Question on rooting the phone for file recovery - General Questions and Answers

So I want to recover files I mistakenly deleted recently on my currently unrooted phone. I've tried using DiskDigger, but it can only scan photos, and can only recover so much. Rooting can help, but I've learned to root my phone it has to factory reset (which wipes my phone upon unlocking). My question is, is it still worth it to root the phone to recover my files? I'm just afraid it would overwrite the recently deleted files when I reset the phone.
My phone is a Pocophone F1. Thanks a lot for your answers!

To root that phone, you need to unlock the bootloader. But this triggers a wipe, and the decryption key will be discarded, making any data recovery impossible.

jisoo said:
To root that phone, you need to unlock the bootloader. But this triggers a wipe, and the decryption key will be discarded, making any data recovery impossible.
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So the data is basically unrecoverable? That's pretty sad

even with root access its hard to recovery deleted files from encrypted storage

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Can I recovery data without Root ??

I missed accidentally delete all data on the storage.
I see many applications for data recovery required to root, but if root had to unlock bootloader before, if unlock bootloader it will wipe all data. Which may make recovery more difficult.
Are there better solution?
(I just want to recover the photos is enough.) T__________T
Jatiyanon said:
I missed accidentally delete all data on the storage.
I see many applications for data recovery required to root, but if root had to unlock bootloader before, if unlock bootloader it will wipe all data. Which may make recovery more difficult.
Are there better solution?
(I just want to recover the photos is enough.) T__________T
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There is no real solution for you.
I wrote about it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/info-storage-nexus-5-data-info-loss-t2534010

[Q] Recovering data after a wipe

I've unlocked the bootloader on a HTC Desire 510. This triggered a wipe. Afterwards, I wiped the system using the recovery. I had some photos on the internal SD card that I need to recover ASAP. Currently, the phone doesn't have any ROM, and I can only access it through fastboot and adb (adb in Phillz recovery). I've tried pulling the images from /sdcard/DCIM, but it doesn't pull anything, saying that no files are there.
I'm thinking of running photorec on the phone, but since it's the internal SD card, I can't mount it to the PC from the recovery. I thought of putting a ROM .zip on an sdcard and flash it, but I'm afraid that a flash would make recovery impossible. Is there a way I can dump the internal sdcard image just through fastboot and adb? Any ideas would also be most welcome.
Dafta said:
I've unlocked the bootloader on a HTC Desire 510. This triggered a wipe. Afterwards, I wiped the system using the recovery. I had some photos on the internal SD card that I need to recover ASAP. Currently, the phone doesn't have any ROM, and I can only access it through fastboot and adb (adb in Phillz recovery). I've tried pulling the images from /sdcard/DCIM, but it doesn't pull anything, saying that no files are there.
I'm thinking of running photorec on the phone, but since it's the internal SD card, I can't mount it to the PC from the recovery. I thought of putting a ROM .zip on an sdcard and flash it, but I'm afraid that a flash would make recovery impossible. Is there a way I can dump the internal sdcard image just through fastboot and adb? Any ideas would also be most welcome.
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flashing a new ROM.zip will only delete everything for sure.
I'm sory to say it, but by my knowledge there's only one way to recover them, and that's by recovering a backup on recovery mode.
I hope you did make a backup before unlocking your bootloader. If you didn't, I think there's not very much you can do :s
anyway, please remember to ALWAYS make a recovery backup before doing anything in recovery.
louis-JYG4t said:
flashing a new ROM.zip will only delete everything for sure.
I'm sory to say it, but by my knowledge there's only one way to recover them, and that's by recovering a backup on recovery mode.
I hope you did make a backup before unlocking your bootloader. If you didn't, I think there's not very much you can do :s
anyway, please remember to ALWAYS make a recovery backup before doing anything in recovery.
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What kind of backup??
For a nadroid backup you need a custom recovery, and to flash a custom recovery you need a unlocked bootloader...
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What kind of backup??
For a nadroid backup you need a custom recovery, and to flash a custom recovery you need a unlocked bootloader...
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but he said he whiped the system using a recovery?
louis-JYG4t said:
but he said he whiped the system using a recovery?
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Yes, AFTER I unlocked the bootloader. There were all in all two wipes, although the second one was only /data and /cache.
I did a backup using adb, but to my knowledge, that's only a backup of the apps and their data.
When you unlock a bootloader phone, you lose everything, including photos, musics, etc.
Do you have a backup of your files?
Sorry bad english
If I were you, I would restore the backup with adb and see if you have your photo's back.
Otherwise I have no idea for how you can restore them sory...
louis-JYG4t said:
If I were you, I would restore the backup with adb and see if you have your photo's back.
Otherwise I have no idea for how you can restore them sory...
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Why does nobody read my OP? I said the phone doesn't currently have a ROM on it. I can't restore that backup.
I'm going to flash busybox, a 300kb zip file that probably won't overwrite too much data, and use dd to get what I need.
If you have an adb backup of your files in the pc, you can extract it and get your photos back

How to recover files, photos and apps after factory reset

My son somehow got to the factory reset setting and got everything deleted. Is there a way to recover what was lost? Unfortunately I never rooted this tablet and so I do not have a full backup using cwm or twrp and no titanium backups either. Is there a way to recover files like that from a pc where you can recover files after formatting.

Did Unlocking reset your phone?

When I start the unlock tool, it says that i might loose all the data. Guys who have already unlocked, did it wipe out your phone?
It did. I had my mi cloud synced right before I unlocked so I got to restore my data after unlocking
Yes. Unlocking procedure will clean all data including internal storage (files, images, songs, documents, ROMs and all).
It did for me.
Yes. But I guess it was because of installing twrp. That screen that pops up the first time you install twrp, where you allow modifications/write permission to internal storage, I guess that's what erases the data on internal storage. Don't know if merely unlocking would do that.
Yes it wiped the internal storage.
Also had to manually wipe it through the fastboot for the sake of twrp as mentioned in the other thread.
Unlocking will always reset your phone, irrespective of android version or phone model.

Data recovery from bricked and encrypted device after factory reset possible?

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let's say a mistake happened, caused to brick the tablet which resulted in the need to flash the stock rom.
Is there a way to recover data from this device that was previously encrypted?
I can still see the files (at least on the SD-card) but I'm unable to open them after this event.
The data on the memory from the tablet itself is 'gone'.
I suppose that recovery was an option if it was NOT encrypted, yet impossible now?

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