Recent content by SDChipDroid

Rukbat - first off I want to say thank you for so much great information. I checked this post right before having to run out the door for an appointment. I only have a chance to skim it now but will read closely when I return in 90 minutes or so. I wanted to quickly share some info. I...

Hi Rukbat, thanks so much for helping me. I am not looking to recover deleted texts. Rather, I had maybe 15 open conversations, some of them with 150 messages back and forth, that I want to recover. At times I would also save a bunch of texts as a file before deleting them. If I do need to...

Hello, I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge running Oreo that was factory reset due to an error in an update. I have spent hours looking at different data recovery s/w options. It looks like many of them require rooting, something I have never done before. I don't care about voiding a warranty...

Oh, this is a long shot, but what if I booted my Windows PC with ubuntu? Would the Linux OS be able to see the lost files I am trying to recover?

Hi B. Diddy. Thanks so much for replying so quickly! I am OK rooting the device with a caveat. Let's say I root it and recover some/all my files. Can I unroot if needed? I don't care about voiding the warranty on the phone. I quickly skimmed the post you referenced and saw a link to XDA...

Hello, I have a S7 that froze during an apparent automatic Android update. I was driving at the time using Waze on the phone. My daughter who was in the car said that the phone was asking if I want to do a factory reset. We pulled over and said no and after trying many different things I came...