I'm some kind of experienced with ODIN, but I'm not sure with some things, I'll be very grateful if you can answer my questions.
Will flashing a stock ROM *touch* the /data partition ? There is nothing related with data in my Rom package, and NAND Erase All is not enabled. I have some important data to be recovered so I can't let it be touched.
Also, what software do you recommend when I am trying to recover deleted data on a Android device? Either an Android app or a PC app is okay.
Thanks a lot.
kavinzhao said:
I'm some kind of experienced with ODIN, but I'm not sure with some things, I'll be very grateful if you can answer my questions.
Will flashing a stock ROM *touch* the /data partition ? There is nothing related with data in my Rom package, and NAND Erase All is not enabled. I have some important data to be recovered so I can't let it be touched.
Also, what software do you recommend when I am trying to recover deleted data on a Android device? Either an Android app or a PC app is okay.
Thanks a lot.
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Greetings and welcome to assist. Unfortunately assist is for guiding new members around the boards only, try asking your question here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help
Thanks for understanding
Sawdoctor
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Greetings all,
I am currently in possession of a note II which has never been rooted or unlocked. At the moment it is soft bricked and cannot get past the Samsung bootloader logo into the ROM.
In recovery mode, it cannot mount to any of the internal partitions (system, cache, data, efs etc). As a result, I cannot flash any stock or custom firmware onto the device via Odin whether that be v3.0.9, v3.0.7 or v1.83. The procedure fails after attempting to write to the NAND. When flashing a new PIT file on, the procedure freezes at "get PIT for mapping" so I presume the PIT in the system is corrupted.
I cannot connect to any partition, not even in GParted. As a result, it is essentially bricked. I cannot access it via adb (since there's no partition for it to write over) or fastboot. Factory reset fails too. The recovery on the system is the very limited stock recovery.
The firmware it is running is: KOT.49H.N7100XXUFNE1
Except from resetting via JTAG, any suggestions would be greatly appriciated.
Many Thanks
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Hi, thank you for issued XDA Assist. It sounds like you know what you're doing and have tried everything. But take a look at this,http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2154890. There may be some help there. If not JTAG may be you're only option
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Hi, thank you for issued XDA Assist. It sounds like you know what you're doing and have tried everything. But take a look at this,http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2154890. There may be some help there. If not JTAG may be you're only option
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Hmm, thanks for the reply, though that guide assumes the phone can find the partitions for remapping which is the stage I'm stuck on. It then suggests to reflash the bootloader which failed on me as well so not really getting anywhere..
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I have lost recorded voice memos and pictures on my note 3.
The files are critical. I am not tech savy, but I do own a credit card that works...
PLEASE HELP!
Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. I assume you want root to try to recover your files. Unfortunately, with Samsung devices to root usually means flashing an earlier firmware with Odin which wipes your device. That pretty much defeats the purpose. I can't find anything on XDA on how to root your specific device. You could try this but I don't think anything there will work for you, http://www.xda-developers.com/root/ Does your device boot and are you sure you can't access the files grim your current system?
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Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. I assume you want root to try to recover your files. Unfortunately, with Samsung devices to root usually means flashing an earlier firmware with Odin which wipes your device. That pretty much defeats the purpose. I can't find anything on XDA on how to root your specific device. You could try this but I don't think anything there will work for you, http://www.xda-developers.com/root/ Does your device boot and are you sure you can't access the files grim your current system?
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Thanks for the response. The device is fine. The files were deleted by mistake. I took the device out of service so as to not overwrite the files. I hope someone can help.
KW
I see you've asked this question in other threads, which is the best place to ask. So I'm going to close this thread.
Hey,
my phone was upgraded to wrong region:
-I lost services.
-Can't install another firmware, getting oemsbl error.
After many things I'w tried, I'm ready to clean everything if it helps me to install update.app(original firmware)
Not sure about system and boot partitions.
I know deleting system, will delete my android system, leaving it bootable. But what about IMEI/SN? Is there something like ESF folder there?
Deleting boot, gonna leave me without boot (anyways if I won't reboot I think I can use ADB push then) but, does boot contains my bootloader info? (bootloader unlocked)
So my resources:
-Wrong region firmware installed;
-bootloader unlocked;
-Cwm/original(curent ROM) recoveries;
-update.app for my region, wich is older then that is installed in my phone right now (I can extract system.img boot.img)
-update.app the same is installed & very old nandroid backup from the oldest version of wrong region
-ADB sideload, cygwin on pc, terminal on phone etc. etc.......
& the screenshot maybe useful,
I can dd if=/dev/block//// of=mnt/sdcard2/file.img
or use adb or whatever leads to the right direction
I'm newby, but I catch quick, any info can help me
dafas said:
Hey,
my phone was upgraded to wrong region:
-I lost services.
-Can't install another firmware, getting oemsbl error.
After many things I'w tried, I'm ready to clean everything if it helps me to install update.app(original firmware)
Not sure about system and boot partitions.
I know deleting system, will delete my android system, leaving it bootable. But what about IMEI/SN? Is there something like ESF folder there?
Deleting boot, gonna leave me without boot (anyways if I won't reboot I think I can use ADB push then) but, does boot contains my bootloader info? (bootloader unlocked)
So my resources:
-Wrong region firmware installed;
-bootloader unlocked;
-Cwm/original(curent ROM) recoveries;
-update.app for my region, wich is older then that is installed in my phone right now (I can extract system.img boot.img)
-update.app the same is installed & very old nandroid backup from the oldest version of wrong region
-ADB sideload, cygwin on pc, terminal on phone etc. etc.......
& the screenshot maybe useful,
I can dd if=/dev/block//// of=mnt/sdcard2/file.img
or use adb or whatever leads to the right direction
I'm newby, but I catch quick, any info can help me
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Hello,
Thanks for using XDA Assist.
What device do you have?
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v7 said:
Hello,
Thanks for using XDA Assist.
What device do you have?
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Huawei g740, Qualcom chip
dafas said:
Huawei g740, Qualcom chip
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Your can post your query in Android Q&A,Help and Troubleshooting..Experts there may be able to help you.
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v7 said:
Your can post your query in Android Q&A,Help and Troubleshooting..Experts there may be able to help you.
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Already did it. I don't think experts r interested in helping with this device. This must be the case why I didn't mentioned device model.
Anyways, I think with all info I can provide, it doesn't need to be expert in specified device, enough would be expert who can point me what to do.
Like I sayed I'm prepared to clean it at all, including wipe system & boot. Now I just need info about boot & system partitions.
What's going to heppen with my IMEI & bootloader.
Whatever, thank you at least 4 replay
dafas said:
Already did it. I don't think experts r interested in helping with this device. This must be the case why I didn't mentioned device model.
Anyways, I think with all info I can provide, it doesn't need to be expert in specified device, enough would be expert who can point me what to do.
Like I sayed I'm prepared to clean it at all, including wipe system & boot. Now I just need info about boot & system partitions.
What's going to heppen with my IMEI & bootloader.
Whatever, thank you at least 4 replay
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I suggest you to read the stickies in the Assist forum.Purpose of XDA Assist..
We're here to point you to the correct direction.As your device doesn't have a dedicated forum on the site,your question goes to the General Help section which I linked in my last post.
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I suggest you to read the stickies in the Assist forum.Purpose of XDA Assist..
We're here to point you to the correct direction.As your device doesn't have a dedicated forum on the site,your question goes to the General Help section which I linked in my last post.
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Hello everyone excuse me for creating a new thread but i couldnt find any info on this matter.
As a gift, my parents brought Samsung galaxy s4 from someone i dont trust who sells it. I factory reset the phone thinking its enough to clean everything.
After a while i feel unsafe because the person knows things out of nowhere and i found out many $py software are more advanced now that its installed via root and very stealth.
I read wiping the partition and flashing the rom could help. But limited to only boot, data, cache, system while other such as /misc, /recovery remain the same?
What if its hidden in there. i want to make sure just to be safe. On a side note the person is a techie and also know im careful and observant.
Whats your suggestion on this?
Can i check every files in it also find the hidden ones and make sure no suspicious file? but i dont know the original stock file lists for the partition /misc and /recovery.
Please help. Any inputs will be very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
To completely delete the malicious software you can re flash the stock firmware using odin
Thank you for replying
Isnt that the same as flash a stock rom like i mention?
But what i read from couple of sources it only rewrite /system
And factory reset wipes /data /cache.
But other partitions remain the same.
Or theres something i miss?
With odin you re flash all rewriting all of the partition
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With odin you re flash all rewriting all of the partition
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Is that the Odin Nand erase all?
I tried google it abd found this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2610757
Look for sammobile with google and look for your firmware , download it and follow the steps that the site gives you.
joe2k01 said:
Look for sammobile with google and look for your firmware , download it and follow the steps that the site gives you.
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Hello, yes ive read about it.
However, do you think its better with the nand erase all?
The difference is the pit file right? Which it uses for repartition.
Ive read some people write tutorial.
Im wavering. Because i read for full wipe and more secure we should use the nand erase all.
If you use my method you are sure that all the malicious software will be deleted, so I suggest you my method
Hi! Posting this here as need maximum exposure as the specific thread for the model does not seem to have many people looking at it.
My original post is here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/cant-reset-wipe-the-phone.4387423/
Short version: Tried anything I could imagine but can't wipe the phone. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you for reading!
Do you mean you want to wipe all data on your phone and make it like a new one? If yes, try pro android data wipe tool. Such a tool can help us do that easily like Dr.Fone - Data Eraser(Android), SafeWiper for Android, Coolmuster Android Eraser, etc. They are not free to use. About the details, please check online. Hope this will be your help.
TomassD said:
Hi! Posting this here as need maximum exposure as the specific thread for the model does not seem to have many people looking at it.
My original post is here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/cant-reset-wipe-the-phone.4387423/
Short version: Tried anything I could imagine but can't wipe the phone. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you for reading!
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A method for wiping all user-data and the associated cache partitions using fastboot while still keeping phone's OS can be accomplished by running the following fastboot commands:
Code:
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
Thank you! I will try later and post my results.
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