[Q] restored to factory data, lost private mode stuff? - Sprint Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Does anyone know how to get this back? I had work files in there and I cannot find them!!!!!!
I just assumed the stuff would be on my sd card....

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jlandry287 said:
Does anyone know how to get this back? I had work files in there and I cannot find them!!!!!!
I just assumed the stuff would be on my sd card....
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Hi,
Same issue, I had hidden some files and forgot about them with private mode, then I rooted and can't get them back. I have the S5 Verizon Variant. I don't care about getting private mode to work again, just about getting the files back. I tried a factory reset, no luck. Private mode still won't work. If anyone knows where these files are hidden it would be much appreciated.

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factory restored. any way to get pics back

I did a factory restore on my Infinity and loss all pics and videos. I know.... should have copied to sd card. anyway I have some priceless pictures and would love to get them back. Tried couple of android recovering tools like remo but none are compatible with the infinity. unlocking and rooting did not do the trick. please help
boyo22 said:
I did a factory restore on my Infinity and loss all pics and videos. I know.... should have copied to sd card. anyway I have some priceless pictures and would love to get them back. Tried couple of android recovering tools like remo but none are compatible with the infinity. unlocking and rooting did not do the trick. please help
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Try this tool, Hexamob Recovery Lite from the market, it works if you only delete data but I never try if you restore data over on top of it, but not hurt to try, just make sure your source is internal and your restore destination is sdcard. Good luck.
Which tool?
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av4tar said:
Which tool?
Sent from my Xperia T
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Hexamob Recovery Lite from the market.
Found it, some reason the market didn't want to show me it :s Google hates me
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Hexamob not working. Any other suggestions
Unfortunately, if you perform a device wipe on the tablet, there is no way to get the wiped data back. The recovery apps that see you around might work if the data is deleted manually by the user, but it will not recover anything lost via WIPE or factory restore.

Recovering a deleted video from Note 5

Hello there,
Unfortunately I deleted an important video from my Verizon note 5. I been trying to recover the video for two days but no luck. I tried Samsung Data recovery, dr.fone, Recuva, and many different software. I came to the conclusion it's not possible without rooting my device which I would if I know how,but from what I read there was no successful way to root the Verizon version. Any idea, or a recommendation would be really appreciated.
Thank you!!
John774 said:
Hello there,
Unfortunately I deleted an important video from my Verizon note 5. I been trying to recover the video for two days but no luck. I tried Samsung Data recovery, dr.fone, Recuva, and many different software. I came to the conclusion it's not possible without rooting my device which I would if I know how,but from what I read there was no successful way to root the Verizon version. Any idea, or a recommendation would be really appreciated.
Thank you!!
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It's probably to late without having some sophisticated software recovery tools and taking the phone apart.. I guess if it was mine, I'd create a backup of everything I needed and then do a factory reset and when it asks to restore thing's after the reset tap yes and hope that it did back it up to your Google account and save it but I really think it's to late. Make sure you sign back in with the correct(same) Google account. Before doing any factory reset make sure OEM unlock is ENABLED in developer settings!!
MrMike2182 said:
It's probably to late without having some sophisticated software recovery tools and taking the phone apart.. I guess if it was mine, I'd create a backup of everything I needed and then do a factory reset and when it asks to restore thing's after the reset tap yes and hope that it did back it up to your Google account and save it but I really think it's to late. Make sure you sign back in with the correct(same) Google account. Before doing any factory reset make sure OEM unlock is ENABLED in developer settings!!
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Thanks for the replay, why is it too late? I used the phone for one day after the accidental delete and have been using another phone ever scene.
John774 said:
Thanks for the replay, why is it too late? I used the phone for one day after the accidental delete and have been using another phone ever scene.
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It's could be to late because the memory blocks that it was stored on could have been overwritten already by now and that makes it to late it's gone and something else is in it's place.. That's why I said maybe your Google account might have backed it up so you can email Google and see what they say about it..
MrMike2182 said:
It's probably to late without having some sophisticated software recovery tools and taking the phone apart.. I guess if it was mine, I'd create a backup of everything I needed and then do a factory reset and when it asks to restore thing's after the reset tap yes and hope that it did back it up to your Google account and save it but I really think it's to late. Make sure you sign back in with the correct(same) Google account. Before doing any factory reset make sure OEM unlock is ENABLED in developer settings!!
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MrMike2182 said:
It's could be to late because the memory blocks that it was stored on could have been overwritten already by now and that makes it to late it's gone and something else is in it's place.. That's why I said maybe your Google account might have backed it up so you can email Google and see what they say about it..
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Thanks a lot for your try to help. It was not backed to the cloud for sure because it was deleted right after it was recorded. Do you think there is still any chance to recover it by the factory rest method? Also, Is there any software I can purchase to help ?
John774 said:
Thanks a lot for your try to help. It was not backed to the cloud for sure because it was deleted right after it was recorded. Do you think there is still any chance to recover it by the factory rest method? Also, Is there any software I can purchase to help ?
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Probably not.. You can ask around but a lot of the software or apps people sell don't do what they say they can do but I would search around and try to read reviews on some of the applications because other people will tell you whether they've had any luck or not but I would look around before the factory reset because if you do that you're definitely overwriting the memory blocks for sure!!
Still looking for some way to recover the file but no luck. Didn't use the phone ever since.
I wonder if you have set up to sync before. If yes, maybe you can check out in the trash of Google Drive. It is allowed to recover deleted data within 60 days. Or you can try FORecovery to recover your data, which I have used before. As I know, it's have nothing to do with device version while the software identifying and rooting your phone. Anyway, just take a try. Hope this is not too late for you.
Nanoacb said:
I wonder if you have set up to sync before. If yes, maybe you can check out in the trash of Google Drive. It is allowed to recover deleted data within 60 days. Or you can try FORecovery to recover your data, which I have used before. As I know, it's have nothing to do with device version while the software identifying and rooting your phone. Anyway, just take a try. Hope this is not too late for you.
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Thanks for your reply. For Recovery could not recover the files as it couldn't root the device.
John774 said:
Thanks for your reply. For Recovery could not recover the files as it couldn't root the device.
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If the video is super important and you absolutely have to have it you should take it a recovery specialist and don't download or put anything else on the phone because it can overwrite the memory blocks.. Usually when you delete something the system just marks the memory blocks as reusable and able to be overwritten but if you don't do anything to cause it to be overwritten it's possible that it's still just sitting in the memory blocks and you just can't see it..

copy and paste suddenly stopped working

Hello, I'm using the stock rooted rom on my s7 and suddenly the copy and paste function stopped working, I can copy and paste things that I'm writing but I can't copy links, Tweets posts so I can share, can't cope messages sent to me, I can copy only what I'm writing, anyone has a solution?
Lipeao said:
Hello, I'm using the stock rooted rom on my s7 and suddenly the copy and paste function stopped working, I can copy and paste things that I'm writing but I can't copy links, Tweets posts so I can share, can't cope messages sent to me, I can copy only what I'm writing, anyone has a solution?
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what happens when you long press something you want to copy? does it give you the option to copy to clipboard? have you cleared your clipboard ever?
youdoofus said:
what happens when you long press something you want to copy? does it give you the option to copy to clipboard? have you cleared your clipboard ever?
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When I select text from the Samsung internet, Google Chrome, Samsung notes texts like that which you can select words I can copy without any problem, but I can't copy things that I can't select, for example if I'm on Instagram and I tap on the menu of a photo and select to copy the link it doesn't copy, if I go to a tweet and select to copy the link or the tweet itself I can't copy, so basically I can copy only the type of texts that I can select the words
Lipeao said:
When I select text from the Samsung internet, Google Chrome, Samsung notes texts like that which you can select words I can copy without any problem, but I can't copy things that I can't select, for example if I'm on Instagram and I tap on the menu of a photo and select to copy the link it doesn't copy, if I go to a tweet and select to copy the link or the tweet itself I can't copy, so basically I can copy only the type of texts that I can select the words
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thats an odd symptom. can you wipe the dalvik cache in recovery? just the dalvik tho, nothing else
youdoofus said:
thats an odd symptom. can you wipe the dalvik cache in recovery? just the dalvik tho, nothing else
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Wiped the cache using the original download mode because I didn't install the twrp yet but it didn't work
Lipeao said:
Wiped the cache using the original download mode because I didn't install the twrp yet but it didn't work
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how are you rooted without TWRP?
youdoofus said:
how are you rooted without TWRP?
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I did it thru Odin, I was having a problem with bootlop trying to install thru the normal method
Lipeao said:
I did it thru Odin, I was having a problem with bootlop trying to install thru the normal method
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might be related? have you nuked it and Odin installed the factory firmware since the problem arose?
youdoofus said:
might be related? have you nuked it and Odin installed the factory firmware since the problem arose?
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Not related because it was working everything just fine, it started to happen recently, I'm downloading the most recently firmware and will try to update thru Odin with home_csc to not lose the data
Lipeao said:
Not related because it was working everything just fine, it started to happen recently, I'm downloading the most recently firmware and will try to update thru Odin with home_csc to not lose the data
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good deal, youre already ahead of the game then. Flash it with the HOME_CSC and let us know what happens
youdoofus said:
good deal, youre already ahead of the game then. Flash it with the HOME_CSC and let us know what happens
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Tried to flash thru home_csc but got stuck in the Samsung logo so I had to flash it with factory reset with normal Csc, after I was pissed and restored everything I figured what the problem is, when you root you lose the secret mode on Samsung internet but I discovered a line on build.pro that you can change to have it back "r.config.knox=v30" when you change to 00 you have to function back, but after did it tried to copy again and stopped working and when I changed back to v30 it was working again, so I guess I'll stay without the secret mode
Lipeao said:
Tried to flash thru home_csc but got stuck in the Samsung logo so I had to flash it with factory reset with normal Csc, after I was pissed and restored everything I figured what the problem is, when you root you lose the secret mode on Samsung internet but I discovered a line on build.pro that you can change to have it back "r.config.knox=v30" when you change to 00 you have to function back, but after did it tried to copy again and stopped working and when I changed back to v30 it was working again, so I guess I'll stay without the secret mode
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oh crap, sorry you had to go thru that process unnecessarily man. finding out what was causing it is awesome by itself but figuring out that modding the build.prop to get it working is very awesome! nice work!
youdoofus said:
oh crap, sorry you had to go thru that process unnecessarily man. finding out what was causing it is awesome by itself but figuring out that modding the build.prop to get it working is very awesome! nice work!
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Yup , thanks for all the help too bro, appreciate it
Lipeao said:
Tried to flash thru home_csc but got stuck in the Samsung logo so I had to flash it with factory reset with normal Csc, after I was pissed and restored everything I figured what the problem is, when you root you lose the secret mode on Samsung internet but I discovered a line on build.pro that you can change to have it back "r.config.knox=v30" when you change to 00 you have to function back, but after did it tried to copy again and stopped working and when I changed back to v30 it was working again, so I guess I'll stay without the secret mode
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Wow what a genius you are, i tried searching hours in internet how to fix this copy paste bug but none solution worked. I actually did that ro.config 00 to fix secret mode but ended up clipboard not storing text but finally reversing that code made clipboard working again. Thanks man

Tried to update, now stuck. Failed to mount data

Is someone able to help me? I messed up in a big way. Long story short, I cannot seem to get the DATA partition back on my phone. I did read the part about encryption but was so excited I (Yes, confirmed dummy) was thinking that it meant android encryption and not simply lockscreen/password.
My passcode is correct, but the data is corrupted. I cannot repair the Data partition, nor can select it in TWRP. My computer no longer recognizes the phone. My backup somewhat works but not really, since the data part of the backup can't be installed.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I read the entire thread and thought I was prepared but nope. Or do I need to go phone shopping?
Peeptastic said:
Is someone able to help me? I messed up in a big way. Long story short, I cannot seem to get the DATA partition back on my phone. I did read the part about encryption but was so excited I (Yes, confirmed dummy) was thinking that it meant android encryption and not simply lockscreen/password.
My passcode is correct, but the data is corrupted. I cannot repair the Data partition, nor can select it in TWRP. My computer no longer recognizes the phone. My backup somewhat works but not really, since the data part of the backup can't be installed.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I read the entire thread and thought I was prepared but nope. Or do I need to go phone shopping?
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So why not just download the correct ruu for your phone ,,, flash that in download mode and start over ? Or has that been tried already?
It has not been tried. I didn't know what to do. I will try that, thank you. Any other tips or steps? Again, thank you!
Peeptastic said:
It has not been tried. I didn't know what to do. I will try that, thank you. Any other tips or steps? Again, thank you!
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Its pretty straight foward, load the correct ruu on the root of your sd card , rename it to 2pzcimg.zip , boot phone to download mode , press the up volume key when prompted and thats it. hth,, good luck,
Thanks! That worked and it was super super easy.
Peeptastic said:
Thanks! That worked and it was super super easy.
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Glad I could help

Dead Mother's locked Velvet

I searched the forum for this and maybe I missed something but I can't find help anywhere.
My mother recently passed and we're trying to crack open her LG Velvet. She was very secretive about passwords and such and I can't break passed her finger pattern lock screen. Everything I've found says I can wipe her phone clean and it'll be clear but we need in to access her information and photos, we don't know what details she kept on her phone so we desperately need in. Does anyone know a way we can get passed the lock screen without erasing data? We've tried 55 times all the patterns we think she used but it's so far to no avail. We have T-Mobile, of which I called. They can't help so they sent me to LG and they can't help.
PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!!!
Id u can get an custom recovery installed on that go to /Data/system/ and erase all files with lockscreen name on it and it would remove the pattern
Kratos574 said:
Id u can get an custom recovery installed on that go to /Data/system/ and erase all files with lockscreen name on it and it would remove the pattern
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Thanks for the reply. Anyway to keep the info on the phone? I don’t mind it going away but I need stuff off the phone.
rdyzzle89 said:
Thanks for the reply. Anyway to keep the info on the phone? I don’t mind it going away but I need stuff off the phone.
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by the method I told u it doesnt remove any data files
Kratos574 said:
by the method I told u it doesnt remove any data files
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I’ve not done this in some time, any direction you can point me to get a customer recovery on?
Hey you found a way to get past the code without losing data files? My situation is the exact same except it’s my brother, and it’s sooo frustrating!
Copperheadcross said:
Hey you found a way to get past the code without losing data files? My situation is the exact same except it’s my brother, and it’s sooo frustrating!
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Hey there, just saw this message. Nope not yet. Terribly frustrating! Her laptop is locked too.
Any luck for you yet?

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