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Old 03-14-2012, 06:37 PM   #1
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Locked out of android phone and need help recovering files.


I forgot my pin code to get into my Samsung galaxy s II. I've called Bell and they said the phone is now completely locked and I'll have to do a factory reset, which will delete everything. How can I recover my files before I do the reset? I had the auto connect thing turned off so when I connect it to a linux system via usb it doesn't automatically pull up the files. Normally I would have to unlock the phone and hit connect with usb in the phone itself, but I can't do that now cause im locked out of the phone.

So how do I gain access to the files on my phone?
 
Old 03-14-2012, 07:58 PM   #2
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You can use ADB tool from Google. It is in platform tools. There is also a graphical utility QtADB which has functionality of copying installed applications and browse filesystem.
 
Old 03-14-2012, 09:21 PM   #3
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I was following the instructions here

http://www.madteam.co/2011/10/10/qta...veryone-needs/

but when I ran qtadb I get

error: There was problem while checking for updates

I hit ok and then I'm left with a window that says connect your phone with a refresh button
 
Old 03-15-2012, 07:17 PM   #4
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You need to have ADB from Google and Java from Oracle. Do you have installed them? ADB is in platform-tools which can be installed by Android SDK
 
Old 03-20-2012, 05:23 PM   #5
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You should be able to reset the pin via your Google account.
Your situation may be different, but you can normally do it with your account info.

I have also had success with ScreenLockBypass

Is development mode enabled?
If not, then adb is out of the question.
 
Old 12-29-2013, 09:01 PM   #6
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If your phone has a micro-SD card and you have files on it, remove the card, put it in a adapter, and jack it into your computer. You might be able to mount it on the computer and copy any files on the card to your HDD.

Last edited by frankbell; 12-29-2013 at 09:02 PM.
 
Old 12-21-2015, 02:08 AM   #7
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If your phone has a micro-SD card and you have files on it, remove the card, put it in a adapter, and jack it into your computer.
this.
 
Old 12-21-2015, 04:44 AM   #8
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The phone is locked or unlocked? Rooted or unrooted?

Last edited by betachild; 12-23-2015 at 07:50 PM.
 
Old 01-05-2016, 12:23 PM   #9
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this mite work:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971768
 
Old 05-26-2016, 10:16 PM   #10
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The phone is locked or unlocked? Rooted or unrooted? I am sure the method 100 works but i did followed the tutorial recover deleted photos from s5) to recover deleted files from my Galaxy S5. However, i can access my phone via usb debugging and got it rooted before. My suggestion is to give it a try and to see whether it works or not.
Also works on internal files?

Last edited by Kolpoiu; 05-30-2016 at 09:46 PM.
 
Old 05-18-2017, 05:08 AM   #11
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If your phone has a micro-SD card and you have files on it, remove the card, put it in a adapter, and jack it into your computer. You might be able to mount it on the computer and copy any files on the card to your HDD.
What you means that we can restore lost data from phone by scanning phone device ,
 
Old 05-18-2017, 08:10 PM   #12
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HanertyKas, welcome to LQ. Usually we like folks to post a bit about them in the introduction forum. As you can see this thread is basically old and out of date.

Oh my! The OP left a very long time ago. 03-14-12, 06:37 PM

Not sure why this thread keeps going.

Last edited by jefro; 05-19-2017 at 05:13 PM.
 
Old 05-19-2017, 10:35 AM   #13
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it seems i actually necrobumped it.
no clue why this happened, because i always choose topics to reply to by age, i.e. since i last logged in.
 
  


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