I own an S7270, rooted, stock Jellybean from Sammobile.
I found it basically soft-bricked without no apparent reason.
I have a Nandroid backup form six months ago and I should have a Helium/Carbon backup somewhere (cant find it.. ).
This is the smartphone behavior:
It is either shut off or in start up loop.
It doesn't recharge the battery anymore: the charging battery screen appears, but there is no animation going on and the battery doesn't charge (I tried with an external charger and the battery can charge up that way).
It can enter download mode, if I input continue from there it proceeds to the Samsung logo and freezes there.
If I try to switch the phone on or enter recovery mode the phone loops without any screen output and gives short vibration every two seconds until the battery is drained.
What I can do (as far as I know):
Flashing a ROM from download mod.
Flashing a custom recovery from download mode and restore the Nandroid backup.
MY PROBLEM:
I can't find the most recent Helium/Carbon backups that I've done in the last few months, so I'm hoping something can be done to recover something form the phone as it is. Specifically, I'd like to recover a few WeChat and Line chat rooms (everything else I needed is on the SD card.
Can I backup the partitions from Odin?
In which partition is the data I want to recover?
If I can backup anything, can I "restore" it inside some kind of emulator on my computer?
Would it be useful to attempt to push some command from ADB?
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Alright. This is a 100% stock Nexus S- nothing "development" wise was done to the device, no system tools installed that could cause issues, basically nothing but basic apps loaded on the device.
It just started today. I was working on my bf's Vibrant (another, more successful story) and grabbed my Nexus and hit the power button and it did not turn the screen back on. Holding the power button down did not reboot the device, and none of the buttons would light up or function.
So, I pulled the battery. Now every time I try to boot, it hits the "Google" screen and stays put. I left it alone for 5 minuets hoping it would finish booting and nothing. The soft buttons will light up, and if I touch them they register the touch but it does not help the phone to boot.
I do know that the phone was basically dead right before this happened, and at first I thought it was just dead. However, its been on the charger for at least 30 minuets- which should have given it enough of a charge to boot up, and still nothing.
What could cause this issue?
I did install a couple of new applications today, and I know the market updated a bunch of them but they're all apps that I've had on several phones (minus the two new ones today) and have never had an issue with any of them. The two new ones I downloaded were OS Monitor, and a 2G/3G toggle for hopes of improving some battery life.
But those are the only two things I've done differently. I've only been using the phone for a week but I haven't had any problems at all, before this.
Now- if worst comes to worst I can seem to get into the bootloader, and through that, stock recovery. So I can try to do a factory reset and wipe cache but without a backup I really kinda hope thats a last resort.
Please help, and let me know if you need any more information.
Thank you!
I understand that you're fully stock which I assume means you have a locked bootloader (everything I say from here on out assumes as such)? First, I'm going to also assume that you didn't update to 2.3.3? If not, then follow the steps in this guide to boot into a custom recovery and from there go to backup and restore and do a NANDroid backup. Now go to mounts and storage and mount USB storage (or whatever its called, don't have my phone right here). Plug your phone into your comp and copy over whatever you'd rather not lose from your SDcard (just in case you have to wipe). Now download the 2.3.3 update from here and put it on the root of your SD card. Now go back and flash this. Reboot and see if you're golden. If so, great, if not try a factory reset.
If that doesn't work go through the steps again to boot into a custom recovery, you might have to unlock your bootloader and wipe all your data (again) and restore your backup and try doing a factory reset with that. Don't worry about unlocking the bootloader, it can be relocked with a simple command and it won't wipe anything to relock it.
Here is the command just in case:
Code:
fasboot oem lock
I got all the way to having clockwork recovery booted up on the phone, but nothing would mount. Everything gave me an error, and factory reset froze...
I don't think there is anything I can even do from here, is there?
Good day.
I got a Nexus 5 D820 from my mom who dropped it in the river about a year ago at which time the phone was dead. It had indication of power but would not turn on. It was in a drawer powered off until yesterday.
I was able to power the phone on although it would not boot. The Google logo appeared and the android loading animation, but it would always reboot or freeze at different points. From the bootloader the phone seemed stable and I never had an issue pushing/flashing files. At this point I flashed a few different recovery images for the device, but only Philz would work, while TWRP and CWM would only freeze or bootloop.
From Philz I was able to flash a few different ROMS including the latest official one from google and also a few custom roms with/out gapps. None of these would boot and had the same freeze/bootloop at the google logo or android animation with no consistency.
I figured at this point possibly the sdcard had become corrupted/damaged by the water since I was able to flash pretty much anything I wanted. This is where things went downhill.
I followed a guide to use the partition editor from within an ADB shell. The guide assumed I was formatting an external SD card and suggested deleting all partitions. I did make a backup of the configuration of the partitions just in case but followed the instructions and removed everything. I was concerned what would happen once I rebooted the device at this point so I looked around a bit and it was suggested that flashing a google factory image would recreate the missing partitions so I didn't have to do it manually, so I rebooted thinking I could just flash the google package from the bootloader. This was the last time the phone ever showed any indication of working.
Now I have no indication of even power, no LED's, no bootloader.
Please let me know what you think... Thanks.
Before deleting the partitions, did you perform a full factory wipe before or after flashing different ROMs?
Does the phone appear as a device in Windows Device Manager when connected via USB?
If you deleted all of the partitions you deleted the bootloader partition.
last night my N5 battery ran out, tried to turn on but he was dead when load and switch off.
I left my N5 charging(off), all night
this morning my n5 boots into "optimizing apps", but stops when reach around 15/20 apps and reboot (3 or 4 times)...
Now, only keeps in android animation .
I can see my data in TWRP, battery %...
I wipe cache/dalvik... nothing
I reflash the kernel (ElementalX 6.17), still nothing
ROM Xtrafactory(M) 6.1....
Any ideas?
Now i'm doing a manual Backup before delete some data and doing TWRP backup...
PS: I think sometimes not switch on if N5 is not connected via USB / Charger, but when i'm in twrp or in bootloop i can disconnect and connect without problems
Thanks in advance
PS2: latest news. After make a backup, I made a factory reset and restore a system-boot-cache partition from old backup. Now the phone boots but i hate lose all my data xD. I want try to solve my problem using my "corrupted" backup for avoid losing data. If that fails, I can always restore this functional backup. Any ideas again?
Some thing may be wrong with the userdata.img partition and the only way I know to fix this would be to re-flash the userdata.img file which will result in complete data loss.
Hiya,
Very frustrated noob here. I have an unrooted/locked-bootloader 2nd Gen Moto G and a few weeks ago I tried to turn it on after charging it overnight and after the usual loading screen it went straight to a message saying "Optimising App 1 of 152", and after going through all the 152 apps it just restarts immediately without reaching the normal PIN input screen, and starts the "Optimising" all over again and repeats this until it runs out of battery and dies. I have tried waiting for it to die, charging a little and then entering recovery mode, where I tried wiping the cache partition which made no difference. I don't mind about getting the phone up and running again as I'm getting a new one, but is there some way of getting my files off it? There are some music recordings I made that I stupidly didn't backup that I'd really really like back. For example, is it possible to reinstall the latest OTA from an SD card without losing all the data on the phone that might kick it out of whatever it's looping? Any help at all much appreciated, cheers
1. If you want to take backup of ur data then Flash TWRP Recovery And Reboot to recovery and then connect your phone to pc and tada ur done.
2. u can flash another Roms Which can solve ur booting problem too.
Hello,
Anyone else having problems after this update? I did it now and my phone does not start anymore. Or at least it hangs in the loading screen with the red and 2 white dots.
I shut it down with power and vol + twice but with no effect. It does not react on the power cable being inserted. When it's powered off and I insert the cable it starts to the loading screen, currently showing 14 %.
How to solve this?
Thank you!
I can boot into recovery or fastboot. Not sure how helpful that is though.
try to format data if you're able to go to recovery. as long you have recovery and fastboot intact, it's basically not ****ed up yet
dewa5227 said:
try to format data if you're able to go to recovery. as long you have recovery and fastboot intact, it's basically not ****ed up yet
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But how can I save my data? I mean when I'm in recovery I have to enter the password before, so the data gets decrypted. But with USB attached I can only see 5 files on my desktop computer.
I emptied the battery and loaded it fully, then restarted. After a long time it say "This device has entered an unstable state. Please try rebooting your device using the exit button below..." and so on.
I hope a data recovery company isn't the only solution.
Also, is there no way to repair it? Like running the update again or something?
Why is there no „apply update from adb“ option in the recovery menu of OnePlus? Apparently I could have used that to backup all my data from the phone.
I tried wiping the cache partition without success so far.
So did Android squeeze security so much that not even the owner can save his data in this status now anymore? A bit sad when they themself break the phone with an update then.
What about these recovery services that also recover data from harddrives? Do they break the phone when they do their thing?