I updated my Samsung Galaxy S6 to nougat and it started to restart every 30 seconds. I want to know if there is a way to back up my contacts and photos as S6 does not have an SD card before I re install the rom using ODIN.
Many you flashed a wrong or currpted Ron/zip?
if you saved your contacts in your Google/Samsung account or even on the Sim card, they are already backed up. But, if you saved on phone it is a problem (unless someone here know how and where contacts are saved)
Photos you can save for sure: power off your phone, connect to your PC, go to the "Galaxy s6" drive, move the photos to a folder on your PC, and then after you fix it you can move them back.
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So, I rooted my new S3 today and was seemingly successful.
Now, I want to restore all of the applications that were on my Droid 2 (SD card is transferred into my S3).
When I connect the phone to my PC and look at the SD contents, I see all of my old apps and data.
However, when it's disconnected and I open Root Explorer or attempt to restore with Titanium Backup, all of the folders appear blank. I mean ALL of them. Music, DCIM, Tit Back ... seems to think there's nothing in anything.
Can someone clue me in?
RobinDean said:
So, I rooted my new S3 today and was seemingly successful.
Now, I want to restore all of the applications that were on my Droid 2 (SD card is transferred into my S3).
When I connect the phone to my PC and look at the SD contents, I see all of my old apps and data.
However, when it's disconnected and I open Root Explorer or attempt to restore with Titanium Backup, all of the folders appear blank. I mean ALL of them. Music, DCIM, Tit Back ... seems to think there's nothing in anything.
Can someone clue me in?
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In TiBU hit menu, select preferences, and there will be an option to select backup folder location. Then hit detect, and choose "whole device". It will find your backup folder. when it does, select the folder, and then hit use current folder.
... and there we go.
Thank you!
Same but bigger problem
I thought the same issue here, when I clicked on the scenario calculations tick, all the figures were 0.. then i did as per what u said, still same problem.. i even installed superuser again.. pls help..
*SORRY PROBLEM SOLVED! FILTER ISSUE* my bad...
Hello there
I got some serious issues on the S6 with the backup of my messages from Whatsapp.
Normally i use Helium to backup all my apps+data. Nowadays since Whatsapp has been part of Facebook this aint possible anymore.
So i went the regular way, the backup messages and then copy the whatsapp/database to the new phone after installing whatsapp (Whatsapp is ofcourse already installed on the S6)
It asks me to restore, i press yay!!!! All of the sudden it says it was unable to restore the messages.
I tried many ways, emailing, through pc etc etc with the file to my new phone.
I dont know if the file has been damaged through transfer, but normally you need to use your Sd card. Wich the S6 does not have!
Ok so i went to my girlfriend her phone and copied her backup to the S6 and tried aswell. Also doesnt work.
Anyone here with the same issue and a fix?
I really want my messages back restored but it seems impossible.
Please help! I will thank you gratefully with a Thankyou!
damitch300 said:
Hello there
I got some serious issues on the S6 with the backup of my messages from Whatsapp.
Normally i use Helium to backup all my apps+data. Nowadays since Whatsapp has been part of Facebook this aint possible anymore.
So i went the regular way, the backup messages and then copy the whatsapp/database to the new phone after installing whatsapp (Whatsapp is ofcourse already installed on the S6)
It asks me to restore, i press yay!!!! All of the sudden it says it was unable to restore the messages.
I tried many ways, emailing, through pc etc etc with the file to my new phone.
I dont know if the file has been damaged through transfer, but normally you need to use your Sd card. Wich the S6 does not have!
Ok so i went to my girlfriend her phone and copied her backup to the S6 and tried aswell. Also doesnt work.
Anyone here with the same issue and a fix?
I really want my messages back restored but it seems impossible.
Please help! I will thank you gratefully with a Thankyou!
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Have you tried copying the entire folder over?
Yes i have. Took me a while since there was 2gigs on media.
But it still says that it was unable. Somehow the file is corrupt probaly everytime.
I have copied my entire WhatsApp folder over 3 times and it's worked fine every time on my G920F. First I did it from my Galaxy S4 onto the S6, and the other 2 times were from wiping the S6 clean and starting fresh. No issues, it restores just fine.
Greetings all,
I have been tearing my hair out for weeks trying what seems about every possible method to recover deleted photos from a Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-i9300T. (Telstra)
The photos were stored on the phone not the SD card but in a moment of madness I accidentally deleted them.
The phone runs Android 4.3.
The phone has been rooted with CF Autoroot, RootChecker says the phone is rooted and Superuser is granting appropriate permissions, and USB debugging has been enabled.
When I run Wondershare Dr Fone or Easeus Mobisaver, each program seems to scan and finds a lot of files such as gifs, png's etc but not the deleted photos.
To test the device I took about 30 photos without the SD and deleted the album. Then I ran each program again with the same negative result.
Neither Wondershare or Easeus support lines have been of any use.
I ran Undelete app and no result either.
The photos were taken during the recent Nepal earthquake at the site and I am desperately needing to recover them.
My eternal thanks will be extended to anyone who can help me save them.
Cliff Ferguson
Western Australia
Hi there,
Please see this discussion about how to recover files/photos from different devices:
[Q] how to recover deleted photos from galaxy s3 phone memory
How to recover deleted Pictures and files off your INTERNAL memory on SG3
[GUIDE] Internal Memory Data Recovery - Yes We Can!
[GUIDE] Recover Accidentally Deleted Files, Photos, Music after Rom Install
For more questions please ask directly here: [HELP THREAD] Galaxy S3 Ask any question.
Good luck
Hi,
Short: How to clone an S7 to another S7?
Long: I want to transfer everything from my old S7 to a new S7. Both are G930F. What I did:
- full NAND Backup with TWRP to external sdcard
- copy internal storage to external sdcard
- root and full wipe new S7
- restore NAND backup and internal storage at new S7
I thought, doing this will give me an exact copy of my old S7 state. Unfortunately, there are some problems: Booting on the new phone works fine, but then it began: Neither fingerprint nor PIN to unlock the phone were working. So I deleted the keylock files in the system folder with TWRP. Then I was able to properly access my ROM and everyhting, but when I wanted to set new PIN, it asked me for "Backup Password" - no idea what that is. So I cannot set a new PIN. Also, the SIM card is not working, as it asks me for a "SIM Network Unlock PIN". I don't understand, why this can be a problem for the new S7, as I thought my procedure above with NAND restore will give me an exact copy of my old S7. Can anyone help me with this or at least explain to me, why this procedure did not give me an exacat copy?
Thank you!
blaukraut said:
Hi,
Short: How to clone an S7 to another S7?
Long: I want to transfer everything from my old S7 to a new S7. Both are G930F. What I did:
- full NAND Backup with TWRP to external sdcard
- copy internal storage to external sdcard
- root and full wipe new S7
- restore NAND backup and internal storage at new S7
I thought, doing this will give me an exact copy of my old S7 state. Unfortunately, there are some problems: Booting on the new phone works fine, but then it began: Neither fingerprint nor PIN to unlock the phone were working. So I deleted the keylock files in the system folder with TWRP. Then I was able to properly access my ROM and everyhting, but when I wanted to set new PIN, it asked me for "Backup Password" - no idea what that is. So I cannot set a new PIN. Also, the SIM card is not working, as it asks me for a "SIM Network Unlock PIN". I don't understand, why this can be a problem for the new S7, as I thought my procedure above with NAND restore will give me an exact copy of my old S7. Can anyone help me with this or at least explain to me, why this procedure did not give me an exacat copy?
Thank you!
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You cannot clone any phone this way, there are parameters which are unique to each device such IMEI, serial number, mac address, EFS partition etc.
If you simply want to transfer files, settings, apps, from one phone to another you can do this with Samsung Smart Switch but both phones have to be on stock firmware to start with.
If you don't want to do this, save everything to the sd card, sign out of Google account on old phone, set up new phone with same Google account and download all your apps and backups to new phone.
You've done the right way..BUT...you don't have to clone the efs partition too.
Restore the original from Twrp backup.
I didn't clone the ETF partition, as I read that you gonna brick the phone if you use another phone's ETF partition.
But I now found out that the ETF partition is acutally the cause of the problems, I have: PIN does not work, because part of the encryption is the IMEI, which is stored in the ETF partition and of course differs. SIM does not work, because obviously my new S7 is simlocked, which is also stored in the ETF partition.
So what I have to do is to do another backup with all security features PIN/fingerprint disabled and restore that one. And also I have to unlock my new S7. I really thought that this is gonna be easier.
I have a Samsung S3 mini and have forgotten my Google account details and the samsung back up pin. Is there any way to get in to my phone because it has personal photos and videos on it. I don't want to do a hard reset because it will get rid of all the data.
Install twrp and transfer important files to sd card via flie manager(Advanced > file manager)