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Orbit stuck on green screen, need to get data!

Hi everyone!
First post, have tried to find something similar in old threads/search but had no luck.
This evening, whilst composing text messages, my xda orbit became very sluggish and slow and kept freezing, which only a soft rest would solve. After happening 6 or 7 times, the soft reset now goes no further than the green "windows mobile direct push technology" screen (the one which follows the blue o2 screen).
Active sync on the PC does not detect the phone. Have read about bootloader etc but cant seem to get past the coloured screen or get it to sync with the PC and I dont have an SD card reader.
Have tried removing simcard, SD card, leaving off for a while etc. With my contract sim the green light at the top flashes (indicating a signal?) but phoning the phone gets no reply (although it does ring, doesnt go straight to voicemail) but on my PAYG Sim I dont get the flashing light. Every 2 minutes the phone lights up brighter then dims 20 seconds later (which is what my dimmer was set to time-wise when the phone worked). I have never installed any hardware or software on top of the original defaults other than a sandisk 1gb SD card approx 1 year ago.
Now I know and have read than a hard reset may fix this (before anyone suggests it). However, I have some VERY important data on the phone which I have to retrieve (in the form of a few hundred very important text messages containing data, and a huge contact list, the backup of has been lost). The data in these texts and contact list is paramount to me.
So, is there ANY way to get this data from the phone before hard resetting to get the phone to work? To be honest i'm not bothered about the handset/phone itself working I just desperately want the data?
Any help at all would be very much appreciated (and i'm no techie by the way, just a simpleton lol!).
Thanks in advance, happy to set up some sort of Paypal reward scheme for anyone that can sort this as this data is as close to life or death as it gets without it being life or death lol!

PS: For example, is there a way of taking the phones integrated memory card out (with all the contacts and texts intact) and getting the data from it either onto a PC or into another handset?
PPS: Anyone in the South East of England who wants to earn a few quid and can sort this in person feel free to offer!

UPDATE
Well, today I switched it on and it was still the same, and again the same 5 hours later, then suddenly it perked up and everything worked!! I managed to get it to sync, copied the pim file (which I think is the contacts?) onto my PC and then it froze again. Soft reset and now stuck on green screen.
If the magical happens and it flickers into life one final time, where exactly on an orbit are all text messages stored? If I can copy the folder onto the PC, hard reset, then copy it back I should have them all?

There are a few .vol files - PIM.VOL is the contacts/calendar one, and theres another one for messages, but I cannot remember what it is called unfortunately...

OK, thankyou! There's been some more developments!
If I soft rest the phone around 5 times then leave it on the charger (even if it's fully charged) for around 5 hours the phone jumps into life! However, doing things for any length of time freezes the phone.
Added Pimbackup via activesync and it retrieves all the messages fine, but freezes at the point of eginning to add them to the SD card.
Active sync wont let me into most of the folders on the device (such as the windows folder).
So, I can get on the phone eventually but does anyone have ANY ideas as to how I can backup or transfer text messages etc?
TIA

GTalk and push notifications stopped working, help?

Alright, I have a truly annoying problem with Galaxy Nexus. After every month or two of use my phone loses completely the ability to connect to gTalk and push cloud to device messages. I'm not using any strange apps either and have not installed anything for a while.
My connection bars become grey and before someone suggests that this is an account issue and that 'I have lost connection to Google servers' then no: bars are only grey on Galaxy Nexus when gTalk and C2DM fail. Bars are grey but I can still access Market and Gmail and my phone still syncs Calendar and Contacts.
The only solution so far has been to completely reset the phone. Which is an epic annoyance. I've tried re-adding Google account and no success there either.
What can I do without having to reset my phone again?

So there is no solution whatsoever? It is impossible to fix this without having to reset the phone?
I ended up resetting the phone again and it is truly annoying, since this problem happens only after a month or two and nothing triggers it and the connection does not return even though sync with Google accounts works perfectly.
Might the problem be that I change my SIM card whenever I visit Finland and Google has some unknown security flag that blocks C2DM when same device is using different SIM's frequently?
Because this is insane and I feel like I can't do anything about it.

Don't have your problem, bars turn grey here every now and then but always go back to blue after a few seconds.
Two SIMs might certainly confuse the syncing. Go to Google Dashboard and make sure your phone is listed there. Only the IMEI is listed in Dashboard, though. In the Market it also lists your provider and number, I think.
Obviously you have checked all your accounts&syncing options in the ICS settings?
Rebooting and switching to airplane mode oder WiFi and back does not work either?

Valynor said:
Don't have your problem, bars turn grey here every now and then but always go back to blue after a few seconds.
Two SIMs might certainly confuse the syncing. Go to Google Dashboard and make sure your phone is listed there. Only the IMEI is listed in Dashboard, though. In the Market it also lists your provider and number, I think.
Obviously you have checked all your accounts&syncing options in the ICS settings?
Rebooting and switching to airplane mode oder WiFi and back does not work either?
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Nope. It's happened three times now since I've owned the phone and I've not installed anything fishy, nor do I run any monitoring and task manager or battery saving apps. I basically run all Google services, as well as Twitter, Facebook and some games. I haven't recently installed anything new.
Airplane mode did not work, WiFi or Data modes had the same issue and reboots made no difference either. Internet itself works, auto sync keeps working and Calendar, Gmail and Android Market work exactly as expected. But gTalk and push notifications stop working and do not return even in 24 hours.
The only thing that I do know that I do differently from an average user is that I switch SIM card either for every weekend or every other weekend when visiting my girlfriend in Finland, since I'm using a pre-paid SIM there (that also has data connection).
I don't have any sync or push notifications problems when using either SIM and both have an unlimited data plan. But after about 1-1.5 month suddenly gTalk and push notifications stop working entirely.
As a result I am keen to think that this must be about the SIM card switching (it happened after SIM card switch or close to it), but I don't know how to fix this. Phone reset does work, so it is certainly something that has not got anything to do with my Google Account.
I even tried clearing data and force stopping all Google-related services and apps and rebooted then. It asked for my account information and whatnot again, but the connection stayed grey while other Google account related services were running without issues.
It's a serious pain to reset my phone every month or two.
I am convinced that this is a bug in Android and reported it here.

Bluetooth Contact Sync

So I had paired my G3 with my 2014 Jeep Patriot (uConnect 430N) and all was working well until today. I needed to call my wife so I pressed the phone button and initiated a call. Little did I know that the contacts had not been downloaded. I tried re syncing the phone, removing it and re-adding it, initiating a download of the phone book and a bunch of other things to no avail.
The only way I would get the contacts to be downloaded, was to go to Contacts, select Share, then select a contact and initiating a download with the uConnect system and adding a single contact at a time. I tried sharing a bunch of contacts, but it would not work. The only way it remembered any of the contacts was to do one at a time.
Thankfully I'm not one of those guys that has 500 contacts in my phone book because this way of downloading and adding contacts would be ridiculous. I don't understand why it didn't download automatically (I did receive a prompt when I paired the phone to allow access and added uConnect as a trusted device as well.) Now, I have to wonder if any of the numbers change or an additional number is added to an existing contact, if it will be downloaded automatically or not? Also, if I add a new contact to my G3, will the system download it automatically or will I have to go through this each time I add a new contact?
I really don't think it is the uConnect system because it worked flawlessly and automatically added my whole phone book with my Nexus 5 as well as my Note 4. Does anyone have any experience with the G3 and uConnect and have any ideas as to why this wouldn't be automatic, or why it would work like this?

Completely locked out of my phone, can't afford to hard reset.

A couple of days ago, I plugged my N4 in to charge. I then turned the screen on and tried to scan my fingerprint, but I got an error saying that the fingerprint scanner has to close because it isn't responding.
It then went to my backup password screen. I tried every password (including the correct one I have written down), and none worked. After 5 attempts, it says that it failed to "recognize my fingerprint". Apparently, it thinks a password attempt is a fingerprint scan.
Anyway, I rebooted numerous times, soft reset, cleared cache with recovery, tried google device manager, Samsung's find my mobile, and ADB. My USB debugging must be off, because I can't seem to connect with the phone through ADB. My "remote controls" are apparently turned off, so Samsung's solution doesn't allow me to unlock it.
I'm not stuck at the lockscreen and I have information that I need to get off. Mostly conversations with my clients through text/whatsapp. I couldn't care less about anything else.
Does anyone have any other ideas? Tricks, or maybe a fastboot method? I just need to get back in, desperately.

IDK about whatsapp but at&t has a service that backs up your texts. If you haven't set that or any other text back up service up, I'd try contacting at&t and see if they will set it up for you remotely, though it might be a long shot.
As far as whatsapp goes, I have never used it, but if its connected to your google account from pc or anything else I would see if you can get your whatsapp account to sync with your google account, that way if you have to reset your phone and redownload the app, it will probably resync your previous conversations, unless whatsapp is set up not to do this. Doesn't facebook own whatsapp? maybe you can back whatsapp conversations up to your facebook.
I'd try to back any thing up you need to in a similar way, cross your fingers and hard reset.
Otherwise, if you take the phone to an at&t store, they may have a method of backing the phone up without logging in, which is also a long shot. Of course, anything that involves the service provider or manufacture of the phone helping you is going to be a long shot. But they did already make the phone and provide the service, so I guess you can't hate too much.
Next time, definitely make sure everything important is being synced/backed up somewhere to save yourself this type of headache. There's a lot of ways to do it these days.
Good Luck.

Question Whatsapp Transfer from iPhone to S22

So, as I've said in the question; I need to transfer my Whatsapp chats and media from my iPhone to my new S22. The solution on the official Whatsapp website is to use Smart Switch, which I did use for all my data. However, when trying to transfer Whatsapp data, it shows that data has been transferred. Whatsapp then initiates the restoration process, and it gets stuck at 97%, and eventually fails. I've tried this 2 times, as the process takes quite a lot of time.
Is there any other way I could transfer my data? And/or a fix for the problem I'm facing.
Thanks in advance.