Just wondering before i brick my phone and waist hours trying to get it to stock.
What I dont trust Or get is The message says to format data Type YES in twrp after installing.
NORMALLY anyone who does that knows it usually wipes the complete O.S making the phone bricked "Not bootable" Now I don't remember if that included wiping system then format data it's one or both that cause O.S to vanish .
Anyways any good feedback from metro T-Mobile users about twrp working for the newest 2016 j7 would be appreciated. That means like otg.. internal storage all the stuff usually needed .
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androidddaaron said:
Just wondering before i brick my phone and waist hours trying to get it to stock.
What I dont trust Or get is The message says to format data Type YES in twrp after installing.
NORMALLY anyone who does that knows it usually wipes the complete O.S making the phone bricked "Not bootable" Now I don't remember if that included wiping system then format data it's one or both that cause O.S to vanish .
Anyways any good feedback from metro T-Mobile users about twrp working for the newest 2016 j7 would be appreciated. That means like otg.. internal storage all the stuff usually needed .
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It means to format the data partition which is where your pics, music, personal data etc lies. Not your system.
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Okay, what does formatting your android do?
does it clear all data, leaving your system files on it?
I've been planning to reset my android phone for awhile now, I just wanna know this before, cause it seems very risky. I want to be able to always factory reset my phone at all times, so yeah.. :]
Just as you said clears data and leaves system files.
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Okay, thanks! I just had to ask to make sure cause I didn't wanna risk anything.
It does not erase the SD card. Your photos, music, ringtones, etc will still be there when you flash a new rom
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Hello, i own a moto, and i have been flashing cyanogenmod everyday for about a month , everytime i flash a .zip, it envolves restoring the original image .xml.zip gpe or non-gpe, then again supersu.zip, install cwm in recovery, reboot after reboot (heating the device), and then reinstall and configure cyanogenmod. I just like experimenting so that i can learn by myself.
Lets say 25 times all that process with help of MotoTool by Alonso and Minimal adb + fastboot..
My concern is if the internal memory can be in a not-so-good state as in the beginning, not just because of the data i write, but formatting or partitioning, wiping cache, dalvik... or whatever is done.
I have read somewhere about wear leveling, but i want real cases, tell me if you have had a phone and have done this or even more times, and the phone works ok after months or year.
Thank you in advance.
Looks like you bought a phone just for experimenting...
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Ok,, This is what happened
I was in stock 4.1.2 and installed Custom ROM,, since that I felt lost few of photos and videos. I didn't feel good with that Custom ROM so I installed back to stock 4.1.2 and automatically upgraded to 4.2.2. And since that I lost greater than before. I used many recovery software to recover my lost but I had nothing. I decided back to 4.1.2 but something worse happened,, 3/4 of my video and gallery disappear,, :crying::crying::crying:
Perhaps someone know what should I do or anyone had same experience like me?
# Sorry for my bad english :fingers-crossed:
Anyone?
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Anyone?
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some idk about that but in my case I lost all of my data including all the movies i copied in my tab.. After checking sd card throughly using CWM recovery i managed to find out that every thing was there but flashing a new rom mounted a new partition kinda thingy lol old data was saved as SDcard/data but after the flash new data was saved as SDcard/0/data and i couldnt find any way to access the old data.. I had to format the sdcard completely using CWM to get back the space taken by my old data though...
Any one?
Kiyani said:
some idk about that but in my case I lost all of my data including all the movies i copied in my tab.. After checking sd card throughly using CWM recovery i managed to find out that every thing was there but flashing a new rom mounted a new partition kinda thingy lol old data was saved as SDcard/data but after the flash new data was saved as SDcard/0/data and i couldnt find any way to access the old data.. I had to format the sdcard completely using CWM to get back the space taken by my old data though...
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Thanks for your reply.. so, there's no way to get our old data? I'm sure my data was not lost.. but hidden somewhere just like you said. Because my remain storage's memory was not increase (constant) since my data lost.. is it happen in tablet device only? Because I never face this case expect in tablet device
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prince_jihad11 said:
Thanks for your reply.. so, there's no way to get our old data? I'm sure my data was not lost.. but hidden somewhere just like you said. Because my remain storage's memory was not increase (constant) since my data lost.. is it happen in tablet device only? Because I never face this case expect in tablet device
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You're welcome I'm always happy to help.. Well the problem is I couldn't find any way to recover the old data... so was forced to completely format my tab using CWM recovery to get back the space of almost 6 GB taken by my old data.. if you can somehow get back to the old partition then it might be possible to get it back but sadly i wasn't able to find anything on the net though.. BTW it didn't happened again though so far and yes you are right it only happened on my tab... I flashed new ROMs multiple times on HTC desire C and Samsung Galaxy Y DUOS but this never happened..
So... I'm pretty ashamed of posting this, but I am desperate as well. I flashed to stock in order to install CM11 on my Nexus 5 (had to, i don't know why it wouldn't like my bootloader otherwise) but, of course, it deleted my media partition as well.
Is there something I can do to retrieve my backups on /media? I think I can't, but I'd like a final word from someone who's not dumb as me. Thanks.
You're pretty much screwed. But you could try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47623410
You'd have to be real desperate or its not worth the effort
Edit, for the future, just flashing the system and boot image probably would have accomplished what you wanted to do
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You're pretty much screwed. But you could try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47623410
You'd have to be real desperate or its not worth the effort
Edit, for the future, just flashing the system and boot image probably would have accomplished what you wanted to do
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I don't think there's anything that can be done. It hurts my nerves so much because it seems I did EVERYTHING wrong: backupping only on SD and not on the cloud, wiping system from TWRP (there was no need of doing this, wiping data would have been perfectly fine), realized that the stock flash would have wiped internal memory as well while it was running but the critical point was not reached yet and didn't have the courage to stop the process before the damage was actually done. I lost a lot of SMS I was really attached to... but I hope I learnt some lessons...
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I don't think there's anything that can be done. It hurts my nerves so much because it seems I did EVERYTHING wrong: backupping only on SD and not on the cloud, wiping system from TWRP (there was no need of doing this, wiping data would have been perfectly fine), realized that the stock flash would have wiped internal memory as well while it was running but the critical point was not reached yet and didn't have the courage to stop the process before the damage was actually done. I lost a lot of SMS I was really attached to... but I hope I learnt some lessons...
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Hate to be cut and dry, but there's nothing you can do; it's unfortunately gone. When I flash a new rom, I wipe everything except internal storage. If you're flashing an update of your current rom, you need to do cache | dalvik only. Though I prefer to always do clean installs.
My phone (Note 3) was stuck at Samsung logo so I couldn't remove or backup my data first.
Can he use any software to backup my data & steal them from recovery or download modes?
I never changed USB debugging settings. And didn't root my phone either.
I removed the SD card first, it was empty.
So can data be stolen from internal memory by ADB or something?
Sorry I'm really not experienced in this..
The guy took 1 hour to flash the rom twice as he said and it failed. It keeps stuck at Samsung logo again.
I only could get a glimpse of android upgrading screen after 20 minutes or so..but I don't know if he used anything to steal my data before flashing the phone.
After it failed i took the phone, tried flashing it with different roms by odin and it fails too after the android upgrading process. I had to factory reset and it worked after losing everything of course.
Only I'm worried about stealing my data as professionalism & conscience aren't the favorite things in my country unfortunately
Waiting for your help
Thanks a lot!
He can steal anything photos call logs messages anything if he wqntes. And by the conditions he flashed a rom for a different varient or a moded one.
Another possibility occurs that he fooled you by backing up your old firmware and then flashed it.
And yes he can steal anything.
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He can steal anything photos call logs messages anything if he wqntes. And by the conditions he flashed a rom for a different varient or a moded one.
Another possibility occurs that he fooled you by backing up your old firmware and then flashed it.
And yes he can steal anything.
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No, they flashed official, it only bootlooped because of old conflicting data from the previous installation, that's why doing a factory reset made it work without bootlooping, factory reset removed the conflicting data and allow the device to boot properly.
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JerryDavid said:
My phone (Note 3) was stuck at Samsung logo so I couldn't remove or backup my data first.
Can he use any software to backup my data & steal them from recovery or download modes?
I never changed USB debugging settings. And didn't root my phone either.
I removed the SD card first, it was empty.
So can data be stolen from internal memory by ADB or something?
Sorry I'm really not experienced in this..
The guy took 1 hour to flash the rom twice as he said and it failed. It keeps stuck at Samsung logo again.
I only could get a glimpse of android upgrading screen after 20 minutes or so..but I don't know if he used anything to steal my data before flashing the phone.
After it failed i took the phone, tried flashing it with different roms by odin and it fails too after the android upgrading process. I had to factory reset and it worked after losing everything of course.
Only I'm worried about stealing my data as professionalism & conscience aren't the favorite things in my country unfortunately
Waiting for your help
Thanks a lot!
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If all you had was stock recovery and download mode then no, he couldn't steal your personal data.
ADB doesn't work with stock recovery on Samsung and it doesn't work with download mode. Your data should be safe.
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You didn't had a Custom Recovery?Sorry I Didn't took that in account.You are absolutely right adb Don't work on Stock.
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