Accessing data on cheap Samsung phone
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I have a Samsung flip phone (model S336C), and I would like to try to access the data (contact list, text messages, media messages, photos, sounds, ringtones, etc.) on it to back them up to my computer.
Does anyone know how I could do that?
Also, I have an R451 slide phone that I would like to pull the text and media messages from. I do have a method that works, sort of, but any help in this regard would also be much appreciated.
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@djls45 Does such a device have a 'dumb drive' mode? I remember I could reboot my old iPod into 'disk mode' where it just pretended to be a USB drive and you could access the files directly instead of having to go through iTunes.
Also, have you called Samsung support?
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@pie_flavor No, it doesn't, or at least I can't figure out whether it does and how to switch to it.
Not yet. Is their tech support any good? Any advice for navigating their system?
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@djls45 Oh, I know nothing about it. Never needed it for anything. I'm just saying that's the first place I'd look.
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@pie_flavor I don't like to sit and wait on hold, so I generally try to exhaust my online resources before I take that step.
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You can apparently connect it to a computer via Bluetooth, says the manual on page 39. It doesn’t seem to say what the phone can do then, but it may be worth a try.
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@Gurth "Supported Profiles" includes
- Headset
- Handsfree
- Phonebook Access
- Object Push
I'm not sure the difference between #1 and #2. #3 only allows copying the contact list. #4 allows copying pictures, but not sounds, ringtones, or text and media messages.
Also, my bluetooth adapter in the laptop seems to be on the fritz at the moment. It might just need a driver update or refresh; I've kept the radio disabled through Device Manager, re-enabling it just when I try to use it, because I so rarely use it, I want to try to restrict my risk profile, and I like to save that little bit of battery.
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@djls45 said in Accessing data on cheap Samsung phone:
@Gurth "Supported Profiles" includes
- Headset
- Handsfree
- Phonebook Access
- Object Push
I'm not sure the difference between #1 and #2.
At a guess, handsfree is for use with car equipment?
#4 allows copying pictures, but not sounds, ringtones, or text and media messages.
Can you take screenshots on the phone? :)
It sounds a bit like you’re out of luck, though — the manual doesn’t even mention hooking the phone up to a computer via a cable, which is the main way I’d expect to use to get stuff like this off the device.
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@Gurth said in Accessing data on cheap Samsung phone:
@djls45 said in Accessing data on cheap Samsung phone:
@Gurth "Supported Profiles" includes
- Headset
- Handsfree
- Phonebook Access
- Object Push
I'm not sure the difference between #1 and #2.
At a guess, handsfree is for use with car equipment?
Probably so.
#4 allows copying pictures, but not sounds, ringtones, or text and media messages.
Can you take screenshots on the phone? :)
No, it's much too primitive for that.
It sounds a bit like you’re out of luck, though — the manual doesn’t even mention hooking the phone up to a computer via a cable, which is the main way I’d expect to use to get stuff like this off the device.
It's Samsung, with all that entails, and it's not Android (nor even a smartphone), so that's what I fear is the case. I suspect I might be able to get a phone shop to copy them for me, but I don't hold that very likely to be possible.
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@djls45 said in Accessing data on cheap Samsung phone:
Does anyone know how I could do that?
You'll likely not be able to do much more than photos and contacts, possibly text messages. That type of phone wasn't conducive to data transfer, you'd have to perform what would be considered a jailbreak and dump the memory in some debug mode or another, which will involve opening the phone and possible shenanigans involving soldering.
Unfortunately your most effective method will be pen and paper.
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@djls45 said in Accessing data on cheap Samsung phone:
I suspect I might be able to get a phone shop to copy them for me, but I don't hold that very likely to be possible.
On some dumb phones, you could transfer your contacts to the SIM cards.
Then read them from another phone.Worth a try
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@TimeBandit said in Accessing data on cheap Samsung phone:
SIM cards
I should have mentioned: these are CDMA-only phones, and as such don't have SIM cards.
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@djls45 said in Accessing data on cheap Samsung phone:
@TimeBandit said in Accessing data on cheap Samsung phone:
SIM cards
I should have mentioned: these are CDMA-only phones, and as such don't have SIM cards.
Well, technically they do, they're just not user accessible/replaceable.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Accessing data on cheap Samsung phone:
Well, technically they do, they're just not user accessible/replaceable.Is there a standard SIM card in it, just internally, or is it the same functionality but built into the phone’s hardware? In the first case you could open up the phone and get the card out.
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@Gurth said in Accessing data on cheap Samsung phone:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Accessing data on cheap Samsung phone:
Well, technically they do, they're just not user accessible/replaceable.Is there a standard SIM card in it, just internally, or is it the same functionality but built into the phone’s hardware? In the first case you could open up the phone and get the card out.
Tending towards the latter. It's a discrete chip usually, just maybe not in card form.
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@Tsaukpaetra I had a feeling that would be the usual way to do it, but it might pay to look for either a teardown of the phone in question, or just open it up and check if all else fails.
