Hi, if I accidentally full wipe my phone with the following options,
Dalvik/ART Cache
Cache
System
Data
Internal Storage
Will I still be able to rescue any data on it?
TIA!
Without a Nandroid backup no.
Before you wipe flash, your always warned about data loss
windwaver said:
Hi, if I accidentally full wipe my phone with the following options,
Dalvik/ART Cache
Cache
System
Data
Internal Storage
Will I still be able to rescue any data on it?
TIA!
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May be some data recovery software can help you
Ashwinrg said:
May be some data recovery software can help you
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Hi! Do you know which ones? It's my fault for not checking before wiping
windwaver said:
Hi! Do you know which ones? It's my fault for not checking before wiping
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Try Dr fone to recover ur data. Its a software which runs on a pc. Enable USB debugging and connect your phone with pc using a USB cable.
Then open Dr fone, you will see an option to recover data.
Augustoandro said:
Try Dr fone to recover ur data. Its a software which runs on a pc. Enable USB debugging and connect your phone with pc using a USB cable.
Then open Dr fone, you will see an option to recover data.
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Great! I'll try giving it a shot.
BTW, what actually happens (in technical terms) when we wipe a phone? Is it similar when we format a drive where the FAT gets over written and everything is gone?
windwaver said:
Great! I'll try giving it a shot.
BTW, what actually happens (in technical terms) when we wipe a phone? Is it similar when we format a drive where the FAT gets over written and everything is gone?
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The data on a storage is accessed via a variable.
When we format a drive, a new variable is declared and is used while the former is made inaccessible and it appears that the data has been deleted.
Nothing ever gets lost on a storage. You can always make the older variable accessible again.
Augustoandro said:
The data on a storage is accessed via a variable.
When we format a drive, a new variable is declared and is used while the former is made inaccessible and it appears that the data has been deleted.
Nothing ever gets lost on a storage. You can always make the older variable accessible again.
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So the same goes for phones? Man, we should never trade in our phones then, it's so easy to retrieve confidential documents especially if you use your phones to access work emails and stuff.
windwaver said:
So the same goes for phones? Man, we should never trade in our phones then, it's so easy to retrieve confidential documents especially if you use your phones to access work emails and stuff.
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I got a Vibrant as a gift from my relative (he recently bought a Tab), and i can't erase the data (gallery, his gmail account).
I have done everything that i know, from factory reset to wipe data from recovery mode. Well, i even downgrade the firmware to the stock UVJFD, but no matter how hard i try, everytime i restart the phone, the data will always restored. the applications i installed are also gone it's like the phone create some restore point that resets whenever it gets rebooted.
I'm not living in US, so i guess i can't get support from T-mobile
please help.. and excuse me for my bad english ^^
settings>sd & phone storage>unmount phone storage>format will erase everything
if you want to format the microsd..its there too, but you will lose Avatar if you do..
jmcghee1973 said:
settings>sd & phone storage>unmount phone storage>format will erase everything
if you want to format the microsd..its there too, but you will lose Avatar if you do..
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i't didn't work the pictures and gmail account is still there
there are 2 storages there ..one says sd card and the other says phone storage ...you unmounted the one under phone storage and hit format??? because there should be like 3 folders left after that..
i unmounted and formatted both the phone and sdcard storage.. to no effect.. flashing new firmware didn't help either..
hmmm.. yep.. beyond me then .. works for me every time so you might need someone with a little more knowledge.
getting hopeless
Did you try the data factory reset from privacy settings?
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shovelhead83 said:
Did you try the data factory reset from privacy settings?
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already
Setting>Accounts and sync - if there are any of your relatives accounts under there, click on it then click remove account.
already... but to no effect..
fckndrmr said:
already... but to no effect..
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All you have left then is to root and install a custom rom. That will fix the issue for sure or odin back to stock.
Dialing *2767*3855# will do a hard reset. That may help.
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Monk4Life said:
All you have left then is to root and install a custom rom. That will fix the issue for sure or odin back to stock.
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The problem is right there, I even could not do "re-install package" in the recovery mode because all data I kept in the internal sdcard will always be vanished if I reboot the phone,, I tried to mount the internal sdcard in the PC, then format the drive. It can be formatted, but after I rebooted the phone all the previous data come back. That's the problem
fckndrmr said:
The problem is right there, I even could not do "re-install package" in the recovery mode because all data I kept in the internal sdcard will always be vanished if I reboot the phone,, I tried to mount the internal sdcard in the PC, then format the drive. It can be formatted, but after I rebooted the phone all the previous data come back. That's the problem
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Sounds like you need to get cwm recovery on there and format sdcards internal and external then reflash with Odin just to be safe
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Hey guys,
A friend of mine has done the factory reset from the settings and lost all his photos accidentally. He hasn't backed up any of the data via CWM recovery or on the cloud. Basically he has no option of recovering data except his phone. What I wanted to know is if you do the factory reset is there any possibility of recovering the data.
There are a few undelete apps, could give them a try or failing that you can try connecting the phone up to a laptop/PC and trying to use software like Recuva.
connecting to a pc will not work with the internal sd
Glebun said:
connecting to a pc will not work with the internal sd
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Why not? Because of MTP or...?
yes. recuva and the like can only work with UMS
Glebun said:
yes. recuva and the like can only work with UMS
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Ah ok. Thanks for clarifying.
Just wondering if any Android users can advise of the best way to retain internal storage space after installing rom after rom.
I've tried to install quite a few roms over the past couple of weeks, and have noticed that the available HDD space on the phone's internal memory is becoming less and less each time. I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to the types of files the device (and current rom) need to run, so was wondering if there are any easy ways of telling which folders/files are needed and which ones aren't? Or, if there are particular folder(s) where old rom's data is kept that I could delete?
I'm using a Galaxy Note 2, which came with the Navigon app pre-installed by Samsung. The new custom rom I've installed doesn't have this app (and I don't want it) but I noticed there is still a folder on the phone called "Navigon", which I don't need. Deleting this folder freed up 0.25GB!... I'm wondering if there are any other easy (general) folders like this that I could delete?
My phone is down to less than a quarter of its space free and Jellybean doesn't seem to want to let us save apps to the SD... any advice would be appreciated! thanks in advance!
Do you still have all the files you used the flash each new ROM on there ? Those could potentially be taking up a LOT of space. Did you delete/format internal data between different ROMs ?
Hey, thanks for the quick reply!
I always do the wipe data, factory reset, wipe cache/dvlk cache thing every time. And I only keep one back up (on the phone). All my roms are on the external SD.
Is it strange that I still have the stock Navigon folder, etc. even though the rom I'm running now doesn't have this app?
Try "format usb storage" by connecting the mobile to pc.
This will erase all your internal storage files.
shashivydyula said:
Try "format usb storage" by connecting the mobile to pc.
This will erase all your internal storage files.
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Thanks but won't this erase the current rom and all its operational files too?
whokilledsanta said:
Thanks but won't this erase the current rom and all its operational files too?
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Do a full wipe before flash, That means formatting data, system and internal storage. You will have to reset everything up again as it will wipe all settings and app data.
whokilledsanta said:
Thanks but won't this erase the current rom and all its operational files too?
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No. After connecting the mobile to the pc open the settings in your mobile and access storage and select FORMAT USB STORAGE.
shashivydyula said:
No. After connecting the mobile to the pc open the settings in your mobile and access storage and select FORMAT USB STORAGE.
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That will just delete his SD card files what good will that do? That's right nothing
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Formating sd card is different from formating usb storage. Formating usb will erase internal memory.
shashivydyula said:
Formating sd card is different from formating usb storage. Formating usb will erase internal memory.
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Wouldn't it be easier just to go into storage and do that from phone? Or just do a factory reset its the sane thing
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bbrad said:
Wouldn't it be easier just to go into storage and do that from phone? Or just do a factory reset its the sane thing
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Factory reset is quite easier but it will make the device fresh. You will loose all the data, downloaded apps, apps on sd, and many more.
shashivydyula said:
Factory reset is quite easier but it will make the device fresh. You will loose all the data, downloaded apps, apps on sd, and many more.
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But even by formatting USB storage, he will end up loosing all his app data and other stuffs stored in the phone memory. In my opinion the user can take a backup of his user data and apps using titanium backup and then do a facotory reset. Restore the backup after this. If you have lost some space because of the residual files, then you can see the difference. If there is no change in the free space even after this, then its time for you to check the space that you app data using.
Please help.
I plug the charger and restart the phone. After a while I saw phone says device memory has corrupted and it will wipe all my data. And after factory reset all my data has gone. The worst is all my files in internal storage has gone. How can ì recover them?
You could download a program that can recover deleted files from thumb drives . I would just google it.
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blue_moon said:
Please help.
I plug the charger and restart the phone. After a while I saw phone says device memory has corrupted and it will wipe all my data. And after factory reset all my data has gone. The worst is all my files in internal storage has gone. How can ì recover them?
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Why are you posting this in the DEV forum??? There is a Q&A Thread for this
Tkkg1994 said:
Why are you posting this in the DEV forum??? There is a Q&A Thread for this
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i did mistake in a hurry. sorry for that. can mods move the topic. and Recuva program doesnt recognise the phone. is there any other program you know?
blue_moon said:
Please help.
I plug the charger and restart the phone. After a while I saw phone says device memory has corrupted and it will wipe all my data. And after factory reset all my data has gone. The worst is all my files in internal storage has gone. How can ì recover them?
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Download [email protected] File Recovery
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Android Data Recovery
Hi all,
I updated my honor 5x today to 6.0.1 through official OTA (KIW-L24). My phone is in factory condition (not rooting or boot loader unlock). For some reason, it shows that I have only 2 GB internal storage and it was supposed to be 16 GB (it showed 16GB before update as well). The "About Phone" screen shows 16 GB internal memory but the "Memory and Storage" screen shows only 2 GB and I cannot save anything to internal storage anymore. I have attached a screenshot of this.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
TIA.
Same problem
I had the exact same problem. I fixed it by clearing the cache and wiping the phone multiple times in the bootloader. (I think that is what it is called) Needless to say, I was not happy when this happened. The update not only reset my phone it also truncated the space to 2 gigabytes. I tried to download the image and apply from the sdcard but nothing would see it. And of course, I had no where near enough space on the internal drive even after removing all apps.
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I had the exact same problem. I fixed it by clearing the cache and wiping the phone multiple times in the bootloader. (I think that is what it is called) Needless to say, I was not happy when this happened. The update not only reset my phone it also truncated the space to 2 gigabytes. I tried to download the image and apply from the sdcard but nothing would see it. And of course, I had no where near enough space on the internal drive even after removing all apps.
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Thanks! I was able to resolve this by doing what you suggested!
sagarc88 said:
Thanks! I was able to resolve this by doing what you suggested!
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Can you please tell what commands did you use?
sahlshd said:
Can you please tell what commands did you use?
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What issue you are having??
rheverson2 said:
I had the exact same problem. I fixed it by clearing the cache and wiping the phone multiple times in the bootloader. (I think that is what it is called) Needless to say, I was not happy when this happened. The update not only reset my phone it also truncated the space to 2 gigabytes. I tried to download the image and apply from the sdcard but nothing would see it. And of course, I had no where near enough space on the internal drive even after removing all apps.
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He cleared cache and wiped the phone in the bootloader
How can I do that?
sahlshd said:
He cleared cache and wiped the phone in the bootloader
How can I do that?
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He doesn't clear cache and wipe through bootloader...he must have been wiped it and cleared cache in recovery
hassanjavaid8181 said:
He doesn't clear cache and wipe through bootloader...he must have been wiped it and cleared cache in recovery
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Oh that is much easier
Thanks anyway
sahlshd said:
Oh that is much easier
Thanks anyway
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Yeah:laugh:
Good luck..