Device is running all stock HTC and Verizon software. Never rooted, never encrypted phone.
Phone now boots to a screen that says:
'Decrypt storage'
No matter what I enter for a password, it states:
"The password you entered is correct, but unfortunately your data is corrupt."
The only option provided is to 'Reset phone'.
Before I wipe all data with a factory reset, is there any chance of trying to recover data from the phone? Phone is not in USB mode so ADB doesn't recognize the device. Various hard resets don't do anything. Are there any tools that can allow me to look at the device memory before simply wiping everything and starting over?
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I am on A9192: HTC Inspire 4G.
My mobile got locked by too many patterns attempted. It asked for email and password, though I provided right information, it didn't let me go through.
I tried few options from Cannot unlock tablet as have no internet connection? but none of the option worked for me.
Anyway, I tried to factory reset through its stock recovery which is in chinese and labelled as `HTC ACE v4.0.0.2`.
I selected `wipe data/factory reset` which could have uninstalled the ROM on it. So, now my mobile is showing company logo only.
Every time I go to mount and storage menu, I find system, cache and data are unmounted. Though I mount and reboot the boot, it again gets unmounted.
What to do now ? I know this phone is rooted but I don't know if its bootloader is unlocked or not. It shows S-OFF on bootloader menu. Is it possible to install the system again ?
It's my goal to wipe a second hand android device I received.
You used to be able to do this via the encryption option.
Though now that I am on Lollipop when I enable encryption the phone (2014 Moto x) restarts and doesn't do the full wipe like android used to. Though does come up with encryption enabled.
I assume this has to do with Lolipop having encryption enabled by default.
Before I get all answers telling me to do a factory reset. No a factory reset doesn't wipe a system it just repartitions it and gives new encryption keys.
Tried in safemode too. Nothing
Just getting a new encreyption key via a factory reset doesn't do what I want. That key could be recovered and the data still exists. That's why tools like truecrypt ot luks if you have experience take so long to encrypt.
How do I reset the passcode on a nexus 5 without doing a reset? I've tried logging into the google acconut, and I can use the "find" option in the device manager to locate the device, but if i press the "lock" button and try to enter a new password, for a split second it says "We have sent a lock request to the device", but then it says "Since Google has verified that a screen lock is already set, the password you entered won't be needed." Wtf is going on? Is there another way to reset the password?
I have not tried this and I do not know if it's updated for Lollipop, so use with caution.
This thread discusses how this can be accomplished if you have custom recovery installed or if USB debugging is enabled. If neither of those are true, you'll have to do a factory reset, there are no other options.
Hi all,
I have a Galaxy S7 Edge SM-G935V and the other day I put my case on and put the phone in my pocket not realizing I had put the case on upside down. With the case on the wrong way, the power and volume buttons were pressed and the phone rebooted several times. I thought I was just getting notifications when my phone was vibrating in my pocket, but in reality it was vibrating because it was rebooting. It must have booted to recovery and/or download mode and then because the buttons were still pressed, rebooted again and again. When I checked my phone after a few minutes of it unknowingly rebooting, it was in recovery mode so I attempted to boot normally. It didn't fully boot, but I got a message "Phone storage corrupt. The data partition has been corrupted. You need to reset your phone to factory default settings. This will erase all your data."
Now, I'm an IT professional so I know how storage disks work. I know that the partition table is probably corrupt but the data itself is probably intact. I would like to recover the data on the partition such as photos, videos, texts etc, but since the phone doesn't fully boot, I can't get to the storage from a PC, and when I connect via ADB I get the message "error:closed" when I try to do anything.
My questions/thoughts:
In the same way you would slave a damaged hard drive to recover the data, is there a way to access the partition without booting to it?
Is there a way to do a full ADB backup of the partition and try to extract the data from the backup?
Is it possible to install a custom recovery and do an image backup of the partition and try to extract the data from that?
What is the likelihood of recovering the data after a reset to factory settings? I have access to professional data recovery software and I'm willing to spend some money on specific software for Android recovery.
Is there any other way that anyone can think of to retrieve data from an Android device that can't boot? Or to repair the corrupt partition?
Hey everyone,
I'm managing some Android phones in company using VMWare Workspace One and today, when I unenrolled phone using console of MDM, it says unenrolled but nothing happened with the phone. Thanks to that I got now device, which seems like unenrolled from MDM side, but device thinks that it's enrolled and still got installed our policies.
In our policies we have restricted to do factory reset on the phone and also developers settings, so I'm actually unable to flash new firmware over ADB. Factory reset over recovery also doesn't work, I'm missing "wipe data/factory reset" section in the recovery on the phone. Devices are not rooted and with OEM system.
Is there any way, how to rescue that device? I just need to wipe it into factory reset and reenroll that device using KNOX Enrollment again.
Thanks.