I am in the middle of trying to understand the correct procedure to recover my data from a phone that went into a bootloop.
- I installed android sdk, with adb tools.
- Also installed ODIN (although I don't know how to use it for now)
- Following commands I managed to perform and stuck on the last one, mounting sdcard
As I feel, that my phone data can be retrieved. Because I can still go into recovery mode, odin mode, can see the battery charging. Also able to detect the phone as MTP device in device manager although it doesn't show up under my computer as a portable device...
What are the steps should I follow to get rid of this bootloop and recover my data? If adb command can mount my sdcard, doesn't it mean there's a way to recover the data?
In recovery mode I can see two options: 1. update from adb 2. update from external storage I have already taken out my external sdcard, so I won't lose data in it along the built in sdcard. Here update from sdcard means built in card or external? When I chose the 2nd option, I get the following error
E: failed to mount /sdcard <No such file or directory>
Edit 2:
adb pull
to retrieve all contents from it.adb pull
your stuff from/data
). If you have no experience in that area, I'd recommend using one of the ADB Backup frontends to save your apps' data to separate archives (you could also try a fulladb backup
, then reset, and then restore all; if you're lucky that's all you need. But chances are you end up in the same situation then, so better be prepared). I guess you have your contacts/calendars synced with Google?data/data/...
doesn't exist. So does it mean the device is not rooted? What are the ADB backup frontends you are proposing? For me apps data not important - probably What'sApp. Most important are contacts, sms and picutre/pdf files. Nope unfortunately I always switch off Sync as Google was too intrusive.. :(/
?adb pull /data <target>
, see e.g. here. If the device is not rooted, you will get "permission denied" errors. If not using Google Sync (which I can perfectly understand), you should have taken care for backups of your contacts in advance! For recommendations: Please check the links to the tag-wikis I've posted. Information was placed there so we don't have to repeat it over and over again. Documents should be stored below/sdcard
, which you can pull without root.