accidental factory reset with no backup - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

my phone was accidentally factory reset by a 3 year old holding two buttons, which shouldnt even be an option honestly. i did not have an sd card or a backup for literally the two things i care about most, my notes(samsung notes app) and my photos, and i have no idea why those two were specifically turned off.
i have tried recovering them through my computer with multiple services, minitool, drfone, photorec, fonelab and at least 2 others, all of them said my device had to be rooted, so i tried several things to root my phone as well,(i can only remember kingoroot off the top of my head) but im unable to get the OEM option, ive tried turning off auto updates, changing the date and restarting my phone several times, turning off mobile and wifi data, and im not sure but i think it wont work simply because the option to turn off software updates isnt available(at least, thats the only thing thats different with all the tutorials/videos i watched showing how to do it. i found a post that said its because android updated to make it harder to do and that now software updates happen through google services and to turn that off to do it, but that didnt work either.
my phone is a samsung galaxy a50 and the version(since it reset) is 10.
im begging, please please someone help, anything i can try at all, the last few years of my life are in those photos and notes, i cant lose them, ive been trying to fix this for 6 hours, i dont have much money but i am willing to pay to get back my photos and notes, i really need them. i apologize if this is the incorrect place to post, if it is, please let me know where i can post this to get help.

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@Possumpal
A Factory Reset wipes phone's disk space ( what is a non-volatile flash memory ) filled up with user-data and rewrites that partition with the apps provided by OEM/Carrier. As long as the flash memory space ( blocks ) used before wiping and after rewriting doesn't get physically "overwritten" it's basically possible to recover deleted files.
It's not necessary phone is rooted to do so, because you aren't dealing with Android's system-data.

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I'm so sorry for not replying sooner, our internet was out for days because someone fixing a leak apparently cut the line. Thank you so much for the reply, that's really exciting to hear! Can you tell me how to retrieve the files then? Or point me to a post or someone who can? Do I need to repost this is the galaxy a50 section? I searched for hours and the only things I found all said I had to root my phone, so I'm not sure how to find it

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Possumpal said:
I'm so sorry for not replying sooner, our internet was out for days because someone fixing a leak apparently cut the line. Thank you so much for the reply, that's really exciting to hear! Can you tell me how to retrieve the files then? Or point me to a post or someone who can? Do I need to repost this is the galaxy a50 section? I searched for hours and the only things I found all said I had to root my phone, so I'm not sure how to find it
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If ADB ( read: USB debugging ) is enabled on phone, then to clone ( read: create a raw image - on byte level - of ) Android's /data and/or /userdata partition to PC
At 1st establish connection running command
Code:
adb devices
Then obtain Android's /data partition's mount-point name by running command
Code:
adb shell mount
and query command's output for line that contains substring
1. if partition name is /data: on /data type ext4
2. if partition name is /userdata: on /userdata type ext4
Left of that substring is shown name of the mount-point, e.g. /dev/block/sda35. Note down that mount point, you need it in next step.
Then, using the mount-point you remembered, run this command
Code:
adb exec-out "dd if=[color=red]/dev/block/sda35[/color] 2>/dev/null" > C:\data.img
what will create the clone on PC's drive C:
Done

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is it possible you could link me to the ' how to create a raw image byte level' one? I tried searching the forum for it and google, I'm sure I'm just not doing it right but I cant find it, ive never done this sort of stuff before, I'm sorry I'm being so difficult, I appreciate the help so much, seriously, it means the world to me to be able to retrieve my files

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Unfortunately after a factory data reset it may not be possible to regain that data without a backup. You may be able to use custom tools to potentially gain data back that was there but haven't ever seen any success of that

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My 2 cents: A Factory Reset doesn't mean that user-data are irretrievably lost. The term Wipe Data used in recovery memu is errleading.
Wiping
means overwriting storage space with random data, e.g.
Code:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
Hence original data in no way can get recovered.
Deleting
means resetting the entry in Android's file system to inform OS that the storage space used is free to write new data onto.
Until that happens the data can be easily recovered by software of which some is free to use.
Formatting
means clearing the entries in Android file system what allows to find/read files on the device, but leaves the files data intact.
You can still recover the data from a formatted storage space.
Personally don't think a Factory Reset wipes user-data in the sense described above, but only deletes them in the sense described above.
But this estimation can be wrong.

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the first step isnt working, am i doing something wrong?
i tried it without the space, i tried just adb and just devices, and all of it just says the same thing and i tried doing what it said by putting a \ in front, it still says the same thing

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jwoegerbauer said:
My 2 cents: A Factory Reset doesn't mean that user-data are irretrievably lost. The term Wipe Data used in recovery memu is errleading.
Deleting
means resetting the entry in Android's file system to inform OS that the storage space used is free to write new data onto.
Until that happens the data can be easily recovered by software of which some is free to use.
Formatting
means clearing the entries in Android file system what allows to find/read files on the device, but leaves the files data intact.
You can still recover the data from a formatted storage space.
Personally don't think a Factory Reset wipes user-data in the sense described above, but only deletes them in the sense described above.
But this estimation can be wrong.
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Like I've said even formatting yes you can potentially recover said data, but I've never seen such a tool successfully extract data without it already existing into he device.
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Possumpal said:
the first step isnt working, am i doing something wrong?
i tried it without the space, i tried just adb and just devices, and all of it just says the same thing and i tried doing what it said by putting a \ in front, it still says the same thing
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If you have the platform-tools and/or ADB folder use CMD (Command Prompt) to get the job done. Ensure its set to the same directory as the executables

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Im.. not sure what that means. I really dont know anything about coding stuff, I can only google how to do everything ive been told, but it doesnt always pull up anything related..