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Just wondering if anyone who's flashing and rooting could please do a backup and upload it somewhere. Myself and a couple others have accidentally partitioned our internal SD incorrectly causing a catastrophic touch screen issue.
I'm hoping it'll have the properly partitioned SD storage because I'm having difficulty doing it manually. If someone could upload this it'd be hugely appreciated!!!
BUMP!!!
Can anyone please provide me with a Nandroid backup using Tenfar's recovery??? I can throw some money once I get my Paypal sorted out. I'm desperate, fellas!
Can someone please help? I'd like to try anything I can to get my phone working this weekend. It's been an entire week without my Atrix.
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Can someone please help? I'd like to try anything I can to get my phone working this weekend. It's been an entire week without my Atrix.
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Im relatively new to android...is this backup you are speaking about a TB backup. Or what method of backup are you looking for?
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You actually need to be rooted and have Tenfar's custom Recovery menu. In there it has an option to do a Backup.
If you're new it may be too engaging but I appreciate the offer nonetheless. If you could help, it'd be great. If it's too much trouble, I thank you anyway!
yeah what does the nandroid backup...back.. up? the apps?
What I'm HOPING and PRAYING for is that it'll also copy something in the internal SD which was partitioned due to my stupidity. dev/block/mmcblk0p18 is what that is in particular.
I tried manually formatting and partitioning it but I'm unable to do so. Fastboot freezes and Early USB Enumeration goes by so quickly I can't run the commands that I need through ADB. And I don't even know if that'll work because I made a script that executes the commands and I get weird errors. I'm far from an expert and monkeyed around too deeply where I shouldn't have.
About 4-5 others are reporting the same problem. The ****ty thing is that I'm in Canada and it'd be a huge pain to send it to Motorola. They're giving me a lot of grief and I've had to put up a big fight. Waiting to see if they'll send an RMA because I may need to send it in. When I get it back I might sell it and buy a Bell Atrix because I live in Canada and if something bad happens, it'll be easier to send to Bell or Motorola Canada.
from what i understand you have to have an unlocked bootloader to backup or restore using a nandroid backub
Maybe I'm using the wrong terminology then.. just need a backup from Tenfar's customer Recovery. I don't even know if it'll work but I'm out of ideas.
I'm at least thankful that the Xperia X10's bootloader was cracked. I forgot to send a replacement back to Rogers and I phoned them asking if I could use it for now. They thankfully said yes because they forgot to charge me for it lol... it's got some really great ROMs, but looking at this beautiful, mangled Atrix makes baby Jesus cry!
i can do that but im wondering why you dont try SBF file?? should work better than Backup
zen kun said:
i can do that but im wondering why you dont try SBF file?? should work better than Backup
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i was just wondering the same thing... it also be more stable as nandroid restore are not so good on some phones and im guessing especially on a locked bootloader one.
also a nandroid backup would also restore some else's settings and information on your device....
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i was just wondering the same thing... it also be more stable as nandroid restore are not so good on some phones and im guessing especially on a locked bootloader one.
also a nandroid backup would also restore some else's settings and information on your device....
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I've already tried the SBF files but it doesn't do anything to the internal SD. I need an actual backup because the user settings are exactly what I'm looking for. Normally you'd want a fresh flash from stock but I hope you now understand why I'm asking this constantly.
Flashing to stock was naturally my first step. Unfortunately it had failed. About 5 others reporting the same problem.
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I've already tried the SBF files but it doesn't do anything to the internal SD. I need an actual backup because the user settings are exactly what I'm looking for. Normally you'd want a fresh flash from stock but I hope you now understand why I'm asking this constantly.
Flashing to stock was naturally my first step. Unfortunately it had failed. About 5 others reporting the same problem.
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What maybe you could do is? go into tenfars cwm recovery go to mounts and storage and format the internal sdcard and system and boot and data. This is safe as far as I know and me and tenfar have both done this.I literally formatted every single thing in the option menu. just to see if I could do it. Which was stupid but I was curious and used to do that before I installed new roms on my old backflip all the time! Also might wanna do a factory reset through cwm and clear dalvik cahe as well for good measure. Now after you format all that. reboot system which will send you in a boot loop/wont boot past first screen. Pull the battery and unplug usb cable from charger. Then reboot and enter rsdlite mode by holding volume up and the power button. Now just flash your 4.1.26 sbf file through rsdlite 5.0
As long as you flash back to retail 4.1.26 afterwords using rsdlite 5.0 that should put everything right! As I have done this and my phone is working normal.
I better put one of them warnings here though anyway lol
Disclaimer: You are doing this at your own risk! I am not responsible for any damage you do to your phone.
(^Yeah I think that covers it)
Gutterball said:
What maybe you could do is? go into tenfars cwm recovery go to mounts and storage and format the internal sdcard and system and boot and data. This is safe as far as I know and me and tenfar have both done this.I literally formatted every single thing in the option menu. just to see if I could do it. Which was stupid but I was curious and used to do that before I installed new roms on my old backflip all the time! Also might wanna do a factory reset through cwm and clear dalvik cahe as well for good measure. Now after you format all that. reboot system which will send you in a boot loop/wont boot past first screen. Pull the battery and unplug usb cable from charger. Then reboot and enter rsdlite mode by holding volume up and the power button. Now just flash your 4.1.26 sbf file through rsdlite 5.0
As long as you flash back to retail 4.1.26 afterwords using rsdlite 5.0 that should put everything right! As I have done this and my phone is working normal.
I better put one of them warnings here though anyway lol
Disclaimer: You are doing this at your own risk! I am not responsible for any damage you do to your phone.
(^Yeah I think that covers it)
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JUST got your PM as I was clicking this thread. Thanks, broski.
I've got nothing to lose. It's easy enough to recover from soft-brick. I'll give it a shot right now. Wish me luck!
*** UPDATE ***
Still no dice. Bummer.
bongd said:
JUST got your PM as I was clicking this thread. Thanks, broski.
I've got nothing to lose. It's easy enough to recover from soft-brick. I'll give it a shot right now. Wish me luck!
*** UPDATE ***
Still no dice. Bummer.
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mmm weird..
IMO if sbf dont help i really doubt a recovery will....
perhaps i highly recommend if someone do this, create a new account of gmail and flash a sbf file since the OP will have all sensitive data as email,contacts and so on as previous post say
zen kun said:
mmm weird..
IMO if sbf dont help i really doubt a recovery will....
perhaps i highly recommend if someone do this, create a new account of gmail and flash a sbf file since the OP will have all sensitive data as email,contacts and so on as previous post say
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That won't work either. I have reasons for wanting a backup versus a new SBF flash as stated multiple times.
I have a nand if you still need one
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sgtmedeiros said:
I have a nand if you still need one
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Your motoblur account information is stored in plaintext and your google contact information is also in a nandroid backup. Be weary.
knigitz said:
Your motoblur account information is stored in plaintext and your google contact information is also in a nandroid backup. Be weary.
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I was not aware of this and was so focused on correcting the challenge that this was a complete oversight. On second thought, I don't want to compromise anyone's security.
I had in mind a fresh backup, preferably for AT&T's 1.2.6 SBF but it's a bit of trouble and a lot of space. I retract my request due to the amount of work involved and that I don't want to compromise anyone's security in case they don't clear their user details, etc.
Thanks for pointing that out, knigitz. I think ADB access in the Recovery is our best bet. Crossing my fingers.
bongd said:
You actually need to be rooted and have Tenfar's custom Recovery menu. In there it has an option to do a Backup.
If you're new it may be too engaging but I appreciate the offer nonetheless. If you could help, it'd be great. If it's too much trouble, I thank you anyway!
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Ill help you with your backup if you can help me root and flash the gladix rom on mine.
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Hey guys , so last night i've messed up my phone and the only solution was to fix it by kdz and after i had to do a factory reset to make the phone boot
So i knew that after that factory reset all my datas will be lost , so i've been looking for fews software to recover all my datas but i can't find none to work out....
does any of u have any suggestions ? or if u used a software to restore ur data from the internal sd ?
Thanks and hope i'll get ll my data back :finger-crossed:
Christian Nothing said:
Hey guys , so last night i've messed up my phone and the only solution was to fix it by kdz and after i had to do a factory reset to make the phone boot
So i knew that after that factory reset all my datas will be lost , so i've been looking for fews software to recover all my datas but i can't find none to work out....
does any of u have any suggestions ? or if u used a software to restore ur data from the internal sd ?
Thanks and hope i'll get ll my data back :finger-crossed:
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Hello, I used LG Backup to to restore my data, but I'm afraid that since you did a factory reset on your device, you have no data of to restore, UNLESS you backed up some data on your computer and unless your Google account backed up some of your data, but other than that, you have lost all your data.
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TechGirl90 said:
Hello, I used LG Backup to to restore my data, but I'm afraid that since you did a factory reset on your device, you have no data of to restore, UNLESS you backed up some data on your computer and unless your Google account backed up some of your data, but other than that, you have lost all your data.
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yeah i had few lg backups made but unfortunately they were on my internal sd ofc
what i want to recover is my internal sd , i dont care about the apps or those , i always take recovery backups on my otg stick .
thx for reply btw :good:
Christian Nothing said:
yeah i had few lg backups made but unfortunately they were on my internal sd ofc
what i want to recover is my internal sd , i dont care about the apps or those , i always take recovery backups on my otg stick .
thx for reply btw :good:
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If all your backups were on the internal storage and you completed a factory reset, I'm afraid you've lost it all.
Christian Nothing said:
yeah i had few lg backups made but unfortunately they were on my internal sd ofc
what i want to recover is my internal sd , i dont care about the apps or those , i always take recovery backups on my otg stick .
thx for reply btw :good:
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Sorry, but unfortunately, the Internal Storage on your phone has been rewritten during the factory reset, it can't be recovered, I'm sorry[emoji20]
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prowsterz said:
If all your backups were on the internal storage and you completed a factory reset, I'm afraid you've lost it all.
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i dont need backups or so ...
all i need is my music and photos and etc... whatever i had in my intsd
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Sorry, but unfortunately, the Internal Storage on your phone has been rewritten during the factory reset, it can't be recovered, I'm sorry[emoji20]
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oh bummer
maybe one of those apps to recover files will work ?
but since our phones cant make an usb mass storage connection , only mtp or lg software , the ussual apps i use to recover my deleted files doesn't see my phone
Christian Nothing said:
i dont need backups or so ...
all i need is my music and photos and etc... whatever i had in my intsd
oh bummer
maybe one of those apps to recover files will work ?
but since our phones cant make an usb mass storage connection , only mtp or lg software , the ussual apps i use to recover my deleted files doesn't see my phone
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Next time if anything goes wrong with your device again, backup all your music,photos,videos, etc using LG Backup app on the LG G2, and heres what I did, once LG Backup completed the backup I've made, I go to my computer and plug in my device and set the method to MTP, then I look for a folder called "LG Backup" I copy this file and paste it onto my desktop, and so that once I've factory reseted my device, I can just go to my computer again, plug in my device as MTP, copy the LG Backup file, and paste it into the LG Backup folder that's inside my device, and my personal files will be restored.[emoji4]
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Next time if anything goes wrong with your device again, backup all your music,photos,videos, etc using LG Backup app on the LG G2, and heres what I did, once LG Backup completed the backup I've made, I go to my computer and plug in my device and set the method to MTP, then I look for a folder called "LG Backup" I copy this file and paste it onto my desktop, and so that once I've factory reseted my device, I can just go to my computer again, plug in my device as MTP, copy the LG Backup file, and paste it into the LG Backup folder that's inside my device, and my personal files will be restored.[emoji4]
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i'm sorry if i may sound rude !
but how could i use lg backup if the phone partitions was corrupted and i couldn't boot the rom ?
i had accessible the internal storage via twrp recovery but as u know u cant mount a usb connection while in recovery ...
the only way i could make it boot again was to wipe all , and i thought(i will never thought this thing again) that i could use a software to recover my files but it seems any softwares doesnt sees the mtp connection
and i didnt had planned to corrupt my system partition while working on my port
and i'm sorry again if i am rude , but the exhausting and the nerves i had last few hrs kinda makes me a bad person
and thx for all the help ure trying to give me :angel:
Christian Nothing said:
i'm sorry if i may sound rude !
but how could i use lg backup if the phone partitions was corrupted and i couldn't boot the rom ?
i had accessible the internal storage via twrp recovery but as u know u cant mount a usb connection while in recovery ...
the only way i could make it boot again was to wipe all , and i thought(i will never thought this thing again) that i could use a software to recover my files but it seems any softwares doesnt sees the mtp connection
and i didnt had planned to corrupt my system partition while working on my port
and i'm sorry again if i am rude , but the exhausting and the nerves i had last few hrs kinda makes me a bad person
and thx for all the help ure trying to give me :angel:
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I'm sorry that this has happened with your device, I wish there was another way to restore your personal files, but there's not.[emoji20]
PS: you wasn't rude
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twrp has an internal file manager (under advanced menu)...
so if you didn't wipe/format sd card but only system partition you can copypaste folders/files to external usb otg stick directly from twrp
or did you wipe absolutely everything?
Christian Nothing said:
yeah i had few lg backups made but unfortunately they were on my internal sd ofc
what i want to recover is my internal sd , i dont care about the apps or those , i always take recovery backups on my otg stick .
thx for reply btw :good:
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If I read you right and you have a nandroid backup on your OTG stick restoring that will restore all your photos etc (at least those that were on your device at the moment you made the backup)
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TechGirl90 said:
I'm sorry that this has happened with your device, I wish there was another way to restore your personal files, but there's not.[emoji20]
PS: you wasn't rude
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offff bummer
thanks for understanding tho :good:
60nine said:
twrp has an internal file manager (under advanced menu)...
so if you didn't wipe/format sd card but only system partition you can copypaste folders/files to external usb otg stick directly from twrp
or did you wipe absolutely everything?
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at that moment i didn't thought that i'll have to wipe even the internal to brig the phone alive again
only after flashing the kdz firmware and ended up in a new bootloop but this time i got in the logs that the rom was booting only that the internal was detected corrupted too , and i had no other option since i had no recovery left after kdz to perform a factory reset
corrsea said:
If I read you right and you have a nandroid backup on your OTG stick restoring that will restore all your photos etc (at least those that were on your device at the moment you made the backup)
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i had a nandroid backup which i restored of my previous working rom build with all my apps and data but since that nandroid backup didn't included the internal sd files those weren't restored
well i'm sorry then
it seems we all learn the hard way...
i hope someone knows the other way to recover (or even try)...
i.e. if only phone could be recognized on PC as an usb storage device and then trying to point some recovery program to that partition (don't know if this is possible at all with our phone)
60nine said:
well i'm sorry then
it seems we all learn the hard way...
i hope someone knows the other way to recover (or even try)...
i.e. if only phone could be recognized on PC as an usb storage device and then trying to point some recovery program to that partition (don't know if this is possible at all with our phone)
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Agree.
If our phone would have a way of setting the connection to pc as mass storage i might be able to restore or recover some data , but since there isn't, all I'm just saying is "screw u lg software" ?
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@bender_007 - do you have any ideas here?
60nine said:
@bender_007 - do you have any ideas here?
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I hope ??
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I do but I'll send them via pm because posting it here breaks xda rules.
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I do but I'll send them via pm because posting it here breaks xda rules.
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Thank you mate for the help.
I'll try to do that method as soon as I'll be home from work.
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Hi guys, i've broken my Galaxy s4 lcd some day ago, and yesterday i've decided to sell it on ebay.
But now i have to wipe it. The problem is that i am running a custom Touchwiz rom and Philz touch recovery. So i don't think i can use Kies to make a factory reset.
I can use Odin to flash a stock image etc... But i don't know how to solve completely my problems.
Can someone help me? Thx
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41392134
Take help from this
"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "
DeepankarS said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41392134
Take help from this
"If someone helps, never forget to hit thanks ? "
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Thank you for the replay.
However, the Galaxy S4 doesn't have fastboot mode, but only download mode and recovery mode, so I don't know how to use the commands...
OmniSlyfer said:
Thank you for the replay.
However, the Galaxy S4 doesn't have fastboot mode, but only download mode and recovery mode, so I don't know how to use the commands...
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Odin will fix it.
Flash the stock ronin Odin. All your user data will be (sort of) removed.
A skilled user could still recover your user data' but most people won't even know its there.
You will not need the phone's screen to work at any point in the Odin process.
Skipjacks said:
Odin will fix it.
Flash the stock ronin Odin. All your user data will be (sort of) removed.
A skilled user could still recover your user data' but most people won't even know its there.
You will not need the phone's screen to work at any point in the Odin process.
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Oh ok perfect
I've just finished to flash the stock rom, I hope evrything worked fine. I'll try to install Kies3 to see if I can maybe do another wipe or something else to delete definately all my data inside (including photos etc...). Any suggestions?
OmniSlyfer said:
Oh ok perfect
I've just finished to flash the stock rom, I hope evrything worked fine. I'll try to install Kies3 to see if I can maybe do another wipe or something else to delete definately all my data inside (including photos etc...). Any suggestions?
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Odin will wipe the data as well as Kies will.
But neither really removes the data. Both just remove the directory structure which makes it easy to sort the data.
To really remove the data you need to overwrite it with new data. That is much more difficult to do without access to the screen on the phone.
You could do it in recovery with the device mounted via usb to a computer. But you generally need to select that in recovery using the touch screen.
You can also push data to the device to overwrite using adb, but its more difficult.
All in all though...unless you have evidence of your participation in a crime on the phone, don't be so worried about it. It will be okay.
Skipjacks said:
All in all though...unless you have evidence of your participation in a crime on the phone, don't be so worried about it. It will be okay.
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Hahahahahahah
Skipjacks said:
Odin will wipe the data as well as Kies will.
But neither really removes the data. Both just remove the directory structure which makes it easy to sort the data.
To really remove the data you need to overwrite it with new data. That is much more difficult to do without access to the screen on the phone.
You could do it in recovery with the device mounted via usb to a computer. But you generally need to select that in recovery using the touch screen.
You can also push data to the device to overwrite using adb, but its more difficult.
All in all though...unless you have evidence of your participation in a crime on the phone, don't be so worried about it. It will be okay.
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Ahahah. Thank you so much for the explanation
I think the buyer will find some photos of me in the phone, i hope he will not die coz of my ugly face
I think this thread can be closed.
Skipjacks said:
Odin will wipe the data as well as Kies will.
But neither really removes the data. Both just remove the directory structure which makes it easy to sort the data.
To really remove the data you need to overwrite it with new data. That is much more difficult to do without access to the screen on the phone.
You could do it in recovery with the device mounted via usb to a computer. But you generally need to select that in recovery using the touch screen.
You can also push data to the device to overwrite using adb, but its more difficult.
All in all though...unless you have evidence of your participation in a crime on the phone, don't be so worried about it. It will be okay.
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Since Google implemented Trim in Android 4.3, it's impossible (as of yet) to recover deleted data. I tried several guides here on XDA on data recovery and none of them work anymore.
See for example this article.
http://forensic.belkasoft.com/en/why-ssd-destroy-court-evidence
So basically if you delete a file or format your system, the data is really gone.
Lennyz1988 said:
Since Google implemented Trim in Android 4.3, it's impossible (as of yet) to recover deleted data. I tried several guides here on XDA on data recovery and none of them work anymore.
See for example this article.
http://forensic.belkasoft.com/en/why-ssd-destroy-court-evidence
So basically if you delete a file or format your system, the data is really gone.
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That article was one of the most awesome nerdy things I ever read. I had no idea about the garbage collectors on solid state memory.
Skipjacks said:
That article was one of the most awesome nerdy things I ever read. I had no idea about the garbage collectors on solid state memory.
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From my experience, flashing stock firmware with Kies DOES NOT wipe the user data/files from phones SD card. I have to always do factory reset from stock recovery to wipe it.
tomtro74 said:
From my experience, flashing stock firmware with Kies DOES NOT wipe the user data/files from phones SD card. I have to always do factory reset from stock recovery to wipe it.
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It wont ever wipe the external sd card
The internal sd card should depend on the tar file and if it formats that partition or not.
I never really paid attention to it myself because I have never had to flash a full stock restore on my S4 so I have no idea what the standard for S4 firmwares is.
The internal data partition though should be wiped with a full stock firmware in odin every single time.
Skipjacks said:
It wont ever wipe the external sd card
The internal sd card should depend on the tar file and if it formats that partition or not.
I never really paid attention to it myself because I have never had to flash a full stock restore on my S4 so I have no idea what the standard for S4 firmwares is.
The internal data partition though should be wiped with a full stock firmware in odin every single time.
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Well, it's not. Believe me. I used to flash stock rom on S4 number of times and I can confirm that flashing stock rom with Odin DOES NOT WIPE any user data. Your photos and other files stays intact as well as the apss ( you may loose some apps internal data ) until factory reset is performed either from stock recovery or from rom itself.
tomtro74 said:
Well, it's not. Believe me. I used to flash stock rom on S4 number of times and I can confirm that flashing stock rom with Odin DOES NOT WIPE any user data. Your photos and other files stays intact as well as the apss ( you may loose some apps internal data ) until factory reset is performed either from stock recovery or from rom itself.
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Well how about that.....you learn something new every day!
OmniSlyfer said:
Hi guys, i've broken my Galaxy s4 lcd some day ago, and yesterday i've decided to sell it on ebay.
But now i have to wipe it. The problem is that i am running a custom Touchwiz rom and Philz touch recovery. So i don't think i can use Kies to make a factory reset.
I can use Odin to flash a stock image etc... But i don't know how to solve completely my problems.
Can someone help me? Thx
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if your S4 opens, just connect it to the PC and then the internal memory will appear
delete whatever you wants
Hello everyone!
This evening I decided to try out cm13, since I really liked their predecessors. I backed up my phone with twrp, did a factory reset and installed cm13. I then rebooted my phone but received the message that there is a problem with my internal storage. I rebooted again and received the same message but was able to setup cm13, only to find out everything is deleted. Photos, contacts, other media and worst of all, my twrp backups. I would really, really appreciate help since I would be loosing photos of my last 7 months of travelling around Australia and Asia. Thanks so much in advance !
Mats
Did u install gapps?
Before wiping u should ve save ur backups to your SD card, sorry man u ve lost everything
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Sorry to hear you've lost everything. What you could try to do is install everything through ADB and hope it will be bootable at least.
stunnaman0147 said:
Did u install gapps?
Before wiping u should ve save ur backups to your SD card, sorry man u ve lost everything
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I downloaded gapps, but it didn't show up in my download list so I ignored it for the moment.
My phone doesnt have a SD card slot unfortunately. Maybe a data recovery firm could help me?
Thanks for the reply!
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Sorry to hear you've lost everything. What you could try to do is install everything through ADB and hope it will be bootable at least.
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The phone is bootable and cm13 works really well, but its just as if I bought a new phone. There's literally nothing on there :/
Google the saviour
Everything is completely gone but that's OK because google plus backed up every single photo I had. Soo happy!
Thanks for the replies
matspagels said:
Everything is completely gone but that's OK because google plus backed up every single photo I had. Soo happy!
Thanks for the replies
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Luckily you were smart and backed everything up via google photos. Next time you flash CM13 make sure you flash the gapps and the ROM together in one go or else your going to experience problems.
matspagels said:
Everything is completely gone but that's OK because google plus backed up every single photo I had. Soo happy!
Thanks for the replies
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I was going to say to use Google photos in the future. But you already saved yourself. Pictures are the only things I would be crushed over losing, so I love how it just backs them up automatically. Real life saver!
XAL2 said:
Luckily you were smart and backed everything up via google photos. Next time you flash CM13 make sure you flash the gapps and the ROM together in one go or else your going to experience problems.
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To be honest I wasn't really aware that I had them backed up but all good now, definitely taught me a lesson tho.
And yes, will definitely do!
Gizmoe said:
I was going to say to use Google photos in the future. But you already saved yourself. Pictures are the only things I would be crushed over losing, so I love how it just backs them up automatically. Real life saver!
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Yeah definitely! Same here, especially because I have been traveling the past months and all that gone would have sucked!!
100%, Google is a boss :highfive:
I have a Canadian S7 edge and it had been rooted for a long time, but I lost the root when I updated to android 7.0.0. I foolishly tried to root it the exact same way I had before (Odin and .tar file method) and now my phone refuses to fully power on. After the boot logo, some new "integrity verification" has failed and I get a message saying my only option is apparently to factory reset and loose everything since my last backup. I'm wondering if there's any way to either:
a) Recover my data first. My PC won't read my phone at the "integrity verification failure" screen, however, my phone can boot into download mode (still unreadable, though). I've tried a few sketchy phone recovery programs on free trials, and none of them were able to read my phone (though none seemed high-quality anyway).
b) Flash stock firmware and fix this all. I am currently downloading stock 7.0 firmware and CSC files for my region/carrier, and I'm wondering if flashing this will pass the "integrity" check and put me safely back to square one, or if I'll lose everything there too.
I don't have a custom recovery currently either, though I realize that wiping my phone would mean I could quickly do that. But caving and wiping my phone is the last thing I want to do here. Any help here would be extremely appreciated!
First of all .. I think flash Stock ROM will erase all data.
but if you can flash custom recovery by ODIN and mount USB Storage to PC and manual backup your data .. it will be good idea if it possible.
iMenesi said:
First of all .. I think flash Stock ROM will erase all data.
but if you can flash custom recovery by ODIN and mount USB Storage to PC and manual backup your data .. it will be good idea if it possible.
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If I flashed custom recovery, what exactly do you mean by mounting USB Storage to PC? Is that something I could do in the custom recovery (TWRP for example)?
Also, I'm okay with losing system settings or apps, but internal storage like images and music is what I really want to save.
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If I flashed custom recovery, what exactly do you mean by mounting USB Storage to PC? Is that something I could do in the custom recovery (TWRP for example)?
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Yes .. TWRP Exactly has option to mount device internal storage or micro sd card storage to PC so you can transfer files between device and PC.
iMenesi said:
Yes .. TWRP Exactly has option to mount device internal storage or micro sd card storage to PC so you can transfer files between device and PC.
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So does this all mean that there's no way to root the S7 edge on Nougat yet, or is there a different way that'll work fine and I just made a dumb mistake?
G-Man8776 said:
So does this all mean that there's no way to root the S7 edge on Nougat yet, or is there a different way that'll work fine and I just made a dumb mistake?
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I'm reading this now :laugh:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7...overy-official-twrp-hero2lte-3-0-0-0-t3334084
I spent over 12 hours today trying to root my phone and soft bricked it and bring it back to life many times. :laugh:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/help/help-s7-edge-g935fd-bootloop-twrp-t3583469
iMenesi said:
I'm reading this now :laugh:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7...overy-official-twrp-hero2lte-3-0-0-0-t3334084
I spent over 12 hours today trying to root my phone and soft bricked it and bring it back to life many times. :laugh:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/help/help-s7-edge-g935fd-bootloop-twrp-t3583469
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LOL so TWRP is a no-go too then?
I think the problem is that there isn't a working SuperSu for S7 edge on android 7.0.0 yet
G-Man8776 said:
LOL so TWRP is a no-go too then?
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hhhhh sorry can't understand the meaning of no-go. :laugh:
iMenesi said:
hhhhh sorry can't understand the meaning of no-go. :laugh:
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When I say "no-go" I mean it's something that won't work. TWRP looks like it doesn't work anymore, when I read your problem that you posted, and the warnings on the TWRP website and XDA page.
I did some reading and it looks like flashing my stock ROM shouldnot delete my internal storage data, so I think that might be my only chance. If it doesn't work either, I'll factory reset, because I don't want to risk the same error you had.
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When I say "no-go" I mean it's something that won't work. TWRP looks like it doesn't work anymore, when I read your problem that you posted, and the warnings on the TWRP website and XDA page.
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I don't know .. but the thread explaining how to perfect flash TWRP to the device and then flash supersu from Micro SD Card not Internal Storage. i think it was the problem, what do you think? try again and take the risk? :laugh:
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I don't know .. but the thread explaining how to perfect flash TWRP to the device and then flash supersu from Micro SD Card not Internal Storage. i think it was the problem, what do you think? try again and take the risk? :laugh:
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Since you don't have anything to worry about (if it fails you can reset again), I'd try again and see if it works, if I were you.
Finally Successfully Rooted my Device.
I followed the instructions very well in this thread.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7...overy-official-twrp-hero2lte-3-0-0-0-t3334084
iMenesi said:
Finally Successfully Rooted my Device.
I followed the instructions very well in this thread.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7...overy-official-twrp-hero2lte-3-0-0-0-t3334084
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I'm currently factory resetting my phone (goodbye phone data ). I tried to flash a stock ROM and after a few failed attempts, it failed so bad I got a message saying the only thing I could do now was factory reset LOL. Not much I can do now but be glad I didn't 100% ruin my phone I guess.
I may try rooting again in the future, but I'll have to learn how to do it your way, since my way doesn't work right now.
G-Man8776 said:
I'm currently factory resetting my phone (goodbye phone data ). I tried to flash a stock ROM and after a few failed attempts, it failed so bad I got a message saying the only thing I could do now was factory reset LOL. Not much I can do now but be glad I didn't 100% ruin my phone I guess.
I may try rooting again in the future, but I'll have to learn how to do it your way, since my way doesn't work right now.
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We don't learn for free Bro. ?
iMenesi said:
We don't learn for free Bro.
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Hahaha true. Thanks for the help too!