It figures that it would be my #1 favorite smartphone that I manage to drop face down on the pavement (are these things like buttered toast?) and crack the screen (I thought it was just too nice-looking a phone to hide with a cover :crying. Anyway, I'll be taking it to a local repair shop this week and was wondering what to do before turning over a phone to one of these places since I've never been here before.
I guess the obvious things to do would be to back up data from any apps that have only local storage; take screen shots of my home screens (and maybe launcher) so I can set them up the same way again; remove the SIM card; and then do a factory reset to wipe everything.
Anything I've missed?
rochrunner said:
It figures that it would be my #1 favorite smartphone that I manage to drop face down on the pavement (are these things like buttered toast?) and crack the screen (I thought it was just too nice-looking a phone to hide with a cover :crying. Anyway, I'll be taking it to a local repair shop this week and was wondering what to do before turning over a phone to one of these places since I've never been here before.
I guess the obvious things to do would be to back up data from any apps that have only local storage; take screen shots of my home screens (and maybe launcher) so I can set them up the same way again; remove the SIM card; and then do a factory reset to wipe everything.
Anything I've missed?
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If you have a custom recovery just make a nandroid backup and copy it to your computer/elsewhere. When you get it back just restore. Of course back up your internal storage, too.
Letharqy said:
If you have a custom recovery just make a nandroid backup and copy it to your computer/elsewhere. When you get it back just restore. Of course back up your internal storage, too.
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Exactly, why take screenshots when you have backup and restore?
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Hello everyone,
My phone fell out of my pocket while sitting on my chair. It was two feet from the floor and landed on carpet. No big deal or so I thought. The back fell off and the battery popped off. No dents, no scratches, no visible marks. I put the battery back in and turned back on. Next thing you know, I am getting a ton of force closes on a variety of things including keyboard process, core process, frame work process, etc. I tried reinstalling my rom via clockwork mod but doesn't help. I really don't want to format my phone and lose everything. Any suggestions?
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Hello everyone,
My phone fell out of my pocket while sitting on my chair. It was two feet from the floor and landed on carpet. No big deal or so I thought. The back fell off and the battery popped off. No dents, no scratches, no visible marks. I put the battery back in and turned back on. Next thing you know, I am getting a ton of force closes on a variety of things including keyboard process, core process, frame work process, etc. I tried reinstalling my rom via clockwork mod but doesn't help. I really don't want to format my phone and lose everything. Any suggestions?
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battery pulls (what basically happened there) while the phone is on and running can do that... unless anyone else knows an easy fix you may have to wipe and reflash, you can always make backups in Titanium Backup app, export a contact list to your sd card or google account, and if you're running the latest CWM and not using a GB rom you can backup/restore through there (though I wouldn't suggest it now since something got corrupted, only for future reference)
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Got my Desire S back from repair with a mainboard replacement. Replaced as updating multiple apps seems to have fired it. Under warranty.
New board is noticeably cooler when running for hours on WIFI.
What I notice is they've also formatted the MMC card, and I can only see 4 basic folders there, all empty.
I don't see a backup image etc.
Is this correct?
If I have to hard reset, is there a hidden image on there somewhere, or do I have to get one etc.
It's not rooted and s-on, where it will stay due to warranty, or at least until I am sure the Mainboard can stand up to a lot of multitasking etc.
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DDesires said:
Got my Desire S back from repair with a mainboard replacement. Replaced as updating multiple apps seems to have fired it. Under warranty.
New board is noticeably cooler when running for hours on WIFI.
What I notice is they've also formatted the MMC card, and I can only see 4 basic folders there, all empty.
I don't see a backup image etc.
Is this correct?
If I have to hard reset, is there a hidden image on there somewhere, or do I have to get one etc.
It's not rooted and s-on, where it will stay due to warranty, or at least until I am sure the Mainboard can stand up to a lot of multitasking etc.
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The only reason that a backup image would have existed on you MMC is if you S-OFF'd and rooted your phone and previously took a Nandroid backup using either CWM recovery or ROM manager.
The fact that one doesn't exist now isn't a problem, as if your intending on keeping your warranty in tact you will no longer be able to take any further backups and wouldn't have the permissions to restore any previous/old backups
you can ultimately format your MMC card and android will re-create any files of directories that it needs to use on it.
This is correct - So stop worrying!
Thanks for that, just the info I was looking for. Didn't quite get that HTC didn't store a backup image on the MMC card before
i understand that you have pull out an in the battery and you fried your emmc chip
how much cost the reparation? did the guaranty cover the cost?
because i have the same problem but i hat gone a little further whit the flashing and rooming stuff.
Hey guys. SO, I recently dropped my Note II. The screen shattered, but was entirely responsive to touch input and functioned normally (besides shards of glass splintering into my fingers heh) I kept telling myself I would get it fixed "soon" and before I did, it dropped again. This time the screen was not displaying properly and no longer responded to touch except on the notification bar. I pulled the battery and restarted the phone. The screen is no longer lighting up or displaying anything but the phone still boots up as I can hear the startup sounds and flood of incoming text messages.
I previously rooted my phone, left the stock rom on....
Now my intent is to adb into the phone via laptop and usb. and making a "clockwork recovery style image" and then hopefully use an emulator to run the image to extract my data from it. Looking for any guidance or suggestions to get my data back from the device.
If not possible even a backup on the internal drive would be wonderful. Would I be able to make an image of this device and then flash it onto another note 2 to access my saved information?
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Hey guys. SO, I recently dropped my Note II. The screen shattered, but was entirely responsive to touch input and functioned normally (besides shards of glass splintering into my fingers heh) I kept telling myself I would get it fixed "soon" and before I did, it dropped again. This time the screen was not displaying properly and no longer responded to touch except on the notification bar. I pulled the battery and restarted the phone. The screen is no longer lighting up or displaying anything but the phone still boots up as I can hear the startup sounds and flood of incoming text messages.
I previously rooted my phone, left the stock rom on....
Now my intent is to adb into the phone via laptop and USB. and making a "clockwork recovery style image" and then hopefully use an emulator to run the image to extract my data from it. Looking for any guidance or suggestions to get my data back from the device.
If not possible even a backup on the internal drive would be wonderful. Would I be able to make an image of this device and then flash it onto another note 2 to access my saved information?
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looks like you broke your digitizer (second time you dropped it), you could just replace the entire lcd and screen instead of a new note, not too hard just be careful you don't break anything in it, that can be big bill thought. did a quick search and on eBay looks around $190 and up... which is redonkulous. i think you could cook your own ROM and get all your data back by doing a adb/system/pull if you wanted a new note 2.
Trozzul said:
looks like you broke your digitizer (second time you dropped it), you could just replace the entire lcd and screen instead of a new note, not too hard just be careful you don't break anything in it, that can be big bill thought. did a quick search and on eBay looks around $190 and up... which is redonkulous. i think you could cook your own ROM and get all your data back by doing a adb/system/pull if you wanted a new note 2.
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Yes I wanted to replace the broken digitized rather than buy a second note. I was going to use a friends Note II, if I can pull all of the data off. You say adb/system/pull, or do you mean pull the system folder using adb? If you are aware of one would you link me a guide on adb? It's been some while since using the commands. Thank you for your reply.
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Yes I wanted to replace the broken digitized rather than buy a second note. I was going to use a friends Note II, if I can pull all of the data off. You say adb/system/pull, or do you mean pull the system folder using adb? If you are aware of one would you link me a guide on adb? It's been some while since using the commands. Thank you for your reply.
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its been awful while since i used adb i wouldn't remember i would try to look it up .
Phone was on stamina mode for the rest of the night, using the picture button to take quick snaps and put it back in my pocket. Next thing I knew, my phone reset and asked me to choose a language.. it ended up wiping all data, pics, etc. and the SD-Card completely formatted as well.
Unfortunately didn't back up all of my pictures... but will be more conscious about backing up data next time.
My question is, although it's not Xperia Z3 specific, what could've caused the auto-factory reset to occur? Corrupted SD card? Corrupted files?
Never heard this happen. Are you sure someone/you did not use device manager from a computer to remote erase accidentally?
Yes, checked the activity and no phone wipes were recorded.
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Yes, checked the activity and no phone wipes were recorded.
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Must have somehow gotten to the factory reset menu on the phone by accident. Did you lock it before putting in pants?
Definitely
I was abusing that physical camera button on the phone a lot, I'm thinking it would be crapped out because of that. There is definitely a bit of lag when you use it, especially when you have a lock screen enabled.
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I was abusing that physical camera button on the phone a lot, I'm thinking it would be crapped out because of that. There is definitely a bit of lag when you use it, especially when you have a lock screen enabled.
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Lag might be due to triple tap to zoom, some Z3s camewith it enabled by default, mine was off.
five5outh said:
Phone was on stamina mode for the rest of the night, using the picture button to take quick snaps and put it back in my pocket. Next thing I knew, my phone reset and asked me to choose a language.. it ended up wiping all data, pics, etc. and the SD-Card completely formatted as well.
Unfortunately didn't back up all of my pictures... but will be more conscious about backing up data next time.
My question is, although it's not Xperia Z3 specific, what could've caused the auto-factory reset to occur? Corrupted SD card? Corrupted files?
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Hi,
I've had the same problem with my Z3. Had it a couple 1-2 week after rls and auto factory reset happend every 3-4 day. Damn annoying . I've been using my old S4 while it is at some repair thing. Got it back now and they say it's nothing wrong with it.
Anyone know why this happends?
Scorpiux said:
Hi,
I've had the same problem with my Z3. Had it a couple 1-2 week after rls and auto factory reset happend every 3-4 day. Damn annoying . I've been using my old S4 while it is at some repair thing. Got it back now and they say it's nothing wrong with it.
Anyone know why this happends?
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Same thing happened to me as well. Whats worse is i had auto pic backup running but considering i had been on a cruise it disnt back anything up. Doubly worse my sdcard was encrypted so i dont think there is a way to recover. If anyone has an idea how to recover lwt me know. I have lots of kid pictures i want back!
BTW mine happened coming out of ultra power saving mode.
Heya folks,
Just thought of sharing some funny story and also get a quick advice.
Today, i squeeze my samsung s9+ into the lawn chair cup holder. Whilst, doing that it actually brought android into the bootloader mode. tsk tsk.. smh.
When i took out the phone, it actually moves to factory reset mode, and acknowledge.
Long and behold... i watch my phone reboot, and next screen says erasing...
I was panic and naturally was wanting to remove cover to remove battery... but shucks!!! its samsung.
Now, that's my story...
I'm here to seek any advice anyone have. What is the best way to recover photos that is on the internal memory?
I just need to recover last 4 months of photos. I am willing to try anything. I have not install much app in the phone yet either.
It is a samsung s9+, with android v2.5 One UI.
Should i root it, and use some desktop software to recover?
is there any app on the phone to recover the internal memory?
Hope to hear from everyone!
AmazingTrans said:
Heya folks,
Just thought of sharing some funny story and also get a quick advice.
Today, i squeeze my samsung s9+ into the lawn chair cup holder. Whilst, doing that it actually brought android into the bootloader mode. tsk tsk.. smh.
When i took out the phone, it actually moves to factory reset mode, and acknowledge.
Long and behold... i watch my phone reboot, and next screen says erasing...
I was panic and naturally was wanting to remove cover to remove battery... but shucks!!! its samsung.
Now, that's my story...
I'm here to seek any advice anyone have. What is the best way to recover photos that is on the internal memory?
I just need to recover last 4 months of photos. I am willing to try anything. I have not install much app in the phone yet either.
It is a samsung s9+, with android v2.5 One UI.
Should i root it, and use some desktop software to recover?
is there any app on the phone to recover the internal memory?
Hope to hear from everyone!
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Well thats an amusing situation if ive heard one XD
Yep your device booted to recovery after the key combination was held.
Try using EaseUS MobiSaver app.
Or
Look if google had backed up anything just in case.
Also you might not recovery depending on how long ago you reset. The faster you restore the better. As the data can get overwritten after some time.
P.S if ya removed ya battery even if it was samsung, you would have broken your phone as the data would be half erased.
If you do recovery anything all file structure has been completely lost. You can search by file type but that's all. Jpeg are disassociated from there Exif data, no pic number (randomly generated numbers), no time stamp, nothing just the jpeg.
Hundreds of them in a juxtaposed mess.
That's best case scenario, if not already overwritten and if you can access internal memory to retrieve the data.
It's not a pretty picture.
Use the Samsung launcher, it's fast, very stable and uses little battery.
A 3rd party launcher boot looped my Note 10+ twice, back to back over a year ago. 3rd party launchers are one of the best ways to crash a stock Samsung Android OS... normally that's extremely hard to do.