Hello people. I dont know if my question is a generic one or if it should go to my phone's forum (LG G2), but here is the problem:
I formatted my phone yesterday, via the master reset in system->backup & restore -> Delete everything...
What i want to know is if there any tool, method or something that allows me to recover files i had in Internal Storage BEFORE the formatting happened.
mechlord said:
Hello people. I dont know if my question is a generic one or if it should go to my phone's forum (LG G2), but here is the problem:
I formatted my phone yesterday, via the master reset in system->backup & restore -> Delete everything...
What i want to know is if there any tool, method or something that allows me to recover files i had in Internal Storage BEFORE the formatting happened.
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Hey there,
Jepp it is possible. Take a look at this guide:
Awesome Guide
Still it is not 100% sure any data is usable.
I once tried it on a Phone and all i got were file Names. Only one or two files were recoverable.
Still it seems to work perfectly for some people, so be careful if you want to sell your Phone and there was something on it you don't want to see online
Thanks man, will give it a go and report back.
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Is there any way to recover files from a phone that has been flashed? All photo/file restore programs seem only to restore deleted information from memory cards/hard drives. I need to restore some data from my device itself (T-Mobile Dash). Are there any programs out there that will do this?
Thank you in advance for any help...
I really doubt you can recover from a flashed device. Your best bet is to go back to the old rom and then do a full restore with your backup file, which I'm sure that you have. Then copy all the files/reg settings you need to your sd card. Then flash back to the new rom and install the files/reg settings either manually or with sashimi.
Why don't you backup your files and program .cab's before you flash it? That's the smartest way..
no you cant, you should have taken a back up. But after flashing you cannot recover it.
Thanks for the input. I figured so much. I didnt think I had any files I cared about saved directly on the device. Teaches me to backup my files no matter what....
Pinoccios said:
I know about a program that can recover deleted files not only from cd or sm card, but also from other media types. It is called Advanced File Recovery. I hope this program will help you.
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That program is for windows and not windows mobile.
As far as i know, there is no way to recover data from a flashed mobile.
I have a permanent rooted Mytouch 4g running Virtuous Fusion, and I was wondering If I completely wipe my SD Card clean will my phone still be rooted and have the rom, backups from clockwork, and certain information on the phone like my Wifi password? Right now my SD Card is a complete mess, and I was looking too add music from my computer. Sure I could go in and delete stuff, but I have no idea what I might be doing. Thanks.
No, if you do a complete wipe of the sd, everything will go, a better idea is to connect it to a computer via the phone itself or by a card reader, and then delete stuff which you don't needed anymore
Thanks for replying, I've thought about doing that and I've gone through my SD Card only to be confused by all the random files that lead to thing's I've never even heard about.
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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i had the same problem, i just deleted all the related application folder that i dont use anymore and just left the android folder, Music, DCIM (picture folder).
I just decided to completely wipe everything, and I do mean everything, and re-root and add a custom rom.
Ok so actually that was a really dumb idea, because now my phone doesn't work. x[
Every time I turn it on it just show's the boot loader over and over again, and when I try to restore or factory reset it takes me to clockwork where when ever I click on an option nothing pops up. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this and just make my phone normal? As in normal I mean making my phone as new as when I bought it, well at least the software.
You can try the app "SD Maid" in my signature to clean up the phone.
You can delete the content of /mnt/sdcard/
You will loose some downloaded apps of course, but the rom will still work and system settings like wifi will still be there. Root will also be still there.
Depending where the clockwork backups are saved you will loose them too.
So I've had some images on my phone I would rather not have on there and I deleted them. Yet, if I download an image restore app I'm able to get them back. I want to know if I can delete them forever so they don't get discovered in the restore/recover. Or do I have to reformat my Nexus 4?
Running CM10.1.2 (not that probably matters).
Cheers
You can't make them unrecoverable. It isn't possible to run a forensic wipe on the internal memory as it contains everything that makes the phone run.
SimonTS said:
You can't make them unrecoverable. It isn't possible to run a forensic wipe on the internal memory as it contains everything that makes the phone run.
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I know if you reformat multiple times it makes it more difficult for the common recovery program to retreve. Of course I don't expect a total wipe that forensic data companies can recover though...
Mae7 said:
I know if you reformat multiple times it makes it more difficult for the common recovery program to retreve. Of course I don't expect a total wipe that forensic data companies can recover though...
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All that a format does is delete the reference link to the files. If you then overwrite them with other data it becomes difficult for the average user to recover.
Mae7 said:
So I've had some images on my phone I would rather not have on there and I deleted them. Yet, if I download an image restore app I'm able to get them back. I want to know if I can delete them forever so they don't get discovered in the restore/recover. Or do I have to reformat my Nexus 4?
Running CM10.1.2 (not that probably matters).
Cheers
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you can make it hard to recover
but it will still be recoverable
Download -file shredder- app from play store it will help to delete files permanently . It make u secure from recovery after selling ur phone
Hello,
my OnePlus has been accidentally wiped after used OPO Tool Box (please see my post here).
I lost all my data.
When i reboot the phone i had to set the google account and all initial settings. Then Google downloaded all my apps and the contacts list.
Then i tried to recover all my photos and video (maybe about 1000 files) with Dr. Fone, but it didn't found any file related to the date before the wipe.
Why? Isn't this weird?
tramsss said:
Hello,
my OnePlus has been accidentally wiped after used OPO Tool Box (please see my post here).
I lost all my data.
When i reboot the phone i had to set the google account and all initial settings. Then Google downloaded all my apps and the contacts list.
Then i tried to recover all my photos and video (maybe about 1000 files) with Dr. Fone, but it didn't found any file related to the date before the wipe.
Why? Isn't this weird?
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It isn't weird at all. It's standard for a factory reset to occur when unlocking a bootloader on any device, it's a security measure. The toolkit you used probably should have a warning, but you really should have done your research, this is a very well documented and well known fact.
OK, i see.
I mean it is weird that i can't recover data. We know that the files are not deleted from device, just hidden and flagged to be overwritable on new file creation.
I tried tools like Dr. Fone on Windows and photorec, extundelete, foremost on Linux, but they find only data that is now on the phone, not data that was on phone before factory reset.
Why i can't recover it?
tramsss said:
OK, i see.
I mean it is weird that i can't recover data. We know that the files are not deleted from device, just hidden and flagged to be overwritable on new file creation.
I tried tools like Dr. Fone on Windows and photorec, extundelete, foremost on Linux, but they find only data that is now on the phone, not data that was on phone before factory reset.
Why i can't recover it?
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If I'm not mistaken, it isn't just a wipe that occurs, it's a format, and data is much harder to recover after a drive has been formatted. Even if this isn't the case, data recovery is never 100% reliable.
When i unlock the bootloader it just reboots the phone in few seconds, so i'm quite sure it hasn't been a low level format!
So my data is still there, but i can't figure out why i cannot recover it
tramsss said:
When i unlock the bootloader it just reboots the phone in few seconds, so i'm quite sure it hasn't been a low level format!
So my data is still there, but i can't figure out why i cannot recover it
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A format doesn't have to take a lot of time. Honestly, those four data recovery tools are finding your old data for a reason, it's gone.
Heisenberg said:
A format doesn't have to take a lot of time. Honestly, those four data recovery tools are finding your old data for a reason, it's gone.
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Ok, i see
(did you mean "are not" instead of "are"?)
tramsss said:
Ok, i see
(did you mean "are not" instead of "are"?)
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Yes, I meant are not, my mistake.
I also tried to use this guide: http://dflund.se/~jokke/androidfilerecovery
But i got the same result.
Does the factory reset overwrite tables and partitions information? What does it do exactly?
tramsss said:
I also tried to use this guide: http://dflund.se/~jokke/androidfilerecovery
But i got the same result.
Does the factory reset overwrite tables and partitions information? What does it do exactly?
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It formats the data partition, the internal storage, and the caches.
Heisenberg said:
It formats the data partition, the internal storage, and the caches.
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Sorry if i reopen this old post but i need to figure out what is happened.
After the bootloader unlocking operation the phone rebooted itself in few seconds.
So what does exactly the format operation do on a phone memory (in less than about 1 minute)?
As you know, when you delete a file on a disk it is not deleted, but it is simply hidden and flagged as overwritable.
So how it is possible that none of recovery tools can retrieve old data from the phone?
Hello guys, I have a S8+ 955U version tmobile. I was on oreo beta and wanted to revert back to 7.0 latest which is G955USQS2BRB1. I odin the files but it caused me to format my internal memory. i lost all my photos of my newborn.
How can I get them back?
I've tried a few programs but I have to be rooted which I'm not.
I found a thread SAMPWNED to root device but I can't downfrade that far back.
Any help would be appreciated.
P.S. no i did not have an sd card in the phone, all files were saved on internal.
It's really difficult to recover photos from a formatted internal SD card. Best option, I think, would be try some other recovery apps, so see if they have access to your phone, though I don't think they will have that type of low-level access.
Another possibility might be to use ADB and if you can, pre-system/security startup, enable ADB within the phone, and then you might be able to do a recovery scan of the phone partitions.
There are a few (vague?) how to's on using ADB to enter the phone pre-system/security. Search 'sonnettie', the author of one method, and you will likely find other author off-shoots of the same type of method. If I don't stay current with a thing, I forget most of the details, but that was his original(?) method, which as I was told, came to be used by others to get into the phone pre-system startup/security. It might have been obviated by the Oreo update with a bug fix.
Did you have Samsung backup configured? If so it should have uploaded the photos and you would be able to restore them. If you don't make a backup your photos are already lost, you never know when your phone might die, be stolen or in this case get formatted. Google photos is a good alternative to keep your photos backing up.
Some people have incorrectly stated that it is possible to recover the photos after formatting internal storage. The data partition is encrypted by default and unless you are able to recover both, encryption key (it was most likely overwritten during first boot after factory reset) and the part of the partition containing the photos, you cannot get your photos back. Also, I have not seen any commercial data recovery software, which is capable of finding encryption keys and deciphering corrupted data partition.
Exactly, the phone is encrypted, not remotely possible to recover the photos scanning the memory
sergioslk said:
Exactly, the phone is encrypted, not remotely possible to recover the photos scanning the memory
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good to know.
Thanks everyone for your input. After spending countless hours trying to root phone so I could get a data recovery program on it, I gave up. Turns out I had google photos and Samsung cloud turned on and it synced all my media. I got all my media back on my phone.
Thanks guys
@OP
i want to remind you that if you are doing like updating, flashing, modifying, always make a back up thank god samsung cloud is doing that for you., but i always make a hard copy to my sd card always you newer know right. i am happy for you that you got your data back