So during a vacation trip my old phone (the one in question) somehow became soft bricked and began doing bootloops. I did not root this phone and I can only guess that it was trying to do a firmware update and something went awry as I did nothing else with this phone except take pictures. Anyways I would like to get those pictures out of the internal memory and factory reset this phone. I do not have access to a windows machine at the time and I am a little over my head with how to go about all this as what I've been trying hasn't worked.
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Hello,
I recently tried to root my AT&T Galaxy S4 and install cyanogean mod on it. I screwed something up along the way but I'm not sure what. I tried rooting my phone with Kingo Root Tool, which it said I was successfully rooted. I made the mistake of then accepting an OTA, and of course that soft bricked my phone. I am able to get the phone out of soft brick mode by taking the battery out and putting back in, then entering download mode, and cancelling out. That fixes it every time. As I'm on android 4.2.2, and I understand that I need 4.4.2 for CM11, I thought that I would un-root using the tool, and then try the update again. I un-rooted, it said that it was successful at this. I then tried to install the OTA again, unfortunately it softbricked my phone again. I reset it back to normal, then I figured my best option would be to try and do a factory reset. When I tried the reset, it once again soft bricked my phone. I've reset it back to normal, and everything is working fine, however I'm a little confused as to what's going on. My amateur assumption is that by rooting, it tripped some file rooted deep inside the phone, and now it knows that I tried rooting, therefore it'll block me from updates. If someone could help me this, and possibly help me try and fix it I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
I have tried everything I can possibly think of in a short period of time, and need an answer in a hurry. The phone (Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N-900V) was rooted back when kitkat was the main OS using geohot's towelroot (or possibly kingo root I can't remember which i used after I got the phone and upgraded from ICS). I have 2 of these exact same phones, used the exact same rooting method, and unrooted by uninstalling the superuser app, rebooted, and installed the OTA update to lolipop. My phone works fine, (the one I'm typing from) however, my other phone decided to take a dump. It's a software bug between the samsung firmware and the new lolipop OS. It was working for several months, then all the sudden it wouldn't recognize/register the APN. Now it doesn't see anything just about with the phone. Not even the IMEI from the phones serial number. The sim card has been replaced twice and has worked for a matter of a few hours, however, upon restarting the phone, it goes back to no service, and nothing is registered or recognized. I reflashed the phone with the stock 5.0 Lolipop using Odin several times to no avail. My phone (one I'm using now) once did this months ago, and I was able to access the service menu and reregister the SIM card and phone has worked fine since. With this other phone, I can't get into the service menu at all because nothing is registering. So, after reflashing 4 or 5 times, factory reseting from both the OS and from recovery booting, it still has the same issue. Here is my question. It used to be when I reflashed, the custom padlock would disappear. I'm getting a new phone tomorrow, and I need to get rid of the custom padlock before I return the old phone. I can use Odin, or whatever but it has to be something, I can do while it stays stock. The knox counter has not been tripped, and the flash counter is not tripped nor showing anything on the download mode. Everything lools, and feels stock, except that custom padlock. Is there a way to get rid of that custom padlock unrooted, by reflashing? I even used a pit file to repartition, but that didn't work either. Need help A.S.A.P.!
I would just hard brick the phone just before returning it...they will just throw it out at that point and your secret will be safe.
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xxperrin said:
I would just hard brick the phone just before returning it...they will just throw it out at that point and your secret will be safe.
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You thinking maybe a NAND erase?
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I've thought about flashing the wrong rom too but dunno if that will work 100%. I either need to fix it, or make it 100% unrecoverable. Any advice?
Hi guys,
This previous night, my s7 edge went into a factory reset from itself! I saw the first screen with the country to choose..
I've lost all my pictures, videos and message or contact saved in the phone.
Maybe i had 700Mo free storage on the 32Go, but is that a reason for the phone to make a factory reset without autorization?
Could someone help me to recover my datas without putting my phone into a rooted way, don't wanna loose my warranty on it.
Thanks in advance
Zefashion
him?
i meant itself the phone
Maybe someone did a remote wipe from the Google account of the previous owner ?
you really think that? how can i prove it or see it?
I really need to recover my datas... anybody to help me please?
Try an application such as "Wondershare Phone Recovery" or "Android Data Recovery tool". Useless to say, the chances to recover all of your files is slim, but it's worth trying in my opinion.
As for how/why it happened it's hard to say but if you bought the phone from someone else, it's possible they remotely erased everything. If the phone was rooted, they could even have stolen the files from you.
if you bought the phone brand new, then it could be a software issue. If I were you, I would try to recover the files with the tools mentioned above and before reinstalling anything I would hard reset it at least once more and I would also delete cache from the Recovery mode.
Updated with AU March update and reinstated TWRP and root - all good. Did a backup of this - all good.
Then restored Havoc OS3.12 and ended up hard bricked - unable to enter recovery or bootloader and a new error screen.
Anyone seen this and recovered from it?
O.K, gave the phone 24hrs sitting in the corner to think about things and gave it another go. Managed to fluke getting into bootloader and reload stock O.S. Re-establish TWRP and quickly install ProjectSakura to get away from the Samsung tricks and traps. Seems to be getting harder and harder to avoid falling down the rabbit hole with every Samsung update Thankfully this phone isn't elevated to primary phone status and never will because it is crap.
Thanks for sharing.
Do you still have issues and need some help?
Hello everyone,
My old S10+ suddenly shut down and entered a bootloop. The last things I did were the following:
copied some data from my old to my new phone
Switched my SIM-card to my new phone
watched some Youtube in my browser (since stock had some issues)
Then, out of nowhere, my android system turned off. Since then it is stuck in a bootloop.
I can still access Android Recovery and download mode. I tried re-flashing stock firmware, but I get the error that the Android firmware seems to be corrupt.
My question is: How can I get my phone to work again without losing my data?
There is still some important data left on my old phone. My 2FA app for instance. So I would rather go to a repair shop and pay instead of losing said data.
But before I do that I wanted to get some advice what else I may be able to do. I haven't tried sideloading an OTA since I don't quiet understand it and want to be on the safe side. persist.safemode.sys does not seem to exist. And I read about perhaps backing up my "emmc" with TWRP but, again, I don't quiet grasp the concept yet.
I have some experience with adb, ROMs and flashing. The latest recovery-logs are attached, if they are of any help
Well, repair shop went and formatted everything
Even though I asked them not to
Let this be a lesson for everyone: If you care about your data, back it up AND don't bring it to a repair shop
DasMalzbier said:
Well, repair shop went and formatted everything
Even though I asked them not to
Let this be a lesson for everyone: If you care about your data, back it up AND don't bring it to a repair shop
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In the future use a SD card* as a data drive. All critical data goes there. Do Not encrypt it.
Had you done that you probably be ok. Always backup redundantly and regularly to at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC.
*A V30 rated Sandisk Extreme is a good choice