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Flashed phone - need to recover files

Is there any way to recover files from a phone that has been flashed? All photo/file restore programs seem only to restore deleted information from memory cards/hard drives. I need to restore some data from my device itself (T-Mobile Dash). Are there any programs out there that will do this?
Thank you in advance for any help...

I really doubt you can recover from a flashed device. Your best bet is to go back to the old rom and then do a full restore with your backup file, which I'm sure that you have. Then copy all the files/reg settings you need to your sd card. Then flash back to the new rom and install the files/reg settings either manually or with sashimi.

Why don't you backup your files and program .cab's before you flash it? That's the smartest way..

no you cant, you should have taken a back up. But after flashing you cannot recover it.

Thanks for the input. I figured so much. I didnt think I had any files I cared about saved directly on the device. Teaches me to backup my files no matter what....

Pinoccios said:
I know about a program that can recover deleted files not only from cd or sm card, but also from other media types. It is called Advanced File Recovery. I hope this program will help you.
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That program is for windows and not windows mobile.
As far as i know, there is no way to recover data from a flashed mobile.

[Q] Need Help With ROM..

I have a HTC HERO with a 2.1 update and i would like to take the stock UI off of my phone and save it on my computer for safe keeping.. How would i get the rom off of my phone.

Root your phone and do a nandroid right after rooting it. Then take the nandroid folder from your sdcard and save it to your computer. There are other ways but they all require rooting your phone

still nothing on nandroid
no /sdcard/.android_secure found. skipping backup of application on external storage. backing up cache..... no sd-ext found. skipping backup of sd-ext........
thats what it says and i have my computer with a sd card in it and it is rooted but still nothing on nandroid.. ( in recovery )

Do you have an sdcard in your phone? You can't do a back up to your PC. What you can do is pull your system folder to your PC and create an update zip and sign it so you can flash it later.

ok?
yes i have a sd card in my phone. i don't know how to do anything else that you was talking about like signing it and the folder.. bc their is no folder in my sdcard with nandroid label on it.

Not to be mean but you have been on the forums since NOV 2008. You should know the rules by now. This belongs in the Q&A section not here.
I would say and this sounds very stupid tho...format your memory card(of course save everything) then do the Nandroid..sometimes they are picky.
And if you give me a lil bit i will post a link on how to sign and such..i need to get it off my laptop at home. what the guy is talking about is getting a root explorer(like android mate) then going and copying the /system/ onto your Sd card...thats essentially your rom right there anyways. Like i said tho gimme a bit and i will get ya in the direction.
This link should get you in the started direction you need in order to do this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=566235&highlight=Running+ROM+emulator

Do just a plain nandroid backup. Not the one with -ext.

[Q] Error when trying to nandroid backup with CWM

I made a previous clean backup prior to rooting the phone using the Odin method posted by Copperhed. Still running the stock at&t rom.
All was well. I moved the backup file over to my computer hd to free up space on my external sd card. I was tinkering around with different sd cards last night and accidentally formatted my main sd card that I usually use on my phone. No big deal.
I decided to try out some new roms and kernels so I wanted to make a nandroid backup. Instead of using the odin method to install cwm, I downloaded rom manager and flashed clockworkmod recovery.
I formatted the sd card to make sure space wasnt an issue. I clicked on Backup Current ROM, it was given superuser access and the phone rebooted into CWM. I thought this part was automated but it wasnt. Once the phone booted into CWM, it just sat there at the menu system.
No problems, I navigated down to backup and restore, then hit backup. I did some google searching and people have said this version (5.0.2.7) of CWM does not show a progress bar while backing up.
After clicking backup, I get the usual screen of it mounting the card and displaying how much space is free, then saying it is backing up boot image, recovery image, and system.
Takes a long while then just gives me this:
Error while making a backup image of /system!
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Any idea of why this would be happening? I searched around but did not find any solutions. The only core things I have installed on my phone currently is Titanium Backup Pro and SetCPU. The rest are just day to day apps, todolists, camera, games.
I've attached what it looked like below. In case the attachment doesnt work (http://i.imgur.com/2ZIPM.jpg)

Forgot to mention, after rebooting the phone when I get that error, I check the external sd card and see a backup folder, but there are only about 3 files in there, so it makes sense because it failed making a full backup.
I just now tried "back up to internal sd card" and it started working right away.. showing files and progress bar moving.
I guess this works too, I can still move the backup file over to my pc.. but this kind of worries me.. is CWM not seeing my sd card correctly?

Another update..
At the end of the backup run (to internal sd card) I get:
No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.
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When I mentioned formatting the card earlier, I used the phone itself to format it.

I think it has something to do with the variance between the T-Mobile version of CWM we are using on our Skyrockets and what should actually be on the CWM version for the Skyrocket (which still doesn't exist--wtf?! )
Disregard the error message, it's looking for a folder on the T-Mobile version that isn't on the Skyrocket.
If you used the "Backup to Internal SD Card" from CWM you should be fine. I've backed up this way and restored backups without incident.

so if your phone went through a soft brick or something bad happened messing with different roms and such, youre still able to boot into cwm and restore from the backup file that is stored on your internal sd?
i just want to make sure, in the case that we cannot boot from cwm / access internal sd, that we will be able to do so from the external sd.

I don't have a whole lot of faith in our CWM (which was built for a T Mobile variant). I've had a ton of weird messages any time using it and I'm surprised there isn't more talk about it here. I've seen a lot people casually mention the error messages so I know it isn't just me.
I don't know you'd lose the backup if restoring from a soft brick where you'd have to go back to stock first to fix it (never tried it). But I can tell you that if you flash a rom you don't like or doesn't work right you should be able to successfuly restore a backup made in CWM (after wiping data, etc., of course).
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All you have to do is install the rom you had when you made the backup for the data going to the advanced options in backup recovery and restore data only and ready

understood. but in the case that the phone does mess up and for some reason it doesnt read the external sd card, would i still be able to access the internal sd card for my backup with cwm?

Just got my G2SR from ATT. Going through the motion of rooting it following instruction here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526
I also tried to do a backup to external SD and get the same "Error while making a backup image of /system"
I searched around and I tried the instruction here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1472954 by adding clockworkmod/.hidenandroidprogress in both /sdcard and /sdcard/external_sd/
It's still stuck in "backing up system". I have tried reformatting the SD card and perform error checkin on Windows, but that doesn't fix it.
Has anybody back up to the external SD card with CWM successfully?
And how exactly do we back up to the internal "/sdcard". When I go backup, it would complain I don't have an sdcard if I don't have the external SD card.
[update] I am on ClockworkMod Recovery v5.0.2.6 and I don't see any "backup to internal SD' option. Do I need to update my CWM and how do we do that?
Thanks in advance.

[Q] Location of my backup files?please help

Hi to every one.. I just would like to ask the location of my backup files
im using ext4 recovery to back up my stock rom. every time i flash roms i usually clean the every cache and dalvic even ext 3 to 4. now after using different roms,downloading and stalling applications in my Ds. my sd card is currently populated and im planning to reformat it. Just a heads-up for me before doing that. I would like to ask if my backup file(stock rom) is located in my SDcard,since i dont want to take a risk of removing my backup.Hope any body can help me.

Backups will be stored in Sdcard/4ext/backup.. It's just simple like that.
If you were using cwm before, 4ext will save backups in clockworkmod/backup or something like that. I copy backups from Sd card to PC nearly every day but I simply don't know the exact folder names, sorry
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eyahl said:
Backups will be stored in Sdcard/4ext/backup.. It's just simple like that.
If you were using cwm before, 4ext will save backups in clockworkmod/backup or something like that. I copy backups from Sd card to PC nearly every day but I simply don't know the exact folder names, sorry
Sent by my fingers to your head.
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thanks for the headsup..i check if that ext4 folder is present in my sd card..Thanks..

I just ran 4ext but the backup directory is empty when I browse it over USB from my windows7 machine
what gives? I need to save the backup off the card before I repartition it

/sdcard/clockworkmod/Backup/<Backup Name Directory>

[Q] recovering lost files

Help! I know I ran a titanium backup on my phone before resetting it to factory settings but now I can't find the file on my SD card. I swear I backed them up on the SD card but I guess there could be a chance they were only backed up on my phone. Is there a way to recover this file? I just need this one file and some of the data recovery programs that I've seen are $50 or so.