We are trying to recover old data from a T-Mob Note5. My friend has forgotten the pattern for the screen unlock after he moved on to another device more than 2 years ago.
What are our options? Is there a way to flash root without wipe? Or perhaps something else? We also have USB debugging on but we don't have the old laptop that's authorized anymore.
My answer would be Use Odin to flash TWRP recovery. I am not going to explain how to do it, But here is a video:
You will need Samsung USB drivers and a pc running windows is required. When you boot into recovery, Backup your stuff on USB because your data will be wiped but safe on another USB. You can backup the data partition, reset the phone, root the device, Use magisk and install busybox pro and titanium backup (The apk's down below). Titanium backup does allow nandroid restoration. Plugin your USB drive into your phone and let titanium backup restore.
I do not know if this a perfect solution. Go ahead and give it a try and let me know.
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Hello,
I have a tablet that has recently stopped booting. The manufacturer does not provide a firmware rom, nor have I been able to recover it any other way. I feel like I have been running in circles in researching ways to recover it (but I have learned alot). I think that I could recover the tablet if I could install a more flexible recovery manager, such as CWM or TWRP. However, to my knowledge, the tablet must be rooted first in order to install these custom recoveries. So that brings mt to my question: How can I root a tablet that won't boot? I have heard many good (and a few bad) things about Kingosoft Rooter and other root methods. However, even Kingosoft requires the tablet to have USB debugging enabled. Unfortunately, I did not have this enabled before my tablet crashed. So:
1. Is it possible to root my tablet that won't boot?
2. Is it possible to enable USB debugging on my tablet that won't boot?
3. Is there any other way you can think of to get this tablet running?
By the way, the tablet is a RCA RCT6378W2 tablet. I can access the stock recovery (android system recovery <3e>, but I can't seem to make it do anything worthwhile. Any ideas? Thanks!
1. You can't root because the tablet must be on
2. You can't enable adb debugging because the tablet must be on
3. I guess that your tablet is a made in china tablet, so there should be a devices that have same or similar characteristics, and maybe there is a stock rom for those devices
Good luck for your tablet :good:
jeremyb234 said:
Hello,
I have a tablet that has recently stopped booting. The manufacturer does not provide a firmware rom, nor have I been able to recover it any other way. I feel like I have been running in circles in researching ways to recover it (but I have learned alot). I think that I could recover the tablet if I could install a more flexible recovery manager, such as CWM or TWRP. However, to my knowledge, the tablet must be rooted first in order to install these custom recoveries. So that brings mt to my question: How can I root a tablet that won't boot? I have heard many good (and a few bad) things about Kingosoft Rooter and other root methods. However, even Kingosoft requires the tablet to have USB debugging enabled. Unfortunately, I did not have this enabled before my tablet crashed. So:
1. Is it possible to root my tablet that won't boot?
2. Is it possible to enable USB debugging on my tablet that won't boot?
3. Is there any other way you can think of to get this tablet running?
By the way, the tablet is a RCA RCT6378W2 tablet. I can access the stock recovery (android system recovery <3e>, but I can't seem to make it do anything worthwhile. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Wipe cache and reboot and when it doesn't work do you have to try factory reset.
Bink Feed said:
Wipe cache and reboot and when it doesn't work do you have to try factory reset.
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Thanks to both of you for your suggestions.
@ bink feed - Thanks for those recommendations. Those are the normal recommendations that should be given to most people. Unfortunately, I have already tried both of those options with no success. It seems that many, many people are running into this problem. It makes me wonder if the recovery partition is corrupt or if some system files were somehow corrupted. The "wipe cache" option and "factory reset" option both perform successfully according to the recovery system, but they do not fix the problem with the tablet not booting. I apologize for failing to mention that I have tried these options. If you have other ideas, please let me know.
@ kfarhan57 - Thanks for the suggestion. This seems like a good idea and it is something I have attempted to do. Problem is, I don't know precisely what similarities must be present for this to work. I have tried using ROMs from other tablets that share the same processor and motherboard, but have not had any success. They seem to always fail the verification process. I have very, very little experience in all of this, so it's always possible that I am not doing it correctly too. Do you know of anyone who has successfully done this? (Someone who has restored on device with a firmware from a similar device). If so, I'd like to ask them how they did it. Here is what I have tried:
1. Boot device into Android Recovery System.
2. Select "Apply update from ADB"
3. Connect the tablet to PC using USB cable
4. Load up Cmd terminal in Windows, navigate to folder containing ADB.exe
5. Type in "ADB sideload filename.zip"The only thing that I have successfully sideloaded (and passed verification with) has been 3 small firmware updates for my tablet. Unfortunately, they are minor updates and do not restore the Operating System or ability to boot into the OS. Presently, I have been toying with the idea of merging one of these small firmwares that pass verification with the factory OS firmware from a similar device. I don't know if this is even possible, and if it is, I probably lack the knowledge needed to do it. If anybody reading this post has a suggestion, please let me know! BTW, one other thing I forgot to mention is this- I have the files copied from a working tablet of the same model. I have the boot.img, recovery.img, system.img, and virtually everything from his device... I just don't have a clue what to do with it. Thanks again. Hope to hear back from one of you!
Hi,
I've searched and searched, and posted on other forums looking for help. If anyone can help me, I would truly appreciate it.
My mother's phone (Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N9005) recently updated itself to Android 5.0. This somehow broke the phone, and now it is in a reboot loop. Once the phone starts up, it will reboot itself within a second. I can still run it in "Odin" mode, and in recovery mode. Safe mode doesn't work.
Most people would want advice on how to fix their phone, but I've come to accept that it will need a factory reset/flash. However, I would really like to backup the photos on the internal memory. Is there a way?
I have tried:
1) Deleting the cache;
2) Using Odin tools to load different firmware versions on the phone (4.4.2, other 5.0 versions for different carriers);
3) Safe mode.
Nothing has worked so far. All I want to do is have the phone start up and remain on whilst I plug it into a PC and copy the photos. I'm willing to try anything, so if you have any tips, please share them. If there's anymore technical information I can provide to help, let me know.
Thank you.
If you have installed the TWRP you can try to make a backup and then still via TWRP copy it to the PC by using OTG and TWRP file manager, and then open it
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joe2k01 said:
If you have installed the TWRP you can try to make a backup and then still via TWRP copy it to the PC by using OTG and TWRP file manager, and then open it
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Thanks. I've heard a lot about TWRP but haven't used it yet. The phone isn't rooted but I can hopefully root it and try your method. Can you please elaborate on OTG a bit? Haven't heard of it, but I'll look it up.
max planck5 said:
Thanks. I've heard a lot about TWRP but haven't used it yet. The phone isn't rooted but I can hopefully root it and try your method. Can you please elaborate on OTG a bit? Haven't heard of it, but I'll look it up.
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Ok, so you can install the TWRP w/o root using odin. The OTG is a specification that allows any device capable of acting as a host (such as a smartphone ) , to communicate with USB devices, and so with OTG you can copy files from your phone to a usb or viceversa. :good:
Hello all,
I have a Samsung Galaxy A3 with not responding touch screen, hardware buttons work. I would like to copy data from it. As the touch screen does not work I cannot unlock the phone to select data transfer mode. I tried OTG cable with mouse, does not work. Data recovery softwares does not work becasuse I cannot activate USB debugging.
Any ideas how can I recover my data?
Ps: Sorry if it is a doubled thread. I seached for it but did not find anything relevant.
blh86 said:
Hello all,
I have a Samsung Galaxy A3 with not responding touch screen, hardware buttons work. I would like to copy data from it. As the touch screen does not work I cannot unlock the phone to select data transfer mode. I tried OTG cable with mouse, does not work. Data recovery softwares does not work becasuse I cannot activate USB debugging.
Any ideas how can I recover my data?
Ps: Sorry if it is a doubled thread. I seached for it but did not find anything relevant.
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If you can't enable USB debugging and you can't unlock the screen, you might be out of luck.
Your best chance would be to flash TWRP recovery, then use TWRP to create a nandroid backup of everything on the device and then extracting the data that you want to recover from the backup.
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Droidriven said:
If you can't enable USB debugging and you can't unlock the screen, you might be out of luck.
Your best chance would be to flash TWRP recovery, then use TWRP to create a nandroid backup of everything on the device and then extracting the data that you want to recover from the backup.
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Thank you for your advice. Unfortunately is not working. Odin is giving a fail error and on the phone: "ODIN: Binary size is to large : recovery"
Obviously if I hard reset the device the installed gms is gone. If I restore from backup via hisuite will it be back or do I have to use the otg USB method all over again?
If I have to install gms again using the otg USB can I then restore from backup using hisuite as that seems to be the only way at the moment for a backup. Google drive is not getting the backup of mate 30pro
Cheers
Hey
I have a nexus 5 which was rooted and lineageOS was already installed (don't remeber which one, i didn(o do the installation).
I wanted to upgrade to lineageOS17.
I had issues when i wanted to install opengapps. I found some messages on the forum to resize the file system.
Then I had other issues and i did different stuffs with my phone.
In the end, I think my phone is totally dead : evrything is erased and I can't have access to the TWRP interface to install an ne rom or to wipe the phone memory
When I turn on my phone, i am in the bootloader mode.
I choose recovery in orderto get to the TWRP interface but it doesn't work. the phones just turned off.
When i plub my phone to the computer i cant' have access to its storage disc.
I still can root the phone with "CF-Auto-Root-hammerhead-hammerhead-nexus5".
but then I can't do anyhting else.
Is any help possible? or should I just dump my phone?
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Hey
I have a nexus 5 which was rooted and lineageOS was already installed (don't remeber which one, i didn(o do the installation).
I wanted to upgrade to lineageOS17.
I had issues when i wanted to install opengapps. I found some messages on the forum to resize the file system.
Then I had other issues and i did different stuffs with my phone.
In the end, I think my phone is totally dead : evrything is erased and I can't have access to the TWRP interface to install an ne rom or to wipe the phone memory
When I turn on my phone, i am in the bootloader mode.
I choose recovery in orderto get to the TWRP interface but it doesn't work. the phones just turned off.
When i plub my phone to the computer i cant' have access to its storage disc.
I still can root the phone with "CF-Auto-Root-hammerhead-hammerhead-nexus5".
but then I can't do anyhting else.
Is any help possible? or should I just dump my phone?
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I would try to flash the last factory image via fastboot.