My elderly neighbor held onto her Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen) for years till it recently stopped responding all of a sudden to her touches. It still charges fine and the display exhibits no issues, but the touchscreen is totally unresponsive despite repeated reboots. I'm guessing the touch digitizer is dead? Anyway, I've convinced her it's pointless to waste money repairing it and to simply get a new device. Since there weren't too many apps in use (most apparently stopped working over time on what must've been either Lollipop or Marshmallow), those aren't the issue here. What is required is to extract the bare minimum but very important data from the phone like **pictures, videos, contacts and messages (SMSes)**, and finally import everything into a new Android phone. So my question is, is any of this even possible with a completely unresponsive touchscreen? And if so, how?

My Android HTC Magic was lost/stolen last night. I had an unlock swipe code, power-on SIM code and have called the phone company and had it blocked, so not too concerned about the phone itself being used by someone else. What I am thinking about is when I get a new phone, what data/info can I get back easily as I can't just copy it from the old phone now? Obviously GMail/Contacts/Calendar are all stored on the web, any purchased apps are linked to my Market login, and I'm not concerned about photos, music etc that were on the SD card. What I'm more concerned about are my preferences, settings, SMS texts, list of installed apps, prefs, data from those apps, etc. Are those all gone? Addendum: I was thinking of rooting the phone, so did take a standard Nandroid backup a week ago that I have a copy of on my PC, if I get an identical model of phone and restore that, will my data come back? Also what happens if I try to restore that onto a different model of phone (I'm assuming bad things would happen)?

My Alcatel Android decided not to boot. It starts and says "Alcatel" then just flashes "enjoy now" about 60 times until Android Recovery. TCL/5003D_EEA/Curie 8.1.0/0PM2.171019.012/5003D_ALGB_V2.3 If I click "try again" I get Android Error and it then starts the reboot process again. I can access Android Recovery by removing and reinserting the battery, holding down Power Button, both Volume Up and Volume Down all together, once it says "Alcatel" releasing all of them, it then enters Android Recovery. I have tried "reboot now, I have tried Wipe Cache partition". What is my next move please? Are the recovery logs useful for anyone to help me?

**Context**, in case anyone believes I'm trying to do this for nefarious purposes. I have a Samsung Galaxy A12 running Android 11. Long story short, two years ago I shattered my phone's screen, I was already planning to change up the phone so, yes I was a little bummed out. Recently, I fixed the screen. I wanted to access some old files that I had in there, but I can't remember the password. It's a fairly long password, so it wouldn't be easy to remember after 2 years. I decided that maybe I can try to recover some videos and pictures, but apparently I didn't have USB debugging on in the past, or maybe it disabled on its own. It should have Dev options on though. I went to recovery mode and tried to mount /system, but it also gives me

failed to open /dev/block/dm-0 no such file or directory
mounted /system

and even after spamming it to the point it just says **mounted /system**. When I type adb pull /data/property/persist.sys.usb.config ~/ it just says adb: error: failed to get feature set: no devices/emulators found I have also tried to switch USB ports, but nothing. Overall, I'm confused, don't know what I'm doing anymore, much less how to fix things.

I have questions about how to recover my devices. I've been using the same device since 2021. And I have probably done 40 or 50 factory resets in the last four years. Now, I learned that all of the data that I have encrypted may still be on my phone or somewhere in Google. And I'm asking how I can find a way to recover this data that I have erased 40-50 times?

I have my very first smart phone - a Samsung Galaxy Y (2011 Android 2.3) - in hand and i wanna access it in a timecapsule kind of way to look around but its pattern locked. So the issues: - Gmail password is out of sync. No internet connection. Can i get in sync? - Computer doesnt regonize the device. Assuming its a security thing because its locked. Can i get around it? If so might be able to use ADB or other software. - Unable to install outside software from sd card. Gives out different error messages. Can go in detail if needed. Im so lost and hope to get the data out. Its the only valuable thing about the phone.

I accidentally uninstalled WhatsApp on my Samsung Galaxy A53 (running Android 14 / One UI 6) and unchecked "Keep app data" during the process. Unfortunately, I had neither a Google Drive backup nor a local WhatsApp backup at that time. However, about a month before this happened, I had created a Samsung Smart Switch backup to my Mac. I explored the backup folder but couldn't find any com.whatsapp directory or .crypt14 database files, so it seems Smart Switch didn't include WhatsApp’s app data. I am primarily looking to recover: 1. WhatsApp chat history 2. Photos, videos, and documents shared via WhatsApp I would prefer to avoid rooting my device, but I am open to it only as a last resort. So far, I’ve encountered paid tools like Dr.Fone, iMyFone D-Back, and Tenorshare UltData, but I'm not sure if they can help me out. Is there any realistic method to recover deleted WhatsApp data without rooting, especially using Smart Switch, or file recovery tools? If not, what’s the safest and most effective way to proceed with rooting and data recovery? Any guidance or verified success stories would be much appreciated.

Some bad cleaner app deletes all my photos stored in a directory(folder) which is created manually by myself (for example, /sdcard/myphoto/). I tried some photo recovery apps. But none of them recovered those photos and none of them provides a feature to recover photos from a specific directory. All recovery apps just scan the entire memory and restore all deleted photos once. (Actually most recovered photos are not deleted at all. I have no ideas why they are recovered... Anyway) Are there any ways to recover deleted photos from a specific directory in non-rooted device? I am explicitly sure which directory those photos are, and I just want those photos only. Thank you very much. PS: I know there are questions about photo recovery. But mine is different. The main focus of this question is **"from a specific directory"**.

I want to recover my Viber messages. By mistake, I deleted Viber from my phone and I didn't do a backup. Is there a way to get the messages back?

I'm using Coolpad note 3 lite, running Android 5.1. I created internal memory backup using stock recovery. Files were created in this format: 1. userdata_yyyymmdd_HHMMSS.backup = 2GB 2. userdata_yyyymmdd_HHMMSS.backup1 = 2GB n. ... 5. userdata_yyyymmdd_HHMMSS.backup5 = 1.53GB Is there any way to extract the files to PC? I couldn't see file header mentioned here . Another user referred a method , which I couldn't understand. - Android 5.1 - TWRP installed - Rooted - FAT32 internal & SD card. - Tried Titanium backup and it don't recognize the format. **Edit**: 1. Tried to do a stock recovery backup and replace the files. While trying to restore stock recovery not showing SD card, although it takes backup in SD card during backup in same session. 2. 7Zip Windows opened the merged .backup file. It shows "2.ext". 3. Mounting 2.ext in Ubuntu shows nothing even though file space is occupied. 4. When trying to open 2.ext using 7zip, I see lot of files in similar name and opening them in 7zip again shows again same file names.... Now how do I recovery files from this 2.ext?

I have forgotten my Google Pixel 7's login pattern. There is no way to "Reset Password" or change it to fingerprint login or PIN. - Any way to switch it to alternative login method? - Any way to get my photos back? The photos are all that I want. (Photos were not uploaded to cloud)

I accidentally deleted my WhatsApp database folder and have lost all my chat history. How can I restore it? Deleted from phone's internal storage, Android 7, no root access and no other copy of the folder exists. I checked out multiple other links, e.g: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/93455/recover-whatsapp-messages-database-folder-deleted | https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/173256/recover-whats-app-database-files-crypt12 | https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/208106/how-to-recover-a-deleted-file-from-data-partition etc ...however, the information is old or dealing with rooted devices or dealing with recovery from backups or dealing with SD cards etc none of which work for my situation. I've also tried Tenorshare UltData, but it can't retrieve .crypt12 files. Is there a way to recover and restore my databases/chats?

## Situation I have an old phone, it's been replaced, but it still has some photos on I want to recover. From the symptoms I presume it must be a hardware fault, and I am wondering what options are available to me. I have a friend who works as an embedded engineer who is willing to help me try get the photos off of it. The current possibilities they could think of are: - Buy a cheap new screen to connect to the phone to see if we can get the UI back - Attempt to connect via the JTAG pins and execute a script to extract the data Are there other options? Or should we go with one of these? ## More information If it's relevant, the phone is a Pixel XL. A possible silver lining is I was running LineageOS, so I unlocked the bootloader and was never able to re-lock it. The symptoms at the time of death were: - Phone would randomly restart every few weeks - This got more and more frequent - One day the phone restarted and never turned back on - If I held the power button to turn it back on, the phone vibrated yet the screen never turned on - When plugged in the red light didn't appear even though it was drawing Watts - Forced resets (holding power and volume down button for 30+ seconds) sometimes caused a vibration but nothing ever appeared - Plugging it into a laptop resulted in no devices being visible to the laptop (presumably I needed to enable file transfer via the UI which wasn't possible) It's since sat in a box for 2 years and now there is no vibration whatsoever, but it does still draw current when charging. (I contacted multiple places about data recovery in the last couple of years but never received a response.)

I have a boot-looped Samsung Galaxy S II GT-i9100, running the Android 2.3 Gingerbread it came with, unrooted and unmodified (although Optus-branded). The phone's battery depleted while the phone was running; now, any attempt to boot the phone results in the boot sequence looping indefinitely. I wish to recover data from this device (before attempting to solve the boot-loop problem later via factory reset or other method). I read the [boot-loop tag information](https://android.stackexchange.com/tags/boot-loop/info) but the instructions have not been helpful for me: I have tried to boot into Safe Mode, but my attempts also trigger the indefinite boot-loop; I wiped the cache via stock recovery but that had no effect; and, the last recommendation was a factory reset which I won't follow until I have recovered the data. I believe USB Debugging is already enabled. I have an 8GB external SD card and I have Linux Mint 13 as my desktop operating system. [This answer](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/59044/81471) indicated that it should be possible to root the phone and recover data via the [Android Debug Bridge (ADB)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_software_development#ADB) for a different Samsung Galaxy S version, but I need instructions for the Samsung Galaxy S II GT-i9100 if this avenue is worth pursuing. This seems related to [this question](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/71776/samsung-galaxy-2-stuck-at-start-up-can-i-recovery-the-phone-or-at-least-the-dat) but could be a different [variant](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II#Variants) and issue. It's not the same as [this question](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/39316/how-to-regain-control-over-a-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-with-a-boot-loop) because I need to recover data.

I recently recorded a 4-minute odd video on my Realme 13 pro+ running Android 15 and Realme UI 6.0 The video was recorded, and I even took snapshots while it was being recorded. The snapshots were saved in the gallery, but to my surprise, the video was not saved at all. I even double-checked that the video was being recorded. The snapshot button only appears when the video is being recorded; hence, there is no doubt whether the video button was pressed or not. Is there any way I can recover the video? I would appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks.

I'll describe exactly what happened with the phone (Samsung A12): First there were some lines on display, lots of parallel lines, like a GPU issue, I restarted the phone. It worked ok for a min or two but same thing happened, then I couldn't restart normally, but had to press the volume buttons and power and hold. It restarted but also went dead after a while with same lines showing. Anyway after a few times it is totally dead and cant start with any combination of buttons (or vibrate) & doesn't show its charging. Hopefully I can get data out of the phone, like images or WhatsApp local backup file. Whats the best way to try? I considered ordering the basic tools from aliex and try at least see if something obvious is disconnected, it did fall a bunch of times. **UPDATE**: I just tried to turn it on after a few days with vol down and power button while on charger and it did actually turn on and showed charging circle clearly for 15sec and then lines again and then soon died.

I have a Redmi Note 4 (mido) Android phone with a broken screen: the screen lights up, but otherwise it stays entirely "black". I already replaced the screen, but with no luck - the cause of the error must be somewhere else. The phone has data-encryption enabled with an unlock-pattern. Now I'm trying to access the data on the phone, but did not succeed so far. Here is what I've done so far: - Connected the phone to a PC over USB. - Started the phone in fastboot-mode by pressing and holding the buttons vol-down and power simultaneously. - Booted the latest version of TWRP for mido : fastboot boot twrp-3.3.1-0-mido.img. - Opened adb shell and presumably managed to decrypt the data (found instructions in the TWRP Commandline Guide ): TWRP decrypt: ~ # twrp decrypt 41236 Attempting to decrypt data partition via command line. Data successfully decrypted, new block device: '/dev/block/dm-0' Updating partition details... ...done Unable to mount storage ~ # Unfortunately, the block device /dev/block/dm-0 cannot be mounted. This is the result of fdisk: ~ # fdisk -l /dev/block/dm-0 Disk /dev/block/dm-0: 57.0 GB, 57033580032 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6933 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/block/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table So I pulled an Image of the block device with adb pull /dev/block/dm-0. This image has a size of 57,033,580,032 bytes. I tried to mount this image in Ubuntu 20.04, but did not succeed: # file /media/sf_U_DRIVE/Note4Data/dm-0.img /media/sf_U_DRIVE/Note4Data/dm-0.img: data # fdisk -l /media/sf_U_DRIVE/Note4Data/dm-0.img Disk /media/sf_U_DRIVE/Note4Data/dm-0.img: 53,12 GiB, 57033580032 bytes, 111393711 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes # mount -o loop /media/sf_U_DRIVE/Note4Data/dm-0.img /mnt/Note4Data mount: /mnt/Note4Data: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. # mount -t ext4 -o loop /media/sf_U_DRIVE/Note4Data/dm-0.img /mnt/Note4Data [ 6986.649794] EXT4-fs (loop3): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem mount: /mnt/Note4Data: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. # mount -t f2fs -o loop /media/sf_U_DRIVE/Note4Data/dm-0.img /mnt/Note4Data [ 7004.610412] F2FS-fs (loop3): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in 1th superblock [ 7004.615289] F2FS-fs (loop3): Can't find valid F2FS filesystem in 2th superblock mount: /mnt/Note4Data: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. I wonder if I need to mount the image in another way (with offsets? with LVM?) or if the decryption did not work. TWRP creates a log file in **/tmp/recovery.log**. After running the twrp decrypt command, the following lines are added: I:Command 'decrypt 41236' received I:Set page: 'singleaction_page' I:operation_start: 'TWRP CLI Command' Attempting to decrypt data partition via command line. D:crypt_ftr->fs_size = 111393711 I:starting verify_hw_fde_passwd I:Using scrypt with keymaster for cryptfs KDF I:TWRP keymaster max API: 3 I:Signing safely-padded objectkeymaster module name is Keymaster QTI HAL keymaster version is 256 Found keymaster1 module, using keymaster1 API. I:Extra parameters for dm_crypt: fde_enabled ice I:target_type = req-cryptI:real_blk_name = /dev/block/mmcblk0p49, extra_params = fde_enabled iceE:test mount returned 0 I:Found no matching fstab entry for uevent device '/devices/virtual/block/dm-0' - add I:Found no matching fstab entry for uevent device '/devices/virtual/block/dm-0' - change Data successfully decrypted, new block device: '/dev/block/dm-0' I:Can't probe device /dev/block/dm-0 I:Unable to mount '/data' I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/dm-0', current file system: 'ext4' Updating partition details... I:Can't probe device /dev/block/dm-0 I:Unable to mount '/data' I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/dm-0', current file system: 'ext4' I:Unable to mount '/sdcard1' I:Actual block device: '', current file system: 'auto' I:Unable to mount '/usb-otg' I:Actual block device: '', current file system: 'auto' ...done I:Can't probe device /dev/block/dm-0 I:Unable to mount '/data' I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/dm-0', current file system: 'ext4' Unable to mount storage /data | /dev/block/dm-0 | Size: 0MB Used: 0MB Free: 0MB Backup Size: 0MB Flags: Can_Be_Mounted Can_Be_Wiped Can_Be_Backed_Up Wipe_During_Factory_Reset Wipe_Available_in_GUI IsPresent Can_Be_Encrypted Is_Encrypted Is_Decrypted Has_Data_Media Can_Encrypt_Backup Use_Userdata_Encr Symlink_Path: /data/media Symlink_Mount_Point: /sdcard Primary_Block_Device: /dev/block/mmcblk0p49 Decrypted_Block_Device: /dev/block/dm-0 Crypto_Key_Location: footer Length: -16384 Display_Name: data Storage_Name: Internal Storage Backup_Path: /data Backup_Name: data Backup_Display_Name: Data Storage_Path: /data/media Current_File_System: ext4 Fstab_File_System: ext4 Backup_Method: files MTP_Storage_ID: 65539 I:Unmounting main partitions... I:Done reading ORS command from command line I:operation_end - status=0 I:Set page: 'decrypt_pattern' I:Set page: 'main' I:Set page: 'clear_vars' I:Set page: 'main2' SELinux contexts loaded from /file_contexts Full SELinux support is present. I:Can't probe device /dev/block/dm-0 I:Unable to mount '/data' I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/dm-0', current file system: 'ext4' I:Unable to mount settings storage during GUI startup. I:Copying file /cache/recovery/log to /cache/recovery/last_log I:Can't probe device /dev/block/dm-0 I:Unable to mount '/data' I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/dm-0', current file system: 'ext4' I:Can't probe device /dev/block/dm-0 I:Unable to mount '/data' I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/dm-0', current file system: 'ext4' Unable to mount /data/media/TWRP/.twrps I:Attempt to load settings from settings file... I:InfoManager file '/data/media/TWRP/.twrps' not found. I:Backup folder set to '/data/media/TWRP/BACKUPS/f707e0500604' I:Copying file /etc/recovery.fstab to /cache/recovery/recovery.fstab I:Version number saved to '/cache/recovery/.version' I:Can't probe device /dev/block/dm-0 I:Unable to mount '/data' I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/dm-0', current file system: 'ext4' I:Unable to mount '/sdcard1' I:Actual block device: '', current file system: 'auto' I:Unable to mount '/usb-otg' I:Actual block device: '', current file system: 'auto' I:TWFunc::Set_Brightness: Setting brightness control to 255 I:PageManager::LoadFileToBuffer loading filename: '/twres/languages/en.xml' directly parsing languageFile parsing languageFile done I:Translating partition display names I:Backup folder set to '/data/media/TWRP/BACKUPS/f707e0500604' I:Starting MTP I:[MTP] Starting MTP I:Can't probe device /dev/block/dm-0 I:Unable to mount '/data' I:Actual block device: '/dev/block/dm-0', current file system: 'ext4' MTP Enabled I:Check_Lifetime_Writes result: '648837' I:Switching packages (TWRP) I:Starting Adb Backup FIFO I:Set page: 'main' I:Set page: 'clear_vars' I:Set page: 'main2' I:[MTP] created new mtpserver object I:[MTP] MtpServer::run fd: 18 I:TWFunc::Set_Brightness: Setting brightness control to 5 I:TWFunc::Set_Brightness: Setting brightness control to 0 Any ideas what I should try next or where I could find helpful information?

My photos were encrypted on my phone, a Samsung Galaxy S20 FE with an SD card, but I had a problem with the fingerprint sensor which forced me to factory reset my phone. After that, I can't access any photos. It thinks that the phone has changed. Is there a solution to make the photos known on mobile?

I permanently deleted an app on my Android phone and my question is can I recover it if I root the phone or is there any other way to recover the app?

I recently acquired a replacement phone and as soon as I mounted my existing SD card, the files disappeared while the SD card is showing the storage is in fact used. When I looked at it further, it seemed that Android recognized the files as 'system'. Now, even mounting it on Windows through an SD card reader doesn't work. However, if I use the MTP USB storage mode, it does show but without the files (just shows an empty SD card). Is there a way to undo or recover these files?