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[Q] Is there a way to restore texts backed up from an old Sony Ericsson phone?

I backed them up using Sony Ericsson PC Suite, and they're all (random chars/numbers).txt files along with Queue.cah and folder.dat
Are there any apps which will allow me to restore these? The Android phone is running 4.2.2 Jellybean
Thanks in advance

LooieENG said:
I backed them up using Sony Ericsson PC Suite, and they're all (random chars/numbers).txt files along with Queue.cah and folder.dat
Are there any apps which will allow me to restore these? The Android phone is running 4.2.2 Jellybean
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I don't think you would be able to do this.
All you can do now is restore that backup to that Ericsson phone again and transfer the texts to your current phone via Bluetooth using some app which can send messages as .txt files.

LooieENG said:
I backed them up using Sony Ericsson PC Suite, and they're all (random chars/numbers).txt files along with Queue.cah and folder.dat
Are there any apps which will allow me to restore these? The Android phone is running 4.2.2 Jellybean
Thanks in advance
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check with your carrier. i hear that some of them keep a text log of the last thirty days.
sorry there is no app or trick to recover deleted messages.
i encourage you to install sms backup, it backs up your text messages and stores them for you. so the same problem wont happen. cheers mate

You can try install an app names SMS Backup & restore
first copy thoose backuped files to ext storage
open it and choose restore > Restore sms
it will open a directory and then you can choose which files to restore
press thanks button if it helped
It helps me a lit

GokulNC said:
I don't think you would be able to do this.
All you can do now is restore that backup to that Ericsson phone again and transfer the texts to your current phone via Bluetooth using some app which can send messages as .txt files.
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Phurkus said:
check with your carrier. i hear that some of them keep a text log of the last thirty days.
sorry there is no app or trick to recover deleted messages.
i encourage you to install sms backup, it backs up your text messages and stores them for you. so the same problem wont happen. cheers mate
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ax3n5a said:
You can try install an app names SMS Backup & restore
first copy thoose backuped files to ext storage
open it and choose restore > Restore sms
it will open a directory and then you can choose which files to restore
press thanks button if it helped
It helps me a lit
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Phurkus said:
check with your carrier. i hear that some of them keep a text log of the last thirty days.
sorry there is no app or trick to recover deleted messages.
i encourage you to install sms backup, it backs up your text messages and stores them for you. so the same problem wont happen. cheers mate
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ax3n5a said:
You can try install an app names SMS Backup & restore
first copy thoose backuped files to ext storage
open it and choose restore > Restore sms
it will open a directory and then you can choose which files to restore
press thanks button if it helped
It helps me a lit
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Thanks guys. I still have the texts. It's for my dad since I bought him an Android phone, but he would like to keep his old texts and his phone doesn't run a modern OS which allows you to backup texts normally (just crappy Sony Ericsson software)
I didn't think about trying with Bluetooth though, I will see if it's an option
Thanks.

[Completed] Helium backup app will be the end of me (and plenty others from the sounds of it)

Hello all on xda forums. I am new here and need some help restoring my phone. I was rooted on 4.2 Kitkat and decided to upgrade to 5.0 lolipop on my Galaxy S4 Active (GT-I9295). I made the mistake of using helium to backup my apps and now can not restore my apps. When I look in the app folders on my PC there are no files in the folders which makes it impossible to use the server client. I backed up the full app on helium so I would assume that there would be some files there. I've heard some people say that you have to re-install all of your apps and then restore the data. I have really slow internet and would like to avoid this method if possible. Let me know if you need more information. (Cant upload images since I'm new here sorry about that)

themrgrinch said:
Hello all on xda forums. I am new here and need some help restoring my phone. I was rooted on 4.2 Kitkat and decided to upgrade to 5.0 lolipop on my Galaxy S4 Active (GT-I9295). I made the mistake of using helium to backup my apps and now can not restore my apps. When I look in the app folders on my PC there are no files in the folders which makes it impossible to use the server client. I backed up the full app on helium so I would assume that there would be some files there. I've heard some people say that you have to re-install all of your apps and then restore the data. I have really slow internet and would like to avoid this method if possible. Let me know if you need more information. (Cant upload images since I'm new here sorry about that)
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Something just happened and I can see my app files........I'm never using helium again. Apparently you need to download an app in order for all the data to show up? (If you cant tell, I have no clue what is going on)

themrgrinch said:
Something just happened and I can see my app files........I'm never using helium again. Apparently you need to download an app in order for all the data to show up? (If you cant tell, I have no clue what is going on)
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I GOT IT! So apparently you need to download an app that you used to have and back up the fresh download in order for your old app data to show up. I had my old carbon folder stored on my SD card (Make sure you also back it up to your PC) when I downloaded the app onto my phone. So glad it works!

Recovery Software for root content - /data/data after factory reset?

Hey guys, I've got a problem. I want to restore my com.whatsapp dir in /data/data/, is that possible somehow? Someone had a similar problem back in 2015 and it is said that he could not restore any, but I have software which backed up all videos and photos, but it didn't recover the files I wanted (because you only could choose things like: doc's, pics, movies etc).
Do you guys have an idea, please?
Or do you guys know how to verify whatsapp? I've been using my old number for 5 years now, 2-3 years ago I got a new sim card. Since then, I've always made a backup with titanium or took the backup from whatsapp itself and if you enter ur number and whatsapp recognized a backup, it didn't have to verify anymore. But it's been changed now somehow, they want to verify one's number and then it'll first try backing up (but I do not have that sim anymore). And unfortunately, titanium backup made a corrupt file exactly with the whatsapp file <_<
Thanks in Advance!

WhatsApp doesn't store your media (received images, videos, chat messages, etc.) in the com.whatsapp folder in /data/data, but it stores it in your internal sdcard itself in a folder named WhatsApp. Take that folder with you and put it in the new phone/tablet where you want to continue your WhatsApp usage.
Verification is straight-forward. All you have to do is do a fresh install of WhatsApp on this new phone/tab of yours and start it. If you had placed this backed-up WhatsApp folder on the internal sdcard of the new device, WhatsApp will ask you and automatically import this media on your new device.
Hope that helps.

Hello, thank you for your help.
As I said, I don't want the media, I want the data of whatsapp. I backed up all the media anyway and the recover programs only recovered the media, but I want to recover the whatsapp data.
"WhatsApp will ask you and automatically import this media on your new device."
That is how it used to be, I think they changed their system. You now first have to verify your number and afterwards, you're importing ur whatsapp backup folder. after verifying to another number (not the one I wanted) my old data has been backuped.

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That is how it used to be, I think they changed their system.
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In that case, I don't think its going to be easy to retrieve the old chat contents easily unless you have WhatsApp running on your older device. If you have it running on the older device by any chance, you can refer to this manual and create a Chat Backup to your Google Drive, so that later you can restore it from Google Drive on your new phone/tablet. I suppose this is the only way to create WhatsApp chat backups going forward.

Well, I flashed another rom, so I don't got any possibility to return to that version. That's why I ask for an recovery software which also can recover root files. I didn't think it would be so hard to find, because there are some which recovery plenty of other files, I just needed one which includes /data/data folder AND any files, no matter which ending they have (like *.*, where * is a wildcard for any matches), so I hoped someone of you would know any software?

I just needed one which includes /data/data folder AND any files, no matter which ending they have (like *.*, where * is a wildcard for any matches), so I hoped someone of you would know any software?
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What software did you originally use to take the backup? If it was Titanuium Backup, then what went wrong while restoration?
In case you have the actual file system backup of /data/data/com.whatsapp, you can directly try pasting that folder in the new setup using Root Explorer (or similar app) and see whether it works. But of course, you'll need to be rooted on your new setup.

TehEvil said:
Hey guys, I've got a problem. I want to restore my com.whatsapp dir in /data/data/, is that possible somehow? Someone had a similar problem back in 2015 and it is said that he could not restore any, but I have software which backed up all videos and photos, but it didn't recover the files I wanted (because you only could choose things like: doc's, pics, movies etc).
Do you guys have an idea, please?
Or do you guys know how to verify whatsapp? I've been using my old number for 5 years now, 2-3 years ago I got a new sim card. Since then, I've always made a backup with titanium or took the backup from whatsapp itself and if you enter ur number and whatsapp recognized a backup, it didn't have to verify anymore. But it's been changed now somehow, they want to verify one's number and then it'll first try backing up (but I do not have that sim anymore). And unfortunately, titanium backup made a corrupt file exactly with the whatsapp file <_<
Thanks in Advance!
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Maybe GT recovery is the app you are looking for. Basically this app recovers your lost data even after a hard reset by exploiting some resources in the root directory. By this app you can recover the whole folder of your WhatsApp. Just type in the full directory path in the app.
May this help you.

Unfortunately, the exactly the whatsapp backup is a corrupted .rar file, only has 0.0 kb data... @tiger1487 I got root on my phone, but the problem with GT recovery is, that you need the paid version for using it. But tbh, I'm not willing to pay 15e to try if it eventually could recover my needed data, so I'd ask you, if you know another software which is similar to this one? I can't search for one unfortunately, because if you google for it, you just get some to backup a factory image via cwm or twrp or something :x

TehEvil said:
Unfortunately, the exactly the whatsapp backup is a corrupted .rar file, only has 0.0 kb data... @tiger1487 I got root on my phone, but the problem with GT recovery is, that you need the paid version for using it. But tbh, I'm not willing to pay 15e to try if it eventually could recover my needed data, so I'd ask you, if you know another software which is similar to this one? I can't search for one unfortunately, because if you google for it, you just get some to backup a factory image via cwm or twrp or something :x
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I am a new member so i cant send you the link of the all free GT recovery but i can tell you that just type 'GT recovery cracked' in the google search engine. You will get it for free[Tip: If you type 'cracked' in front of any app name on google search, you will get it for free, just look for some trusted website like 'onhax' or 'okhax' or 'crackedapkfull']
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And I forgot to tell that GT recovery is now more updated. Now there is no need to type in the exact path. There is a direct option for Recover WhatsApp. Likewise there are other options too for messenger, call logs, etc if you need it?
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Oh, you were talking of the app, thought of the windows software. The app itself is free, isn't it? I tried the app, it stucks at 0% scanning and I don't think it'll work. Tried different apps, it seems they're only looking for sdcard/whatsapp/database instead of data/data/com.whatsapp so it would be awesome if I could set a path
Thank you very much for your help.

TehEvil said:
Oh, you were talking of the app, thought of the windows software. The app itself is free, isn't it? I tried the app, it stucks at 0% scanning and I don't think it'll work. Tried different apps, it seems they're only looking for sdcard/whatsapp/database instead of data/data/com.whatsapp so it would be awesome if I could set a path[emoji14]
Thank you very much for your help.
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Yes its free...windows version is paid but my app doesn't stuck. Mine one is working perfectly. See that you try some other older versions of the app too. Maybe you downloaded the version that stucks at 0% or something like that.
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tiger1487 said:
Yes its free...windows version is paid but my app doesn't stuck. Mine one is working perfectly. See that you try some other older versions of the app too. Maybe you downloaded the version that stucks at 0% or something like that.
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Sorry for answering late :x
Okay, it seems that my root was broken somehow, but now as it works, the program tells me I am not rooted (now I am for sure!) and wants me to download Kingo root or something. But anyway, I had GBWhatsapp installed on my phone, so I think the app won't help me because it would search for com.whatsapp instead of com.gbwhatsapp (could that be possible?)
I found the app Undeleter, this has some more path search options but unfortunately not one where I can specify my desired path. So, I hope you got one last idea?

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[Help] How do I recover permanently deleted files from Android Mobile phone?

Recently, I have permanently deleted files from my Android device after factory reset and I didn't take any backup. Is there have any possibility to recover my important data without having any backup?

Try EaseUS MobiSaver app.

You can definitely check the local backup of your phone if you have take backup regularly then, you have enabled to restore data from mobile. Sometimes, files have an automatic backup on Google account. So, you can check your Google backup. In case, if you didn't get back lost after the factory reset then, you may also try the Android data recovery tool. There is no guarantee for data recovery by using any program. But if it will possible to recover files then, it will show the preview of deleted data during the free trial edition.

To be honest, the chances of it would entirely depend on how long you have performed the factory reset. If it has not been so long, then you can actually get your data back. Pick a recovery tool that supports your device, it will let you preview the data and restore them.

Sorry for the delayed reply. For the ones who have the same problem, usually it's difficult to recover them back. You can ask for help from pro shop. Pro shop like Dr.fone, EaseUS MobiSaver, Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android, etc. I am not sure they can work well or not. Before that, you need to stop using your phone. Cause data can not be recovered if they are overwritten by new data. And do remember to take backup of your phone usually. It's easy and safe.

I'm in the same seat and I also managed to flash an original rom on a Galaxy S8 on top of that.
Tried trial versions of all the mentioned and some others but they aren't able to detect anything relevant.
At the moment I'm wondering whether to take the loss or hand it in to a professional.
Can they do anything more that the different recovery softwares can't?
(I thought my phone was synced through a cloud app but it turns out it wasn't.)

I have used an app Named "DiskDigger" it worked perfect for me for recovering Pictures.
Have NonRoot-Method and Root Methood

dashti.95 said:
I have used an app Named "DiskDigger" it worked perfect for me for recovering Pictures.
Have NonRoot-Method and Root Methood
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how do i do it?

Sahurley78 said:
how do i do it?
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its easy just download diskdigger on your android device and it have a button to start recovery

I just found this thread on google, I would like to know if anyone knows a way to recover a deleted application data folder inside the "Android/data" folder in the internal storage, either by adb, usb debugging or with some software since they are important data and I have not gotten any solution .
Thanks in advance.

How to recover music files

Hi,
I deleted a large music file and have tried various ways to recover it. I have a G7 Optimo, unrooted. I have the backup function turned on, but don't know if I need to restore the phone to it's original mode to access the backup on Google. Does anyone know if this is what I have to do, or is there an easier way?
Thanks!

If you tried to use data recovery software to help you recover the deleted music file back without backup, you need to root your phone before using it, such as Dr.fone, Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android, phonerescue, etc. If you are not good at that, maybe you can ask for help from pro shop. Good luck to you.

da58 said:
Hi,
I deleted a large music file and have tried various ways to recover it. I have a G7 Optimo, unrooted. I have the backup function turned on, but don't know if I need to restore the phone to it's original mode to access the backup on Google. Does anyone know if this is what I have to do, or is there an easier way?
Thanks!
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Wiped data only can get recovered - if they didn't get overwritten in the meantime - if phone's Android is rooted and you know of digital-forensic softwares what completely can restore the files: just successfully having pulled out of phone the bitwise-copies of the files in question may not help you at all.

nazhai said:
If you tried to use data recovery software to help you recover the deleted music file back without backup, you need to root your phone before using it, such as Dr.fone, Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android, phonerescue, etc. If you are not good at that, maybe you can ask for help from pro shop. Good luck to you.
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I use one of those to unroot the phone, but still can't seem to find them. Doesn't Google store all of my music and contacts if I've got the backup function on? I have Google Drive on my phone, but it ony shows 250 songs when I checked it. I had 1000ish loaded, why aren't the rest showing up in Google Drive? Also, what if I do a factory reset? Last two phones I bought had my music and contacts on them after I set them up. I don't have much on my phone, so don't care if I have to do that. Thanks!

If you have the backup function turned on, it will back up your files automatically. Check around to see if there are any music backup files.