My Moto G is not rooted, and I'm looking to recover photos that were just recently deleted.
All the methods I see for rooting this phone, all say that all data will be factory wiped.
My question is, is there any root method out there, that won't factory reset the phone?
If not, does wiping the phone make recovering those photos near impossible at that point?
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How to unroot my TF without loosing data? I've seen a couple ways to unroot, but both say to wipe data. Is there a way to restore without wiping data? I'd like to get the latest update.
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Hi All,
I did a factory reset on my unrooted Nexus 5 & lost all my videos after doing that.
I am running 5.0 now & the phone functions normally.
I am specifically looking for video files for which I forgot to take a backup.
Any kind of help will be highly appreciated.
Just videos? Or your files and sdcard storage in general?
Just video files.. Everything else was backed up before the factory reset.
Man, sorry to say but I think your videos are gone if you forgot to back them up :/
So a friend of mine recently factory resetted her S7 after she couldn't unlock it. But in doing so she didnt know all her data would be gone. She had tons of photos and videos that she liked and now they are all gone.
Is there a way to recover all that data? Or is it lost forever?
Maybe from Google photos if setup backup. Maybe this is stolen phone, not hers? Anyway only from backup, internal memory is encrypted.
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Oops. At least I wasn't the original bumper lol.
How can you factory reset your phone which the phone is locked up? in TWRP?
You should have made a backup or mount your phone to PC in TWRP before factory resetting.
Hey guys,
I have the LG G Flex 2 (h950 att) on 5.1.1 (V11x). The problem is that.. I erased the storage folder on internal memory while connected to the computer, so that erased all my media data like photos, music, videos, etc. All my apps are ok.
Now, I want to factory reset it but i have a doubt.
The problem is that I rooted my phone as said in this post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/g-flex2/development/root-easy-root-att-flex-2-5-1-1-t3178354
And it rooted well, but now I don't know if I factory reset it from android options, could it brick or somethig? I really need to know, I don't know if the way it was rooted could be a problem.
Thanks!
Hey,
I want to completely wipe my Samsung S6 before I sell it/giver it away, so that when the new user won't find anything when they scan the device for deleted files.
What's the best way to achieve this?
I figured Encrypting my device and doing a factory reset or wipe within TWRP would suffice, but does it? Has anybody achieved a completely clean device and how?
freekystar said:
Hey,
I want to completely wipe my Samsung S6 before I sell it/giver it away, so that when the new user won't find anything when they scan the device for deleted files.
What's the best way to achieve this?
I figured Encrypting my device and doing a factory reset or wipe within TWRP would suffice, but does it? Has anybody achieved a completely clean device and how?
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IShredder works for me.. Or just do it oldschool.. Delete and factory reset. Stuff your phone with crap files to overwrite old files and do that as many times as you feel safe and done.. And if you want to experiment with it try to use some recovery software after to see if you got rid of everything
Horgyboy said:
IShredder works for me.. Or just do it oldschool.. Delete and factory reset. Stuff your phone with crap files to overwrite old files and do that as many times as you feel safe and done.. And if you want to experiment with it try to use some recovery software after to see if you got rid of everything
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I think that only works for traditional hard drives rather than on flash memory (SSD/NAND) -- It would seem to me encrypting and factory reset/full wipe in TWRP would work better.
Installing stock firmware encrypts the phone, factory reset/full wipe to completely wipe the data including the key that unlocks the data and doing that another time would probably make data inaccessible especially after a time of use.
AFAIK custom roms are usually not encrypted to allow root to be installed.
I could be wrong however... Has anybody got experience using this method?
The phone needs to be encrypted first before performing a factory reset. Factory reset will make it look like all data has been deleted but actually personal info like photos, texts, emails etc will still be stored in memory and just marked as deleted. This means they can be quite easily restored if someone decides to use a data recovery tool on your phone once it's out of your hands. Both data encryption and factory reset can be done easily from the phone's settings. Data encryption is in the Lock Screen and Security section. Reset can also be done remotely from the findmymobile.samsung website