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Help Need to back up texts before hard reset- EVO is on continuous reboot

scary alien said:
Scotty,

Yeah, the only thing I can think of also involves root or "pre-root" (i.e., a compliant HBOOT that would allow a fastboot boot to allow soft-booting a pre-root system image, but I'm guessing that's not easily achievable with Revolutionary? (if it is, I could build a pre-rooted boot.img with adb / root, etc.)).

BTW, you won't see adb access in stock recovery since there isn't an adb daemon running at that time (that I'm aware of).

If you can get wider-open fastboot access, we might have an opening...

Cheers!

edit: also, just saw this on AC: http://forums.androidcentral.com/thunderbolt-rooting-roms-hacks/162217-tool-bypass-downgrade-get-s-off-no-data-wipe.html (I'm not a member there at AC so I didn't follow all the links, but if this would work for this device, it might be helpful?)
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Revolutionary won't work for her device SA. She's updated to 2.3.5, she has to follow another root method that requires a bootable phone. :(
Captain Throwback has a root method to downgrade the hboot to 2.10 and we use unrevoked, but that needs the phone to boot.

I'm loosing my mind!

I'm going to pm the Cap'n and get him to take a look also, might as well pull all the stops now. :D

Thanks for helping guys!
 
It's worth a shot, hopefully the op will post back and give it a try.
I'm skeptical because it won't boot past the splash screen, but you never know.
 
KerrieB said:
I think Im going to give up this fight and just do a factory reset, if that even works :-). I can't thank you all enough for your tremendous amount of care and effort to help me here. Its very much appreciated.
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Sorry to hear it.

Think about installing the app SMS Backup+. It's free and you'll never worry again about not having access to your sms and mms messages (call logs, too, if you want them.) You can even restore call logs and sms (not mms) after a reset.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync&hl=en
 
doogald said:
Sorry to hear it.

Think about installing the app SMS Backup+. It's free and you'll never worry again about not having access to your sms and mms messages (call logs, too, if you want them.) You can even restore call logs and sms (not mms) after a reset.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync&hl=en
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MMS message backup to google with the images, its just that on the restore the message is restored, but the images are not. At least the images are still left on google so they are not lost forever.
 
hey guys,
sorry i just a thought but i know that it is late in the game, but hopefully it is not to late. but i think that maybe try using the taco root method. it gives you temp root and maybe from there you can root around to where the text data is stored. unfortunately i do not have access to my computer or have the time to type out the process at the moment. i do have a guide out for taco root, if anybody cares to link it. the only thing is you will have to be able to get to the bootloader and have it in fastboot for this to work. if that is a no go then i'm all out of ideas.

maybe somebody can pm captain throwback for his advice on this idea.
 
ocnbrze said:
hey guys,
sorry i just a thought but i know that it is late in the game, but hopefully it is not to late. but i think that maybe try using the taco root method. it gives you temp root and maybe from there you can root around to where the text data is stored. unfortunately i do not have access to my computer or have the time to type out the process at the moment. i do have a guide out for taco root, if anybody cares to link it. the only thing is you will have to be able to get to the bootloader and have it in fastboot for this to work. if that is a no go then i'm all out of ideas.

maybe somebody can pm captain throwback for his advice on this idea.
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PM sent. Lets see if he has any far out ideas. :)
 
sounds like an idea worth checkin out for sure! ill read up on taco root as soon as i get home. i think the phone needs to reboot a couple times,but maybe itll work! great idea,ocnbrze! :cool:
 
ocnbrze said:
hey guys,
sorry i just a thought but i know that it is late in the game, but hopefully it is not to late. but i think that maybe try using the taco root method. it gives you temp root and maybe from there you can root around to where the text data is stored. unfortunately i do not have access to my computer or have the time to type out the process at the moment. i do have a guide out for taco root, if anybody cares to link it. the only thing is you will have to be able to get to the bootloader and have it in fastboot for this to work. if that is a no go then i'm all out of ideas.

maybe somebody can pm captain throwback for his advice on this idea.
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Hi.

This is what I would suggest, but the only problem is that it won't work unless USB Debugging has already been enabled, which probably hasn't been. Without being able to enable it in Settings, it may not be possible to temp root.

I'm not going to be around much today but I'll think about it and try a few things tomorrow and see if I can come up with anything.
 
so if usb debugging is enabled,then that may work. only prollem is that it will all have to be entered as the phone as booting,and before it reboots :eek: since the first few commands are adb commands,not fastboot commands. it would actually be better for us if the phone got to a point in the boot process where it had an adb daemon running and then hung :mad:

but if it did work,we could most definately use that temp root to capture the data block and then it would be a simple matter of restoring it on another rooted phone,if a factory reset or RUU doesnt fix this one.

its still kind of a long shot,but its a shot! i like it :D

if were going to try it,or anything that involves adb,this file simplifies the whole setting it up process:
mini-adb.zip

it contains adb,fsatboot,and an md5 sum utility. just download,extract,move to root of C drive,and cd c:\ to it. no complex setting up of entire android sdk :)
 
I fair to say that I am extremely late into the game here but If its not booting past the boot splash screen then would it be possible to maybe reflash the hboot or even flash another hboot and get it working?(I Know she's not rooted but would it hurt to try) If it is infact a hardware issue the flash or the attempt may give it one shot to boot. If she was able to boot normally she could infact get all her text saved then.

On another Note:

For all participating or Lurking this is why it is extremely important to have a good backup plan. You should back up all your important data at the very least once a week. Some would argue daily backups are the only way but either way If the OP had at least 98% of those text it wouldn't be as hard for them. I do give my condolences to the OP for both the loss of her Aunt and those text. (If in fact we cannot find a way to retrieve them.)
 
Granite1 said:
Pull the battery, then put it back in. Hold the volume down button, then press and hold the power button simultaneously until a white screen with Andy riding a sketeboard appears. This is your bootloader, or hboot. Use the volume button to highlight recovery, then press power to select. If you get a black screen with an exclmation point in a red triangle, this is the stock recovery. Hold both the vulume down and volume up buttons, the press and hold the power button. You should get a few options, use the volume keys to highlight wipe the cache partition, the wipe the dalvik cache.
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Well...I am not sure what exactly I did, but I started following your directions, Granite, and, well, I got to the menu with the option to wipe the cache, but as soon as I released the buttons, I guess it thought I selected one (probably the first in the list, whatever it was) and immediately rebooted. This time though, it actually freaking booted! (Similar to Kerrie and others, mine was stuck in a constant reboot between splash screens since yesterday, beginning when I plugged in earbuds and made a call!) Now, to quickly backup, in case it gets hosed again!
 
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