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HELLLLLLLLP!!I accidentally deleted my Mstudio files so bad!!NO recovery

Hadron
Yeah, "like" feels like the wrong response because it's just bad news, but if you delete anything on an android device it is deleted, end of story. The OS doesn't baby you with trash bins where things you delete stay until you empty them, they are genuinely gone (it's the same as deleting stuff on a computer using a command line instruction rather than a GUI).

If something is important, always have a backup copy that isn't on the device (and I don't mean "on an SD card in the device" either). Even if there was a way of recovering stuff from the phone that wouldn't help you if the phone was lost, stolen or dropped in a lake, so your data are never safe unless you have a backup on a completely different device.
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Screen not working on android phone, can I back it up?

Hadron
pengyou said:
The screen is not working on my android phone, but some part of it is, because the alarm keeps going off at 6:30 a.m. :) Is there some utility I can install on my notebook to retrieve all of data from my phone? some way to connect the phone to a monitor and mouse? HELP!
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Whether it can be connected to a monitor/mouse depends on the phone. Most these days support "USB OTG", which allows you to use USB peripherals like flash drives, mice and keyboards through a simple adapter. Many can be connected to a TV, but not all, and what adapter you need depends on what phone you have. This is why it's always important to say what phone you have, because with different phones of different ages from different manufacturers the answer is often different, so if you don't tell us we can't answer it.

The big problem is that you've only got one USB socket. So until you can pair a bluetooth keyboard or mouse, or enable wireless casting to a TV, you can either see what it's displaying or interact via keyboard/mouse but not both at the same time. Now I have managed to unlock a phone with a broken screen and recover data from it by swapping between monitor and keyboard, but it takes patience. The best case would be if it's just the display not working while the touchscreen is: if so you can just mirror the display and still control it via the touchscreen.

As for retrieving "all of the data" from the phone, what do you mean by "all"? If you can unlock the phone you should be able to copy stuff from the user-accessible part of the storage to a computer via USB, either a simple USB file transfer or using "ADB" (USB debugging). But while that's fine for photos etc, it's not going to give you access to app data (which includes contacts). Of course some of that stuff might be backed up to Google's cloud anyway (e.g. if you stored your contacts to your Google account they will be synced), but not everything will be. So you'll have to tell us what data you are most interested in before we can answer this one as well.
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Help knox container removal

MrJavi
Welcome to Android Forums @Allen Stilwell :)

The new "Knox container" is most likely due to a firmware update released on January 22, 2021. That would explain why a a factory reset didn't remove the additional knox data from your Samsung.

https://www.att.com/device-support/article/wireless/KM1346759/Samsung/SamsungJ260A

To turn off automatic updates go to phone setting and look for something like "system updates" and turn off. Also, carriers force automatic firmware updates, like it or not. :(

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Help unlocking sim

Ethan_the_axolotl
Hadron said:
By "unlock" do you mean that you've actually locked the SIM (e.g. by entering a SIM PIN incorrectly too often), or unlock the phone so that it can use a different provider's SIM (often referred to as "SIM unlocking" but is actually unlocking the phone rather than unlocking the SIM card)?

If it's the first, you'll need to speak to the provider to get your unlock code (PUK). The SIM is always the provider's responsibility.

If it's the second, which I think is what you mean, the usual way would be to get an unlock code from the original provider while you are still their customer (they've no obligation if you are not their customer). There are people who offer unlocking services, the trick is finding someone reliable. Some phones have other tricks you can use (which vary between phones, and do not always involve root), but I don't know about the J3.
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unlocking it for a different provider I got this phone from a pawn shop
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Help Working phone without screen, how to access data ?

Ethan_the_axolotl
Hadron said:
Short answer: get the screen repaired.

Any means of accessing the data requires unlocking the screen. If there was a way round that then the screen lock would be useless as any thief could use the same technique to access your data. If the screen has been destroyed then you have no touch input, so no way of unlocking the screen.

Now there actually may be a way, but it will depend on your phone. Does your phone support wired screen mirroring (MHL or USB to HDMI)? If it does then you can connect it up and at least see whether you have managed to unlock the screen. As for unlocking, you can do that using a USB-OTG adapter to connect a keyboard or mouse to the phone and using that in place of the touchscreen. If you use a PIN you may be able to unlock using the arrow and enter keys of a keyboard to enter the PIN: I have unlocked a phone with a broken screen that way, but it helped that I had access to a similar phone with a working screen I could practice with. Heaven knows whether you can undo a pattern lock this way!

The problem is that even if your phone supports all of this and you have all of the cables you can't see and interact at the same time, so you have to try inputting, then swap to seeing what you have achieved, then swap back to the next step. In practice you would want to unlock the phone then either enable wireless casting or connect a bluetooth mouse or keyboard, so that you don't need to use the USB socket for both tasks. I have done this, and I can tell you that the process was very tedious up until the point that I got the bluetooth device connected.

Note that most phones by default require you to enable file transfer once you connect to a computer, and with no screen that will be hard to do (your USB socket will not be occupied by the connection to the computer, so then you will have no input method unless you can connect the phone to a bluetooth mouse or keyboard).

You see why I said that the short answer is to get the screen fixed?

One other point: you've not said what data it is you are trying to retrieve. Things like photos can simply be copied over USB, but not everything can. It might also be worth checking whether you already have backups of the things you are trying to recover.
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the only other way to get data off of it would be to buy something like this https://www.amazon.com/ALLSOCKET-Internal-Interface-Smartphone-Retrieval/dp/B07B7M4CG1 but they are not cheap and if you make a mistake youll never be able to get your info
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Help Whatsapp last seen

S
In the "chats" tab, bottom right there is a "new conversation" button. After tapping the "new conversation" button, a contact list appears and below each contact there is a short sentence, is the sentence status? (by default the sentence shows "Hey there! I am using WhatsApp")

In the "chats" tab, after tapping "new conversation" button and scrolling down to see the sentence below the contact John (without tapping contact John), am I viewing status of contact John? Will John see I have viewed his status?
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Help Which phone to buy? Huawei Nova 3i or Samsung Galaxy A50?

R
I advise you to buy Samsung Galaxy A50 because it has really solid battery life. If you're a die-hard Samsung fan in search of a good mid-range handset, this is your best bet. I used this phone for about six months and its battery remained in perfect condition even after six months of use. Later I sold it through the buyback program due to the fact that I was given a new iPhone. To be honest, I'm a fan of the iPhone anyway, but if you value the phone for the battery, then take a closer look at the Samsung Galaxy A50. I'm sure you'll appreciate it.
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