My Galaxy S3 just suddenly die. nothing seems to work. cannot turn it on in anyway possible. plugging it to a PC, no response. The worst thing is everything I had, contacts, pics, message history, etc. were saved in the internal storage (very stupid of me not to get a microSD card...). for some reason, none of my phone contacts was saved to the gmail account on the S3. I read that all internal data are store inside the emmc that is solder onto motherboard. While I was researching on how to I can get all my data back, I found that some people was able to remove the emmc and was able to load it to their pc and get at least some of the data back. I was wonder if this is true or not, and if it is what are the chances of successfully doing this procedure.
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Need a little bit of help if anyone would be kind enough to do so.
My Samsung galaxy s screen is no longer working. But the phone turns on fine and i can hear people calling me, alarms going off, receiving mms etc. but i can't access any of the memory on the phone.
When i hook my phone up to the computer, my phone is set to ask which mode it goes into. So i haven't been able to access the files that way. Even though the memory cards show up on my pc, they just can't be accessed.
I've been told that if i return it to my carrier, they will delete all my files and reinstall the operating system before fixing it, as its policy. Is there any way for me to copy the files on the internal sd card to my computer?
I'm slight bit of a noob, so would need a little bit of a walk-through in how to do it, if its possible.
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I have a broken Galaxy 3 phone where the screen suddenly stopped functioning with a total blackout so I can't use the phone at all. There is no problem getting the phone fixed within a couple of days but the problem is I want to save all my messages, contacts and other data, especially one conversation text message thread that has gone on for about a year, to my pc. I want the information to be able to be viewed independently on my computer like I read emails etc. and then I can store it on a portable hard drive by copy and paste. Samsung kies doesn't seem to allow for this. I can back up the phone apparently but the info can only be read by another similar phone so it is restricting how you see your own information. I want the information on my computer without the need of another similar phone because what if I decide to buy a totally different phone that has software that's not compatible. The shop representing Samsung who will fix the phone said that everything gets wiped and they won't even have Kies on their computers because they think its unstable software. Ideally it would be great if there was some kind of software for my computer that enabled it to read all the info on the phone as if the phone was a flash drive connected by USB and then I could simply copy and paste across from phone to computer. The phone is recognised by the computer through the USB but obviously it can't read inside the folders on the phone which just show as empty. Anybody know of anything to get the results I want? Thanks.
Hi there,
Try this..
Good luck!
adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db
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Sorry I tried to use these but I really don't know what I'm supposed to do. Both suggestions are completely foreign to me.
Hello,
My friend's Z2 was faulty and the screen died while taking a picture underwater.
The device appears to still be running normally but the screen is completely dead, no display, no touch response.
The device has a swipe lock code set which is preventing her from accessing the data when the phone is plugged into a computer.
Sony is saying they can't fix it without clearing the data and local fix-it shops are saying they can't fix the screen.
Is there anything that can be done to remotely unlock it so we can access the data from a computer?
Cheers for the help! :fingers-crossed:
LevitateJay said:
Hello,
My friend's Z2 was faulty and the screen died while taking a picture underwater.
The device appears to still be running normally but the screen is completely dead, no display, no touch response.
The device has a swipe lock code set which is preventing her from accessing the data when the phone is plugged into a computer.
Sony is saying they can't fix it without clearing the data and local fix-it shops are saying they can't fix the screen.
Is there anything that can be done to remotely unlock it so we can access the data from a computer?
Cheers for the help! :fingers-crossed:
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Hm, quite a conundrum.
Well it depends what you mean by "data"
If you mean the files on the internal drive and not contacts or any user data at all.. You should be able to flash a new ROM using fastboot mode. How to do that is here.
Important information to avoid formatting internal sd card: This process will delete the internal SD Card if WIPE (USER)DATA or any PARTITION option is chosen.
After doing that, when the device restarts you should be able to simply connect (or keep connected) the microUSB cable and it'll show up on your PC the files on the phone.
Provided of course you have all your drivers in order, if you don't... Well here's a few links: 1 2
Hi,,,
I recently broke my Galaxy S4 screen and its not responsive anymore. It doesn't work and doesnt show anything. Blank screen.
I bought a new Oneplus One and I want to transfer all my data from my old phone. Contacts were 30% saved to the device and 20% were to my sim card and the rest were on my Samsung account so its a bit messy. I dont have an SD card so everything is on the internal storage for my phone. I also would like to transfer my apps cache data.. like whatsapp's groups and contact's chat history.
I never hooked my phone up to my PC so my PC doesnt recognize it when I connect it. I don't really want to fix my screen for 100$ in order to transfer all my stuff to my new phone I also cannot unlock my screen cause the screen doesn't work, I do know the pattern though. just saying
So I cant back up using the USB hub, neither can I do anything to the phone because the screen doesn't work and is blank. Is there anyway I can "bypass" the lock screen and force the phone to connect to the PC in order to transfer my stuff to my new phone?
Please help
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No need for creating multiple threads across the forums for the same issue. This is against forum rules. Please use the thread linked below to troubleshoot your issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4/help/broke-s4-screen-blank-how-transfer-to-t3021300
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Hello,
So I recently broke my Galaxy A7 2018's screen... It is completely black and unresponsive. Since then the phone has turned off and whenever I turn it on it is encrypted as all Samsung phones do. My question is, how can I connect my phone to the pc so I can mirror it to unlock it since it is encrypted and it will not show up? Or, is there another way I can retrieve my data?
Thank you.
Ummm, encryption is not automatically enabled on internal memory or SD card storage by default on Samsung's.
Never encrypt data drives and when possible you a SD card as the data drive.
Your only hope is to replace the display or use ADB to retrieve the data. If that isn't already enabled in Developer options you're likely boned proper.
Note, any impact sufficient to damage the display may have also damaged the mobo.
A data retrieval service may be able to recover the data.
The phone is working normally. I know that cause when I press the volume slider, sound comes out. The thing with ADB is that it wont even recognize the phone so I cannot do anything, because it is encrypted.
captainviber said:
The phone is working normally. I know that cause when I press the volume slider, sound comes out. The thing with ADB is that it wont even recognize the phone so I cannot do anything, because it is encrypted.
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It would if it was enabled.
Have you set it up and used ADB before on this device?
If not, it's too late now for that option.
Otherwise replacing the display is the best option unless the data was backed up to either Google or Samsung cloud.
Even if you replace the display there's no guarantee the data won't be lost.
Meh, always redundantly backup critical data to at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC.