My i717 was bricked due to faulty screen (not my fault) not sure why the screen has to do with anything turning on, regardless the phone wont turn on at all. AT&T said its covered by warranty and I'm getting a new phone this week. Only problem is now that my phone is bricked, I cant get any of my pictures. I have a lot and some important ones. Is there anyway to recover these photos from the bricked phone. I cant even go into download mode let it alone turn on so solution needs to bypass that. Thanks.
Your screen won't turn on, or your phone won't turn on? If is just the screen, you should still be able to connect to your pc and just copy your pics in the DCIM/camera Folder l folder. Something doesn't sound right about this though. You sure you didn't flash something that you shouldn't have? I've never heard of a phone just up and brick all on its own... Gues it don't matter at this point, just Find it very odd.
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Unless the device can be powered on (regardless of screen operation ) and if USB connection is enabled prior to the failure, you will not be able to access the internal EMMC partition on the device.
External storage can of course be removed for access via PC or alternate device.
Ultimately, if the device can be seen by PC when powered, the data can be recovered.
But without power...for the internal board....via USB interface ...you won't be successful.
I suppose it's possible to force power to the mainboard via jumper wires, similar to the riffbox and JTAG methodology.
But of course, that is well beyond my skill set.
Rather than requesting a JTAG or similar repair, you might could contact the same folks that repair the device.
Mobiletechvideos.com
They could certainly tell you if internal access is possible using the forced methods they have perfected for our devices.
That's really all I've got at this point ...g
you didnt use a micro sd card?
i dont see it getting off the device any other way
Shirokishi said:
you didnt use a micro sd card?
i dont see it getting off the device any other way
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I had the same issue except it was just a non functioning LCD. I booted the phone into recovery and pulled everything off using ADB. if your phone wont turn on, (like mentioned before) then there's no way to access the internal memory through the phone. You'd need to pull the phone apart, which would void your warranty
Seems like you have good advice on your current situation...but maybe for the future...
Try downloading Dropbox. They have an auto-upload feature that saves images to your dropbox. Could keep a situation like this from happening again.
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Thanks for all the advice, the phone did brick up all on its on at&t described it as a faulty screen but the whole phone is bricked. I appreciate the help and responses but looks like I am SOL. Not that I am an alien to the inside of a phone, but if I were to open it up, I'm sure AT&T would void the warranty, costing be 540$. Looks the dropbox idea would be a good idea the for future.
Or even an SD card would be better for your personal media than using internal memory.
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I have an htc touch pro and it wont sync. to anything. Even my car stereo, witch has a usb port so u can sync music to it, wont work. once in a while it will but most of the time it wont. i have tried everything, but still no luck. I tied a new cable, different computers, everything. I may have to be forced to brick it and get a new one for free from sprint.(i have an insurance plan that will replace it for free if its bricked). Any ideas?
p.s: i have looked everywhere but i cant find how to flash a ROM from internal storage on a touch pro. only a touch diamond. any help?
I am not positive I am understanding you 100%, but here is my take. If you are having problems with it conecting to Activesync, try going into Settings - Connections - USB to PC and make sure the "Enable faster data synchronization" checkbox is unchecked. Many systems cannot take advantage of this.
As far as syncing from the storage card, simply extract the .nbh file and rename it to Raphimg.nbh put it on the root of your storage card and enter the bootloader mode ( I think it is holding the volume down button and the power button at the same time and using the stylus on the bottom to reset. kepp holding them until the tri-color screen appears.)
Good luck, and if I didn't understand you, sorry.
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I have an htc touch pro and it wont sync. to anything. Even my car stereo, witch has a usb port so u can sync music to it, wont work. once in a while it will but most of the time it wont. i have tried everything, but still no luck. I tied a new cable, different computers, everything. I may have to be forced to brick it and get a new one for free from sprint.(i have an insurance plan that will replace it for free if its bricked). Any ideas?
p.s: i have looked everywhere but i cant find how to flash a ROM from internal storage on a touch pro. only a touch diamond. any help?
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Uhmm, I made a full thread on flashing the device, including flashing from a SD card. Also, the other thing is that your USB jack might be broken, which may be the reason for the occasional connection. If you have the insurance, don't mess with the phone any longer. Back up your data and take it to the Sprint store claiming that it does not work.
Good luck!
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Uhmm, I made a full thread on flashing the device, including flashing from a SD card. Also, the other thing is that your USB jack might be broken, which may be the reason for the occasional connection. If you have the insurance, don't mess with the phone any longer. Back up your data and take it to the Sprint store claiming that it does not work.
Good luck!
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I guess i didn't look well enough. anyway, i have to brick it if i were to take it back. I unlocked it and now im using Energy rom 3.0. Witch sprint wont like, i guarantee you. I cant re-lock it because that requires it to sync, which it wont. If i brick it the third part retailer i would go to(because the sprint store doesn't do insurance claims) would just say screw it and order a new one(this is my third touch pro in less then a year). But i will flash it from main memory i guess. It would be nice if it would sync tho.
Thanks, Rushman
Well, my son's mother had just sold me her extra vibrant, which included the 2gb sd card that came with it. But before she did that, she moved all her pictures and movies onto her own vibrant. That same day, before she could move all those pictures and videos onto an brand new sd card, she accidentally dropped her phone and the screen got destroyed, as in it won't turn on and is just black now.
Ordinarily we wouldn't have cared because she was going to send in that phone anyways and cancel her contract, unfortunately the pictures and videos she moved onto the phone's memory were of our first and only son, about a years worth. When he was born we didn't have a camera or camcorder, so the phone camera was our only way of capturing those early days, so they are extremely precious to us.
I'm sure it's just the screen that is broken, not the rest of the phone, so if there is any way to FORCE MOUNT the phone to my computer, please shed some light to that.
Or if I could do it through ADB using the PUSH/PULL commands, which I'm sure I could, I just need some instruction on how to do that. I'd want to pull the whole picture/video directory onto my desktop or something along those lines.
I have a PC and a MAC which I could use, so PLEASE! if there is any way I could recover those pictures/videos, please help out and let me know.
Thank you A LOT in advance
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Well, my son's mother had just sold me her extra vibrant, which included the 2gb sd card that came with it. But before she did that, she moved all her pictures and movies onto her own vibrant. That same day, before she could move all those pictures and videos onto an brand new sd card, she accidentally dropped her phone and the screen got destroyed, as in it won't turn on and is just black now.
Ordinarily we wouldn't have cared because she was going to send in that phone anyways and cancel her contract, unfortunately the pictures and videos she moved onto the phone's memory were of our first and only son, about a years worth. When he was born we didn't have a camera or camcorder, so the phone camera was our only way of capturing those early days, so they are extremely precious to us.
I'm sure it's just the screen that is broken, not the rest of the phone, so if there is any way to FORCE MOUNT the phone to my computer, please shed some light to that.
Or if I could do it through ADB using the PUSH/PULL commands, which I'm sure I could, I just need some instruction on how to do that. I'd want to pull the whole picture/video directory onto my desktop or something along those lines.
I have a PC and a MAC which I could use, so PLEASE! if there is any way I could recover those pictures/videos, please help out and let me know.
Thank you A LOT in advance
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So from reading this the precious pictures are NOT on your external sd card (the small black card) or internal sd card, the one you can pull out. If the pics and vids are on either of those you can just take them out and buy a device where you can just plug those cards into your computer. Otherwise just get the screen replaced... I'm sure a Tmobile or even maybe a Best Buy store at a mall could replace the screen for a small fee so you can get your pics back.
OR, I'm pretty sure a tmobile store has some special equipment to extract data from your phone.. Just gotta ask!
you're correct,
she moved them from the SD card to the phone's memory when she sold me the phone. She dropped the phone before she could move them back to a fresh SD card.
The thing with that is, she was going to send in that phone because it had a small defect, (I bought the extra phone which came from the insurance or whatever because she was going to cancel the contract with the 200$ i gave her the new phone and start up a new contract), so we have until Wednesday to recover the pictures, because she has to send in the phone then.
And thats a good idea, I'll stop by tomorrow at a t-mobile store and check,
but if i could still do it tonight that would be awesome!
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you're correct,
she moved them from the SD card to the phone's memory when she sold me the phone. She dropped the phone before she could move them back to a fresh SD card.
The thing with that is, she was going to send in that phone because it had a small defect, (I bought the extra phone which came from the insurance or whatever because she was going to cancel the contract with the 200$ i gave her the new phone and start up a new contract), so we have until Wednesday to recover the pictures, because she has to send in the phone then.
And thats a good idea, I'll stop by tomorrow at a t-mobile store and check,
but if i could still do it tonight that would be awesome!
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hmm is the screen shattered or just black? also when you cut the phone on does it ring and stuff? if the digitizer still works then you can just press home,so that you know your at the home screen. then connect the it to the computer. then make the gesture that pulls the notification bar, then connect your vibrant as well so that you can tell what part of the screen needs to be touched on her vibrant to mount the sd to the computer. that should work. i had a psp with a cracked screen but i was still able to navigate because i knew where everything was by heart lol.
shattered and black lol, and i believe she told me it doesn't ring anymore, i'd have to ask her in the morning. But yeah thats the first thing I tried when i went over today to try and fix it, which is why I'm thinking using the ABD commands in the only way to do it now
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shattered and black lol, and i believe she told me it doesn't ring anymore, i'd have to ask her in the morning. But yeah thats the first thing I tried when i went over today to try and fix it, which is why I'm thinking using the ABD commands in the only way to do it now
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You need to enable USB debugging if it wasn't done previously to use ADB.
I hope you recover your pics. If worst comes to worst you will need to repair the phone.
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You need to enable USB debugging if it wasn't done previously to use ADB.
I hope you recover your pics. If worst comes to worst you will need to repair the phone.
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Yea you might as well get it repaired. Those pics are priceless
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Liquid602 said:
Well, my son's mother had just sold me her extra vibrant, which included the 2gb sd card that came with it. But before she did that, she moved all her pictures and movies onto her own vibrant.
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Here's my attempt. When she moved those pics and vids from the 2g card they don't permanently erase so you could still use recovery software to get those pics/vids off the card again.
I'll bet that's cheaper than repairing the phone too.
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Here's my attempt. When she moved those pics and vids from the 2g card they don't permanently erase so you could still use recovery software to get those pics/vids off the card again.
I'll bet that's cheaper than repairing the phone too.
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Not a bad idea and worth a shot. I have had great success pulling files from a hard drive with pin 1 missing and a corrupt fat table, using Easy Recovery Pro. That (windows based) app is also very useful for retrieving deleted files, as long as the source wasn't formatted. As far as using adb, usb debugging would have to be enabled as previously mentioned. Also, if the phone doesn't ring, are you able to tell if it actually turns on? Without power and usb debugging, adb is useless.
On the off chance, does she backup her pics with Lookout?
Good luck getting your files back.
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You can try android commander. Its worth a shot. I had a similar situation before I knew about odin my phone was in a continuous boot loop and couldn't mount the sd card, I used android commander to pull some pictures that needed for my work. I just had to make sure it the device was recognized through adb. Good luck.
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Just a thought, why don't you use the screen from your Vibrant and put it on hers. That will A.confirm it's the screen and B. get your pictures.
+1 on android commander if you don't want to do the hardware swap. If your phone is actually coming on just no screen it will pick it up. Wait, don't you have to be in debugging mode for that though?
Seems your best bet is the hardware swap.
Hello,
I literally broke my SGS2. it has been bent. obviously the display is cracked, but it seems that also some of the internal electronics have been damaged, since it is not detected as phone anymore when i plug it in via usb.
is there any way to save some data from the internal sd card?
i am thinking about unsrewing everything and wiring the sd card up manually to an sd card reader.
it was rooted and had hydrogen mod running. usb debugging was enabled.
thanks!
bump.
anyone?
Doubt it. You could get in touch with a company that does recovery of borked hard drives & they might be able to help you. An authorised Samsung repairer might also be able to help. Your chances of doing it yourself are slim to zero (probably the latter given if you were capable of doing it yourself you wouldn't be asking on here & would probably have already had a go at it). If you don't have backups I wouldn't be getting my hopes up.
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Doubt it. You could get in touch with a company that does recovery of borked hard drives & they might be able to help you. An authorised Samsung repairer might also be able to help. Your chances of doing it yourself are slim to zero (probably the latter given if you were capable of doing it yourself you wouldn't be asking on here & would probably have already had a go at it). If you don't have backups I wouldn't be getting my hopes up.
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thanks, i am still going to try myself. i have nothing to loose. the phone is broken anyways.
found this:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung-Galaxy-S-II-Teardown/5861/1
Good luck ;-)
If your phone cant ge detected by a computer then you cant retrieve your data.
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Probably a pointless question, but make sure you have the drivers installed.
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So my wife left her phone on the roof of her car, then drove to work. Our neighbor dozens of houses away found it in his yard, tracked her down, and returned the phone. It worked for a few hours, then the screen died. The phone itself still works, but the screen will not come on. Apparently it got water damaged in this process, so we ended up getting a replacement thru insurance.
She would like to recover her photos from the old phone internal storage, but I can't get the computer to see the internal storage.
I can't remember exactly which recovery is installed, I think it's TWRP 2.2.1, but I'm not sure about that. I tried booting into recovery, then clicking on the screen where the "Mount" button is on my phone (TWRP 2.4.4), but her phone just vibrates when I click that location on her screen, and nothing happens.
Is there any way to force the phone to start into a mode that will allow me to access the internal storage?
I think I have USB debugging enabled, but it was many months since I rooted her phone, so I'm not sure exactly what the exact status of her software is on that phone.
thanks in advance for any help with this!
You can try something like this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1821601
I just tried it and it works great, it looks like you can only do one at a time but its fast!!
Not sure if you know about adb, if not you need this installed.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Did it work JustinChase?
That tool is now part of my collection.
Sorry, when I got home from work to get started on the process, the screen came on and I was able to access the internal storage without difficulty. Sadly, I'm still out the $150 for the replacement phone.
Thanks for the help, I hope to not need it again anytime soon.
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Hello every-xdadeveloper-one~ here i would like to ask questions about my S2 GT-i9100g
My phone is dead. No download mode, recovery mode, usb connection, odin recognition, kies detection, charging, turning on, nada. Meaning in whatever it is, it is not responding to anything.
I would like to ask some professional help here in xda; what has happened to my phone? Is it the emmc? power supply failure? or anything related to it? i really need to know any related things that i'll be dealing with before going to the last step, service repair. it is working fine, i have rooted, unrooted, cyanogenmod and stock, cwm and stock, but none of this has given any problems until one day when it is charging, it suddenly turned off forever.
Please tell me any related things of what has happened.
note: i used a few PIT files when flashing before this, and i'm not sure which is which for the mobo. and few months back before the s2 is totally dead, it keeps on turning off by itself even when full battery, but still workable.
Probably the EMMC, but without having the phone in front of us with the tools to diagnose it, nobody here can tell you this for certain. Fix will be motherboard replacement (assuming you intend to keep this phone & not get a new one).
Take it to a Samsung service centre (more expensive option), or source a 2nd hand motherboard online & either swap the boards yourself, or pay a local mobile repair shop to do it (cheaper option).
Well i just bought a phone from amazon and got it monday it had half battery when i got it so i put it on the charger A hour later it was dead so dead that it wont even charge i tryed diffeent plugs different chargers still nothing what could it be ???
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What model; I.E sticker on the phone chassis under the battery, what does it say ?
I guess it is :crying: Heard there is a workaround that maybe the balls beneath the emmc is like problematic? Maybe i need to reheat it a few seconds and cool it instantly to MAYBE get it able to turn back on? Changing a new board is not an option as important work flowcharts are in the internal storage. I guess service repair of the emmc is needed. Hmmm.
Is it possible that wrong PIT files be the culprit that made all this?
You won't be recovering any data regardless of how you proceed.
You can't 'repair' the EMMC, and it's not feasible to just replace the EMMC (and even if it was, your stuff is on there which means you lose it anyway), replacement of the board is how you proceed. Even if it was possible to replace just the EMMC, you'd probably end up paying 3-4 times the cost of having the entire board replaced due to the cost of labour (swapping a board takes 10 minutes).
If a PIT was the problem, the problem would have occurred immediately after the PIT flash I.E you would have flashed the PIT, and the phone wouldn't have booted immediately after. It's a simple case of component failure, which happens with all electronics all the time. I'm always surprised by how people on here seem to find this incredible. Stuff breaks, simple really.
The only possible very rough chance you have of recovering any data is a company who specialises in recovery of data from dead HDD's, they may be able to help, though very unlikely. If they are able to help, expect this to be very expensive. I have not seen a single post from anyone who has contacted one of these companies & been able to recover data from a phone in this state in the over 2 yrs I've been here.
Thank you for the info. Now i guess the only choice to do, is to repair(replace the mobo), or go buy a brand new s2(or higher models). I will check if there is any way to retrieve the data inside, and i dont mind the cost. :good: