I just got the new Evo LTE, and I had photos on phone storage/internal storage. Using ASTRO, I tried to move them into my new 16gb SD card (it was clean, fully formatted and everything). However, it stated that the "MOVE FAILED." and then the pictures were just gone! They didn't go back to the original location or anything, it seems as if they were deleted off the phone and SD card completely!
Was it the phone? Or was it ASTRO? Should I have not mingled with the internal storage and the external storage the way I did? Is there any way I can get those photos back (there were about 500 photos)??
Please help, I've grown desperate. I even went to the sprint store but no luck.
no comment on the error (although I've only moved that many photos back and forth between the phone and card while plugged into the computer), but I've used Hexamob Recovery PRO *ROOT* with great success to restore accidentally deleted photos (there's a free version too - I don't know what the difference is). You should also consider automatic photo backup through dropbox if/when you're able to recover them.
I have to root this phone to be able to use that? I wasn't planning on rooting it yet because I just got it.. Is there another way to recover them? I don't even know if it'll be found in the SD card or the internal memory..
I think all of the "undelete" apps (and there are a few of them out there) require root - sorry.
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So i just went to download something off the internet it said i did not have enough space on my sd card. I don't know how this is because yesterday i had 2gb left and now all of a sudden i only have 30.56mb. So i unistalled a bunch of apps and i am still stuck with 30.56mb which that should of went way up. I only have like 20 apps so there is no way there should be only 30mbs left. Does anyone know how this has happened or how i get it back?
apps will not take up any space on the sd card unless you explicitly move them there through the applications menu or other means... so deleting apps that weren't on the sd card to begin with would not free up any space... If I were in that situation, I would connect the phone to the computer and check the size of each folder on the sd card and see which folder is the biggest... though I'm sure there are quicker methods... have you been doing a large amount of backups or downloads or taking lots of 3d photos and videos?
Omg so i just deleted 440 mb off of it cause i got rid of titanium backup and the free space went down even further! now its at 4.59 mb. wtf
what did you use to delete the titanium backup data? did you do it through something like ES file explorer or Astro? or did you connect the phone to your computer to delete the files?
the phone to the computer? why
are you using a mac by any chance?
nope ubuntu
check your LOST.DIR and see how much data resides in there - if I'm researching this right, theres a chance that the deletions you are making are somehow not completing or something like that...
I did that but that only gave me 50mbs, i got rid of 440 from titanium so why isnt that showing up in free space?
well, I'm stumped and unfortunately, the GF is home from work so it's bed time... at this point I'd probably copy the entire contents of the sd card to the computer - format the SD card - and copy the contents back... that should remove any chance of there being a "ghost file" or anything taking up unnecessary space... see you in the morning -
Did you nand backup anything
Like the person above said nanodroid back ups take a lot of memory
I did a factory reset and that didn't fix it but then i noticed a new folder called .Trash-1000 so i checked that deleted it and now have 3gb. So that worked i don't know how that happened tho. Thanks for helping tho.
.Trash-1000 is apparently the "recycle bin" for Ubuntu. the files you were deleting were simply going there to await permanent deletion. good to hear you got it figured out though...
I was trying to root my HTC One V and i unlocked the bootlocker,however that resulted in factory reset of my phone.Whenever i installed an app on my phone i always moved it to sd card via settings-->apps.I assumed that once my phone restarts after factory reset it will read the apps in the sd card but it is not so.The phone does read songs,pictures and contacts stored on my sd card and the sd card does have the folder of each app but how do i install it from the sd card?
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The stock android move-app-to-sd does not move all app data to the sd card and some data is left on the device on purpose.
I might be wrong (since I never researched this) but I think you cannot restore those apps.
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The stock android move-app-to-sd does not move all app data to the sd card and some data is left on the device on purpose.
I might be wrong (since I never researched this) but I think you cannot restore those apps.
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But is it possible that if i install the same app again,it reads the application settings from the sd card?Like if i download and install a game,is it possible for the game to read my score from it's folder in the sd card?
If the app is storing this kind of information (settings etc.) on the sd-card as a separate file then I would say that it is very likely that it will be able to read that data.
But not all apps store that kind of information on the sd-card (security reasons etc.).
I am not sure what happens to the parts of the app itself that are still on the sd-card though (I am talking about the app itself). I guess that the app will not care about those if it is stored in the internal storage. Moving the app to the sd card will probably overwrite the data on the sd-card. If the app stores the settings etc. in one of its own files then it might be overwritten as well.
You might want to make a backup of those files, even if you can't use the information in the end. But if they are gone they are gone.
Some really crazy idea would be to download the app, move it to the sd-card and then overwrite the files on the sd with the ones from the backup.
If android has no verification or security methods for this and there was no update to the app there might be a small change that this will work.
But I guess that the chances to get all your settings and user data back are still very slim as those are possibly not stored there.
But if you have the backup and some xda user swings by with a good idea (or more knowledge that me) you can still try that.
Hello!
I was trying to make my 64gb sandisk microSD card to work on my i9100 (Galaxy s2). I have heard from reviews and forums that it is possible to make it work by just putting it in the phone and format the card from there and then the phone will recognize it. I got the option to "Format SDcard" which I used but it didn't format my external SDcard, it formatted my internal..
I have tried with this Guide, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705. Fortunately, it worked, but it was not the part that I was trying to restore. When I try to restore the part I want to restore, I get an error message. The error message is
Code:
nc: bind: Address already in use"
and the part I want to restore is called /dev/block/vlod/259:3 according to diskdigger.
I manage to restore some pictures with diskdigger but I am still missing some photos that I would like to restore. Have anyone else had this problem and was able to restore everything? I have also recovered some with ZAR.
I have for now formatted my 64gb to NTFS with windows disk formatter (or whatever it is called) but I don't want to do anything on my phone since I suspect that it will ruin my chances to recover my lost photos.
I have only installed diskdigger and busybox on my phone since the formation.
I managed to restore almost every photo I had with diskdigger on my computer and on my phone, strangely, they detected different pictures and I was getting the impression that most of the photos was discovered with the android version of the app, even though the app itself could have lead to some pictures corruption.
Hey guys, I realise that I may not be on the correct forum for this and for that i apologise, however I am quite new to this website and don't know my way around.
Anyway, I have recently backed up my whole phone storage to SD card using CWM recovery as there was no option to backup to an internal device. I wanted to take the backup and move it to my computer but I have a HTC One m7 which has no SD card. This isn't normally a problem for me because all the files seem to show up on the internal storage when i look on my computer anyway however despite searching through all of the folders, I simply cant find. The backup is 5gb in total and I know that it has been made sucessfully because my available storage has decreased by 5GB but it simply can't be found. Even when i look at the file manager on my phone I can't see it. Even if I can't move it to my PC I atleast want to be able to delete it, will factory resetting the device remove root access aswell as everything else and will I have to start all over again to delete this hefty 5GB backup?
Thanks for reading
Edit -- Nvm. I just went in and did a factory reset. Pretty sad since I hadnt backed up in about 2 weeks. My loss. My stupiditiy. Learn form our mistakes.
After the factory reset, I can view my SD card again which is pretty nice, so not a total loss.
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Alright. A little about my phone. Its a Galaxy s5 with an 8gb micro sd card. The phone is rooted.
Last night I installed Apps2sd. When I first opened the app it mentioned that my SD card was not setup and I would need to run some "sd fix". I accepted, the phone rebooted and then when it came back up, its as if my SD card was blank. Not only blank, but after connecting phone to the PC, both my phone and card show but are empty. The SD card displays as -1376256 bytes free of -1376256 bytes. The phone shows 127mb free of 128mb.
I also made the mistake of uninstalled apps2sd after my phone booted up and I noticed the issue. Wasnt very smart of me as I can not seem to install it or anything back. Most apps including google play just crash when trying to load. When vieiwng files under My Files, basically everything is empty. If I try using FX file manager then most things say I dont have access.
Now when I first turn on phone and I boot into safestrap TWRP, I can go through and view files and I See all my stuff on my SD card and phone. I can even copy files from my SD card and place them in other directories (tried to copy the apps2sd apk onto phone to reinstall) but just cant ever see any of it when the phone is booted.
Also under TWRP, If I go to backup or anything for example, It lists Micro SD as 2132mb and Internal Storage as 3436mb. So im guessing apps2sd created a partition of some sort?
What have I done? What did my stupid ass do and is there any way to fix it?
tl;dr: Installed apps2sd, clicked things I shouldnt click. Cant view any files on phone or when connected to USB but can see everything under TWRP.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated!!
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Edit -- Nvm. I just went in and did a factory reset. Pretty sad since I hadnt backed up in about 2 weeks. My loss. My stupiditiy. Learn form our mistakes.
After the factory reset, I can view my SD card again which is pretty nice, so not a total loss.
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Alright. A little about my phone. Its a Galaxy s5 with an 8gb micro sd card. The phone is rooted.
Last night I installed Apps2sd. When I first opened the app it mentioned that my SD card was not setup and I would need to run some "sd fix". I accepted, the phone rebooted and then when it came back up, its as if my SD card was blank. Not only blank, but after connecting phone to the PC, both my phone and card show but are empty. The SD card displays as -1376256 bytes free of -1376256 bytes. The phone shows 127mb free of 128mb.
I also made the mistake of uninstalled apps2sd after my phone booted up and I noticed the issue. Wasnt very smart of me as I can not seem to install it or anything back. Most apps including google play just crash when trying to load. When vieiwng files under My Files, basically everything is empty. If I try using FX file manager then most things say I dont have access.
Now when I first turn on phone and I boot into safestrap TWRP, I can go through and view files and I See all my stuff on my SD card and phone. I can even copy files from my SD card and place them in other directories (tried to copy the apps2sd apk onto phone to reinstall) but just cant ever see any of it when the phone is booted.
Also under TWRP, If I go to backup or anything for example, It lists Micro SD as 2132mb and Internal Storage as 3436mb. So im guessing apps2sd created a partition of some sort?
What have I done? What did my stupid ass do and is there any way to fix it?
tl;dr: Installed apps2sd, clicked things I shouldnt click. Cant view any files on phone or when connected to USB but can see everything under TWRP.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated!!
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u should try finding from root/data/media