My second cousin has forgot his GT-I9190 lock screen password. He doesn't really care about doing a factory reset but he wants to save some data first.
Problem is, making it different from the many other cases of getting the device locked, is that this phone has no practical "advanced user options" enabled. That is, no USB debugging, no root, locked bootloader (hence stock ROM) and so on. Normally when people encounter this situation they have SOME of the above, but we don't.
Possible solution I've thought about:
If I had ADB access, I could copy the whatsapp .db.crypt7 files and the photos and that would be enough.
If I had ABD access + root, I could just edit Android's database and disable the lock screen.
If I had any recovery, I could traverse the filesystem and take everything I want. Even a dump of it would be fine, to walk over it with an external tool.
Flash ANYTHING (without deleting data, tho). But can't do, locked bootloader.
View the files in windows explorer, but Android doesn't show anything there because it's locked.
NONE of these can be done.
What can I do about it? Is there any practical, not too complicated solution for this? I just want the files at /sdcard, then the phone can be wiped.
Thanks
Problem is, making it different from the many other cases of getting the device locked, is that this phone has no practical "advanced user options" enabled. That is, no USB debugging, no root, locked bootloader (hence stock ROM) and so on. Normally when people encounter this situation they have SOME of the above, but we don't.
Possible solution I've thought about:
If I had ADB access, I could copy the whatsapp .db.crypt7 files and the photos and that would be enough.
If I had ABD access + root, I could just edit Android's database and disable the lock screen.
If I had any recovery, I could traverse the filesystem and take everything I want. Even a dump of it would be fine, to walk over it with an external tool.
Flash ANYTHING (without deleting data, tho). But can't do, locked bootloader.
View the files in windows explorer, but Android doesn't show anything there because it's locked.
NONE of these can be done.
What can I do about it? Is there any practical, not too complicated solution for this? I just want the files at /sdcard, then the phone can be wiped.
Thanks
