Hi
I made a terrible mistake while unlocking bootloader of my Samsung A50 without knowing that this is gonna wipe my entire data.
I know i made a terrible mistake without knowing the rules . Now all i want is get back my Data.
I did some research about it and all is saying i need root access to do that. Now my question is is there any way to do that without rooting or even if i need to root do i have to install TWRP for that?(i don't want to wipe/format again as this might effect the previous data recovery.)
What should i do now?
The folder system was vaporized so even if you do recovery what's there it will be a juxtaposed nightmare of files.
Consider it a valuable lesson on critical data management... I hope some of it was backed up.
blackhawk said:
The folder system was vaporized so even if you do recovery what's there it will be a juxtaposed nightmare of files.
Consider it a valuable lesson on critical data management... I hope some of it was backed up.
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important ones were backed up still some were left..
sarosata9 said:
important ones were backed up still some were left..
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If any of it was backup on cloud apps... Google or Samsung.
Lol, I've lost whole databases
subscriptionm said:
You can do a few things to help keep your data safe and secure. First, it's important to have a good password management system in place.
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Never encrypt backup drives as you are the one most likely to be locked out. The data will likely be lost if that happens.
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I've either made a hugely stupid error and turned on encryption and nobody will detail me why this is a bad idea.....
Or nobody who looks at my post in huge threads seems to want to answer this question:
I enabled encryption in my Galaxy Nexus settings. I am rooted on a custom ROM. I want to update/flash a new ROM.
Will things be different? Can I update like normal? or am I going to need to wipe/reset everything in order to flash an update?
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I've either made a hugely stupid error and turned on encryption and nobody will detail me why this is a bad idea.....
Or nobody who looks at my post in huge threads seems to want to answer this question:
I enabled encryption in my Galaxy Nexus settings. I am rooted on a custom ROM. I want to update/flash a new ROM.
Will things be different? Can I update like normal? or am I going to need to wipe/reset everything in order to flash an update?
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Neither Clockwork Mod or even the stock recovery can access the storage on the device after it's encrypted. The fact that the stock recovery can't is exceptionally poor form on Google's behalf.
You can't even perform a factory reset. The only way to unencrypt the device is to flash it via fastboot.
I posted some details in this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392037
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Neither Clockwork Mod or even the stock recovery can access the storage on the device after it's encrypted. The fact that the stock recovery can't is exceptionally poor form on Google's behalf.
You can't even perform a factory reset. The only way to unencrypt the device is to flash it via fastboot.
I posted some details in this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392037
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Thank you very much! Reading up on that was really a learning experience on this mess lol
Can I flash a ROM via Fastboot using a zip? Im not sure about that... any1 know?
XFreeRollerX said:
Thank you very much! Reading up on that was really a learning experience on this mess lol
Can I flash a ROM via Fastboot using a zip? Im not sure about that... any1 know?
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Had the exact same problem and found out this solution the hard way. You can't do a factory reset to remove the encryption because the bootloader is different when you root.
The only way is to fastboot as mentioned above. You need to use the files provided for going back to stock. You should find them on here. Good luck.
I found this out the hard way as well, but I think this is the great benefit of encryption. If someone were to get a hold of your phone there would be no way for them to access anything without having or breaking the passcode. For serial rom flashers this kinda sucks but if you really care about your data and are willing to stick with either stock or stock rooted then this means you actually have a phone that's truly secure.
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You'd have to be extremely paranoid about your data to want to encrypt your phone. I couldn't care less, nothing of importance is on my phone anyway
EddyOS said:
You'd have to be extremely paranoid about your data to want to encrypt your phone. I couldn't care less, nothing of importance is on my phone anyway
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I run my business on Google Apps and my data would be sensitive. Not everyone uses there phones just for personal stuff.
I don't use it for that either! I delete SMSs after they've been read, email is downloaded to my PC once Outlook is opened and bar Facebook/Twitter and a small selection of other apps there's nothing personal on my phone
Funnily enough I use it as a phone more than anything
EddyOS said:
I don't use it for that either! I delete SMSs after they've been read, email is downloaded to my PC once Outlook is opened and bar Facebook/Twitter and a small selection of other apps there's nothing personal on my phone
Funnily enough I use it as a phone more than anything
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Wow, I couldn't operate that way, I use my phone for everything, even my laptop and tablet are a bit useless now Each to their own I suppose
Im having some trouble going back to stock image to factory reset the phone
I flashed stock bootloader, stock radio images and booted into the OS and did factory reset, doesn't seem to work...help? I can't get this encryption off
XFreeRollerX said:
Im having some trouble going back to stock image to factory reset the phone
I flashed stock bootloader, stock radio images and booted into the OS and did factory reset, doesn't seem to work...help? I can't get this encryption off
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Factory reset won't work. You need to completely wipe the phone by loading the stock img from Google that came on the phone. It is the only way it will work. You can find out how to do that on here, sorry I don't have the link on hand though so just search a bit. Feel free to PM as I had the exact same issue.
EDIT - try this toolkit to go back to the stock rom. You loose everything but it should remove encryption.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392310
I don't know why Google don't give the option to decrypt from the Google Apps dashboard. So annoying! Good luck, hope you get sorted.
Thanks for posting that - in the end the g-nex toolkit ended up bringing the phone back to stock and rooted the device again and I've now successfully factory reset the device and am back to running a custom ROM with root and no encryption
Thanks for the help
XFreeRollerX said:
Thanks for posting that - in the end the g-nex toolkit ended up bringing the phone back to stock and rooted the device again and I've now successfully factory reset the device and am back to running a custom ROM with root and no encryption
Thanks for the help
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Yaaaaey glad you got sorted. Encryption from GApps at the moment is woeful. I am sure they are working on it.
jd1001 said:
Yaaaaey glad you got sorted. Encryption from GApps at the moment is woeful. I am sure they are working on it.
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Hopefully they are as if you want a real secure device, its pretty pitiful to bypass if in the wrong hands.
Does this only apply if you've rooted your device and flashed a different ROM? If you have an unrooted phone and turn on encryption, will you have the same issues (i.e. unable to do a factory reset)? Is this only a problem with the Nexus or would any Android phone have this problem?
I ask because the company I work for is talking about forcing users to encrypt their phones if they want ActiveSync enabled. But they also want to be able to run a wipe on the phone if necessary. It would seem to me that encrypting the phone may prevent that as an option.
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Does this only apply if you've rooted your device and flashed a different ROM? If you have an unrooted phone and turn on encryption, will you have the same issues (i.e. unable to do a factory reset)? Is this only a problem with the Nexus or would any Android phone have this problem?
I ask because the company I work for is talking about forcing users to encrypt their phones if they want ActiveSync enabled. But they also want to be able to run a wipe on the phone if necessary. It would seem to me that encrypting the phone may prevent that as an option.
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Touchdown.
It's a little pricy at $20 but well worth it in IMHO.
A remote wipe will only kill off touchdown and optionally SDcard storage.
Matridom said:
Touchdown.
It's a little pricy at $20 but well worth it in IMHO.
A remote wipe will only kill off touchdown and optionally SDcard storage.
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Yeah, they are already looking at using Touchdown for devices that don't support encryption natively, but those that do (support encryption natively) they just want to enable the devices' own encryption.
So I'm still not sure if with encryption turned on, will it prevent a phone from being remotely wiped?
XFreeRollerX said:
Hopefully they are as if you want a real secure device, its pretty pitiful to bypass if in the wrong hands.
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When you bypass it by flashing a new system over it you wipe all data that was ever on the phone. Ok your phone could be stolen, but no-one will ever know what CP you were hiding with that encryption. I'm very happy with the fact that there is a save backdoor... imagine forgetting your password for some reason or filling out the wrong password on setup... when that happend this thread would have been a "bricked my phone by forgetting the password. Who wants some nice spareparts for his phone" Q&A
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HuskerWebhead said:
Yeah, they are already looking at using Touchdown for devices that don't support encryption natively, but those that do (support encryption natively) they just want to enable the devices' own encryption.
So I'm still not sure if with encryption turned on, will it prevent a phone from being remotely wiped?
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Just don't tell them you are using touchdown. I've tested the remote wipe in Android, it can kill the whole phone. The only way to keep your personal info safe is to use touchdown
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Matridom said:
Just don't tell them you are using touchdown. I've tested the remote wipe in Android, it can kill the whole phone. The only way to keep your personal info safe is to use touchdown
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I think you're misunderstanding my intentions. I'm not looking for a way to bypass the encryption requirement they may be introducing. I'm just trying to understand if it will cause a problem for the remote wipe functionality if the phone is lost or stolen. If it will, I'll have to let them know so they can decide what is more important: encryption or remote wipe capabilities.
If a remote wipe functions regardless of encryption being enabled, then it's a moot point.
I'll give you the essentials..
Stupidness ensued (doesn't it always?) and it ended up in an accidental deletion of my GNexus internal storage. Had a lot of pictures on there I hadn't backed up (see: stupidness) and now I'm searching desperately for a way to recover them. Now for the inquiry: If I backup my device, root and unlock, then restore the backed up rom.. will I still be able to access the cache which would enable me to restore said pictures through the various apps that allow such a thing?
I would imagine yes, however not being an expert in the field of tinkering with Android I come seeking your help and or advise.
Thanks!
Hope this helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
irizwan said:
Hope this helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
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I wouldn't have come posting here if I hadn't already done a little research first. Good method, however, it requires a rooted device, of which I have not. I'm also running 4.2, which can't be rooted without unlocking the device, and thus wiping all data from my phone. So my original question still stands; if cached deleted items (pictures, video, etc) can still be recovered through an app if a backup of the original rom image is taken, and then restored on a rooted device.
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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I feel like I should know how to do this and I just can't think right now...
I have 8.0 and the latest TWRP installed. Root with Magisk as well. I want to update to 8.1 but I don't want to have to factory reset the phone by flashing 8.1 to it and then reflashing root & TWRP. There's a way to do this that I'm not thinking of, right?
I read another post about using FlashFire but regardless of where I put the factory image, the app doesn't see it. So I feel like I'm at a loss right now.
Am I missing something? Thanks in advance!
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I feel like I should know how to do this and I just can't think right now...
I have 8.0 and the latest TWRP installed. Root with Magisk as well. I want to update to 8.1 but I don't want to have to factory reset the phone by flashing 8.1 to it and then reflashing root & TWRP. There's a way to do this that I'm not thinking of, right?
I read another post about using FlashFire but regardless of where I put the factory image, the app doesn't see it. So I feel like I'm at a loss right now.
Am I missing something? Thanks in advance!
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This is how I upgraded to 8.1, my setup before I upgraded was the same as yours.
1. Bootloader and unlock_critical both unlocked?
2. Download and extract the factory image, and place all contents in your SDK platform tools folder.
3. Edit the flash-all.bat file and remove the -w in the last line of code. (This prevents your data from being wiped)
4. Double click the flash-all.bat file to start the process. It'll take a little while, so be patient.
5. Once it's done, get back to bootloader mode.
6. Flash the twrp.img file. This will take you to temporary twrp.
7. Once in twrp, flash the twrp.zip, then flash custom kernel.zip(optional) then flash your magisk.zip.
8. Reboot and done.
Couple of caveats, make sure your using a good USB transfer cable, and it's recommended to remove your finger print and/or password/pin, and uninstall any themes you have installed. Hope all goes well for you :good:
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This is how I upgraded to 8.1, my setup before I upgraded was the same as yours.
1. Bootloader and unlock_critical both unlocked?
2. Download and extract the factory image, and place all contents in your SDK platform tools folder.
3. Edit the flash-all.bat file and remove the -w in the last line of code. (This prevents your data from being wiped)
4. Double click the flash-all.bat file to start the process. It'll take a little while, so be patient.
5. Once it's done, get back to bootloader mode.
6. Flash the twrp.img file. This will take you to temporary twrp.
7. Once in twrp, flash the twrp.zip, then flash custom kernel.zip(optional) then flash your magisk.zip.
8. Reboot and done.
Couple of caveats, make sure your using a good USB transfer cable, and it's recommended to remove your finger print and/or password/pin, and uninstall any themes you have installed. Hope all goes well for you :good:
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Cool thank you I will give this a shot later tonight! One question, what is "unlock_critical?" I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere else before.
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Cool thank you I will give this a shot later tonight! One question, what is "unlock_critical?" I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere else before.
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The pic is from the Google factory image page. Unlock_critical must be performed on the P2XL to allow the bootloader to be updated with future monthly security or software updates. This does not apply to the standard P2. Be advised, this WILL wipe your phone. However, you really don't have much choice if you want to flash monthly factory images.
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The pic is from the Google factory image page. Unlock_critical must be performed on the P2XL to allow the bootloader to be updated with future monthly security or software updates. This does not apply to the standard P2. Be advised, this WILL wipe your phone. However, you really don't have much choice if you want to flash monthly factory images.
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Oh crap... I only ran the OEM unlock. Welp, looks like I'm going to end up wiping anyways. Thanks for the info though. This is definitely one of those situations where I assumed I knew what I was doing and ran with it without actually reading the process.
WyldOne91 said:
Oh crap... I only ran the OEM unlock. Welp, looks like I'm going to end up wiping anyways. Thanks for the info though. This is definitely one of those situations where I assumed I knew what I was doing and ran with it without actually reading the process.
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No problem my friend. There's a lot to learn on these new pixel devices. There are plenty threads on these forum with tons of info on whatever topic you may have questions about. Just takes time, patience, lots of reading, and a willingness to learn :good:
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Oh crap... I only ran the OEM unlock. Welp, looks like I'm going to end up wiping anyways. Thanks for the info though. This is definitely one of those situations where I assumed I knew what I was doing and ran with it without actually reading the process.
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Since you are rooted, and already have the mindset that all is or will be lost you have the opportunity to try a couple options that if fail nothing lost...
After doing away with screen security and any themes, do Full backup in TWRP and also use TiBu to back up all your apps and then move them off the phone until after you do your thing.
After you do the critical unlock and get 8.1 installed and rooted you could try restoring the TWRP data partition and see what happens. Worst case it's either not booting or just acting funky. Do a factory wipe and not much lost.
Or... Use TiBu to save some time restoring all your apps. While I have had pretty good luck with restoring data on most apps, a few either won't restore or are boned in some way. Some other folks had a really hard time with restoring data so maybe just restore the apps without data. I run over 100 apps and have been through some version of this many times while playing around. With my crappy internet out here in the boonies it took 4 hours for google to restore all my apps and that's with hardly no data. It took about 20 minutes to restore most everything through TiBu. I would not restore data in the big initial bulk restore but instead go back and cherry pick the data restore on the things you need.
Again worst case all lost but you assumed that anyway and maybe you can save some time and effort if either option works.
Badger50 said:
No problem my friend. There's a lot to learn on these new pixel devices. There are plenty threads on these forum with tons of info on whatever topic you may have questions about. Just takes time, patience, lots of reading, and a willingness to learn :good:
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Yeah for sure. I'm always willing to learn!
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Since you are rooted, and already have the mindset that all is or will be lost you have the opportunity to try a couple options that if fail nothing lost...
After doing away with screen security and any themes, do Full backup in TWRP and also use TiBu to back up all your apps and then move them off the phone until after you do your thing.
After you do the critical unlock and get 8.1 installed and rooted you could try restoring the TWRP data partition and see what happens. Worst case it's either not booting or just acting funky. Do a factory wipe and not much lost.
Or... Use TiBu to save some time restoring all your apps. While I have had pretty good luck with restoring data on most apps, a few either won't restore or are boned in some way. Some other folks had a really hard time with restoring data so maybe just restore the apps without data. I run over 100 apps and have been through some version of this many times while playing around. With my crappy internet out here in the boonies it took 4 hours for google to restore all my apps and that's with hardly no data. It took about 20 minutes to restore most everything through TiBu. I would not restore data in the big initial bulk restore but instead go back and cherry pick the data restore on the things you need.
Again worst case all lost but you assumed that anyway and maybe you can save some time and effort if either option works.
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Yeah I actually already ran a backup with Titanium Backup and moved it to my PC last night just in case I did something stupid haha but I appreciate the tips!
Hello everyone sorry to bother. So I was flashing a custom rom for my op5t and followed the usual steps : wipe system data cache and flashed the rom+gapps+magisk. And when I tried to boot the device it got stuck at the oneplus logo it didn't even got into bootloop. So I decided to flash rom again and wiped the data again but there I saw all the files were encrypted. I don't know how did it happen I wasn't encrypted in the beginning and now I can't install anything, the phone does not have any OS so it can't boot up. I don't want to lose my data is there anything I can do without locking the bootloader?
No need to lock your bootloader, but I think your data is lost.
Format data, and flash system again.
Yup. Don't lock your bootloader or you really will be screwed. Your data is lost at this point. Live, learn and remember to back up you data.
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Yup. Don't lock your bootloader or you really will be screwed. Your data is lost at this point. Live, learn and remember to back up you data.
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I did get a backup but since all the files are encrypted now i cannot access my backup folder or data also.
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I did get a backup but since all the files are encrypted now i cannot access my backup folder or data also.
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Not that it helps you now, but typically backup data does not mean to the device you are messing with. You want to backup data to another device (like your PC). What would help at this point, is knowing exactly what you flashed. (What were you on, and what did you flash)
It sounds like you flashed two ROMs with different types of encryption, and the reason you can no longer read your data. Sometimes, and I mean sometimes, if you are lucky, you can go back to the ROM that you originally on and your data would still be readable. I've been able to salvage data this way before, sometimes just with the correct TWRP on some devices.
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Not that it helps you now, but typically backup data does not mean to the device you are messing with. You want to backup data to another device (like your PC). What would help at this point, is knowing exactly what you flashed. (What were you on, and what did you flash)
It sounds like you flashed two ROMs with different types of encryption, and the reason you can no longer read your data. Sometimes, and I mean sometimes, if you are lucky, you can go back to the ROM that you originally on and your data would still be readable. I've been able to salvage data this way before, sometimes just with the correct TWRP on some devices.
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I solved the problem but it cost me my data after all. I had access to TWRP and fastboot but it couldn't read any of the data neither transfer anything from pc so I wiped all the device via TWRP and mounted into my pc and could finally transferred necessary files to flash. After all I did not lock the bootloader but lose my data