We had to do a factory reset on our Samsung Galaxy Tab A 2019 Wi-Fi, and unfortunately didn't realize my daughter's Minecraft Worlds weren't included in the backups we ran. I've tried a few non-rooted data recovery tools, but they only go as deep as the documents storage, and these were buried deep in the Internal Storage system.
Has anyone successfully rooted to recover files from the Internal Storage system after a factory reset?
My daughter is devastated, so we're willing to root the device if it's possible to recover files that way, but don't want to go to the effort if it will be futile.
We've owned the device more than 12 months, so warranty is not an issue.
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I 'hard reset' my device and backed up everything to my sd card using htc backup. however, now my device won't read my encrypted files. is there anyway to fix this? also, all of my downloaded applications have not loaded back onto my device. help!
a hard reset clears the phone, so basically it takes it back to the state it was when it came out of the box.
regarding encrypted files, you will have a problem with those, since after hard resetting, the encryption keys were lost.
On my past phones with external storage, a factory reset would keep my pictures/music intact, even if they were on the internal SD card.
My LG G2, as I learned last night, does not. It nukes the entirety of internal storage, internal SD card and all.
Is there a way to do a so-called "factory reset" without losing all my things? Re-copying 10+ gigs of photos/music every time is super annoying.
burningembers said:
On my past phones with external storage, a factory reset would keep my pictures/music intact, even if they were on the internal SD card.
My LG G2, as I learned last night, does not. It nukes the entirety of internal storage, internal SD card and all.
Is there a way to do a so-called "factory reset" without losing all my things? Re-copying 10+ gigs of photos/music every time is super annoying.
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on stock roms i think it wipes everything, but if rooted with custom roms it wont wipe photos , etc.
Have Google + keep your photos backed up. This will save you the headache and they show right up in your gallery.
Edit: and have Google Music backup (up to 20,000) songs on your PC
bodom_hc said:
on stock roms i think it wipes everything, but if rooted with custom roms it wont wipe photos , etc.
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Not even all stock ROMs are full wipes. OTA updates typically aren't wipes. Usually its leaks of factory installs, or dumps like we have now.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 i9505 (unlocked version). It was using the stock v4.4.2 but it was rooted and the bootloader was unlocked, I also had a different Recovery installed (Can't remember which one but it wasn't Clockwork). I am no longer using the phone so it doesn't contain any data that I need. I was preparing the phone to sell it so I decided to encrypt the storage as I read that that doing this would remove any possibility of old data being taken off.
During encryption setup, I had to enter a PIN before I could have it encrypted so I entered one. Once it finished encrypting (took quite a while), it rebooted and asked me for the PIN to decrypt the device, I entered the PIN. It seemed like it accepted this but then it rebooted. It kept doing this so I thought no big deal as it probably already achieved what I wanted. So I did a factory reset via the Recovery. However, the encrypted partition still persisted after the factory reset.
So then I decided to use Odin (v3.09) along with the latest stock ROM (v4.4.2 I9505XXUGNG8) to write over the whole phone thinking this would reset it. But the encrypted partition still persists and it keeps rebooting after I enter my PIN.
How can I completely factory reset the phone including removing the encrypted storage? I don't need any data on the phone, just need to reset it completely back to factory.
TIA
Probably flash a custom recovery and then:
In TWRP, under "Wipe" menu, there is "Format Data" function, which will effectively remove the encryption from the device
(alongside with all the data of course).
ps the information you had about encrypting your device is wrong. Basically when you delete a file from you phone, there is no way currently possible to get it back. That is caused by TRIM. Not even professional companies can restore it as of yet. So once you delete it, it's really gone.
Lennyz1988 said:
Probably flash a custom recovery and then:
In TWRP, under "Wipe" menu, there is "Format Data" function, which will effectively remove the encryption from the device
(alongside with all the data of course).
ps the information you had about encrypting your device is wrong. Basically when you delete a file from you phone, there is no way currently possible to get it back. That is caused by TRIM. Not even professional companies can restore it as of yet. So once you delete it, it's really gone.
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Ok, I'll give that a go.
This is a similar article to what I read about needing to encrypt the device to truly remove your personal data: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/fea...elete-all-data-from-your-android-phone-603731
What about files that haven't been explicitly deleted? Say for example if I left all the files undeleted but I just did a factory reset, will those files be recoverable? That's what I want to protect against.
Techno79 said:
Ok, I'll give that a go.
This is a similar article to what I read about needing to encrypt the device to truly remove your personal data: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/fea...elete-all-data-from-your-android-phone-603731
What about files that haven't been explicitly deleted? Say for example if I left all the files undeleted but I just did a factory reset, will those files be recoverable? That's what I want to protect against.
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That articel is mistaken. As of Android 4.3, files that are deleted can't be recovered. A factory reset should be enough. It will also wipe your internal storage.
Thank you. Phone is all sorted now and back to a factory reset
Hello. I'm trying to copy all my apps along with data over to my S7 Edge from my S6. Obviously I can't use Titanium as we don't have root on the S7. I tried using Helium, but I can't get it to connect with the S6. I even tried an adb backup with no luck. So I tried flashing the stock firmware on my S6. Now it won't boot. Just loops. I've read that if I do a factory reset in recovery,* that it should boot. But, I'm worried that if I do a factory reset that I'll loose all my internal storage. If not, then I'm good as I can access my recent titanium* backup. But, if it clears internal data, I'm screwed.
Does anyone know if factory reset will clear my internal SD card? If so, can I access my internal SD card from either recovery or bootloader? I need to get my titanium backup folder somehow. Thanks to anyone who can help.
Scuk said:
Hello. I'm trying to copy all my apps along with data over to my S7 Edge from my S6. Obviously I can't use Titanium as we don't have root on the S7. I tried using Helium, but I can't get it to connect with the S6. I even tried an adb backup with no luck. So I tried flashing the stock firmware on my S6. Now it won't boot. Just loops. I've read that if I do a factory reset in recovery,* that it should boot. But, I'm worried that if I do a factory reset that I'll loose all my internal storage. If not, then I'm good as I can access my recent titanium* backup. But, if it clears internal data, I'm screwed.
Does anyone know if factory reset will clear my internal SD card? If so, can I access my internal SD card from either recovery or bootloader? I need to get my titanium backup folder somehow. Thanks to anyone who can help.
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put it in recovery and you can save your internal storage stuff. pics, files etc just connect to PC and transfer . apps will all be under Google and just gotta relog into some
Boot your S6 into TWRP and mount your internal storage and connect it to your PC and see if you can access it that way. A factory reset won't help you at this point because you flashed the stock firmware using Odin. Also, if you use Odin to flash the stock rom it will wipe your internal storage. So if you still have root on your S6 try to boot into TWRP.
rbouza1 said:
put it in recovery and you can save your internal storage stuff. pics, files etc just connect to PC and transfer . apps will all be under Google and just gotta relog into some
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If I remember well there is a Samsung app ("smart switch" I think) that you install on both samsung phones then you put the two phones together so the NFC can talk and then you can transfer
your apps and data from one phone to the other automatically. I did that between a galaxy S5 and a galaxy S5 duo.
Hope it helps.
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If I remember well there is a Samsung app ("smart switch" I think) that you install on both samsung phones then you put the two phones together so the NFC can talk and then you can transfer
your apps and data from one phone to the other automatically. I did that between a galaxy S5 and a galaxy S5 duo.
Hope it helps.
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But he can't use Smart Switch if he can't finish booting.
Got it working. Thanks guys.
My phone was behaving weirdly after may security update. So I decided to factory reset it hoping it would solve the problem. I had no idea my internal storage would be wiped out as well. As some of the files were important is there any way I can recover those files. After erasing there was a screen "encrypting data".
Any kind of help would be appreciated.
I'm afraid that your files are definitely lost and there is no way how to recover them. You would have to somehow get raw data of internal SD and previous encryption key to be able to "undelete" at least some data.
saurav_xdadev said:
My phone was behaving weirdly after may security update. So I decided to factory reset it hoping it would solve the problem. I had no idea my internal storage would be wiped out as well. As some of the files were important is there any way I can recover those files. After erasing there was a screen "encrypting data".
Any kind of help would be appreciated.
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Even if you had a backup of previous encryption key the partition have been reformated
I'm sorry but no you can't