Hello,
to all of you,
I have Samsung Galaxy tab 7,7, in which honeycomb is present.Some days ago, I accidently, entered the code "*#*#7780#*#* (Factory soft reset)" in my galaxy tab's phone dialer, after that it restarts some coding flashes, and when It starts I lost all mine data on the device, like pictures, memos, notes etc.I dont want to lost all mine data, its very much important even I have some data that is the question of some one's life, now please tell me is there any way or software or some method by which I can restore my galaxy tab to the same previous state? Mostly, I need the memo's that I entered in the Galaxy tab. Please let me know soon. Please experienced members of this respected site, please take this matter very seriously and let me know some way.Thank You.
Regards,
MOBILGEEK
teresatanyaya said:
It is possible, actually, it`s easy, you should untick the debug mode of the phone while you do the data recovery, set the usb connection as mass storage, then software should recognize both the internal storage and sd card, download Android Data Recovery for samsung galaxy s2, you can recover deleted data from Android without much fuss.
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Worked for me, thanks
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Hi All,
Actually I am in deep trouble because of my Galaxy Note now days. It is having TW Launcher error. I am totally unable to use my phone. It keeps restarting itself after every 10 sec. Everybody is giving me advice to Hard Reset / Factory Reset to my device. But my Major problem is that I have some very very important (almost 900 pics) saved in its internal memory. These pics are very very important for me and I do not want to loose these pics at all.
I am unable to take backup because its does not recognised by my or any other Laptop due to it restarting issue. This is the reason why I am not giving my mobile to any technician because no one is giving me any guarantee about my data. It is more than two weeks now, but I am still hoping that someone can solve this problem for me. In this forum I found some knowledgeable people so I get some light that someone from this forum can help me to resolve this issue. So please help me in this substance.
Thanks!!
formatting a phone does not erase you internal memory. you will just lose all your applications if it is installed in phone, contacts ( suppose its backed up in google so you can restore it later ) , and messages ( can backup easily try searching in market for applications which can backup messages ) .. whats your status? Are you rooted? if yes then go to recovery and try fixing permissions from there it should be in Advenced tab in recovery. GOOD LUCK!
yap internal sd storage has to be ersaed seperatly
so just reflash the rom via recovery
if u are rooted u may try to exchange your tw launcher with another version via adb or something
Background
I undated to Jellybean last week. All was going well until last night. My phone just turned into a Soft brick.
It is now stuck on Samsung logo.
I am able to boot into recovery mode and also download mode.
I tried remote logging to the device using ADB but I could only see a place holder to the SDCARD and SDCARD1, I could not see any files in there, and I could not mount them either.
Question
Anyway my question is, is there anyway to access the internal memory so I can recover some pics and videos, before I do a factory reset which will wipe all data including the internal memory partition?
By the way, I tried wiping Cache partition, didn't fix the problem.
I don't want to do a factory reset as I have read it will also wipe internal memory partition.
I then tried using Odin to install the original Jellybean firmware from my network which I got from samung-updates. I thought that this might fix what ever issue was preventing the phone from booting up, and hoped it would keep the internal memory partition intact. This uploaded successfully to the phone in download mode, but the phone was still stuck in the Samsung Screen after reboot.
Please help!!!
Thanks,
Anthony.
Re: [Q] Soft Brick. Stuck on Samsung screen. How to access Internal Memory?
First of all, here's clear idea of everything:
1. Wiping data, factory reset or flashing via Odin will format ur internal memory (where ur apps, settings, contacts, call history, calendar, etc are stored).
2. Ur photos, videos and other user files are saved in internal USB storage, and hence will not be deleted.
So u can be sure ur precious files won't be lost.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
Sent from my SGS II
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immortalneo said:
1. Wiping data, factory reset or flashing via Odin will format ur internal memory (where ur apps, settings, contacts, call history, calendar, etc are stored).
2. Ur photos, videos and other user files are saved in internal USB storage, and hence will not be deleted.
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Thanks Immortalneo. But I read that since the ICS update android stores and accesses the MC in a different way so I just wasn't sure about it. Also I read so many contradicting comments on various forms about this so didn't want to take the risk as I had just recently taken some photos and videos at my Dad's 80th Birthday that I didn't have time to back up, which I didn't want to take the risk and loose them.
Anyway I managed to get access to the Internal Memory before doing the Factory reset.
So for anyone else who stumbles across this thread and needs help this is what I did. I am not sure if everything I did was necessary but I will list everything I did so you can try some or all of it yourself.
Before I start I should mention that my phone was Stock, never been flashed. It was using the latest official Samsung phone network provider Jellybean update.
Using Odin I flashed with latest Jellybean original ROM for my country phone network from samsung-updates. You need to boot your phone into Download mode by holding Volume down, Menu, Power button. By the way Recovery mode is accessed by holding Volume Up, Menu, Power button.
You can probably use any custom rom but I specifically wanted to put on the same ROM to see if it might overwrite some broken files and fix the stuck boot loop issue. It didn't fix it, so maybe this step could be skipped in fact.
Next I decided to ROOT the phone as I read there were extra options in the Recovery boot screen. So again I used Odin to install SiyahKernel. This was the start of my eventual recovery. After I did this and booted up into Recovery mode I had some new options available, specifically lots of Memory card options. I mentioned in my OP that I could access the phone memory using ADB shell but I could not see anything in the SDCARD as it seemed like a link or placeholder. Anyway using Siyah's Kernel I now had an option to Mount the USB storage. As soon as I selected that option my Laptop popped up a message that a new device was connected and would I like to open the folder and view its files. ALLELUIA !!! I could now see the Internal Memory mapped as a drive and I could access all of my files and backup all of my precious videos and photos. However my phone would still not boot up! Arghhhhh
So now that I had my files backed up it was safe to do a Full Data Wipe and Factory Reset. I did that that, and during the process I got an error:
Code:
Wiping data
Wiping cache
[B]Error mounting /sdcard/.android_secure![/B]
Skipping format
Format complete
Anyway I tried booting up and it was still stuck on the Samsung Screen. F&%K I thought.
I was almost beginning to loose hope. But then I decided to just manually format memory card first before doing the Factory Reset. So I booted back up into recovery mode and selected Format Memory. Then did a Factory Reset and rebooted. But it was stuck again on the Samsung screen so I just left it down on the desk and started looking again at the forums then I saw the screen change to updating or initializing applications in the corner of my eye. Holy Sh1tballs, its working! It did seem to be stuck on the Samsung screen for ages, but in reality it was probably less than 30 secs,
As soon as I set up my Google account all my apps and settings and contacts started to automatically download back onto the phone. The only thing I lost were my SMS messages, but no big deal there.
So there you have it. I am back up and running with stock Samsung Jellybean phone network version as before, but now with a rooted phone with all the extra delights that enables me to do
In case any of this does not work for you there is another option you could try. It could be your internal MC is actually corrupted. This post below relates to re-partitioning the MC so its not for the faint hearted but it may be worth a try if all else fails.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1760107
Cheers,
Anthony.
Re: [Q] Soft Brick. Stuck on Samsung screen. How to access Internal Memory?
That was quite informative!
Thank you for sharing.. :thumbup:
Please add [SOLVED] to the title of ur post so that others with similar problems can get help too.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
Sent from my SGS II
Thanks, I just changed the title and added [SOLVED], took me a while to figure out how to change it LOL.
I learned a lot about Android, Samsung and Modding yesterday. It was something I had planned to look into but never had the time until this issue forced me to
Great write up of the fix. Good job Hopefully someone else finds it useful at some point.
Thank God for this forum and thank God for my own post LOL
This same sh1t just happened to my wife's Galaxy S2 where it got stuck on the Samsung Logo. I couldn't remember how I fixed my phone but I remembered I posted a good write up of how I fixed the issue here, and here it is.
And now I have just successfully fixed my wife's following my own procendure :good: to me hehe
AnthonyFitz said:
Thank God for this forum and thank God for my own post LOL
This same sh1t just happened to my wife's Galaxy S2 where it got stuck on the Samsung Logo. I couldn't remember how I fixed my phone but I remembered I posted a good write up of how I fixed the issue here, and here it is.
And now I have just successfully fixed my wife's following my own procendure :good: to me hehe
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Hey,
I'm having the same issue and want to pull files before wiping but not clear on bit of your instructions - did you root before installing Siyah kernal?
When I googled instructions for installing the kernal it says it I'll need to be rooted and have clockworkmod installed as well: http://androidforums.com/galaxy-s2-...s-root/518798-siyah-kernel-dummies-guide.html
Thanks
spottyelephant said:
Hey,
I'm having the same issue and want to pull files before wiping but not clear on bit of your instructions - did you root before installing Siyah kernal?
When I googled instructions for installing the kernal it says it I'll need to be rooted and have clockworkmod installed as well: http://androidforums.com/galaxy-s2-...s-root/518798-siyah-kernel-dummies-guide.html
Thanks
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YUSSS! Thank you anonymous internet stranger Anthonyfitz!
Managed to get all photos and videos and then also did a full backup of data so have memo's and all that other little stuff.
Phone booted first time after a factory wipe then, happy days!
For anyone reading this in the future, just following these instructions to install siyahkernel: http://androidforums.com/galaxy-s2-...t/482994-rooting-galaxy-s2-dummies-guide.html
I had recently rooted my phone and then installed CyanogenMod OS on my Samsung S3.
For installing cyanogen it formatted my phone, now I recall that I had some important data in my Mobile Vault app that I want to recover, most of the recovery software are unable to detect the mobile.
When I try to change it to USB mass storage device, it does how up on the PC but I cannot access it.
I had also created a backup image using ROM manager but it too got deleted in the process, if by some method I could get it back or if I can somehow make my phone be discovered as a mass storage device, I might be able to get my data back.
Sorry if I have posted in the wrong section. Any help would be appreciated I am struggling at it since the last 4-5 days.
There are hundreds of identical threads, I've not heard a single success. Sorry.
Sansd said:
I had recently rooted my phone and then installed CyanogenMod OS on my Samsung S3.
For installing cyanogen it formatted my phone, now I recall that I had some important data in my Mobile Vault app that I want to recover, most of the recovery software are unable to detect the mobile.
When I try to change it to USB mass storage device, it does how up on the PC but I cannot access it.
I had also created a backup image using ROM manager but it too got deleted in the process, if by some method I could get it back or if I can somehow make my phone be discovered as a mass storage device, I might be able to get my data back.
Sorry if I have posted in the wrong section. Any help would be appreciated I am struggling at it since the last 4-5 days.
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Well, If your phone is recognized by windows and you can connect as USB maas storage then use windows recovery softwares which can recover your data but it is very much time consuming may be you have to let your phone connected to pc for a day or 2 and if you have luck you will get back all the data. but its a 80:20 game.
Hello
On Galaxy S9+ in recovery menu I can find function called "Lacking storage booting". Someone know what this function do ?
Mine too igot confuse what is this for?Lacking Storage Booting
ive been trying to get info for a whilenow including asking sammy multiple times..
what I gather is, if your storage is full to the point you are having device issues or boot looping you enable that option which does something to where you can boot up and save some of your files.. it isnt a permanent fix as it suggests you should do a reset after u get ur files off
Hi,
I have used "Lacking Storage Booting" option for more than 5 times but I didn't found any lag/misbehave after using it (without factory resetting) & performance was the same all the time. This happened with me but if with you it lags then perform a factory reset.
1) However, this is supposed to be used when your mobile is having any booting problem or heavy storage issues.
2) This option is used when you need to get your storage access as Samsung says to backup your documents you want when mobile boots and perform a factory reset.
Even your Galaxy have no booting problem you can use "storage lack booting" without any problem (proved on my S9+).
Samsung claims that resetting should be placed just because for future steps to prevent any possiblity of issues which do not occurs but they have to think forward for the POSSIBILITIES.
One thing more, later on instead resetting the device you can also do instead of resetting and after using "storage lack booting":
* Delete documents from your phone (S9+)
* Go to recovery mode
* Mount/system
* clear cache
I hope this helped.
Alyaan said:
Hi,
I have used "Lacking Storage Booting" option for more than 5 times but I didn't found any lag/misbehave after using it (without factory resetting) & performance was the same all the time. This happened with me but if with you it lags then perform a factory reset.
1) However, this is supposed to be used when your mobile is having any booting problem or heavy storage issues.
2) This option is used when you need to get your storage access as Samsung says to backup your documents you want when mobile boots and perform a factory reset.
Even your Galaxy have no booting problem you can use "storage lack booting" without any problem (proved on my S9+).
Samsung claims that resetting should be placed just because for future steps to prevent any possiblity of issues which do not occurs but they have to think forward for the POSSIBILITIES.
One thing more, later on instead resetting the device you can also do instead of resetting and after using "storage lack booting":
* Delete documents from your phone (S9+)
* Go to recovery mode
* Mount/system
* clear cache
I hope this helped.
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Hi, I know this is a late reply on this thread but I just wanna ask. Will "Lacking Storage Booting" delete all of the data on my phone then?
Reply to the question of DATA LOSS (No Data would be lost!)
pooch22 said:
Hi, I know this is a late reply on this thread but I just wanna ask. Will "Lacking Storage Booting" delete all of the data on my phone then?
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No Bro, you won't loss anything on your device and even your phone's lock screen won't be affected (By this I mean that your phone would as Like it was).
However, Samsung says "Your Phone might get slow if you use Storage Lack Booting" but only if your storage is full or nearly full. You won't loss any data and this function base is to protect data and not to delete them.
Examples:
1) Your Phone has storage (127/128 GB), and you use "Storage lack booting" so for me the phone was not laggy but if you found your phone laggy restart it thrice and go to RECOVERY MODE and select clear cache.
2) Personally, for me this feature is not beneficial as this feature is for if you can boot into your phone so use it but WAIT I had my S7 with its peak storage full 32/32GB but everyday I restart, power off, dead it but still it is working.
3) Personally, for no reason I have used "Storage lack booting" more than 15 times and I performed speed test from all perspectives and felt the same speed response (all speeding was tested approx and the net-total was all approx and and yeah whenever if your phone is not turning on use this feature and when you will use then it might be laggy but till when its not errupting booting up it won't lag by using it.
* First time , When I used STORAGE LACK BOOTING I was little scared but then I thought did I purchased this phone for being scared.
* At First day, when I purchased this phone, I was scared to test water resistance, but Then I thought did I purchased a NEW phone for being scared. So i just threw it in a pool of 5 meter depth and yeah when I threw it, i belived it won't disturb me and is water resistance.
So bro, everyday learn something, experience it and surley if you are using Samsung orignal version it won't distrub your phone.
Alyaan said:
No Bro, you won't loss anything on your device and even your phone's lock screen won't be affected (By this I mean that your phone would as Like it was).
However, Samsung says "Your Phone might get slow if you use Storage Lack Booting" but only if your storage is full or nearly full. You won't loss any data and this function base is to protect data and not to delete them.
Examples:
1) Your Phone has storage (127/128 GB), and you use "Storage lack booting" so for me the phone was not laggy but if you found your phone laggy restart it thrice and go to RECOVERY MODE and select clear cache.
2) Personally, for me this feature is not beneficial as this feature is for if you can boot into your phone so use it but WAIT I had my S7 with its peak storage full 32/32GB but everyday I restart, power off, dead it but still it is working.
3) Personally, for no reason I have used "Storage lack booting" more than 15 times and I performed speed test from all perspectives and felt the same speed response (all speeding was tested approx and the net-total was all approx and and yeah whenever if your phone is not turning on use this feature and when you will use then it might be laggy but till when its not errupting booting up it won't lag by using it.
* First time , When I used STORAGE LACK BOOTING I was little scared but then I thought did I purchased this phone for being scared.
* At First day, when I purchased this phone, I was scared to test water resistance, but Then I thought did I purchased a NEW phone for being scared. So i just threw it in a pool of 5 meter depth and yeah when I threw it, i belived it won't disturb me and is water resistance.
So bro, everyday learn something, experience it and surley if you are using Samsung orignal version it won't distrub your phone.
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THIS IS AWESOME!
actually here is my situation, I'm just really scared to lose my pictures lol so please bear with me.
My phone is actually locked with PIN Code 4 digits, cant remember the code. its been like this 5 days now.
so my question is this: Can I do~
1. Boot to recovery mode.
2. Do the Lacking Storage Booting, so that it will save my data on my SD Card.
3. Perform Factory Reset so that my phone will be unlocked from the PIN Code that I dont remember anymore.
4. Restore the files from the SD card.
Please correct me if these steps are wrong.
Totally Odd Situation For ME!
pooch22 said:
THIS IS AWESOME!
actually here is my situation, I'm just really scared to lose my pictures lol so please bear with me.
My phone is actually locked with PIN Code 4 digits, cant remember the code. its been like this 5 days now.
so my question is this: Can I do~
1. Boot to recovery mode.
2. Do the Lacking Storage Booting, so that it will save my data on my SD Card.
3. Perform Factory Reset so that my phone will be unlocked from the PIN Code that I dont remember anymore.
4. Restore the files from the SD card.
Please correct me if these steps are wrong.
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For me it's an odd situation because I never went through a locked phone because I have my Samsung account signed in my Galaxy and so when I forget the code I simply go to Samsung Find My Mobile Website and unlock my phone from there. So What I know about this situation is:
1) If you signed your SAMSUNG ACCOUNT in your phone so UNLOCK your phone from the SAMSUNG website.
2) Your Data would definitely be lost and so you have to RESET YOUR PHONE through recovery mode:
After resetting you won't be able to get into the PHONE if Google Protection Lock was turned on (By Default it's ON) and to bypass it you can login your GOOGLE ACCOUNT which was logged in your phone. If you did not logged on your GOOGLE EMAIL then reset it but you would loss all of it's data. In this case if you forgot your GOOGLE ACCOUNT so you can easily bypass it FROM MARKET without logging the account.
3) Go to market and ask the person whether it is possible to get your photos/data if possible so it's best. IF not so, sorry for your lost
- Boot Lacking Won't let you enter into your phone without entering the password ( For you case just ignore it's existence for to HELP you)
Alayaann....
If u r there then please tell me... That lack storage booting needs SD card in phone or not??
Does lack storage booting.. Convert data from phone internal memory to SD card(external storage)??
Fattima said:
Alayaann....
If u r there then please tell me... That lack storage booting needs SD card in phone or not??
Does lack storage booting.. Convert data from phone internal memory to SD card(external storage)??
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no.. y would u need a sd card? it tells u wat it does in recovery when u select it.. all it does is start device with mininal resources so u can back up ur data if its runnin like crap if ur storage is full so u can then factory reset
Fattima said:
Alayaann....
If u r there then please tell me... That lack storage booting needs SD card in phone or not??
Does lack storage booting.. Convert data from phone internal memory to SD card(external storage)??
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I feel sad for being late and I wasn't able to help you at time but thanks to elliwigy for covering this thing at time. My e-mails are so messed up gonna fix this mess up soon. Sorry in literal meaning.
Thou Fattima, I'm here to add that Samsung revoked this feature from all it's devices which had this. It's quiet not possible to be there. Is that feature still on your phone then your phone is not up to date. Not in my S9+ neither on my s20ultra.
Greetings. Can I perform the wipe data/factory reset without the lacking storage mode?
Elvislobo3 said:
Greetings. Can I perform the wipe data/factory reset without the lacking storage mode?
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yes, why wouldnt u be able to?
Elvislobo3 said:
Greetings. Can I perform the wipe data/factory reset without the lacking storage mode?
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Yes, definitely it's possible. Boot Lacking is used when we are stuck in boot loop (phone restarting continuously and doesn't let you boot in) but when we reset phone from recovery option that is a step which comes before looping so obviously we can reset directly.
How do you perform lacking storage booting? Is it a button combination that you do when the phone is booting? Is it an option in the menu that I'm too stupid to understand? Sorry for the late reply.
i know a device can help you to backup everything in your phone if you are interested. it will help you to storage it in a difference micro SD card or External portable hard drive if you have them.
Alyaan said:
Hi,
I have used "Lacking Storage Booting" option for more than 5 times but I didn't found any lag/misbehave after using it (without factory resetting) & performance was the same all the time. This happened with me but if with you it lags then perform a factory reset.
1) However, this is supposed to be used when your mobile is having any booting problem or heavy storage issues.
2) This option is used when you need to get your storage access as Samsung says to backup your documents you want when mobile boots and perform a factory reset.
Even your Galaxy have no booting problem you can use "storage lack booting" without any problem (proved on my S9+).
Samsung claims that resetting should be placed just because for future steps to prevent any possiblity of issues which do not occurs but they have to think forward for the POSSIBILITIES.
One thing more, later on instead resetting the device you can also do instead of resetting and after using "storage lack booting":
* Delete documents from your phone (S9+)
* Go to recovery mode
* Mount/system
* clear cache
I hope this helped.
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Hey there,
I would like to do your suggestions but my power button is not working.. :/ Any suggestions perhaps?
Thank you in advance and stay safe
another problematic person here... what if i press Lacking Storage Booting nd phone doesnt rourn on it goes to phone is statring msg optimasig app..... the after it reset it self and then again i moved to recvery short version with only 4 picks. then i reset the phone i prese volume up and power to go to full recovery and again and again... is my phone dead? is there a way to instal andrond maybe from sd card if so whre to get that file from? i really dont want loose stuff on my phone. also clearing app data wipe them all right?? like msg etc? i just have important msg on some communicators and i would rather not to loose them...any way to access phone while its off to comy data??
Hi everyone,
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask but I am running out of ideas.
I have lost some important photos on my Samsung Galaxy S9+ and I have tried a couple of photo recover apps such as diskdigger, dr.fone, to name a few and they do not find them. It says to perform deep scans i need to root. Is there any app or pc software I could use to do deep scans on the internal memory of my phone?
P.s. I've looked at ways of rooting the phone but I'm confused, was looking at using twrp and magisk but not sure how to start as I read somewhere samsung phones have their own flash software.
Thanks for any support
If I recall correctly, rooting any Samsung phone requires a hard reset, so that's probably a worse idea lol
Why not check if they're in the "thrash" folder in your gallery, if you have it on
Or check if you have sync on on any of your photo apps
Cheers, ive checked the trash folder and its empty so they must have gone outside the last 30 days, and until this weekend I never synced my photos with the cloud (rookie mistake I know)
Guess they are gone forever
Am33k3r said:
Hi everyone,
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask but I am running out of ideas.
I have lost some important photos on my Samsung Galaxy S9+ and I have tried a couple of photo recover apps such as diskdigger, dr.fone, to name a few and they do not find them. It says to perform deep scans i need to root. Is there any app or pc software I could use to do deep scans on the internal memory of my phone?
P.s. I've looked at ways of rooting the phone but I'm confused, was looking at using twrp and magisk but not sure how to start as I read somewhere samsung phones have their own flash software.
Thanks for any support
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Usually, if the deleted photos not being overwritten by new data, such data recovery softwares can help us recover them back. But before that, we need to root it by using samsung root app. You can search such root apps online and choose the one you like better. Then it can help you scan out all data on your Samsung Galaxy S9+ and recover them back. Please note: If the deleted photos are overwritten, there is no way to recover them back.