Hey Guys,
My phone's screen got broken a few months ago. I remember I tried to recover the data from the phone but I hadn't enabled USB debugging prior getting it broken and had a really hard time trying to find a solution. I indeed realised that I can flash a Custom Recovery through Fastboot mode (I can access them, even without a screen. Intuitively and thanks to adb.) in order to log into the Custom Recovery and then be able to perform adb commands to pull out the data from internal memory. It seemed fair, but I just couldn't get it to work, given the fact that I also had no visuals of what I was doing, even though I followed correct steps. My question and help I need from you, is:
- Has anyone stumbled upon such inconvenience, and if yes how did it turn out?
- Could someone please tell me if its even possible to execute adb commands through a Custom Recovery in this phone, and which recovery would that be? (a redirection link/download .img file would be very appreciated)
- Recall my memory by telling me the basics of going to fastboot and after flashing the Custom Recovery, going into the CR from there. (Since I have no screen and its been quite a while, I don't remember the commands, button combinations of this phone). A video representation example would be greatly appreciated.
I really do not have a lot of time now, and I want to get the data back from the phone, precious photos and memories, and I can't have the luxury of time getting through the process alone with no proper guidance, so any help would be very appreciated.
Thank you!
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I apologize first off for another boot problem thread.
First, I have never messed with my rom. I never flashed it or anything. The most I have done is load KaiserTweak and TomTom. Basic stuff.
I went to turn on my phone this morning and it stayed on the AT&T boot screen. It just freezes. I kept trying to soft reset the phone and at one point it loaded with like the default settings but nothing worked. The start menu only had the Today listed. The phone wouldn't work either. From then on, it always sticks on the AT&T boot screen.
I tried removing the battery and the sim card for a few hours and that didn't help. I tried turning on without the sim.
I am hoping to fix without a hard reset. I don't want to lose all of my contacts and all the data saved on the phone. Is there any way to save this stuff?
That's why you should always have scheduled backups at least once a week. I don't see this being fixed without a hard reset. You did everything that i would have personally suggested (taking out battery and everything for a few minutes). If all fails, you can always go into bootloader mode and reflash the ROM.
Is there no safe mode way to access the device? How about any work around so the computer can access the flash data without the device being in active sync mode?
Highly doubt it and i've never read anything about accessing the device when it's not on. It seems so sporadic and from the looks of it, only a reflash will get you going again.
This reminds me of back when I was trying to flash my Kaiser to 6.1... had exactly the same issues. Even worse actually since the problem started when I flashed a ROM wrongly, also without having an original to fall back to. Cue a night of trying to flash over my mistakes!!
I recall having some success with some specific mtty commands... argh, I'd bookmarked hundreds of threads on it back then but have since lost them all. All I know is there are a few commands you can type which may just get the phone booting again. Bit useless of me but it's a start!!
Ah, check these threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=371154 This one will erase all data
And post #2 demonstrates use of using the mtty boot command here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1765045&postcount=2
Those kinds of commands I managed to get my phone working with.
I figured out how to boot to the tri-color boot screen. The computer regonizes it and the boot command in mtty just does the same thing as turning it on.
Since my computer is now linked to the phone, isn't there some way to access files? Any commands in mtty that will work? Any other program out there that might help access the memory?
No one has any ideas about how to access the memory?
Did you manage to fix this in the end?
Got the very same problem with mine which hasn't been flashed in any way.
vigilante_xix said:
Did you manage to fix this in the end?
Got the very same problem with mine which hasn't been flashed in any way.
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Never was able to figure it out. I had to reload from scratch.
Good luck with your issue. Hopefully some of the suggestions around here and elsewhere will get you back up and running.
Hey everyone ^^
Hoping I can find some help here, else it'll be another phone consumed by the bricking plague
I recently tried to flash the latest CM from sourceforge, but the flashing process was interrupted (Powercut FFS). So the phone's stuck at the bootscreen. Normally, it'd be a case of rebooting into download mode and retrying, but....
My home key is buggered, it had a disagreement with some rain. Again, normally it'd be fine. Just use ADB to get into recovery/download, but...
The bad flash has made the phone unable to be recognized. Unsure whether it fails before it initializes USB, but it just won't be picked up on either ADB or Odin.
It's not all bad, I can still see the first Galaxy S bootscreen (The first one being the static, unflashey one).
TL;DR: Phone is buggered, unable to use "conventional" methods to access download mode, bootloader is still intact.
Could somebody please give some advice on this situation? It'd really help me out! Not keen on getting a new phone just yet
Cheers,
Morgan ^^
use JIG mate
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
thanks to TheBeano.
Yeah, I was looking into that. Unfortunately it'd take a few weeks for the parts to get here (No places like RadioShack etc) and this phone needs to be working ASAP (Usual story, right? ). Short of taking a knife to the AC adapter and hoping that I can find a 300K resistor, I'm at a loss as to what to do...
And now, this is even more interesting. Out of curiosity I decided to try to install my phone's drivers manually (For some reason Windows wasn't picking them up). The ADB drivers installed without any problems and I can now issue commands via ADB
The bad news is, well... Apparently most of the system stuff is missing. No /System/Bin directory at all (The only thing in /System is Lost+Found). Which, obviously, is bad. I tried issuing "reboot recovery" and "reboot download" which both worked, except the phone quickly flashed a white/blue line across the screen and restarted.
Is there any way to restore functionality through ADB? Can I push files to the /System/Bin directory (And all other missing things...)? If so, where would I get the files?
Hi Everyone,
First off I am a total novice and I put my hands up to say I should not have tried to root my phone. I merely wanted to root so that I could actually use the space on my SD card, which the HTC Desire doens't.
I did try to do this manually by reading a few guide and walkthroughs with no success. So then I used the sunshine app to unlock my bootloader and then WinDriod to load TWRP recovery and then hopefully root the phone. It does say ***unloacked*** on the fastboot menu. However, I sort of messed up my phone.
I cannot load into recovery mode - it goes to a HTC load screen then right back to fastboot usb menu.
I cannot factory restore the phone either.
Can anyone advise me how to return my phone to its normal state or advise on how to fix this problem?
Appreciate any help anyone can give me!
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Hi Everyone,
First off I am a total novice and I put my hands up to say I should not have tried to root my phone. I merely wanted to root so that I could actually use the space on my SD card, which the HTC Desire doens't.
I did try to do this manually by reading a few guide and walkthroughs with no success. So then I used the sunshine app to unlock my bootloader and then WinDriod to load TWRP recovery and then hopefully root the phone. It does say ***unloacked*** on the fastboot menu. However, I sort of messed up my phone.
I cannot load into recovery mode - it goes to a HTC load screen then right back to fastboot usb menu.
I cannot factory restore the phone either.
Can anyone advise me how to return my phone to its normal state or advise on how to fix this problem?
Appreciate any help anyone can give me!
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Hello,
Since you asked for help with returning the phone to it's normal state I have some questions. Does the phone work normally? Can you make calls, text, and do other things when you simply power your phone on or is the OS deleted? Are you just referring to obtaining stock recovery or do you still want to get TWRP? It sounds like some error happened when you tried to flash TWRP and now you have no recovery. Here is a great guide that shows you how to flash TWRP. You can use that same guide to flash the stock recovery. That channel also has videos with an alternate method to unlock your bootloader and how to root the phone.
My phone works fine, makes calls, texts etc, I just can't boot into recovery. I tried several methods, following online videos etc to no avail, but ill give this one a go this evening. I mentioned returning it to its original state so I could start over with the flashing process as nothing seems to allow me to load into twrp, so i wondered if there was a corrupt file or something preventing me from doing so. The phone's bootloader is unlocked I believe as it says so on the hboot screen.
Thanks for the suggestion, ill let you know how it goes.
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My phone works fine, makes calls, texts etc, I just can't boot into recovery. I tried several methods, following online videos etc to no avail, but ill give this one a go this evening. I mentioned returning it to its original state so I could start over with the flashing process as nothing seems to allow me to load into twrp, so i wondered if there was a corrupt file or something preventing me from doing so. The phone's bootloader is unlocked I believe as it says so on the hboot screen.
Thanks for the suggestion, ill let you know how it goes.
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The method in that video should work perfect. I doubt there was a corrupt file, but we'll find out soon enough. I have a love/dislike relationship with WinDroid. I love it, because of how easy it is to use and it requires little to no knowledge of what you are actually doing and it is just a beautiful looking program. I dislike the fact that you pretty much learn nothing when you use it, as it does all of the work. Also, if you use the adb drivers it provides and you already have adb drivers, you will receive an error that the adb server is out of date.
Hi,
So I busted the screen/digitizer on my N6. Phone will still ring and give notifications but screen is dead.
With no way to take the phone out of charge only mode and access it via USB, is there any kind of work around to recover my files on the phone without resorting to buying a new digitizer/screen for $150(already got a replacement phone). I'm comfortable enough with computers and doing cmd functions, I just have no idea how to tackle this.
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Hi,
So I busted the screen/digitizer on my N6. Phone will still ring and give notifications but screen is dead.
With no way to take the phone out of charge only mode and access it via USB, is there any kind of work around to recover my files on the phone without resorting to buying a new digitizer/screen for $150(already got a replacement phone). I'm comfortable enough with computers and doing cmd functions, I just have no idea how to tackle this.
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Do you have TWRP recovery installed? Booting to TWRP should give you access to internal storage.
Is ADB enabled in developer menu (which itself would have had to been enabled). If so, the obvious answer would be to reboot to bootloader and use adb pull.
If nether of those options, then *maybe* you can use a technique where TWRP is booted on the PC. I'm on the road, so I can't test that for you.
Nope no TWRP, not even rooted and I didn't set up developer mode. Learned my lesson and have that all set up on my 6p, guessing I might be screwed.
Thanks so much for taking the time to try and help me out.
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Nope no TWRP, not even rooted and I didn't set up developer mode. Learned my lesson and have that all set up on my 6p, guessing I might be screwed.
Thanks so much for taking the time to try and help me out.
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I'm not so sure I'd give up quite yet. The booting twrp on your PC might work. requires USB debugging enabled.
Do you have tasker? Maybe we could create an auto task. requires usb access which you don't have.
That's what I get for spitballing before coffee.
So, unless your bootloader is already unlocked and you can fastboot flash twrp, you're stuck. I'm sure you're aware, unlocking the bootloader now would wipe your data you're trying to recover.
Hi,
I'm not a developer so sorry if my questions sound basic but I much appreciate your help.
I have a big issue with my GT-i9000 (which works well until now).
It gets into boot loop - when trying to start up it doesn't get through the screen GT-i9000 (every time goes black screen and so on).
I read various discussions here that indicate it could be a bootloop issue that I can fix with Odin and certain fix file that I can't find active source to download it (most of the posts were a few years back).
Also I'm not familiar at all with Odin, adb and other similar softwares and terms, and certain explanations here sound very complicated to me.
I don't want to go through such fix process and to found out later that all of the media files were deleted.
Can you please instruct me how can I fix it at the most simple way (again, I'm not an expert)?
Also, is there a possibility to copy the media files that I have in the phone to my computer and to somehow bypass the loop issue? (without going through Odin etc.)
Anyway I have another phone so if this one will stop working but still I can save all the files I can live with that (of course I prefer this phone will also work).
Many thanks in advance!
Thomas
Any response will be much appreciated!
It's urgent, thanks.