Hi everyone, I accidentally deleted some photos from my device in the focal camera (damn focal for not telling me that if I drag a picture to the sides it gets deleted) so my question is what is the best way (preferably android app) to recover them, I used an app in the play store but only found 3 of the 7 pictures I deleted, so does anyone have any advice to give me?
If they were deleted they're gone. Deleting is permanent.
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It's possible to recover most of the deleted files if they haven't been overwritten with another data cluster.
Whoever said that it's permanent doesn't really know about how it works. I used a program to get back some pictures before called Disk Digger.
Download it from the Play Store, and let it check.
I have the same issue. Damn focal. did you manage to get back your files? and which app did you use at first to get back the first 3 of 7?
Photorec
Provided you can mount it as USB storage to a Windows PC, then try out PhotoRec_win from cgsecurity.org
I've used it before for completely inaccessible hard drives and got almost all my data back (mostly Outlook data files at the time).
Usually when you delete a file, the OS just deletes the pointer to the data. Provided you haven't written any other data over the cluster where your file was, then PhotoRec looks for the file signature and reads the file without the file allocation table.
If you accidently delete a file and want it back, my first advice would be not to install anything or take more photos, whatever, until you try to recover the file.
Siknik64 said:
It's possible to recover most of the deleted files if they haven't been overwritten with another data cluster.
Whoever said that it's permanent doesn't really know about how it works. I used a program to get back some pictures before called Disk Digger.
Download it from the Play Store, and let it check.
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Maybe you should be less rude when talking about other members especially when you don't even know what your talking about. A nand chip is not a mechanical device is does not use platters or clusters. It uses blocks. Although you are correct in the fact that data can be recovered unless the block has been overwritten.
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Almost a 2 month old thread re-opened again. Anyway I hear there is an app called "undelete" but it requires root access If i am wrong? But meh, By default HTC has a default integration with Drop Box so it might be uploaded already.
But since you have focal camera I think you have a custom rom. So If the pic was taken after installing a custom rom without activating drop box again, then you can follow the steps mentioned by others
Best of luck if you didn't solve this issue yet, or If someone else did the same mistake as you.
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Maybe you should be less rude when talking about other members especially when you don't even know what your talking about. A nand chip is not a mechanical device is does not use platters or clusters. It uses blocks. Although you are correct in the fact that data can be recovered unless the block has been overwritten.
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A block is just another measurement of data, a cluster is made up of blocks. It's all relative. Question: How is it rude to correct someone when you did the same thing to me? Think about it.
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A block is just another measurement of data, a cluster is made up of blocks. It's all relative. Question: How is it rude to correct someone when you did the same thing to me? Think about it.
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Doesn't matter. Its irrelevant to this topic.
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Doesn't matter. Its irrelevant to this topic.
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Then it should not be mentioned in the first place.
Guys Guys!! Relax @sixcarnage @Siknik64
It's a developer's forum and if every programmer argues about a small detail of a programming language this forum won't survive. I think the thread OP didn't reply so my guess is it's already resolved. So maybe a mod can close it?
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A block is just another measurement of data, a cluster is made up of blocks. It's all relative. Question: How is it rude to correct someone when you did the same thing to me? Think about it.
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A "cluster" of blocks is referred to as a page afaik. You can correct people without being condescending. What does telling people "they know nothing" achieve apart from showing everyone how bad your manners are?
Regardless this has gone too far off topic now.
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I don't remember this file being there when I freshly installed JellyBean 4.1.1 on my Galaxy Nexus, any idea what it is/does??
http://i.imgur.com/gC0Ux.png
Hello-
Did you ever find out what this file is?
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Hello-
Did you ever find out what this file is?
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Do you have it on your external sd? If so, do you use TB Pro?
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Do you have it on your external sd? If so, do you use TB Pro?
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It appears to be on my phone and not the SD card. I'm using the Samsung Galaxy III. I'm going to say, "no" I don't use TB Pro since I'm not even sure what it is. Also, my phone isn't rooted to my knowledge in the event that matters.
if you have instagram installed it belongs to that app, its how instagram knows your device, i recently got banned from ig (dont ask y lol) and ive been looking for a way around it, one possible way around the ban is related to that file....my prob is i jus cant seem to find it, ive formatted my sd via windows 8 so hopefully that will do the trick..
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if you have instagram installed it belongs to that app, its how instagram knows your device, i recently got banned from ig (dont ask y lol) and ive been looking for a way around it, one possible way around the ban is related to that file....my prob is i jus cant seem to find it, ive formatted my sd via windows 8 so hopefully that will do the trick..
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Thanks Virgo! I was concerned it was a keylogger or something spyware related because I couldn't find anything about it. I appreciate the info.
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Thanks Virgo! I was concerned it was a keylogger or something spyware related because I couldn't find anything about it. I appreciate the info.
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That is exactly what it is homie. I had the same thing on my phone. I was able to find out when it was installed, then looked on my google dashboard to see where I was when it got installed. It happened at a bar. My friend Max borrowed my phone and went into the bathroom. Long story short, he thought I was bang'n his girlfriend. I confronted him, and he admitted it and let me see the other end of the app. Cool stuff as long as you're the one watching, and not being watched. It's from sms tracker agent. Look on google play. Somebody wants to know what you are doing when nobody is looking. If you see this and need more details I can provide them.
So then
Wow. Nvm.
about the profig.OS file
Sleepycloud said:
That is exactly what it is homie. I had the same thing on my phone. I was able to find out when it was installed, then looked on my google dashboard to see where I was when it got installed. It happened at a bar. My friend Max borrowed my phone and went into the bathroom. Long story short, he thought I was bang'n his girlfriend. I confronted him, and he admitted it and let me see the other end of the app. Cool stuff as long as you're the one watching, and not being watched. It's from sms tracker agent. Look on google play. Somebody wants to know what you are doing when nobody is looking. If you see this and need more details I can provide them.
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you said if I need more details you can give them to me.. so whats the deal with this file.. how can I find out what this file really is an how it was put on my phone.. ?? I think my gf is spying on me not to sure tho but wanna make sure.. any other files I should be looking out for ?? thankz for your time ..
So it is spyware?
plz help me with my Android disaster
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That is exactly what it is homie. I had the same thing on my phone. I was able to find out when it was installed, then looked on my google dashboard to see where I was when it got installed. It happened at a bar. My friend Max borrowed my phone and went into the bathroom. Long story short, he thought I was bang'n his girlfriend. I confronted him, and he admitted it and let me see the other end of the app. Cool stuff as long as you're the one watching, and not being watched. It's from sms tracker agent. Look on google play. Somebody wants to know what you are doing when nobody is looking. If you see this and need more details I can provide them.
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Ya I've been being stalked now for almost 3 yrs and well I don't really know anything about it due to the fact that I never wanted to but now I kinda wish I did. I have a HTC M7 w/ Verizon and well this is my 10th device they've sent me and well the same problem still seems to exist. So any assistance you could provide would be more then appreciated. My device is not rooted to my knowledge but it definitely gets hot all by itself. I keep deleting the app from my storage and well it keeps re appearing. The crazy thing is my Dialer is always running and this device doesn't even have service. So any help would be Awesomely appreciated.
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Ya I've been being stalked now for almost 3 yrs and well I don't really know anything about it due to the fact that I never wanted to but now I kinda wish I did. I have a HTC M7 w/ Verizon and well this is my 10th device they've sent me and well the same problem still seems to exist. So any assistance you could provide would be more then appreciated. My device is not rooted to my knowledge but it definitely gets hot all by itself. I keep deleting the app from my storage and well it keeps re appearing. The crazy thing is my Dialer is always running and this device doesn't even have service. So any help would be Awesomely appreciated.
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It is your app data on your google account, then possibly app data on Microsoft accounts such as one drive and one note. Then any other emails are suspect too. I had to change all three of mine because the app data and system settings that are stored kept coming back. Get a new device, and get all new emails and never ever go back to them. Do not even save your contacts. The data will transfer in your contacts.vcf file. Trust me. Abandon ship.
I want more details [email protected]
nesecito tu ayuda
myepicyear said:
Do you have it on your external sd? If so, do you use TB Pro?
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I have it on my SD card and I don't use TB pro. Also recently my phone asked for a swipe screen lock to unlock my phone (I use pattern lock) and after swiping it asked me for my usual pattern. Is my phone hacked? What should I do?
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That is exactly what it is homie. I had the same thing on my phone. I was able to find out when it was installed, then looked on my google dashboard to see where I was when it got installed. It happened at a bar. My friend Max borrowed my phone and went into the bathroom. Long story short, he thought I was bang'n his girlfriend. I confronted him, and he admitted it and let me see the other end of the app. Cool stuff as long as you're the one watching, and not being watched. It's from sms tracker agent. Look on google play. Somebody wants to know what you are doing when nobody is looking. If you see this and need more details I can provide them.
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I have this on my phone, found it in my device storage. Can I track it to who is monitoring me and how can I delete it?
On need help with this file.
Hello i have profig and i clicked in it it sent me directly to google play of a lost of tracking i camera etc things all relkaring to hacking a phone. My boyfriend has put listening devices in my house n trackers on my car but hes in total denial to hacking my phone i need to leave him he just wont admit it
uninstall instagram and delete the file. It won't come back unless you install instagram again...probably facebook has this too. I think the file name is com.ebay.somethingsomething in /data/data/
Sleepycloud said:
That is exactly what it is homie. I had the same thing on my phone. I was able to find out when it was installed, then looked on my google dashboard to see where I was when it got installed. It happened at a bar. My friend Max borrowed my phone and went into the bathroom. Long story short, he thought I was bang'n his girlfriend. I confronted him, and he admitted it and let me see the other end of the app. Cool stuff as long as you're the one watching, and not being watched. It's from sms tracker agent. Look on google play. Somebody wants to know what you are doing when nobody is looking. If you see this and need more details I can provide them.
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Hi, i have this file coming on all the time and i'd like to know exactly what it is . I've check property few times and once it was created in 1970 (??!!) So I don't think it is from instagram . I've also been jailbroken twice, in a week, then lost my keyboard, then 40 to 50 go from my pics just gone (few were new and not save, but ok) . Then, any info about that files would be great
Just got back from a heavy weekend at butlins in minehead..... Got my phone stolen. Luckily someone I know sorted me out wit a HTC desire HD. But stil is no where near as good as my s2.
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Does anyone know what u can/can't do with an S2 that's had its imei number blocked?
I've blocked my stolen galaxy but not sure what u can still do on the phone ... Don't like the thought of someone goin thru all my pics/texts etc...
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I guess it'll be blocked from accessing any network. That's all. The data on your phone will still be there unfortunately. Use this app called Cerberus with your next phone to prevent such situations. I've been using it since a year and it's brilliant. Allows you to locate your phone and a whole lot more including remotely wiping the phone and SD card and turning on data and WiFi. The lifetime license for 5 devices is a paltry amount too. I'm not advertising the app, it's just something that everybody would do well to have.
In any case, if you had a security lock on your phone then it won't be a problem. The thief or whoever he sells it to will probably just factory reset it. SD card data is another thing though, as it can be removed and opened with a card reader. If your pics were in the internal memory and you had a security lock then it shouldn't be a problem. Messages are stored in the /data partition anyway.
The Desire HD, which I own too, is a brilliant phone. But obviously not as good as S2, being of an older generation. The build quality beats any Samsung phone though. Mine has fallen down hundreds on times and taken many beatings, but other than a scratch here and there it's perfectly fine. :thumbup:
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Did you mistake XDA for your blog?
If you hadn't have blocked it you could have downloaded plan b on it from the play store on your home computer.
Now they can do whatever they like on it except for text people, call people or use 3g etc.
Did you have a screen lock? if so then you may be alright for not having your pics nosed at/downloaded/passed on. If not then your out of luck.
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Did you mistake XDA for your blog?
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First of all his post is relevant to XDA, since he had a S2 and is simply asking questions about the phone. Yes, he should have posted it on the Q and A part of the forum, but it is still relevant.
Not trying to be rude or anything but from most of your posts that I read, all I see is sarcasm. If you don't have anything good to say, don't say it.
With regards,
beston94
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he had a S2 and is simply asking questions about the phone.
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What were his questions?
Ohhh, the one where he broke the rules again by bumping his own thread after two hours.
oinkylicious said:
What were his questions?
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Let's get real. It doesn't affect you at all. Agree 100% with beston94.
Anyway, avast mobile security offers very good remote security too!
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somebody pushed me into a pool with my clothes on a few weeks ago and I had my Samsung gs3 on me
I've tried drying it, took it apart, tried to dry the motherboard separately,... but nothing worked.
I got a new gs3 and the only thing I care about now is to retrive my photos if possible. The water damaged phone won't turn on and it won't connect to a computer. To make sure that the problem is the motherboard not the screen I've switched the motherboards to see if it works or connects to computer but it won't.
Does anybody know how I might be able to retrive my photos?
I think the solution might be to take the phone's internal memory out and maybe install it on a working board and recover photos from there but I dunno if that thought is doable??
Anybody knows of a repair shop that could do that for me?
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Yeah ..i saw someone do that once ...in an episode of CSI !!
I know its not that helpful but hey ..at least im trying to cheer you up .
Good luck with your project and ask your dumbass friend to buy you another s3
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poor guy
take it to a pro and ask
iTchill said:
Yeah ..i saw someone do that once ...in an episode of CSI !!
I know its not that helpful but hey ..at least im trying to cheer you up .
Good luck with your project and ask your dumbass friend to buy you another s3
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lol I already got another phone and the funny or sad thing is I didn't even know him!!
I guess that was a very stupid prank!!
Glebun said:
take it to a pro and ask
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I will, but the problem is I already took it to a repair shop and they couldn't help me and there are not a lot of pros in this field in the city I'm leaving
I thought maybe somebody could refer me to a pro and I ask them or mail the phone/motherboard to them
Sorry to hear about that, things happen though.
Did some research for you and found this: http://digital-photography-school.com/recover-images-from-a-damaged-sd-card
but I am not entirely sure it will work. If anything, you would take the phone back to Samsung to have the data removed
unless you have lost your warranty.
Good luck anyway.
It's probably possible to recover the data from the integrated ssd drive through complex and very specialized tools aswell as lots of work.
This would involve desoldering the chip from the motherboard and hope it's not defective due to your attempts to use the device.
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In future, open a dropbox account and install dropbox on your phone.
This way, all your photos will upload automaticly to your dropbox account without any manipulation.
Good luck Bro !
thanks for the search
but unfortunately I wan't using sd card before so the pics are on the phone's memory
I do still have the warranty and I called Samsung but they would just repair it and wipe all the data off the phone they won't recover it for me
AndroidPlant said:
Sorry to hear about that, things happen though.
Did some research for you and found this:
but I am not entirely sure it will work. If anything, you would take the phone back to Samsung to have the data removed
unless you have lost your warranty.
Good luck anyway.
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decAOC one
Yes that's exactly what I was thinking of, by any chance do you know any place or anybody that might be able to do that for me, I hope not too expensive thu!
d4fseeker said:
It's probably possible to recover the data from the integrated ssd drive through complex and very specialized tools aswell as lots of work.
This would involve desoldering the chip from the motherboard and hope it's not defective due to your attempts to use the device.
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Oh yes I've learned my lesson lol
now using dropbox and google drive and sd card as well, incase I was somewhere that I didn't have access to internet like my trip to Mexico when my phone broke
bilo1000 said:
In future, open a dropbox account and install dropbox on your phone.
This way, all your photos will upload automaticly to your dropbox account without any manipulation.
Good luck Bro !
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bilo1000 said:
In future, open a dropbox account and install dropbox on your phone.
This way, all your photos will upload automaticly to your dropbox account without any manipulation.
Good luck Bro !
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yep, dropbox could be a life saver. dont' forget you got 50gb if free storage for one year
BHH
For some reason the OEM stock ROM lacks an encryption option in the menus. Here's an APK that will fix that little problem for you. The APK is attached to this post and of course on my mirror server at the link below as well. Enjoy!
[REDACTED]
Just install and run.
P.S. It should theoretically work on ANY phone running Marshmallow, but most of those have Encrypt options in the settings, so not really sure why you would want this.
Excuse my ignorance, this apk for what??
Enviado desde mi R1 HD mediante Tapatalk
Javiefs said:
Excuse my ignorance, this apk for what??
Enviado desde mi R1 HD mediante Tapatalk
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He explains that in his post. The OEM variant of the R1 does not show option to encrypt phone, so he presented a solution.
does encrypting take a hit on performance of the phone?
Papote3 said:
does encrypting take a hit on performance of the phone?
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no, not really. you won't even notice it. please encrypt. security is very important
The Android Attorney said:
no, not really. you won't even notice it. please encrypt. security is very important
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I don't waste my time anymore, had my old G3 set to wipe after 3 failed logins, one of the foster kids killed everything I had not backed up in 5 minutes, anymore my life's an open book lol
kal250 said:
I don't waste my time anymore, had my old G3 set to wipe after 3 failed logins, one of the foster kids killed everything I had not backed up in 5 minutes, anymore my life's an open book lol
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Think of it this way. What if you were to get your phone stolen? What if the person who stole it has a bit of knowledge on android phones? Even with a passcode, its kinda easy to access the data. You say open book, but im pretty sure either way you wouldn't really want some stranger sifting through your data. And you might have something on there if you think hard enough that you dont want in someone elses hands. Thats why encryption is important. Because getting to the data is one thing, but accessing it is another thing.
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Think of it this way. What if you were to get your phone stolen? What if the person who stole it has a bit of knowledge on android phones? Even with a passcode, its kinda easy to access the data. You say open book, but im pretty sure either way you wouldn't really want some stranger sifting through your data. And you might have something on there if you think hard enough that you dont want in someone elses hands. Thats why encryption is important. Because getting to the data is one thing, but accessing it is another thing.
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I don't even password protect anymore, nothing on my phone worth hiding. But I agree, if I had anything on it, I definitely would not want them sifting through it.
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Not sure what is going on, but I've noticed that whenever I visit XDA my browser will automatically start downloading PDFs
Specifically they are various chicken recipes and each file is about 500kb give or take. This will happen every time I visit XDA.
Has anyone else been experiencing this recently?
Nope... Although if you got some good chicken cooking recipes ... Please share :laugh:
NascentesMorimur said:
Not sure what is going on, but I've noticed that whenever I visit XDA my browser will automatically start downloading PDFs
Specifically they are various chicken recipes and each file is about 500kb give or take. This will happen every time I visit XDA.
Has anyone else been experiencing this recently?
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Pretty sure xda's not your issue. Does it only happen on one device (6p)? What browser? Try different ones for both and see if it still happens.
happened to me on xda also without ad blocker. Internet is a dangerous place without adblocker.
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Pretty sure xda's not your issue. Does it only happen on one device (6p)? What browser? Try different ones for both and see if it still happens.
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Just tried with Snapdragon browser and I still get those download requests.
BoboBrazil said:
happened to me on xda also without ad blocker. Internet is a dangerous place without adblocker.
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Yeah this is one of my first times surfing without using AdAway in a very long time since I was not able to get it running on Benzo.
Didn't bother with it as Pure Nexus N is imminent at this point.
NascentesMorimur said:
Yeah this is one of my first times surfing without using AdAway in a very long time since I was not able to get it running on Benzo.
Didn't bother with it as Pure Nexus N is imminent at this point.
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The bad thing is it auto downloads. I didn't even think that was possible on an android phone without some kind of prompt.
That is sketchy would full wipe then flash factory images and then get it ready for pn7 id est nougat radio, vendor, bootloader, twrp, etc all in your emmc.
This is scary. I use the XDA app almost exclusively so this never happens for me.
I agree that your first course of action should be to make a backup and do a full wipe of the phone, including the internal storage (make sure you move your backup and any other important files to your computer before you wipe)
I'll start using XDA in browser without AdBlock for a bit to see if I can get it to happen to me too. I'm extremely curious.
I will be contacting The Forum Server Admins with regards to this issue. Will post back if needed.
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I will be contacting The Forum Server Admins with regards to this issue. Will post back if needed.
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Can we at least get some more variety with the recipes? Not nuch if a chicken fan myself...
So, I went and talked to "Those Guys". What I have been given to understand that the issue is being looked at ever since it was reported in last day or two. Also the issue is going to be fixed here shortly. Please report back here if you do still see this. Also I am assuming this didn't happen due to accidentally clicking some ad. Is that right ?
To me, it appears to be limited to Mobile version of the site and not on PC.
AdBlock has its own browser. Just fyi..
I've got the exact same "recipe" but was switching tabs so much I didn't see who was doing this. But I got 3 of the same exact named Southwestern Rice and Smoked Chicken Skillet.pdf . Me no likey this. Edit: I wanted to clarify that I did not click any ads, either of the 3 times the download initiated.
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So, I went and talked to "Those Guys". What I have been given to understand that the issue is being looked at ever since it was reported in last day or two. Also the issue is going to be fixed here shortly. Please report back here if you do still see this. Also I am assuming this didn't happen due to accidentally clicking some ad. Is that right ?
To me, it appears to be limited to Mobile version of the site and not on PC.
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Only when browsing the site with Mobile browser.
Thank you for looking into it.
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shag_on_e said:
I've got the exact same "recipe" but was switching tabs so much I didn't see who was doing this. But I got 3 of the same exact named Southwestern Rice and Smoked Chicken Skillet.pdf . Me no likey this. Edit: I wanted to clarify that I did not click any ads, either of the 3 times the download initiated.
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Please can you clear your browser, history & Cookies. Then try again for me ? If it repeats, then Post a screenshot here if possible or any particular forum link you had.
Perseus said:
Please can you clear your browser, history & Cookies. Then try again for me ? If it repeats, then Post a screenshot here if possible or any particular forum link you had.
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i get this without an adblocker as well. are there any logs i can provide?
640k said:
i get this without an adblocker as well. are there any logs i can provide?
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Was this after I posted above ? If so, I'd like to have the following.
The precise Page Link where this happened.
Your Browser name and version or App version.
The complete name of the file that got downloaded.
Date and Time when this happened. Also your timezone, if you are comfortable in sharing that. Or else you can convert the date and time to GMT Timezone and provide that.
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Chicken recipe PDF was also downloaded onto my phone. It downloads automatically when loading a page with the chicken recipie ad. You could be spammed dozens of times if you lurk heavily.
Has anyone opened up the file?
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