Hi all and hope you are well.
I am new to this forum and also rooting any android device.
Why I am here because I lost all my camera photos of my samsung note8 which is very important to me.
How do i lost my photo? I used USB cable to connect my phone to my pc (Windows 10) and want to move my photo to my PC for backup.
I MOVED all my photos in DCIM photo to Windows and after the transfer is finished, I found out all my photo is actually corrupted in my Windows PC ( with each of the transfered files all hex equal to zerosss )
Since I am using "move to" that why It turns out I lost all my photos because I could neither open it in PC nor found them in my phone anymore.
So, I tried to recover my photo and found out below facts:
1. My photos are stored in my internal storage.
2. I have not turned on samsung cloud nor any cloud backup for my gallery
3. I connected my phone to the PC and have tried 3 different android recovery software but none of them works because they all need to root my phone to work.
4. I directly installed diskdigger app in play store and successfully recovered some thumbnails of those lost photo but the resolution are low and I need the real recovery.
5. I have backed up my whole phone and tried to root my note8 following the guide with galaxynote8root.com. Turns out I stopped at not finding the OEM unlock options.
6. My note8 model is N9500 and my Baseband version is N9500ZCU3CSA2, Android version 8.0.0 and bought it from Hong Kong. Seems it has a qualcomm lock which I cannot root it easily?
7. I have found few article about rooting this model but it is too difficult for me to start with since I dont have any root experience before
I am asking for help with the following question.
1. It is the only way out to the recovery my internal storage lost photo by rooting and scanning my phone after root?
2. Will rooting my phone really wipe out all memory ( I dont know is the storage like a harddisk or memory...) such that I cannot recover my photo even I rooted my phone?
3. Is my model rootable?
4. Can anyone give me a guide / website about how to root this model?
5. Is some local recovery company could handle this kind of case?
My photo is really important to me and please help. Thanks guy for your help.
Updates: I installed Odin3 and I accidentally installed the lastest update of my model which is still unrooted. dont know will it affect my further rooting...
My latest baseband version: N9500ZHU4CSA1
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Hi all,
I hope you can help as something very strange and unusual has happened to my Galaxy S3 LTE i9305 (on Orange in UK). Samsung technical support tell me they've not heard of the issue before as do the official repair shop. I have never installed any unusual software or tried to access the internals etc.
On Sat 26th Oct, in the evening, the phone was connected via USB to my laptop charging. There was no data transfer taking place, and the laptop was idle. The phone was not in use, nor was I nearby but randomly it showed the Samsung splash screen logo - it looked a little weird as it was pure black but with random speckles of coloured dots (which made it look like a Galaxy - I thought perhaps I hadn't noticed it before). I was unable to reset so took the battery out and replaced. It did the same thing and then on the second time of removing hte battery the screen became completely white with black marks generating a fuzzy effect - it's been like this ever since.
I get the white fuzzy screen if attempting to turn the phone on, or attempting to recovery mode, however if going to the install option (which I assume happens before Android boots), the screen is absolutely fine and proves not to be at fault. I should add the screen is cracked slightly, it has been since April and is not the cause of this random error.
Tech support tell me that they'll happily accept it back but ultimately, they will wipe the phone and send back as reconditioned. I've tried to connect via Kies, device not found - nor is it when connected to a computer - infact the computer tries to 'install device drivers'.
I'm sure everyone says this however I am an organiser of a large local festival in the UK and the phone has some very important detail storesd in the ColourNote app which I need to access - also the contacts appear not to have synced with GMail since May.... I'm desperate to access these files, for money too potentially, but cannot afford to go down the simple, wipe and reformat easy option. Can you help? Do you know any software that can access data from the internal memory card (note I've removed the external card which contained the photos) How about once the phone has been wiped, to try and see if anything can be recovered then.
Would really appreciate your support, this developer community is my last option and you're normally so awesome, as can't find any reference to the problem online.
Is your colour note app not synced ??
You can try RECUVA data recover.
You need to read the faqs and guides first .
Including the one that covers storage and recovery ..
Samsung reject warranty on phones that have damaged screen .
JJEgan said:
Is your colour note app not synced ??
You can try RECUVA data recover.
You need to read the faqs and guides first .
Including the one that covers storage and recovery ..
Samsung reject warranty on phones that have damaged screen .
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Hi,
....no I had never set it up. So ironic that was on the to do list in the app.
I'll look into Recuva, is that for before or after I send it off. Is there much chance do you think?
Yes, sorry. I meant to say I also have phone insurance which covers the screen so will have it off to them first, and then onto Samsung - ie 2 places of data wiping!
Thanks for your reply though,
Kind of hoping I may just be able to fix the problem, even if only temporary, but realise it's unlikely
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Kind of hoping I may just be able to fix the problem, even if only temporary, but realise it's unlikely
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Hi mate,
You can try flashing just the system (and boot) images if you think it's a software issue.
That way your data partition will be intact.
Instructions:
Step 1) Download the Stock ROM you want to use
Step 2) Rename the file from .tar.md5 to just .tar
Step 3) Open the .tar with WinRAR or something similar
Step 4) Extract: system.img (and boot.img if you want the Kernel)
Step 5) Create ODIN file from .img files http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1484304
Step 6) Flash the new ODIN file to restore your firmware to Stock!
On Windows you can use Cygwin to run these commands if you don't have access to Linux.
NOTE 1: That guide uses recovery.img as an example but you can replace that text with system.img on the first line.
NOTE 2: If you are adding more than one file (eg. system.img & boot.img) simply list them one after the other with a space between each file.
NOTE 3: Do not include data.img, it WILL wipe your data! Do not include cache.img, hidden.img, these MAY wipe your data!
Best of luck, I hope this helps you out :fingers-crossed:
Have a great day!
-Shaz
So, here’s how you can recover data from a Soft-Bricked Android smartphone:
1. Once you’ve installed a custom recovery on your device, open it using the specific method for your device. E.g for Samsung you can turn off the device completely, then turn it on by pressing and holding Volume Up + Home + Power Key and you will be able to access the recovery. These methods vary for different devices.
2. Once in CWM or TWRP Recovery you will find a number of options.
For CWM Recovery, select “Mounts & Storage > Yes”.
In Mounts and Storage menu you will find some more options, from the list select “Mount USB Storage or the option depending upon your choice.”.
Now connect your phone to your PC using the data cable.
As soon as you connect your phone to your PC, the USB Storage / Internal Storage will open up in folder view.
You can copy all of your files to your PC now.
3. For TWRP Recovery, Select “Mount > USB Storage”.
Connect your phone to your PC and it will open up the USB / Internal Storage.
3. Copy your desired files.
That’s all! You can easily recovery all of your data stored on the internal storage of your Android device.
Hello my friend has a samsung galaxy s3 mini recently the phone has been connected to kies and during the connection there was a problem and this problem does not allow access to the phone itself, the links at the bottom of the page you will find photos that they were made by the owner of the phone itself that shows the error that gives the terminal.
The questions that I have:
1 - it can reinstall the boot (as in windows with fixboot and fixmbr) so that he can restart the phone without losing data?
2 - you can boot your phone into Safe mode and you can save the contents or on a Micro SD or cloud?
3 - and possible after re-flashing the system retrieve the data and thus treat the phone's memory as if it were un'hdd a pc?
Thank you all for any help you can provide me.
https://goo.gl/photos/Na1phpKGFpGXtp7r5
https://goo.gl/photos/fv9DkfZU49Y7SdVDA
As download mode works (what the pic is showing), you/he can simply flash a firmware file using a program called odin (not kies).
Link for firmware (choose the one for your country/region): http://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model?q=gt-i8190&exact=1 (and odin is widely available)
My apologies for posting a question on what is most likely the wrong forum - but after 15-minutes of searching, I could not find the right forum for a new Galaxy Tab Active 2 question.
This is a question more related to software and may be more generic ?
My wife is the owner of a new Galaxy Tab Active 2 , and she is struggling to have her many Android applications installed not on the 16-GByte internal memory, but instead on a 128 GB microSD card she has in the Tablet. She has found various guides, but they either are not applicable to Active2 (as their menu options don't exist on Active 2) or they simply only work for some apps but not the necessary/important to her applications that she wants to transfer to the microSD card. In particular she would like the application "Line" ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.naver.line.android&hl=en ) and also "WhatsAPP' (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp&hl=en) configured such that all their data goes on the microSD card. Unfortunately (especially for Line) she has not been able to do such.
Can anyone point me to the correct forum area ?
Again - my apologies for likely posting in the wrong area.
I own tab active 2 sm-390 too. 16gb is really not enough. We can only wait some professional to root the machine. Once root, we can try 'adaptive storage' or other app like 'App2SD' to save internal storage.
Just want to update you that I solve the storage problem.
1) You need to download the firmwire , extract the 'boot.img' file. Then, copy the file to your tablet.
2) Then, you have to install Magisk Manager and run the manager to patch the 'Boot.img'. In setting, remember to set the output file to odin format.
3) Copy the patched file to computer. In computer, run odin to install the patched file to tablet.
4) The tablet will then be reset. Now, the tablet is already rooted.
5) Then, run Apps2SD, you can move all apps to SD.
I am now have around 50 apps installed.
Please a step by step
Awesome!
You are such a genius to give us this good news
Can you please provide us a step by step guide and also the links to the files so that we can follow.
Thank you so much
How are you getting root.
I have the galaxy tab active 2 / T395 and have tried all the stand alone apks out there that claim they can root any android device; 'KingRoot, KingoRoot, OneClickRoot, z4mod.z4root, Rootmaster and Framaroot'. But do absolutely nothing for the T395 active 2.
However I can confirm that 'mark.mccv' method of rooting DOES WORK for the T395.
I guess the days of using CF-Auto Root & TWRP are over for the newer Nougat 7.1.1
mark.mccv said:
Just want to update you that I solve the storage problem.
1) You need to download the firmwire , extract the 'boot.img' file. Then, copy the file to your tablet.
2) Then, you have to install Magisk Manager and run the manager to patch the 'Boot.img'. In setting, remember to set the output file to odin format.
3) Copy the patched file to computer. In computer, run odin to install the patched file to tablet.
4) The tablet will then be reset. Now, the tablet is already rooted.
5) Then, run Apps2SD, you can move all apps to SD.
I am now have around 50 apps installed.
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You forgot to mention, when installing the 'patched_boot.img' you need to turn 'OFF' both the FRP & OEM locks. Otherwise, when trying to flash the 'patched_boot.img' through Odin on the PC.
The devices download screen shows 'custom binary boot file' blocked by the FRP & OEM locks......
For anyone stuck on this ROOT process , you turn off the FRP lock by just deleting your Google accounts from your devices settings page.
Remove, turn OFF the OEM lock , by going to 'settings' > 'developers tools' > 'oem unlock'
On flashing the patched_boot.img , you will see a verification screen page after reboot, which forces you to reset, reformat your device. So back up your files beforehand.
Once reset, your device is rooted, ready to install busybox , adaway etc.
Well Crap...I just got my Nice, New, Sparkleing Tab Active2 and cant root it yet. I have the New US version SM-T397U Unlocked model. cant find a Stock firmware on Sammobile as of yet...any ideas?
EDIT: Neeeevermind... I did a lil hacking and cracking (for about 26min, lol) to find the files I needed for the SM-T397U. If anyone is looking for em let me know and I'll shoot em' your way. Guessing I'm the first person to root a T397U, hope more will follow. I havent even had this thing 6 hours yet. Thanks for the write up and all those that contributed to the tools and info.
Crap: posetd this is two threads, realized i was typeing in the wrong one, cut and pasted and still hit send. oops
Worked perfectly, Thank you very much!
WARNING: THIS WILL WIPE EVERYTHING ON YOUR TABLET.
Backup all of your important files before you flash the patched boot.img using odin.
I tried to backup my app data using samsung switch and it worked, but didn't restore most of my device settings and all of my app data.
(Good thing I kept backups for my important apps that had in app backup functionality - like Nova launcher and Squid)
Also, If you are having any trouble, then you can take a look at this thread (more detailed): https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab/help/how-to-root-samsung-galaxy-tab-active-2-t3775664
Last thing, you probably won't be able to get OTA updates after you perform these steps, it doesn't matter though since this tablet isn't going to be updated that frequently (The 8.0 update is going to come at the end of 2018, source)
Did App data remain after rooting
mark.mccv said:
Just want to update you that I solve the storage problem.
1) You need to download the firmwire , extract the 'boot.img' file. Then, copy the file to your tablet.
2) Then, you have to install Magisk Manager and run the manager to patch the 'Boot.img'. In setting, remember to set the output file to odin format.
3) Copy the patched file to computer. In computer, run odin to install the patched file to tablet.
4) The tablet will then be reset. Now, the tablet is already rooted.
5) Then, run Apps2SD, you can move all apps to SD.
I am now have around 50 apps installed.
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Hi mark.mccv
Please confirm if the data remained (i.e. was not erased) after the rooting?
Thanks in advance.
I just came across a little gem, my uncle Gave me his T397U that he used to use for work, but has since upgraded!!!! I was so stoked until I powered up to realize that’s its full on knox mdm and is running what I’m assuming is the OS from his job, accessing reg samsung os at all is only possible through safe mode at the present moment ...I apologize if I’m in the wrong area, I’m vey New and honestly not even navigating around the boards to efficiently just yet ! Hopefully someone will want to throw me a bone! Thank you all for the amazing plethora of information!!!!
Hello guys,
I hope someone can help me with this problem...
So the thing is - yesterday I finally got OneUI 3 and Android 11 update (yay?). But ofcourse as soon as the phone rebooted and optimised all the apps and came back to main screen it rebooted after a minute or so...everytime. As soon as I enter my pin and unlock the phone it reboots after a short period.
The same problem happened when I de-bloated the phone a while ago via ADB - but I then enabled back all the apps except facebook and some "safe to debloat apps" which were not even system apps and it has since worked for almost a year. But here we go again....
I even "re enabled/installed" all the apps I could list in ADB ( so basically all the apps on the phone) and then went to wipe cache - but still no go.
I am also wondering if there is a posibility to somehow mount storage just to copy some files to my computer (which are important, and my latest backup is around a month old) and then I'll gladly do a a factory reset - no problem.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
If you're able to use ADB to enable/install apps, then you should be able to use "adb pull path/to/files" to copy the files to your computer. You could reboot into recovery mode and see if your computer pulls up the storage that way too. Also, if you have TWRP, you can use the file system to copy files to an external SD card. So you have a few options to get your files.
You can also create a back-up of specific apps (and their data) using "adb backup -f MyBackUpName.ab com.corp.AppName".
TacoDeMuerte said:
If you're able to use ADB to enable/install apps, then you should be able to use "adb pull path/to/files" to copy the files to your computer. You could reboot into recovery mode and see if your computer pulls up the storage that way too. Also, if you have TWRP, you can use the file system to copy files to an external SD card. So you have a few options to get your files.
You can also create a back-up of specific apps (and their data) using "adb backup -f MyBackUpName.ab com.corp.AppName".
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Hello, thanks for the reply and helping out.
But all the commands and stuff is kinda useless because the phone reboots sooner than in 30 seconds after getting to the main screen. When I boot to recovery the storage doesn't get mounted.......
And I would've had TWRP but the phone is still under warranty so that's a shame, because on my backup phone I have it (and so did on all the previous ones) and it would be great. But IIRC if I install TWRP now, the phone needs to be wiped.
FFS samsung, what is this....because I now read a couple threads and posts on social media people having exactly same problem, and some didn't do anything with ADB prior to update. shame...
Hello! My phone (Redmi Note 10s) after auto-update has broken. It is operating but anytime I try to open any application there's a message displayed: "Wait until your device is fully rebooted before opening apps" so basically I cannot do anything there. The only solution that I have found on the web is to restore phone to default settings, but on internal storage I have some pictures that I'd like to backup and I cannot access them. I also tried to connect the phone to PC to copy files, but it is not detected at all. Is there anything I can do to access files on internal storage?
Thanks
so you can boot the phone but nothing else? that sounds bit like broken encryption. in that case your data is already lost.
if you can reach settings you should enable developer options and usb-debugging. install the usb drivers and try to pull your files via adb.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/recover-repair-a-file-not-deleted.4558651/post-88214233
just flash stock firmware using save user data option in miflash and done