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Anti-social XDAii's - how to get round it?

Hi there,
I do really like my XDAiis, but the one thing I don't like is that it's a really anti-social hunk of plastic to carry around with you.
I don't mind normally, but say I want to go out at the weekend for some 'disc-dancing' of sorts, I don't want to haul that around, and I especially don't want to leave it in my jacket and put it in cloakrooms - or even just have a massive bulge in my pocket from keeping it there.
My plan was to stick the sim-card into my X70 when I go out - but then, if I do that, it'll wipe the memory from the XDA when I take the battery off.
So, the current way I'm doing it is I've got a simple Pay as you Go sim card which I divert the XDA to - but this is a pain, as i can't divert text messages to it.
Can anyone come up with a better solution?
C.ya
Jsedit

Are you sure it wipes the memory if the battery is taken out? Like a hard reset? Can someone confirm this please.
Cheers
ps I ask as it was also my plan to take out the SIM and stick in an old phone if I was planning to get smashed....
HPJ

You should have 20 minutes to put the battery back on before the it wipes the memory. That's what the backup battery is for.
You can check the status of that battery using the normal power program. My instruction manuals recommends I never remove the battery if the battery backup is less than 50%, but assuming it was 100%, you have 20 minutes to take out the sim card... Should be enough time

OH!! Cool!!
And I guess it all works fine without the sim card then - or even if it doesn't work - it'll still be in the same state when I chuck the sim back into it again?
Now just got to work out how to unlock the X70 from Orange, so I can use it with 02!!
Thanks for your help.
Jsedit.

True you should have around 20 minutes to play with if the backup battery is fully charged.
Another option would be to speak to O2 and get another simcard - a clone of the one you currently have so to speak..
That way you can leave the sim in the xda and just shutdown the phone bit, will save a lot of faffing around changing sims all the time.
O2 should be able to do it, if they ask why tell them you need a clone sim to put into your car (some have their own built in phone, that just requires a sim) then they may be more willing to do it.
Cheers
Neil

I tried this swifty, but O2 would not play the game. Some providers will provide dual sims, but it seems that none of the UK providers will.
I use a P&G sim in my ancient T68i
Nigel

jsedit said:
Hi there,
I do really like my XDAiis, but the one thing I don't like is that it's a really anti-social hunk of plastic to carry around with you.
I don't mind normally, but say I want to go out at the weekend for some 'disc-dancing' of sorts, I don't want to haul that around, and I especially don't want to leave it in my jacket and put it in cloakrooms - or even just have a massive bulge in my pocket from keeping it there.
My plan was to stick the sim-card into my X70 when I go out - but then, if I do that, it'll wipe the memory from the XDA when I take the battery off.
So, the current way I'm doing it is I've got a simple Pay as you Go sim card which I divert the XDA to - but this is a pain, as i can't divert text messages to it.
Can anyone come up with a better solution?
C.ya
Jsedit
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Yes. Get a Jam. It's smaller.

yeah i would go for the jam if i where u

jsedit said:
Hi there,
but say I want to go out at the weekend for some 'disc-dancing' of sorts, I
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hehe, i had my phone out with me to IO in glasgow,
theres around 50mb of videos, plus is had Above & Beyond taking a video up at the deks down to all the clubbers!, there all mp4 though, need to get em onto wmv for me comp.
ill be taking my spv with me to every club now, the punters luv it!
just make sure you have a firm grip though

Help! Need Opinions on what to do

Hey guys, figured you were the tech crowd so you guys would understand my concern here.
For xmas I received a cool external hard drive, i then proceeded to do a complete mirror image of my PC onto said external hard drive. As in literally Drag and Drop my entire C Drive etc yada yada onto this thing, so EVERYTHING is on there!!! Well today i went to use the external and my PC does not recognize it and im getting the click of death sound from the unit, so its toast.
I have only had it a few days so i figured I could simply return the unit to where i bought it and exchange it out for a new one, no big deal. HOWEVER i do not have the ability to access the drive at all, meaning literally my entire PC is stored on this thing. I am VERY creeped out by the aspect of just handing it off to someone as a return and having it dissapear into never never land with all of my data still stored on it, seeing as i do not have the ability to format it first.
Does anyone have any tips or tricks on what I could do that may help correct this and / or make the data recoverable without compromising the ability to return the unit? Aka no bullet holes in it or anything.

Joe92T said:
Hey guys, figured you were the tech crowd so you guys would understand my concern here.
For xmas I received a cool external hard drive, i then proceeded to do a complete mirror image of my PC onto said external hard drive. As in literally Drag and Drop my entire C Drive etc yada yada onto this thing, so EVERYTHING is on there!!! Well today i went to use the external and my PC does not recognize it and im getting the click of death sound from the unit, so its toast.
I have only had it a few days so i figured I could simply return the unit to where i bought it and exchange it out for a new one, no big deal. HOWEVER i do not have the ability to access the drive at all, meaning literally my entire PC is stored on this thing. I am VERY creeped out by the aspect of just handing it off to someone as a return and having it dissapear into never never land with all of my data still stored on it, seeing as i do not have the ability to format it first.
Does anyone have any tips or tricks on what I could do that may help correct this and / or make the data recoverable without compromising the ability to return the unit? Aka no bullet holes in it or anything.
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Go to another pc or your friend's house and recover your external hard drive using mini tool partition wizard on your friend's pc and you can recover your data on that hard drive.
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Help an idiot, please

I was not thinking and I sold my phone on Ebay, whats worse is that it was bought by someone out of the country. I didn't think much about the consequences until the nagging question of why someone would buy a phone that will only work on a carrier here in the states, US Cellular. Now I am very concerned. The buyer has already paid for the phone and for shipping. My number one option could be to just cancel the sale and refund the buyers money and eat the shipping. I have began researching how to securely wipe an Android phone and the best answer I have found is to encrypt the phone before I do a factory reset. The problem is that I have already factory reset the phone. In fact, the phone was rooted and rommed and I Oddined the stock recovery back onto the phone. Here are details about the phone. It is a SM-N900R4 US Cellular Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Since I bought the phone new from the carrier I have installed and wiped numerous Roms. I'm not looking for anyone to stick there neck out there and give me guarantees, I just want to know if there is anything I can do to be reasonably sure that the phone is secure. What about apps like IShredder, are they worth the effort. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks

Update, its 5:00am, I encrypted the phone, installed ishredder, ran the app a couple of times. I rerooted the phone using cf autoroot, downloaded a simple data recovery app, and am finding old data Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.

danp12 said:
I was not thinking and I sold my phone on Ebay, whats worse is that it was bought by someone out of the country. I didn't think much about the consequences until the nagging question of why someone would buy a phone that will only work on a carrier here in the states, US Cellular. Now I am very concerned. The buyer has already paid for the phone and for shipping. My number one option could be to just cancel the sale and refund the buyers money and eat the shipping. I have began researching how to securely wipe an Android phone and the best answer I have found is to encrypt the phone before I do a factory reset. The problem is that I have already factory reset the phone. In fact, the phone was rooted and rommed and I Oddined the stock recovery back onto the phone. Here are details about the phone. It is a SM-N900R4 US Cellular Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Since I bought the phone new from the carrier I have installed and wiped numerous Roms. I'm not looking for anyone to stick there neck out there and give me guarantees, I just want to know if there is anything I can do to be reasonably sure that the phone is secure. What about apps like IShredder, are they worth the effort. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks
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I think a factory reset is quite enough, you can wipe the internal storage as well. Just use Odin to flash a stock firmware and recovery and you should be good to go

If you are extra paranoid
Fill the memory with data.
Data and cache partitions are the most important.
Fill it with anything, delete it and fill it again. Seven times.
That will make it as hard as possible to recover any info.
But unless your a giant ass that has annoyed thousands around the world, put all your personal info on your phone. Advertise that fact.
Then be silly enough to advertise to all your enemy's that your selling your phone on eBay...
The standard wipe will likely be enough.

So I made the decision to refund the money and cancel the sale. I am shocked at how easy it is to find pictures, contacts, documents etc. after I encrypted the phone, deleted the data, used iShredder and wrote the drive at least 20 times at 3 cycles per time. I run a simple app called Disk Digger and I can still find data on the phone. Unreal. I think the iShredder app is simply not writing data in all of the areas of the phones memory. In fact, the more times I run iShredder and the more times I run disk digger, the more data I find This phone is connected to so much info like Paypal, Amazon, email, Bank Accounts etc. What a shame, my recommendation for anyone is the first thing you do when you pull your android phone out of the box is to Encrypt the drive, that way down the road when you delete the keys your data is safe. I have unloaded phones in the past but I never really thought much about it until I just really felt like the person buying it was buying it for nefarious purposes.

danp12 said:
So I made the decision to refund the money and cancel the sale. I am shocked at how easy it is to find pictures, contacts, documents etc. after I encrypted the phone, deleted the data, used iShredder and wrote the drive at least 20 times at 3 cycles per time. I run a simple app called Disk Digger and I can still find data on the phone. Unreal. I think the iShredder app is simply not writing data in all of the areas of the phones memory. In fact, the more times I run iShredder and the more times I run disk digger, the more data I find This phone is connected to so much info like Paypal, Amazon, email, Bank Accounts etc. What a shame, my recommendation for anyone is the first thing you do when you pull your android phone out of the box is to Encrypt the drive, that way down the road when you delete the keys your data is safe. I have unloaded phones in the past but I never really thought much about it until I just really felt like the person buying it was buying it for nefarious purposes.
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Nothing from apps is stored on the internal sd card.
It's all stored on the data and cache partitions in the internal memory.
Partitions you can't touch without root.
There will always be data of some type left in the memory.
That's just how the memory works.
I have yet to find anything that will wipe the entire device properly automatically..
It has to be done manually.

i9300 repair or retrieving internal storage if phone is not detected from computer?

HI
My wife's phone (i9300 galaxy S3) has gone wrong and it went off without battery.
I found a new battery, but it lasted only one day. I thus decided to take it for repair,
as I think that this is the charge connector that is broken, but actually, the tech told me that it was probably the motherboard,
as when it used a tool to plug it to the direct charge ports on the side, the phone only bootlooped.
Thing is:
My wife's phone wasn't using cloud or external SD,
it was not rooted.
I tried some android toolkits to connect it, but odin or adb don't detect it, so I have no chance to try and put some new kernel on it.
It has no recovery mode, and when in download mode (1st screen), it actually doesn't last long before it reboots anyway.
Choosing some option will also make it reboot.
So I think it is failed beyond software repair.
But if you have suggestion for this (the tech was at a small street stall and I don't expect him to be high level, no offense, but he seemed to only perform two repairs, screen and charge flex boards, so not much more able than me if he can't go beyond this), feel free?
So my second question is :
Does anyone know how to retrieve the internal storage of the phone without breaking it, and reinstall it in a working way on a new motherboard?
Or alternatively, on an emmc reader such as those used for raspberry cards and so on? (I don't want to put some link, I don't want my message to be filtered)
The photos on this chip are priceless for us, and I would even pay professional to retrieve these (I would prefer not having to, because money doesn't exactly come cheap to me, but I guess I won't be able to make it alone.
So if you know some repair service in Europe that would be able to perform such task, I would be grateful for your sharing of such knowledge.
I saw an alternative in malaysia, but it feels a little too far for being able to do something in case of problem.
Thanks for your attention and time.

htc u11 water damaged

hello,
please i want a solution to get my data from htc u11 after water damaged,
the sea water entered the phone before one month and i sent it to service center but they said it didn't work, after one month i plug the charger and it worked just on the boot screen and stuck there and the buttons are not working , and all the pictures were taken in the service center,
please help me to get the data

Hello there my friend. Sorry to hear that you lost your data. May be its a good lesson and you back it up now to the cloud, and specially when you wet your phone (not waiting a month to it). THERE IS NO PHONE THAT IS 100% WATER SUBMERSIBLE, most of cases is half an hour on non deep normal water.
Not sure in what country you are but that paper seems not to be from HTC. You should send the phone to HTC, and for sure U11 its pretty new, it should be under warranty still.
Back to your main problem. If the phone doesn't boot up, its complicated since the internal memory is encrypted, and you don't have a easy way to access to it not even having your buttons working. Sorry. Easeus (company that make great software for recovery and cloning), has an app for HTC for recovering data, may be you can give it a try: https://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/mobile-device-recovery/htc-data-recovery.htm
From now, try to use free services like google photos or if you have amazon prime the amazon drive that will give you unlimited space for photos backup. Saving photos to SD its better than internal, but if you lose the phone you lose the SD too. Crossed fingers that may be the app can recover something for you.

Assuming the USB port works but the buttons and touchscreen do not, if you can somehow get back to download mode you could try to unlock the bootloader and temp boot a special TWRP pack to dump the data(it would have your encryption password so you'll need to pack it yourself). I'm suggesting unlock and TWRP because it seems like the current ROM is not booting. Most service centers would wipe data before working though, hopefully you aren't that unlucky.

In all honesty it looks to me like the camera board is knackered, which contains the nfc chip and camera hardware.
The fact the phone can get as far as it can is almost promising. You must try to select download mode if your buttons still work. If not then you're stuck. If they do work then try flashing the stock firmware zip from an external sdcard. If it takes then it might boot. Reflashing the same firmware doesn't wipe any data. It just resets the firmware as stock, leaving your apps etc intact.
I believe it is running marshmallow august update, previous to nougat so your internal memory may not be encrypted, as previously stated, unless you encrypted it yourself. You will need the full Marshmallow 2gb update ruu zip, rename to 0pja10000.zip, copy to a class 10 microsd, place in phone and boot to download mode and flash it.
You might get somewhere, you might not. If it fails to flash then the phone is finished. If it flashes but doesn't boot its finished, if it boots BONUS!. There is also the possibility that the phone has been wiped in the store. If so your data may be gone forever BUT.. THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT!!.
Im not specifically promoting this app in any way its just that it is the only one I know of that does this and actually works, "Diskdigger". Its worth trying but it may not have any data to recover and if it does have an sd card in that is 64gb or more.
Only USA and Taiwan have "uh oh protection". A one time unconditional swap for another phone within, i think, 12 months.
Hope this helps.

deftoner said:
Hello there my friend. Sorry to hear that you lost your data. May be its a good lesson and you back it up now to the cloud, and specially when you wet your phone (not waiting a month to it). THERE IS NO PHONE THAT IS 100% WATER SUBMERSIBLE, most of cases is half an hour on non deep normal water.
Not sure in what country you are but that paper seems not to be from HTC. You should send the phone to HTC, and for sure U11 its pretty new, it should be under warranty still.
Back to your main problem. If the phone doesn't boot up, its complicated since the internal memory is encrypted, and you don't have a easy way to access to it not even having your buttons working. Sorry. Easeus (company that make great software for recovery and cloning), has an app for HTC for recovering data, may be you can give it a try: https://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/mobile-device-recovery/htc-data-recovery.htm
From now, try to use free services like google photos or if you have amazon prime the amazon drive that will give you unlimited space for photos backup. Saving photos to SD its better than internal, but if you lose the phone you lose the SD too. Crossed fingers that may be the app can recover something for you.
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I think comtel is the authorized service provider for HTC phones in the emirates.

deftoner said:
Hello there my friend. Sorry to hear that you lost your data. May be its a good lesson and you back it up now to the cloud, and specially when you wet your phone (not waiting a month to it). THERE IS NO PHONE THAT IS 100% WATER SUBMERSIBLE, most of cases is half an hour on non deep normal water.
Not sure in what country you are but that paper seems not to be from HTC. You should send the phone to HTC, and for sure U11 its pretty new, it should be under warranty still.
Back to your main problem. If the phone doesn't boot up, its complicated since the internal memory is encrypted, and you don't have a easy way to access to it not even having your buttons working. Sorry. Easeus (company that make great software for recovery and cloning), has an app for HTC for recovering data, may be you can give it a try: https://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/mobile-device-recovery/htc-data-recovery.htm
From now, try to use free services like google photos or if you have amazon prime the amazon drive that will give you unlimited space for photos backup. Saving photos to SD its better than internal, but if you lose the phone you lose the SD too. Crossed fingers that may be the app can recover something for you.
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Thank you
But i sent it to service center htc asked me to send it there