My phone died today and decided that it would like to perform a boot loop upon being turned on again. I'm just wondering if there's a way to save all my phone numbers and pictures off of it before using Odin to wipe.
The odin one click will just reformat the /data, /cache , and /system partitions leaving your sdcard alone.master clear I'd what wipes the sdcard. But if you have clockwork recovery you can go to mounts and storage and mount usb storage and copy it all to your computer before you odin
you might be able to mount usb storage with stock recovery as well, idk I never run stock so am unfamiliar with its options. Check though.
+1 to what studacris said. Using odin won't delete files. As far as phone numbers go, I would just sync them with google contacts.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA Premium App
If u have data backed up in recovery, I would recommend formatting boot and system partitions, and restoring only those partitions under advanced restore options. Worth a try before u went ahead with a cleanup process. This could help u get ur phone up so u can backup ur contacts.
Like people said above, pics would be on SD card and would be safe.
Related
So i was monkeyin' with some new roms and i accidentally formatted sd card :/ lost everything. so i took my sd card out and put it back in my laptop, got everything i needed back on but my phone will not boot up. i can get it into recovery but then it will not mount my sd card....just want my phone back
-btw when i try to start, it turns on but just gets stuck at the HTC boot screen.
Wipe the SD, do not put in computer, format SD in recovery. Boot. Then reinstall the missing components mounted from recovery, reboot.
BANG! from my shooter...
Put the RUU zip file on tbs SD card and from hboot u can unroot it in a few minutes.
Then go ahead and reroot it again ...
But if u have ROM backups from ur phone in ur computer then put those on ur SD card, then from recovery just factory reset and then restore to whatever ROM u choose.
Sent from my HERO200 using Tapatalk
Here it is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804692
Sent from my HERO200 using Tapatalk
lukieray2310 said:
So i was monkeyin' with some new roms and i accidentally formatted sd card :/ lost everything. so i took my sd card out and put it back in my laptop, got everything i needed back on but my phone will not boot up. i can get it into recovery but then it will not mount my sd card....just want my phone back
-btw when i try to start, it turns on but just gets stuck at the HTC boot screen.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try Booting your phone Without your Sdcard! That Worked for me once when I had a Similar issue!
If you Still have a Problem, Copy Everything onto your Laptop Again, then Delete Your Sdcard Again!
Next Try putting the Sdcard back into the phone Blank!
If it Still does Nothing, Try Copying the ClockWorkMod file back to your phone!
*Note*
Il Duces advice is Also Another route that'll Probably Work!
Good Luck!
Do this since you already have an backup of your data. Remove the card from your phone after you power off. Then format it threw your pc and restore factory defaults.. Then place it back into your phone and format it threw your recovery. Partition as follow
No swap
No ext2,3 or 4
Let the whole sd be fat/system.
Then put it back into your pc and place all of your data back on it. Then do a full wipe as in data,cache,davlik -cache and sd ext.
The flash your choice of rom & gapps and try to boot. Hoe this helps
Locked & Loaded
I have a Galaxy S GT i9000 and I managed to install CWM Recovery 2.5.1.0 on it after I accidentally selected backup (to internal sd)..
I want to get the data off the internal SD but miui won't boot. I have EXT4 filesystem.
if I try boot it never gets past samsung logo.
I havn't been able to use my phone for a month now because of this problem.
I didn't want to try fix it straight away when it broke incase I did something to lose all my data..
I was getting major FC's on everything i opened, it wasn't bad at first, but than FC's came more and more regularly, until I can't open any apps.
than the phone would boot loop after boot animation. now after trying to backup the internal SD, I accidentally backed up to internal SD. phone won't boot.
this happened at my god father's funeral "after meeting". I was using phone and suddenly it doesn't work.
I recorded very important video from god father's funeral i promised to make video for god fathers wife.
I really need my data and at least want to be able to mount ext4 from CWM recovery to copy data to windows. or somehow reinstall MIUI without wiping /data.
I thank you in advanced for your help.
I looked for a month and couldn't find anything.
There are 2 things I can think of,
1. Use ADB to pull from sd card, I'm not sure if you need to be in recovery or download mode, check it out.
2. When you format you phone you don't delete your sd card so it should all be saved. You will loose all you apps etc but not your data.
If you want to save the exact format you phone is in, try flash the rom again. If its through odin then you will factory reset. (Again you wont loose your internal sd card contents).
I've managed to get my data back now thank you for the suggestions
I cant boot my note for unknown reason. Anyway i decided to do a full wipe and a clean install of KD rom.
My question is if i do a full wipe, will the titanium backup folder in my internal storage be wiped as well? Cuz my backups are in there.
Sent from my GT-N7000
liewkingyan said:
I cant boot my note for unknown reason. Anyway i decided to do a full wipe and a clean install of KD rom.
My question is if i do a full wipe, will the titanium backup folder in my internal storage be wiped as well? Cuz my backups are in there.
Sent from my GT-N7000
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Why not play safe and just backup/copy the titanium folder on the external memory?
It is too late to do tht now as i cant boot my phone to access my internal storage.
Sent from my GT-N7000
liewkingyan said:
It is too late to do tht now as i cant boot my phone to access my internal storage.
Sent from my GT-N7000
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Usually a normal full wipe is just clearing user data and apps, however usb storage is untouched, unless you specifically did format USB. If you store TB backup in internal and you didn't format usb, then it's most likely still there.
Reboot to recovery and wipe cache and data, it won't erase USB(int)storage or external storage.
But You should do this only you are on safe kernel.
Though you dont need to do it, but just for acknowledgment you can use Aroma explorer from recovery and can copy folder from Internal SD card to Ext SD card
Problem had been solved. Thanks guys
Sent from my GT-N7000
Hey what's up guys. I'm just wanting to know what happens when you wipe your device and try to flash your backup? Is it still somewhere in the phone or should we transfer it to a computer. The reason I ask is because in the past cwm would give me a MDS checksum error if I moved the file from anywhere other than where it was on the folder. I'm looking to flash the new nightlies for cm12, the only worries is not having a functional backup.
Sent from my Nexus 6 using XDA Free mobile app
No need for a back up just use a tool kit, wug's for instance if you want to go back to stock. I'm on the nightlys now, first official, you won't go back.
Since I'm already backed it up on my phone. Do I have to transfer it to my computer before I wipe my phone?
Sent from my Nexus 6 using XDA Free mobile app
Factory reset in TWRP doesn't wipe /sdcard. There is an option to wipe storage though, so be careful. Its always worth backing up your nandroids to PC.
I keep all my backups on and otg USB stick so not to fill up internal storage. If you wipe data, system, cache, and dalvik you won't lose your backups either on internal or otg.
Hi,
I have Samsung Galaxy S3 I9305 phone. It had a logo stuck issue. Then I rooted the phone and flash CWM recovery using ODIN3.
Then I made the CWM backup to the SD card. Then I wipe the dalvik cache and wipe data/factory reset. Since still phone is not booted I misunderstood the steps and mistakenly did the CWM format /system and format /data. then I did nothing. Now the phone is not booting. It only goes to model no display screen. I read that even when formatting data, It only deletes the table of contents(pointers) and not the actual data. Now please tell me that, were all photos in internal memory lost? Can I recover photos in internal memory using recovery utility?.
Wiping system means NO OS. Just flash a new ROM and you'll be fine. Also this dosen't need to be a Q&A Thread, it's better if it is just a Normal Thread.
Thanks for the quick reply. Actually my question was even though I formatted the system and data, Can I restore data in the internal memory?. I need only internal memory photos. I have read that I even formatted the data, table of contents is deleted and data is still available.
If its still there, flash the exact same ROM you flashed before the accident then if its still not there then use DiskDigger from GPlay. If DiskDigger can't find it then it can't be recovered ever again
Quick question Jeri. I have backup the ROM using CWM recovery AFTER the accident to external SD card. Back up has the following files:
boot.img
recovery.img
system.ext4.tar
system.ext4.tar.a
system.ext4.tar.b
It was the stock ROM(I mean original OS, which phone had when I bought the phone).
So please tell me that what to do next? sorry about my lack of knowledge of this area.
is any body there to help me on this matter? only experts can ask questions on this site?
I flashed the ROM using ODIN. I used the I9305XXUFNL1_I9305H3GFNL1_I9305XXUFOA1_HOME.tar.md5 file for flashing. But I'm not sure it is correct. But still my phone is not booting, and stopping at logo screen. What do I do next?