Anybody know a free data recovery app for an Oppo A72 water damaged phone
Unless you can get it to boot you're not getting that data.
Pull battery. Place in very warm (max 110F), dry room dissembled as much as practical with a fan on it for at least 3 days.
Try again.
Do Not use anhydrous isopropyl alcohol as a drying agent as it will poison the TFF display!!!
blackhawk said:
Unless you can get it to boot you're not getting that data.
Pull battery. Place in very warm (max 110F), dry room dissembled as much as practical with a fan on it for at least 3 days.
Try again.
Do Not use anhydrous isopropyl alcohol as a drying agent as it will poison the TFF display!!!
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Hi I have a very specific question about this, I have a water damaged phone and I was thinking to sell it maybe somebody would use anything the camera module or whatever is it dangerous for potentially retrieving my data? In case it not turns on could they recover anything? It is a Samsung S21U anyway.
Download Broken Android Data Extraction is recommended here https://www.coolmuster.com/android/recover-data-from-water-damaged-android.html as it could still access the phone form a pc even when it is off. What do you think? (also in case this tool can access data can I also use it to wipe the storage clean?) Thank you.
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Hi I have a very specific question about this, I have a water damaged phone and I was thinking to sell it maybe somebody would use anything the camera module or whatever is it dangerous for potentially retrieving my data? In case it not turns on could they recover anything? It is a Samsung S21U anyway.
Download Broken Android Data Extraction is recommended here https://www.coolmuster.com/android/recover-data-from-water-damaged-android.html as it could still access the phone form a pc even when it is off. What do you think? (also in case this tool can access data can I also use it to wipe the storage clean?) Thank you.
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Who knows? Since you can't wipe it the data is potentially retrievable.
Being water damaged though it's basically junk. More a matter of when the modules will fail then if.
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Who knows? Since you can't wipe it the data is potentially retrievable.
Being water damaged though it's basically junk. More a matter of when the modules will fail then if.
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Yes, you are probably right! Thank you for your answer!
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I foolishly took my new S3 for a swim the other day, and now I seem to have a phone that will not connect to the network anymore.
Events so far:-
1. Took phone for 90min swim while turned on
2. Stripped, cleaned and dried phone
3. Phone seems to work in all respects but will not connect to network
4. IMEI is still there, SIM card reads data. Connect to network says connected, but when I try to make call says not connected
5. Left phone off without battery in overnight
6. Now have null IMEI and will not read SIM
So after searching the web and these forums I have tried
1. Rooting Phone
2. GSII Repair
3. Blowing stock ROM in over the stock Orange one already there (This phone had never been changed from the factory settings until swimming trip)
Still to no avail. I do have the IMEI written down, but I do not have an EFS backup.
Is there anyway I can recreate the EFS partition with my IMEI, or is this phone now a pretty ornament as far as GSM connectivity goes?
The best thing you can do is, disassemble it for as much as possible (if that can be done without damaging it)..
then clean the PCB with pure Alcohol, that way you rinse off all the dirt/minerals etc that will cause corrotion soon otherwise.
I'm not sure if this is solely a software problem, if there is dirt in ur phone shortening stuff (like anything of the radio)
you can get weird problems, i had this with a tiny bit of dust one day in a old phone. Therefor i think its a hware problem
I would wash it in alcohol anyway, after taking off the screen, and for the rest as much as possible.. then dry it for 8hrs +/- (alcohol vaporates easily). After that , see if you still have software problems.
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The best thing you can do is, disassemble it for as much as possible (if that can be done without damaging it)..
then clean the PCB with pure Alcohol, that way you rinse off all the dirt/minerals etc that will cause corrotion soon otherwise.
I'm not sure if this is solely a software problem, if there is dirt in ur phone shortening stuff (like anything of the radio)
you can get weird problems, i had this with a tiny bit of dust one day in a old phone. Therefor i think its a hware problem
I would wash it in alcohol anyway, after taking off the screen, and for the rest as much as possible.. then dry it for 8hrs +/- (alcohol vaporates easily). After that , see if you still have software problems.
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Thanks I think it's as clean as it can be. No sign of any physical damage. Stripped right down to seperate pluggable components. It is either an electrical problem now or NV data being lost I think.
My wife had a little crack in her S3. Then it became a bigger crack. Watched many videos, but apparently not the right ones. I attempted to replace just the $10 glass, but busted up the LCD in the process. Now I have to replace the whole LCD/Digitizer/Glass. The cost to buy the combo seems to be about the same as buying with the frame, which is a WHOLE lot easier to replace.
My question is, will I lose everything on her phone if I do the "simple" bezel replacement? Obviously, removing the battery won't wipe everything, but will unhooking those dozen ribbon cables disconnect some internal battery from the RAM?
I can't back anything up. The phone is password protected, so I can't access it from Windows via USB or from KIES.
I suppose if I can't retrieve the data any other way, it won't matter anyway. But I would like to try...
There shouldn't be any reason it would wipe the memory, NAND is none volatile therefore you can disconnect all power and it won't get wiped.
If you physically damage the NAND chip though the data may be irretrievable, just be careful and don't damage anything and you should be ok.
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You're right. It should have been in Q&A. So if you are a moderator, move it. Otherwise...
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There shouldn't be any reason it would wipe the memory, NAND is none volatile therefore you can disconnect all power and it won't get wiped.
If you physically damage the NAND chip though the data may be irretrievable, just be careful and don't damage anything and you should be ok.
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That's what I was expecting. Thanks!
Ugh - so I bought this replacement screen and it probably just got shipped out. Turns out I have an i747 and I bought an i9300 frame/digitizer, LCD.
Is it true the guts won't fit right?
I tried to intercept the sale, but they probably already shipped.
Did I say UGH?
Nope. I did replace the hole frame + screen a couple of weeks ago. No problem.
Hi! My Realme7 (RMX2155) drown in the sea. The only problem is non-working touchscreen (it loads in normal or recovery mode, connects wifi). Official service confirmed that phone is unrecoverable (problems with motherboard).
Stock recovery. No root, no usb debugging.
I need to recover user data (mainly photos) from it. As touchscreen is not working, I can't login to enable any settings (USB debugging, MTP, PTP).
I tried to:
plug in mouse, but OTG is disabled by default (need touchscreen to enable it in settings).
flash twrp recovery, but it returned red state (needs bootloader to be unlocked?)
made a full ROM backup and tried several recovery tools on it, but I see abracadabra in file names and in file content (see screenshot, encryption?).
I've no more ideas, pls help
BIG trouble, you did the wrong and worst thing...
Pull battery immediately.
Salt water is highly corrosive especially with energized circuits.
Your only hope is to pull battery and submerged in warm RO warm for 30 minutes, replace water and repeat. Move it around and try to completely flush out all salt. This will be impossible to completely do but it may be enough to allow temporary operation.
Drain water. Compressed clean dry low pressure air helps.
If it doesn't have a LCD display* flush liberally with anhydrous isopropyl alcohol minimum 96%.
Then displace as much of the alcohol as possible. Place in a warm, DRY room with a fan directly on it for a minimum of 4 days to dry.
Reconnect battery and attempt boot up. Even if it boots it will fail sooner or latter from the salt caused damage. Retrieve data asap.
No time to dilly-dally Mr Wick... tic-tok
Alternatively if this fails or if the data must be recovered, hire a data recovery service that will pull the chipset and attempt to retrieve the data.
The chipset with the data on it is most likely a BGA form factor. If the water got under it, it's corroding away its contact pads underneath.
*never get solvents of any kind near a LCD display. It will poison the liquid crystals.
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BIG trouble, you did the wrong and worst thing...
Pull battery immediately.
Salt water is highly corrosive especially with energized circuits.
Your only hope is to pull battery and submerged in warm RO warm for 30 minutes, replace water and repeat. Move it around and try to completely flush out all salt. This will be impossible to completely do but it may be enough to allow temporary operation.
Drain water. Compressed clean dry low pressure air helps.
If it doesn't have a LCD display* flush liberally with anhydrous isopropyl alcohol minimum 96%.
Then displace as much of the alcohol as possible. Place in a warm, DRY room with a fan directly on it for a minimum of 4 days to dry.
Reconnect battery and attempt boot up. Even if it boots it will fail sooner or latter from the salt caused damage. Retrieve data asap.
No time to dilly-dally Mr Wick... tic-tok
Alternatively if this fails or if the data must be recovered, hire a data recovery service that will pull the chipset and attempt to retrieve the data.
The chipset with the data on it is most likely a BGA form factor. If the water got under it, it's corroding away its contact pads underneath.
*never get solvents of any kind near a LCD display. It will poison the liquid crystals.
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The problem is - it's too late It happened more than a month ago. I couldn't pull the battery - it's non removable (it was the first thing I tried). It was not easy to remove back cover without equipment (it is glued). Official service tried to repair the phone, they flushed out salt, changed screen, connectors, but with no result - motherboard was damaged already. However it still works completely, except the touchscreen.
I gave up trying to repair the phone, I just want to recover data - in any way.
Hire the recovery service is a good idea, but quite expensive. That will be my last hope
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The problem is - it's too late It happened more than a month ago. I couldn't pull the battery - it's non removable (it was the first thing I tried). It was not easy to remove back cover without equipment (it is glued). Official service tried to repair the phone, they flushed out salt, changed screen, connectors, but with no result - motherboard was damaged already. However it still works completely, except the touchscreen.
I gave up trying to repair the phone, I just want to recover data - in any way.
Hire the recovery service is a good idea, but quite expensive. That will be my last hope
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At that point break the rear cover off if need be as every minute counts.
Even with quick action is likely already dead anyway. The salt leaves a residue that attracts moisture. It may have given you enough time though to retrieve the data latter when it was flushed and dried.
See what kind of quotes you get. Probably starts at at least $400.
Hope that repair shop told you any repairs only be temporary at best... salt water is insidious.
Hi Everyone,
I am turning to you for help in a dire situation.
I've recently dipped my OnePlus 7T Pro a bit too much into the water, and turns out, waterproofing works both ways. To cut it short, the device is operational, boots into the OS, but immediately freezes on boot completition. I've taken it to a repair shop, and they said, that the whole device is rusted on the inside, with zero chance of fixing.
I've managed to boot it into recovery mode, hoping that I can somehow pull my personal data.
The device itself has unlocked bootloader, and running the latest hardened LineageOS, rooted with magisk, and of course, the lineage recovery as well.
I can enable and access adb inside recovery, but I only see the option to mount the system partition, and adb pull only pulls system if I run it. I've tried to mount the data partition, but somehow it is empty (in adb shell, which is in root mode, I've ran mount /data /data and same with sdcard, but adb pull / still only produces system, not my personal data. I am somewhat of a noob, so there is a major possibility that I've did something wrong, my google-fu failed me.
I would be glad, if anyone could suggest anything to recover my data somehow.
Thank you for reading, and Have a Great Day!
The cpu and memory chipsets are likely BGA form factor. If the corrosion is underneath them the outlook isn't good. Is the phone completely dry now?
If there's any doubt disconnect the battery and liberally flush with anhydrous isopropyl alcohol. Pull as many connectors as possible first, carefully, and take a few pictures before doing so. Then displace as much of the alcohol as fast as possible. Use clean, dry low pressure air if available, carefully. Put in a warm 80-100F, dry room with a fan on it for at least a day. Stand it or the pieces on end.
If no one here has a recovery solution that works try disassembling it and cleaning the corrosion enough to make it bootable. It may be on the pins of the ribbon connector contacts. Maybe a peripheral assemble like the cam is killing the boot. You may be able to use a toothbrush to carefully remove enough to get it operational for a short time. Use small amounts of water then anhydrous isopropyl alcohol as a final wash/drying agent.
If you had caught the water contamination immediately it may have been salvageable using anhydrous isopropyl alcohol to dry it. The device must be powered down and battery must be pulled asap. Energized exposed metal accelerates the corrosion process greatly. Once corrosion forms on the power buses, contacts, BGA pads, etc it becomes unrepairable. Salt water is extremely corrosive, fresh water not near as bad.
Thank you for your suggestions blackhawk!
Unfortunatelly, the repair shop already went through with these practices, they've used deoxidizing agents, cleaned up the mainboard as good as possible, and disconnected everything but the battery and screen from the mainboard, still no luck.
It was in fact thermal water, so maybe somewhere between fresh and salt, due to high mineral concentration.
I do not know what could causes the system freeze, as recovery/fastboot runs fine, and the whole boot process completes.
I'll still holding my hope out for someone with some recovery/adb magic.
Just a bit of an update, I've also posted this to the 7TPro TWRP Thread in search of answers:
Since no answers came, I tried to flash TWRP over the Lineage Recovery, which in turn, works, abeit, with flaws, since I simply cannot decryt the data partition. I know that the password is correct, still, no luck.
I hope it's a good sign, that I can see the folder structure/files at least encrypted, but another issue is, with TWRP MTP mount, I cannot copy those files from the phone to the PC (errors out on copy).
Right now I'm wondering, is there a TWRP version for this phone that could decrypt my data? (A10)
Tested: 3.6.0_11 & 3.6.1_11 both FBEv2 and FBEv1 no luck. FBEv2 is the correct one as, my ROM is custom:
[CLOSED]EOL [ROM][Unofficial][10.0][microG][signed]hardened LineageOS 17.1 Oneplus 7T Pro
This thread is deprecated, please look at the 18.1 successor thread. This thread is dedicated to provide hardened Lineage-OS 17.1 builds with microG included for the OnePlus 7T Pro (hotdog) with current security patches. Features of this ROM...
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Also the FBEv1 shows 0MB data, and cannot mount it even in the encrypted format.
Any help is apprecated, Thank you all in advance!
Hello all,
I have been using LineageOS for MicroG on a Moto G7 power for about two years. This was all great until I forgot I had my phone in my bathing suit pocket and took it into the ocean with me while on vacation. I disassembled the phone, disconnected the internal battery, washed with fresh tap water, and then soaked in isopropyl alcohol for a while. After drying, I tried reconnecting the battery and got no external signs of life. I tried connecting a usb cable between the phone and my computer. Oddly enough, the phone shows up as a ADB device.
I opened a adb shell and tried "cd sdcard" to see if I could get into the DCIM folder to recover my photos. I got the output "/system/bin/sh: cd: /sdcard: No such file or directory". Just for fun I tried to see if I could boot TWRP and do anything with that. I entered "adb reboot bootloader", waited a while and then entered "fastboot boot twrp.img). The phone then showed up on my computer in some kind of file transfer mode. I was now able to see the "sdcard" folder. but the contents were all random characters and I was unable to open any files.
The three questions I have are:
1. Given the info above, is there any way to recover contacts, texts, and photos via any ADB commands?
2. When I was able to view the "sdcard" folder, it was all gibberish. Does LineageOS for MicroG encrypt its folders, or is my data likely corrupted?
3. Given that the phone responds to ADB anf Fastboot commands, what are the chances that the main board and memory are OK and its a just an issue of the screen being dead?
Thanks in advance for any help that you all may be able to provide,
Tim
Is the data on a SD card? Is it encrypted?
The phone is likely toast, if not now, soon.
It was RO or distilled water it needed to soak in, not isopropyl alcohol! Isopropyl alcohol (or any solvent) will as you see, poison the LCD. Water then air dry for LCD phones.
Regardless the salt likely already started the corrosion process*. It will likely fail eventually... it's a killer. Sometimes if you pull the battery immediately/flush it completely out within minutes the device might be saved. That's a big maybe.
*residue left behind on the connector contacts and such is corrosive and hygroscopic. Unless completely removed the corrosion tends to slowly continue.
Given my original post, do you think the LCD display is the only casualty? Replacement screens seem to be about $30. Do you think it is worth the risk to get one? Its not like its a ton of money. I don't know any other way to take control of the phone without a working display. Is there a ADB command that can put it into file transfer mode where I can at least get my photos? I am not looking to achieve a long term repair. Only looking to retrieve my data.
Thanks
P.S. I did hit all the connectors with contact cleaner and gently scrubbed with a toothbrush when I had the phone apart.
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Given my original post, do you think the LCD display is the only casualty? Replacement screens seem to be about $30. Do you think it is worth the risk to get one? Its not like its a ton of money. I don't know any other way to take control of the phone without a working display. Is there a ADB command that can put it into file transfer mode where I can at least get my photos? I am not looking to achieve a long term repair. Only looking to retrieve my data.
Thanks
P.S. I did hit all the connectors with contact cleaner and gently scrubbed with a toothbrush when I had the phone apart.
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Give it a shot.
Not much to lose and it will be an interesting experiment if you get it online again.
Check around the power section and V+ rails on the mobo for damage. There's not much you can do with the BGA chipsets as all the solder joints are beneath them.
I dropped my Buds case in a full cup of coffee, cream and sugar. Broke it down on the spot, flushed with RO water then anhydrous isopropyl.
The battery is spot welded in so that wasn't removed. Drank the coffee. Dried it for a day.
2.5 years later it's still working.
$hit happen...
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Given my original post, do you think the LCD display is the only casualty? Replacement screens seem to be about $30. Do you think it is worth the risk to get one? Its not like its a ton of money. I don't know any other way to take control of the phone without a working display. Is there a ADB command that can put it into file transfer mode where I can at least get my photos? I am not looking to achieve a long term repair. Only looking to retrieve my data.
Thanks
P.S. I did hit all the connectors with contact cleaner and gently scrubbed with a toothbrush when I had the phone apart.
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Personally i would buy another working phone even a cracked screen one as long as it works and just swap out the motherboard i have repaired and brought back to life a lot of electronics using a spray chemical called deoxit , it was originally used by musicians to clean there electronics on mainly guitars but this stuff ids liquid gold for water damaged motherboards and such . If what you have on your phone is very important to you its worth spending extra money especially for pics as thats 1 thing you can never replace if you didn't back them up . Check out ebay you can find 1 complete for $40 or less . I've had phone repair customers come to me for this same issue on so many different phones which i repair anyway . I always buy a working phone from ebay or craigslist and do the motherboard swap as thats where everything is stored on and always spray Deoxit on board before installing and i get a great success rate !
Replaced the screen and the phone is working again. Unfortunately, the data is lost. Efforts to retrieve anything via ADB resulted in files and folders with names made up of random characters. The files were unopenable. Tried side loading a new copy of LineageOS and that also failed. Ultimately came to the conclusion that my data was toast. Ended up reformatting the memory, side loading a new copy of Lineage, and was still unable to boot. Reformatted again and tried a copy of a stock Motorola ROM and that finally allowed the device to boot. Sucks that I lost my photos and stuff, but was a interesting experiment to see if I could bring the device back to life again.
Is there any app that would do scheduled backups to a removable SD card? I know I could backup through Google, but I do not want to share my data with big tech.
Thanks.
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Replaced the screen and the phone is working again. Unfortunately, the data is lost. Efforts to retrieve anything via ADB resulted in files and folders with names made up of random characters. The files were unopenable. Tried side loading a new copy of LineageOS and that also failed. Ultimately came to the conclusion that my data was toast. Ended up reformatting the memory, side loading a new copy of Lineage, and was still unable to boot. Reformatted again and tried a copy of a stock Motorola ROM and that finally allowed the device to boot. Sucks that I lost my photos and stuff, but was a interesting experiment to see if I could bring the device back to life again.
Is there any app that would do scheduled backups to a removable SD card? I know I could backup through Google, but I do not want to share my data with big tech.
Thanks.
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The folks over on the Motorola G7 Telegram group were awesome for ideas on how to revive this phone.
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Replaced the screen and the phone is working again. Unfortunately, the data is lost. Efforts to retrieve anything via ADB resulted in files and folders with names made up of random characters. The files were unopenable. Tried side loading a new copy of LineageOS and that also failed. Ultimately came to the conclusion that my data was toast. Ended up reformatting the memory, side loading a new copy of Lineage, and was still unable to boot. Reformatted again and tried a copy of a stock Motorola ROM and that finally allowed the device to boot. Sucks that I lost my photos and stuff, but was a interesting experiment to see if I could bring the device back to life again.
Is there any app that would do scheduled backups to a removable SD card? I know I could backup through Google, but I do not want to share my data with big tech.
Thanks.
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Yeah sound like you lost the encryption key(s)
Hear you on the Gookill cloud, it sucks. Trust Google with privacy? No.
An Android app that can do folder/file syncing reliably be nice. Right now I just copy whole folders... that takes a while.
Leave the SD card in the phone* and use it as a data drive. Then back up the SD card using the PC or 2 OTG flashsticks. Leave the SD card in the phone at all times.
If you use flashsticks also make periodic backups to hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC... because things can happen. Flash memory is convenient but less robust than hdd. You can never have too many backup drives. Never encrypt backup drives.
*if the OS crashes it will likely spare the SD card data, but never bet everything on that being so. The second drive provides some extra data security but it's not invulnerable to worms. A near lightning strike, accident or flash failure can also wipe everything.