Last July my note 12.2 crashed and I had to wipe and reset. I thought I had been saving my pictures to my card like my phone but I alas I had not. I was resigned after a month to do the reset, did so, rerooted, installed twrp and was just ready to get rolling again after so long without a tablet. However I read a great blog on imaging tablets and being able to recover many many files, found it plausible and could now go after my son's baby pictures and Christmas pictures. However I will need to install Linux on my computer and get that going again to do it and I've not been able to find a long weekend to do it without interruption by the kids. I just need to image it then I can take as long as I need to carve for the pics. I just can't get the time. It's been 8 months I've been without my tablet and it's starting to effect me negatively. So what do I do?
1. Beg my wife for the time to do the needed work to make the image. This would be difficult at best, and I'm understating that massively.
2. Try and find a new 12.2 64gb and use that till I get the time to image the old one. Expensive and I'm getting an old device.
3. Get a surface tablet, expensive and not android.
4. Get a new Samsung android tablet. New but I don't know what to get and if any newer ones can be rooted or have an SD card slot.
I'll take any and all suggestions of help.
Thank you in advance.
Signed
-in desperate need of a tablet to use
Would it really take more than an hour using a live cd to recover files? Most of the time it's doing its thing scanning the filesystem while you can do other things.
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Hey guys, I need some major help...
So I was given a Impression i7 Tablet from Leader International.
I have done plenty of research on this tablet, and I do know that support is limited and problems are abundant. Here are some of the things I need help with or it if it to much trouble, I will just take it back.
When I load it, it load all the way up to the homescreen, but I have no touch screen function and the buttoms at the bottom do not light up. I have used the reset button multiple of times with no luck.
Then I have tried to install the Android Drivers Rev 4 but they seem to not install on my computer. (Windows 7)
Also has anyone been able to root this device.
I hope to get some answers. I dont want to take it back unless I have to. (I like to hack away at android devices)
Thanks Everyone!!
the tablet 7 inch have place to put sim card or only tablet 10.1 ?
the leader i7 is a rebrand of another tablet. Find that tablet and youll have your answer.
Hello, all!
I've been an iPod Touch + Nokia flip-phone user for many years, and just last week I finally purchased an unlocked Motorola Moto G LTE (XT1045) to replace them both. So, since I'm new to the Android world, I have come to ask this question:
How long would you recommend I wait before rooting my device? There are some features that would REALLY like (moving entire apps to SD card (I was a bit dismayed to find that when moving all my apps to the SD card, it only saved a very, very small amount of storage space), as well as being able to prioritize memory usage for apps, Titanium backup, underclocking while phone is locked, etc.). I'm viewing this phone more like a very mobile computer than I did my iPod Touch I always carried, and as such I am expecting more of it.
The reason I ask is I am wondering how long it will take for good support to start showing up for custom ROMs and stuff. Since this is my first time rooting a device, I would like there to be a decent amount of documentation, and would also like the majority of the bugs worked out of anything involving rooting for this specific phone.
On a side note, does anyone know of a way to unlock the bootloader without going through Motorola's site? I've read that by going through there to get the unlock code, you are basically registering your phone as "not under warranty." So, if something that is clearly a manufacturing defect (like charging connector becoming loose or something like that) shows up in a month, I'd like to be able to un-root it to send it in.
Thanks in advance!
ElectroPulse
BUMP.
I got to thinking about it, and since I am actually going to be outside of the country for the next 10 months, so my warranty is pretty much useless anyway. Shipping it back would require removing the battery, which in turn would void the warranty.
So, at this point my only question is how long would you recommend to wait to root my phone in order for there to be good documentation, and good support for custom ROMs and stuff?
Thanks!
ElectroPulse
I've recently completed a trip to Disney World with my family and took over 300 Pictures. I used my MS PRO 3 to store the pics and do some work.. Unfortunately i woke up today and the device won't boot up.
I took the Microsoft store where i bought it for assistance and i was told it is most likely gone forever.
Since this is suppose to be a Laptop replacement, they're able to reach the Hard drive registry and pull any folder that is customer created or use a USB drive and install the corrupted files?
I was wondering is there is any ways to retrieve this pictures or document. Know with a standard laptop its possible. Why not the pro.
You may ask why, Why i didn't save it thru One Drive, Well the photo were too big and the types of transfer is not allow... I never had these types of issues with my android devices($500) something different with the Surface pro 3 ($1400).
Hypothetically, you could extract the solid-state drive from the tablet and connect that to another device. You'd pretty much need to take the tablet to pieces to do so, though.
This is the same problem you would have if any other device with non-removable storage (MBA, iPad, Android tablet, $300 Dell Venue 8 Windows tablet, etc.) doed so completely you couldn't even begin the boot process, by the way. It sucks that it happened to a high-end device but that's what warranties are for. As for the lost photos, well, that sucks but unless they're still on the camera memory card then recovering them is going to be difficult and/or expensive if it's possible at all, and it might not be.
mseck said:
I've recently completed a trip to Disney World with my family and took over 300 Pictures. I used my MS PRO 3 to store the pics and do some work.. Unfortunately i woke up today and the device won't boot up.
I took the Microsoft store where i bought it for assistance and i was told it is most likely gone forever.
Since this is suppose to be a Laptop replacement, they're able to reach the Hard drive registry and pull any folder that is customer created or use a USB drive and install the corrupted files?
I was wondering is there is any ways to retrieve this pictures or document. Know with a standard laptop its possible. Why not the pro.
You may ask why, Why i didn't save it thru One Drive, Well the photo were too big and the types of transfer is not allow... I never had these types of issues with my android devices($500) something different with the Surface pro 3 ($1400).
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Well, it's not really fair to compare the SP3 to an Android device. Android uses ARM processors and the SP3 uses x86 processors. x86 is the kind of processor that you would find in a laptop or desktop. You should be able to retrieve any files from your SP3 as you would from a laptop. It has the same hardware as a laptop.
Keep in mind that MS has 14 day return policy as does most computer retailers. If it is a mechanical failure it is under warranty and they will replace it. If you have a replacement plan they will replace it no matter what.
Unfortunately, most will tell you that the way to get files from a busted PC is to take the hard drive out and put in a different PC. I don't think you want to take your SP3 apart for a few files.
The best solution would be to find a way to boot your PC from a USB. If you can manage that, you can copy the files to a USB. You're probably going to need a USB hub.
Forget it guys let's admit it the sp3 is a beautiful piece of hardware and fantastic fete of engineering. But truth be told mine bricked on day 1 and had to spent an extra 200$ shipping it back for an exchange from Microsoft.
There are way too many occasions reported that I wonder what the mac boys would say about this. Thinks I wanna let the cat out of the bag.
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Take it you dont have a mSD card in the machine and use File History?
Hey guys,
My phone is pretty badly physically broken - literally snapped in the middle. Some photos of the damage here, (apologies as I can't post links because I'm a new user):
back - cl.ly/image/3e2I2V3T0h3A
front - cl.ly/image/2g122G360A44
side - cl.ly/image/0R3B3V3Z0p3g
I'd really like to recover some of the data on there that wasn't backed up online and was wondering if I was to remove the main board and transplant it into another Nexus 5 whether this would boot as normal and allow me to access the storage? The board I'm referring to is this one: ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+5+Teardown/19016#s53729 (Step 10).
Haven't got much experience changing parts like this around, though I do know the phone is relatively easy to take dismantle. I'm really just hoping to be able to get it live for long enough to save my data to move over to a new phone.
Thanks for any advice.
Yes, it should boot properly if transplanted to another working N5. I've done it with a three phones that had smashed screens.
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Hey guys,
My phone is pretty badly physically broken - literally snapped in the middle. Some photos of the damage here, (apologies as I can't post links because I'm a new user):
back - cl.ly/image/3e2I2V3T0h3A
front - cl.ly/image/2g122G360A44
side - cl.ly/image/0R3B3V3Z0p3g
I'd really like to recover some of the data on there that wasn't backed up online and was wondering if I was to remove the main board and transplant it into another Nexus 5 whether this would boot as normal and allow me to access the storage? The board I'm referring to is this one: ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+5+Teardown/19016#s53729 (Step 10).
Haven't got much experience changing parts like this around, though I do know the phone is relatively easy to take dismantle. I'm really just hoping to be able to get it live for long enough to save my data to move over to a new phone.
Thanks for any advice.
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as answered above it works, but
What the heck happened to your phone??!
HI
My wife's phone (i9300 galaxy S3) has gone wrong and it went off without battery.
I found a new battery, but it lasted only one day. I thus decided to take it for repair,
as I think that this is the charge connector that is broken, but actually, the tech told me that it was probably the motherboard,
as when it used a tool to plug it to the direct charge ports on the side, the phone only bootlooped.
Thing is:
My wife's phone wasn't using cloud or external SD,
it was not rooted.
I tried some android toolkits to connect it, but odin or adb don't detect it, so I have no chance to try and put some new kernel on it.
It has no recovery mode, and when in download mode (1st screen), it actually doesn't last long before it reboots anyway.
Choosing some option will also make it reboot.
So I think it is failed beyond software repair.
But if you have suggestion for this (the tech was at a small street stall and I don't expect him to be high level, no offense, but he seemed to only perform two repairs, screen and charge flex boards, so not much more able than me if he can't go beyond this), feel free?
So my second question is :
Does anyone know how to retrieve the internal storage of the phone without breaking it, and reinstall it in a working way on a new motherboard?
Or alternatively, on an emmc reader such as those used for raspberry cards and so on? (I don't want to put some link, I don't want my message to be filtered)
The photos on this chip are priceless for us, and I would even pay professional to retrieve these (I would prefer not having to, because money doesn't exactly come cheap to me, but I guess I won't be able to make it alone.
So if you know some repair service in Europe that would be able to perform such task, I would be grateful for your sharing of such knowledge.
I saw an alternative in malaysia, but it feels a little too far for being able to do something in case of problem.
Thanks for your attention and time.