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Hi guys,
I've been playing around with my Nexus S for about 3 weeks and I've decided to root it, but I have some question, I've been searching the answers in older posts but it's not quite clear yet, hope you can help me.
When I unlocked the bootloader, what kind of data will be wiped? It's just the SD card or also all the apps I've already downloaded? what about SMS, pictures and videos?
Is there anyway I can backup that data considering I haven't root it yet???
Thanks in advance.
dont do it man. i just got my phone yesterday at 1 pm and its now 12am and its bricked by lack of support from the cummunity. i studyied and studied 4 around 10 hours. then bricked my device. and i have a good idea i wont be getting a replacement this time
LINKSLOVESANDROID said:
dont do it man. i just got my phone yesterday at 1 pm and its now 12am and its bricked by lack of support from the cummunity. i studyied and studied 4 around 10 hours. then bricked my device. and i have a good idea i wont be getting a replacement this time
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lol what? its nobodys fault but your own. all the resources are available, just because somebody isnt responding to your threads and holding your hand to restore a nandriod backup doesnt make it a "lack of a community".. and your phone isn't bricked, it can be recovered but you are too close-minded and cant install Clockwork Recovery / get drivers working
The data that will be wiped are most likely your SMS/settings/etc. This is standard procedure. And its something you'll go through a lot when you are using custom ROMs.
There are complete instructions for rooting, unrooting and unbricking your phone. It's all here in the forums, and many other places, you just have to look and learn. I read for two weeks before I unlocked and loaded a ROM into my NS.
If you don't have a need to root your phone I wouldn't do it just because you can. I wanted to run the Voodoo app so I had to root and load a ROM. It took a little while but it was painless and I liked learning about the Android system.
You do have to backup your app and your SD, but that was the easy part.
It's close to impossible to brick a nexus device. They purposely come with totally open boot loaders specifically for that purpose!
RogerPodacter said:
It's close to impossible to brick a nexus device. They purposely come with totally open boot loaders specifically for that purpose!
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its not only Nexus devices but like I said people are using the term brick wrong. with these new phones coming out, a lot of them are hard to brick.
if you're phone is able to get into recovery/start/download mode (odin not popular but still an option)/bootloader then its not bricked.
if its unable to start in any form or way.. its considered a brick. please stop using the term in its wrong definition.
"brick" describes a device that cannot function in any capacity (such as a device with damaged firmware)
In the strictest sense of the term, bricking must imply that software error has rendered the device completely unrecoverable without some hardware replacement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(electronics)
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I think guys you have lost focus about my question, it's not about how to root (there is a lot of info about), it's about what kind of data will be wiped and how to back it up
Netconn said:
You do have to backup your app and your SD, but that was the easy part.
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What's the best way to do it? It's there an app or I have to day it by myself?
Make a nandroid backup first and foremost! Use Titanium Backup to make a backup of all your apps. If you want a backup of your sms, go sms pro really does a great job of that. Dont forget your contacts as well! Then copy your sd card and place it on the hard drive of your computer. When you unlock the bootloader, it does wipe your sd card. Once your unlocked and rooted, you should be able to restore everything once you replace the copy of your sd card back on the phone. Coming over from a Vibrant, I was nervous about rooting the phone but its an easy process. Just take your time and do lots of reading! Hope this helps!
Thenx, but I still have one doubt, if I haven't root my phone yet, will nandroid or titanium work?
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Woops..yeah, your right there. Too quick to reply. I followed this method here..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=895545
and had no problems. Once you get unlocked/rooted and clockwork recovery, then you can make the fore mentioned backups. Export your contacts to the sd card then copy the sd card to the hard drive of your computer before unlocking the boot loader. I do not think apps get affected during the sd wipe unless you have them stored there.
zephiK said:
its not only Nexus devices but like I said people are using the term brick wrong. with these new phones coming out, a lot of them are hard to brick.
if you're phone is able to get into recovery/start/download mode (odin not popular but still an option)/bootloader then its not bricked.
if its unable to start in any form or way.. its considered a brick. please stop using the term in its wrong definition.
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i followed the instructions to flash gri74 back to stock and my phone wont turn on, wont goto any mode, wont read that its hookedup to my pc
isnt that what we call a brick? ive had issues on a galaxy s with this game issue. htc devices i can fly through the root procedure but i got this 1 rooted, tried reflashing to stock and the phone wont turn on at all.
may i suggest a noob proof guide|? i postted 1 in the htc desire forum and people love it. yesterday i returned a moto xoom because ti was overheating , got a nexus s and 2day il b returning that because it wont turn on. can any1 help me think of a good idea i can tell the future shop return people?
kmhil said:
I think guys you have lost focus about my question, it's not about how to root (there is a lot of info about), it's about what kind of data will be wiped and how to back it up
What's the best way to do it? It's there an app or I have to day it by myself?
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you are forced to lose your data to initially root your device. then after that point, you can always create backups and never lose data again while you switch between ROMs and flashing etc. but i think to initially root, you have to lose everything. not the sd card though.
LINKSLOVESANDROID said:
i followed the instructions to flash gri74 back to stock and my phone wont turn on, wont goto any mode, wont read that its hookedup to my pc
isnt that what we call a brick? ive had issues on a galaxy s with this game issue. htc devices i can fly through the root procedure but i got this 1 rooted, tried reflashing to stock and the phone wont turn on at all.
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Do keep in mind, we don't have an i9020 or an i9023, we have an i9020A So the instruction out there all need to take that into considerations. I rooted mine fine with no "Bricking" I had to follow the instruction for the i9023, but it worked. I figure it took me all of 1 minute to root my phone. Admitedly, the "One click root" for the Galaxy series was easier.
I try to make it a point to never be the "First" person to do something on their phone. Much safer that way.
I also find it very unusual that you've managed to brick two phones, I've also had the pleasure of owning the telus fascinate, and not once did i get it bricked, I tried Bionics, CM7, Darky's and a bunch of other ones. Just never mess with the boot loader. When you went back to stock, did you make sure it was a stock ROM for the I9020A?
Have you tried connecting the USB to a computer, holding the volume up (or in the case of the galaxy, both up and down) While powering on the device? I've had to use that a few times to recover my galaxy (Thank you odin!!).
Now in regards to the OP, I would recommend using a program like Ti to back everything up, unlock the bootloader then restore from Ti, it's a little more hassel, but you can pretty much keep your settings and data. Personally, i rooted my phone before configuring a single thing on it.
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Thenx, but I still have one doubt, if I haven't root my phone yet, will nandroid or titanium work?
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there is no way to make a good backup without rooting.
basically yes, you will lose all your settings
there are a few apps you can use to backup your apk before unlocing/rooting the phone.
look for App admin on market https://market.android.com/details?id=az.mecid.appadmin&feature=search_result
the stuff backed to SD does not get wiped
only the internal storage stuff
LINKSLOVESANDROID said:
dont do it man. i just got my phone yesterday at 1 pm and its now 12am and its bricked by lack of support from the cummunity. i studyied and studied 4 around 10 hours. then bricked my device. and i have a good idea i wont be getting a replacement this time
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i took about 12 minutes total to unlock my bootloader, flash clockwork, and flash a custom rom. its not difficult if you pay attention to what you read. youre phone is not bricked. btw, i read your threads. if you werent so demanding, i would have helped. use the pdanet website the next time you need to install the proper driver, and follow the directions that they give you.
When I unlocked I used Astro to back up my apps, I turned on the Google data sync to back up my contacts and I did a back up of my SD on my computer.
When the unlock and recovery was done NS asked for my Google account then it restored all my contacts, Astro restored all my apps and I restored my files from my computer. A few steps but not difficult at all.
You will have to redo your accounts and data, and maybe an app or two won't load but the market will show them installed, just reinstall any that didn't.
Make sure you follow the directions properly in the forum. I had to use two computers to get it to work, but it did work and nothing was damaged.
With all that said.... This was the first time I have ever owned or altered an Android phone. Sure I was nervous... Now I'm hooked.. haha
I wound up using NSCollab .17 so far so good..
First thing I did when I got my phone was fastboot oem unlock.
Even if you don't want to root, use another ROM. Fastboot unlock it so your data doesn't get wiped.
If your hardware and everything seems okay, then flash Clockwork Recovery and do a nandroid backup so you can restore to pre-flashing point if you need it for OEM purposes.
Afterwards, go crazy and flash like theres no tomorrow and find something that you'll like.
And agreed with simms. You've made so made so many threads about this. I would help you step by step but I've been busy so I can't do that anymore. But if you search, you'll find about two or three threads where I did help somebody get their phone to a working state.
The basic idea is... if your phone doesn't boot but you can get to recovery.
- Download a ROM or Nandroid backup
- Install USB drivers
- Fastboot oem unlock (if you haven't)
- fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (or whatever the recovery.img is named) should be in /sdk/tools
- reboot into recovery (adb reboot recovery)
- mount and storage: mount USB, put the nandroid backup or ROM onto phone
- nandroid restore or flash a ROM (wipe factory,dalvik,cache --> flash ROM (if its CM7.. flash gapps afterwards)
- reboot
your phone boots. alternatively, you can use Odin but thats not a popular method but the choice is available if you wish to go towards that approach
in the worse worse possible case scenario there is always ODIN to the rescue
Why did you guys wait at all?
Once i got the phone i immediately plugged it into my computer and rooted it.
I stupidly trusted the "transfer to SD card" function and now my Z5 Compact has moved a big chunk of my photos from internal storage to… nowhere. They've been deleted and I’m not sure if I can get them back. I've managed to recover the thumbnails using FonePaw so I'm assuming the original full resolution files are still hanging around somewhere in the internal storage.
All the "recovery" tools I’ve found require your phone to be rooted in order to recover the deleted files from the internal storage. I'm aware that, in order to root the phone, the bootloader needs to be unlocked but that there are issues with losing DRM keys and the impact of that on some of the phone’s functions (specifically a number of the camera features). Given the camera was the primary reason I purchased this phone, I am reluctant to do something that messes with that, especially since this is the second handset as the first one was replaced under warranty after only three months (and this one still has 4 months of warranty left and has been having intermittent issues). There is also the issue that unlocking the bootloader factory resets the phone and therefore wipes all the data.
I know there is a bit of a workaround in that I can downgrade the firmware from Marshmallow to Lollipop and temporarily root the phone in order to backup the TA partition so I can restore the DRM keys et al after unlocking the bootloader and rooting the phone. Again, as I understand it the firmware downgrade will wipe my phone.
Normally wiping my phone wouldn’t bother me beyond being a pain to reinstall apps etc. What concerns me is that, given my missing files are likely floating somewhere in the internal storage ether, would a factory reset completely wipe those files from the phone permanently? Or would I likely still be able to recover them using appropriate software even after the reset, downgrade, unlocking of bootloader, and rooting?
I don't know much about it (and I’m willing to find out more for myself) but is it possible to use something like adb backup to back up the whole phone and restore that to the phone after rooting in order to recover the missing files? Or will that also only work on a rooted phone?
If it's unlikely that my missing files would survive the repeated resets during the rooting process then I will probably just take this as a lesson learned the hard way and not bother trying to recover the files. Given the way my luck has been going, this handset will also fail before 12 months and I'll have no warranty – and still no files!
Thank you in advance for any light you can help shed on this dilemma
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I stupidly trusted the "transfer to SD card" function and now my Z5 Compact has moved a big chunk of my photos from internal storage to… nowhere. They've been deleted and I’m not sure if I can get them back. I've managed to recover the thumbnails using FonePaw so I'm assuming the original full resolution files are still hanging around somewhere in the internal storage.
All the "recovery" tools I’ve found require your phone to be rooted in order to recover the deleted files from the internal storage. I'm aware that, in order to root the phone, the bootloader needs to be unlocked but that there are issues with losing DRM keys and the impact of that on some of the phone’s functions (specifically a number of the camera features). Given the camera was the primary reason I purchased this phone, I am reluctant to do something that messes with that, especially since this is the second handset as the first one was replaced under warranty after only three months (and this one still has 4 months of warranty left and has been having intermittent issues). There is also the issue that unlocking the bootloader factory resets the phone and therefore wipes all the data.
I know there is a bit of a workaround in that I can downgrade the firmware from Marshmallow to Lollipop and temporarily root the phone in order to backup the TA partition so I can restore the DRM keys et al after unlocking the bootloader and rooting the phone. Again, as I understand it the firmware downgrade will wipe my phone.
Normally wiping my phone wouldn’t bother me beyond being a pain to reinstall apps etc. What concerns me is that, given my missing files are likely floating somewhere in the internal storage ether, would a factory reset completely wipe those files from the phone permanently? Or would I likely still be able to recover them using appropriate software even after the reset, downgrade, unlocking of bootloader, and rooting?
I don't know much about it (and I’m willing to find out more for myself) but is it possible to use something like adb backup to back up the whole phone and restore that to the phone after rooting in order to recover the missing files? Or will that also only work on a rooted phone?
If it's unlikely that my missing files would survive the repeated resets during the rooting process then I will probably just take this as a lesson learned the hard way and not bother trying to recover the files. Given the way my luck has been going, this handset will also fail before 12 months and I'll have no warranty – and still no files!
Thank you in advance for any light you can help shed on this dilemma
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it won't delete files from external sdcard unless you select to wipe it too!
in this case you cannot recover anything
unlocking means wiping completely sdcard so ... Impossible
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I'm not only very new to this site, but I'm very new to doing anything complex with android in general. So please excuse my noobieness.
I'm trying to recover deleted SMS messages from my LGK30. In order to do that, I understand I need to root my phone first. I bought and downloaded a program called Coolmuster SMS recovery, which from what I was reading will allow me to retrieve my deleted texts once rooted.
Now the hard part is rooting. I've done this before with my Galaxy s7 and it was easy, but this phone seems to be different. I enabled developer mode on my phone and allowed USB debugging. I connected my phone to my computer and tried using OneClickRoot to begin the process. But OneClickRoot was not able to recognize my phone was in already in USB debugging mode. I tried unplugging and plugging it back in, but it still wouldn't recognize it. I downloaded kingoroot and geniusroot as well. I encountered the same exact problem with both of those programs.
So I began doing more research on the phone itself. I read a few sites saying that on this type of phone specifically, the bootloader may need to be unlocked before rooting. I'm not exactly sure what this means. But it seems like a complicated process for a newbie like me, and I understand all of my data will be wiped in the process. Now the whole point of me rooting my phone is so I can retrieve deleted SMS. So wouldn't wiping all my data be counterproductive? I was hoping I could possibly root this phone somehow without having to wipe all my data. I didn't have to do that either my galaxy... anyways I could really use some advice.
Do i need to unlock the bootloader? Is there another rooting program I can use to root this type of phone? If I have to wipe all of my data, would I even be able to recover my deleted texts? Thanks guys.
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I'm not only very new to this site, but I'm very new to doing anything complex with android in general. So please excuse my noobieness.
I'm trying to recover deleted SMS messages from my LGK30. In order to do that, I understand I need to root my phone first. I bought and downloaded a program called Coolmuster SMS recovery, which from what I was reading will allow me to retrieve my deleted texts once rooted.
Now the hard part is rooting. I've done this before with my Galaxy s7 and it was easy, but this phone seems to be different. I enabled developer mode on my phone and allowed USB debugging. I connected my phone to my computer and tried using OneClickRoot to begin the process. But OneClickRoot was not able to recognize my phone was in already in USB debugging mode. I tried unplugging and plugging it back in, but it still wouldn't recognize it. I downloaded kingoroot and geniusroot as well. I encountered the same exact problem with both of those programs.
So I began doing more research on the phone itself. I read a few sites saying that on this type of phone specifically, the bootloader may need to be unlocked before rooting. I'm not exactly sure what this means. But it seems like a complicated process for a newbie like me, and I understand all of my data will be wiped in the process. Now the whole point of me rooting my phone is so I can retrieve deleted SMS. So wouldn't wiping all my data be counterproductive? I was hoping I could possibly root this phone somehow without having to wipe all my data. I didn't have to do that either my galaxy... anyways I could really use some advice.
Do i need to unlock the bootloader? Is there another rooting program I can use to root this type of phone? If I have to wipe all of my data, would I even be able to recover my deleted texts? Thanks guys.
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If they weren't backed up before they were deleted/removed, they are gone.
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Droidriven said:
If they weren't backed up before they were deleted/removed, they are gone.
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Thank you for responding. I have actually done this before with my Galaxy and one other phone. Neither of those times the messages were backed up. I was still able to retrieve the deleted messages with this same program. It's a great program.
I'm just curious if there's a way I can root this phone without having to wipe it. Can I? Thanks
Zaklucas301 said:
Thank you for responding. I have actually done this before with my Galaxy and one other phone. Neither of those times the messages were backed up. I was still able to retrieve the deleted messages with this same program. It's a great program.
I'm just curious if there's a way I can root this phone without having to wipe it. Can I? Thanks
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You may still be able to retrieve your messages as long as where they were stored has not been overwritten since they were deleted. If anything has been written in its place, they are gone.
If rooting your device requires unlocking the bootloader first, then yes, it will wipe your device. If you can root without unlocking bootloader, it shouldn't require wiping the device.
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Hi there.
Have a Samsung Galaxy A42 5G that was dead here for some reason, and was sent in for service. No online backup of pictures was activated on the phone, and at the workshop they did a factory reset at the phone and upgraded to latest software.
Using any recovery tool at the phone now only tells me that root access is needed in order to have any possibility to recover pictures.
It seems for me that rooting this phone is a bit risky, and I don't know if it is possible to "un-root" it back to normal after.
If I can root this phone, how likely is it to find any pictures at the phone with some recovery tools? Possible that the upgrade of software have overwritten some old picture files?
Is it worth the risk, or better to forget the pictures and move on?
Regards, Nettulf
It's better to forget the photos and move on.
@Nettulf
Your question is asked in this forum almost every 14 days.
The answer is: Do NOT waste your time with trying to recover the wiped data. Blame the service who wiped them.
Thx for your reply, and I have seen similar questions with the same answers before yes ;-)
Just want to be sure that it is not any easy way on this phone. I guess the encryption and safety today make it much harder then before, I rooted some phones myself in the early days.
Recover them from your backups. Or sim card, and everywhere you have stored.
But if you have no backups, you can try some third-party tools.
Check this post: https://joyofandroid.com/data-recovery-software-for-android-phones/
I installed new soft to my phone and i lost some of photos, screenshot
If I rooted my phone, can I recover my data that was lost after the software update? Can I unroot it later without any effects or issues with banking apps and financial services?
Also, I hope there is a way to retrieve photos and files without rooting the phone because I have tried several methods on both the phone and PC, but they are not recognizing the device even though it appears on the Explorer.
Short answer:
1. A stable wired / wíreless ADB must be given
2. The partition that holds the data in question must be decrypted
3. The phone must be rooted
4. The partition in question must get dumped to PC
5. An external forensic software is needed to read the dumped partition / fles in question
shadyhoo said:
If I rooted my phone, can I recover my data that was lost after the software update?
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To root your phone, you'll need to unlock the bootloader first.
If you unlock the bootloader, it will erase your internal storage and all files will be lost.
Is your bootloader unlocked as of now?
To keep you updated:
You are able to root Android without unlocking the bootloader, keyword: temporary root.
Even though it is possible in some cases to obtain root access without an unlocked bootloader, unlocking the bootloader is required to permanently root a device.
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To keep you updated:
You are able to root Android without unlocking the bootloader, keyword: temporary root.
Even though it is possible in some cases to obtain root access without an unlocked bootloader, unlocking the bootloader is required to permanently root a device.
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What are the uses of temporary root?
This post says it is not possible in Android 6 and newer.
I know that people around here who claim a temporary ROOT isn't possible at newer Android versions. That this still happens / happened here at XDA doesn't make things true.
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I know that people around here who claim a temporary ROOT isn't possible at newer Android versions. That this still happens / happened here at XDA doesn't make things true.
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Can you provide more information on this? Even links to existing posts would also do fine.
I'm interested to know if it can be used to debloat the system without tripping Knox or other disadvantages of an unlocked bootloader.
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To root your phone, you'll need to unlock the bootloader first.
If you unlock the bootloader, it will erase your internal storage and all files will be lost.
Is your bootloader unlocked as of now?
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I had some photos and I was done soft for the phone and lost my photos and screenshot
My phone is a Sony Xperia xz1 compact.. Do you mean to activate this option?
shadyhoo said:
I had some photos and I was done soft for the phone and lost my photos and screenshot
My phone is a Sony Xperia xz1 compact.. Do you mean to activate this option?
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Activating that option is just the first step. There are other things to do to unlock the bootloader.
Since your bootloader is locked as I expected, rooting to recover files is out of question now. That's because if you follow steps to unlock the bootloader, it will wipe everything on your phone. The question of recovery won't arise.
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To keep you updated:
You are able to root Android without unlocking the bootloader, keyword: temporary root.
Even though it is possible in some cases to obtain root access without an unlocked bootloader, unlocking the bootloader is required to permanently root a device.
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My phone is sony xperia xz1 compact
If you root the phone, will this cause a problem with banking financial applications?
is it possible to completely remove the root after that without any problem or I will need to make a new software?
As I can see you've no idea what rooting Android means: it's simply spoken adding SU binary to Android's
filesystem - preferredly put it into RW-mounted /data/local/tmp directory. My recommendation: Become familiar with this, e.g. look inside here.
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I know that people around here who claim a temporary ROOT isn't possible at newer Android versions. That this still happens / happened here at XDA doesn't make things true.
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So why not just teach us ignorant noobs and grab the cash?
I didn't even exclude exploits (such as mtk-su) in my bounty, I just limited to a real android device phone or tablet
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get yourself a smartphone and learn the basics. I will pay $ 100 if you show any proof of your magic temporary root.
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@shadyhoo if you factory resetted the device during update, your data is already lost.
You can root your phone after bootloader is unlocked. There might be a way to cheat bootloader and root with Magisk, but still the chances to recover any data is very low to zero. On flash memory the data is discarded right on deletion, recovery tools on file system level won't work because only the emmc flash memory controller (which runs it's own proprietary firmware) knows where the data is located. Only data that isn't discarded yet might be recoverable if it's not too long ago deleted.
It would be possible to get a dump of /dev/block/dm-0 and run extundelete if custom recovery were previously installed. Unfortunately the TWRP for Sony Xperia xz1 compact AFAIR requires custom kernel that supports FOTAKernel partition, boot image must include ramdisk extraction utility extract_elf_ramdisk for installing custom recovery. So this is a showstopper even on cheated bootloader lock.
you can however try to flash magisk patched boot image in EDL mode and see if that passes locked bootloader anyway, if the boot.img is properly AVB signed. if phone is rooted you can dump /dev/block/dm-0 during runtime.
But first clarify how the data was deleted. If a factory reset during the update occured it's absolutely pointless, because once the disk encryption key has changed the data is 100 % unrecoverable.
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So why not just teach us ignorant noobs and grab the cash?
I didn't even exclude exploits (such as mtk-su) in my bounty, I just limited to a real android device phone or tablet
@shadyhoo if you factory resetted the device during update, your data is already lost.
You can root your phone after bootloader is unlocked. There might be a way to cheat bootloader and root with Magisk, but still the chances to recover any data is very low to zero. On flash memory the data is discarded right on deletion, recovery tools on file system level won't work because only the emmc flash memory controller (which runs it's own proprietary firmware) knows where the data is located. Only data that isn't discarded yet might be recoverable if it's not too long ago deleted.
It would be possible to get a dump of /dev/block/dm-0 and run extundelete if custom recovery were previously installed. Unfortunately the TWRP for Sony Xperia xz1 compact AFAIR requires custom kernel that supports FOTAKernel partition, boot image must include ramdisk extraction utility extract_elf_ramdisk for installing custom recovery. So this is a showstopper even on cheated bootloader lock.
you can however try to flash magisk patched boot image in EDL mode and see if that passes locked bootloader anyway, if the boot.img is properly AVB signed. if phone is rooted you can dump /dev/block/dm-0 during runtime.
But first clarify how the data was deleted. If a factory reset during the update occured it's absolutely pointless, because once the disk encryption key has changed the data is 100 % unrecoverable.
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That's what happened to me an error occurred and the phone froze and then rebooted continuously, it never works, I tried to turn it on for a whole day uselessly bootloop continuously ,
I connected the phone. With a pc using sony companion pc program to repair software, app tell me will erase every thing while installing a new software and erased everything, and the phone appeared as a completely new object
through Google backup downloaded applications, messages, etc.,
but personal photos and files do not exist, and this is what I'm looking for
Do I have any chance to get my photos back or is there no chance ?
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I connected the phone. With a pc using sony companion pc program to repair software, app tell me will erase every thing while installing a new software and erased everything, and the phone appeared as a completely new object
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This counts as factory reset, therefore no chance sorry.
I'm sad to see so many people get into this position.
Backing up the data to MyMegaApp can be complicated because some of that is stored in /data/data/com.mymegaapp/...
Some of that is stored in /sdcard/Android/data/com.mymegaapp/...
Photos are generally stored in /sdcard/DCIM/Camera and that is trivial to backup.
Photos are probably the most valuable thing you have on your phone.
For Windows user, you can use my adbsync.exe in my sig.
Here is one line out of my "sync" script (actually a makefile):
Code:
adbsync /hscu /s C:\Handy\MotoG storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera
So at the same time I make sure that all my books and guitar transcriptions are on my device I also backup all the photos.
This probably happens multiple times a week.
And of course I backup my desktop too.
Renate said:
This probably happens multiple times a week.
And of course I backup my desktop too.
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This. Or just do not care attitude. I still had that when the 1st mSD died. 2nd was bad, about half year of photos and such went. Still hoping to recover it somehow. Then 3rd one went not so long ago. Windows "fixed" it, but now it has some folder added, with files that I don't what they all are... less than a month of damage this time...
So, like Renate said, take backups and take them often.
Adbsync is really good indeed.
Although the usage instructions might need some more details/examples like above...
(Just like some of Renate's other progs - might... )
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CXZa said:
Although the usage instructions might need some more details/examples like above...
(Just like some of Renate's other progs - might... )
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Mmm, probably guilty. You can always ask though.
I always say that I wouldn't cry if a truck ran over my Android.
That is, as long as at the time the device wasn't in my pocket.
Renate said:
You can always ask though.
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That's not how it works... people just don't realize the potential of your programs that way..
Probably i'm not any better in that though.. lol.
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That's not how it works... people just don't realize the potential of your programs that way..
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Yeah, I probably should add some examples to some things.
Edit: I added some examples and stuff. Happy(er)?
http://www.temblast.com/adbsync.htm
I was looking in the previous days to recover data from the phone and found a lot of programs, most of which require root for mobile and are not free, meaning that if I want to restore some files, I have to root and also format the phone!! And you all say that it is almost impossible to return files after formatting, so what do all these programs that require rooting the phone do?! I do not understand the usefulness of such programs