Does rooting your phone inevitably erase all of your data? Im not sure. If so I will have to make a back up. I tried rooting once but I bricked my phone. Thankfully, I fixed it.
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If I root my android phone (just so I can get access to Wifi Tethering, etc.) will that erase anything on the phone (apps, data, etc.)?  Will it change anything other than the ability to run app(s) as rooted?
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I lost my phone today and the data is turned off, but is there any way of tracking it even without the data? or getting my photos back?
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is known as a “systemless” root method. It’s essentially a way to modify the system without actually modifying it. Modifications are stored safely in the boot partition instead of modifying the real system files.   I have looked around but did not find a sufficient explanation as to how it actually works. How is the root access gained and maintained? What exactly is the role of the boot partition and if it integrates with the system partition how it does it? A really detailed description of how it works lacks from everywhere I searched so it would be really highly appreciated.
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So, I have this iphone that my parents found. I need some advice on how to find the owner. It's a puzzler though.  It was dead and I'm an android user so I couldn't power it up to find the owners info. So, I took it to the Apple store assuming that since I thought Apple was all about service, they would just take care of it.  No such luck. They said they couldn't help me. They did let me charge it up though. Might I point out that it's really stupid how long you have to wait for usability when plugging in a dead iPhone.  Anyway, when it finally became usable (20 minutes of standing foolishly in the Apple store later), it immediately popped up a little message saying it had no sim installed and when touched it just displayed a lock screen. The store employee told me there was nothing that could be done with that except a wipe.  I doubt a carrier would be helpful since there is no sim. I was under the impression that the sim couldn't be removed from an iphone though. Is that inaccurate?  Anyway, it also said the date was December 31st and my parents just found it a little over a week ago so I'm assuming it was sitting in that location for quite some time, which isn't all that surprising considering where it was. I guess maybe the clock isn't updating due to the lack of a sim... Just a guess though.  So now the only thing I really have to link it to it's original owner is the background pic on the phone which isn't much to go on at all. ;) Especially since it's half covered by the missing sim message.  Any ideas? You would think in this connected world that this wouldn't be that hard. Unfortunately I think it might be.
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I flashed new firmware and before doing so backed up apps and data with Titanium Backup. How do I restore? I have the folder on my PC which contains two .gz files and a properties file.
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I'm downloading the update right now and I would like to know if any of my files or app gets deleted after this update... I'm sure many people here already installed the update so what can you say?
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Yesterday, I suddenly discovered that I had lost all the user files on the internal memory of my android phone. All my photos, my music, my PDFs, audio recordings, everything. I will explain the events leading up to this in a separate paragraph below.  I have a Lava Z90 phone and I do not use an external SD card, so I must work with my phone to recover all data. I've been googling and following stuff I get from the internet(including Stack Overflow). Here's what I have done so far.   Tried using photo recovery apps available on Play Store. None of them worked. Decided to go more technical. Enabled USB Debugging and OEM Unlocking from Developer options in my phone. Then I used ADB pull command, pull /dev/block/mmcblk0 /home/data.img to try create an image of the entire internal storage so I can analyse it using PhotoRec. It says pull: not found I assumed this is because my phone isn't rooted?  I tried to root it with the KingoRoot apk but that didn't work. I have Ubuntu on my PC and there is not KingoRoot for Ubuntu. My next step would be to use Wine to run KingoRoot on my machine and try to root my phone that way.   I have the following questions:   How can I create an image, a data dump of my entire internal storage that i can later analyse for my data? Can I do it with an unrooted phone? If not, how can I root my phone with ADB? Am I going about this right? Is there a better, easier way to recover data that I should use instead?   Thank you very much.  How I lost my data  I recently uninstalled the TikTok app from my phone. Yesterday I connected my phone to my PC over mtp and found that there were certain leftover folders on the internal memory. One was a folder with Chinese name, one was a folder called ByteDance and one folder called Thumbnails. I assumed that the first two were leftovers from the TikTok app and the third was mere thumbnails. So I deleted them to save space. Nothing happened that day, except that I couldn't access any of my WhatsApp images through WhatsApp(they were still accessible through the gallery). However, when I woke up the next morning, all my data on the internal memory was gone. I still have contacts my messages and my settings, just that everything that was accessible through the file explorer has disappeared.
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I just deleted a file on my Nexus S that I really need back. (It was actually part of an app using a sqlite database that did a drop table when upgrading to a new version.)  Presumably I need to root the phone first (which I hear is easy on Nexus phones) but am I in a catch-22 here? Namely, does rooting the phone mean wiping/overwriting the partition where the data lives?  If not, what do you recommend for data recovery tools? Presumably the file was just unlinked and not actively overwritten (per usual when "deleting" a file) so technically the data must be there...
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I occasionally perform such a reinstall on my Windows PC. I repartition my hard drive, format the partitions, and then install Windows on a blank partition. Can this be done on an Android smartphone? (I have an unlocked Sony Xperia S.)
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It is mentioned at  that one should do Factory reset or hard reset. I'm a bit confused about what is hard reset?  Factory reset I suppose is using the option in settings to reset phone to the factory state i.e. when it was unboxed.
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I've rooted my device, put it in recovery mode, and have linked it to PC by .  How can I view the list of storage devices and partitions?  Note: fdisk doesn't work.
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I understand that you can completely "brick" (render unusuable) your iPhone by attempting to Jailbreak incorrectly.  Whether or not this is actually the case, is it possible to do the same with your Android phone?  Or is the nature of that operating system and the handsets such that you can always install a new ROM on it if everything goes pear-shaped?  I assume there could be a difference due to how closely the iPhone is tied to iTunes, compared to how independent Android phones seem.
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This is a common question asked by those who want to root their phones. How exactly do I root my Android device? Are there risks involved?
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I have installed the Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview on my Nexus 4. It is the problem when I want to get back to my android 4.2.2 but I wipe all my data first, from factory reset, cache partition and also the dalvik cache.  Now, I cannot root my phone to android neither ubuntu because the pc cannot recognize my phone. Can you tell me what is my problem and how can I fix this? Thanks!
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I factory reset my rooted Android M phone but now I realize that there was a file in the /data directory which I need.  Is it possible to create an image (.img or something similar) of the /data partition so that I could run some recovery software for ext4 on that image? I have a little knowledge about ADB.
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A couple years ago, it was easy to root any device: Install KingRoot, KingoRoot, or a similar app, hit the large ROOT button, and let it do the rest. After 5 minutes or so, a green "Root Succeeded!" prompt will pop up, and we can choose to keep the root app, or uninstall it and install a clean root manager app like SuperSU/Superuser.  How do they work? Why aren't they working anymore? And if they work, should I use them or not?
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I searched it a while and found some articles regarding Xperia Mini X10 also on XDA but I couldn't understand them easily. So I want help from you geeks who can give me the lighted way with simple steps to root my phone.    I want a step by step guide about to root this model. I'm a not much familiar with this technology so please guide me through some detailed answer.