Data Recovery After Flashing a KDZ Image Using LG Flash Tool

czajunia

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May 31, 2010
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Phone: LG G2 D802 32GB

Do you know if it's possible to recover the data after flashing a KDZ with LG Flash Tool using "CSE Flash" method? I completely forgot that this method wipes everything. :(

After unsuccessfully flashing Nougat (going from MM ResurrectionRom) I had to go back to stock and realized afterwards that all my data was gone. I manged to make a full image of the new data partition and tried to run file recovery software on it (photorec and foremost) but it doesn't seem to find much apart from a handful of files (about 400MB out of 23GB) and there are none of the images / videos stored previously in the DCIM folder.

Does it mean that going back to stock not only wipes the data partition but also changes the partition table making the recovery impossible? Do you have any other ideas how to recover the files? Do you know if that's even possible in such case? Many thanks.