[Q] Phone lost all data, any way to recover it?

Jackson8r

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So last night I was using my phone when it froze, so I rebooted it and it got stuck on the boot animation. I tried restarting it and no luck. I then decided to go into recovery mode, and I backed up my data before wiping it to see if that was the problem. I then flashed some roms. One was the Ajk kernel, and another was gapps. Still no luck. I then began to search for a system rom to flash so I could at least boot it. I tried a few I had downloaded before, but I always received a getprop error (status 7) . Then I tried flashing an old version of JellyBam and for some reason, recovery mode didn't show any code or signs of progress nor failure, so I rebooted it and tried going back to my backup I made earlier, and it told me I had no backup data. I then went to browse for a zip to flash,and found that that JellyBam rom had completely wiped both my sd card and internal memory completely. So long story short, I lost all of my data. Also when I try to boot up normally, I'm not able to type anything because AOSP keyboard is not responding, so I cannot work on anything with my google account. I might just go back to stock and go into AT&T to see if they can do anything about it, because I needed to get it replaced anyway for some cosmetic damage. Is there anything I can do about this? Can I get my data back?
 

SteveMurphy

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So last night I was using my phone when it froze, so I rebooted it and it got stuck on the boot animation. I tried restarting it and no luck. I then decided to go into recovery mode, and I backed up my data before wiping it to see if that was the problem. I then flashed some roms. One was the Ajk kernel, and another was gapps. Still no luck. I then began to search for a system rom to flash so I could at least boot it. I tried a few I had downloaded before, but I always received a getprop error (status 7) . Then I tried flashing an old version of JellyBam and for some reason, recovery mode didn't show any code or signs of progress nor failure, so I rebooted it and tried going back to my backup I made earlier, and it told me I had no backup data. I then went to browse for a zip to flash,and found that that JellyBam rom had completely wiped both my sd card and internal memory completely. So long story short, I lost all of my data. Also when I try to boot up normally, I'm not able to type anything because AOSP keyboard is not responding, so I cannot work on anything with my google account. I might just go back to stock and go into AT&T to see if they can do anything about it, because I needed to get it replaced anyway for some cosmetic damage. Is there anything I can do about this? Can I get my data back?
Practically everything in your post screams of confusion: AJK is a kernel, not a rom, and gapps are system app packages for AOSP-based ROM's, not ROM's themselves.

Stay away from Jellybam because they have been banned from XDA and are NOT supported by anyone here.

Because you've somehow jacked up your system, your best bet is probably to ODIN back to stock and start all over again. You could grab a ROM from Development and factory reset/wipe caches in a proper recovery (ie. one of the kernels packaged with an i777 ROM) and be fine, but in your case I would suggest the ODIN method to avoid any holdovers, and start again with a guaranteed clean system.
 

votinh

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Buddy, I wish you a lot of luck.
Based on what you said, you've screwed it up pretty bad. I don't know how to recover your data but first, care to bring up your phone.
You should start from SCRATCH and before that, do some research of which ROM you want to use and which gapps should go along with it. Ignore the kernel for now.

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Buddy, I wish you a lot of luck.
Based on what you said, you've screwed it up pretty bad. I don't know how to recover your data but first, care to bring up your phone.
You should start from SCRATCH and before that, do some research of which ROM you want to use and which gapps should go along with it. Ignore the kernel for now.
 

Joseph Martin

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since you have already used recovery software and failed to get back your lost data. As per my knowledge I suggest one utility named as Remo Recover because I have already used this utility. Hope it will be helpful for you to recover your data. Just go for this utility.
 
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