I was attacked by hospital staff last night in front of two sheriff deputies. A nurse grabbed my phone and deleted the video. It is a Gal Note 4. : techsupport

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I have been at it 6 hours trying to do it myself. My lawyer has a guy that does it for $2,500 - but that is way out of my wheelhouse. I'd pay for help if the video was recovered, but I'm not the kind of guy with more than $500 to "play" with. I know your time is valuable, so let me know what you need to do it. I will answer any questions you have up-front and with pure honesty.

EDIT: Anybody in the Houston area I will come to personally. EDIT 2: All good advice got gold, I left a comment asking for PayPal info to compensate the best of the thread. Thank you. Please send me your PayPal info.

EDIT 3: Got up to take a piss at 2:30am, and holy shit. Let me clarify a few things. 1) I was not belligerent - not until I had the knee in my face - then it was mostly "what the fuck." 2) I don't care to waste my time suing anyone who doesn't deserve it. Karma in real life might actually be a real thing. 3) I don't need to beat a DUI. They took the blood without an arrest and without a warrant. In Texas, that gets suppressed with a quickness. 4)If I was acting like a belligerent asshole, show me one cop that wouldn't take me in right then. 5) Regardless of all that other BS and the court of Reddit administering a verdict, I still really, really need this video.

EDIT 4: 2 things - 1... I am working through all of your suggestions (making a list now, setting up in the morning). PHONE IS OFF. I had 20GB of free space on the internal. No SD, no Cloud, No Hamster. 2.... I know as much as the next guy how people can be on the internet. That's not me. Know why? Because I'm trying to get the video back, that's why. What the fuck would I want of a video of me deservedly getting attacked after treating a medical team like shit? "I'm Rob Lowe and this is Dickhead Asshat Doctor Provoking Rob Lowe with cable?"

EDIT 5 (Tuesday): No rooting programs are working. I copied every folder from my phone to my computer. It turns out that Verizon's SM-N910V has something called a bootblocker or some shit like that. So I am on to manually try this out.

EDIT 6 (Tuesday Afternoon): There is no way to root this phone without dealing with a bootloader or something that every forum says we have to wait for. I contacted a Data Forensics company in Austin that might be able to do something, but if I have to go that route I am going to have to wait until I get paid on the 15th. They are going to call me back sometime today to let me know if they can even do anything. Meanwhile, any suggestions that require the phone to be rooted are no good. I can't thank y'all enough, though. I'll deliver something as soon as I figure out what I need to do next.

EDIT 7 (Tuesday still): I have a call with the guy from Austin at 2pm or so Central - I'll let y'all know what he thinks.

EDIT 8 (Tues.): They are going to email me some detailed info regarding what they do to get the video. Obviously, I probably won't understand one fucking detail, but I'll post it here. For now, you guys stay awesome. I need to get some work done.

EDIT 9: YOU GUYS ARE ABOVE-AVERAGE!!!! A company in Oklahoma just offered to forensically recover the video for me as pro-bono, pro-civil right, just plain badass way to help me out. Once again, no matter what.... I will post the video as soon as I can, no matter how it makes me look. I am Fed-Exing the phone there this afternoon.

EDIT 10: Continuing my policy of "surely delivering" I give you a copy of the overnight shipping receipt.

EDIT 11: Not much new today to report except that my phone arrived at the Data Forensics facility. FedEx Tracking 807519987715

EDIT 12: Wednesday activities: Phone will be dumped by Thursday morning when recovery work will commence.

EDIT 13: Got an email this morning (Thursday) saying they are recovering the data today. That does not mean shit to the great reveal. I made the mistake of scrolling too low in some of the other threads this ended up on, and I am not having my integrity questioned anymore - at least where I can do something about it. This is my Uber receipt from the night of the incident showing that I went HOME and did not, as some claim, have a DWI that I am just covering up for. Check the address, it is the hospital - not the jail.

EDIT 14: I had another update from the guys in OKC with my phone. They were able to pull a lot of old contacts, messages, etc. from my phone, but no video. They want to use a new code they have for this new phone (Verizon Note 4) to see what they can get. They estimate a Tuesday completion. That does not mean I am going to upload the video if I get it right away. My attorney and ABC-13 in Houston are going to make sure that anything I upload does not violate HIPPA laws. I am here for any other questions anyone has, but you have to be as patient as I am before I upload the video. I spoke with my attorney today and he is being very cautious about how we go about this. I got a copy of my medical records from that night which are full of contradictory statements. You all can expect no updates over the weekend. Not because I am being deceptive, but mostly because my attorney has a newborn, I need to catch up with my job, and the guys in OKC don't work over the weekend. This is going to be a process, and as much as I want to deliver ASAP, the data is going to be delivered and the story develops --- and that shit takes time. I am always available to answer questions if you message me.

EDIT 15 (Monday Night): Nothing new to report. Last Friday I was told that there would be either a yes or no on recovery by close of business on Tuesday. I'm not rushing anybody, so I didn't ask for an update today. I probably will tomorrow. I see all of the "RemindMe" things, and I want you all to know that it is still in the works. The sheer amount of professionalism going into this is going to be a valuable addition to the people on this sub that I intended to interact with before this blew up. I think we are all going to be in a position to learn "real(ish) time" how they are handling this. I don't know dick-one about what is going on technically with my phone, but I'm sure we'll get some insight soon.

EDIT 16 (Tuesday Night): There is still nothing new to report.

EDIT 17 (Wednesday Afternoon): The email from the data forensics company:

Hello again Reddit friend, Long story short, you are boned. Our forensic devices were able to semi-dump this phone, but the video you are looking for was not in the dumps. So here is the long story. The Verizon Note 4 is bootloader locked with no known exploit. It has several security systems in place to make sure you (the owner) don't get to do anything with the phone that Samsung and VZW dont approve of, UNLESS you buy the Verizon Note 4 'Developer Edition'. The reason that this matters to you, is that there is no way currently to access a full bit-for-bit copy of the internal storage. Our resident Android Guru has been working on this solid since we got your phone (partly because of the almost $15000 reward for it), but is up against a wall as well. In effect, you are out of luck on recovering the video until an exploit is found for this phone (which it may or may not ever be). Your options are to keep the phone safe and unused somewhere until the phones security is broken, or to move on. I wish we had better news, and I wish that Android phone manufacturers would keep these open source phones open, and not locked like Fort Knox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Knox). Please get me your shipping address and we will overnight the phone back to you. I am sorry, and I know this is not what you were hoping for, us either!

They also included a spreadsheet breaking down the bounty for unlocking the phone. Either way, this is good information for this sub, I'd assume, and bad for the people with the pictchforks and such. My attorney is still moving forward, and that is going to be a long process, so if your "RemindMe" shit doesn't have "months" somewhere in it, you can forget that.

Seriously, the internet is awesome when you look at it from the standpoint of I cane to this sub to get a result and I got one (good or bad). It sucks when apparently I became a "Karma Whore" somewhere in here. You all can think what you want, but seriously, how does this matter to your life? Stop being so cynical. In the words of Conan O'Brien.

EDIT 18 (Feb 16): Some of y'all need to get a life. I'm not some cop-bashing anti-anything attention seeker. I came here for a tech support issue and got exactly that. If the result isn't what you had hoped for, too goddamned bad, go upstairs and cry to your mom. The people who help out in here are awesome, and shouldn't have to deal with some of you terrible, terrible human beings who for whatever reason think that the reading and commenting on a story makes them somehow entitled to anything. Nobody owes you shit, get used to it.

Final Outcome (November): The company from Oklahoma tried to get the video out of the phone for no charge and could not get it. I knew that the hospital had cameras and I tried to get a lawyer where I am to take the case on a contingency fee basis which was unsuccessful. Not an exciting conclusion to the story, but it is what it is. Thank you all, I hope you all have a happy holiday season.

Super Three-Year-Later Edit: This pissed me off so much, I went to law school and became an attorney and now do defense work in Texas.

equityengineer on August 2nd, 2018 at 03:08 UTC »

Yeah, I did this. Here you go.

dale_glass on August 1st, 2018 at 22:44 UTC »

Backup revenge plan: find if the nurse did anything similar to anybody else, offer them free legal services.

I wonder if that would be against any professional ethics.

fruitynotes on August 1st, 2018 at 21:58 UTC »

It's like a superhero origin story but less super