I have just used cyanogenmod installer to install cyanogenmod 11 on my Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 and updated to android4.4.4. Prior to this I have only copied all my data from the phone's internal storage and sd card onto my computer. Therefore I have no recovery files. I have lost all data now such as app data and contacts. Does anyone know if the copied data on my computer is able to help me regain some of my data?
If i copy the data into thr phone would it help?
So I got myself a new phone note 4. I used that new Samsung transfer apk first time ever. After it completed I factory reseted my old phone note 3. Unfortunetly Samsung apk was crap and I lost data for one of my applications. Any idea how can I recover database.db file from internal storage? None of the applications I found could recover .db files just images and documents. Please help and advice
Greetings all,
I have been tearing my hair out for weeks trying what seems about every possible method to recover deleted photos from a Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-i9300T. (Telstra)
The photos were stored on the phone not the SD card but in a moment of madness I accidentally deleted them.
The phone runs Android 4.3.
The phone has been rooted with CF Autoroot, RootChecker says the phone is rooted and Superuser is granting appropriate permissions, and USB debugging has been enabled.
When I run Wondershare Dr Fone or Easeus Mobisaver, each program seems to scan and finds a lot of files such as gifs, png's etc but not the deleted photos.
To test the device I took about 30 photos without the SD and deleted the album. Then I ran each program again with the same negative result.
Neither Wondershare or Easeus support lines have been of any use.
I ran Undelete app and no result either.
The photos were taken during the recent Nepal earthquake at the site and I am desperately needing to recover them.
My eternal thanks will be extended to anyone who can help me save them.
Cliff Ferguson
Western Australia
Hi there,
Please see this discussion about how to recover files/photos from different devices:
[Q] how to recover deleted photos from galaxy s3 phone memory
How to recover deleted Pictures and files off your INTERNAL memory on SG3
[GUIDE] Internal Memory Data Recovery - Yes We Can!
[GUIDE] Recover Accidentally Deleted Files, Photos, Music after Rom Install
For more questions please ask directly here: [HELP THREAD] Galaxy S3 Ask any question.
Good luck
I updated my Samsung Galaxy S6 to nougat and it started to restart every 30 seconds. I want to know if there is a way to back up my contacts and photos as S6 does not have an SD card before I re install the rom using ODIN.
Many you flashed a wrong or currpted Ron/zip?
if you saved your contacts in your Google/Samsung account or even on the Sim card, they are already backed up. But, if you saved on phone it is a problem (unless someone here know how and where contacts are saved)
Photos you can save for sure: power off your phone, connect to your PC, go to the "Galaxy s6" drive, move the photos to a folder on your PC, and then after you fix it you can move them back.
Hi,
Short: How to clone an S7 to another S7?
Long: I want to transfer everything from my old S7 to a new S7. Both are G930F. What I did:
- full NAND Backup with TWRP to external sdcard
- copy internal storage to external sdcard
- root and full wipe new S7
- restore NAND backup and internal storage at new S7
I thought, doing this will give me an exact copy of my old S7 state. Unfortunately, there are some problems: Booting on the new phone works fine, but then it began: Neither fingerprint nor PIN to unlock the phone were working. So I deleted the keylock files in the system folder with TWRP. Then I was able to properly access my ROM and everyhting, but when I wanted to set new PIN, it asked me for "Backup Password" - no idea what that is. So I cannot set a new PIN. Also, the SIM card is not working, as it asks me for a "SIM Network Unlock PIN". I don't understand, why this can be a problem for the new S7, as I thought my procedure above with NAND restore will give me an exact copy of my old S7. Can anyone help me with this or at least explain to me, why this procedure did not give me an exacat copy?
Thank you!
blaukraut said:
Hi,
Short: How to clone an S7 to another S7?
Long: I want to transfer everything from my old S7 to a new S7. Both are G930F. What I did:
- full NAND Backup with TWRP to external sdcard
- copy internal storage to external sdcard
- root and full wipe new S7
- restore NAND backup and internal storage at new S7
I thought, doing this will give me an exact copy of my old S7 state. Unfortunately, there are some problems: Booting on the new phone works fine, but then it began: Neither fingerprint nor PIN to unlock the phone were working. So I deleted the keylock files in the system folder with TWRP. Then I was able to properly access my ROM and everyhting, but when I wanted to set new PIN, it asked me for "Backup Password" - no idea what that is. So I cannot set a new PIN. Also, the SIM card is not working, as it asks me for a "SIM Network Unlock PIN". I don't understand, why this can be a problem for the new S7, as I thought my procedure above with NAND restore will give me an exact copy of my old S7. Can anyone help me with this or at least explain to me, why this procedure did not give me an exacat copy?
Thank you!
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You cannot clone any phone this way, there are parameters which are unique to each device such IMEI, serial number, mac address, EFS partition etc.
If you simply want to transfer files, settings, apps, from one phone to another you can do this with Samsung Smart Switch but both phones have to be on stock firmware to start with.
If you don't want to do this, save everything to the sd card, sign out of Google account on old phone, set up new phone with same Google account and download all your apps and backups to new phone.
You've done the right way..BUT...you don't have to clone the efs partition too.
Restore the original from Twrp backup.
I didn't clone the ETF partition, as I read that you gonna brick the phone if you use another phone's ETF partition.
But I now found out that the ETF partition is acutally the cause of the problems, I have: PIN does not work, because part of the encryption is the IMEI, which is stored in the ETF partition and of course differs. SIM does not work, because obviously my new S7 is simlocked, which is also stored in the ETF partition.
So what I have to do is to do another backup with all security features PIN/fingerprint disabled and restore that one. And also I have to unlock my new S7. I really thought that this is gonna be easier.