So, I'm trying to get the data from my S6 but there are ...some problems.
* The screen is broken (can't see anything)
* When the phone works, it keeps rebooting itself, and sometimes just does not do anything when I put it on the charger (no LED light, etc)
* The phone is rooted with TWRP recovery installed
I know this is going to be super hard but I have some personal data stored on the phone that I really need to recovery, times like these is when I wish we had microSD cards, but thats a different story.
Is there any possible way I can use ADB or something like that to recover the data, even if i'm stuck in recovery mode (since it won't boot up the OS)? Any other suggestions or help would be very much appreciated.
Once I managed to recover data from my old HTC Sensation while booted into recovery using the ADB PULL commands.
It worth a try.
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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?
I have a strange situation going on with my phone and I could use some advice.
My issues started after loading the "official" IMM76D ROM, the rooted and odexed version. Phone would shut off like it was dead after charging all night. Wont boot back up without a battery pull. It would freeze up while the screen was on forcing a battery pull. Basically unusable for more than 10 minutes.
Here is where I might have messed things up. I tried to wipe the phone completely, including the SD card. Factory Reset multiple times, wiped everything multiple times. I even did a repartition of the SD card thinking it would format it further.
Where I'm at now. The phone still boots into the 4.0.4 ROM and I still have CM recovery. But now no matter what I do, factory reset, format/wipe EVERYTHING including the SD card, use fastboot to load a whole new setup, THE PHONE BOOTS RIGHT BACK INTO THE ROM AND SD CARD STILL HAS EVERYTHING. I dont get it.
I have ODIN 1.87 downloaded but it wont see my phone in download mode. I have all the correct drivers loaded including PDAnet, and my phone is correctly detected as Android ADB Device. Interesting side note: fastboot detects the phone, ADB does not. dont know if that means anything.
Sorry for the long winded post but I have been at this for 4 days now and I really need my phone back! Any ideas??
Maybe flash stock rom or CWM recovery from fastboot would solve the partitions issue. I remember when i had my old HTC magic i would sometimes change the partition layout and to reverse it i would have to reflash my recovery.
But as i said, this is all theory and can work or not.
If I am unable to enable USB debugging, am I pretty well S-O-L? I can get my phone to boot to android recovery utility, but because I did a factory reset, usb debugging is disabled. I cannot seem to get a custom recovery installed. My friend said that I should be able to download a custom recovery and install it from a zip from the recovery menu; is this possible? I am getting really frustrated because I cannot get my phone up and running again, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Backstory:
I rooted my phone with no problems, started messing around with my build.prop to try to run a gameloft game. I made a back up of my original build.prop and stored it on my sd card. I replaced my entire build.prop with one from another phone and rebooted but my phone shows lg logo(at the suggestion of the same friend who has been trying to help), I hear the tracfone sound as if it is booting up, but my screen just remains backlit with no images. I am able to get into android recovery utility as well as the so-called emergency mode. However I cannot get the phone up and running again.
Basically I am trying to recover / wipe my GFs phone before sending it back to asurion. We have pictures of my daughter when she was a baby on there that were not on the SD card that we would like to recover. Unfortunately she did not have USB debugging enabled and every program / solution I have tried has failed. I have flashed phones with Odin before, but I had a functional screen. The screen is totally black and seems totally unresponsive to touch. Is there anyway to flash the phone or install custom software that I can at least access the phone from my PC to get the info off of it?
Thanks
I switched off my phone (Motorola Z2 force, XT1789-06) during ringing. I am not sure if this caused the problem, but since then I can't switch it on. During booting, when it starts to show the animated "Moto" logo, it restarts booting, so I can't get to the normal graphical user interface. If I don't touch it, it repeats rebooting until its battery gets empty. It is not rooted, has latest official Android (version 9, I think, nash_retail) on it.
Until now the only thing I could do is to boot into fastboot mode. There I can log in into recovery mode or do some diagnostics, check some logs etc. As far as I can tell they show no problems at all. Except maybe "failed to read fstab from dt" in /tmp/recovery.log -- is it normal in recovery mode?
I tried some manual reboots from fastboot/recovery menu (on the phone), with and without SIM card inserted, with and without being connected to the charger, but they changed nothing: the phone keeps rebooting at the same stage of booting.
I hoped to be able to adb connect to the phone and pull the files from it, hoping I could use these data after a reinstall. But adb devices show no connected devices. I guess adb is not available in this stage of Android loading. Or is it available somehow?
fastboot devices show the phone, but I am not sure what can I do without triggering a factory reset. E.g. what if I would 'fastboot flash boot boot.img' from the stock ROM? I guess something went wrong on the boot partition, so rewriting it could solve the issue. But I afraid rewriting the boot partition would result in a complete factory reset.
My questions:
* what to try to make the phone booting normally?
* can I change boot config to skip logo animation?
* if booting normally is not possible: can I somehow copy my files from the phone to my laptop (linux)? If I can copy them: is it realistic to be able to use those files to restore the apps' states after a reinstall (after a factory reset)? I would like to keep e.g. my phonebook, SMS, Whatsapp and Signal chat history, OsmAnd favorites, Colornote notes, AndOTP credentials, etc. (I have a backup of some of my files, like photos or gps tracks, synced to my laptop with SnycThing automatically, but many others are not backed up recently.)
* if backing up my data is not possible: can I try to fix the booting issue by e.g. flashing a new boot.img without risking a factory reset? What exactly should/could I flash?
* if none of the alternatives above work: are there any other thing I could try or shall I simply accept the data loss and do a factory reset from fastboot menu?
Thanks a lot for your help and ideas in advance,
Peter