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So I was messing around on my nook color and vibrant. I decided to try out honeycomb using win32diskimager of course, but accidently put it on the wrong drive, which formated it. Now I haven't touch it since, instead booted to Clockwork on my vibrant and mounted the internal sd and am currently attempting one of those photo, video recoveries which is what I am trying to recover. Any suggestions on software or previous experiences since I am desperate right now? Also, should I format it again to properly scan it for any possible recovery files? I know, I screwed up on something ridiculous, but I know it's an easy fix if possible(simply a program or tool i hope)
If your lucky you might be able to get some data back (Maybe)
try this program for your computer point it to your phone and let it work to see what it can dig out.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
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take the word DATA now format it your left with ---- open spots to write on there is still data there but it only last until its wrote over
ironlood said:
If your lucky you might be able to get some data back (Maybe)
try this program for your computer point it to your phone and let it work to see what it can dig out.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
EXAMPLE
take the word DATA now format it your left with ---- open spots to write on there is still data there but it only last until its wrote over
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Tried it yet unsuccessful but thanks for the info cause when it got formatted software got put on it that wiped any remaining chance. moving on with life now...
If one enables full device encryption in Ice Cream Sandwich, am I correct in assuming that that the internal SD of that device is now not going to be available in the CWM recovery mode? And even if it was, the root fs would not be available? If so, this pretty much would make CWM flashing your device near impossible?
Does CWM even work if you use FDE? Or is it planned/
The question I guess is, when do you input your encryption password? Is it some pre-boot step?
I really want to enable device encryption but I can't find enugh details on how it works.
I did read this post on it., but it doesn't really answer my questions. And it is unclear if it encrypts the internal SD, or just the root FS?
http://source.android.com/tech/encryption/android_crypto_implementation.html
No one knows anything about this?
I got a Gnex today from Verizon in the US and I encrypted my phone after I unlocked the bootloader but before rooting. As a result I don't think I will be able to root because it doesn't seem that the modified boot.img that the instructions tell me to use can mount the encrypted system (it sat at the Google logo w/ the unlocked icon for 10 minutes before I pulled the battery and let it boot the stock boot.img) which came up fine.
It seems the only way to decrypt the phone is by doing a factory reset.
That's all I know. That being said, while a custom recovery may work for wiping partitions (such as cache), it would probably be mostly useless until the custom recovery is updated to support the encrypted file systems. I'm a *NIX user and an engineer, but don't have a lot of experience with Android's internals, so take all that with the appropriate sized grain of salt.
Regards,
Chris
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Anyone experimented with full device encryption / ROM flashing / SD Card? I'm curious about this as well, but not curious enough to experiment.
I dident try it myself, so i dont exactly know, how this works. But i think device encryption shouldent completly block clockworkmod recovery.
I think it could be a problem to make a backup while your device is encrypted. But i think it shouldent be a problem to recover a old system over an encrypted one. Encryption keeps people without the key away from reading data. This dosent mean you cant wright something over it and replace the locked data with some new one. But then you defenitly loose the old data. I dont think you can flash a new ROM or a recovery without a full wipe. You probably gona loose all the data you had on the old system.
But i general i think this is anyway a good think to do when you flash a new ROM.
I think you could give it a try, without briking your phone. But i dident try it, so i cant take any responsibility.
Would any of you happen to know how to get to the diagnostic mode?
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Would any of you happen to know how to get to the diagnostic mode?
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I sonst exactly know hat diagnostic Mode you mean. Depends hat Diagnose you want to run. Do you want to read the logfiles in your phone, wher you can see what ist doing? You could use the app alogcat. An other way would be to run logcat over Eclipse.
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I sonst exactly know hat diagnostic Mode you mean. Depends hat Diagnose you want to run. Do you want to read the logfiles in your phone, wher you can see what ist doing? You could use the app alogcat. An other way would be to run logcat over Eclipse.
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I need to edit modem information and enable a diag port for QPST, essentially allowing me to flash it to another carrier.
Is there any new information on this? Any help would be very appreciated!
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I encrypted mine after flashing the stock ICS 4.0.3 image and rooting. CWM still loads, but when I try to use USB mass storage, windows tells me it needs to be formatted before the SD card can be used.
You can use titanium backup to make backups of your stuff, and restore them to a non-encrypted phone. I have found no other way to unencrypt the phone than factory reset either. When you encrypt, then go to settings > security > encryption, it just has a greyed out area saying "Phone is encrypted", which is stupid and needs to be fixed.
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I encrypted mine after flashing the stock ICS 4.0.3 image and rooting. CWM still loads, but when I try to use USB mass storage, windows tells me it needs to be formatted before the SD card can be used.
You can use titanium backup to make backups of your stuff, and restore them to a non-encrypted phone. I have found no other way to unencrypt the phone than factory reset either. When you encrypt, then go to settings > security > encryption, it just has a greyed out area saying "Phone is encrypted", which is stupid and needs to be fixed.
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So if I factory reset the device from CMW I will not loose my pictures or TB in the internal SD?
What about flashing a new ROM?
Thanks!
I have been playing with ICS + FDE for several days doing different things. First off this is:
Nexus S 4G, running Pete's crespo4g OTA ROM
I flashed with CWM which is still on there and runs fine.
However: /data and /sdcard and /system (?) are encrypted and CANNOT be mounted.
To restore you have to 1) make a full backup over USB to a PC of the whole SDcard (or at least the important folders).
2) wipe and reformat everything. This isn't just a factory reset, this kills the sdcard as well.
3) mount (hopefully) the newly reformatted /sdcard and blow your backup from the PC onto the /sdcard
4) use CWM to restore a previous ROM.
That's pretty much it, give or take. Not for the faint of heart. However, if you are concerned enough to want encryption, you don't want to just say reboot recovery and voila all your files are belong to us, right?
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Also, the backup to PC part is just your sdcard. It doesn't back up the whole system. There might be a way to do that via adb, I don't know.
So i am running rooted runnig miui.us rom. I just tried to encrypt phone.. It ran for 2 and a half hours and I got impatient. thinking maybe i shouldnt have done it... Then after a little bit of panic i said **** it if i lose data i lose data... so i powered off and back on hoping i didnt and the rom booted back up with all my data intact..... •••••• Wish I had more to report but im not doing that again until someone can confirm that it works fine...... I have tried booting into cwm yet.. If i have an issue when i need to boot illl report back but if you dont hear from me here then assume I was able too.
Pete's to CM9 - still encrypted
IT does indeed take a fairly long time to encrypt. If I understand correctly it will build the encrypted partition on a loopback (or something like) before erasing the original (by overwriting?).
I've got more to report. I followed my plan (couple posts back) for unencrypting and reflashing my phone. (Nexus S 4g).
The first bits of this worked fine. I was able to flash CM9 onto my phone (works like a champ btw). While the phone was in recovery I mounted the SD and copied my backup back onto it.
However...
When CM9 booted I STILL got the "unlock your device" screen, still the same password, and it decrypted and booted. That was surprising, but not as much as when I looked for the SD card, it said it was incorrectly formatted! The only thing to do was reformat and copy with the phone on and unlocked.
So lessons learned: 1) a factory reset from _inside_the_ROM_ doesn't remove the encrypted partition at all and
2) As far as I can tell, the SD card _is_ encrypted along with /data
I'd be very interested to hear other's experiences, especially someone who can remove their SD storage.
Undoing FDE
First off - Lacking a device with removable storage to test with all I can tell you is that the sdcard is not accessible by any normal means after FDE is enabled without booting into the encrypted system.
"Removing" FDE required three steps beyond normal:
-Factory reset from within the ROM
-factory reset/wipe at recovery and/or format /data
-once into a running ROM, reformat the sdcard
Once all that is done (in addition to normal setup for ROM) you should be able to operate normally again.
problem with encryption on sgs2 with android 4.0.3
I really want to enable my device encryption too, but I can't !!!
the phone start encrypting after he ask me for a new secure password, rebooting and asking again for my password and surprise!!!.... the password is not match ?!?!
I repetead these steps for 3 times but the same result...the password does not match!!! ?
Please, if someone found a trick to repair this inconvenient, tell us in this post steps to be followed.
Regards!
SGS2, Android Icecream 4.0.3
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So i am running rooted runnig miui.us rom. I just tried to encrypt phone.. It ran for 2 and a half hours and I got impatient. thinking maybe i shouldnt have done it... Then after a little bit of panic i said **** it if i lose data i lose data... so i powered off and back on hoping i didnt and the rom booted back up with all my data intact..... •••••• Wish I had more to report but im not doing that again until someone can confirm that it works fine...... I have tried booting into cwm yet.. If i have an issue when i need to boot illl report back but if you dont hear from me here then assume I was able too.
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I did exactly what you did, and so far everything seems to be intact Thanks!
Some thing very strange happened yesterday, suddenly my pattern I have used for a year now stopped working. when I click forgot password and sign into my google account it still doesn't work (maybe because I have no internet access?) it says wrong username or password. I found a way to reset the gesturekey through adb, but I think the pattern is blocking my adb, because when I have it plugged in adb devices lists no devices... I am pretty sure usb debugging was on though from when I got my token ID for unlocking the bootloader... any help would be much appreciated. factory reset would be very bad because I NEED the playlists I have on my rezound, HOURS were spent on those and I use them a lot for work and I don't think I can recreate them...
If you can get into recovery (power + vol down), you can flash a ROM without wiping data (only cache / dalvic). I think it should disable all screen security (and return all system settings and apps to their original states), but not affect third-party apps. Alternatively, you could flash a system.img from an RUU using fastboot (something like "fastboot flash system system.img"). Any playlists belonging to third-party apps should be unaffected.
I'm not an expert in this, though, so maybe you should wait for confirmation before trying it. It may also be good to make a nandroid backup first.
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If you can get into recovery (power + vol down), you can flash a ROM without wiping data (only cache / dalvic). I think it should disable all screen security (and return all system settings and apps to their original states), but not affect third-party apps. Alternatively, you could flash a system.img from an RUU using fastboot (something like "fastboot flash system system.img"). Any playlists belonging to third-party apps should be unaffected.
I'm not an expert in this, though, so maybe you should wait for confirmation before trying it. It may also be good to make a nandroid backup first.
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Yeah... but the problem with that is is that I am bootloader locked. And to unlock my bootloader I need adb... and you cant flash roms with bootloader locked.
I was hoping someone would have an idea to get me adb access to the device so i could use something like this... in hboot and recovery still adb wont recognize
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Yeah... but the problem with that is is that I am bootloader locked. And to unlock my bootloader I need adb... and you cant flash roms with bootloader locked.
I was hoping someone would have an idea to get me adb access to the device so i could use something like this... in hboot and recovery still adb wont recognize
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Try hitting the Emergency Call Button on the lockscreen, then while in the dialer you may be able to access the settings via the notification pull down. I know that there have been several phones in the past that have "Overlooked" bypassing the pattern lockscreen in this manner.
You may also be able to access all of the hidden HTC menus through there "Secret" codes in the dialer. I forget what all of them are but its usually #*#*{number sequence}*#*# > call. There might be something in there to enable USB Debugging.
If you get USB debugging working, there is an old temp root script that we originally used to unlock the rez that should give you Root adb shell access. Copy all of the data in the /data/app/{Your App Package Name} to a folder on your SD Card.That is where your playlists should be saved if they are not saved to the SD Card. If they are in the SD Card, they may be under the Android folder somewhere.
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Try hitting the Emergency Call Button on the lockscreen, then while in the dialer you may be able to access the settings via the notification pull down. I know that there have been several phones in the past that have "Overlooked" bypassing the pattern lockscreen in this manner.
You may also be able to access all of the hidden HTC menus through there "Secret" codes in the dialer. I forget what all of them are but its usually #*#*{number sequence}*#*# > call. There might be something in there to enable USB Debugging.
If you get USB debugging working, there is an old temp root script that we originally used to unlock the rez that should give you Root adb shell access. Copy all of the data in the /data/app/{Your App Package Name} to a folder on your SD Card.That is where your playlists should be saved if they are not saved to the SD Card. If they are in the SD Card, they may be under the Android folder somewhere.
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First and second things dont work. any of the secret dialer codes return with an error saying that they arent emergency numbers is there a way to enable usb debugging through hboot or something?
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First and second things dont work. any of the secret dialer codes return with an error saying that they arent emergency numbers is there a way to enable usb debugging through hboot or something?
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Pull your SD card and pop it into the PC... you might luck out and have your playlists there. What app are are they stored in?
I highly doubt that there is a way to do it through HBOOT. HBOOT is pretty much HTC's Utility for Flashing entire partitions from images to the phones NAND w/o the use of a PC and having a lockout control. IE RUU's, Recovery, and Kernels.
Having a locked bootloader means that you can only flash, with HBOOT, PH98IMG.zip files that have been digitally signed by HTC. So no custom recoveries, or PH98IMG.zips that only have system and kernel images.
I highly suggest that if you manage to get your data... that you backup and unlock or S-OFF your phone. Get a custom recovery on there so that you can nandroid backup and have access to a Root Shell in recovery mode.
Titanium Backup can extract User Data from nandroid backups now in case you ever have to wipe data because of an issue like this.
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Pull your SD card and pop it into the PC... you might luck out and have your playlists there. What app are are they stored in?
I highly doubt that there is a way to do it through HBOOT. HBOOT is pretty much HTC's Utility for Flashing entire partitions from images to the phones NAND w/o the use of a PC and having a lockout control. IE RUU's, Recovery, and Kernels.
Having a locked bootloader means that you can only flash, with HBOOT, PH98IMG.zip files that have been digitally signed by HTC. So no custom recoveries, or PH98IMG.zips that only have system and kernel images.
I highly suggest that if you manage to get your data... that you backup and unlock or S-OFF your phone. Get a custom recovery on there so that you can nandroid backup and have access to a Root Shell in recovery mode.
Titanium Backup can extract User Data from nandroid backups now in case you ever have to wipe data because of an issue like this.
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thanks, they are located in the stock music app
looks like I'm out of luck. I'm just gonna factory reset and hope and pray it keeps the playlists...
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looks like I'm out of luck. I'm just gonna factory reset and hope and pray it keeps the playlists...
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Now that I am s-offing does anyone know is just a paper clip will work for connecting the pin to gnd? or do i really need a ethernet strip or whatever.
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Now that I am s-offing does anyone know is just a paper clip will work for connecting the pin to gnd? or do i really need a ethernet strip or whatever.
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Some people have had luck with a paperclip, but I wasn't able to get it to work after about 30 min of trying. Any piece of wire should be able to work, really. I ended up using a 25-foot speaker cable I had hooked up to my stereo system. Worked fine.
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Now that I am s-offing does anyone know is just a paper clip will work for connecting the pin to gnd? or do i really need a ethernet strip or whatever.
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I used a plain paper clip when I did it. Just make sure to ground yourself before hand
You touching some very sensitive parts of the mainboard while doing this
Double Check before hand... I know bootloader unlock wipes your phone. I don't remember if Soff will too
Check your SD Card under the Android and Data folders... your playlists are probably on there somewhere. 98% sure HTC stores playlists on the SD card... just don't remember if it was Internal or External on the rezound
It's best to use a different sd card just in case it gets messed up. Had 2 get deleted, easily fixable , but you will lose data on the card.
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thanks so much! alright one last question... i am about to bootloader unlock... i was gonna a few months back and got the unlock_code.bin, but since then it has been a few months and a factory reset, will the same unlock_code.bin work or do I need to get a new one?
EDIT: I got impatient. Yes it worked.
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I used a plain paper clip when I did it. Just make sure to ground yourself before hand
You touching some very sensitive parts of the mainboard while doing this
Double Check before hand... I know bootloader unlock wipes your phone. I don't remember if Soff will too
Check your SD Card under the Android and Data folders... your playlists are probably on there somewhere. 98% sure HTC stores playlists on the SD card... just don't remember if it was Internal or External on the rezound
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I'm kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff, so what do you mean by grounding myself? and double check what?
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I'm kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff, so what do you mean by grounding myself? and double check what?
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He just means to touch your wrist or hand to something metal prior to your phone to discharge any possible static electricity. Check to see where your music is stored by using file explorer or root explorer because if it is on internal it will get wiped.
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He just means to touch your wrist or hand to something metal prior to your phone to discharge any possible static electricity. Check to see where your music is stored by using file explorer or root explorer because if it is on internal it will get wiped.
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He is unable to check via this method because of the lock pattern issue. I believe he is trying to S-OFF so he can flash a new ROM and access his playlist data to export it. I am still Unsure if it is stored on the Internal SD Card, External SD Card or in /data
Static Electricity will murder electronics, some test equipment I've worked with would cost 3-5000 dollars to fix after just a 0.2v static charge.... Typical static charge can be upwards of 10,000 V.
While touching something metal will discharge static electricity, it may not discharge all of it. Touch something metal that is connected to earth ground, like the metal of outside of your computer's case.
Also what I meant by double check was research your S-OFF method... it May wipe your Phone, Internal, and/or External SD Card.
I think the playlists are gone..... they wont show up in the stock music app... but alas... I will make do, but I'm gonna make sure to S-OFF, and install a recovery and get a nandroid on my computer so it doesnt happen again, i just unlocked my bootloader and gotta wait till i get home (I am on vacation right now) in a few days to have access to my linux computer then I will be S-OFF thanks again everybody, especially insertnamehere12! I think I will end up throwing on a rom that lets me use t-mobile usa... any suggestions?
For the code are u talking about *#*#4636#*#*, use it sometimes when my 4g doesn't work lol
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Im not sure with ext partitions, but with fat, and fat32 you might be able to recover deleted files with certain utilities. Might be able to recover the playlists that way.
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Im not sure with ext partitions, but with fat, and fat32 you might be able to recover deleted files with certain utilities. Might be able to recover the playlists that way.
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good thought I think I know what you are getting at maybe I'll give that a go...
hey guys
i have a HOX+ and i performed a hard reset after that all my photos gone :|
is there anyway to recover my photos without root access?
i tried lots of PC apps but because of MTP device connecting, app didn't recognize my phone
sry for bad english
thanks
3pehr4 said:
hey guys
i have a HOX+ and i performed a hard reset after that all my photos gone :|
is there anyway to recover my photos without root access?
i tried lots of PC apps but because of MTP device connecting, app didn't recognize my phone
sry for bad english
thanks
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I think hard reset means rebooting your phone by holding down the power button.. Meh anyway I understand what you meant.
Well just to brainstorm, HTC comes with a default integration with drop box. Meaning all your photo's gets uploaded automatically to dropbox unless you disable it. So, First off check dropbox first, you should atleast have some photos since nobody disables "dropbox" that immediate.
Next time, If you have important stuff on your phone, try to back them up on the pc, and try to use a cloud service like what i said "dropbox" or "google drive" or any other type. Or just upload to facebook
Best of luck and hope you get the photos back
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I think hard reset means rebooting your phone by holding down the power button.. Meh anyway I understand what you meant.
Well just to brainstorm, HTC comes with a default integration with drop box. Meaning all your photo's gets uploaded automatically to dropbox unless you disable it. So, First off check dropbox first, you should atleast have some photos since nobody disables "dropbox" that immediate.
Next time, If you have important stuff on your phone, try to back them up on the pc, and try to use a cloud service like what i said "dropbox" or "google drive" or any other type. Or just upload to facebook
Best of luck and hope you get the photos back
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factory reset i mean
yes, i disabled dropbox. i am looking for a recovery app that doesn't need root access
for UMS enabling in JB i should root my device and i dont want to do that
anyway thanks.
3pehr4 said:
factory reset i mean
yes, i disabled dropbox. i am looking for a recovery app that doesn't need root access
for UMS enabling in JB i should root my device and i dont want to do that
anyway thanks.
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Now that you "factory reset" you should have an empty SD Card, so if you are "interested" in rooting or think you might be , you should unlock the bootloader now before your phone becomes filled with apps again, since the bootloader unlocking will require you to "erase" the data AGAIN.
Just a tip although you might not want to root, unlocking is different from rooting though, so you are not really "rooted" as per say. Anyway best of luck, if you are interested in knowing the difference there is a link in my signature explaining that or you can just google or check the forums, or not Best of luck
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Now that you "factory reset" you should have an empty SD Card, so if you are "interested" in rooting or think you might be , you should unlock the bootloader now before your phone becomes filled with apps again, since the bootloader unlocking will require you to "erase" the data AGAIN.
Just a tip although you might not want to root, unlocking is different from rooting though, so you are not really "rooted" as per say. Anyway best of luck, if you are interested in knowing the difference there is a link in my signature explaining that or you can just google or check the forums, or not Best of luck
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no no I think it was a misunderstanding
HTC One X+ does not have SD Card
The purpose of the "recovery", was "Data Recovery" and bring deleted files back! not CWM recovery or other
i am looking for app for recovering my deleted photos since my last factory reset! i have stock rom on my phone now and i dont want to root it
because all "Data recovery" apps want root access
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no no I think it was a misunderstanding
HTC One X+ does not have SD Card
The purpose of the "recovery", was "Data Recovery" and bring deleted files back! not CWM recovery or other
i am looking for app for recovering my deleted photos since my last factory reset! i have stock rom on my phone now and i dont want to root it
because all "Data recovery" apps want root access
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I understand just fine, you misunderstood what i said. What I said was, now that you sadly lost all your data, you might want to take this chance and root since the step of unlocking the "bootloader" itself will make you erase the data again. It was an offtopic out of content advice , just for the future.
As for your issue I already said all what I know, best of luck and maybe someone else knows
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I understand just fine, you misunderstood what i said. What I said was, now that you sadly lost all your data, you might want to take this chance and root since the step of unlocking the "bootloader" itself will make you erase the data again. It was an offtopic out of content advice , just for the future.
As for your issue I already said all what I know, best of luck and maybe someone else knows
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oh! so i should turn instance uplode on in my next life :laugh:
thanks anyway
Hello
On Galaxy S9+ in recovery menu I can find function called "Lacking storage booting". Someone know what this function do ?
Mine too igot confuse what is this for?Lacking Storage Booting
ive been trying to get info for a whilenow including asking sammy multiple times..
what I gather is, if your storage is full to the point you are having device issues or boot looping you enable that option which does something to where you can boot up and save some of your files.. it isnt a permanent fix as it suggests you should do a reset after u get ur files off
Hi,
I have used "Lacking Storage Booting" option for more than 5 times but I didn't found any lag/misbehave after using it (without factory resetting) & performance was the same all the time. This happened with me but if with you it lags then perform a factory reset.
1) However, this is supposed to be used when your mobile is having any booting problem or heavy storage issues.
2) This option is used when you need to get your storage access as Samsung says to backup your documents you want when mobile boots and perform a factory reset.
Even your Galaxy have no booting problem you can use "storage lack booting" without any problem (proved on my S9+).
Samsung claims that resetting should be placed just because for future steps to prevent any possiblity of issues which do not occurs but they have to think forward for the POSSIBILITIES.
One thing more, later on instead resetting the device you can also do instead of resetting and after using "storage lack booting":
* Delete documents from your phone (S9+)
* Go to recovery mode
* Mount/system
* clear cache
I hope this helped.
Alyaan said:
Hi,
I have used "Lacking Storage Booting" option for more than 5 times but I didn't found any lag/misbehave after using it (without factory resetting) & performance was the same all the time. This happened with me but if with you it lags then perform a factory reset.
1) However, this is supposed to be used when your mobile is having any booting problem or heavy storage issues.
2) This option is used when you need to get your storage access as Samsung says to backup your documents you want when mobile boots and perform a factory reset.
Even your Galaxy have no booting problem you can use "storage lack booting" without any problem (proved on my S9+).
Samsung claims that resetting should be placed just because for future steps to prevent any possiblity of issues which do not occurs but they have to think forward for the POSSIBILITIES.
One thing more, later on instead resetting the device you can also do instead of resetting and after using "storage lack booting":
* Delete documents from your phone (S9+)
* Go to recovery mode
* Mount/system
* clear cache
I hope this helped.
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Hi, I know this is a late reply on this thread but I just wanna ask. Will "Lacking Storage Booting" delete all of the data on my phone then?
Reply to the question of DATA LOSS (No Data would be lost!)
pooch22 said:
Hi, I know this is a late reply on this thread but I just wanna ask. Will "Lacking Storage Booting" delete all of the data on my phone then?
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No Bro, you won't loss anything on your device and even your phone's lock screen won't be affected (By this I mean that your phone would as Like it was).
However, Samsung says "Your Phone might get slow if you use Storage Lack Booting" but only if your storage is full or nearly full. You won't loss any data and this function base is to protect data and not to delete them.
Examples:
1) Your Phone has storage (127/128 GB), and you use "Storage lack booting" so for me the phone was not laggy but if you found your phone laggy restart it thrice and go to RECOVERY MODE and select clear cache.
2) Personally, for me this feature is not beneficial as this feature is for if you can boot into your phone so use it but WAIT I had my S7 with its peak storage full 32/32GB but everyday I restart, power off, dead it but still it is working.
3) Personally, for no reason I have used "Storage lack booting" more than 15 times and I performed speed test from all perspectives and felt the same speed response (all speeding was tested approx and the net-total was all approx and and yeah whenever if your phone is not turning on use this feature and when you will use then it might be laggy but till when its not errupting booting up it won't lag by using it.
* First time , When I used STORAGE LACK BOOTING I was little scared but then I thought did I purchased this phone for being scared.
* At First day, when I purchased this phone, I was scared to test water resistance, but Then I thought did I purchased a NEW phone for being scared. So i just threw it in a pool of 5 meter depth and yeah when I threw it, i belived it won't disturb me and is water resistance.
So bro, everyday learn something, experience it and surley if you are using Samsung orignal version it won't distrub your phone.
Alyaan said:
No Bro, you won't loss anything on your device and even your phone's lock screen won't be affected (By this I mean that your phone would as Like it was).
However, Samsung says "Your Phone might get slow if you use Storage Lack Booting" but only if your storage is full or nearly full. You won't loss any data and this function base is to protect data and not to delete them.
Examples:
1) Your Phone has storage (127/128 GB), and you use "Storage lack booting" so for me the phone was not laggy but if you found your phone laggy restart it thrice and go to RECOVERY MODE and select clear cache.
2) Personally, for me this feature is not beneficial as this feature is for if you can boot into your phone so use it but WAIT I had my S7 with its peak storage full 32/32GB but everyday I restart, power off, dead it but still it is working.
3) Personally, for no reason I have used "Storage lack booting" more than 15 times and I performed speed test from all perspectives and felt the same speed response (all speeding was tested approx and the net-total was all approx and and yeah whenever if your phone is not turning on use this feature and when you will use then it might be laggy but till when its not errupting booting up it won't lag by using it.
* First time , When I used STORAGE LACK BOOTING I was little scared but then I thought did I purchased this phone for being scared.
* At First day, when I purchased this phone, I was scared to test water resistance, but Then I thought did I purchased a NEW phone for being scared. So i just threw it in a pool of 5 meter depth and yeah when I threw it, i belived it won't disturb me and is water resistance.
So bro, everyday learn something, experience it and surley if you are using Samsung orignal version it won't distrub your phone.
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THIS IS AWESOME!
actually here is my situation, I'm just really scared to lose my pictures lol so please bear with me.
My phone is actually locked with PIN Code 4 digits, cant remember the code. its been like this 5 days now.
so my question is this: Can I do~
1. Boot to recovery mode.
2. Do the Lacking Storage Booting, so that it will save my data on my SD Card.
3. Perform Factory Reset so that my phone will be unlocked from the PIN Code that I dont remember anymore.
4. Restore the files from the SD card.
Please correct me if these steps are wrong.
Totally Odd Situation For ME!
pooch22 said:
THIS IS AWESOME!
actually here is my situation, I'm just really scared to lose my pictures lol so please bear with me.
My phone is actually locked with PIN Code 4 digits, cant remember the code. its been like this 5 days now.
so my question is this: Can I do~
1. Boot to recovery mode.
2. Do the Lacking Storage Booting, so that it will save my data on my SD Card.
3. Perform Factory Reset so that my phone will be unlocked from the PIN Code that I dont remember anymore.
4. Restore the files from the SD card.
Please correct me if these steps are wrong.
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For me it's an odd situation because I never went through a locked phone because I have my Samsung account signed in my Galaxy and so when I forget the code I simply go to Samsung Find My Mobile Website and unlock my phone from there. So What I know about this situation is:
1) If you signed your SAMSUNG ACCOUNT in your phone so UNLOCK your phone from the SAMSUNG website.
2) Your Data would definitely be lost and so you have to RESET YOUR PHONE through recovery mode:
After resetting you won't be able to get into the PHONE if Google Protection Lock was turned on (By Default it's ON) and to bypass it you can login your GOOGLE ACCOUNT which was logged in your phone. If you did not logged on your GOOGLE EMAIL then reset it but you would loss all of it's data. In this case if you forgot your GOOGLE ACCOUNT so you can easily bypass it FROM MARKET without logging the account.
3) Go to market and ask the person whether it is possible to get your photos/data if possible so it's best. IF not so, sorry for your lost
- Boot Lacking Won't let you enter into your phone without entering the password ( For you case just ignore it's existence for to HELP you)
Alayaann....
If u r there then please tell me... That lack storage booting needs SD card in phone or not??
Does lack storage booting.. Convert data from phone internal memory to SD card(external storage)??
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Alayaann....
If u r there then please tell me... That lack storage booting needs SD card in phone or not??
Does lack storage booting.. Convert data from phone internal memory to SD card(external storage)??
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no.. y would u need a sd card? it tells u wat it does in recovery when u select it.. all it does is start device with mininal resources so u can back up ur data if its runnin like crap if ur storage is full so u can then factory reset
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Alayaann....
If u r there then please tell me... That lack storage booting needs SD card in phone or not??
Does lack storage booting.. Convert data from phone internal memory to SD card(external storage)??
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I feel sad for being late and I wasn't able to help you at time but thanks to elliwigy for covering this thing at time. My e-mails are so messed up gonna fix this mess up soon. Sorry in literal meaning.
Thou Fattima, I'm here to add that Samsung revoked this feature from all it's devices which had this. It's quiet not possible to be there. Is that feature still on your phone then your phone is not up to date. Not in my S9+ neither on my s20ultra.
Greetings. Can I perform the wipe data/factory reset without the lacking storage mode?
Elvislobo3 said:
Greetings. Can I perform the wipe data/factory reset without the lacking storage mode?
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yes, why wouldnt u be able to?
Elvislobo3 said:
Greetings. Can I perform the wipe data/factory reset without the lacking storage mode?
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Yes, definitely it's possible. Boot Lacking is used when we are stuck in boot loop (phone restarting continuously and doesn't let you boot in) but when we reset phone from recovery option that is a step which comes before looping so obviously we can reset directly.
How do you perform lacking storage booting? Is it a button combination that you do when the phone is booting? Is it an option in the menu that I'm too stupid to understand? Sorry for the late reply.
i know a device can help you to backup everything in your phone if you are interested. it will help you to storage it in a difference micro SD card or External portable hard drive if you have them.
Alyaan said:
Hi,
I have used "Lacking Storage Booting" option for more than 5 times but I didn't found any lag/misbehave after using it (without factory resetting) & performance was the same all the time. This happened with me but if with you it lags then perform a factory reset.
1) However, this is supposed to be used when your mobile is having any booting problem or heavy storage issues.
2) This option is used when you need to get your storage access as Samsung says to backup your documents you want when mobile boots and perform a factory reset.
Even your Galaxy have no booting problem you can use "storage lack booting" without any problem (proved on my S9+).
Samsung claims that resetting should be placed just because for future steps to prevent any possiblity of issues which do not occurs but they have to think forward for the POSSIBILITIES.
One thing more, later on instead resetting the device you can also do instead of resetting and after using "storage lack booting":
* Delete documents from your phone (S9+)
* Go to recovery mode
* Mount/system
* clear cache
I hope this helped.
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Hey there,
I would like to do your suggestions but my power button is not working.. :/ Any suggestions perhaps?
Thank you in advance and stay safe
another problematic person here... what if i press Lacking Storage Booting nd phone doesnt rourn on it goes to phone is statring msg optimasig app..... the after it reset it self and then again i moved to recvery short version with only 4 picks. then i reset the phone i prese volume up and power to go to full recovery and again and again... is my phone dead? is there a way to instal andrond maybe from sd card if so whre to get that file from? i really dont want loose stuff on my phone. also clearing app data wipe them all right?? like msg etc? i just have important msg on some communicators and i would rather not to loose them...any way to access phone while its off to comy data??