Ok so I have a samsung galaxy xcover 3 with a broken screen. The phone itself works, however the screen is cracked up so badly that the LCD matrix is broken. There is some data I need to get off that phone for the owner of the device. Is there a way to get the data partition? I have a lot of experience installing custom roms on samsung devices. So I tought I would just blindly install twrp with odin and create a backup through twrp and pull it off the sd card. Would that be possible? Is there a better/easier solution?
P.s.: USB debugging is disabled so doing anything with ADB through the system is pretty much out of the question.
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Being stupid and mildly curious, I formatted the system partition and now the phone won't boot passed the model screen, not the galaxy s logo, but the first screen that I would call the manufacture splash screen.
Serves me right for being curious.
Recovery mode is disabled on this phone and cannot use odin since the computer doesn't see the device.
The viable solution is to have it re-flashed at samsung repair center and learn from my mistake, but I was also wondering about the boot process.
In traditional computers, the bios will search for bootable media in the order set in the bios. The question is, does the android boot process do the same? Has anyone tried? I was thinking of making the micro SD bootable with the android system volume on it, hoping that the phone will see the system on the external sd, for which then I can then mount and restore the system on the internal SD.
Is this possible?
you might be able to get the 3buttons working by heating up the phone with a hair dryer trick
remove battery, sim card, and SD card
then heat up the phone, and try to power it up with the 3 button download mode
never heard of such a thing, but what do I have to lose...other than a 560.00 phone.
AllGamer said:
you might be able to get the 3buttons working by heating up the phone with a hair dryer trick
remove battery, sim card, and SD card
then heat up the phone, and try to power it up with the 3 button download mode
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lol, would you mind explaining a bit how this is even rational?
it's not rational at all, even i was skeptical about it at first
but many have got it to work that way, and that's more than enough proof
even if it's not logical at all
abd reboot recovery
I've had the same issue with an unsuccesfull lagfix.
No 3 button recovery.
I've connected the phone to my computer (I have the android sdk installed) and I ran "abd reboot recovery". The phone rebooted in recovery and i did a factory restore.
It went great.
Try this. Good luck.
that doesn't work if they are bricked already
Hello
I recently dropped my Note 5 N920C and the screen glass cracked a little bit in the upper left corner, unfortunately the display itself is dead and the phone doesn't boot up to the lockscreen.
I tried backing up all my data but cannot find a way to do this. It would be the best for me to make a full system backup, flash a stock firmware image and then send it to a Samsung repair center.
The Note 5 stays on the fading blue led when powering on and in Windows' Device Manager no Android ADB Interface Device appears.
When booting into TWRP recovery to connect via ADB Shell for making a backup I get following error: "CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE DEPENDENCIES: library "libc.so" not found"
Is it possible that the kernel tries to initialize a broken digitizer or screen and can't do it because of this hardware failure, so it doesn't boot properly?
And is there a solution to get the phone booting up for a backup of the data partition? (Backing up /data/data/ would be really good for me)
I'm not an expert, but could removing the screen or digitizer driver help to get rid of this boot loop? Maybe somebody who knows how to recompile a kernel could help me out?
BTW, currently I'm running Decent Rom Marshmallow and the SkyHigh MM kernel and in Android itself USB Debugging is enabled and trusted. I also have locked it with a fingerprint, but I'm pretty sure the fingerprint scanner does work (or at least I hope so)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note5/orig-development/kernel-skyhigh-tw-6-0-1-kernel-t3321646
https://github.com/UpInTheAir/SM-N920
raph6280 said:
Hello
I recently dropped my Note 5 N920C and the screen glass cracked a little bit in the upper left corner, unfortunately the display itself is dead and the phone doesn't boot up to the lockscreen.
I tried backing up all my data but cannot find a way to do this. It would be the best for me to make a full system backup, flash a stock firmware image and then send it to a Samsung repair center.
The Note 5 stays on the fading blue led when powering on and in Windows' Device Manager no Android ADB Interface Device appears.
When booting into TWRP recovery to connect via ADB Shell for making a backup I get following error: "CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE DEPENDENCIES: library "libc.so" not found"
Is it possible that the kernel tries to initialize a broken digitizer or screen and can't do it because of this hardware failure, so it doesn't boot properly?
And is there a solution to get the phone booting up for a backup of the data partition? (Backing up /data/data/ would be really good for me)
I'm not an expert, but could removing the screen or digitizer driver help to get rid of this boot loop? Maybe somebody who knows how to recompile a kernel could help me out?
BTW, currently I'm running Decent Rom Marshmallow and the SkyHigh MM kernel and in Android itself USB Debugging is enabled and trusted. I also have locked it with a fingerprint, but I'm pretty sure the fingerprint scanner does work (or at least I hope so)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note5/orig-development/kernel-skyhigh-tw-6-0-1-kernel-t3321646
https://github.com/UpInTheAir/SM-N920
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You might be able to send it in for repair. Or take it to the phone vendor. My old s3 was rooted and my USB failed. And they swaped it on the spot.
LiL_Assassin said:
You might be able to send it in for repair. Or take it to the phone vendor. My old s3 was rooted and my USB failed. And they swaped it on the spot.
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It really depends on the repair center itself, my Galaxy S4 with a faulty battery also got formatted by them without a reason, so it's better to be safe and have a full backup of everything.
I normally would replace the screen by myself if the whole device wouldn't be glued together, in this case it's better to let them do the repair work
Get a new note 5 screen replacement and replace the old one. Problem will be solved.
Hi, first time post here. I have an unrooted Samsung Note 5 Verizon, I have been using Package Disabler Pro app to disable unwanted bloatware for months. The other morning I put the phone into ultra-power saving mode (for first time since PD Pro install) and it locked up phone. Upon reboots, it loads until the red Verizon screen and go on further. I did not have the phone in USB debugging mode (checked) before it locked. It is not recognized by my windows pc as a drive when connected by usb. (a Samsung device does show in the device manger under USB when connected). Phone is running Android 6.0. and i can get to the recovery menu. Is there any way I can still safely recover my data, before I have to resort to a hard reset which will destroy data?
I have also used odin to reflash stock image, and it still hangs on verizon red screen after flash.
Thank you for any advice provided.
jmature said:
Hi, first time post here. I have an unrooted Samsung Note 5 Verizon, I have been using Package Disabler Pro app to disable unwanted bloatware for months. The other morning I put the phone into ultra-power saving mode (for first time since PD Pro install) and it locked up phone. Upon reboots, it loads until the red Verizon screen and go on further. I did not have the phone in USB debugging mode (checked) before it locked. It is not recognized by my windows pc as a drive when connected by usb. (a Samsung device does show in the device manger under USB when connected). Phone is running Android 6.0. and i can get to the recovery menu. Is there any way I can still safely recover my data, before I have to resort to a hard reset which will destroy data?
I have also used odin to reflash stock image, and it still hangs on verizon red screen after flash.
Thank you for any advice provided.
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When you use odin to flash stock image, have you tried booting into recovery and then wiping data? I know I had to do this on all my devices when I flash either using odin or fastboot.
Hi, I am trying to save the data before wiping the device first. I would like to access my data and save it before wiping system. That where I am stuck.
jmature said:
Hi, I am trying to save the data before wiping the device first. I would like to access my data and save it before wiping system. That where I am stuck.
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Well, unfortunatly, you are out of luck. If you were for example stuck in a bootloop because of flashing supersu binary, you can flash the old one and be back up and running, but, when you flash stock ROM you are out of luck...
If I have to go the hard reset route is there any software out there to try to recover some of my data files and images/videos after the reset?
jmature said:
If I have to go the hard reset route is there any software out there to try to recover some of my data files and images/videos after the reset?
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I know you can recover dead hard drives and SSDs so I guess it is the same way, the only problem is that whatever caused your brick might still be there when you restore and if you have encrypted your device (which most, non-rooted phones are) you are out of luck.
Hello
I have a problem that hopefully somebody here can help me out
Long story short:
I forgot my alternative password from my Samsung Galaxy S5 fingerprint is there anything i cand do about it to save my data?
I have tried android device manager with no luck
I tried some software on my computer that claims to back up data but the phone needs to have developer options on to connect to it
Any way to turn on this setting trough recovery menu or download mode?
Any other ideas?
Its really important for me to save the data before doing a factory reset
The phone is not Rooted and no custom recovery
Everything is on the internal storage no sd card
Model:g900a
Thank you
Hello, friends.
I accidentally dropped my phone, causing the screen completely going black (not even the backlight is turning ong), and i think not even the touchscreen is working. When I connect it via usb, the phone shows in my computer, but nothing is in there because I'm supposed to unlock it and confirm the usb access. Unfortunately, adb access is off so I've not found any software helping me.
Do you know if there is a way for me to recover the data? Maybe a custom recovery rom that automatically mounts the storage via usb on boot?
Thanks for the help!