The screen of one of my two XDA I is broken, but as the whole technical stuff inside is still working I am trying to get hold of my data that is stored on it. Unfortunately the Backup function of Active Sync is does not help because it does not accept my second device as one to put the backed up data one ("...device is not the same...").
Now I want to do it with the SD Backup function of the Bootloader, but as I cannot see what the screen is dysplaying I am not sure what buttons to press. Does someone know what buttons I have to press in what order to make the phone saving the data on the SD Card? Thanks for any help.
I think it is not possible, what you want to do.
There is a backup option in the bootloader, but this is just for the ROM and the bootloader. No additional data will be backup.
Also, if you only enter the bootloader, all of your data will be lost. It´s the same like doing a hard reset...
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I think you're trying to do something other than what you are actually trying to accomplish. Copying the bootloader isn't going to get the data off of your device. If you need to create a backup of the data, simply remove all your prior relationships then redock your broken unit and then you should be able to create a new relationship and create a fresh backup from the device. However, if you've already entered bootloader, you're done, as entering the bootloader performs a hard reset on the device.
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I think what you can do is:
1. Connect your PPC to your PC with USB Craddle and ActiveSync
2. Install Pocket Controller software to control your XDA from your PC. Thus you can see the screen of your XDA on your PC.
2. Use any backup software (Sprite backup or Sunny soft ..) to back up your data.
Hope it helps.
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Some thing very strange happened yesterday, suddenly my pattern I have used for a year now stopped working. when I click forgot password and sign into my google account it still doesn't work (maybe because I have no internet access?) it says wrong username or password. I found a way to reset the gesturekey through adb, but I think the pattern is blocking my adb, because when I have it plugged in adb devices lists no devices... I am pretty sure usb debugging was on though from when I got my token ID for unlocking the bootloader... any help would be much appreciated. factory reset would be very bad because I NEED the playlists I have on my rezound, HOURS were spent on those and I use them a lot for work and I don't think I can recreate them...
If you can get into recovery (power + vol down), you can flash a ROM without wiping data (only cache / dalvic). I think it should disable all screen security (and return all system settings and apps to their original states), but not affect third-party apps. Alternatively, you could flash a system.img from an RUU using fastboot (something like "fastboot flash system system.img"). Any playlists belonging to third-party apps should be unaffected.
I'm not an expert in this, though, so maybe you should wait for confirmation before trying it. It may also be good to make a nandroid backup first.
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If you can get into recovery (power + vol down), you can flash a ROM without wiping data (only cache / dalvic). I think it should disable all screen security (and return all system settings and apps to their original states), but not affect third-party apps. Alternatively, you could flash a system.img from an RUU using fastboot (something like "fastboot flash system system.img"). Any playlists belonging to third-party apps should be unaffected.
I'm not an expert in this, though, so maybe you should wait for confirmation before trying it. It may also be good to make a nandroid backup first.
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Yeah... but the problem with that is is that I am bootloader locked. And to unlock my bootloader I need adb... and you cant flash roms with bootloader locked.
I was hoping someone would have an idea to get me adb access to the device so i could use something like this... in hboot and recovery still adb wont recognize
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Yeah... but the problem with that is is that I am bootloader locked. And to unlock my bootloader I need adb... and you cant flash roms with bootloader locked.
I was hoping someone would have an idea to get me adb access to the device so i could use something like this... in hboot and recovery still adb wont recognize
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Try hitting the Emergency Call Button on the lockscreen, then while in the dialer you may be able to access the settings via the notification pull down. I know that there have been several phones in the past that have "Overlooked" bypassing the pattern lockscreen in this manner.
You may also be able to access all of the hidden HTC menus through there "Secret" codes in the dialer. I forget what all of them are but its usually #*#*{number sequence}*#*# > call. There might be something in there to enable USB Debugging.
If you get USB debugging working, there is an old temp root script that we originally used to unlock the rez that should give you Root adb shell access. Copy all of the data in the /data/app/{Your App Package Name} to a folder on your SD Card.That is where your playlists should be saved if they are not saved to the SD Card. If they are in the SD Card, they may be under the Android folder somewhere.
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Try hitting the Emergency Call Button on the lockscreen, then while in the dialer you may be able to access the settings via the notification pull down. I know that there have been several phones in the past that have "Overlooked" bypassing the pattern lockscreen in this manner.
You may also be able to access all of the hidden HTC menus through there "Secret" codes in the dialer. I forget what all of them are but its usually #*#*{number sequence}*#*# > call. There might be something in there to enable USB Debugging.
If you get USB debugging working, there is an old temp root script that we originally used to unlock the rez that should give you Root adb shell access. Copy all of the data in the /data/app/{Your App Package Name} to a folder on your SD Card.That is where your playlists should be saved if they are not saved to the SD Card. If they are in the SD Card, they may be under the Android folder somewhere.
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First and second things dont work. any of the secret dialer codes return with an error saying that they arent emergency numbers is there a way to enable usb debugging through hboot or something?
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First and second things dont work. any of the secret dialer codes return with an error saying that they arent emergency numbers is there a way to enable usb debugging through hboot or something?
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Pull your SD card and pop it into the PC... you might luck out and have your playlists there. What app are are they stored in?
I highly doubt that there is a way to do it through HBOOT. HBOOT is pretty much HTC's Utility for Flashing entire partitions from images to the phones NAND w/o the use of a PC and having a lockout control. IE RUU's, Recovery, and Kernels.
Having a locked bootloader means that you can only flash, with HBOOT, PH98IMG.zip files that have been digitally signed by HTC. So no custom recoveries, or PH98IMG.zips that only have system and kernel images.
I highly suggest that if you manage to get your data... that you backup and unlock or S-OFF your phone. Get a custom recovery on there so that you can nandroid backup and have access to a Root Shell in recovery mode.
Titanium Backup can extract User Data from nandroid backups now in case you ever have to wipe data because of an issue like this.
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Pull your SD card and pop it into the PC... you might luck out and have your playlists there. What app are are they stored in?
I highly doubt that there is a way to do it through HBOOT. HBOOT is pretty much HTC's Utility for Flashing entire partitions from images to the phones NAND w/o the use of a PC and having a lockout control. IE RUU's, Recovery, and Kernels.
Having a locked bootloader means that you can only flash, with HBOOT, PH98IMG.zip files that have been digitally signed by HTC. So no custom recoveries, or PH98IMG.zips that only have system and kernel images.
I highly suggest that if you manage to get your data... that you backup and unlock or S-OFF your phone. Get a custom recovery on there so that you can nandroid backup and have access to a Root Shell in recovery mode.
Titanium Backup can extract User Data from nandroid backups now in case you ever have to wipe data because of an issue like this.
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thanks, they are located in the stock music app
looks like I'm out of luck. I'm just gonna factory reset and hope and pray it keeps the playlists...
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looks like I'm out of luck. I'm just gonna factory reset and hope and pray it keeps the playlists...
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Now that I am s-offing does anyone know is just a paper clip will work for connecting the pin to gnd? or do i really need a ethernet strip or whatever.
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Now that I am s-offing does anyone know is just a paper clip will work for connecting the pin to gnd? or do i really need a ethernet strip or whatever.
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Some people have had luck with a paperclip, but I wasn't able to get it to work after about 30 min of trying. Any piece of wire should be able to work, really. I ended up using a 25-foot speaker cable I had hooked up to my stereo system. Worked fine.
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Now that I am s-offing does anyone know is just a paper clip will work for connecting the pin to gnd? or do i really need a ethernet strip or whatever.
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I used a plain paper clip when I did it. Just make sure to ground yourself before hand
You touching some very sensitive parts of the mainboard while doing this
Double Check before hand... I know bootloader unlock wipes your phone. I don't remember if Soff will too
Check your SD Card under the Android and Data folders... your playlists are probably on there somewhere. 98% sure HTC stores playlists on the SD card... just don't remember if it was Internal or External on the rezound
It's best to use a different sd card just in case it gets messed up. Had 2 get deleted, easily fixable , but you will lose data on the card.
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thanks so much! alright one last question... i am about to bootloader unlock... i was gonna a few months back and got the unlock_code.bin, but since then it has been a few months and a factory reset, will the same unlock_code.bin work or do I need to get a new one?
EDIT: I got impatient. Yes it worked.
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I used a plain paper clip when I did it. Just make sure to ground yourself before hand
You touching some very sensitive parts of the mainboard while doing this
Double Check before hand... I know bootloader unlock wipes your phone. I don't remember if Soff will too
Check your SD Card under the Android and Data folders... your playlists are probably on there somewhere. 98% sure HTC stores playlists on the SD card... just don't remember if it was Internal or External on the rezound
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I'm kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff, so what do you mean by grounding myself? and double check what?
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I'm kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff, so what do you mean by grounding myself? and double check what?
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He just means to touch your wrist or hand to something metal prior to your phone to discharge any possible static electricity. Check to see where your music is stored by using file explorer or root explorer because if it is on internal it will get wiped.
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He just means to touch your wrist or hand to something metal prior to your phone to discharge any possible static electricity. Check to see where your music is stored by using file explorer or root explorer because if it is on internal it will get wiped.
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He is unable to check via this method because of the lock pattern issue. I believe he is trying to S-OFF so he can flash a new ROM and access his playlist data to export it. I am still Unsure if it is stored on the Internal SD Card, External SD Card or in /data
Static Electricity will murder electronics, some test equipment I've worked with would cost 3-5000 dollars to fix after just a 0.2v static charge.... Typical static charge can be upwards of 10,000 V.
While touching something metal will discharge static electricity, it may not discharge all of it. Touch something metal that is connected to earth ground, like the metal of outside of your computer's case.
Also what I meant by double check was research your S-OFF method... it May wipe your Phone, Internal, and/or External SD Card.
I think the playlists are gone..... they wont show up in the stock music app... but alas... I will make do, but I'm gonna make sure to S-OFF, and install a recovery and get a nandroid on my computer so it doesnt happen again, i just unlocked my bootloader and gotta wait till i get home (I am on vacation right now) in a few days to have access to my linux computer then I will be S-OFF thanks again everybody, especially insertnamehere12! I think I will end up throwing on a rom that lets me use t-mobile usa... any suggestions?
For the code are u talking about *#*#4636#*#*, use it sometimes when my 4g doesn't work lol
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Im not sure with ext partitions, but with fat, and fat32 you might be able to recover deleted files with certain utilities. Might be able to recover the playlists that way.
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Im not sure with ext partitions, but with fat, and fat32 you might be able to recover deleted files with certain utilities. Might be able to recover the playlists that way.
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good thought I think I know what you are getting at maybe I'll give that a go...
I've recently been getting into more security cautious habits with encryption and what not, due to this whole NSA/Big-brother is watching business... But I have a question (more may pop up as this discussion goes on). Sorry if I seem noob-y, I am still getting a hang of all this encryption business. But here's my first round (regarding just the files being backed up):
If I go ahead and do a full phone encryption with my GN2 where will I stand as far as backups to Dropbox/Copy/Google Drive/etc.?
I currently have photos and such backing up to copy, and I often move backups made through recovery to Dropbox and such. If I were to have photos automatically sync to copy or move system backups to dropbox wouldn't that render them basically useless as I am assuming they move out of the phone encrypted (not being decrypted as they exit).
The photos would be unusable anywhere besides my phone right? So moving them off my phone to share vacation photos for instance would be impossible, and if my phone were to crash they'd be irretrievable? Making the backup process pointless.
Wouldn't the back up be rendered useless as well, exactly when I might need said backup? If my phone were to ever crash or die for some reason, I would lose the encryption key, would even be able to do a full system restore through the recovery? It would seem that the encryption key wouldn't be kept with those back up files, so while it might place everything back in its correct place, it would still be unreadable. Or does it maybe keep the key in system files somewhere so that a full backup would restore the key as well?
And my second round of questions (regarding recoveries and what not):
I am also under the impression that I would not be able to flash through custom recovery either as the internal SD would be inaccessible from the recovery being it doesn't have the encryption key. I am currently running OmniROM and it is in a nightly stage still for my phone. I wouldn't be able to update nightly would I? I am assuming since it basically flashes/overwrites system each time, that I would be losing my encryption key and making everything besides system unusable then right?
And what about downloading ROMs to flash/update directly to my phone? As I download them from in browser or another app and they go to the default /downloads folder they would be encrypted. They wouldn't be accessible from there in recovery, but if I were to try and move them out of internal SD to the external SD they would retain encryption and still be inaccessible? So the only way to download ROMs and updates would be from PC and only move them to the external SD?
Overall, this seems to be crippling a lot of the way I use my phone...
Bump?
Sorry, this is already getting buried and I kinda want to know what's going on before I go ahead and do this...
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I've recently been getting into more security cautious habits with encryption and what not, due to this whole NSA/Big-brother is watching business... But I have a question (more may pop up as this discussion goes on). Sorry if I seem noob-y, I am still getting a hang of all this encryption business. But here's my first round (regarding just the files being backed up):
If I go ahead and do a full phone encryption with my GN2 where will I stand as far as backups to Dropbox/Copy/Google Drive/etc.?
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I'm not (yet) an expert on this, but when you've encrypted your device, it encrypts the file system on your internal memory and SD card. You have to enter a PIN/password when you turn on your device (and when it times out) to gain access. When the correct PIN is entered at boot time, the file system is available as normal - the underlying data is still encrypted, but the file system can unencrypt it in "real time" for use by apps and the system.
So that means that Dropbox et al all see your files as normal, and any copying you do from your device to something on the net (Drive, Dropbox, a server, etc.) works as normal - the data appears normal to the apps and is copied as normal. So photos would copy across as photos, music as music, etc.
Think of it like this: You can't speak Urdu, only English. There is a book you own that is written in Urdu that you want to tell someone about. You find a translator to read the book and tell you what it says. He reads the first page in Urdu, translates it in his head to English, and tells you what it says. You then tell your friend what it says (in English, of course). Your friend writes down what you told him, in English, then tells you something in reply. You tell your Urdu translator what your friend said (again, in English). Your Urdu translator then translates (in his head) what you said from English to Urdu, and writes it down in the book in Urdu.
At no time do you understand Urdu, nor does your friend. Your friend doesn't even know the book is written in Urdu and doesn't care. He never sees it or accesses it directly. If anyone ever steals your book, they can't read it unless they can read Urdu. The book is only useful to you and your friends if you have an Urdu translator sitting there in the loop. (the analogy is imperfect and incomplete but you get the idea).
So, getting back to your phone, if you have it encrypted, the underlying file system deals with translating things on the fly if you've given it the correct password at boot and login time. No apps ever know about the encryption - they just see data as normal (unencrypted). So any app that wants to copy a photo to Dropbox just sees a normal photo - it never sees the underlying encrypted data. But if you don't enter the correct password at boot time, the phone can't boot, and anyone trying to access the data on the phone won't be able to read it unless they know the password.
Does that help or confuse?
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I currently have photos and such backing up to copy, and I often move backups made through recovery to Dropbox and such. If I were to have photos automatically sync to copy or move system backups to Dropbox wouldn't that render them basically useless as I am assuming they move out of the phone encrypted (not being decrypted as they exit).
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Hmm, this does my head in a bit but lets untangle it:
- you boot into Recovery. The Recovery you're using (obviously) understands encrypted file systems (some versions of CWM do, some versions of TWRM don't for instance - see near the end of this post for a bit more on this). So when you boot into Recovery and enter your PIN/password, it can then read your file system. You can then do a Recovery-based backup of your file system (or individual files, though I'm not aware that you can do this). The backup it creates is written to the encrypted file system and thus encrypted with the same encryption keys used for everything else.
- You boot the phone back up as normal and enter your PIN/password, and start up Android. You then use Dropbox to copy the Recovery backup files to the cloud. So the question is, "Are these files encrypted?" and I think the answer is, "No". Why? Read the rest of this post and hopefully you'll work out the same conclusion. But I'm pretty sure that the data that ends up on the Cloud is not encrypted.
One general comment worth pointing out as an aside (sorry, this paragraph isn't really related to the above but I wanted to point this out somewhere and its still useful) is that each time you encrypt your phone, it creates a unique encryption key - even if you give it the same PIN/password to use. So if you're forced to rebuild/reflash/wipe your phone in the future, it won't be able to access any data that is still on there (in internal or SD memory) since it won't know the previous encryption key. So you'll have to wipe all data and start again. And at that point, if you choose to encrypt your fresh, newly initialized phone, it will have a new, unique encryption key that won't work on any encrypted data from previous. So if for instance, you plug in an SD card that was encrypted on your phone in an earlier ROM, it won't be readable even if you know the correct PIN/password, since your phone will be using a different underlying unique key.
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The photos would be unusable anywhere besides my phone right? So moving them off my phone to share vacation photos for instance would be impossible, and if my phone were to crash they'd be irretrievable? Making the backup process pointless.
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So, if you're following this, you'll now understand that moving your photos off your phone could be done two ways:
- while you're using the phone as normal (ie. you've booted it, entered your PIN/password, and copying your photos to Dropbox via an app while you're logged on. If you do it this way, you're simply copying photos as normal that can be viewed as normal in Dropbox.
- by copying backups generated while in Recovery. But Recovery will be firstly mounting the encrypted file system successfully (if you gave it the right PIN/password and your version of Recovery supports encryption), which means it can read your photos as normal files, then backs them up into its own normal Recovery file/folder structure and writes them to your encrypted file system, so the underlying data is encrypted unbeknownst to Recovery. Then when you boot up your phone and log in successfully to Android, you can access that data as normal (and unencrypted). So when you then copy it to Dropbox, all you're copying is normal Recovery-created backup files. The copied data won't be encrypted (unless Recovery encrypts them itself, independently, which I don't think it does). So you could copy this data to anybody's phone, so long as they were using a compatible Recovery version and probably compatible ROM.
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Wouldn't the back up be rendered useless as well, exactly when I might need said backup? If my phone were to ever crash or die for some reason, I would lose the encryption key, would even be able to do a full system restore through the recovery? It would seem that the encryption key wouldn't be kept with those back up files, so while it might place everything back in its correct place, it would still be unreadable. Or does it maybe keep the key in system files somewhere so that a full backup would restore the key as well?
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I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think your logic is correct. The backup would be useless if the phone loses the encryption key, which it would do if you re-initialized your phone and/or did a new encryption. So you can only recover your backed up data if you haven't done either of those things. A solution to this is to use backup software that runs on your phone (Titanium Backup) that gives you the option to encrypt your data. Some caveats to this approach should be obvious:
- you firstly need to decide if you trust your backup software's encryption
- you need to use a strong password and be able to recall it months/years from now when you go to restore your data
- you need to copy your backups off your phone (such as onto your SD card, cloud, dropbox, etc.) in case you lose your phone.
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And my second round of questions (regarding recoveries and what not):
I am also under the impression that I would not be able to flash through custom recovery either as the internal SD would be inaccessible from the recovery being it doesn't have the encryption key. I am currently running OmniROM and it is in a nightly stage still for my phone. I wouldn't be able to update nightly would I? I am assuming since it basically flashes/overwrites system each time, that I would be losing my encryption key and making everything besides system unusable then right?
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Tricky - if you flash/update your phone with a new ROM, you will probably be OK so long as you haven't wiped the part of your phone's storage that holds the encryption information. I don't know where this is. But the nightly updates I do to my phone don't normally touch my data - all my apps are still there and it boots identically to the way it did before I updated it. HOWEVER, its possible that an update may force me to wipe my phone for some reason - the update may fail, it may contain significant changes, or I might screw something up. I probably end up completely wiping my phone at least once every 2 months just because I like to play with the latest and greatest ROMs, or I screw something up. So if that happens, I'm going to lose the encryption information and thus would lose everything on the phone.
Of course, I can always restore my apps and data via Titanium Backup, since I back up my stuff quite often and then copy it to Dropbox.
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And what about downloading ROMs to flash/update directly to my phone? As I download them from in browser or another app and they go to the default /downloads folder they would be encrypted. They wouldn't be accessible from there in recovery, but if I were to try and move them out of internal SD to the external SD they would retain encryption and still be inaccessible? So the only way to download ROMs and updates would be from PC and only move them to the external SD?
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Hmmm - good question. A simpler question is, "Is my encrypted file system accessible while in Recovery?" I believe the answer is, "Yes, if you use CWM, No if you use TWRM". But I say that because from what I've been reading, some versions of CWM/TWRM can/can't handle encrypted devices. But you'll already have sorted this out at the time you're trying to encrypt your device anyway since the encryption process involves rebooting your phone into recovery I believe - and if you're not using the correct supported Recovery, this step will fail. But if you are using a supported recovery, this step will work, and therefore logically I'd assume that you can access your encrypted file system while in Recovery in the future. I'd imagine Recovery would prompt you for your PIN/password in order to mount the encrypted file system.
So assuming the above is correct, you would be able to access the newly-downloaded ROMs while in Recovery and thus can flash them. But of course, Caveat Emptor with flashing the new ROM - if it forces you to wipe anything, you may end up unable to access any of the data.
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Overall, this seems to be crippling a lot of the way I use my phone...
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From what I've been researching, you won't have a problem anyway, because I haven't come across anyone that has successfully encrypted their phone using a custom ROM. Strangely, this ability seems to be unwanted by XDA people. My tinfoil hat tells me that there are people ensuring that this ability continues to not work on custom ROMs until/unless a backdoor capability is found. Hopefully I'm wrong on many counts.
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From what I've been researching, you won't have a problem anyway, because I haven't come across anyone that has successfully encrypted their phone using a custom ROM. Strangely, this ability seems to be unwanted by XDA people. My tinfoil hat tells me that there are people ensuring that this ability continues to not work on custom ROMs until/unless a backdoor capability is found. Hopefully I'm wrong on many counts.
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Amazing post by the way! It does seem very helpful.
BUT it's very funny you mention it not working. Because that's exactly what happened. After not getting a response here or in the ROM's forum for a few days, I decided to just take the plunge and do it. I was just planning on testing everything out my self and figuring it out as I went. The first time it seemed fine, the encryption went through it seemed.
Being as I didn't know any of the info you just enlightened me with, I did fear that nothing was truly encrypted though. Everything was transferring to my computer with a drag and drop and working fine, so I was afraid (without evidence) that nothing was truly encrypted. I asked on the ROM's forum again (still waiting for an answer).
That night, my phone was left plugged in charging, yet some how had turned off in the night. I awake to my phone asking for an encryption key. I enter my key in to no avail. Nothing works and my phone is left unable to boot. It was utterly denying my password. I had to reflash. I asked about that in the forums as well, whether that was normal or if encryption was maybe not implemented yet, etc. The dev running the nightlies for my device has responded to the forum multiple times but not to me. Another user mentioned it might be that it is now merged together as a Galaxy Note 2 ROM and not specifically a T-mobile Galaxy Note 2 ROM (might be possible. Idk.).
Now, I have tried to re-encrypt. Multiple times. But I cannot for the life of me get it to even start now. Every time I go to start the encryption process it shows me the fullscreen image of the android unzipped horizontally (at which point it is supposed to reboot and start encrypting) and it hangs/sits there forever. Not rebooting, not anything. If I hit the back button, the image disappears and it goes back to my phone. Working perfectly fine, like it never even started doing anything. I am not doing anything differently. I don't know what could be happening to stop it from even getting as far as it did last time. Unless the devs maybe started working on it and have disabled it for the time being/screwed it up worse, I dunno.
Not you got me crafting a tin-foil hat...
Currently if you enter the PIN wrong, or wrong fingerprint, or wrong screen-tap code wrong 10 times it will wipe your phone AND sd card. I cannot find any way to disable this. It kind of defeats the purpose of having an SD card if your child can grab your phone and erase it in under 2 minutes.... any help would be appreciated. I have an RS988 so I could root if need be but I don't want to use custom ROMs. Thanks.
I think, the risk that this situation will appear, is same high than you can have lost your phone or it was been stolen.
So i recommend to make a backup with LG backup to a second external sd card every month!
And no, there is no way to protect your phone against secure wipe after entering wrong pin for ten times.
Sorry!
BTW: most of the available restore programs are able to get your data back in this case. It is not an really secure wipe!
and...
Sometimes it seems to be possible to make a backup of all of your date using the adb bridge.
(connection to a pc is needed!) Use Google to get more informations about that procedure!
see here for example: ->
1.) https://www.technipages.com/how-to-backup-your-entire-android-device
2.) https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/general/guide-phone-backup-unlock-root-t1420351
I use LG backup only and i need ~1h to fully restore my H850. (including all setups for right management and sound settings too!)
Respected by mistake, I reset the phone to factory settings.
So on that occasion I lost pictures, videos, viber pictures, messages and sms.
So I'm wondering how I can get back to my phone or computer.
And is it possible to set the phone as a usb device or sd card so that all the data on the computer is restored to the software (I managed to recover the data from the deleted usb from the usb device using recuva applications and the like)
Thanks
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Respected by mistake, I reset the phone to factory settings.
So on that occasion I lost pictures, videos, viber pictures, messages and sms.
So I'm wondering how I can get back to my phone or computer.
And is it possible to set the phone as a usb device or sd card so that all the data on the computer is restored to the software (I managed to recover the data from the deleted usb from the usb device using recuva applications and the like)
Thanks
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What you intend to achieve requires 1. the phone is rooted and 2. USB-Debugging is successfully enabled. Both requirements fulfilled?
jwoegerbauer said:
What you intend to achieve requires 1. the phone is rooted and 2. USB-Debugging is successfully enabled. Both requirements fulfilled?
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The phone is rooted once but I'm not sure if it's done well.
So I should root it and then try with some apps to find the lost files in the phone?
sndelija said:
The phone is rooted once but I'm not sure if it's done well.
So I should root it and then try with some apps to find the lost files in the phone?
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I apologize: Device must NOT be rooted.
Carrying out a Factory Reset all your device data get wiped out, means you end up losing all your important user data before it is backed up. However, Factory Reset does not affect the external SD-card in any way. So, even if you have the SD card inserted with videos, images, documents and any other personal information in the Android device while carrying out a Factory Reset, everything will remain safe and intact.
Factory Reset is neither the best option anyway.
As long as after the Factory Reset no apps etc.pp. got installed on Android device, there is a chance you can recover deleted user data - but only if the related storage memory didn't get overwritten in between. So instead of recovering deleted files from Android without computer by an Android file recovery app, which could potentially overwrite the deleted files when the app is installed, you have a better chance to recover the deleted files with a desktop Android data recovery application on your computer. Dozens of those Windows applications are available, simply do a Google search for those.
I tried the root phone but failed.
Does anyone know how to root this model?
Thank you
Hey Every One
I have a Galaxy A 21s on wich I broke the Screen.
Now a few Yeas later I replaced the LCD but forgot my Password.
-Usb Debuging is Disabled.
-No Custom ROM installed, so i cant delete the Password File.
-oem Unlock is alsoe disabled.
-Find my Phone is deactivated and Google recovery also.
I have now tried a lot of ways to get to my Data but nothing worked so far.
My last resorts are trying to get a full Backup of the Phone and use it in an Android Emulator to Brutforce my Passcode.
or install Custom Recovery, restor my Backup and delete the Password File or get in with adb.
Hence my question woud it be possible to Make a Complet Backup, wit example Odin and use it in an Emulator or restore it on a Rooted Phone?
If any one knows further ways of getting back my Data im open to try things out.
Thanks for the Help.
Edit: I found that i could use adb Sideload to install Apps from stock Recovery. The only Problem i woud need to spoof the signature of the .zip im trying to instal, maybe any one knows a way wit that method?
If you can't access it you can't copy anything.
A data recovery specialist that works with Samsung's might be able to.
I never set a lock on mobile phones or PC bios because you are the one most likely to get locked out! Security is physical, one will pay with blood for trying to steal my phone.
I redundantly back up all critical data often and keep backups in separate locations. Never encrypt backup drives. Hdds are best, flash for quick "dirty" backups. I use my 1tb SD card as a data drive then back that up. Also use two .5th OTG flashsticks.
Phone is always cased. Don't put yourself in the predicament again. Think it through and tie up the loose ends before they trip you. I've lost entire, irreplaceable databases before, not fun.
There's no such thing as overkill when it comes to backing up critical data. Digital data is otherwise very fragile.
Hi, I am in the same situation as you. I forgot the pattern but I really need to recover some data before restoring the phone. With the stock recovery were you able to remove any protection via adb sideload? Thanks