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Phone Hijacked By Korean Woman

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SoloPopo189

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I was at work with my phone in my pocket when I start hearing a woman's voice coming from it speaking korean. I look at my phone and all of the letters are in korean and the touch screen wouldn't let me navigate the menus properly. I had to wipe all the data on the phone and reboot to get my phone working again. I did nothing to prompt this. I've lost all my photos and videos. What the hell caused this? I's there anything I can do to get my data back? My phone successfully reformatted.
 
dontpanicbobby said:
That's strange.
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It was as if the phone automatically factory reset itself without concent. Samsung is a Korean company. The menus I was faced with were the same menus you are prompted with when the phone first turns on, except in korean. There was an option to switch to english, but my touch screen was not functioning.
 
SoloPopo189 said:
I never back up anything.
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That's not an advisable practice. There's no shortage of posts here on the forums made by people who just weren't aware they should set up some sort of backup solution, and have lost irreplaceable family photos and videos. To intentionally NOT back up your data just doesn't seem logical.
 
SoloPopo189 said:
I never back up anything. There are programs I've used successfully in the past to recover lost data. I don't like keeping personal stuff in the cloud.
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Well you can always backup your personal stuff to a PC or Mac, or USB hard drive, or USB stick, or something.

Trying to recover stuff from a phone's internal storage, good luck I think, you might need the NSA's or FBI's help, i.e. a forensic lab probably.
 
if you have done a FDR, and reformatted the phone, say le vie, it is all gone...

always store photos, videos, to the SD card. always go into Settings on the camera apps and configure them to always save images to the SD card.....

now if the phone takes a crap, you just pull the SD card out of it, and all is well.

and, you can just plug that SD card into any PC copy the info to a hard drive.
never, ever, trust the SD card as the only device to contain your images.
likewise, never, ever, store the images on the phone..... that is just asking for the trouble you just experienced.

as of right now. Lesson #1 learned the hard way.

Lesson #2, you will from now on, do as we have suggested, save all images to SD card, and make copies to something... I don't trust the cloud, but I do copy the stuff to a PC/laptop/extHardDrive
 
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