Questions tagged [data-recovery]
Questions asking how to recover lost or inaccessible data.
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How to extract .backup files created by android stock recovery?
I'm using Coolpad note 3 lite, running Android 5.1. I created internal memory backup using stock recovery. Files were created in this format:
userdata_yyyymmdd_HHMMSS.backup = 2GB
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Access encrypted /data Partition over ADB and recovery (TWRP, LineageOS 16, Redmi Note 4)
I have a Redmi Note 4 (mido) Android phone with a broken screen: the screen lights up, but otherwise it stays entirely "black". I already replaced the screen, but with no luck - the cause of the error ...
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Internal storage data disappeared, trying to dump
When I tried to use my SGS, it was unresponsive and didn't wake from sleep, then I rebooted it. After the boot, the desktop was like stock. I started checking my apps, some had its data intact and ...
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Recovering data from Android 10 (forgotten PIN)
Long story short: I have forgotten the PIN to my Android device, as it wasn't being used for a while.
Steps that I have tried/am trying/planning to try:
Brute forcing - I have been trying to brute ...
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Need help recovering data from corrupted userdata partition (Galaxy S3 International)
Phone: Galaxy S3 International i9300
The phone started bootlooping, and I tried to do a factory reset, but it seems my phone went off during the process. I'm trying to obtain images etc. off the ...
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Recover data from a Nexus 4
The touch screen has stopped working. The side buttons still work.
No backups to any cloud services/pc and no sd card. No special apps installed.
Am I able to recover the data? I don't have any ...
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How can I recover deleted calendar events?
I had duplicate events from syncing so I deleted what I thought were the correct set but it turns out I deleted the ones from my Outlook calendar which in turn deleted them from my Outlook calendar ...
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How to recover data from a Huawei P30 Lite with a black screen?
I'd like to recover messages, photos and videos if possible. I know the PIN code to the device and I believe both the fingerprint scanner and face recognition are working just fine.
Device: Huawei P30 ...
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Can I backup my phone or install TWRP recovery while stuck in Lineage OS recovery?
Highly unfortunately for me, I had thought it was a great idea not to make any backups when going to test if I was properly able to upgrade/downgrade Lineage OS versions. I had replaced my TWRP ...
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Rooting Samsung Galaxy S II GT-i9100 (follow on Q'n)
I'm a newbie to digging into Android this deep, so please bear with me. FYI I'm more familiar with PC's, with a smattering of the back office side of things from muddling along. So any response ...
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How do I recover lost data on a damaged SD card that was encrypted by my tablet?
I encrypted my 64 GB SD card using my Samsung Galaxy tab 3. I don't know what happened to my SD card but when I turn on the tablet, instead of allowing me to use the card, I get the following messages....
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Recover data from non-booting Android
I have an HTC Once Mini that will not boot.
It has stock firmware on it (no root, no replaced bootloader, no custom recovery, just plain old stock HTC firmware).
It will start to the bootloader and ...
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Recover a deleted file from phone memory without USB Mass Storage class?
I just deleted a picture file from the internal phone memory. I actually deleted the entire Pictures folder. But the app said that 1 file was deleted. Not more than that? I take it this means that the ...
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Unable to restore contacts through Titanium Backup after flashing a custom ROM
I flashed the 4.2.2 version of CyanogenMod onto my Galaxy S4 and had backed up my stock using ClockworkMod. I have been able to use Titanium Backup Pro to restore pretty much everything except my ...
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Remove files from phone that won't boot
I have an HTC Vivid that, when turned on, fails to load. The screen is white with the HTC logo, but it never moves any further than that. There are pictures on this phone that I'd like to save, but I ...
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How do I port my music database from Rocket player into Musicolet?
I've been using Rocket player (which is a local file music player) for quite a long time now, but I have recently bought a new phone. The music database (i.e #times a song has been played etc) ported ...
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How to un-delete SMSes
A bunch of messages got deleted from my phone. I can see them when using various recovery software (FonePaw etc) but the major flaw of them all is that recovery is only available outside of the phone -...
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Copy Apps and Data From Phone With Dead Screen
My unrooted phone's LCD screen is dead but touchscreen still works. By using a series of stencils for where on-screen buttons and prompts would be, I am able to unlock the device and authorize ADB, ...
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Motorola stuck in Android Recovery - trying to recover photos/documents - tagged posts don't seem to be a match
My daughter's Motorola One Vision is stuck in Android Recovery mode. I have read the recovery TAG posts but can't find one that exactly matches my scenario.
The phone came with Android version 9, but ...
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Replacing a Galaxy S10 internal storage
I have an old Samsung Galaxy S10 that's completely smashed up. I've been trying to recover the data for some time now. The issue I'm having is when I charge it up and power it on, it sounds like it's ...
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Recover user data (photos videos) from a Poco X3 Pro forgotten pattern
So, I decided yesterday to change my pattern to something more complicated for terms of privacy. For my bad, I had such an awful day yesterday and I honestly don't remember the whole pattern. My ...
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Can a user recover photos deleted from DCIM/Camera in Android files via USB-linked file move to Windows 10?
Yesterday, I connected my phone to my Windows 10 PC, and transferred all of my camera photos to a new Windows folder via Windows Explorer using the 'Move' function. I have since learned this was a bad ...
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How to use Samsung Dex or Smart Switch with no phone screen
My Note 10 screen no longer works. When I connected it to my laptop it asked me to install Dex and I did that. But nothing happens. Smart switch says connect the device but when I do nothing happens. ...
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How can I remove a PIN password form a backup?
I forgot the PIN to my Huawei TIT-AL00 android device. So I backed up my user data to a backup file.(user_data__20150913_075028.backup*) I couldn't use ADB to backup as it wasn't enabled in the ...
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How to mount MTP like a drive in /dev?
I am trying to recover some files on my android device, but without success. So I would like to try tools like photorec, but they need a physically mounted device. Or rather, for the moment photorec ...
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Recover deleted (by Windows) Android photos
I've accidentally deleted an Android folder containing some photos using my Windows laptop. I've already tried a bunch of recovery apps but none of them show the deleted photos (they do show photos ...
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How to decrypt /sdcard | Keymaster HAL 4 | Unexpected value for crypto key location
-Update:
Looked into TWRP log, and it seems like it has key problems:
I:Setting up '/data' as data/media emulated storage.
I:mount -o bind '/data/media' '/sdcard' process ended with RC=0
I:mount -o ...
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Half dead screen, trying to recover data (device not showing in file explorer)
I have a somewhat old Samsung S7 Edge phone which (strangely enough) has only the lower half of the screen not working. This is, the whole screen lights up and displays everything, but ONLY the lower ...
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asus phone data recovery with broken screen
I have Asus Zenfone selfie but the screen is broken and black and unfortunately USB debugging is not yet enabled.is there any way to recover data from it .please help. thank you
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Can you help me recover my accidentally deleted videos?
I have a Nokia 2.2 smartphone runnig Android 10 ( a hateful piece of software from my opinion). From 16 GB of storage only 2 are available for the user and it's shrinking even more with every new ...
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Encryption: can't decrypt data after rom downgrade
I downgraded an Android 10 custom rom while I had encryption enabled (rom).
Basically I dirty flashed a previous minor version of the rom via TWRP (with just a simple "wipe cache/dalvik").
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How can I find / transfer a single app's data files to a new phone? (unrooted)
I just got a new phone and I was able to have almost all my apps and data transfer over without an issue. Neither phone has root access.
But a couple apps (a game, a cocktail app) didn't transfer ...
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A cheap android phone killed my sd cards when I formatted them to internal, any way to get them back?
I bought an Ulefone Paris 2015 Chinese phone, a few years ago, it came with a bloated/malware OS, I put in a Lexar SD card, formatted as internal, something didn't work right (I don't remember), I ...
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How would the app DiskDigger be able to get past SELinux when adbd/SuperSU/etc. cannot?
Okay, so I was able to recover my deleted files after all. I am the furthest thing from a software developer, and I don't have more time to spend on this, but I wanted to explain how I fixed it and ...
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How can I authorize my laptop for USB Debugging if I can't see the screen?
I use USB Debugging to control this phone because the screen is missing. Not broken, missing. The LCD and display assembly is literally gone. I simply can't see what's on the screen without USB ...
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S7 data recovery with broken screen
I have a galaxy S7 (SM-G930F) with a broken screen. It can receive calls and texts and connect to wifi. I can access it via https://findmymobile.samsung.com/ to unlock it. That site also has options ...
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Micro sd card partition strategy for Android (context of wear leveling & data corruption)?
The primary issue relates to bad blocks / clusters and it happens to be android platform.
This is a Sandisk 128gb (leave this link - it is not an ad). Some cards indicates other problems like memory ...
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Data recover/transfer from a disk image
Situation. I have a .img disk image file obtained from a .vmdk file via a virtualbox conversion, the latter being created by an Android 4.4.2 emulator. I'm trying to recover some app data and transfer ...
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Missing internal SD card in /dev/block, phone won't start
Yesterday my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 froze I'd say. The phone was locked and when I attempted to unlock it, it didn't respond (black display, just the led blinking). So I shut it down with holding power ...
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Android data recovery
Hi I really need help on this one, my Samsung j1 has a broken screen, it's just blank and gives no visual. When I connect it via USB my laptop recognizes it, but I can't access the data because I have ...
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Pull data from phone that causes BSODS?
Bet you had to read that title twice.
So the title says it all really - I have a Wiley-fox, a poor little thing that has been beaten up within an inch of its life. It cant connect to my Wifi, no idea ...
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(SOLVED) How (methods) to unlock Bootloader on own Xiaomi Mi5 MIUI8 (Data Recovery context)
UPDATE: 2018/06/27, bootloader implies wipe and it is a dead end for Data Recovery, mount as USB Mass Storage implies root to change settings, and for Mi5 or MIUI 8 this implies flashing ROM (dead end ...
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Broken Nexus 6p Recovery
So while I was overseas in Vietnam I dropped my Nexus 6P and broken the screen.
The screen is completely black and completely unresponsive however when I use the fingerprint scanner it still vibrates.
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(SOLVED) How to recover data from Android ... /sdCard/ ... /Downloads on Xiaomi Mi5 MIUI8 (Android 6 Marshmallow)
UPDATE: 2018/06/27, bootloader implies wipe and it is a dead end for Data Recovery, mount as USB Mass Storage implies root to change settings, and for Mi5 or MIUI 8 this implies flashing ROM (dead end ...
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How to bypass lockscreen on Android Marshmallow?
After updating to Android Marshmallow, my PIN is no longer being accepted. I haven't forgotten the PIN, it's a 4 digit I have been using for 8 months, nobody else has physical access to my phone, so I ...
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Backup encrypted data from Android with broken screen
short story is as follows: I have a Sony Xperia M2 with display suffering from water damage. It's completely black but it's still working, booting and responding to touch. However, I need to enter my ...
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Galaxy A3 (2016) broken screen access files
I have a Samsung Galaxy A3 (2016) - SM-A310F - with a broken screen from a friend to try to backup the files on it. Touch doesn't work and you can't see anything, but I can unlock it with the home ...
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Recover Internal Memory Data + Moto G
Sad day for me, I copied some images to my phone from PC. When opened my gallery, not a single image could be seen. Everything wiped out suddenly. There were tons of photos (No backup).
My Moto G (...
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Decryption process was interrupted and "Device memory damaged" message is shown.
-Phone model: Samsung Galaxy Note 4
-Rooted.
-USB debuging was active before the problem.
-TWRP is installed. version 3.0.2-0.
-rom is stock android forgot the version.
-I know the encryption key....
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Get SMS and NOTES from DEAD android 4.4 (Qmobile x30)
Description
I guess my android OS has crashed. It is a Qmobile x30 with Android 4.4.
Current Condition:
I opened Messaging app, it showed black screen for 4-5 seconds and then back to menu. I ...
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