Hi all!
Recently my girlfriend's phone has "crashed". It just reboots over and over and over again, it's not a 'bootloop' because it does comepletely start up but after a few seconds reboots itself again. Now I think I could fix this problem by rooting it and putting on a diffrent rom because I think the problem is in the software somewhere. So a complete hard reset should do the trick (I think).
Anyway my question is:
Is it possible to backup photo's, text messages and contacts without booting the phone?
Photo's is underlined because this is a really important thing for my girlfriend because there are some photo's on the phone she's emotionally attached to and these photo's are nowhere else but on her phone.. Yes, I know, it's not ideal that we never made a backup of these photo's before but this is how it went and we hope somebody who's a genius can help is with this problem.
The phone is stock, never been rooted or anything. Never been reset and it's been up and running for 1,5 year now.
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Merwin.
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Hi all,
I saved loads of information on my tytn II during the summer. Very important files (notes most often). I was stupid enough to let WM6 store this on the main folder instead of the micro SD card.
Earlier this evening, I tried to use the camera and the phone froze (classical...) so I pressed "reset". Except it never really restarted! I could just reach the WM6 picture on the screen and it would stay there for ages... until a white screen with black text made it clear that a program was running while i'd pressed reset (i really doubt it, i hadn't launched anything), and that i'll have to press reset to recover the initial configuration of the phone (OUCH). I pressed reset just once (too scared to do a hard reset, im not crazy enough yet) but it still does the same thing, gets locked on the WM6 screen but never shows the damned white screen with the terrible message.
Is there any (even very expensive) way to retrieve the data? I hope it's not lost... I don't give a damn if the phone is a brick, i just want the data!
Thanks for your help guys, im a newbie and im really starting to hate WM6.
hi again...
I used bootloader thinking it could save my files with it (i don't think so!) and now it gets stuck at the "smart mobility" screen with the red serial numbers... it doesn't even reach the windows mobile screen (used to get stuck there before I used bootloader).
Please help
do you guys think i'll lose my data if I flash it (meaning i reinstall windows with a new ROM with bootloader?).
I've never flashed the device... Haven't used any ROM either, simply because i don't know how to do that.
thank you
I called HTC and they told me that reflashing would make me lose all my data... What can I do? Please help, no one has bothered to answer...
atonavis86 said:
I called HTC and they told me that reflashing would make me lose all my data... What can I do? Please help, no one has bothered to answer...
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If you have an SD inside when trying to boot, take it out and try again.
Sometimes a faulty SD can prevent startup.
Hello, over the last few days, my Diamond's being doing something very strange and seriously annoying:
All of a sudden, my handset began to perform sluggishly, and eventually hanging, meaning I had to reset.
After this, the handset had returned to factory settings (apart from the internal storage card) and required setting up as new.
Once I'd set the phone up again, re-installing all my usual programs, the phone worked as normal for around 6 hours, then the same thing happened.
I've installed a new ROM, and had the same trouble. The phone isn't completely unusable when symptoms start (I can still send and receive texts and make calls) but I can't use any installed programs such as Opera etc.
The way the phone acts feels similar to when a PS harddrive begins to develop bad sectors etc.
Anyone had similar problems and been able to fix without having to send the phone away? Somehow I don't think my operator would repair it!
Thanks for any help.
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Hy everybody. Since the data base showing similar threads and my own forum search did not come to the issue I´m having, I´m writing this in the hope someone may have an idea on my problem and help out. Hope you do.
Since I´m having trouble receiving sms from a specific number, and only that number -as far as I know- the thing started with not receiving two sms in a row. Now it happens with all kinds. 1, 2 or 3 sms in a row. Sometimes I get them, sometimes I don´t. Sometimes making a nandroid restore gets them back, sometimes don´t. I see on google that many have had the same or similar issues. That is one point I´m having.
The other even more weird is that lately, whenever I nandroid restore my Milestone, ALL of the late installed apps still appear on the phone, untouched... It appears as if system settings remains the latest I had before the restore, plus what the restore had on the time the backup was made. Same happens with factory reset. Whenever I do a factory reset from the phone settings or from the recovery menu it happens the same thing. Installed apps do NOT go away as they use to weeks ago... It is the most weird thing I´ve had happening on this particular phone.
And man, as if this wasn´t enough, the sms problem is a real pain in the ass. Weeks ago a factory reset just did the trick. Weeks later the phone started evidencing the same problems. And now the factory reset is not doing what it was suposed to...
Really starting to get annoyed with Android. I started enjoying it at first, but I´m starting to see that, as time goes by, the platform easily revolves into some kind of a new bug... Frustrating stuff!.
Anyone has got any idea out there as what might be happening, and how to go about trying to solve the issue?
Any help, same experiences and ideas are very much apreciated.
Thanks in advance to everyone.
Hi there, i have faced some problem here when i wanted to restore back my settings through KIES after i updated my firmware to LA1 using KIES too. i have not rooted my Gnote.
The problem is that it will take a LONG LONG time when restoring the 'miscellaneous content files'?
Anyone faced this before...Really appreciate your help...Thanks...
Yes! Very similar problem, if you replace 'a very long time' with 'a ridiculous amount of time'. It gets stuck around 76% and then just stops. As I've found with samsung software - it never actually tells you what it's doing, it just fails to do it.
My only solution thus far is to do the restore and deselect miscellaneous content files. Then the restore works fine. Unfortunately that means I've lost all my apps, and probably a lot of other stuff I'd really quite like. Going to call Samsung in the morning and see if they have an answer. Will post back if they say anything useful.
Restoring through Kies doesn't work
I'm having the same problem. I mean, how the heck are we supposed to back up our devices??
I had done a factory reset on my Note (for unrelated reasons) and backed everything up through Kies. But when I went to restore everything, NOTHING got restored at all, even though Kies said that the restoration was successful.
I've never had a problem backing up any of my phones in the past, and I don't know why it's so difficult with the Note. I'm looking forward to ICS coming out, but it's going to be a pain in the rear if I have to manually restore everything on my phone again.
Suggestions anyone? (My phone isn't rooted either)
samtetley said:
Yes! Very similar problem, if you replace 'a very long time' with 'a ridiculous amount of time'. It gets stuck around 76% and then just stops. As I've found with samsung software - it never actually tells you what it's doing, it just fails to do it.
My only solution thus far is to do the restore and deselect miscellaneous content files. Then the restore works fine. Unfortunately that means I've lost all my apps, and probably a lot of other stuff I'd really quite like. Going to call Samsung in the morning and see if they have an answer. Will post back if they say anything useful.
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Probably what we can do is to deselect the misc content files. To avoid losing the apps, we can use some software inside market such as apps backup & restore. That will settle both the problems of backup and restore.
Beethoven9th said:
I'm having the same problem. I mean, how the heck are we supposed to back up our devices??
I had done a factory reset on my Note (for unrelated reasons) and backed everything up through Kies. But when I went to restore everything, NOTHING got restored at all, even though Kies said that the restoration was successful.
I've never had a problem backing up any of my phones in the past, and I don't know why it's so difficult with the Note. I'm looking forward to ICS coming out, but it's going to be a pain in the rear if I have to manually restore everything on my phone again.
Suggestions anyone? (My phone isn't rooted either)
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You can refer to above.
It is more recommended to root your SGN and use titanium backup as the backup tools. Everything can be backup from using titanium backup.
Hello I hope you could help me solve my problem, because I have been trying to find any solution more than two weeks with no results. My girlfriend asked me to take a look at her phone Samsung GT i9003 because all her apps started to act weird and she couldn't see her photos. So I checked it and as she said, suddenly all apps started to crash one by one and then the phone freezed. I wanted to do factory reset, but even the phone restarted, it didn't work and all apps were back. Even if I tryed to format SD card. They I tryed another method to factory reset through dialer. Same result. Phone restarted and nothing happened. I have even tryed to run it through Samsung Kies, which couldn't recognise the phone no matter what I did. Then I have read something about starting the phone to bootloader by holding power, volume up and home buttons. Didn't work. Have anyone got a clue what the hell is wrong with it? She can't write messages, make calls, anything because it is freezing all the time.
bump. anyone please?