there any back entry and restore through ADB? The phone was not previously rooted.

Doesn't take long to navigate to settings and do a factory reset.
Data is likely lost but you can try... I hope you backed up critical data. Even if you do manage to retrieve it the file structure has been lost.
A sea of random files and no way to recreate the file structure or associations except by memory.

blackhawk said:
Doesn't take long to navigate to settings and do a factory reset.
Data is likely lost but you can try... I hope you backed up critical data. Even if you do manage to retrieve it the file structure has been lost.
A sea of random files and no way to recreate the file structure or associations except by memory.
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So pictures and everything are gone?
He doesn't know the PIN. Is there something that comes up that's says the phone will be wiped after so many bad attempts that he could have pressed?

Schroeder09 said:
So pictures and everything are gone?
He doesn't know the PIN. Is there something that comes up that's says the phone will be wiped after so many bad attempts that he could have pressed?
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Jpeg files if recoverable will be separated from their exif files, no order, original time stamp or number. Even 100 jpegs are a small nightmare to try and sort.
You start to get the depth of the problem.
Not sure but I think you're correct.
I never use screen locks or encryption; security is purely physical. Meh, wysiwyg
"Kids do the darndest things..."
My cousin once "waxed" the whole kitchen floor with a bottle of baby oil.
My mother exclaimed:"Who did this?!"
Danny replied:"I doed it!"
He was quite proud of his achievement. The floor really did shine... clean up took a bit longer then the wax job.
Somebody may have a better plan than my call it a wash. If backed up on cloud you have another option. Personally I use hard backups.

blackhawk said:
Jpeg files if recoverable will be separated from their exif files, no order, original time stamp or number. Even 100 jpegs are a small nightmare to try and sort.
You start to get the depth of the problem.
Not sure but I think you're correct.
I never use screen locks or encryption; security is purely physical. Meh, wysiwyg
"Kids do the darndest things..."
My cousin once "waxed" the whole kitchen floor with a bottle of baby oil.
My mother exclaimed:"Who did this?!"
Danny replied:"I doed it!"
He was quite proud of his achievement. The floor really did shine... clean up took a bit longer then the wax job.
Somebody may have a better plan than my call it a wash. If backed up on cloud you have another option. Personally I use hard backups.
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How do I try to see what is left on the phone? Is there an ADB process for this?
I've never understood backing stuff up on a phone. The restoring part seems to be more the problem for me. I did used to do multiple backups with titanium backup, but never once was successful restoring from the backup. How are you backing up and how are you restoring from it? Especially on a NON-ROOTED device? The latter will be more important. When I pick up my next phone (probably an s22. Currently have rooted 2xl running A10 yet) I will not be rooting. It's too much of a time-consuming PITA, and while the gains are noticeable; they're not worth the effort.

Not sure what if anything adb can do for you. I never use that to restore as I run stock devices and assume the file decryption keys are already lost as well as file structure after a factory reset!
For backup first identify all critical data that can be backed up. DCIM folder, Documents, contacts, all needed accounts/passwords written or as text files etc, music, vids and so on.
Apps that allow backup of settings like Poweramp and Color Note (can be used for bookmarks rather than the browser). I use ApkExport to make installable copies of all my apps and updates. On reload no Playstore needed.
Copy, paste, verify size and if readable to 2 or more hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC. A OTG flashstick can be used for quick backups but don't use as the only backup; hdds are more reliable. Work out a sync folder for media, etc.
SmartSwitch can be used to backuo homepage but never rely on it to backup critical data! It may or may not work!!!
If you have an SD card slot use an SD card as a data drive; all critical data goes here. There can be only DCIM folder so periodically backup the DCIM folder to the SD card but name something without DCIM in the name. Only apps and the download folder go on internal memory. Then backup the SD card redundantly and regularly to the hdd backups. That gives you multiple backups should one fail. NEVER encrypt backup data drives!!!
You have to methodically plan this to do backup this way but it's pretty foolproof and has built in redundantcy. Once you get used to it, it's not hard to do.
I have over a dozen backup hdds in various locations. I may lose some data but never all my data. Syncing data is the biggest headache with this method.

blackhawk said:
Jpeg files if recoverable will be separated from their exif files, no order, original time stamp or number. Even 100 jpegs are a small nightmare to try and sort.
You start to get the depth of the problem.
Not sure but I think you're correct.
I never use screen locks or encryption; security is purely physical. Meh, wysiwyg
"Kids do the darndest things..."
My cousin once "waxed" the whole kitchen floor with a bottle of baby oil.
My mother exclaimed:"Who did this?!"
Danny replied:"I doed it!"
He was quite proud of his achievement. The floor really did shine... clean up took a bit longer then the wax job.
Somebody may have a better plan than my call it a wash. If backed up on cloud you have another option. Personally I use hard backups.
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how could I attempt to recover these JPEG files?

Schroeder09 said:
how could I attempt to recover these JPEG files?
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What OS version? Not rooted?
I don't think you got a prayer but it depends on if the old data is encrypted which I assume it is because of the screen lock.
Full-Disk Encryption | Android Open Source Project
source.android.com
Of you're really hell bent on recovering some of the data a data recovery service that specializes in Samsung's is probably your best shot.
I could be wrong... do some Google searches, to search XDA simply add "XDA" to the end of the Google search parameter. XDA's search engine leaves something to be desired... and misses a lot that the all seeing Google web crawlers don't.
Leave the phone powered down until you decide what to do as any activity can now overwrite those old files.

Is this droidkit a gimic or will it work? the note 8 is on android 8 or 9.
Get Data Recovery, Screen Unlock, and FRP Bypass with DroidKit
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Schroeder09 said:
Is this droidkit a gimic or will it work? the note 8 is on android 8 or 9.
Get Data Recovery, Screen Unlock, and FRP Bypass with DroidKit
www.xda-developers.com
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Most likely a gimmick if not malware. AFAIK a factory wipe doesn't actually erase or overwrite the storage, it just removes the file structure and pointers, so a forensic data recovery tool could potentially help. Unfortunately, doing this on a smartphone is even harder to do, especially considering that most newer Samsung devices use encryption, and since a new key is generated when the device is reset, it won't be able to read the old data.

V0latyle said:
Most likely a gimmick if not malware. AFAIK a factory wipe doesn't actually erase or overwrite the storage, it just removes the file structure and pointers, so a forensic data recovery tool could potentially help. Unfortunately, doing this on a smartphone is even harder to do, especially considering that most newer Samsung devices use encryption, and since a new key is generated when the device is reset, it won't be able to read the old data.
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Brute forced decryption be the only way as it uses random encryption. Folders are encrypted vs full disk encryption on the newer OS's if I recall correctly. The folder association with the files is already gone, lost with the factory reset. How the effects the encryption, no clue.
It's a mess.

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Brute forced decryption be the only way as it uses random encryption. Folders are encrypted vs full disk encryption on the newer OS's if I recall correctly. The folder association with the files is already gone, lost with the factory reset. How the effects the encryption, no clue.
It's a mess.
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is there a service that can recover the pictures? my wife already restarted the phone and has started downloading stuff (if that matters). I told her it would have been best to not even have restarted it and hand it to someone so they could recover from recovery mode prior to any new data being installed.

V0latyle said:
Most likely a gimmick if not malware. AFAIK a factory wipe doesn't actually erase or overwrite the storage, it just removes the file structure and pointers, so a forensic data recovery tool could potentially help. Unfortunately, doing this on a smartphone is even harder to do, especially considering that most newer Samsung devices use encryption, and since a new key is generated when the device is reset, it won't be able to read the old data.
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Is there any company or service who aren't criminals that I can send it to to recover the pictures?

I think it's a dead horse especially if you're wife keeps using it!
Found this one. Do some searches and research.
Keep the phone powered off until you decide.