Hi Community,
I have an LG G5 (LGLS992) from Sprint running Android 6.0.1. The phone currently has no SD card and is not rooted.
I just got back from a weekend trip with my family and was cleaning out some old photos before backing them up when I accidentally deleted my main album. I know that you can recover recently deleted photos, but I cannot find any way to recover the album.
I spent hours last night trying to find some way to recover the album to no avail. From what I have read, it seems as though I am SOL unless my phone is rooted. So far, it appears that the LG G5 that I have is not rootable...yet.
I believe that I can recover the files if I can get the phone to read as a mass storage device with a drive letter, but I cannot find any way to get the phone to show up with a drive letter.
Does anyone know of a way to recover my deleted album? I am desperate as many of those photos were of my children over the past few weeks.
Please spare the backup, backup, backup comments...I am usually very good about that and preach it to my wife. My a$$ is sore from me kicking it.
I am grateful for any help,
The_Swish
I've used this method before
https://www.androidpit.com/how-to-recover-deleted-photos-on-android
If no PC/Mac, try one of these (untested by me)
http://androidadvices.com/apps-recover-deleted-photos-android-phone/
Thanks for the reply. Those solutions pretty much require the phone to be rooted. Don't believe the LG G5 is capable of being rooted...yet.
The most that I've found so far is thumbnails of the photos.
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Hi, I'm a total noob when it comes to WP and Lumias, but a friend who knows me as being interested in phones has come to me with a problem.
The screen of his Lumia 800 is competely smashed. He has got an estimate for it to be fixed, but they will wipe the memory of the phone - along with all his important work contacts. He has never backed these up in any way.
He said he just downloaded Zune to try and back everything up, but it's impossible since he cannot see or use the touchscreen of the phone.
Suggestions?
JusThinK said:
If the phone can boot up successful, and can be recognize by ZUNE, then you can take backup.
You don't have to use your touchscreen for taking backup.
Use this tool to take backup.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1379571
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Thanks very much. Turns out all his contacts were backed up in Live after all!
Ok, so my friend's contacts were backed up to Live but now he's asking for me to get the photos off the device.
WP7 Easy Backup Tool was suggested before, but it only works if you're restoring to the same device...
Is there any way to get the photos off this phone before he sends it away to be "repaired" (eg. wiped or replaced)? He has some irreplaceable photos of his pregnant wife and newborn child on there - yes, I know and you know he should've copied them off the phone long ago, but this is the situation he's now in!
setspeed said:
Ok, so my friend's contacts were backed up to Live but now he's asking for me to get the photos off the device.
WP7 Easy Backup Tool was suggested before, but it only works if you're restoring to the same device...
Is there any way to get the photos off this phone before he sends it away to be "repaired" (eg. wiped or replaced)? He has some irreplaceable photos of his pregnant wife and newborn child on there - yes, I know and you know he should've copied them off the phone long ago, but this is the situation he's now in!
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If his device is paired in Zune they Pictures are synced automatically. Does he have a Qualcomm or DLOAD bootloader?
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If his device is paired in Zune they Pictures are synced automatically. Does he have a Qualcomm or DLOAD bootloader?
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1. I have no idea if it is. Does pairing it require use of the touchscreen (if it isn't already paired)?
2. I have no idea. How would I find out, and is there something that can be done if it's one or the other?
I can find out tomorrow.
Thanks!
First of all there is no need for a wipe of the device when you replace the screen, sounds more like they are swapping the complete phone.
When you have Zune installed and running, then connect the phone it will attach itself and sync photos and other media files depending on settings in Zune.
Replacing the screen is a 5 minute job, you could easily do it yourself and get the parts off of Ebay so do not get fooled into any high cost repair due to labour. A Nokia Care Point will charge you about 150 GBP for a screen assy (ex labour), on Ebay they can be had for about 90.
So my wife broke her phone. (A car ran over it) .
As you can imagine the phone is pretty messed up. Originaly the phone still worked(for a few weeks) and then she bought a new phone and left that one.
Now a few weeks later i try to turn it on to take the pictures off and it boots into the bootloader and thats where i am in need of your help. If there a way for me to get the pictures off of this phone?
Photos shows you have an M7, and this forum section is specific to the M8. While the devices have some similarities, its always best to get help in your specific device forum, in case of any M7 specific naunces, pitfalls, etc.
What I can say, in general:
1) Try booting into recovery, and see if it will mount the internal storage if you connect to a computer. I know custom recovery (TWRP) will let you do this, but I don't know if stock recovery (since it looks like the phone is stock and never modded) has this ability or not (I'm thinking probably not, but hey its worth a try). It might be a long shot, but if you can mount memory, you should be able to simply browse to the folder where the pics are saved, and just copy and paste them to your computer.
2) These devices have a good amount of cloud backup apps built-in (Google Photos, Dropbox, HTC Backup). Depending on whether your wife opened any of them, and agreed to backup the pics, they may already be on the cloud, and can be easily accessed by logging into the specific service's website on a computer. Again, might be a longshot, but one can always hope; and it doesn't hurt to check.
3) Short of the above, if the phone won't boot into OS, you may be somewhat stuck. If the phone can't bootup into OS, and won't mount recovery otherwise, the only options I can think of to get OS or custom recovery on the phone, involves unlocking the bootloader; which will wipe the storage and defeat the whole purpose.
I know hindsight is always 20/20. But I've lost count how many times I've told folks on here and other smartphone forums: If the data is important to you, than back it up. With so many options to do so (backup to computer, cloud, removable SD) there is really no good reason not to. As already mentioned, in particular the cloud backup solutions take very little interaction, and fully automated once you've accepted the option to use them to backup the pics.
I know you've mentioned its your wife's phone. But regardless of whether its her device or yours or whatever; the previous paragraph applies to everyone with a smartphone. At least moving forward, you and your wife should start backing up your personal data (if you haven't already). Waiting for a disaster is not really the best time to started considering backup methods; but late is better than never.
Rant over. Good luck recovering the pics, in any case!
Hello!
TL/DR version:
How do I ultimately gain complete control over my own phone?
Android version 6.0
SecPatch 2016.03.01
Kernel 3.10.49
Build MRA58K
Software US37510b
CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon 210
Long version:
For various reasons, I decided I needed a pocket portable Android computer, and a cell phone seemed to be the best option open to me. In researching for what would suit my needs and budget, I discovered the local U.S. Cellular store was having a penny promotion for the LG K8 US375 prepaid. Did some research, and decided it was a good deal for seeing if a phone works for my needs, as I don't care about the phone part.
It has been a headache. I am used to PCs. I knew it would have a reserve amount of storage for system files, but I wasn't expecting 50%. Then I installed the programs to do what I wanted, and was left with 500MB left. This won't do. Got a bargain on a PNY 32GB Class U3 SD card, and installed it. I then discovered I had to manually move files to it, only partial data would be moved, and only certain programs would move at all. I tried to find a way to set it to be a default install location like a second hard drive, but found nothing. Best I could come up with is adoptable storage. Which appeared to be disabled on the phone. I would also like to remove files I don't want or need. I talked it over with an online tech from LG, and he basically said I needed to root the phone.
I have spent two weeks, and I don't even want to know how many hours researching here & elsewhere how to do this. I keep coming up with dead ends. Either the method doesn't work for Marshmallow, doesn't work with LG, doesn't work for this kind of LG phone, is known to brick/bootloop the phone, requires programs that have been removed from the links provided, or required unlocked bootloader. Finding how to unlock the bootloader has been about as fruitful as rooting.
I am done researching. I have lost too many nights being sucked into the project to the point I am rereading the same threads without realizing it. I have 21 bookmarks regarding how to do this, and the best I have is a method for unlocking adoptable storage on a Sony phone with the brief mention that it worked on someone else's K8. I haven't felt this overloaded with tech information since I crammed for the A+ cert test. (I did not pass) I know I need to do this manually, I have unlocked dev commands, picked up adb/fastboot, poked around a bit, and I think I can get to the point where I would have a clean boot. Like installing a new OS after formatting on a PC. It's everything that comes after that I am lost on. Please advise.
mageofthesands said:
Hello!
(...) Please advise.
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Not everything can be root.
Try asking the thread Lg 2-3g Tool 9.21 Update. LG G5, ...
As the title states, I made an idiot move and deleted all my photos and don't have them backed up anywhere. I tried disk digger and it recovered most of them but since my phone isn't rooted the quality ai received is awful and didn't get all of them back and got no videos back. My device is a Samsung Galaxy S6. I read on here that my device can be rooted but my build number wasn't on the list of rootable s6 devices. Does that mean that I'm SOL on recovering my photos? I've used my phone very minimally since deleting the photos so I'm sure most of them are still around. Can someone please give me some hope that I'm not going to lose my son's photos?
Sincerely,
Worst Dad ever
Digital_bathing said:
As the title states, I made an idiot move and deleted all my photos and don't have them backed up anywhere. I tried disk digger and it recovered most of them but since my phone isn't rooted the quality ai received is awful and didn't get all of them back and got no videos back. My device is a Samsung Galaxy S6. I read on here that my device can be rooted but my build number wasn't on the list of rootable s6 devices. Does that mean that I'm SOL on recovering my photos? I've used my phone very minimally since deleting the photos so I'm sure most of them are still around. Can someone please give me some hope that I'm not going to lose my son's photos?
Sincerely,
Worst Dad ever
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Have you tried data recovery softwares available for Windows.
May be these softwares can recover your data.
Hi ,
I had a Oneplus 7 which got stolen after i left it in the cab. The cab driver initially refused, however i had Life 360 tracking on and with evidence when i reached out to the police they confronted him and got the phone back (Just India things). Now coming to my main issue
The photos on the phone were extremely precious , it had photos of a family trip and my parents anniversary celebrations among other things. The cab driver had Factory reset the phone through recovery.
I was hopeful of recovering my files using Dumpster or Undeleter , however even on a rooted phone i could find Zilch. Which was very surprising. Can someone help me with a reliable software to restore the photos.
Paid /Unpaid both are fine
I have made a conscious effort to not overwrite the Drive.