dr.fone backup and restore - Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have a GS5 that I dropped and broke the screen. The phone is fully functional except for the screen not displaying or the digitizer working. The phone is rooted on Lollipop and WiFi and USB debug mode are turned on. Bluetooth is turned off. Titanium backup is installed but for some reason wasn't running scheduled backups for some reason.
I have recovered contacts, photos, etc. I have not found a way to recover application data yet.
Based on what I have found, the only options to recover the app data seems to be either dr.fone or replacing the screen at least temporarily. I have a quote from a local shop who said they would recover the data by temporarily installing a screen for $80. I could buy a new screen for less than that, but I don't want to use the phone as there's some damage to the case etc and it's old anyway. I have a new GS5 (a donated one) that I've already got up and running. All I need is the app data. As for dr.fone, it says it can recover the data, but it needs root...which I have.
Does anyone have any idea on how to get dr.fone to work? Or, is there another option I'm not thinking of?

The other thing I've read is that I could simply plug the phone into a HDMI TV and it will automatically display. If so, I would simply need to get a hub compatible with the phone so I could also have my wireless keyboard/mouse installed. Is that a viable option? If so, I could run titanium backup normally and then just copy the data to the new phone.

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Auto-Reboot app/program avilable anywhere?

Hey all,
Am trying to look for an app for my HTC HD2 that you can configure, to get my handset to reboot automatically, for example at early hours in the morning.
As I have woken up once this week, and my HTC HD2 was frozen, so the alarm didn't actually go off!
Been having a little browse on here, and Google, but ain't come across nothing yet.
Any suggestions?
I don't know if you back up your HD2, but I do with my Touch Pro 2.
I use SPB Backup (not free, but well worth the small cost), and it's set up so that at midnight, my phone will wake up, backup the main memory contents to the storage card, and then soft-reset.
So that would do what you want, with the added security of regular backups!
With the backups, you can then restore your phone without needing to connect it to a PC, as the backup files are on the storage card, along with an exe file for restoring the data.
Incidentally, if the phone does hang nothing will run anyway, including any software that would reset it.
Just thought it was worth mentioning

[Q] Touchscreen broken - no root or anything else helpful

Hi,
my touchscreen is broken and I want to save some of my data. Specially the whatsapp chats.
I tried quite a few things, but nothing works.
I have USB-debugging activated, now I installed adb-driver, but it needs to be authorized by clicking on the phone and that doesnt work.
I dont have root.
Is there any way of getting my data back?

Phone automatically installing unwanted apps!

I just traded my sprint lg v20 for this verizon lg g6 vs988 yesterday because I needed a gsm unlocked phone. Now I finally got a phone my son card works in but I've been up all night trying to fix this issue.
Seemingly at random the phone just starts installing "random" apps that I've never used before. Some of them include
Go90
Wish
Yelp
Yahoo mail
And several others I can't remember at the moment but I'm sure ill be reminded soon. I keep uninstalling them and they keep coming back. By the manner which they are installed on sure they are not normal bloatware. They download silently in the background even while I have an active foreground download going.
I've googled the issue and found no resolution. I also noticed the phone charges ridiculously slowly. The phone was also on an outdated firmware with a security patch from 2017. The built in system update would not detect any update for the phone. I had manually download and install the latest update on the computer last night.
After doing this with a completely fresh factory reset these apps were still installing themselves. I then used verizons pc upgrade assistant again and did a firmware repair but skipped the phone backup step so I again would be starting fresh. Again these app's keep installing themselves.
It seems to be on some kind of interval. After so much time that the phone is running it suddenly install another random app or apps I've never heard of before, then after so long all of a sudden some more different apps suddenly appear.
I also tried malwarebytes and of course it says nothing is wrong. Can someone please help me get this sorted?
Which firmware you have?, maybe it would be the best to flash clean stock firmware with LG UP.
You can find latest kdz here..
https://lg-firmwares.com/lg-vs988-firmwares/
16a download via verizon upgrade assistant. Would reflashing the kdz via lg up do anything different than verizon upgrade assistant?
Ps I had to retype this message 3 times because half way through typing chrome just shut down for no apparent reason.
Finance
Groupon
EBay
Were can I download latest version of lg up. I only found one old for g4 and one that said 1.8.8.0 but wanted me to login.
Suspicious. What I do to prevent problems like this is to disable all apps possible, including googles apps and the Play store crap. Then go in to each app within settings and deny data access to them, clear the data and deny all hardware access that makes sense. For example, Groupon would not need microphone access so that access is removed. I think only the Contacts app has the phone permissions. It takes some time, but worth it. Reboot after you are done and re-check because sometimes the settings don't seem to stick. Maps will still work without Google Services. Using Android_x86 in a VM, trusted apps are downloaded in a virtual machine and then put on the sd card and then installed on the phone. I'm not a very trusting person Its suspect that the "Emergency Alert" app has access to everything and I can't deny microphone or any other access for it.
I think it may have been the app named "app flash" that was doing it. Its apparently the app verizon added that by default sits on the left side of the home screen. I disabled it from my home screen first while setting up my phone after reset but left app flash active. Its supposed to be some kind of assistant app that recommends apps to install and acts as a hub for all your other apps.
So far I haven't had anything else auto install(nothing visible anyways). After uninstalling all the 10 or so apps that were installed they haven't come back yet. Hopefully it stays that way and nothing malicious going on in the background.
Anyone please link me latest lg up? Still like to a complete fresh firmware install just to be safe. One that will completely wipe everything and install the os fresh.
I think it may have been the app named "app flash" that was doing it. Its apparently the app verizon added that by default sits on the left side of the home screen. I disabled it from my home screen first while setting up my phone after reset but left app flash active. Its supposed to be some kind of assistant app that recommends apps to install and acts as a hub for all your other apps.
So far I haven't had anything else auto install(nothing visible anyways). After uninstalling all the 10 or so apps that were installed they haven't come back yet. Hopefully it stays that way and nothing malicious going on in the background.
Anyone please link me latest lg up? Still like to a complete fresh firmware install just to be safe. One that will completely wipe everything and install the os fresh.
Both my wife and I have had that happen. The apps we got were Big Farm, TMZ, and some other crappy game.
Our phones are unlocked and rooted, so I immediately did a bare-metal refresh - wiped everything including system and internal storage, and did a complete stock flash from recovery. Since then we have kept "Install from unknown sources" and "Auto-update" both set OFF, and have had no further issue.

Any way to extract data from phone that won't turn on?

I dropped my Axon 7, which was already on its last legs, and now it won't turn on. Dim red LED and vibration every 20 or 30 seconds. I opened it up and checked all the cables, etc., and I don't think it's just a loose cable. The screen is definitely damaged--it had a faint green spot when I first picked up up, and now it has nothing going on at all.
My photos and files are backed up, but my SMS/MMS backups apparently weren't as automatic as I thought, and I've lost about a year and a half worth of them.
Is there anything I can do to get them off? Are there some digital forensics tools that might work? (I assume, if I was an ax murderer, the police wouldn't be stymied by a four foot drop onto a tile floor. There must be some way to access the data, right?)
The device is stock, and encrypted with the built in FDE.
I reckon as far as that kind of data with no access to it running and encryption enabled, you're out of luck.
No help to you now, but I like to manually backup my logs and messages with SMS backup and restore now and then. That way you can transfer them to any Android, not just the brand of what you're using. I upload to my Google drive so it can can be downloaded to a phone with only internal storage.
RobboW said:
I reckon as far as that kind of data with no access to it running and encryption enabled, you're out of luck.
No help to you now, but I like to manually backup my logs and messages with SMS backup and restore now and then. That way you can transfer them to any Android, not just the brand of what you're using. I upload to my Google drive so it can can be downloaded to a phone with only internal storage.
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Yeah, that was more or less what I was doing too. I thought I had Handcent Next SMS set up to automatically back up everything, but it doesn't seem to have saved anything since August of 2018.
Is there anything else i can do to get the phone running again?

Best way to recover data with a (black screen but responsive) display?

Hi!
I've been using my Note 4 since shortly after launch, and it's managed to stay afloat for the time being. Unfortunately, the display (I'm assuming backlight LED) crapped out save for a few temporary parts of the screen that work for a few seconds at a time.
The postive side is that I unlocked the bootloader and installed JasmineROM a few months ago, but I don't remember whether or not USB debugging was re-enabled. In addition, the last backup is only 2 months old, which is nice.
So far I've tried multiple methods: ADB to try and use ADB shell to enable usb debugging, but my phone always seems to go offline after a few seconds in recovery. By trial and error, I concluded that the touch aspect of the screen is fine after taking a call successfully, so it's only the display backlight that's broken. I'm wondering if it's feasible to try and memorize the location of the backup password (to log in from a restart) and somehow enable MTP, if anyone has successfully done this before?
Also, does anyone have any suggestions for other ways to go about recovering internal storage data?
Thanks for the help!
Edit: I figured it out! Just happened to have installed a remote control app a while ago that was functional without logging in.

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