Hello forum,
I have a samsung at&t galaxy note running blackstar. About 15 days ago the screen shattered and 3 days later one raindrop fell on the screen and ruined it. Right now the phone screen is all black and you couldn't tell if it's on or off by just pressing the power button. I bought another phone and so my question is, how could I transfer my old data from my screwed phone to the other one without having to use the old phone?
I would like to take my texts and some contacts. I downloaded a software called MobileGo for Android, but it requires me to download an app to the phone, which I have to open before the software can start operating. And then again, this is a problem because the screen simply cannot be used.
Thanks,
Michael.
Try samsung Kies. And if contacts were google contacts they would sync back to your new phone by signing into google.
Agoattamer said:
Try samsung Kies. And if contacts were google contacts they would sync back to your new phone by signing into google.
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I did, and my contacts synced alright, however there are some texts that I need to recover. I already tried to connect the phone to the computer and copying everything, but the phone isn't being recognized. Is there any way I could copy some of the pictures saved in the phone?
Install the phones divers and the android sdk and use adb to pull everything out
If you had usb debugging enabled on the broken phone that is... otherwise that won't work.
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my vibrant has no video tmobile send me a new phone already now i need to get the data off the old phone but there is no display on screen how can you get it off without seeing anything then hard reset it?
tiensinh99 said:
my vibrant has no video tmobile send me a new phone already now i need to get the data off the old phone but there is no display on screen how can you get it off without seeing anything then hard reset it?
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Wow, you know it's bad when everybody is ignoring your question, lol.
But all jokes aside, check out adb for dummies http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502010
Possibly go to googles android sdk page and look up adb commands http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html , specifically the pull command.
I hope you had usb debugging checked already, because if you didn't this will not even work. if you are running one of eugenes roms it should be checked by default, unless you turned it off.
You will need the android sdk installed on your computer http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
and the vibrant drivers if you are using windows. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929
good luck.
what data do you need to get off?
if its just contacts, gmail etc then its already synced with gmail and no need to worry.
mms and sms could be a bit trickier.
if you want to get your pics and vids of the SD card, you can use adb or install droid explorer. I love droid explorer for get/push files.
if you are worried about apps, I would forget about it and just reinstall them on the new phone.
i got my data off with usb mode by playing guess with the touchscreen.thanks for reply.
Hello all,
I am sorry if I didn't do a throughout search but I needed help urgently..
and so...
I was playing with a friend's Hero's pattern lock, until it got locked till the extent whereby only inputting the gmail's account details were the only way to unlock it...
He tried to input the particulars, but they didn't work..
he was rather sure that the details were correct..
Anyone can provide any help to this?
Is there any way to "rollback" to the lock screen? I am sure my friend remembers the pattern... just that we couldn't go back ):
Or do we need some kind of internet connection to connect to verify for the account?
Anyone who have experience, I appreciate your help! (and everyone else)
Thanks!
is the phone rooted ? do you have access to the recovery menu ?
No I don't think so... my friend just recently got the phone and has done pretty much nothing other than installing apps from the app store...
He's a first time user of Android too... (so am I...)
Btw, recovery menu wise, do you mean the one whereby he holds a few of the buttons and on the device?
Yea, we managed to get there,
but didn't make any selections because there were some important messages inside the phone... and he doesn't want to hard reset his phone...
Any help? :/
Well if you are on the original stock rom that got shipped with the phone (I assume its 1.5), then I do remember a bug which didnt allow us to get through that menu. So we needed to do a hard reset.
If it has the 1. 5 Rom you can call the phone and disable the unlock pattern. You can do this by going into settings while the call is still being made.
Don't know if you're understanding this. This is the best way to explain.
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I've done this a few times accidentally and the Google sign-in has always unlocked it.
Get him to log into his Gmail account on a PC to check his username and password, and then try the same details on the phone. If he's signed in with the correct user account then it should work if everything has been input correctly.
Also, when the phone tries to auto-complete his email address make sure it's correct... my phone always wanted to give me @Googlemail.com, however my email is @Gmail.com so I had to manually change it.
As for apps he has downloaded from the Market... if you do need to do a hard reset then he will be able to download everything again via the downloads tab in the Market app,
Also, any photos, mp3s etc stored on the SD will all still be there as the SD remains unaffected by a reset. The only thing he might loose is any contacts stored on the phone which are not sync'd with Google or saved on the SIM.
Apologies if this isn't purely a dev question, but developers would be most likely to know the answer and other devs most likely to benefit from the answer.
If your touchscreen no longer works, how can I make a backup? So I don't lose my photos, contacts, and need to reinstall every app/every setting when they give me the replacement phone? I'd temp root and run Titanium Backup but with the touchscreen bad I can't even unlock the phone, let alone navigate the menus in TB.
My Evo 3D touch screen suddenly went crazy yesterday. I try to drag the ring to unlock the phone and the ring just jumps up a bit, wiggles a little, maybe unlocks, but then when I'm on the enter pattern page I can't because it doesn't register my finger properly, it registers touches sort of but won't register finger drags. The phone was working fine, it was plugged into my car's USB charger and audio jack, but right after I disconnected this happened.
(I tried safe mode, tried removing the battery, tried plugging into the normal HTC charger, screen just acts crazy.)
Thanks!
Quinxy
Can you connect with HTC Sync? I think you can backup from there but I'm not sure (I have Sensation but used HTC Sync only once)
idavid_ said:
Can you connect with HTC Sync? I think you can backup from there but I'm not sure (I have Sensation but used HTC Sync only once)
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Thanks! I didn't know HTC Sync existed, now downloading and will try that. Will post back when I see what it does and doesn't do, and if it'll work without my screen being usable.
Quinxy
you could use adb shell and copy the important thing to the sdcard if they aren't already there iirc pictures are stored on the sdcard anyway... you can also use adb pull to grab the files and put them on your computer.
pictures are already on your SD card, apps automatically reinstall after android 2.2, and your contacts should sync with Gmail. settings you would have to setup again.
BTW this should be in the Q&A section.
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Can you connect with HTC Sync? I think you can backup from there but I'm not sure (I have Sensation but used HTC Sync only once)
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Hmm, installed HTC Sync but it just says "Device not connected", it looks like you need to make sure your phone's USB setting is changed from "Charge Only" to "HTC Sync", which I can't given the touch screen issue.
For those that want it, you can find that software here:
Download HTC Sync Software
And per the advice of others in this thread I found the following which describes using adb shell to backup key data. It requires root, though, so you'll need to temp root. I haven't tries this yet, but this will be next:
Backup/Restore with ADB Shell
^ Quinxy
Why not just pull the SD card and back that up. Or keep it. Swap it with the new phone. Thats where your pictures are. As for your apps that sucks but not a lot can be done about that.
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quinxy said:
Apologies if this isn't purely a dev question, but developers would be most likely to know the answer and other devs most likely to benefit from the answer.
If your touchscreen no longer works, how can I make a backup? So I don't lose my photos, contacts, and need to reinstall every app/every setting when they give me the replacement phone? I'd temp root and run Titanium Backup but with the touchscreen bad I can't even unlock the phone, let alone navigate the menus in TB.
My Evo 3D touch screen suddenly went crazy yesterday. I try to drag the ring to unlock the phone and the ring just jumps up a bit, wiggles a little, maybe unlocks, but then when I'm on the enter pattern page I can't because it doesn't register my finger properly, it registers touches sort of but won't register finger drags. The phone was working fine, it was plugged into my car's USB charger and audio jack, but right after I disconnected this happened.
(I tried safe mode, tried removing the battery, tried plugging into the normal HTC charger, screen just acts crazy.)
Thanks!
Quinxy
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Ah, yet another touch screen issue. Mine is doing the same thing, but not as bad. Did you try just rebooting? (you probably did)
But, as suggested, I would do the temp root and then copy files from there that you need. But if you have your gmail account in there, it shouldn't be an issue.
This might seem like a stupid question but do you have anything covering the screen? Otterbox, screen protector, sometimes I get a few drops of water on screen and it won't respond until I wipe clean and then turn off screen. This is just to see if the screen really is not working or if something is making it think that there are multiple contacts on the screen and not responding to your finger.
Thanks for your help everyone... I've successfully moved everything to the replacement phone. For posterity and anyone who wants to needs to do the same... Here's what worked best for me.
1) Temp fre3vo root with Busy Box, SU, etc. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1152101)
2) Backed up apps and settings to computer via adb pull. Apps are in /data/app and settings are in /data/data.
3) Moved SD card from old phone to new phone.
4) Avoided Market setup until I restored settings. Restored settings from computer via adv push AFTER weeding through the list of pulled items and moving out any items that were com.android, com.htc (or had htc or android in the name). Altered permissions on the dirs I copied over. Android looks like each app has a different owner (e.g., app_145)?!?! So I just chmod -R 777 the dirs in question (leaving the others as they were); surely there's a better solution, but it worked, I'll try to fix it better later.
5) Ran Market, let it reinstall the apps it knew about.
6) Copied over a few setting files manually, like the wifi supplicant file.
7) A few apps didn't automatically install from Market so I went to my backup of /data/app and ran "adb install foo.apk" to install those remaining apps.
8) Re-installed two apps which force closed (Super Manager and Lookout Mobile Security).
And voila... All my apps and app settings were moved to the new phone without much fuss!
Hope it helps someone else.
Quinxy
Screencast
Download Screen Cast http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/. It's Java Based and works on all operating systems.
Download and Install Android SDK - http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Temp Root Your Phone with Fre3vo.
Open Screen cast with your computer and connect phone.
Make sure USB Debugging is Enabled in Settings on Phone (Hopefully you can do this or already had)
Now you should be able to control your phone from your computer and recover your data etc.
Good Luck!
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Download Screen Cast http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/. It's Java Based and works on all operating systems.
Download and Install Android SDK - http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Temp Root Your Phone with Fre3vo.
Open Screen cast with your computer and connect phone.
Make sure USB Debugging is Enabled in Settings on Phone (Hopefully you can do this or already had)
Now you should be able to control your phone from your computer and recover your data etc.
Good Luck!
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Nice. Info. Gonna try this tonight.
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SpyFi said:
Download Screen Cast http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/. It's Java Based and works on all operating systems.
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Awesome, thanks for turning me on to this! I used to love being able to remote control my Pocket PC with the MS SDK back in 2001 and have been annoyed finding nothing like that for Android (or my iPhone before that)!
Quinxy
Hi, I recently dropped my Vibrant and the screen is broken. Now I don't need to get it fixed because I already ordered a new phone a few days ago, but I do need the data on the Vibrant. Is there any way to extract the data like contacts from the phone? And I think usb storage is off
edit: was able to blindly enable usb mass storage if that helps
You don't have your contacts sync'd to your gmail?
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apparently not, it looks like it hasn't been updated in while since it's missing a lot of contacts
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apparently not, it looks like it hasn't been updated in while since it's missing a lot of contacts
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Do you have the Android sdk installed on your pc?
Can you recall if "USB Debugging" was enabled on your phone?
If you meet the criteria above well here is your answer.
http://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/
This little handy program will allow you to control your phone via your pc. This should help you navigate through your phone and sync your contacts to your gmail account.
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montyalbo said:
Hi, I recently dropped my Vibrant and the screen is broken. Now I don't need to get it fixed because I already ordered a new phone a few days ago, but I do need the data on the Vibrant. Is there any way to extract the data like contacts from the phone? And I think usb storage is off
edit: was able to blindly enable usb mass storage if that helps
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Give the phone to me and I will switch the MB on your phone to my phone and get the information for you. (my phone has lost the capability to use SIM card so currently I use it for a music player.) PM me.
I have a vibrant with a wonky connection somehwere, but perfectly functioning screen. If you sell the phone to me then I'd be happy to pull whatever data I can off of it and send you a CD/DVD/Flash drive with everything on it.
Ideally, I'd like to use your logic board to get my vibrant back in working condition.
Sold my galaxy SII and bought a Galaxy SIII. Ive inserted my sim card into my phone and have synced all my contacts. However my sister who has bought my GSII has deleted all my contacts off my new GSIII from her GSII. She says shes jst deleted the contacts and yet they have been deleted off my phone to. How do I fix this?? Thanks. My HTC sensation us unaffected
Sounds like the GS2 was still connected to your google account when your sister deleted all your contacts. If that's the case, unless you backed up your contacts to another medium before she deleted them, I'm not sure you can recover them.
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Sounds like the GS2 was still connected to your google account when your sister deleted all your contacts. If that's the case, unless you backed up your contacts to another medium before she deleted them, I'm not sure you can recover them.
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I cant remember deleting my account off of there tbh. Ive got my contacts backed up. My sister is coming round later on. If I wipe all the data off the GSII and create a new google ID on the GSII, will this sort the issue? What I dont want, is to wipe the GSII only to lose all my contacts again (even though Ive got them backed up) Never seen this problem before and Ive owned quite a few android devices.
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I cant remember deleting my account off of there tbh. Ive got my contacts backed up. My sister is coming round later on. If I wipe all the data off the GSII and create a new google ID on the GSII, will this sort the issue? What I dont want, is to wipe the GSII only to lose all my contacts again (even though Ive got them backed up) Never seen this problem before and Ive owned quite a few android devices.
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That SHOULD sort it out, yes.
Try to search in your google account on pc a button caled "restore" or "revert deleted"
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Yann68 said:
Try to search in your google account on pc a button caled "restore" or "revert deleted"
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Hey, Yann68's right! (Thanks dude! I didn't know about this.)
There is a feature to restore contacts back to a specific time. Log into your Google account, go to Contacts. Click the "More" button, and you'll see "Restore Contacts". You can then choose how far back to restore to.