Hello all, I have quite recently deleted a fair few pictures and videos that were in the secure folder thing on samsung and i have tried everything to get them back. My attention got turned to rooting the phone to get them all back so i thought id go ahead and do it, after a couple of failed attempts i finally did it i had rooted my phone and was able to download recovery software that recognizes the root and i thought this was sure to work but this time when i recover images or videos theres nothing there, i would say i found more before it was rooted and now some of the software cant even identify anything at all which is really getting me a little bit anoyed.
What can i do to get these pictures and videos back? or is this a waste of time?
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Hi guys,
I am having a hair pulling stressful time trying to root my HTC One Mini. I have tried following countless guides and videos and seem to get so far before it all fails and i have got to the stage where i think i am doing more damage than good. So i was looking for someone who could possibly remote root my phone for me.
So far i have manage to unlock the phone, get to the TWRP recovery menu and installed something. I tried to access SU, however got the no binary message. I followed another tutorial and some how ended up with SuperUser which i cant seem to get rid of.
I think i have got to the stage where i need to totally unroot (if i am even rooted) and lock the phone back up and start from scratch, again im scared to do this myself in case i make it any worse!
So if anyone can remotely help me or point me in the direction of a paid service i would be hugely appreciative!
Hey guys, let me just start off by saying I have spent almost 8 hours straight today trying to figure this out and dig myself out of a hole I've created for myself, that being said, I'm going to try and be as detailed as possible so you guys know EXACTLY where I am and what I've tried. This post looks long but that's because it is. It's pretty much my entire day's worth of trouble typed out. So just bare with me and see if you guys can help me out here!
I have a T-Mobile Galaxy S4 model: SGH-M919 it has Android 4.4.2. Now on to the problem: I've had this phone for almost a year now and a few months ago I rooted it. Did a simple Youtube tutorial and used Odin to do the work and everything worked out fine. A couple months down the road (yesterday), after using the phone like a teenager, downloading apps and cluttering it up it started to slow down and not run some apps. After thinking about it I decided to factory reset it. All of my contacts, photos, and videos were backed up on Google so I thought "why not?" Well, this is where $#!% hit the fan.. being rooted then factory reset, right before the phone came online it had me answer two questions about the root. Something to the effect of "Do you want to keep root? (This option is not reversible)" I thought since I wasn't using the features I originally rooted the phone for I figured nah just get rid of the root. So the phone did its T-Mobile boot up and started the Initial setup.
Everything up to to this point was fine until I wanted to log in to my Google account during the setup. Please understand that where I am I have full 4G LTE coverage and have access to a pretty fast and sturdy wifi connection. Well, when it came to the google sign in I entered my email and password and it came up with a message reading "Can't Sign in - Can't establish a reliable connection to the server" (believe me i wish that was the only issue) so after reading that, I thought I'd try with my wifi.. nope. Same thing. Since neither my 4g or wifi worked I thought it was Google's servers so I tried again this morning, same thing. (keep in mind at this point i think my phone isn't rooted anymore.) I call the t mobile store and they give me a technical support number, so I call it and I tell them i cant sign into Google. The gentleman told me he cant do anything because he can tell my phones been rooted. Only thing he suggests is to contact Google, well, the customer care number just tells you go to google.com/support and there's nothing there about my problem.
This is where I dig my hole even deeper. I tried another factory reset and up in the top left corner i still see that root text. Even the rooted android symbol pops up before the Samsung logo or t mobile. Since I saw that I thought "ohh it just didn't get unrooted all the way." I look up ways to completely remove a root and a lot of them require plugin your phone into the computer and using Odin to flash a stock firmware on to the device. I went to plug my phone into the usb port but my computer didn't recognize the usb device, having experienced this a long time ago I searched around for the latest Samsung usb drivers and I installed those. Device still isn't recognized. Let me just note before people tell me to use MTP mode or Developer tools> usb debugging or connection mode.. The only thing that happens when plugging my phone via usb is the phone starts charging and my computer makes the trumpet noise like something is plugged in. Other than that, there is NO notification of it being plugged in. The reason i stress this is because I called Samsung technical support at this point and the guy (not gentleman) treated me like a 5 year old and ran me through all of these options after i told him I already did everything he was suggesting, including downloading Samsung Kies 3 and having it install the drivers. It does not pick up the device either.. at this point I looked up ways to remove the root without the computer. I found out you can just go into the root app "SU" or something and theres a remove root option. I jumped on that opportunity and had it removed. I restarted the phone and all the problems still persist, it even still has the root text on the top left when you factory reset it again. However now, even if you factory reset and select the option "keep root," thinking it would bring back the"SU" app it does NOT.
So lets recap. I have a phone that thinks its rooted and even appears rooted to t mobile but doesn't have any of the root apps or privileges or capabilities to fix my Google log in issue (like the host file in filemanager). And I can't re-root to get that app back because none of my 3 usb ports, 3 different usb cables (one being the cord that came with the phone), or any of the ports/cables on someone else's computer will recognize the darn thing to work on that way! I have all these issues that are supposed to fix each other but I can't do any fixing because they cancel each other out too... I'm at a dead end.
In case this isn't the right forum/website/thread/post area etc.. I have this whole message saved in Microsoft Word document so I can repost it anywhere you guys might suggest better results. Any help/advice will be much appreciated.
Hey everyone.
I can't believe I did something so stupid, but you live and learn, and while this is not the end of the world, if anyone has a solution that would be great.
I've been using this nifty little program to record conference calls and I am usually pretty good at uploading them to my Dropbox but I got lazy and removed my root yesterday so I could upgrade to Lollipop on my Note 3. The unroot process went fine until I got stuck in a boot loop so of course I did a factory reset.
Keep in mind, prior to doing this upgrade, I did a backup with TWRP and I also had a backup with Titanium. Low and behold when I hit the home screen, all the recorded files were gone. I was puzzled because I thought for sure my precautionary measures would restore those audio recordings. Nope.
I attempted to reinstall the custom ROM I had prior and no dice on that either. I am guessing its gone, but I am throwing this out to the forums in the event someone has a solution. Thanks in advance.
I would try to extract the files from the backup. Just check here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1808486
No dice. Apparently TWRP and TiBu doesn't save certain files at the local level., including .wav files from the recording software. I've yet to find a backup online that works. I'd even be willing to pay. Lost my screen shots too. This is a hard pill to swallow because I honestly believed I did everything right until I realized I did it all wrong.
Hey Folks,
So yesterday my Samsung s6 Edge did a factory reset in my pocket...At first it was just an annoyance to set it back up, then I realized my images and videos did not restore...Apparently I did not have them backed up anywhere. So, I googled and found tons of stuff related to retrieving images, and the like...but most things come back to needing Mass Storage capability and rooting the phone...Would prefer not to do that, but it looks like I could not, even if I wanted too, since I have Android 5.1.1.
Is there a way to downgrade/root the OS, turn on mass storage, then run recuva (or whatever) to attempt a restore....then flash back the factory OS?
From what I have been able to piece together, the locked bootloader is a problem. I have tried different things like droid samba to have my phone appear as a drive, but to no avail.
So, is there anything I can do to get the lost images, or am I out of luck?
TIA...Mike
Mike,
Did you ever find an answer to your problem? I was shocked when I read what happened as I thought it was isolated to just myself. I had been using my G925V and when I pulled it out of my pocket it was in the middle of a factory reset. Since then I've tried recovery tools but they all require root to perform a deep scan. I happen to be on 5.1.1 and have not had any success. I've been unable to use my phone for 6 months because I cannot replace these pictures.
Mount the phone to any computer, see if the phone will mount in recovery mode, run recuva on the device?
Ok, so as the title says, I'm looking to completely undo having rooted my tablet, and all the customization I did to it, but I'm having a bit of trouble.
According to multiple apps my tablet is no longer rooted, and I got the stock rom from Sammobile flashed on it, and I have the stock recovery back, but I seem to be suffering from the wifi problem that CM suffers, I know this as I can connect to my 5G wifi as well, which I'm never able to do when the tablets wifi is working correctly, and also even connected I barely have any speed, if even any.
Now I know of the wifi fix you can flash through TWRP, but as I said, no more TWRP, and I don't want to reinstall it, I want everything back to stock.
Now, I know of Wifi Fix's for other tablets, like the Galaxy S4, that you can flash on with Odin, but I can't seem to find one like that for the Note Pro 12.2. So if anyone can send me a link I'd really appreciate it.
And also, I can't remember, but did the Note Pro 12.2 ever get anything higher then Android 5.0.2? Because I try to update it, and it says because my tablet was modified I can't do so. Plus Sammobile doesn't have higher then 5.0.2 but I read somewhere that it got 5.1.1 so I really don't know, any help on that front as well would be great.
Now, you may be wondering why I want to do this, in truth I'd rather have my tablet rooted, I save so much battery life getting rid of all the bloatware. But no matter what I do, there always ends up being a problem with my tablet.
I follow all the instructions given, I do exactly what everyone else does, even having someone walk me through it step by step once, and always it goes horribly wrong.
The first time my Nova Launcher would crash constantly, and then everything else would start crashing with it. Then the second time all my videos would play stuttering and jerky, and the audio would be out of sync horribly, and nothing I did would fix it. And now most recently, even though the tablet it connected to the computer, the drivers always fail installation, and even when they are successful, I'm still unable to actually access the tablet from my pc.
I read somewhere that it may be because I disabled Media Storage, but with Media Storage I have just as many problems, it drains my battery like crazy, it causes things to load up extremely slow when accessed through the computer, if a folder has a hundred files for example, it will take almost twenty minutes for them all to load up, and you can't do anything until they do, and if you try copying something into a folder without going into it you'll just be stuck in an endless loop of copying that never ends.
But without Media Storage everything loads up just as quickly as say an SD Card, so said 100 files only takes a few seconds.
And worse thing it caused, which troubled me for a long time before I found out what caused it, at random the media storage would decide to claim 20gb's of space, saying it was all taken up, when it isn't. And it would keep happening at random times, and at random sizes. Near the end it had taken up every bit of free space I had and didn't change back even after several days which is what led me to looking up what was causing that in the first place.
So as you can see, leaving Media Storage enabled is a big no for me. So as such I'm unable to root and customize my tablet for that reason as well.
Now, before you say how weird it is that I have such trouble, and how you have no idea why it would happen, there is a very key reason, Technology HATES me. Trust me, more often then not when I try to do something that works for literally everyone else it fails for me, like say connecting an Xbox controller and getting it to work on my pc. Yeah, never works even after almost 5 hours of trying. So yeah, technology hates, maybe even dispises me.
So anyway, if you can help me fix the wifi, and the update problem if that's possible, I'd really appreciate it.
Are you able to get it connected to a PC?
There are tutorials on how to go back to complete stock if you haven't tried Knox I might search for what people have done before they take the their device back to the carrier. Many people want to un-root before they give up their old devices.