Restore data from bricked Jolla phone to Android?
asked 2016-04-03 07:08:14 +0200
Hi all,
a week ago my Jolla phone showed strange restart behavior, usually the problem was solved by doing a btrfs balance. but this time it was different.
My jolla phone could not enter the OS. It's stuck on Jolla logo.
The only thing that I can do, was doing a full recovery using telnet as written here https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204709607-Jolla-Phone-How-do-I-use-the-Recovery-Mode-. I tried many times, but it didn't successful. There is always a step stuck in there, such as unmounting /mnt on cleaning up, etc.
I had to forced to remove the battery, put it again and try to recover again. but it is still the same. I still can't enter the OS. I think I gave up this time.
I love my Jolla phone and the Sailfish OS, I also own a TOHKBD2. I would like to have another Jolla phone, but I decide not to buy this time. I live in a country in Asia where shipping cost and customs make the price is unacceptable anymore for me.
The first time when I decided to buy Jolla phone from ebay in 2015 because I thought this phone can last longer than my N900 (I used N900 since 2012), but it looks like it didn't happen.
So I'm moving on to other phone this time. I purchased OnePlus X as for replacement. I choose it because it's listed here https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris as one of must supported phone.
But I'm not trying to install Sailfish OS on this phone yet. First I want to recover all data from my Jolla phone to this Android. The most important things are contacts and messages.
Before I format my Jolla phone, I manage to backup the data from /home/nemo to the SDCard. Is there any ways to convert and copy the contacts and messages to Android?
And also my last question, is my Jolla phone really die? Because I still can do recovery mode or enter shell, read and write files there.
Thank you.
try http://coderus.openrepos.net/jollarecovery/README.html
coderus ( 2016-04-03 08:59:07 +0200 )editI wonder if it would be possible to use
lakutalo ( 2016-04-03 12:19:01 +0200 )editadb pullon the computer with the phone connected via USB and put into debug modus (power + volume button) to read data from the phone, since fastboot seems possible.jolla phone is not android, it have no android recovery. use zendesk article to get into sailfish recovery mode shell, and use coderus.openrepos.net/jollarecovery/jolla-factory.tar.xz file together with readme.
coderus ( 2016-04-03 12:23:56 +0200 )editbtw, what data you trying to recover? it's very unlikely you can import it to android device easily.
coderus ( 2016-04-03 12:27:14 +0200 )edithi @coderus, thanks for the download link. will try it soon.. for now, I want to recover SMS and contacts.
hi @lakutalo, I haven't try it. I'm also new to this Android things.
fpermana ( 2016-04-03 12:32:23 +0200 )edit