Someone I work with has the s5 active model g870a that has received the marshmallow 6.0.1 update. Something has happened that for some reason has wiped all of the pictures from her phone. I was going to see if I can recover anything from the phone, however I will need root access if I am going to examine the empty parts of the drive to see if I can recover anything. Does/can anyone tell me an effective rooting method for this phone? Does anyone have any idea how I can attempt a recovery of the photos without root?
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I see there is a cf autoroot for SM-G870W. I feel like if I try this method I'm going to be looking at a bricked phone.
It can not be rooted, live and learn.... bu next time...
Has anyone who was not on the Nougat Beta been able to get adoptable storage to work on Nougat?
A little back story: I was on the beta and the other night I got the small update to go to Nougat. Unfortunately something went bad and my phone was stuck on the white Sprint screen. I took it to a Sprint corporate store and they flashed Marshmallow back on it. I got home and the phone immediately updated to the full 1.4gb Nougat. I've tried the adb commands that used to work and it no longer works. My SD card only shows half of what it is, so the old adoptable storage is still there, but not recognized. I know I can use disk management in Windows to delete that partition, but thought I'd start a thread on it if/when someone figures out how to do it on Nougat.
After Unrooting my s8 a huge part of my storage is filled with things I cant access. Any way to fix this storage issue?
After Unrooting my s8 a huge part of my storage is filled with things I cant access. Any way to fix this storage issue?
Solved the problem by repatching the firmware.
Can anyone give me a little guidance:
UK Vodafone supplied S7 Edge, not rooted. Received Oreo update this morning, phone is now stuck in a bootloop - it will get as far as the "Android is starting... optimising applications", that goes away and then it just reboots.
I've been in to the recovery menu and tried wiping the cache partition - to which it reports "could not find /misc partition". Attempting to mount system partition reports the same thing.
Do I have any chance of resurrecting this? the firmware isn't yet on sammobile but I was wondering if updating via ADB or sdcard would help.
Grateful for any help!
install again via odin or directly on the Samsung page. with me it works super well
Can't get the ROM for Oreo as yet. Downloading 7.0 from sammobile and will try flashing that via adb and see if I can resurrect it. Anyone want to guess the chances of this working ?
Crafty77 said:
Can't get the ROM for Oreo as yet. Downloading 7.0 from sammobile and will try flashing that via adb and see if I can resurrect it. Anyone want to guess the chances of this working ?
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That should work... download de 7.0 and install via Odin with mobile in download mode.
I always wake up my brick mobiles like this.
Have 'updated' my Ş7 with Oreo and now stuck with the boot logo.
Will they f***ing idiots from Samsung ever make a normal software without causing troubles?
My UK Vodafone supplied S7 also is stuck in a bootloop after the Oreo update.
My phone s7 is stuck in bootloop too. Don't know what to do. Nearest Samsung support is 36 miles away.
Its so hot to touch. Pressed all buttons to reset as advised but no luck.
wipe all in recovery or flash firmware through odin ,,
hope this helps.
here is the Oreo factory image for Vodafone https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=890278863836283079
only works with the latest Odin https://odindownloader.com/wp-content/uploads/Odin3_v3.13.1.zip
Galaxy S7 Vodafone here. Bootloop as well...
This update needs to be pulled. There will be thousands of people with the S7 on Vodafone most of whom won't be interested in using Odin to fix a problem caused by Samsung/Vodafone.
Just updated mine and wished I hadn't S7 edge, UK, Vodafone. Won;t leave the bootloop and cant get it to wipe cache or data. Can get it into download mode and shall be trying to reinstall
Updated my S7 Edge Vodafone - bootloop. Tried reinstalling with Odin and same result - still bootloop. This is unbelievable. Is this vodafone forcing this update or Samsung?
Any other ideas as I really don't want to wipe my phone completely? Have tried Odin reinstall twice just in case.
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Updated my S7 Edge Vodafone - bootloop. Tried reinstalling with Odin and same result - still bootloop. This is unbelievable. Is this vodafone forcing this update or Samsung?
Any other ideas as I really don't want to wipe my phone completely? Have tried Odin reinstall twice just in case.
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I had to wipe my phone.
Is this the only fix so far? Really don't want to do that if I don't have to as my SD encryption key is stored on the phone and I didn't decrypt it before updating...
Lammy696 said:
Is this the only fix so far? Really don't want to do that if I don't have to as my SD encryption key is stored on the phone and I didn't decrypt it before updating...
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Hey Lammy696,
My mother is on Vodafone UK with the S7 Edge and is experiencing the bootloop. I would advise not to update for the time being.
I would strongly advise decrypting your SD card prior to updating.
I have tried wiping cache etc as per normal update process but that failed. Only options I have is to flash a custom recovery, mount the storage and backup (if I can do this) or to wipe it completely.
If you want to keep your warranty and support, do not use the custom recovery option.
Good luck.
Unfortunately I've already updated and have probably lost all that data now
Is it safe to update now?
Hello XDA community,
Im a noobie when it comes to rooting, thats why i need help...
I deleted some files that i want to recover on my Samsung S7 Edge 2-3 years ago, this device has Android 7.0. (Never updated)
There is a lot of apps such as Disk Digger that offer you to recover every single file but the device must be rooted to access 100% on the internal memory.
Right now my Samsung S7 Edge is not rooted but i need to root to recover this files, so my question is, there is anyway of rooting without factory reset, or there is anyway of doing a fully backup of the internal memory of my device without touching the partitions so then i can try recovering my files later with this apps?
I hope someone can help me...
Regards