@ mods i realised my mistake in posting this in the wrong section and posted in the right one but people are replying to this one......so please dont delete this just yet
I in my infinite wisdom tried to mod a file on my phone. I did a titanium backup 1st but forgot to move it to my external SD Doh!
So that went wrong and now I'm stuck in a boot loop with only the stock recovery screen. Need to install stock rom and adb not recognized. (Im sure ill figure that) but my main question is, is there some way to recover data from the internal "sd" memory?
I really appreciate any advice anyone can give
I am not sure if I understood your question.. if you have CWM then just access recovery mode and you will have an option to mount the SD and you will be able to access all your files via USB from your PC
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I don't have cwm . Like I said I only have the stock recovery screens I.e factory reset and download mode.
Do a factory reset, it won't erase your data.
Not sure that would work. It says wipe user data and factory reset so surely it would wipe my data. Plus I don't think that'll work anyway as I changed a file which caused the boot loop so I don't think a factory reset will fix that file.
Androboyben said:
Not sure that would work. It says wipe user data and factory reset so surely it would wipe my data. Plus I don't think that'll work anyway as I changed a file which caused the boot loop so I don't think a factory reset will fix that file.
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what info are you trying to get off the device? the sms etc are stored on your data and will be wiped by a reinstall/factory reset
anything on the usb side for storage will not get touched
Factory reset wont clear anything on the internal_sd
thank you.....but
thanks for the replies peeps ill trust your knowledge (and have pressed the thanks button )
got a day off tomorrow so gonna try and get it up and running again,
Question though, being as i buggered up the stock rom wont flashing the new rom (when i figure out how) delete internal data either.
the reason im being carefull is i did some awesome illustrations (imo) for a childrens book im writing so hoping to save those.
Androboyben said:
thanks for the replies peeps ill trust your knowledge (and have pressed the thanks button )
got a day off tomorrow so gonna try and get it up and running again,
Question though, being as i buggered up the stock rom wont flashing the new rom (when i figure out how) delete internal data either.
the reason im being carefull is i did some awesome illustrations (imo) for a childrens book im writing so hoping to save those.
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it depends on if you use a wipe or non wipe rom, a non wipe wil lkeep qall the data stored on the android system intact but you might get bootloops if it doesnt replace the file you say you deleted
took the plunge......alls good
Richy99 said:
it depends on if you use a wipe or non wipe rom, a non wipe wil lkeep qall the data stored on the android system intact but you might get bootloops if it doesnt replace the file you say you deleted
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Thanks Richy99, i took the plunge and followed nasgilani's guide to installing stock rom, i was supprised when it completed that even my home screens etc were as they were before (appart from widgets being blank) and glad to see "as you all said" my data intact.
i shall be more cautious before i start messing with mods next time
basically internal usb storage of 11gb will never be touched when you factory reset nor wil lanything on an external sd card
the only thing that gets wiped is the 1gb internal space for the rom and data on that partition such as sms/email etc
I know this is an old topic but I noticed it wasn't exactly answered.. I'm trying to send mine back to the factory for warranty because the power button no longer functions. I have the stock rom and recovery and I'm stuck in boot loop because I can't execute factory wipe with the power button. I'd like to pull my data off of the internal SD but am unable to fix the bootloop without forcing the wipe.
I know metter is over now, it was just ur worrying, otherwise wiping cache,wiping data from recovery , flashing stock rom (wipe/non wipe) nothing.will erase data on internal memory.
Just for knowledge
aroma file manager is available, which works from recovery, it can work even you device stucked, unable to boot..
Edit ; sometime you feel ashamed, just come to know this is 6month old topic
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I encrypted my 10.1 yesterday without thinking all the way though. I found out that I could no longer flash kernels while the tablet is encrypted, since the SD card is not accessible in CWR.
I've tried doing a factory reset on my tab and each time, it boots up like nothing happened. I've also tried removing the pin that I put on it and the option to remove it is grayed out.
Do any of you know of a way to do a full wipe on the 10.1? Or could I reflash it using ODIN?
Thanks in advance.
id like to know this as well
still nothing? im starting to think this is an easy fix that nobody has posted about yet
there has to be something that im missing
try post # 6 in the linked thread, restore with unmodified vanilla version image from second link provided in the post, after booting from fastboot into recovery with clockworkmod recovery img; pushing it into the device sd with adb commandline, check the post for modifications and the link for details.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1161325
whenever i try to reset to factory defaults, it just reboots like nothing happened
re-flash a stock firmware via odin as tar or fastboot/nandroid as img (backup restore)
Ones the tab is encrypted, there's no way to un do it. Unless you do what mughalgxt suggested. Good luck
Thanks guys, I went through some of these steps and found some other good tutorials to get me back up and running. All i wanted was to try the new kernel/bonsai rom out and I'm now able to do that
**** encryption, put a lockscreen password and be done with it.
I'm still struggling with this, as well: off to read some of the linked threads, because even with flashing a stock image with ODIN I'm still not able to recover the device. At least I managed to proceed past the boot loop I WAS in (when attempting to flash from CWM) - but now, I can get to the point where the device prompts me for the decryption key (meaning, it's clearly not yet restored to factory defaults) - but can't get it boot to completion. I also note that I've still got CWM Recovery, not stock.
It seems, at some point, encryption-key be damned, right? Meaning, if I don't care about recovering the contents of the encrypted partition - surely these low-level tools have the ability to simply format the partitions? Perhaps not - at least, not CWM - as attempts to format /data continue to fail.
Off to review the linked threads to try to gain some additional insight.
I ran into this same issue a long while back. As I recall (and it's been a while), you won't be able to wipe from CWM, but you can wipe from Settings / Privacy / Factory Data Reset. I could be wrong, but I know that I didn't have to do any adb pushing or anything with special images.
Hi SacTilt-
Thanks for the reply - and agreed: Had I actively started the effort from a functioning device, I think I could have selected that option.
As it turns out - I ran CWM, rebooted into recovery, and... next thing I knew, I was in boot loop hell.
I've tried flashing a variety of files via ODIN: Some at least allow the device to boot to the point where I get the initial password prompt - which I can provide, and proceed past... but then the device just 'goes blank'.
What I'm looking for is a 'start-from-scratch', no concern for data loss, delete the dang encrypted /data folder already, will ya?... approach.
As I've mentioned, a variety of ODIN files from a myriad of sources haven't seemed to quite do the trick. I feel like I'm missing something obvious - but can't find the right angle to spot it.
Perhaps fastboot might be what I'm looking for?
FWIW: the device was rooted when I started, so I've got full Titanium backups, with which I can restore, once I recover the actual device / OS.
Thanks for any insight.
Hey guys...if anybody finds a solution to this, please let me know...I am stuck with this same damn experimental ROM I've had from day one...it's getting really old. All I want is to get rid of this stupid encryption. Thanks for any help. Tried ODIN flashing, wiping data from security screen, wiping from CMR, etc.
Have you tried formatting the sd? Whenever i had my ns4g i accidentially did the same thing and i wiped the SD and it removed the encryption.
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Ok, I looked in some of the threads already posted, but didn't really see the problem that I am having.
My A500 gets stuck in boot loop. I can access the recovery and wipe data, flash etc... however, none of that is working. After I have wiped EVERYTHING and reflashed the Thor ROM 14.2 I get stuck in boot loop again with the little blue android with the spinning gears... That's it. I'm spent, I have no idea what I should do next. I only paid $260 for this bad boy, so I'm not sending it to ACER to charge me money to fix it... Any ideas?
Have you tried to format your sd card and place a fresh download of the rom you wish to flash on the sd and tried again.. It sounds like there is something corrupt.
This would my first thing to try from what i understand about your Question . If you try the above and still have issues. post back all the details that caused you to end up in this situation. from rom version you were on at first and recovery your using as well as details on how you flashed.
Good Luck.
I'll try that, but skeptical about it. Since I last posted, I have tried a nandroid restore, flashing a different rom, a couple more complete data wipe/factory data resets, no luck on that. I am formatting the SD card now, in hopes I can get a good clean flash?
Edit: I just realized all the wipedata/factory rests I've been doing haven't worked as they never complete. They say 'error formatting...' and before I can read what all it says it cannot format, it disappears. I guess at first I just thought it was wiping really fast...
edit: formatting the sd card, did not work. im still stuck in bootloop.
Edit: I think I found my solution here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23246074#post23246074
so far it seems to be working...
So that link got you up and running? I'm always afraid of the boot loop and like to prepare for the worst
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Do you get an error message when you try to wipe data factory reset? If you do then your data partition is corrupt, happened to me yesterday. the way you fix this is go into recovery>backup/restore> toggle backup and restore of internal storage (/data/media) so it says enabled>mounts and storage>format data. Then you should be good to go. This REALLY formats the data partition so EVERYTHING will be deleted on it.
first,sorry for my bad english. I've been able to light up my acer a500 but I got stuck in airplane mode on email section.any one can help me?
it fixed mine
keegWag said:
Do you get an error message when you try to wipe data factory reset? If you do then your data partition is corrupt, happened to me yesterday. the way you fix this is go into recovery>backup/restore> toggle backup and restore of internal storage (/data/media) so it says enabled>mounts and storage>format data. Then you should be good to go. This REALLY formats the data partition so EVERYTHING will be deleted on it.
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thanks for the input keegWag.... got my tablet going again.
My brother is traveling in India till the middle of may and his Vibrant 16gb that I unlocked, rooted, and installed CM7 has stopped booting and loops on the CM7 boot screen. had him go into recovery and clear the cache partition, but same thing happens..
so 2 things,
1. do photos by default save on his micro sd (2GB) or on the internal memory (16GB) he has over 1000 photos saved on the phone that he is worried about
losing...
2. if he completely wipes in recovery will he lose his pictures.
thanks! been months since i have had my hands on a vibrant, otherwise i could remember these things lol
Wiping data/factory reset from Recovery will NOT remove anything thats in your sdcard or internal sd.
What i suggest you do
Get into DOWNLOAD MODE, ODIN, stay on eclair and transfer the pictures before something else happens and you actually lose it, go on a flashing spree and flash other ROMS
If you need help getting into downloadmode/ odin etc. Just ask.
Thanks for the info.. he does not have access to a computer, thats why he hasnt been able to backup anything. he has only had cell/internet 2 weeks since january ..
If he still has the cm7 zip on his sdcard he should try reflashing
Yep, if he has any kind of ROM still on his SD, you can erase data/factory reset and then flash the ROM over it and it should be fine. Tell us what the ROM, if any, name is before you do it in case its like a eclair/froyo/gb/ics rom and it may not work directly.
Hey Guys,
About two weeks ago, I left to go out of the country. I left my phone powered on and sitting on my desk.
I come home, and my wife said she plugged it in to use the alarm on it, however it just looped over and over at the Sprint 4G animation.
I have tried replacing the battery, cooling it down, and other random things, but nothing seems to unstick it.
The phone is stock un-modded phone.
When i try to go to recovery mode, first time it just hung at the HTC logo, last time I tried, it gave a small picture of a phone, with a red triangle and an exclamation mark.
I can run a crc check using the 'image crc' option from the bootloader, and after a minute, it comes back with:
hboot: 0xFBDE7777
boot: 0xE4841560
recovery: 0x3F342ECF
system: 0x98F9E14F
I have tried with and without the SD card, and with/without being plugged in.
SPEEDY XE SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
RADIO-1.07.00.1129
eMMC-boot
Nov 15 2010, 13:19:54
The only other thing I can think of, is that I saw a low memory error a few hours before I left.
I have some really important data on the phones built-in memory. Any ideas or suggestions are most appreciated!
Thanks!
Actually, I just found in recovery mode, to hold the power button and vol+ button to get details.
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command
E:Error in DATA:data/recovery/log
(No space left on device)
So I am guessing it is stuck looping due to being out of internal memory space.
I have the following options:
Reboot system now
Apply sdcard:update.zip
Wipe data/factory reset
Wipe cache partition
I am worrid that even wiping the cache partition might cause some sort of data loss?
Can anyone confirm that for me?
Any ideas or suggestions on how to get in to free some space up otherwise?
Thanks!
Do not wipe anything yet. If you have a way of Fully charging the Battery without the device, do so. Let the battery fully charge, then put it back in the phone. Power it up and see if it will boot normally.
Wiping cache will not cause data loss, and it may be your only option to try and get it booting, if you call Sprint their gonna go a whole factory data reset and that clears all
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strapped365 said:
Wiping cache will not cause data loss, and it may be your only option to try and get it booting, if you call Sprint their gonna go a whole factory data reset and that clears all
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I know you said no data loss for wiping the cache, is there any reason that I shouldn't just go ahead and try wiping the cache? Just wanna check things before I do something
Thanks a bunch!
Narkain said:
I know you said no data loss for wiping the cache, is there any reason that I shouldn't just go ahead and try wiping the cache? Just wanna check things before I do something
Thanks a bunch!
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Sorry buddy took a nap LOL give it a shot, if all lease fails a full wipe is needed
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Just wipe cache. What it will do will force your phone to re-creat all of your dalvik-cache. It will take a really long time to boot depending on how many apps you have installed for it to load up in the boot proccess. Give it time to boot, it's not a bootloop unless your bootanimation keeps restarting with a blank screen inbetween. If that doesn't work most likely your data got corrupted some how and you'll have to wipe data.
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Just wipe cache. What it will do will force your phone to re-creat all of your dalvik-cache. It will take a really long time to boot depending on how many apps you have installed for it to load up in the boot proccess. Give it time to boot, it's not a bootloop unless your bootanimation keeps restarting with a blank screen inbetween. If that doesn't work most likely your data got corrupted some how and you'll have to wipe data.
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Completed the cache wipe no problem. Phone boots up, loads the sprint animation, and then just sits looping sprint animation like usual.
Is there a custom bootloader that would let me browse the internal file system?
Mebbe delete something?
Without going into much detail just in case it's of a private nature. What kind of Data are you trying to retrieve? Contacts, SMS, Emails,...? The reason I ask is because it sounds like you may have to wipe the all the Data in order to get it to Boot.
prboy1969 said:
Without going into much detail just in case it's of a private nature. What kind of Data are you trying to retrieve? Contacts, SMS, Emails,...? The reason I ask is because it sounds like you may have to wipe the all the Data in order to get it to Boot.
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SMS, random note & app data and some other stuff for legal reasons. I checked the sd card, none of what I need is on it.
Is there really no way to access the internal memory from any custom bootloader?
Or a way to insert some sort of script to erase some crap log file on the internal memory?
The phone stills has the default AmazonMP3 app and some other crap that I could script a deletion for to easily free up memory safely.
Also, I noticed under recovery options it also says "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" in yellow at the bottom.
I really don't want to wipe the phone
Thanks
Narkain said:
SMS, random note & app data and some other stuff for legal reasons. I checked the sd card, none of what I need is on it.
Is there really no way to access the internal memory from any custom bootloader?
Or a way to insert some sort of script to erase some crap log file on the internal memory?
The phone stills has the default AmazonMP3 app and some other crap that I could script a deletion for to easily free up memory safely.
Also, I noticed under recovery options it also says "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command" in yellow at the bottom.
I really don't want to wipe the phone
Thanks
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I mean you could try to adb pull items from recovery, but you need the sdk for that, and you also have to know exactly where the info is.
I don't think it will pull like the actual sms messages or anything but you should be able to pull some things from system or data
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Hi guys, i've broken my Galaxy s4 lcd some day ago, and yesterday i've decided to sell it on ebay.
But now i have to wipe it. The problem is that i am running a custom Touchwiz rom and Philz touch recovery. So i don't think i can use Kies to make a factory reset.
I can use Odin to flash a stock image etc... But i don't know how to solve completely my problems.
Can someone help me? Thx
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41392134
Take help from this
"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "
DeepankarS said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41392134
Take help from this
"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "
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Thank you for the replay.
However, the Galaxy S4 doesn't have fastboot mode, but only download mode and recovery mode, so I don't know how to use the commands...
OmniSlyfer said:
Thank you for the replay.
However, the Galaxy S4 doesn't have fastboot mode, but only download mode and recovery mode, so I don't know how to use the commands...
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Odin will fix it.
Flash the stock ronin Odin. All your user data will be (sort of) removed.
A skilled user could still recover your user data' but most people won't even know its there.
You will not need the phone's screen to work at any point in the Odin process.
Skipjacks said:
Odin will fix it.
Flash the stock ronin Odin. All your user data will be (sort of) removed.
A skilled user could still recover your user data' but most people won't even know its there.
You will not need the phone's screen to work at any point in the Odin process.
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Oh ok perfect
I've just finished to flash the stock rom, I hope evrything worked fine. I'll try to install Kies3 to see if I can maybe do another wipe or something else to delete definately all my data inside (including photos etc...). Any suggestions?
OmniSlyfer said:
Oh ok perfect
I've just finished to flash the stock rom, I hope evrything worked fine. I'll try to install Kies3 to see if I can maybe do another wipe or something else to delete definately all my data inside (including photos etc...). Any suggestions?
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Odin will wipe the data as well as Kies will.
But neither really removes the data. Both just remove the directory structure which makes it easy to sort the data.
To really remove the data you need to overwrite it with new data. That is much more difficult to do without access to the screen on the phone.
You could do it in recovery with the device mounted via usb to a computer. But you generally need to select that in recovery using the touch screen.
You can also push data to the device to overwrite using adb, but its more difficult.
All in all though...unless you have evidence of your participation in a crime on the phone, don't be so worried about it. It will be okay.
Skipjacks said:
All in all though...unless you have evidence of your participation in a crime on the phone, don't be so worried about it. It will be okay.
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Hahahahahahah
Skipjacks said:
Odin will wipe the data as well as Kies will.
But neither really removes the data. Both just remove the directory structure which makes it easy to sort the data.
To really remove the data you need to overwrite it with new data. That is much more difficult to do without access to the screen on the phone.
You could do it in recovery with the device mounted via usb to a computer. But you generally need to select that in recovery using the touch screen.
You can also push data to the device to overwrite using adb, but its more difficult.
All in all though...unless you have evidence of your participation in a crime on the phone, don't be so worried about it. It will be okay.
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Ahahah. Thank you so much for the explanation
I think the buyer will find some photos of me in the phone, i hope he will not die coz of my ugly face
I think this thread can be closed.
Skipjacks said:
Odin will wipe the data as well as Kies will.
But neither really removes the data. Both just remove the directory structure which makes it easy to sort the data.
To really remove the data you need to overwrite it with new data. That is much more difficult to do without access to the screen on the phone.
You could do it in recovery with the device mounted via usb to a computer. But you generally need to select that in recovery using the touch screen.
You can also push data to the device to overwrite using adb, but its more difficult.
All in all though...unless you have evidence of your participation in a crime on the phone, don't be so worried about it. It will be okay.
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Since Google implemented Trim in Android 4.3, it's impossible (as of yet) to recover deleted data. I tried several guides here on XDA on data recovery and none of them work anymore.
See for example this article.
http://forensic.belkasoft.com/en/why-ssd-destroy-court-evidence
So basically if you delete a file or format your system, the data is really gone.
Lennyz1988 said:
Since Google implemented Trim in Android 4.3, it's impossible (as of yet) to recover deleted data. I tried several guides here on XDA on data recovery and none of them work anymore.
See for example this article.
http://forensic.belkasoft.com/en/why-ssd-destroy-court-evidence
So basically if you delete a file or format your system, the data is really gone.
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That article was one of the most awesome nerdy things I ever read. I had no idea about the garbage collectors on solid state memory.
Skipjacks said:
That article was one of the most awesome nerdy things I ever read. I had no idea about the garbage collectors on solid state memory.
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From my experience, flashing stock firmware with Kies DOES NOT wipe the user data/files from phones SD card. I have to always do factory reset from stock recovery to wipe it.
tomtro74 said:
From my experience, flashing stock firmware with Kies DOES NOT wipe the user data/files from phones SD card. I have to always do factory reset from stock recovery to wipe it.
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It wont ever wipe the external sd card
The internal sd card should depend on the tar file and if it formats that partition or not.
I never really paid attention to it myself because I have never had to flash a full stock restore on my S4 so I have no idea what the standard for S4 firmwares is.
The internal data partition though should be wiped with a full stock firmware in odin every single time.
Skipjacks said:
It wont ever wipe the external sd card
The internal sd card should depend on the tar file and if it formats that partition or not.
I never really paid attention to it myself because I have never had to flash a full stock restore on my S4 so I have no idea what the standard for S4 firmwares is.
The internal data partition though should be wiped with a full stock firmware in odin every single time.
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Well, it's not. Believe me. I used to flash stock rom on S4 number of times and I can confirm that flashing stock rom with Odin DOES NOT WIPE any user data. Your photos and other files stays intact as well as the apss ( you may loose some apps internal data ) until factory reset is performed either from stock recovery or from rom itself.
tomtro74 said:
Well, it's not. Believe me. I used to flash stock rom on S4 number of times and I can confirm that flashing stock rom with Odin DOES NOT WIPE any user data. Your photos and other files stays intact as well as the apss ( you may loose some apps internal data ) until factory reset is performed either from stock recovery or from rom itself.
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Well how about that.....you learn something new every day!
OmniSlyfer said:
Hi guys, i've broken my Galaxy s4 lcd some day ago, and yesterday i've decided to sell it on ebay.
But now i have to wipe it. The problem is that i am running a custom Touchwiz rom and Philz touch recovery. So i don't think i can use Kies to make a factory reset.
I can use Odin to flash a stock image etc... But i don't know how to solve completely my problems.
Can someone help me? Thx
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if your S4 opens, just connect it to the PC and then the internal memory will appear
delete whatever you wants