BY accident deleted a folder containing important images from my phone. I tried the USB debugging method after accessing Developer mode.
My phone has not been rooted. Are there any tools or guidance to another post with some helpful information.
THank you in advance.
from my understanding you are trying to restore images that were deleted? Not sure what you are tying to do.
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This is likely your only option:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
Phone needs to be rooted. There may be other methods as well.
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from my understanding you are trying to restore images that were deleted? Not sure what you are tying to do.
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I am trying to recover the pictures I deleted . I read there may be different methods, but most of them involve rooting/unlocking. I do not want to risk doing a factory reset or wiping data, then I won't be able to "scrape" for traces of the deleted pictures.
I am sorry I am a noob, but I am willing to try a technical resolution (since Google support) does not seem to have any clear answer to data/picture recovery.
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I downloaded Google Books today just to play around with it and now I cannot uninstall it. I don't want to root my phone just to get rid of it. Will a hard reset help?
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Not sure bout a hard reset. When i got my phone, this was already preinstalled. Your phone might think its a system app and not clear after a hard reset.
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Hmm.. that sucks.
By the way, is there any difference between a factory reset done via the settings menu and the hard reset done by booting into the special menu?
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athani said:
I downloaded Google Books today just to play around with it and now I cannot uninstall it. I don't want to root my phone just to get rid of it. Will a hard reset help?
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All Nexus Ss come with Google Books preinstalled after the 2.3.1 or 2.3.2 ota. So nothing can remove it unless you root. Why so annoyed by it? you never noticed it being installed on the phone before and it doesn't take any resources if you disable books syncing from Accounts and Sync under the system settings.
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My phone did not have google books preinstalled. I installed it yesterday just to see what it was and now I'm stuck with it.
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Pretty sure it's still the same as it use to be
Soft reset is like rebooting
Hard reset is like unplugging something while its on( removing battery without turning phone off first).
Factory rest wipes it to stock, or original rom that you may have flashed. All setting revert to default.
Don't quote me though
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Hmm.. that sucks.
By the way, is there any difference between a factory reset done via the settings menu and the hard reset done by booting into the special menu?
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pierre1321 said:
Pretty sure it's still the same as it use to be
Soft reset is like rebooting
Hard reset is like unplugging something while its on( removing battery without turning phone off first).
Factory rest wipes it to stock, or original rom that you may have flashed. All setting revert to default.
Don't quote me though
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Actually, I wanted to know if there is any difference between the two methods of performing a factory reset -
1. Settings> Privacy> Factory Data Reset
2. Power off phone. Power on while pressing the volume up button. And then reset.
Does the latter method perform a "deeper" reset?
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Its a preference thing.
If I'm on stock, prolly do it through settings.
Or through bootloader if i can't get it to boot.
If rooted and unlocked and custom rom, i do it through recovery. Cause i can flash and clear stuff in 1 shot.
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Actually, I wanted to know if there is any difference between the two methods of performing a factory reset -
1. Settings> Privacy> Factory Data Reset
2. Power off phone. Power on while pressing the volume up button. And then reset.
Does the latter method perform a "deeper" reset?
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I want to "root" my phone only for the purpose of getting rid of some pre-installed stuff. I do not want to have a custon ROM, at least not now.
I've seen this thread which explains rooting the Nexus S, giving 4 steps in which to do it.
At what step can I stop if I want just a simple root as stated above? Or will I have to go through the whole process?
Will the procedure erase anything from my phone? If yes, how do I backup?
I believe both reset methods do the same thing, which is format the /data partition (and maybe a bit more?).
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I believe both reset methods do the same thing, which is format the /data partition (and maybe a bit more?).
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Thanks for the reply but I'm just as clueless as before.
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I want to "root" my phone only for the purpose of getting rid of some pre-installed stuff. I do not want to have a custon ROM, at least not now.
I've seen this thread which explains rooting the Nexus S, giving 4 steps in which to do it.
At what step can I stop if I want just a simple root as stated above? Or will I have to go through the whole process?
Will the procedure erase anything from my phone? If yes, how do I backup?
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The process will wipe your data, and you need to do the whole thing.
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I just checked, it only takes up 4M, which is nothing. I wouldn't worry about it so much.
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So here is my dilemma. I was having problems with my Google apps for whatever reason. Manually updated to 4.2 and still has the same problems. Did a factory reset and the problems went away. Decided I wanted to get rid of root and relock the bootloader since I'm going to give her thus one because I'm upgrading to the 32GB model. Wanted to get rid of the superuser icon in the app drawer mainly. I went to googles site and downloaded the factory images for 4.2. Used it in conjunction with the nexus 7 toolkit. Long story short for whatever reason the process didn't complete. Pretty sure I don't have a factory image at all at this point. I tried to use the nexus 7 toolkit but of course now it won't see my device. My tablet is still unlocked. I'm assuming I'm going to have to manually push the image to the phone. If any body can start me off in the right direction it will be greatly appreciated. Especially if someone were able to provide links to the info I may need. In the mean time I'm looking around on Google. Haven't found anything concrete yet. As a side note if anyone could tell me how to actually turn off the tablet do I can preserve the battery it would be appreciated. I can only get it to show fast boot mode or the Google screen. Can't power down.
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Nexus 7 toolkit?
Fastboot mode?
That's all you need.
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Nexus 7 toolkit?
Fastboot mode?
That's all you need.
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Dunno... after trying to update yesterday, twrp, cwm, stock wasn't having it, had to put stock boot loader back on, everything wiped, not a problem....nandroid backup....toolkit shows it working but nothing, toolkit said everything was there....only unlock and root worked, everything else was borked.
And I had to use Windows for the tool kit. Doh.
Toolkit has been a bane for me, finally got 4.2 using root keeper.
Off-topic.... maybe.
Lesson learnt... definitely.
Motorola Atrix (AOKP JB)
Nexus 7 (Stock+ Root)
Desire HD ~ overheating rebooting.
N900 ~ usb broken off.
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Nexus 7 toolkit?
Fastboot mode?
That's all you need.
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Can't use the toolkit bcuz it doesn't see my device. Can't enable USB debugging. Unless there is a way around that?
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So I'm trying to help this guy in the thread linked below to recover pictures of his newborn after breaking the touchscreen.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2210955
I found another thread where someone confirmed that you can unlock the bootloader and flash a custom recovery, then use adb to pull the sdcard contents to recover pictures.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2177440
The problem with this is that I can't remember if everything, including the sdcard, is wiped when unlocking the bootloader.
While researching this I have found that some say it is wiped while others say it isn't.
Can anyone confirm 100% one way or another?
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at4r1 said:
So I'm trying to help this guy in the thread linked below to recover pictures of his newborn after breaking the touchscreen.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2210955
I found another thread where someone confirmed that you can unlock the bootloader and flash a custom recovery, then use adb to pull the sdcard contents to recover pictures.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2177440
The problem with this is that I can't remember if everything, including the sdcard, is wiped when unlocking the bootloader.
While researching this I have found that some say it is wiped while others say it isn't.
Can anyone confirm 100% one way or another?
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unlocking the bootloader wipes your storage, as well as any user data.
That's what I thought as well. The problem with that theory is that the guy in the thread below did it twice without the sd being wiped.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2177440
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That's what I thought as well. The problem with that theory is that the guy in the thread below did it twice without the sd being wiped.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2177440
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Anyone else?
So I've gotten myself into a real mess with my nook. I was playing around with it and accidentally deleted my user partition and when I was trying to repair it I ended up wiping it of everything... So as I've been trying to fix it with Nook Manager which creates a backup but I don't think its a functioning one because when I press restore backup nothing happens. I also tried doing a factory restore but it says the factory restore.zip is missing. I can't find either a backup img or a restore.zip for the NST online anywhere. Is there any hope or is this thing gone for good? I would really appreciate any help people can offer.
Can anyone please test this for me?
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Sorry.
Somehow my mobile app posted that in the wrong topic
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You should look at this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48132647#post48132647
So im trying to fix my cousin nexus 4 but i tried everything to get boot but it won't past the boot screen. I adb several roms to it but it stays the same. I did notice there was no files at all whatsoever. I gonna try to factory reset it with a toolkit soon but at the moment has anyone encounter this issue?
xXghostXx313 said:
So im trying to fix my cousin nexus 4 but i tried everything to get boot but it won't past the boot screen. I adb several roms to it but it stays the same. I did notice there was no files at all whatsoever. I gonna try to factory reset it with a toolkit soon but at the moment has anyone encounter this issue?
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Have you tried flashing the stock factory image?
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images?hl=fr-FR#occam
A guide how to
Toolkits are a bunch of shortcuts with a chance something might go wrong. Don't use toolkits. Follow what mrhiab said. And remember to wipe/format each partition first.
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gravitysandwich said:
Toolkits are a bunch of shortcuts with a chance something might go wrong. Don't use toolkits. Follow what mrhiab said. And remember to wipe/format each partition first.
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Yeah I know toolkits are bad but it probably would of been my last choice and I gonna try to flash the stock image later to see if that will do.
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