Ok so I have an issue I need help with. My kids deleted some photos. I can recover them with diskdigger, but of course it's only the thumbnail images. I read in order to get the originals I need root access. I can't get root access because I have a locked bootloader (I tried various root programs until I figured this out). Everything I read about rooting past a bootloader means flashing something and I will lose what I am trying to recover. Is this true or is this just a warning that this may happen? Is there any program or any way anyone knows around this problem so I can get to the original recovered photos and not just the thumbnail images? I have flashed tablets and phones before so I am comfortable doing so, but I fear in doing that it will not solve the original problem of trying to recover the photos. Any help is greatly appreciated! I will post the specs below, thanks.
Samsung S8
Verizon Wireless
No SD Storage / Internal Only
Bootloader Locked
No-Root
tcoster21 said:
Ok so I have an issue I need help with. My kids deleted some photos. I can recover them with diskdigger, but of course it's only the thumbnail images. I read in order to get the originals I need root access. I can't get root access because I have a locked bootloader (I tried various root programs until I figured this out). Everything I read about rooting past a bootloader means flashing something and I will lose what I am trying to recover. Is this true or is this just a warning that this may happen? Is there any program or any way anyone knows around this problem so I can get to the original recovered photos and not just the thumbnail images? I have flashed tablets and phones before so I am comfortable doing so, but I fear in doing that it will not solve the original problem of trying to recover the photos. Any help is greatly appreciated! I will post the specs below, thanks.
Samsung S8
Verizon Wireless
No SD Storage / Internal Only
Bootloader Locked
No-Root
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Other than paid profesionals disk digger is your best bet
Try to shut the device off asap if possible the files have been marked for deletion but still reside in memory addresses. Every second the device is on id more and more that have actually been wiped as new data gets wrote over those spots
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Coworker of mine brought me her AT&T "worldphone" SPH-I897 (eclair 2.1.1). she claims that a family member changed the lock code on the phone and no longer remembers it, and i cant factory reset the phone because she used the phone to take photos of her now deceased mother. she doesn't care if i have to brick this phone in the process, but its critically important that she get those photos...
there is no google account associated with the phone, so unlocking it via gmail auth isnt an option, and the phone was never put into debugging mode, so adb is only accessible from recovery mode. I've also attempted a hack someplace else on XDAdev which involved modifying and removing files in /data/data/, but this path was inaccessible in recovery mode.
I'm hoping someone can give me some guidance on what i can try next. I've read that custom recoveries can be flashed to the phone without root through ODIN, then a backup can be initiated, but i haven't been able to find a copy of a custom recovery that i'm certain wont brick this phone. i'm also assuming that the photos are inaccessible from adb when in recovery?
ugh... Help!
kb1ibh said:
Coworker of mine brought me her AT&T "worldphone" SPH-I897 (eclair 2.1.1). she claims that a family member changed the lock code on the phone and no longer remembers it, and i cant factory reset the phone because she used the phone to take photos of her now deceased mother. she doesn't care if i have to brick this phone in the process, but its critically important that she get those photos...
there is no google account associated with the phone, so unlocking it via gmail auth isnt an option, and the phone was never put into debugging mode, so adb is only accessible from recovery mode. I've also attempted a hack someplace else on XDAdev which involved modifying and removing files in /data/data/, but this path was inaccessible in recovery mode.
I'm hoping someone can give me some guidance on what i can try next. I've read that custom recoveries can be flashed to the phone without root through ODIN, then a backup can be initiated, but i haven't been able to find a copy of a custom recovery that i'm certain wont brick this phone. i'm also assuming that the photos are inaccessible from adb when in recovery?
ugh... Help!
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You can look at sammobile's program, SRS I believe it's called. It's one the its free feature.
I made the easiest mistake. I had lots of bloatware, so wanted to a generic rom. Had been using the phone for about 3 weeks.
Coming too my 4th android smartphone, previous all rooted, this was easily enough to flash.
Then I forgot. NOOOOOO!! All my data had been deleted!!! I didn't uncheck no to delete data in flashtool and I hadn't yet backed up my phone.
So, I tried to find out out to recover internal memory. I found out cannot be done.
I thought, OH well I will reluctantly have to unlock bootloader/root my phone to use software to recover my important photos and some data.
I did service info check. My bootloader cannot be unlocked!! wtf !!
So now am I literally screwed from every angle. Please can someone help.
Thx
davestuarts said:
I made the easiest mistake. I had lots of bloatware, so wanted to a generic rom. Had been using the phone for about 3 weeks.
Coming too my 4th android smartphone, previous all rooted, this was easily enough to flash.
Then I forgot. NOOOOOO!! All my data had been deleted!!! I didn't uncheck no to delete data in flashtool and I hadn't yet backed up my phone.
So, I tried to find out out to recover internal memory. I found out cannot be done.
I thought, OH well I will reluctantly have to unlock bootloader/root my phone to use software to recover my important photos and some data.
I did service info check. My bootloader cannot be unlocked!! wtf !!
So now am I literally screwed from every angle. Please can someone help.
Thx
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Is the phone still recognized by PC Companion? If so, does it let you do a software repair?
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Is the phone still recognized by PC Companion? If so, does it let you do a software repair?
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The phone functions ok. I only flashed latest official less bloated rom. It is still recognised by PC companion, but I don't see a repair option. Maybe because I did flash manually with flash tool or unless you mean 'Backup/Restore' option? I did not do that
At them moment, I am not writing installing any apps or taking any photos, so it wont overwrite onto memory. I'm still looking for a solution.
I can't believe my bootloader cannot be unlocked
thanks for the suggestion..anything more you can think off?
Anybody ?
I haven't tried this so not sure if it will work but you can try a software like Recuva on your PC. Good call on not overwriting more data...hope you get your data back!
My phone is at&t LG V40 ThinQ (V405) and I have forgotten the pin password.
As you know, I cannot access to everything without the password. I connected it to the PC and the files won't show up.
It turns on without problems, but it asks for a password to unlock the screen.
I can hard rest it, but it will erase everything. I cannot even root it because I need to enable the developer mode and allow the bootloader to be unlocked via the setting.
Is there is any way that I can retrieve the files via PC?
hamooz92 said:
My phone is at&t LG V40 ThinQ (V405) and I have forgotten the pin password.
As you know, I cannot access to everything without the password. I connected it to the PC and the files won't show up.
It turns on without problems, but it asks for a password to unlock the screen.
I can hard rest it, but it will erase everything. I cannot even root it because I need to enable the developer mode and allow the bootloader to be unlocked via the setting.
Is there is any way that I can retrieve the files via PC?
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Are the photos saved on the sd card? Another good reason to turn that on if you didn't.
There is an frp partition for vzw phones that enables oem unlock, not sure it would work for a different variant though. Have you ever connected it with qfil? U don't need root for that, and in edl mode, you could save off user data (which is huge, like 40 gig I think). Not sure if your pics would be in that or not actually.
interesting problem. good luck.
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Are the photos saved on the sd card? Another good reason to turn that on if you didn't.
There is an frp partition for vzw phones that enables oem unlock, not sure it would work for a different variant though. Have you ever connected it with qfil? U don't need root for that, and in edl mode, you could save off user data (which is huge, like 40 gig I think). Not sure if your pics would be in that or not actually.
interesting problem. good luck.
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No. The files are not stored in the SD.
Any detailed instructions to your suggestion is highly appreciated. Thanks
hamooz92 said:
No. The files are not stored in the SD.
Any detailed instructions to your suggestion is highly appreciated. Thanks
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wish I had detailed instructions to give you. I've never been in that situation, or resolved one like it. I pointed out some avenues I'd explore it it were me... but it's not.
maybe you'd like to look more closely at those avenues, maybe you wouldn't, that's your choice.
Guys I saw a post in xda recently that I can recover my data after unlocking bootloader and I wanted to know if I can do this in my phone as it is new and there it was written that it worked with old phones mine is Redmi note 10 pro (indian variant) and fyi I installed a new lineage os ROM and should it be a problem for recovering and also it had been more than a month I unlocked my bootloader.if there's a chance please let me know.
Can anyone help?
Guys I really need those photos and I tried every recovery options they dost work I took those pictures and they were really important for me like sunset pictures and like this so please can anyone help?I need those photos
Samin raiyan said:
Guys I really need those photos and I tried every recovery options they dost work I took those pictures and they were really important for me like sunset pictures and like this so please can anyone help?I need those photos
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Did you've tried something like this
DigDeep Image Recovery - Apps on Google Play
Recovery tool that Search your internal storage and SD card for deleted images
play.google.com
No but similar apps like this and can I recover the photos cause as it's been a long day time i unlocked the bootloader and now changed the os
Samin raiyan said:
No but similar apps like this and can I recover the photos cause as it's been a long day time i unlocked the bootloader and now changed the os
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Then I think it's no more possible to recover these pictures
THEME DIRECTLY FROM THE SAMSUNG STORE. THE DOWNLOAD FINISHED AND I CLICKED APPLY EAGER TO ENJOY THIS REALLY COOL DREAMCATCHER\SACRED GEOMETRY VIDEO THEME. SCREEN BLINKED A COUPLE TIMES THEN THE SCREEN WENT BLACK AND MY PHONE VIBRATED AND WENT OFF. I THOUGHT OK REBOOT FOR EFFECT NEW THEME\\\NO IT WENT INTO A BOOTLOOP GETTING TO THE PINK TMOBILE SCREEN B4 BLACKING OUT AND RESTARTING. ON THE 3RD REBOOT IT LANDS NOT QUITE IN RECOVERY MODE WITH 4 OPTIONS SAYING POSSIBLE DATA CORRUPTION OPTIONS WERE REPAIR APPS \REBOOT BOOTLOADER \SIMPLY TRY AGAIN\ OR THE DREADED AND UNACCEPTABLE FACTORY RESET.
NOW IM NO NOOB YET IN THE SAME TOKEN I HAVENT USED ODIN OR FLASH FIRMWARE ON ANYTHING SINCE 2013 AND I CAN NOT AFFORD A BRICK IT WILL CRUSH MY EXISTENCE CURRENTLY.
THIS IS THE VERY 1ST TIME IVE EVER POSTED AND ASKED FOR DIRECT HELP, SIMPLY BCUZ WHAT I KNOW ABOUT THESE DEVICES,THIS IS A PRETTY "WEAK" OBSTACLE IN THE WAY OF FUNCTION AGAIN.
SOOOO MY QUESTION IS THIS ## CAN I NOT SIMPLY USE RECOVERY MODE TO "UPDATE" FROM EITHER SD CARD OR ADB AND PUSH OR SIDELOAD A STOCK THEME OVER WHATS THERE TO GAIN FUNCTIONALITY BACK.
LIKE I SAID I AM 100 PERCENT SURE THE ONLY PROBLEM WAS WHATEVER IS IN THAT THEME IS CORRUPT OR ALLERGIC TO MY DEVICE. THAT SAID OF COURSE IM OPEN TO ANY AND ALL WORKAROUNDS THAT GET ME THERE. IM PRETTY DESPERATE RIGHT NOW BCUZ ALOT RIDES ON COMMUNICATION DAILY....IF MY FIX IS SIMPLE ENOUGH COULD ONE OF YOU DEV-GODS SHOOT ME THE STEP BY STEP CODE LINE FUNCTIONS I NEED TO COMPLETE THIS I HAVE ADB\FASTBOOT ON MY LAPTOP AND A DOWNLOADED THEME I KNOW WORKS BUT WILL MY SUGGESTION WORK AND IF SO CAN YALL HELP ME WITH THE FUNCTIONS OF CODE I HIGHLY APPRECIATE ANYONES TIME, ABILITY AND CAPACITY TO HELP ME OUT TODAY AT LEAST GOODNESS I HOPE ITS TODAY PLEASE RESCUE/
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Hope someone can help you fix your N9.
Bad news odin and such wont help. Right now you are what's called soft locked you have 1 recourse and that is factory reset. Using adb it might be possible to pull off a backup of the file system but that is still it. If you get a readable backup you are still going to need factory reset. The only thing that would have helped would be twrp and nandroid backups you could have loaded them or used twrp to mount the emmc to copy off. And since you are stock you might have encrypted the emmc and sd card and if that is the case nobody can help you you only have 1 option and that is factory reset and restore from syncronized backup.
What's more is this isn't an issue of a maligned 3rd party theme needing to be overwritten it is from an official store on a stock device. Good news is you seem to have signed into samsung cloud backup and perhaps linked a google account to the phone so the auto backup should restore your contacts and txt messages.