Hello Guyzz,
I need big help !
I accidentally made my Nexus 4 to factory restore and lost complete data.
Now I need to get back my complete data, mainly Apps data (which had personal notes), gallery (ahh memories), text messages and wats app.
I have synced google account for contacts and apps, but not for pics (google+).
After a day of researching blogs what I found was,
If we route mobile and install some apps like DiskDigger and run scan, there a possibility of getting back data.. Is this true ?? -- If so after routing will I get official google android updates as before ?? if not can I go back to stock after routing and recovering data through app and get regular official google android updates as before ??
If not.. Is there any way to get back lost data ??--- if so pls guide me !
prarjun1990 said:
Hello Guyzz,
I need big help !
I accidentally made my Nexus 4 to factory restore and lost complete data.
Now I need to get back my complete data, mainly Apps data (which had personal notes), gallery (ahh memories), text messages and wats app.
I have synced google account for contacts and apps, but not for pics (google+).
After a day of researching blogs what I found was,
If we route mobile and install some apps like DiskDigger and run scan, there a possibility of getting back data.. Is this true ?? -- If so after routing will I get official google android updates as before ?? if not can I go back to stock after routing and recovering data through app and get regular official google android updates as before ??
If not.. Is there any way to get back lost data ??--- if so pls guide me !
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I honestly do not know if that app will work to recover wiped data.
Lets suppose you unlock/root the phone and flash a "custom" recovery in order to try the DiskDigger app and it miraculously works
Afterwards, you will still receive your Google OTA update notifications like always.
You would however need to flash back to the "Stock" recovery in order to successfully install the OTA update.
You will also lose root access if you install a Google OTA update.
Keep in mind also, you can always re-lock and/or restore your phone back to it's factory original state after trying that app.
There are many tutorials here on XDA.
Search, read, learn and then if you still need help, post, and many good people will try to help you.
You could start in the sticky Ultimate Nexus 4 Root Guide for info on Unlocking The Bootloader And Obtaining Root.
Best of luck
Heyy joegestes,
U are 1 among the good ppl.. who educated and clear my big doubts.
Thanks a lot mate for your valuable feedback. I think now I feel little confident of unlocking my nexus and try disk digger app. Let me give a try with that app. Hope it works.
And as per your suggestion, I will go through the forum which u mentioned to unlock/root my nexus. I would be really helpful and i will be greatfull if you could help me finding a Genuine way to unlock/root.
Hope to see your reply soon buddy !!
prarjun1990 said:
Heyy joegestes,
U are 1 among the good ppl.. who educated and clear my big doubts.
Thanks a lot mate for your valuable feedback. I think now I feel little confident of unlocking my nexus and try disk digger app. Let me give a try with that app. Hope it works.
And as per your suggestion, I will go through the forum which u mentioned to unlock/root my nexus. I would be really helpful and i will be greatfull if you could help me finding a Genuine way to unlock/root.
Hope to see your reply soon buddy !!
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If your device is not unlocked, unlocking to root it will wipe the device. That'll wipe your data once again. However, afaik, there is not going to be a way to recover your deleted files.
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I do agree and I did mentioned it would be miraculous if that app recovered wiped data.
As @ jd1639 rightly points out, unlocking will wipe your data partition once again,
making it even more unlikely the app would recover any data.
It still might be worth the effort learn to unlock/root and flash custom recovery on your device.
Then it is possible to make periodic nandroid backups of you ROM and/or use Titanium Backup-root to backup apps&data.
Also good to know how to transfer those backups and photos etc. over to your PC using usb
so in the event of an other inadvertent wipe, you wont lose everything.
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Hi everyone!
I've had my X for about a month now and finally have some time to really play with it. You know, themes and such. But I have a bunch of stuff installed and want to start fresh for all this work.
I guess this is a bit like that itch when working with Windows that you want to reinstall every few months and start from scratch. I'm used to it for the PC, but this is the first time with a real smart phone, so I'm a bit lost.
What I'm looking for is maybe a step by step how to return to 'just out of box' stock, like after activation but before any real use. This way I can get a fresh Nandroid backup of that state in case anything goes to hell.
What would be the best way to accomplish this? Flashing the SBF and formatting the SDcard or wiping everything using the system options? I really haven't seen anyone describe this, so maybe this would help others by getting the steps written up.
Thanks for the help in advance!
Dan
yes man use the sbf and flash back and you can reformat ur sdcard to wipe everything. but why do you want to wipe everything?? if you need help send me a PM and i'll give u some links!
I think you want a factory reset, settings, privacy, factory reset. Be sure you sync your data with gmail in the accounts section of settings
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Want a real refresh? Next time back it up. This phone is pretty much a computer. Make an image of your hard drive, before you do things to it.
Won't have to rely on SBF's, after that.
dandroid213 said:
Hi everyone!
I've had my X for about a month now and finally have some time to really play with it. You know, themes and such. But I have a bunch of stuff installed and want to start fresh for all this work.
I guess this is a bit like that itch when working with Windows that you want to reinstall every few months and start from scratch. I'm used to it for the PC, but this is the first time with a real smart phone, so I'm a bit lost.
What I'm looking for is maybe a step by step how to return to 'just out of box' stock, like after activation but before any real use. This way I can get a fresh Nandroid backup of that state in case anything goes to hell.
What would be the best way to accomplish this? Flashing the SBF and formatting the SDcard or wiping everything using the system options? I really haven't seen anyone describe this, so maybe this would help others by getting the steps written up.
Thanks for the help in advance!
Dan
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Scout out this site..
http://rootzwiki.com/index.php/Smartphones/Motorola/Droid-X/Droid-X.html
It has great info plus checkout SBF Droidx on XDA.
I do what your doing quite abit reason being ...because I have to. LOL
Its part of the "Flashing fever"
the only thing I have on my phone is Fresh 3.4.01 nothing else and it reboots at will, like a 50% boot, ie: screen remains and phone appears to reboot, but its not liek when you turn it on........seems to be happening more and more...
If I do a factory restore will I lose all my contacts ??
what do you guys think ? thanks
Did u do a complete wipe before u flashed the rom??? sounds like u didnt....
You can export your contacts to your SD card for a hard copy, and your contacts are synced with your Google account. Google.com/contacts.
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Login to your Google account and see if your contacts are backed up. If not do what someone said and export to your card. Wipe and see if you still have an issue if so try a different rom.
thanks for the replys
I bought the phone new,had the last fresh on it, was only 4-5 weeks ago ?
So i`m using it for a few days works great right, then i get into the phone and see what its running,and google it and see there`s an update available, so i contacted the guy i bought it from and he says no problem do the update if you want...
So i downloaded the file,plugged in my phone to the computer put the file where it told me to, rebooted phone pressing the volume down was it ? and followed the instructions....
So basically it did an update WITHOUT wiping the phone..... truthfully i did`nt have it long enough to know if it was rebooting before i did the update so i`m not sure if its the phone or the software...
These phone are so darn cool i love it to no end, and just want it to work 110% like the rest of yours.
I am an IT consultant and could use a good remote desktop app as well, any recommendations ? as all the ones I have downloaded so far have asked for full access to my phones every move ! whats up with that ??!!!
hey thanks in advance all here you guys rock
suffolk
If someone else rooted your phone there are a few things you need to do. You need to make sure you have Amon_ra recovery installed and you need to to a nand backup with Amon_ra because it backs up the wimax keys. You also need to do a full wipe when installing a new rom wipe cash and dalvik I do it two times. Than install the new rom, keep in mind you will loose everything and always do a nand backup before installing the new rom. Now if your going from a 3.1 to a 3.2 rom update a wipe is not always needed but a nand backup is incase you need to go back. Hope this helps.
If you know how to root or are capable of following instructions to the end, I say unroot and try to use it like that. If the problem persists, take it in for service. My phone started rebooting randomly because the processor was overheating. I troubleshooted by replacing the battery, changing ROM, unroot, take it in. The phone got to the point where any data intensive app would make it turn off (maps, navigation, YouTube).
might wanna check out this thread. hope this helps
http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-support-troubleshooting/96897-evo-rebooting-its-own.html
Lots of ppls here lost their efs, imei etc.. Or getting bootloop or can't make phone call wifi not working after flash a new rom or tried to do nandroid restore.....
Good news are we have so many hard working devs come up solutions to repair those problems.
But for a newbie like myself. I am waiting or looking for a ultimate backup method that has been proven working.... So I don't have to worry about flashing my phone. (I am flasholic Hahaha...) Is there one already? Or is there gonna be one soon?
Sorry for my childish English.
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk
h3nyr said:
Lots of ppls here lost their efs, imei etc.. Or getting bootloop or can't make phone call wifi not working after flash a new rom or tried to do nandroid restore.....
Good news are we have so many hard working devs come up solutions to repair those problems.
But for a newbie like myself. I am waiting or looking for a ultimate backup method that has been proven working.... So I don't have to worry about flashing my phone. (I am flasholic Hahaha...) Is there one already? Or is there gonna be one soon?
Sorry for my childish English.
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk
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Backing up your EFS is probably the biggest one, however I backed mine up and bootlooped and couldn't restore it so had to use this efs fix anyway.. So short answer, not really, Samsung phones are not mod friendly anymore, or as mod friendly as they once were.
Helium is a good choice for non-root backup and TB for root or a recovery back up (CWM offers custom backup)
Just the thread I was looking for. I'm looking for a WORKING backup solution for my rooted Note 3 but none seems to work.
I have seriously tried at least 7 different backup/restore apps (haven't tried TB as it just comes off as too much for my taste; haven't even downloaded it) and each of them have had their own issues. In the end I could never get my apps backed up to begin with, much less to attempt a restore.
Last one tried was Helium; I go through the backup process and I have no idea if the backup jobs were done. I see a black screen which eventually disappears and that's it. (this is basically the case for all the apps I've tried to run) Nonetheless I went to try and restore from Google Drive which I connected the Helium app to and I get the error "an error occurred while retrieving your app list". No backed up apps are displayed...
Is it something I am missing? Can anyone suggest a backup app besides TB that actually works, please. All I need is the Apps + AppData backed up to either Google Drive or Dropbox.
Much thanks to anyone who can help.
I use Helium and it seems to work ok but a LOT of people seem to have issues with it.
G-Cloud also works well and it saved me a lot of work when I had to do a factory reset when trying to fix the corrupted EFS partition.
Backing up the EFS seems to be less important on the Note3, once it's reformatted using the fix here it seems to sort itself out afterwards by rebuilding the info from the underlying hardware. Restoring the EFS when it breaks won't fix the problem as it's the partition itself that's damaged, not the EFS data within it.
And of course, Titanium Backup is still the king IMO.
Hello there!
I rooted my Nexus 6P, as I've done with every Android I've owned since my Nexus One, as soon as it arrived.
However, I really like NFC payments (we don't have Google Pay in Spain, but there are several banks that offer that option) and when the January security update came out, I un-rooted flashing everything.
After that, two of the bank apps worked, but one of them still refuses to do so.
In addition, I've been suffering from very, very, disappointing battery life: no more than 2 hours SOT and having to recharge twice a day.
So, I've decided to start from scratch, using the latest image that came out today.
But I have several questions and I'd be very grateful if somebody could answer them:
- First, and most important. I've been using Titanium Backup since the dawn of times in order to preserve my settings. I've a couple hundreds apps installed and making each of them behave as I like is a nightmare. Is there any rootless backup solution? I know Google backs up everything, but I don't know if every setting will be restored as I want.
- Second... actually there are no more questions, I can look for how-tos on how to flash the image, go back to default recovery...
Thanks in advance.
reycat said:
Hello there!
I rooted my Nexus 6P, as I've done with every Android I've owned since my Nexus One, as soon as it arrived.
However, I really like NFC payments (we don't have Google Pay in Spain, but there are several banks that offer that option) and when the January security update came out, I un-rooted flashing everything.
After that, two of the bank apps worked, but one of them still refuses to do so.
In addition, I've been suffering from very, very, disappointing battery life: no more than 2 hours SOT and having to recharge twice a day.
So, I've decided to start from scratch, using the latest image that came out today.
But I have several questions and I'd be very grateful if somebody could answer them:
- First, and most important. I've been using Titanium Backup since the dawn of times in order to preserve my settings. I've a couple hundreds apps installed and making each of them behave as I like is a nightmare. Is there any rootless backup solution? I know Google backs up everything, but I don't know if every setting will be restored as I want.
- Second... actually there are no more questions, I can look for how-tos on how to flash the image, go back to default recovery...
Thanks in advance.
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In titanium backup you can have it export your backup to an update.zip that you can install via twrp. Having twrp as your recovery does not break Android Pay, as does root, xposed, etc..
edit: yes this applies to now, after google made changes to the server side that broke the root work-around
reycat said:
- First, and most important. I've been using Titanium Backup since the dawn of times in order to preserve my settings. I've a couple hundreds apps installed and making each of them behave as I like is a nightmare. Is there any rootless backup solution? I know Google backs up everything, but I don't know if every setting will be restored as I want.
- Second... actually there are no more questions, I can look for how-tos on how to flash the image, go back to default recovery...
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I've been restoring what I can from my Google account for three phones now and, while it's best it's been on a Nexus, you still won't get app settings and full data restored, so Titanium is needed for that. I've never tested the zip export the first reply suggested, but that's an interesting idea. As for getting back to a stock install, there's a very handy guide at http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/guides-how-to-guides-beginners-t3206928 and it covers all scenarios thoroughly. The command line is really the fastest and easiest, as the guide includes code you can just copy and paste. I don't think it's been updated regarding root, because systemless as a way to preserve AP was just stopped by Google.
Barsky said:
In titanium backup you can have it export your backup to an update.zip that you can install via twrp. Having twrp as your recovery does not break Android Pay, as does root, xposed, etc..
edit: yes this applies to now, after google made changes to the server side that broke the root work-around
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I have once tested the update option but what I got is only apps and not data. I'm pretty sure I chose app+data while doing the update zip.. Beware of such things happening.
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Thanks a lot for your answers.
I've been reading and it seems that, without root, TiBa's update.zip file won't restore app data.
There seems to be another app, Helium, that does a neat trick. You have to connect your phone to your PC, and Helium talks to the PC so that it uses adb to create or restore the backup. No root needed. I think I'm going to take my chances with that.
ultyrunner, that's the guide I was planning on using in order to go back to stock... thanks again, you saved me the search
OK so i forgot my password and my phone auto factory reset . Now I need help figuring out if i can even have the slightest chance of recovering my data. One problem im facing is the fact that the SM-900V needs to be rooted and the only way that i can find is by flashing the original rom and from there root to try to recover at least something.
Now I have some questions...
Anyone gone through this and tried doing what im want to try to do to recover data?
If i were to flash the original rom, would the data still possibly be there or does the flash completely destroy the data?
Can someone please HELP ME!
Well i'll post if i make any progress under here...
-tried kingo root, unfortunately it didn't work
THANK YOU!
Raygunist said:
OK so i forgot my password and my phone auto factory reset . Now I need help figuring out if i can even have the slightest chance of recovering my data. One problem im facing is the fact that the SM-900V needs to be rooted and the only way that i can find is by flashing the original rom and from there root to try to recover at least something.
Now I have some questions...
Anyone gone through this and tried doing what im want to try to do to recover data?
If i were to flash the original rom, would the data still possibly be there or does the flash completely destroy the data?
Can someone please HELP ME!
Well i'll post if i make any progress...
THANK YOU!
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Some off the pictures and phone contacts may be save in your google account or google drives . For messages use Verizon message + , it will restore the last 90 days messages .
alin919 said:
Some off the pictures and phone contacts may be save in your google account or google drives . For messages use Verizon message + , it will restore the last 90 days messages .
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Thanks i got some of my contacts back but non of my pictures... so im still trying
Raygunist said:
Thanks i got some of my contacts back but non of my pictures... so im still trying
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Did you ever done a safestrap or titanium backup ?
You can try DiskDigger or another app similar. I lost pictures that i forgot to back up when i had flashed a new ROM and it retrieved them.