Hi there. So, I had a rooted device running Android 5.1, which I wanted to update to 6.0.1.
I had the device softbricked for a while and I could only fix it by flashing it with new partitioning.
So now, I have an internal storage which appears to be empty (in windows explorer) but of course there are still tons of old data on that drive.
I realised, that my backup does not contain certain data which I would have liked to keep.
I hope, that I can recover some files using Recuva. For that I need a full mirror/copy of my internal storage.
How can I do that? At the moment I don't have root, but I could root it, if needed. I think that could possibly override more old data though.
Thanks in advance.
Doesnt seem to be an ideal solution, but I just rooted the phone with 6.0.1, installed busybox to add linux tools like netcat and installed a terminal to copy a full image of the userpartition to my desktop.
I can run Recuva on that image then.
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Hi all,
I bought a Proscan PTL7035-PL (preloaded with Android ICS 4.04) last Christmas. I rooted with a great success and have it running a full-fledged Google Play store. The only drawback is that all apps go to the internal sd which has only 2gb of storage space. I tried a couple of ways swapping the internal and external sds. None of them has worked. Then I followed one from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991583. Basically by modifying the mount point of the internal flash and external sd as described in the file vold.fstab , the hope was to make the system use the big sd storage for apps and data storage etc.
Here is where my nightmare began. After reboot, my tablet stuck at the android logo and the booting never finished. I kind of know that my mounting points messed things up. The fix can be as easy as just restore the backup copy of vold.fstab which I have on the tablet. The problems are that:
1) There is no way to access the system folder of the android device now as the device itself cannot finish booting; and it can't communicate with a PC via USB.
2) Even if I can force it boot into the Android System Recovery 3e, it is not much a help as it needs a certified ROM or backup copy to recover. The official ROM is not out yet and I don't have a backup copy.
It looks like my device has been soft bricked. So how to pull it out?
Anyone ever solve this?
Android2013_ said:
Hi all,
I bought a Proscan PTL7035-PL (preloaded with Android ICS 4.04) last Christmas. I rooted with a great success and have it running a full-fledged Google Play store. The only drawback is that all apps go to the internal sd which has only 2gb of storage space. I tried a couple of ways swapping the internal and external sds. None of them has worked. Then I followed one from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991583. Basically by modifying the mount point of the internal flash and external sd as described in the file vold.fstab , the hope was to make the system use the big sd storage for apps and data storage etc.
Here is where my nightmare began. After reboot, my tablet stuck at the android logo and the booting never finished. I kind of know that my mounting points messed things up. The fix can be as easy as just restore the backup copy of vold.fstab which I have on the tablet. The problems are that:
1) There is no way to access the system folder of the android device now as the device itself cannot finish booting; and it can't communicate with a PC via USB.
2) Even if I can force it boot into the Android System Recovery 3e, it is not much a help as it needs a certified ROM or backup copy to recover. The official ROM is not out yet and I don't have a backup copy.
It looks like my device has been soft bricked. So how to pull it out?
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Long story short, similar issue. Has Rooted my 9 year olds Tablet, (Same as Op), and actually had it running great. Well, I was installing Gapps, via root explorer, and my Son was talking, and I forgot to Mount the System Folder that I was Replacing with the gapps one, R/W - it stayed R/O and never got replaced.
Thus the other 2 folders I changed to R/W are stuck that way. I think it was the entire Root Folder, and One more. I can elaborate.
Is there a way to fix this, as the tablet will not boot properly. (Hangs on Splash Screen), then if I attempt recovery, it gets stuck at the Android with the Red Triangle coming out of his belly, but no Menu Choices.
Anyone?
So, I Successfully rooted. I followed a guide from YouTube on how to install a custom recovery software and make a recovery/back up. The backup was made successfully - But I was under the impression I would be able to move the back up/recovery file from my internal Phone storage (where I happened to install it) so that I could have it on my computer and save space on my phone ( which now only has 2gb storage left on it) I can't seem to find the back up/recovery file through windows 7 - in fact I cant see any of the files on the Phones Internal Storage using windows.
So I have three things id like to know how to do:
A. How to remove the backup/recovery file from my phone onto my computer?
B. Move (& FIND) the backup/recovery file to my phones 8gb external storage?
OR
C. How could I safely remove CWM recovery & the backup file it created and instead install TWRP instead - Then correctly installing to external storage (of course)
Thanks in advance!
At some point my phone emulated the storage on the device. Now that this has happened I can't get back to the "real root" of my storage on the phone. It is here that there are old ROM's and old backups that are taking up a lot of space(over 5GB's). I've tried different file managers but can't get to it. When I go to flash new ROM's TWRP sees the old "root" of my storage, but I can't delete anything .
How do I get back to the old file structure?? Help!!
adamleach84 said:
At some point my phone emulated the storage on the device. Now that this has happened I can't get back to the "real root" of my storage on the phone. It is here that there are old ROM's and old backups that are taking up a lot of space(over 5GB's). I've tried different file managers but can't get to it. When I go to flash new ROM's TWRP sees the old "root" of my storage, but I can't delete anything .
How do I get back to the old file structure?? Help!!
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At some point you updated to a newer version of Android. What you see is what you get. Go under storage, in that folder :emulated, sdcard0 and usb.
Under root, in that folder : sdcard.
I use root explorer
Hi there,
First of all, I know that part of this mess was my fault. I had been using CM 10.1 on my Galaxy S2 for quite a while (since 2013, IIRC), but yesterday I decided to upgrade it to CM 12.1. The "CM Updater" app was not working so I decided to just download the .zip file, reboot into recovery mode and flash things from there. I managed to enter the recovery mode, but when I tried to flash the new CM I noticed I couldn't see the .zip file on my internal SDCard... Hmm, this was because my phone was encrypted (including my internal SDCard, of course). So I went back to my browser and did more research. I found a guy saying that, if your phone was encrypted, you could flash your device using the sideload mechanism *or* an external SDCard. Since I have an external SDCard, I chose this option.
Well, it doesn't much to figure out that things went bad. The main partition was overwritten during the installation and I've lost all encryption. However, that's not the worst part: I've also lost access to my internal SDCard! Now I cannot even make Android ask for its password. I really don't know what to do here. I've lost access to photos and videos from years ago. If I am correct, the upgrade process *did not* touch the internal SDCard at all; so my data is still there. Am I right? Do you guys think it's still possible to access it? I spent several hours trying to figure this out without success, so I decided to post my question here before I give up and reformat the internal SDCard.
Thank you in advance!
I am curious, how you manged to encrypt sdcard0 at all.
Never figured out how to do this on CM.
Nevertheless, I guess, Terminal/ADB might be the only option to decrypt and mount that partition. Unfortunately I don't know the commands on Android (on Linux it's cryptsetup).
Hi there,
A friend of mine accidentally erased photos and videos from the internal memory of her Honor 7 Lite (NEM-L21) with a locked bootloader, stock recovery/ROM (Android 6/EMUI 4.1.2). DiskDigger was able to recover only a couple of them after running a basic scan.
DiskDigger offers a full scan functionality which requires root privileges. I've tried running it on my rooted Honor 5C (NEM-L51, which is almost the same as the NEM-L21 AFAIU) and it indeed recovers more files than the basic scan (8 times more on my phone).
I'm willing to root here phone in order to be able to run a full scan with DiskDigger but I'd have to unlock the bootloader in the process and it's gonna wipe the /data partition. Now, I suppose that DiskDigger is able to recover files because there are not actually erased from the memory (i.e the corresponding bits are not set to 0) but this answer suggests that on recent Android versions a factory reset would actually make the data unreadable.
Can anyone confirm all of this ? Any alternative ideas to recover photos/videos from internal memory ?
PS : I've also dumped the /data partition of my phone to my computer following this guide but PhotoRec was unable to find any picture (which is somehow strange since DiskDigger finds a lot of them).