Questions tagged [data-recovery]
Questions asking how to recover lost or inaccessible data.
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extract data from phone with oem unlocked and usb debugging enabled password?
My huawei mate 20 lite phone was stolen in afu state, there is a pin code on the screen, but usb debugging is on and I removed the oem lock, in this case, can my data on the phone be accessed?
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Recovery of unsaved 40 minute long video on Samsung A32
I took a video of approximately 40 minutes long this morning at a funeral. I stopped taking the video and waited for it to "process". It took very long, so I switched my phone off. But now I ...
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Is there a way to mount YAFFS partition?
I'm trying to recover data (contacts mostly) from an old phone (Xperia Neo V) that was running Android 2.3.4 and so far I managed to dd the data partition via adb. The partition is YAFFS one. I would ...
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Is my data secure after factory reset with NO password SET
I had one plus 8 pro brand new phone Android 10. I sold the phone in a week's time. I never set any password or screen lock. I understand android 10 uses file-based encryption. I just did a factory ...
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I deleted my .asec files, what happened to the apps on my SD-card?
I have a phone with Android 4.4 kitkat and a 32GB SD card on which I had noticed the .android_secure folder was taking up 1.5GB of storage so I decided to free up some storage. There were apps in the ...
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How recover photos from a locked Android smartphone?
A friend gives me her phone that she does not use anymore. This is a Oneplus 7 (android). She has set a pattern to lock the screen and does not remember it. So the smartphone is locked.
She's not sure ...
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I want to transfer all my recordings done AND KEEP the date of creation with my huawei P30 lite to my Oppo Reno7 5G/Find X5 Lite
I transfered all my data from my Huawei to my oppo without any trouble, except my recordings. I was able to transfere them but the date of creation was reset. I really want to keep this information, ...
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Recover pending WhatsApp messages sent to old phone number
I have WhatsApp on my Android phone. I changed from number A to number B and did not notify contacts. Later, some contacts told me that they had sent me messages on WhatsApp to phone number A, and I ...
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Is there any possibility to access pictures on my S10 which always freezes on startup
My S10 always freezes on startup, because of an update. It just doesn’t reach the end of the loading bar. I know I could wipe the data via recovery, but I want the pictures back at least.
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Where is the Google Tasks folder on Android?
According to this website, it's
/data/data/com.google.android.apps.tasks/.
On my phone, there's no such folder anywhere. In fact, there's no /data/data anywhere. I do have the Tasks app installed. My ...
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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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How to recover data on a phone stuck in boot?
I know it is a common question.
But I have been browsing the internet for the past 2 days and I can't find the answer to my specific case.
So, I have a Redmi Note 5 pro Indian model. But for the past ...
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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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can't adb into phone with broken screen and lock pattern
i accidentally dropped my Pixel 6a on the counter a little hard. it landed flat on it's back. no physical damage. but the screen froze up. i pressed the power button to try and lock the screen (which ...
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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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Jpeg files defect and extremely huge after file transfer to laptop
I have Cut&Paste some .jpg files from my mobile phone (internal storage) to my laptop (file transfer by cable), now those files are ¡¡5gb!! each instead of 5MB and I can´t watch the pics. Pics ...
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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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How can I dump internal storage of formatted Poco X3 Pro for video and image recovery - or any other available method
I have accidentally formatted my Poco X3 Pro when it was stuck in a bootloop due to power button problem. It was thinking power button was pressed.
I did RMA it, fixed and received the phone today
So ...
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Can I recover notes from before I factory reset my phone?
I have a Poco X3 NFC and did a factory reset just yesterday, but apparently lost a very important password and I can't seem to get it any other way. It was stored as a note from the "notes" ...
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Accessing An Android Device With Broken Screen Via ADB and Unauthorized Machine in 2022
I've done a lot of experimentation on this, but can't seem to get anywhere. I'm looking for guidance on recovering data from my broken Android phone(s). It seems like this is going to require some ...
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FBE securely wipe all data
According to android documentation the FBE system has two different levels. Credential Encrypted (CE) storage and Device Encrypted (DE) storage.
Does a factory reset of an FBE phone reset the keys of ...
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Recover data from unbootable phone
I have a BQ Aquaris X Pro. During a phone call it suddenly started to reboot mid-call but it hung during the boot process (on the "second screen" where it says "Aquaris" in white, ...
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Recovering data with a mouse when the screen doesn't respond to touch
Suppose my screen breaks, and I can no longer operate it via touch, but I can still see parts of the screen although broken.
In this case, can I connect to my Android device via a mouse (for instance, ...
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How to decrypt (FBE) file-based encryption Adoptable Storage Android 12 [duplicate]
I backed up encrypted data of adopted internal storage on my PC & then Formatted the SD card as portable storage.
But I have not factory reset my android system so the key
for decryption must be ...
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How to Read the Key from phone internal storage generated when formatted sd card as internal storage? [duplicate]
If I manage to get root access to my device, where to find and how to read the decryption Key?
I selected sd card to be used as internal storage and removed it without Using 'Eject' , that too ...
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Unable to access my data on the same device on which I mistakenly selected SD card to be used as adoptable internal storage [duplicate]
Currently using pixel experience rom based on Android 12, by mistake selected sd card as adoptable internal storage and migrated my data - Esp Images & videos- to adopted sd card. And then ...
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64GB SD card shown as 2TB after inserted to Samsung Galaxy S9+
I installed a 64GB memory card in a Samsung Galaxy S9+ and copied about 30GB of data to it. A couple of days later, the phone shows a notification saying "Can't open SD card for writing" or ...
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Recovering media which is deleted month before from android 10 mobile storage
I have deleted a some media files month before, then I used my mobile as usual. Yesterday I performed a factory reset to mobile clean since it's storage is full. Now I need to get back my media which ...
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How to decrypt and mount Android devices?
In Linux, you can read data a device encrypted e.g. with LUKS by doing cryptsetup luksOpen and mounting the volume. What is the equivalent for this in Android, i.e. what specification for encryption ...
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Lithium Epub Reader app crashed and data seems to have deleted itself - any way to recover?
I've been using the Lithium Epub Reader app for about a year on my Android phone and had built up a lot of highlights, categories notes, etc. Today, the app crashed, restarted, and started re-syncing ...
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My motorola 5g stylus updated and the keyboard for logging in is gone
My information is as follows. My keyboard is the default keyboard. I disabled gboard. The update was last night. I was not logged in when I clicked update, (it was a security update, I turned it on ...
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Android data recovery of lost photos
Last night, we were looking at photos I took and this morning, a large number of them disappeared. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S20. All the photos from April to now are just gone; sadly there is no ...
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Recovering photo/video files from an old Android with almost full memory
My grandma has an old LG (Android 6.0) for WhatsApp and a little more. She records some videos and pictures, and the "good ones", I copy to the SD and send by email (to have a backup)
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Recover deleted file on phone using FBE
Suppose we have a phone that:
Runs Android 10.
Uses file-based encryption.
Suppose one of the files is deleted, but the phone is immediately turned off so as to prevent the deleted file from being ...
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Regarding a data recovery app from a play store
I used one of the free data recovery app from the play store named Photo recovery app by HappyAppsFree on my old Samsung Galaxy S3 which I used after 2 years. I am worried as the privacy policies ...
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How to recover data from an erased android SD Card [duplicate]
Last week when my phone(Galaxy Note 10+) was stolen, I logged into my Google account from my laptop and chose the option to erase the device. The cops managed to catch the guy and retrieve my phone ...
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Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 mido userdata partition type / data recovery
I am doing data recovery on a Xaomi Redmi Note 4(x?) [mido] and I have finally gotten a flash dump ( the screen is scuffed and no perms have been set ( no adb,oem unlock, storage access ))
Only way to ...
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Recovering Phone Data after Hardware Failure
I have a Pixel 2 phone running Android which appears to have a hardware failure. The screen only shows a multi-color static and is non-responsive. Occasionally I briefly see my normal lock screen, but ...
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Can I recover data from overwritten file on Android?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S8+ on which I wrote a lot of text in a simple text editor app I got from the Google Play store. I saved this in a text file, and later, I used the Samsung My Files app to ...
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My SD card is acting up, how can I recover what's in it?
Last night, on my phone, I was trying to copy a file from one folder in the SD to another folder. But whenever I tap paste, the SD card would disconnect (I see a "this operation could not be ...
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Is it possible to recover deleted files without root on Android 12? [duplicate]
I clicked the "free up space" button in Google Photos, and it deleted the original copies of all my photos and videos in the past 3 years. It happened on a non-rooted Galaxy Note 10 Plus (...
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Is it possible to transfer app data from a backup to another backup/pc?
The backup on the bottom has more app data (85 app data) than the one at the top (33 app data). I was wondering if it is possible to extract/transfer the data onto the backup on the top or onto ...
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How to clean com.android.providers.media.MediaApplication App Data?
com.android.providers.media.MediaApplication keeps throwing errors on me and I cannot access internal storage on my Oneplus since this morning.
I've already tried cleaning the media packages ...
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Oneplus Internal Storage not accessible
Since this morning after powering up my Oneplus 6 I'm unable to see any data in my phone via gallery or file manager or any application, and I'm unable to save any data to internal storage. (example: ...
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How can i recover my deleted messages
Recover deleted SMS message using Google Backup?
I u Google auto backup service is turned on. Recently I deleted my SMS messages and now I want to recover one particular SMS. Is it possible via Google ...
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Is there any way to recover a deleted voicemail?
A certain family member deleted a very, very important voicemail from their Android (Google Pixel 4A) phone. I'm not even sure exactly when this happened.
(I understand that the content of the VM is ...
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Recover deleted file from /data without root [duplicate]
I have a non-rooted P30 lite which I no longer use. To cut a long story short, there are about 100 files (mix of PDF and videos) I need within my /data directory that were deleted about a week ago ...
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How to reliably recover data from a dead Samsung Galaxy S8 phone?
My friend has a Samsung Galaxy S8 (not S8+) that has a broken screen, but after operating with this broken screen for a while, wouldn't boot past the Samsung logo, and now won't respond to a power ...
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Help salvaging data from the Oneplus 6T Clock app
I started using the label/notes section in the OnePlus Clock app for more detailed notes because then I could also get alarmed + reminded about them at certain times during the day. It's a fair bit of ...
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