Pantech 8010 died while on car charger.
Will not power up. Tried all available suggestions without success.
Cannot be seen by PC if unable to power up.
Need Contacts and SMS messages from phone.
"Can't be done" not acceptable "answer".
Took to shops and manufacturer who were not willing or able to recover data.
Need DIY or super cheap method due to budget constraints.
Please, Working answers only! Idle banter wastes everybody's time.
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Hello
My phone is an 02 XDA (HTC POLARIS) - it has a great value to me in terms of contacts, texts etc, so much so that I cant really afford to lose them.
My mobile battery ran out whilst I was on a call. When I plugged it in again and went to turn the phone on;
It flashes on the blue O2 screen
Then
Flashes on to the Windows mobile screen.
Then
The 'In-call' volume screen appears on the Windows Mobile screen and nothing else happens - it is frozen, stuck, wont go any further - I have asked it nicely to be good, turned it on/off a million times, cried and contemplated life without my contacts and couldn't cope without a stiff drink.
O2 will gladly send it off to restore it to factory default, just as if it were new out of the box with all my contacts and texts gone forever I have checked the forum and I reckon I could more than likely do this myself.
I have tried the battery out overnight and i have tried any number of 'soft' reset's, but without any move or difference.
BUT
THERE MUST BE A GENIUS OUT THERE IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD WHO CAN HELP ME GET PAST THE SCREEN AND RETAIN MY CONTACTS or JUST ALLOW ME TO GET THE TEXTS N CONTACTS AND SOD THE PHONE.
Whilst I cannot offer a substantial reward, you will save me from a miserable few months reconciling my contacts and I will be forever grateful - I can offer you the very best in financial Advice for free and I will buy you a pint in NW England or fax you one anywhere else in the world.
Thanks for reading and if you can help, that would be SUPERB.
Cheers
Jeff Hill
PS - I would quote my number, but I cant turn my phone on.....grrrrrr
Howdy folks,
This isn't smartphone question, but many people here seem to be very smart and I'm hoping that someone can help. Here's my situation: A coworker has a pending legal matter with a ex-significant other. Part of the evidence includes text messages that were sent to her. However, her old phone has since "broken." The only key that works is the red button. It powers on, powers off, but will do nothing else.
This is a Nokia phone, I'm not sure the model number but relatively recent. My question: Where are the text messages stored? I pulled the SD card and there's nothing on it. I can plug in the phone to a USB port on my computer, but all the folders that I can access via that method are just songs or vids she loaded. Are the messages stored on the SIM? Would putting the sim into a new phone allow us to access those messages? Or is this something that she needs to subpoena the service provider to get? I'm very un-knowledgeable on this to any help you can give would be appreciated.
Again, sorry to ask an off topic question, but I do hope someone can help.
text messages are usually stored either on the phone's internal chip (default) or the sim card. The best way in my opinion is somehow "remotely control" the phone (my mobiler has a similar function for windows mobile), or swap the hardware of an identical phone so you can get the phone working (dangerous)
Thanks Danni... I'm not sure of any software like "MyMobiler" for non-smartphones though.
Hi all -
I bought an HTC Touch pro Sprint phone, brand new, original and from the store and have had it for 3.5 years. Today, it froze and was running low on battery. I did a soft re-set with the stylus, something I've done many times over the years and I set the phone to recharge. It instead re-booted and wiped out all my data - contacts, text messages, voice mails, note files, pictures, apps and software I had downloaded. The phone restarted from scratch. It runs windows 6.1. How may I retrieve this data?
I am extremely upset as this information is essential and irreplaceable. I spoke to a computer data retrieving specialist who said it is possible to retrieve this information and not to use my phone till I get help. My phone is also my source of internet access at this moment. I am stranded and writing from a store. I know of this brilliant site - your site - from before, though I've not posted here before. If you can help me, I'd be so, so, so grateful. Thank you!
First of all don't put any data on your phone it will only write over the maybe recoverable space of your deleted files.
I dont know very much about your phone but if your able too connect it on USB as mass storage there is a chance you could recover it with:
Recuva
As i am a newby to these forums i can't post any links so just google recuva and than click the first link you'l get ..
Good luck..
I JUST got a replacement LG v20 (like literally sent back my first V20 on thursday) for a v20 that wasn't quick charging. And I left it on top of a car when pulling out of a gas station and it fell off and promptly got run over. First cellphone I've ever actually broken or even cracked a screen on. So annoying.
Anyway, the phone was still working using my bluetooth headset but I didn't realize and the battery died shortly after. I'd like to try and backup a few things on the phone before switching over to my insurance replacement (specifically let Whatsapp backup automatically run at 3am, backup SMS messages and backup call log) but I have the PIN required on restart option set. Everything I find online about getting an android phone unlocked with a broken screen seems to be talking about the screenlock and not the PIN on restart feature. Before I go buy an OTG breakout cable to use a mouse and HDMI monitor will that even work with PIN on restart? Can I connect to the phone with ADB before it actually boots into android (and set the USB connection as something other than only charge; not even sure I've set USB debugging yet since the phone is so new for me)?
It won't be the end of the world if I can't get into the broken phone, my photos are automatically backed up to Google drive, all my contacts, emails, tasks, calendar etc are cloud based (exchange server or gmail). Really the only thing I'd lose would be SMS's since last week, whatsapp since last backup, and my call log. But that would be really annoying to my pseudo OCD; I have an uninterrupted record of every text message I've ever gotten since treo in 2004.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Hello,
The situation is faced by lots of people and this is really very irritating. But I would like to tell you that there are ways to unlock your Android phone with broken screen. Maybe you are not aware of this fact but actually, you can unlock your phone without typing password on phone. The only possible way is by using a professional tool like Android Unlock. This is a great utility that helps to unlock any device whether its dead or broken, whether its locked with PIN, fingerprint, face lock, password etc. This tool is just amazing as it effectively works to unlock Android phone with broken screen.
Hi
To what extent can employers control an android company phone? I'm sure they could just disable the SIM, but will they be able to:
access the device storage (whether internal or external)?
access call logs etc. and contacts? I guess they'd be able to view texts via the phone company?
disable the phone remotely so that it doesn't turn on?
Thanks for any advice
BLu8i said:
Hi
To what extent can employers control an android company phone? I'm sure they could just disable the SIM, but will they be able to:
access the device storage (whether internal or external)?
access call logs etc. and contacts? I guess they'd be able to view texts via the phone company?
disable the phone remotely so that it doesn't turn on?
Thanks for any advice
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Depends on the MDM the IT department is using. I use Google Admin Console. I can remotely wipe and lock my company-owned Android devices. GAC has started playing nicely with Apple devices, so I can do the same to iOS device we own, too. Seeing files, though? Yeah, if they're using some beefy MDM and it has full device permissions, anything goes if it's set up that way. But then again, if it's a company-owned device, there's no expectation of privacy, and all data on the device is the company's.
BLu8i said:
Hi
To what extent can employers control an android company phone? I'm sure they could just disable the SIM, but will they be able to:
access the device storage (whether internal or external)?
access call logs etc. and contacts? I guess they'd be able to view texts via the phone company?
disable the phone remotely so that it doesn't turn on?
Thanks for any advice
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Best bet, just don't use it for anything that you want to keep to yourself.
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Thanks guys.
I'm not sure if it's related, but my old company phone has recently decided not to turn on. I thought it might be something that was controlled by previous employer. Data hasn't been switched on, so can they actually disable the phone via the sim?
As I said, the phone did not want to switch on, so I decided to charge it for some time. Sometimes, it would power on the splash screen, but just does not go any further. It doesn't boot but just sits on the splash screen for over an hour. I was thinking of buying a replacement battery, but it seems it might not have any effect?
Perhaps it's something to do with the phone's IC on its way out?
I used to work for a major phone carrier as a store manager. And if we wanted our work email on our personal devices we had to grant it admin rights on our device and agree to a long list of things that no one read. I however read it and it literally said if they ever thought my device was comprised they'd remote wipe it without even telling me.
I straight up did not have my work email on my device and I was always taking flack from supervisors that I didn't respond to their emails unless I was in my office. And I always told them why and finally one day I received an email saying that as of X date (like a week later) that no employee could have their work email on a personal device.
I laughed my ass off at everyone who complained about it and asked several bosses what happened... Apparently some really high up dude had his phone get wiped and he lost a ton of pictures of his kids that weren't in the cloud and he raged at IT about it and they changed email permissions
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