Hello! I don't speak english, sorry. But I have a trouble. Can I mount System, Data folders to my PC for recover files on it?
I execute Format Data, Format System in 4ext recovery and lose my Contacts. I know that contact's database placed in some file on System or Data partition. How to recover it?
P. S.: I have not install any firmware after formatting partitions to prevent damage my data...
Please, Help me!
You can use adb to access any files on those partitions, but as you've formatted the data partition, those files will not exist anymore.
If you could "mount" the partitions, they would now be empty. I don't think there's any way to recover the data unless you have a backup somewhere (Google account?).
If there is a way, it's not a question of mounting the partitions, but actually using data recovery techniques on the phone's internal memory.
Does anybody know if that's possible / feasible?
Edit: don't you have a nandroid backup you could restore from?
that:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
might be possible solution, or a base (direction) do dig further...
I recently have been recovering, stupidly formated drive too,
got the data back (most of it anyway )
but the tree (folder structure )
was irrevertably gone, and part of a file names as well,
so, when you calm down, after getting data back,
you realise there is still a gigantic work ahead,
with bitting through thousands of files with names like:
< _ibc.so or _ops.png >, and guessing which belongs to what....
...but, if one strongly sets ones mind on accomplishing the task,
it is possible....
Edit: the link above, is just a beginning of the journey,
oft, one has to gather bits of several tutorials and [HOW TO]`s
and that is what i also, stongly recommend to do,
its because, these things are often non official- hundred percent
novice proof hardened methods,
each of them, had worked for somebody,
but there is no guarantees- that particular method`ll work for you...
Success:good:
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I recently accidentally hard-reset my xda iii. Most of data was stored on my sd card (which of course i can recover). I want to know whether it is possible to recover other data, much in the same way you would with a desktop. There were several important text messages i needed.
Is this possible or has the data gone for good?
Silly me, didn't back up in a while...
in the flash part of the memory you can as in /storage and extented rom but not the ram they work just like ram in your pc == no power no bytes no memory of last state to undelete to
Ok, so there may still be some data in the flash part. Do you know of any programs that might help me?
Thanks for your reply
A hard reset will have more than likely wiped what was stored internally.
I suggest you get a backup utility and start using it, that way, if it happens again, you will have a full backup of everything you had installed, and all of the files stored on the device.
So, I have A HUGE problem. Apparently I massively misunderstood how the "superwipe" works, thinking it would erase all my apps, but not my personal files, like the file I had created and named "School", and stored all my papers, notes, and research files in. So, I made my nandroid of stock, and flashed Revolution, expecting that, like on my phones, the backups from MyBackup Pro, and other apps, and my personal files would be left untouched. It seems I was very, very wrong. Now I'm regretting not following my gut instinct and manually wiping to maintain those files, as well as not going the extra redundancy of copying them to my removable micro sd as well. Lesson learned. It boggles my mind more than a little that there isn't a clear explanation right on the front page with the rest of the warnings and disclaimers, that the superwipe would kill all your personal data as well as the necessary files to allow the flash.
That aside, and I know this is a long shot, but is there a way to recover that data? I've already flashed back to my stock nandroid, hoping that would somehow restore it, but no dice. Are there any other options here?
Thanks in advance for any help.
It's a long shot and I'm not sure if this will work on flash memory that has been formatted/overwritten, but you can try to connect your TF to your pc as mass storage device and run software such as http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/flash_drive_recovery.asp to retrieve this folder and files. Good luck!
To be fair right under the link it does say " This script will erase and format your data, system and cache partition using EXT4 file-system ---
--- Please note that the content of /data/media folder (internal virtual SD card) will be removed - do backup of necessary files! ---"
But yeah I agree, bigger font and capital letters say something like "THIS WILL DELETE EVERYTHING" would be more easier to understand
AFAIK recovery software won't work on it, due to the file system.
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Hello everyone,
so I accidentally wiped my /data/media on my OnePlus One where all my backups where in because I wanted to try out F2FS . I didn't have in mind, that for doing that TWRP would have to format the whole userdata partition instead of just using rm for everything except /data/media like in normal wiping :silly:.
Now I wondered if there was any way to recover at least the last deleted backup, because I guess it's still lying around somewhere in the flash cells. I know that there are plenty of programs for PCs to accomplish that, but does anyone perhaps have an idea about how to do it on a phone, preferably without having to boot into Android, as it might overwrite the data when setting up? I thought about pulling an image of the partition via adb in recovery and try to recover the files from that on the PC, but I have no idea on how to get the image to my pc without storing it on the phone first, which would obviously definitely overwrite all the data. And also I don't know if that image would actually contain all the data because I couldn't find out if the flash uses wear leveling.
If anyone has got any idea I would really appreciate to hear it, even if it only says that it's impossible.
Many thanks in advance .
I wanted to do a factory reset (i.e. remove everything from /data except /data/media/0), but ended up formatting the partition, partly because the Materialised Theme rearranges the buttons, partly because I am a bit dumb seemingly...
After I realized what I just did, I immediately piped the whole partition onto my PC using dd and netcat. I hoped to be able to recover my photos and the /data TWRP backup I did before using photorec, but it couldn't find a single file :crying:
So does TWRP reset every bit of the partition to zero when formatting it?
Or could there be another explanation on why photorec doesn't find anything? Could there be any chance that I'll see my data again?
It's flash memory, tricks that would work on a physical hard disk WILL NOT recover any data. I am sorry but it is not possible, by ANY means, to recover your data.
It sucks I know but please take this as a learning experience on the value of off-device backups. You can upload twrp backups to Google drive directly from the phone for easy secure storage and recovery.
Also Google will sync and backup your photos if you enable it, for the future.
I've always used Samsung devices (last device was GS5) so I'm trying to understand the internal partitions on newer versions of android. I don't mean the dual slot stuff either.. just the normal partitions like /system
So with my GS5 of I went into TWRP and factory reset. That wiped all user data from the phone. Apps, settings, downloads, pics, etc..
It seems that's not how it works anymore. Just looking for a basic layout of the folder structure and what is stored on each partition
Where is my user data stored? Are my downloaded apps, settings, pics, downloads (everything I put on the phone) stored in one partition? If so where
When I factory reset in recovery what partitions is that wiping
At this point the only thing I know is /system which is where the actual OS itself is stored.
Any explanation would be appreciated!!
aholeinthewor1d said:
I've always used Samsung devices (last device was GS5) so I'm trying to understand the internal partitions on newer versions of android. I don't mean the dual slot stuff either.. just the normal partitions like /system
So with my GS5 of I went into TWRP and factory reset. That wiped all user data from the phone. Apps, settings, downloads, pics, etc..
It seems that's not how it works anymore. Just looking for a basic layout of the folder structure and what is stored on each partition
Where is my user data stored? Are my downloaded apps, settings, pics, downloads (everything I put on the phone) stored in one partition? If so where
When I factory reset in recovery what partitions is that wiping
At this point the only thing I know is /system which is where the actual OS itself is stored.
Any explanation would be appreciated!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
/data
/data/app
/data/user
/data/media...
You can see all these folders and what they contain via something like Root Explorer. Then install an app or modify its settings, you'll easily see its date/time properties get changed.
Or you can use ES Explorer, every time a new folder gets created, ES notifies you. After a while, it gets annoying but it's good to be able to observe in the beginning.