#I messed up badly. can you undelete an android phone?

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ruby wagon
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The power button got pushed on my android phone and it went into that emergency mode or whatever where you can do a list of things and one of them was factory reset and so when i look at my phone my instinct was to click a button and it was already on the factory reset option and it reset everything. I dont have backups of my pictures and videos is it possible to recover? Important note is I didn't have a lock screen so it's not encrypted. I bet it's possible with a root but verizon phones can't be rooted

steady furnace
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but if you factory reset im sorry that data's gone.

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it's like formatting in Windows

ruby wagon
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When I looked at my phone I thought it was off so I pressed the power button to turn it on not realizing it was on just all black and there is little tiny text at the top which for some reason happened to be on the factory reset option

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Why can't they have a confirm screen

steady furnace
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also, last i checked "undelete" wasn't a word in the english language.

ruby wagon
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Well I mean undeleting isn't very hard on other devices

ruby wagon
# steady furnace ... there is?

There is not. If you pressed and held the power button for idk how long a menu pop up and you use the volume buttons to move up and down and the power button to press it. So it went down to factory reset and when I tried to turn the phone on it pressed the reset button. There was no confirm

steady furnace
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what phone u got?

tulip sedge
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so that raises more questions than it answers, what phone and HOW

plush fossil
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I don’t know a lot about android but maybe look for a way to get the whole drive with all it’s contents to show up on a computer and use a data recovery program to scan it

steady furnace
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I've done lots of things with android (involving installing a custom operating system) that involves confirming at least 3 times if you wanna wipe AND you have to type in "yes" to actually format it so there is protection

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maybe your particular recovery doesn't

tulip sedge
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I have too so that's my question as well haha

unreal flax
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Android is encrypted by default for a while now, so data recovery services probably won't be able to help. If you wiped your phone there's no way I know of to get things back that were only on the phone.

This highlights the importance of having backups for important things.

steady furnace
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google photos is nice for most of your data

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if you own a pixel device as far as i know you get unlimited backup storage for that device

tulip sedge
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that's been discontinued for ages now

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or for "original quality"

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it's still unlimited for compressed though

winged sluice
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Yeah they should be able to

ruby wagon
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i looked up a video of how to factory reset a note 5 without password

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and those have a different but similar menu

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and those do have a confirmation screen

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mine did not

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i know it's different because theirs has a console with everything going on in the reset

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mine instantly shut off then came back on with the blue screen and the android robot and it said erasing

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it's a verizon phone so that is probably why it's different

tulip sedge
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Oh wait

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that's normal

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that's a test screen

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Thanks for finally saying what device it is, would've been really helpful two days ago when I first asked for it

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Samsungs have a test screen that say updating and erasing with the blue gear logo or the android robot depending on age while entering bootloader

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just force restart

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it's not actually erased

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as far as I know samsung is the only company that does that

ruby wagon
steady furnace
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factory reset is the state your phone is in when you unbox it and turn it on for the first time

ruby wagon
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is it even possible to erase a phone?

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eitherway it's still gone