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How do I transfer my data with a broken USB port?

I searched the forums and, while seeing several messages about fixing USB ports, I never saw a question like this. If this is a repeat and I missed it, I'll happily go my merry way if someone would kindly point me to the link.
The USB port on my Tilt gave up the ghost after becoming increasingly more finicky about charging and syncing over the last few months. I'm out of warranty and got AT&T to upgrade me to the Fuze since they no longer sell/replace the Tilt.
Now, my issue is...how do I move my contacts, etc. over to the new phone? I immediately ran Sprite Backup and turned my phone off as soon as I discovered I could no longer charge it (to preserve what little battery life, ~40%, I may have left). I know, or strongly suspect, the backup file is useless on the Fuze; so now I have to figure out how to get my data to the new phone given I have a limited window to install and/or do anything with this phone before it dies.
I know I could spend money and fix the port ($80) or buy a cradle with a battery charger ($40). Is there any other option that doesn't involve spending money on my old phone, i.e. software that can be used on the new one or...even better, something free I can do?

For starters, I'd buzz the contacts over the the sim card

peterfnet said:
For starters, I'd buzz the contacts over the the sim card
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As for the backup, could you possibly put in a flash card and load the backup or whatever else you wanted to save to the card ?

what about using the SD card as a "shuttle"?
rdhobbs said:
I searched the forums and, while seeing several messages about fixing USB ports, I never saw a question like this. If this is a repeat and I missed it, I'll happily go my merry way if someone would kindly point me to the link.
The USB port on my Tilt gave up the ghost after becoming increasingly more finicky about charging and syncing over the last few months. I'm out of warranty and got AT&T to upgrade me to the Fuze since they no longer sell/replace the Tilt.
Now, my issue is...how do I move my contacts, etc. over to the new phone? I immediately ran Sprite Backup and turned my phone off as soon as I discovered I could no longer charge it (to preserve what little battery life, ~40%, I may have left). I know, or strongly suspect, the backup file is useless on the Fuze; so now I have to figure out how to get my data to the new phone given I have a limited window to install and/or do anything with this phone before it dies.
I know I could spend money and fix the port ($80) or buy a cradle with a battery charger ($40). Is there any other option that doesn't involve spending money on my old phone, i.e. software that can be used on the new one or...even better, something free I can do?
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assumptions:
1. you have a microSD card
2. it is a reasonably sized microSD card with enough free space
3. you have a pc/laptop with a card reader as well as an internet connection
pop in the microSD card into your desktop/laptop...download PIMBackup (search for it on xda) and put the installable on the microSD card. download any other cabs of backup programs you might need and put them on the microSD card
Step A:
pop in the microSD card into your tilt...install and run PIMBackup to take care of items like contacts, messages, etc. make sure you save the output archive file on the microSD card. now using the Windows Mobile File Explorer, copy the contents of "\My Documents" (and any other data on your device file system) to "\Storage Card".
Step B:
remove the microSD card from the tilt and pop it into your fuze...install and run PIMBackup on the fuze and restore the archive you created on the tilt to the fuze. if there are some files that were originally on your tilt's file system that you want to keep on the fuze's file system, copy them back from "\Storage Card" to "\My Documents" (or relevant location) on your fuze (assuming you copied these said files from the tilt in Step A above).
thats it!!!

[Q] Nokia 920 Windows 8 phone data recovery

Hi,
My phone just received from 2 weeks has initiated the reset being locked in my pocket.
I had few pictures with my child captured with this phone and not uploaded on the Skydrive.
I don't have in Zune an update for the OS applied to the phone to make a simple recovery.
I wanted to use an application to try to recover the photos from the internal drive of the phone. Applications from the Internet for photo recovery does not see the phone as an USB drive as they said. I see my phone in Windows Phone as a Phone on a Windows 8 desktop and I can browse to copy file to and from the phone but I cannot allocate a letter drive or make a photo recovery application to see the phone as a drive to try a recovery. All applications below I used but no success they don't see the phone as a drive (ByClouder, Tenorsoft, Wondershare, Odosoft..etc)
[Do you know how to try to restore the photos?
Thank you,
Ovidiu

How to recover deleted files windows phone
A good way to recover deleted files from Windows phone is to use data recovery program, take a look at this one: Windows phone data recovery
hope this helps.

For a 920? Yeah, no go, sorry man (or lady). For phones which use a removable microSD card, you could try using data recovery tools off of that. The 920 doesn't offer any way (that I know of) to have direct access to the block storage driver, though, and that'll make it nigh-impossible.
It's vaguely possible that you could recover from whatever caused the unexpected reset by doing something like hard-rebooting the phone (harder of phones without removable batteries, but I think you can do it by holding Power for like 10 seconds) without going through with the first-time setup stuff, but it's a long shot and if you're already past there, no dice.
For the future, if you don't want to upload your photos (which I totally understand, I don't do it either) you really want to make sure you copy the off to your PC/tablet, whatever is handy ASAP.

[Q] Restore Phone to a New One / Accessing Data From Broken One

Hi,
my the screen of my 925 just got broken. The screen is not usable anymore. It is able to connect to the PC via USB and is vibrating when new notifications come in, so it might only the the display that doesn't work anymore. Also, my alarm clock keeps ringing because I can't turn it off.
I'd buy a new one, but I'm in the fear of not getting access to my data (WhatsApp history and stuff) ever again.
Is there a way to backup the phone with the broken screen and restore it to the new one? Or is there basically any way to get my data off the phone? Any OEM-Software that can do something like that?
Also, which data is actually getting backed up by the WP backup functionality? I don't think the app storage is a part of that (meaning the WhatsApp history and MS Authenticator).
I would actually physically open the broken device. AFAIK the entire phone storage is on a SD card inside. But I wouldn't open up my new phone. I don't know whether the data on the internal SD card is encrypted or not, so I don't know whether I can access the data on my PC or not.
Any idea what to do?

The data will be encrypted if you've connected it to any email accounts (typically corporate ones) with that requirement. It's possible there's other protections on the actual storage though; I don't know about that. I know that at least some phones use soldered storage (not an even semi-removable embedded uSD) but am not sure about the 925.
It's possible to get the data off using JTAG, but that requires a tricky bit of wiring and some fairly expensive equipment.
It's possible for WP8.1 apps to back up their data automatically (actually, it's possible for any app to do so, but WP8.1 added a way for an app to have the OS do it for you) but if your data hasn't already been getting backed up, you're in a tricky situation. You could use a screen broadcaster tool (that displays your phone's screen on your PC) but you'd need to launch it blind...

[Q] Recovery?

This is probably a lost cause, but maybe there's a glimmer of hope. I just unlocked my bootloader and realized that my phone has been wiped. I'm pretty tired which is part of the reason why I made the mistake of unlocking it without backing up my files. Is there anyway to recovery any of my old pictures or files that were on the phone previously? I'm not one to make backups frequently (last was Nov), which was when I was starting to attempt this process., but I will definitely make them frequent from now on. I was hoping I might be able to use a program like recuva, but since the phone isn't detected as a drive letter I can't.
tldr - Unlocked bootloader, forgot to make backup. Is there a way to recover anything?

First rule of data recovery: stop using the device, NOW.
Doesn't matter if it's your only smartphone or not and is a necessity, every moment it's on means another moment that data can (and probably has been) overwritten by new data and is never going to be recovered.
Having said that, the "drive" meaning the internal storage should still show up as a drive letter and accessible in Windows, and it should show up as accessible under Linux or even OSX as well since it was wiped and is now basically ready to be used (given that the old data is probably there but the file allocation or journal entries for the data were cleared out). All that happens when you unlock the bootloader is the device forces into a full factory reset so when that's done, you're left with a clean fresh installation of the OS with no personal data on it (which you already understand, of course, hence your post/thread) but the phone SHOULD be working normally at that point; there's no reason if it's working properly that you wouldn't see a drive letter when it's attached to your computer - I'm guessing it's a PC since you mentioned Recuva which is a Windows-only application.
As long as you have the necessary drivers installed (HTC Sync installs them, then you can remove HTC Sync and the drivers will remain as a separate Add/Remove Programs entry), the phone should show up like any other device attached to the PC.
If it's not showing up as a drive letter then something else is wrong.
If it does show up (and again, the longer the phone is on the higher the chance important data of any kind will get overwritten) then you can use one of the following:
- TestDisk which is a completely free data recovery application that shouldn't have issues finding data on the internal storage if it's still there - I personally have used this data recovery software with pretty much perfect success in the past for accidental wipes of data on Android devices; I make no promises, just offering the suggestion
- EaseUS MobiSaver for Android is a somewhat newer product and it claims to be completely free (some data recovery software will find data but then charge you to actually do the recovery process) but I can't say for certain if that's the actual case. It claims to be able to recover data so, if it's free then it can't hurt I suppose
Just realize again that the longer the device is powered on the higher the chance that data is being damaged if it's sitting there on the internal storage so, pick one of those applications, give it a run and see what happens.
Good luck...

Thanks, I'll have to look into those a bit later. I shut the phone off within a short amount of time after the wipe, unfortunately that was probably longer than it should've been on. I'm going to switch to another phone for the time being and leave the M7 off. I could access it, but it isn't assigned a letter and instead shows up as a device, i'm guessing that's because it's internal storage. I did find another method, but i'll try those first.

100s of files disappeared from internal storage after using USB flash drive

I recently connected a USB flash drive (the SanDisk ultra dual drive with both A and C plugs that slide out of each end). It was having issues, as it would appear in FX file manager initially but then suddenly disappear. My phone told me via the notification area that the device had been removed improperly (which it hadn't) and that I should restart the phone. After a while, I did so, and as the phone was shutting down I removed the USB flash drive. Not sure if I should have left it in during the reboot tbh but what's done is done.
Anyways, after the phone started back up, I noticed that one of the folders in the root of my internal storage (a temporary folder to which I had been transferring files to from the USB drive) had disappeared. Odd, I thought, so I checked others, and found my Downloads, Music and Movies folders all empty, and my Documents, Pictures and Videos folders empty except only one subfolder or file. All of these folders had been full of files previously. Thankfully the photos in DCIM don't seem to have been affected (though I can't be sure of this as I don't know exactly what was in there in the first place).
If the external USB device has somehow been able to cause something like this, it'll be the first time I've seen anything like it in the whole time I've been using computers (more than 30 years). I would understand if the files on the external device had gone missing, as that's the device the phone reported the issue with. But for my completely unrelated files to disappear from internal storage? I have no idea how it happened.
If anyone has any advice on how I might get these files back and find out how they disappeared, I would be extremely grateful. I feel I can't trust my phone now...

Specifically, if anyone knows a file recovery app that works and can be trusted and won't put malware on my phone, that would be great

I haven't found one for the phone directly, but for the USB you could Recuva on Windows, which I have used with some success. This assumes that the deletes were not followed by wipes.
I would guess there is malware at play here, because this doesn't usually just happen. Or a mistake with copy vs move, and a bad USB stick as well... though with the 30 years of experience you have I would think these are VERY unlikely.
I realize it's too late to mention this, but I STRONGLY recommend backups, so you're not trying to recover deleted data like this. Of course, that doesn't help you today... but in the future, please setup a backup system to protect such files. For photos, for example, Google Photos is a great simple way to keep those backed up....

Thanks for the reply. Given the seemingly systematic deletion of files, I also suspect malware, though I haven't installed any new apps recently that weren't from reputable sources. Maybe an older malware app somehow triggered yesterday - who knows?
I've been hesitant to install a file recovery app on my phone, as I suspect most of them are clones/don't work/contain malware/only exist to prey on the vulnerable and make ad revenue.
Thankfully my photos are triple-backed up to various cloud services, including Google Photos (for sharing) and OneDrive (which retains the original filenames so that I can separate WhatsApp etc photos from my camera photos). The other files were backed up to iDrive until January, when I switched to a new iDrive account and forgot to transfer the backups. Losing those is more an inconvenience, nothing serious - for example I noticed this morning that my alarm sound had reverted to the (unpleasant) default and it is annoying to have to search and hand-pick a new bunch of alarm tones again.
I used to back up my entire internal storage regularly with FolderSync to a microSD card but nowadays I use dual sim cards so the microSD has been removed. I also used to have auto backups set up with SyncMe over wifi, but this seemed to stop working when I installed android 12.
I had become somewhat complacent about my safeguarding my files recently, and this is a stark reminder of how important regular backups are.
If anyone has advice on trustworthy file recovery apps, I'd love to hear from you.

Glad to hear you have backups... phew!
Sorry I don't have any leads on phone-apps for data recovery. But I am interested in seeing what others say as well...