My device seems to have gone into a bootloop - either due to a virus on the device...... or (I believe) due to SPACE - or as a result of it running out of space it has maybe overwritten some of the ROM (if that is at all possible!?) because everything was fine until I did some large downloads and then at some point it just entered into this constant bootloop that I cannot get the device out of, so I cannot backup the files from the device directly. When I try accessing the device from the PC via a USB cable it says it can't find the DRIVER OMAP4430...... tried installing this driver but it did not help.
All I want is to be able to access to my personal datafiles on the device - iot backup them up to the PC (or an SD card in the device itself.....).
I have done some reading on the internet to try get HOW2 on doing this but just find info on HOW2 flashing stuff onto the device, via Odin, etc...... I may need to do this anyway (or do a reset factory settings) which is fine, but I would FIRST like to be able to backup or copy off my personal data from the device.
Any advice and help would be greatly appreciated.
You could flash twrp recovery with odin. After that you can boot into recovery and access your files with twrp file manager (Advanced->file manager).
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Yes, i know of titanium backup
however, i find it extremely cumbersome. especially for my nexus 5, where the backups will NOT show up in the folder when i connect it to my pc, although i created a folder in TB in a location visible on my pc.
anyway, i was wondering if there is an itunes-like program for windows that allows me to connect my phone to the pc and use that program backup everything, including apps, to the computer and restore when needed? does something like that exists?
murfi said:
Yes, i know of titanium backup
however, i find it extremely cumbersome. especially for my nexus 5, where the backups will NOT show up in the folder when i connect it to my pc, although i created a folder in TB in a location visible on my pc.
anyway, i was wondering if there is an itunes-like program for windows that allows me to connect my phone to the pc and use that program backup everything, including apps, to the computer and restore when needed? does something like that exists?
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If your bootloader is unlocked, you can flash or boot into TWRP recovery, it supports MTP.
This means if you are in TWRP recovery, you can view all /sdcard files on phone and backup any folder, including
Titanium Backup folder via windows explorer directly to PC.
Also, it is a good safety practice to make a full backup in TWRP. Again with the MTP capability of TWRP recovery , you can view and backup
the TWRP directory directly to PC via windows explorer.
Simple:good:
If you have any connection problems between PC and TWRP MTP, it is likely driver related.
You will need to look in Device manager on PC while phone is connected.
Download the howto_driver.zip from the "15 seconds ADB Installer thread" and follow the picture tutorial contained in the zip file. This should fix your connectivity issues.
If you are sill having connection issues, You could try and install ADB drivers . It might help the pc detect.
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32bit
Then go back through the picture tutorial in the howto_driver.zip
Best of luck
Use Titanium Backup.But I prefer Helium
Use NexusRootToolkit. It is somewhere here on XDA. Cannot give you the link now, but search and you'll find it.
murfi said:
Yes, i know of titanium backup
however, i find it extremely cumbersome. especially for my nexus 5, where the backups will NOT show up in the folder when i connect it to my pc, although i created a folder in TB in a location visible on my pc.
anyway, i was wondering if there is an itunes-like program for windows that allows me to connect my phone to the pc and use that program backup everything, including apps, to the computer and restore when needed? does something like that exists?
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This is a problem with MTP not TiBu. Even on a good day, it's flaky.
joegestes said:
If your bootloader is unlocked, you can flash or boot into TWRP recovery, it supports MTP.
This means if you are in TWRP recovery, you can view all /root files on phone and backup any folder, including
Titanium Backup folder via windows explorer directly to PC.
Also, it is a good safety practice to make a full backup in TWRP. Again with the MTP capability of TWRP recovery , you can view and backup
the TWRP directory directly to PC via windows explorer.
Simple:good:
If you have any connection problems between PC and TWRP MTP, it is likely driver related.
You will need to look in Device manager on PC while phone is connected.
Download the howto_driver.zip from the "15 seconds ADB Installer thread" and follow the picture tutorial contained in the zip file. This should fix your connectivity issues.
If you are sill having connection issues, You could try and install ADB drivers . It might help the pc detect.
64bit
32bit
Then go back through the picture tutorial in the howto_driver.zip
Best of luck
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thats interesting, didnt know that. will give it a shot!
murfi said:
thats interesting, didnt know that. will give it a shot!
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Yes,
I meant to say In TWRP recovery, you can view all /sdcard files on phone.
Not all /Root files
You can also MPT from Android. But for me, transfer seem more reliable from TWRP.
I was messing with my galaxy core prime (android 4.4.4) using a app to remove system apps that you can't with the stock app manager.. (no reason for crap like smartcard manager, bluetooth, wifi sharing..etc to be running when i haven't authorized such things, seems like security risk imo)
Was also editing the autorun list and messing with Norton applock and phone encryption settings to try to further secure it.
Welp, I f'ed things up because phone crashed and now can't do anything.. can't access home screen, settings, call/txt, nothing. So I booted into the stock bootloader and tried formatting the entire thing including cache..
Didn't fix the problem, can't finish the setup wizard without it crashing, get message saying setup, hangouts, and keyguard stopped working and then my phone bricks and can't do absolutely anything. No backup either.
I have been googling and googling for solutions but everything I read says to either:
-Reformat from bootloader (tried a 100 times)
-Wipe with TWRP or CWM (don't have either and can't access play store)
-Use Kies (won't detect my device since I can't enable MTP)
-ADB sideload twrp or cyanogen (cant, usb debugging probably not enabled since I formatted and no way to enable it since setup of android fails)
Odin can't detect anything either.. probably due to same reason. (Cant enable MTP or usb debugging)
So am I totally screwed? What are my options here?
I noticed the stock bootloader has a option to install from external storage.. can I put my sd card in a phone that does work and download twrp, cyanogenmod, (or ANYTHING else to fix this) to that, then put it back in my bricked phone and re flash it that way? That way I wouldn't need mtp or usb debugging... or won't that work?
Wasted so much time trying to fix this guys, googling and even formatted my pc removing Linux and reinstalling Windows hoping suddenly my pc would detect it.. atleast on linux when I used "adb devices" command it detected my device (trying to sideload anything didn't appear to work though, phone says error about verifying it and tries again and says completed and reboots but no sign of the rom I just supposedly sideloaded anywhere)
removing Linux and installing Window seems to have been a mistake because on windows using "adb devices" returns a blank list.. Tried different cords, ports, kies 2 and 3, reinstalling drivers, disabling firewall..etc but like I said even if I do get adb to detect it, what can I do from there without mtp or debugging?
Sorry for wall of txt, just want to be descriptive as possible so I don't get all replies telling me to try stuff that I've tried 100 times or just flat out won't work for my particular problem because of the above reasons..
will be sincerely grateful to anyone that took the time to read this and try to help me.
Hello,
I decided to have a shot and try to ask for help here. After many hours of trying and googling I could not find the proper solution how to backup my media files. Whenever I go to recovery mode and connect my phone via usb, using SDK tools I write "adb devices" and it tells me that my Samsung Galaxy S6 is connected via "sideload"?. Is there any way to backup my media using sideload? I am not able to pull data from the phone using "adb pull", but maybe there is some sort of script that I could push that would make my phone do a backup. Hopefully there is a chance to recover my files before I do a full wipe. Photos and memories gathered in 4 years. Would suck to loose all of that.
Gustavvo said:
Hello,
I decided to have a shot and try to ask for help here. After many hours of trying and googling I could not find the proper solution how to backup my media files. Whenever I go to recovery mode and connect my phone via usb, using SDK tools I write "adb devices" and it tells me that my Samsung Galaxy S6 is connected via "sideload"?. Is there any way to backup my media using sideload? I am not able to pull data from the phone using "adb pull", but maybe there is some sort of script that I could push that would make my phone do a backup. Hopefully there is a chance to recover my files before I do a full wipe. Photos and memories gathered in 4 years. Would suck to loose all of that.
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Sideload is a one way street, you can only use sideload to transfer data from PC to your device, not device to PC.
Try booting into recovery and only wipe the cache partition(DO NOT FACTORY RESET), this will not delete your media files, it only deletes temporary files, if your cached files are causing your bootloop, wiping cache will fix it.
If you can't get the device to boot into system, you might be screwed.
One other option is, if your bootloader is unlocked, you can flash TWRP custom recovery for your specific model number then you have a couple of options, you can connect to adb while booted into TWRP and use adb commands to pull copies of your media files, or, you can use the Backup option in TWRP then extract the backup to retreive your files, extracting TWRP backups is kinda tricky though.
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Hi, I've come to these forums because you guys are knowlegeable.
I essentially uninstalled thorugh ADB the package installer (com.google.android.packageinstaller) and little did I know that was a big mistake on my part, as I didn't realize the package installer was a core part of the system. All was going well until i turned on and off my phoen, and it is now always stuck in recovery mode.
- Rebooting the phone just sends me back to the menu.
- I've not tried wiping the data yet, since I want to keep my files (for the moment).
- Connect with MiAssistant allows me to connect my phone to my PC, but it in sideload mode automatically. I can go in fastboot mode though, and fortunately I have turned USB Debugging on.
As I've come to realize, a factory reset or flashing a ROM would fix my issue, but also delete all my files (photos, music...). I was planning to do a backup of my photos, but now it's too late.
Is there any way I can access my files and pull them to my PC on sideload/fastboot mode?
The only thread i have seen with a similar problem is this one: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2487147
I also get the error:closed when I try an adb pull.
Thanks in advance.
Hello!
im trying to recover a very specific file that i think is a .dat file. i have tried different recovery tools but haven't find anyone one that is able to find the file. does any one know of a recovery tool that may be able to find this file? it's okay if the tool costs money but i want to be sure that it can find .dat files
thx for the help
Edit:forgot to write that im trying to recover it from a factory reset
A Factory Reset deletes all those files that weren't present when the phone was put in the market.
Deleted files aren't accessible from within Android.
What 3rd-party recovery tools have you tried out so far?
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A Factory Reset deletes all those files that weren't present when the phone was put in the market.
Deleted files aren't accessible from within Android.
What 3rd-party recovery tools have you tried out so far?
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i have tried undeleter so far
I am also interested in file recovery. I have an Motorola XT1032 with a locked bootloader, Android 5.1 and the app/data has been uninstalled.
So far I have tried:
Dr Fone root
KingRoot PC
Recoverit for PC
UltData Android
Minitool Android Recovery
None have been able to root the phone or find anything useful
Ultdata can only recover pictures videos etc
Minitool needs the phone to be rooted, and surprisingly did not detect older phones that I tried that were already rooted.
DrFone Android Recovery indicated 300 files which it zips up, unfortunately I had to pay to recover them to the PC, and they were all just remnants of kingroot, drfone etc.
DrFone root, kingroot, kingoroot, iroot etc all failed to root the device
I am now considering the approach from https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-internal-memory-data-deleted-files-recovery.3093292/
-but am concerned that this process will first wipe the device.
Update: The DirtyCow exploit appears to work on this handset without resetting it, using the method from https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/xt1528-verizon-pre-paid-temporary-root-achieved.3530293/