Data recovery from dead Lumia
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My dad's Lumia has finally given up on life - with an "unable to find bootable option" error. Now, neither of us really cares about this little piece of shit, but there are a few phone numbers there that we haven't backed up. Is there any chance to retrieve them? I Tried Nokia Software Recovery Tool, but it doesn't detect the phone; I wanted to try Windows Device Recovery Tool, but it has no option other than nuking everything. Any other options?
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Did he have an MS account signed in on it? If so the contacts are normally backed up to Live.com.
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@coldandtired nope.
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@gąska Take the SIM card to a phone shop and see if the numbers are stored on it? I have no idea if modern phones even do that anymore, but it used to work back in the day.
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@blakeyrat that was the first thing my dad did, but not everything was backed to SIM.
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@gąska To my knowledge, contacts go on the SIM or a Microsoft account. I don't know how you COULD get them elsewhere.
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JTAG?
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@magus said in Data recovery from dead Lumia:
@gąska To my knowledge, contacts go on the SIM or a Microsoft account. I don't know how you COULD get them elsewhere.
Internal memory?
@coldandtired said in Data recovery from dead Lumia:
JTAG?
Will check this out.
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@gąska said in Data recovery from dead Lumia:
Internal memory?
What, he used a non-onenote note-taking app to save numbers in?
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@magus I'm pretty sure he didn't have MS account on that phone. Though if it's impossible, maybe there's a chance he'll remember the login.
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@gąska I would definitely double check... its hard to even USE windows phone without one, but the options for saving contacts typically dont include the filesystem.
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Regarding data recovery part, since WinPhone8/10 have BitLocker enabled by default and no UI to turn it off, if it can't boot and there's no backup, the data is likely to be lost forever.
