So long story short I have some very valuable information stuck on my phone, problem is the screen is broke and the phone is not rooted - I don't mind replacing the screen but before I do I want to make sure that makes sense as after scrolling through the forum here I have learned that rooting means it will format the phone.
I need a particular file that's stuck inside the android private data folder, so my question is will unlocking the bootloader format that folder too? Are there any new ways to extract that folder without rooting my phone or better yet without replacing the screen ?
If you have any input at all please do share this is really important, thank you!
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Hi everyone. I have a quick and pretty straightforward question. I have a company phone that I keep in my pocket. It's a second phone and I have to keep it on me at all times. My problem is that I want to disable the home key from turning the screen on and going to the lock screen. I have been told that if rooted I can simply modify the file at /system/usr/keylayout/gpio-keys.kl and I'm done. I do not wish to root my work phone for compliance reason and wanted to know if ADB or Fastboot can help me gain access to the file system to modify this entry. I got the idea becuase I reaalized that you can backup and resstore user app data without root so I thougth there might be a way. Please let me know, I sure do appreciate your time. Cheers.
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Hello All,
Noob here, I have searched and searched for an answer to my problem to no avail. I recently rooted my Sprint (ls990) LG G3 phone and had TWRP make a recovery for me which I placed on my computer for safe keeping and also because the file is a little over 5gb. I, being the Noob that I am went poking around the advance features on TWRP and hit fix permissions Now my phone wont boot up and gets stuck at the LG startup screen. I am still able to get into TWRP use those features so i decided why not just move my backup from my computer to my phone and perform a recovery and hope all is fixed. This is where i ran into a problem, This backup is too big for my phone and wont let me copy it back, i have tried hjsplit to split it up and move the splits parts to my phone only to discover that i cant re-combine them from my computer on my phone i have used 7-zip to compress the backup but still too big. i compressed and then split them but still unable to rejoin the files once on my phone. I'm turning to you guys to help me get over this hurled. Please help.
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Hello All,
Noob here, I have searched and searched for an answer to my problem to no avail. I recently rooted my Sprint (ls990) LG G3 phone and had TWRP make a recovery for me which I placed on my computer for safe keeping and also because the file is a little over 5gb. I, being the Noob that I am went poking around the advance features on TWRP and hit fix permissions Now my phone wont boot up and gets stuck at the LG startup screen. I am still able to get into TWRP use those features so i decided why not just move my backup from my computer to my phone and perform a recovery and hope all is fixed. This is where i ran into a problem, This backup is too big for my phone and wont let me copy it back, i have tried hjsplit to split it up and move the splits parts to my phone only to discover that i cant re-combine them from my computer on my phone i have used 7-zip to compress the backup but still too big. i compressed and then split them but still unable to rejoin the files once on my phone. I'm turning to you guys to help me get over this hurled. Please help.
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Hi, thanks for using XDA assist!
First, please create an account so you can post in other forums.
Do you have a removable SD card for your device? If so, be sure you are moving the TWRP backup to the TWRP backup folder on your SD card, not internal storage.
After creating your account, you can ask for more help here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-lg-g3/help
Also, you should bookmark this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-lg-g3
Good luck!
hi guys,
first, i m all time thankful to these developer guys, you make mobile world so genius, yeah it was never genius,
second, something i learn and something i want to learn more is about android always, but here is my question below that is really important. i don't know if it really make sense or not but i would like to know your opinion.
question :- i see there is a way to push files into device without rooting it. is it secure? it is safe? i guess yes. than how can i push titanium backup(data only) of particular app into my device?
example : - i myself after learning lot about apk tool and all that, modded "whatsapp" successfully and which is out of this world according to me, lately i cam to know there is already one called whatsapp GB, but mine is mine. (right now i don't have rooted device so couldn't send screenshot), but what i am trying to figure out is, i can install my modded apk on my non-rooted device and can run it either, problem comes when it is about registering number, what i really thought that if i can push titanium backup of my modded whatsapp.apk (data only - taken perviously when i had rooted device) to this non rooted device via ADB, than i didn't need to root my device ever, and so for any other app that is modded by me or any developers can be executed on non rooted device.
pros - if this is possible than i guess People won't need to root device, will not loose warranties, will not loose device by bricking it, will get out of a procedure of root methods, no one will ask more about root method, soft brick, hard brick, boot loader issues and many more questions like that i guess.
there will left only one tutorial than if this is possible and it will be like this - how to use adb?(step by step : beginner to black hat).
if this is possible than what we need? proper method of how to use adb, most of people easily can learn how to use adb but most of tutorial misses some points like how to push file by changing r/w permission, and where to put new data backup or files in device like some tutorial i have seen gives only command line but people actually don't know where to put the file like /data/data and than what?
Developers and Rooted device owner will become God in fact in this case because they can lead the rest in right path.
is this possible? or am i ridiculously making no sense?
joy.julep said:
hi guys,
first, i m all time thankful to these developer guys, you make mobile world so genius, yeah it was never genius,
second, something i learn and something i want to learn more is about android always, but here is my question below that is really important. i don't know if it really make sense or not but i would like to know your opinion.
question :- i see there is a way to push files into device without rooting it. is it secure? it is safe? i guess yes. than how can i push titanium backup(data only) of particular app into my device?
example : - i myself after learning lot about apk tool and all that, modded "whatsapp" successfully and which is out of this world according to me, lately i cam to know there is already one called whatsapp GB, but mine is mine. (right now i don't have rooted device so couldn't send screenshot), but what i am trying to figure out is, i can install my modded apk on my non-rooted device and can run it either, problem comes when it is about registering number, what i really thought that if i can push titanium backup of my modded whatsapp.apk (data only - taken perviously when i had rooted device) to this non rooted device via ADB, than i didn't need to root my device ever, and so for any other app that is modded by me or any developers can be executed on non rooted device.
pros - if this is possible than i guess People won't need to root device, will not loose warranties, will not loose device by bricking it, will get out of a procedure of root methods, no one will ask more about root method, soft brick, hard brick, boot loader issues and many more questions like that i guess.
there will left only one tutorial than if this is possible and it will be like this - how to use adb?(step by step : beginner to black hat).
if this is possible than what we need? proper method of how to use adb, most of people easily can learn how to use adb but most of tutorial misses some points like how to push file by changing r/w permission, and where to put new data backup or files in device like some tutorial i have seen gives only command line but people actually don't know where to put the file like /data/data and than what?
Developers and Rooted device owner will become God in fact in this case because they can lead the rest in right path.
is this possible? or am i ridiculously making no sense?
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Hello,
Please post your query here Ask any Query Newbie Friendly with all relevant details, the experts there maybe able to assist you.
-Vatsal
hi guys,
first, i m all time thankful to these developer guys, you make mobile world so genius, yeah it was never genius,
second, something i learn and something i want to learn more is about android always, but here is my question below that is really important. i don't know if it really make sense or not but i would like to know your opinion.
question :- i see there is a way to push files into device without rooting it. is it secure? it is safe? i guess yes. than how can i push titanium backup(data only) of particular app into my device?
example : - i myself after learning lot about apk tool and all that, modded "whatsapp" successfully and which is out of this world according to me, lately i cam to know there is already one called whatsapp GB, but mine is mine. (right now i don't have rooted device so couldn't send screenshot), but what i am trying to figure out is, i can install my modded apk on my non-rooted device and can run it either, problem comes when it is about registering number, what i really thought that if i can push titanium backup of my modded whatsapp.apk (data only - taken perviously when i had rooted device) to this non rooted device via ADB, than i didn't need to root my device ever, and so for any other app that is modded by me or any developers can be executed on non rooted device.
pros - if this is possible than i guess People won't need to root device, will not loose warranties, will not loose device by bricking it, will get out of a procedure of root methods, no one will ask more about root method, soft brick, hard brick, boot loader issues and many more questions like that i guess.
there will left only one tutorial than if this is possible and it will be like this - how to use adb?(step by step : beginner to black hat).
if this is possible than what we need? proper method of how to use adb, most of people easily can learn how to use adb but most of tutorial misses some points like how to push file by changing r/w permission, and where to put new data backup or files in device like some tutorial i have seen gives only command line but people actually don't know where to put the file like /data/data and than what?
Developers and Rooted device owner will become God in fact in this case because they can lead the rest in right path.
is this possible? or am i ridiculously making no sense?
This is not the right place.
You were already advised to post in the Ask any Query Newbie Friendly thread last month.
Please post there with all relevant details.
Thanks and thread closed
Found my old phone from high school. Turned it on and looks like I never factory reset it, and I would love to see all of the photos and messages I left behind, however I can not for the life of me remember the pin I used. Browsed around and tried to delete the gesture.key using ADB but permission is denied, and I wasn't able to find a custom recovery tool for this specific phone either. Anyone have any possible solutions? Thank you
Shiiiba said:
Found my old phone from high school. Turned it on and looks like I never factory reset it, and I would love to see all of the photos and messages I left behind, however I can not for the life of me remember the pin I used. Browsed around and tried to delete the gesture.key using ADB but permission is denied, and I wasn't able to find a custom recovery tool for this specific phone either. Anyone have any possible solutions? Thank you
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If you cannot remember the PIN, you're most likely going to have to factory reset. There is no way around this that I know of, unfortunately.
you can just dump the whole userdata partition off flash memory in EDL mode, loop mount partition image from linux and modify it's content (like deleting locksettings.db)
Shiiiba said:
Hi there, thanks for responding to my forum post. I can give it a shot, however I was wondering if you would be willing to help me with attempting this. Im familiar with root and devices but I’ve not had any experiencing with dumps or tools like the one you provided on github. I have an extra ZTE Flash to test on but some extra insight would be nice. I also had two questions:
1: can I just take the locksettings.db and somehow retrieve my pin from it instead of modifying and dumping?
2: if I do end up having to dump, will the environment be the same (IE logged in apps, id like to see my message history in apps that are there)
Thanks so much, and sorry for disturbing.
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you need a firehose programmer matching your SoC and OEM. the tool comes with collection (loaders) for quite few devices, just give it a try.
1. might be possible with password.key
2. yes by just deleting locksettings.db nothing is changed