I have a Hero that I really liked, but unfortunately managed to break the USB port. It came second hand and prerooted from eBay. It is still usable with battery swapping. So, liking the Hero and its trackball as I do, I bought a second hand G2 a few weeks ago. I don't know whether or not it's rooted but I will be rooting if not.
So, is there a way to make the new phone near enough a complete clone of the old (using SD possibly via computer or WiFi)? With all apps (including ones now removed from market), settings, custom ROM, every bit of data, everything.
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I have to get the Streak to work as a modem via USB by 22nd. If I don't, I'm taking it back to best buy.
I can't believe this... My past 6 phones worked easily with PdaNet, but this phone won't. I've been trying for two weeks with no luck.
Any idea's folks? I really like the phone, even with version 1.6 but I HAVE to use it as a modem with my notebook when I'm on the road.
Try looking on the market (https://market.android.com) from your computer, not the phone, for tethering apps. Under device compatibility, select Dell Streak as the filter and it should come up with approximately 50 results, paid and free. Do note that even with this, you may be barred from downloading the app, since AT&T disables tethering by default unless you have a tethering plan.
For best results, even though I know you're afraid of bricking your phone, I would update your phone to a ROM with tethering built in, as suggested on the other two threads that deal in one form or another with this tethering app issue you're having. The unbranded 345 ROM may work, but you might be better off installing StreakDroid. Since you've already rooted the phone, you should have enough knowhow to do the following:
1. Download ROM
2. Rename ROM to "update.pkg"
3. Copy the ROM to the root of the SD Card
4. Boot into recovery
5. Flash the ROM
Part 3 is probably the most difficult part of this, and all that's involved is connecting the phone to the computer using the cable, tapping the USB storage option that pops up on the phone's display, and then copying the file using Windows Explorer. The rest of this should be relatively easy, especially if you've rooted your phone.
I wish I could help further, but my Streak is both an unlocked model from Dell, and isn't rooted. Yet, based upon my experience rooting and replacing the ROM in a HTC Aria, the process really is not that difficult. Good luck.
Hey, my Atrix burned out on me after less than a year and I'm still under warranty, so I have some questions.
First off, I'm rooted - will Best Buy care a lot? It is a hardware malfunction (the wifi card is dead - "error" when trying to turn on wifi) and if anything, my rooting has prevented that (temperature profiles on SetCPU, so it doesn't get hot).
Now, my main concern (I can probably get a new Atrix cheap anyway) is my data. Can I load a Nandroid/Clockworks backup to my new atrix? I'm assuming I should load up the same ROM and kernal on a rooted device first and then load the backup. Will this restore app data/settings?
Lastly, is there anything else I should do to ensure a smooth transfer? Or there any other options (get a new/better phone). I don't have an upgrade.
Sorry, for the lengthy post, I run a lot of stuff from my phone and I've never had significant problems, so I'm kind of panicking.
Thanks!
A little while ago, I'm not really sure when but my Wifi stopped working. If I tried to enable it, it would just grey out and look like it was enabling but eventually just returned to not on. I've tried flashing new kernals, new roms, new modems, and currently sitting on stock 2.3.4. I've factory reset, (without wiping sdcard data) on stock. Tried to see if there was an update (saw a post that had said if you update to 2.3.6 over the air it will fix wifi, however no such update exists) I've searched and searched and searched and I cannot seem to find any information regarding whats wrong or how to fix this.
Any input would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
It may be hardware failure. The normal test for hardware/firmware issues is to flash back to stock. You have tried everything that I would suggest for such an issue, except perhaps flashing the latest stock. However, wifi works on all stock versions, so... your troubleshooting steps point to likely hardware failure.
Actually, there is one more step I can suggest. Install a custom kernel, and re-format everything, including USB memory (internal sd card- be sure to back up anything you don't want to lose) and remove any external card. Mr-cook has some scripts that can make the process easier. This is a little more thorough than just erasing the data from the partitions. Then install the stock firmware, preferably the latest stock UCMD8.
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It may be hardware failure. The normal test for hardware/firmware issues is to flash back to stock. You have tried everything that I would suggest for such an issue, except perhaps flashing the latest stock. However, wifi works on all stock versions, so... your troubleshooting steps point to likely hardware failure.
Actually, there is one more step I can suggest. Install a custom kernel, and re-format everything, including USB memory (internal sd card- be sure to back up anything you don't want to lose) and remove any external card. Mr-cook has some scripts that can make the process easier. This is a little more thorough than just erasing the data from the partitions. Then install the stock firmware, preferably the latest stock UCMD8.
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Which of those scripts do you suggest using?
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Hopefully, you have a basic understanding of memory partitioning. It is best to understand what you are doing, and not just follow someone else's recipe. That being said, you can use the first one, cook's rom wipe, which will format the system, preload, data, and cache partitions. If you also want to format the USB memory, you will need to do that from within recovery of the custom kernel: from the "mounts and storage" option, select "format /sdcard".
For installing the stock firmware, Odin3 v1.85 is recommended. Download the file from the Download Repository, extract the .tar.md5 file, and put that in the pda slot.
I actually have narrowed it down to a hardware issue, apparently I have the battery leaking issue. I've removed the corroded battery, and cleaned up the area which was effected. The phone still operates, however I still do not have Wifi. Is there something I can do to further fix the issue? I am missing a few tiny resistors in that area could they missing be the issue? I heard they just filtered the signal or something along those lines. What can I check or do before finally just needing a new mainboard.
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I actually have narrowed it down to a hardware issue, apparently I have the battery leaking issue. I've removed the corroded battery, and cleaned up the area which was effected. The phone still operates, however I still do not have Wifi. Is there something I can do to further fix the issue? I am missing a few tiny resistors in that area could they missing be the issue? I heard they just filtered the signal or something along those lines. What can I check or do before finally just needing a new mainboard.
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I bought a phone cheap from the Swappa boneyard with a good screen but with the wifi not working to go with another phone I acquired which had a cracked screen but fully working main board. I combined the two into a fully working phone, and a phone with cracked screen and no wifi. The second phone sat in a box for a long time. Not too long ago, I read about the battery leaking issue, so I pulled that second phone apart and looked at the main board. Sure enough, the battery and the area around it was corroded. The phone was fully functioning except for the wifi.
I didn't play with it too much, but it looked to me like the battery was soldered onto the main board. Did you have to de-solder it to get it off? I believe that the battery is necessary for the wifi to work. I build electronics, but not on the miniature scale of a phone pcb. I have a professional soldering station, but I wouldn't attempt to work on a board like that myself. Unless you have the right equipment, and the experience to go with it...
I think you would need to replace the main board. You could try buying a phone with a broken screen that is otherwise working. It might be fairly cheap. But the I777 is getting old enough that it will be experiencing various kinds of failure, so it is a crap shoot.
I gave my original I777 to my wife, and bought one for myself on swappa over a year ago. The one I bought just went dark one day a few months ago. I don't know what part failed, but it was completely non-responsive, a true brick. My son had an I777 also, and he had cracked the screen, so I bought him an S4 for Christmas. I got his i777 and combined the main board with the good screen from my dead phone, to make a fully functioning phone. After setting that phone up and using it for a couple of weeks, one day the power switch failed. I'm still using that phone as my main phone, with gravity screen to overcome the failed power button, since I don't want to spend another $40 on it to get the power button replaced. The point of relating this is just to show how likely failures are.
Actually I just pulled it off, and cleaned the area. I've been reading that its suppose to keep the date and time, and I've also read that people don't actually know what its for. However I do know that since i pulled it my phone seems to heat up less. (It was getting rather hot) However wifi still does not work.
So my wife broke her phone. (A car ran over it) .
As you can imagine the phone is pretty messed up. Originaly the phone still worked(for a few weeks) and then she bought a new phone and left that one.
Now a few weeks later i try to turn it on to take the pictures off and it boots into the bootloader and thats where i am in need of your help. If there a way for me to get the pictures off of this phone?
Photos shows you have an M7, and this forum section is specific to the M8. While the devices have some similarities, its always best to get help in your specific device forum, in case of any M7 specific naunces, pitfalls, etc.
What I can say, in general:
1) Try booting into recovery, and see if it will mount the internal storage if you connect to a computer. I know custom recovery (TWRP) will let you do this, but I don't know if stock recovery (since it looks like the phone is stock and never modded) has this ability or not (I'm thinking probably not, but hey its worth a try). It might be a long shot, but if you can mount memory, you should be able to simply browse to the folder where the pics are saved, and just copy and paste them to your computer.
2) These devices have a good amount of cloud backup apps built-in (Google Photos, Dropbox, HTC Backup). Depending on whether your wife opened any of them, and agreed to backup the pics, they may already be on the cloud, and can be easily accessed by logging into the specific service's website on a computer. Again, might be a longshot, but one can always hope; and it doesn't hurt to check.
3) Short of the above, if the phone won't boot into OS, you may be somewhat stuck. If the phone can't bootup into OS, and won't mount recovery otherwise, the only options I can think of to get OS or custom recovery on the phone, involves unlocking the bootloader; which will wipe the storage and defeat the whole purpose.
I know hindsight is always 20/20. But I've lost count how many times I've told folks on here and other smartphone forums: If the data is important to you, than back it up. With so many options to do so (backup to computer, cloud, removable SD) there is really no good reason not to. As already mentioned, in particular the cloud backup solutions take very little interaction, and fully automated once you've accepted the option to use them to backup the pics.
I know you've mentioned its your wife's phone. But regardless of whether its her device or yours or whatever; the previous paragraph applies to everyone with a smartphone. At least moving forward, you and your wife should start backing up your personal data (if you haven't already). Waiting for a disaster is not really the best time to started considering backup methods; but late is better than never.
Rant over. Good luck recovering the pics, in any case!
I feel super awkward and a bit embarrassed to ask this question, but I'm asking for help from this community (see last 2 or paragraphs for ask if you want to skip the boring details) and I think I need to explain briefly why to define my ultimate goal and why I even have to ask rather than sift through searches and assemble the steps/versions I need, etc.
My 22 year old daughter died recently (unexpectedly). I obviously want to preserve everything I can of hers, but I'm not firing on all cylinders mentally. I was able take her ThinkPad and virtualize it to my ESX system and also yank and clone the physical drive for safe keeping. But even doing that took me a while (which it shouldn't, that's kind of what I do for a living - I should be able to do that in my sleep, but it took 3 days and a lot of screaming). I was able to access her google accounts, facebook accounts, etc. and preserve a ton of stuff from there.
Ultimately while I would want to do with her phone the same thing I did to her notebook - preserve it virtually so I could examine it without fear of changing/modifying anything, but I don't think the product exists that allows me to virtualize an existing Android phone with apps and everything intact into a PC environment. I think I could install a whole new Android emulator in Windows, but that's not probably what I want.
I had just given her a Samsung S5 SM-G900T running on Ting for her birthday about 2 weeks before she died. It was unlocked but unrooted, it's rare that I would do nothing to the phone prior to giving it to her - but I pretty much just turned it on and handed it over with no custom ROM or anything - mostly because I was pressed for time the day of her party and it was shipped late.
When I got it back from the police a few say ago (they held it for 2 months) and charged it and turned it on 2 days ago, it upgraded from Lollipop to Marshmallow 6.0.1 (baseband is PE1), which was apparently pending. I don't know if that complicates things. It pissed me off, though. I have copied off local photos off and videos and already took control of her Google and Facebook accounts as I mentioned.
My slightly confused brain tells me normally I might install TWRP or CWM and make a NAND backup and copy it off someplace and at least have a restorable copy of her phone. I haven't done much of this sort of thing with phones for a year or two, I don't know what's changed in the latest OS versions and beides, plus I sort of "lose it" a bit, especially going through her personal things.
I'm not an idiot, I'm just not all here, yet. I'm asking if someone can please give me steps to safely preserve an image of her phone (IE, install TWRP or CWM using specific version xxx, etc., using Odin version xxx, etc.) - If I can virtualize it, too, I'd love to know what product does that, but again, I don't think I can.
I don't know why I feel the need to do these things, I just do.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Bump. Somebody please help this fellow. This is too important for me to try advising him, I don't know enough.
So even though half my brain is addled, I did some more research and found out a few interesting things, should anyone care to try this. I found there are a couple of open source tools built for android forensics:
Open Source Android Forensics Toolkit
https://sourceforge.net/projects/osaftoolkit/
Santoku
https://santoku-linux.com/about-santoku/
And there are commercial products, , like NowSecureForensics, some (if not most) built on the toolkits I just mentioned. Another is the painfully ironically named (for me, anyway) Autopsy.
This interesting website verified (to me anyway) that rooting the phone and changing access is still fundamentally sound forensically:
http://freeandroidforensics.blogspot.com
And it confirmed there is no way (yet) to truly "virtualize" the phone entirely (unless you are the manufacturer and you have some proprietary software).
For a "live" example virtually, the best you can do is install an Android emulator and restore an ADB backup of an app. This obviously may or may not work if the app is very hardware dependent. But for a simple program it might work fine.
So in addition to rooting my daughter's S5, installing TWRP, and backing it up, I also got my daughter's HTC One M7 to finally power up, and I rooted it and installed TWRP for backup purposes as well. Many of the forensic tools I mentioned will then report from the standard TWRP backups, with no risk to changing the phone. Some want to look at the phone themselves, even offering to root them, which I find more risky.
I haven't found any one tool to fully provide what I need, you need a Windows PC, a Linux PC (or VM), one or more toolsets (each comprised of other toolsets) and then a lot of time/will to really piece together things. I haven't completed the examinations - even typing is harder now for some reason, but should anyone else need this sort of thing (hopefully for different reasons than mine), the above info is a good start.