Hey guys,
Gonna try explain this best I can. If I need to be corrected or any blanks filled in then please let me know
Basically, I had around 25 images that were taken a few weeks ago when my family visited from New Zealand on my SD. I thought to be safe, I'll move them to a folder on the root drive so popped onto root explorer, made the folder on root and copied the pictures over (well moved them actually).
Now, issue is I stupidly named the folder (in my wisdom god knows why I chose this) 'PICREC130910'. I do understand the name of the folder is fairly irrelevant but thought since I'm asking for a hand, best explain myself best I can.
Now, again in my wisdom, I was browsing about using root explorer and somehow managed to delete that folder (let's blame working 14 hour shifts for that wonderful mishap).
I tried a recovery using various deleted file recovery softwares on my SD using the computer, but to no avail. It finds the image names but when I recover them it only recovers a non readable file that every viewer I've tried can't see. this might be because I had just before deleting root folders, put about 6gb of music on the SD so probably overwritten the pictures.
Anyway, because the root is generally less written to than the SD I'm hoping they're still in a recoverable state so to put my question out there... is there a software that can do a similar recovery search but on the root drive? Would really appreciate any help cause I only get to see my family from nz about once every 5 years.
Thanks for reading guys,
Pete
What recovery software have you used?
One I have tried with great success is Recuva.
I used that and another one, can't remember the name just now but my issue is how do I search the root drive?
What I'm looking to do is somehow mount the root drive to allow a windows based piece of software search it or alternatively find another way to do so using a terminal to show all deleted files so I can find these pictures somewhere.
Hopefully (and I'm asuming..) the internal is a similar structure to the flash-based memory system in the SD card and therefore as long as it hasn't been overwritten, should be recoverable.
Would I be right in this assumption?
Nobody help here?
Sorry dude, but i am pretty certain there is no software available that would allow you to recover deleted files from a Mobile Phone internal memory. I can only suggest that you remove your SD card and connect that to you PC and see if you can recover any pics direct from the SD. You will have to use an SD Card reader as it will not work if you connect the phone to the pc.
I personally use Recover My Files. It always works for me.
Have a look with THIS, worth a shot.
First off can I offer my greatest thank you to all those that have replied so far. I'm avoiding installing or deleting a thing until I know what I can do with this.
Isn't mounting the phone to the computer (Ie mount SD card) the same as putting it into an SD card reader? Higher chance of it working with a reader?
As said, it can find the image names, just not the images (ie recovers a non readable file!)
So, I was looking at my SD Card info through settings and I only have 2.43gb free. I only have 7 songs, not many photos, videos or anything else. I went through my SD and cleaned it up, but nothing changed.
I am running SC 2.5v no theme, and nothing really on my SD card for roms, themes or anything like that. I know this is a stretch, but what could be taking so much memory on the SD. I don't have titanium, i have cleaned my back ups and don't back up my apps... I know. Crazy. Anyone have any ideas. I know you don't know what is on my SD but, anyone have this issue as well?
gotsflat4love said:
So, I was looking at my SD Card info through settings and I only have 2.43gb free. I only have 7 songs, not many photos, videos or anything else. I went through my SD and cleaned it up, but nothing changed.
I am running SC 2.5v no theme, and nothing really on my SD card for roms, themes or anything like that. I know this is a stretch, but what could be taking so much memory on the SD. I don't have titanium, i have cleaned my back ups and don't back up my apps... I know. Crazy. Anyone have any ideas. I know you don't know what is on my SD but, anyone have this issue as well?
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Did you partition your sd card?
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No. Should I? I have never ran across anyone doing that on a Fascinate...
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No. Should I? I have never ran across anyone doing that on a Fascinate...
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That could probably explain why.
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Mount the SD card on your computer and then select all the files in explorer (turn on show system files and hidden files first!), and check their total size (size and size on disk). If the size on disk for all the files is far lower than the amount reported as being used for the volume, something odd is probably up.
If the 'size on disk' is actually about the same as the amount of used space on the volume, you can then start checking the folders/files to see what's taking up the space.
@Jason Black: Why'd you want to repartition it? Or did you mean reformat it?
Another thing you could do is look for hidden files on windows when u open up removable drive then on the upper the upper left hand side hit tools then view then scroll down and hit the bubble that says show hidden files and see if thats what's taking up space
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Mount the SD card on your computer and then select all the files in explorer (turn on show system files and hidden files first!), and check their total size (size and size on disk). If the size on disk for all the files is far lower than the amount reported as being used for the volume, something odd is probably up.
If the 'size on disk' is actually about the same as the amount of used space on the volume, you can then start checking the folders/files to see what's taking up the space.
@Jason Black: Why'd you want to repartition it? Or did you mean reformat it?
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Non of that. I was simply asking of the sd card was partitioned.
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Do you use ROM Manager, or have you used it? Also, do you have/use Titanium backup to create backups or have you done any nandroid backups in CWM? Also, if you download things on your phone, that would be another thing to check and clear out.
imnuts said:
Do you use ROM Manager, or have you used it? Also, do you have/use Titanium backup to create backups or have you done any nandroid backups in CWM? Also, if you download things on your phone, that would be another thing to check and clear out.
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imnuts said:
Do you use ROM Manager, or have you used it? Also, do you have/use Titanium backup to create backups or have you done any nandroid backups in CWM? Also, if you download things on your phone, that would be another thing to check and clear out.
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Yeah you can try clearing download cache in rom manager and also, those nanbackups take up a good amount of space if you have a lot of apps and data. I also have 2.40g left. Thats a lot of space unless you are downloading movies lol.
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I recently had that issue and went through my sd card and deleted unnecessary files. Old Roms such as superclean 2.1-2.3 I found in multiple places each taking up about 150MB. The main culprit was the nandroid backups. I had 4 backups each took up about a gig. They were in the clockwork mod folder. Im now limiting myself to 1 backup at a time.
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I had a lot of lost space on my card a while back. I suspect from removing the card/inserting the card while still mounted and losing clusters.
I simply put the card in my PC. Backed it up to my hard disk (hidden files and all). Formatted the card. Copied the files back. This restored the lost space. (and gave me a backup too which is handy)
Thanks everyone for the replies. I only have 3 nandroid back ups so far. I have rom manager, but the one adrynalyne posted with fix permissions. I have titanium, but dont use it.
I will mount my SD card to my comp and take a look at it. See if I can find hidden files.
Ok. I figures it out. I use a PC for rooting purpose stuff, but put a bunch of files on my SD card from a mac. Well I found out that when you delete files on your sd card from a mac.
It creats a hidden folder call .trash where it stores everything you delete. I used stock "My Files" hit menu when open, click more, setting then select show hidden files. You can delete all .trash or whatever .(folder) there. That is the hidden files mac create.
I hope this can help someone. Once i deleted those folders, I wernt from 1.8gb to 12.58 gb.
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Ok. I figures it out. I use a PC for rooting purpose stuff, but put a bunch of files on my SD card from a mac. Well I found out that when you delete files on your sd card from a mac.
It creats a hidden folder call .trash where it stores everything you delete. I used stock "My Files" hit menu when open, click more, setting then select show hidden files. You can delete all .trash or whatever .(folder) there. That is the hidden files mac create.
I hope this can help someone. Once i deleted those folders, I wernt from 1.8gb to 12.58 gb.
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Macs also create other dot files when coping data, including a dot file for every file you copy over (it's to store the file's metadata... that's really not useful), as well as some others. Some poster around here has a link in his sig with a 'guide' on disabling those things...
In my /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup folder i have 9 backups. I'm guessing I might want to keep the oldest one in case it has a backup of my stock phone (I'm rooted now) and the latest one. The rest can be deleted, right?
Zacisblack said:
I recently had that issue and went through my sd card and deleted unnecessary files. Old Roms such as superclean 2.1-2.3 I found in multiple places each taking up about 150MB. The main culprit was the nandroid backups. I had 4 backups each took up about a gig. They were in the clockwork mod folder. Im now limiting myself to 1 backup at a time.
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In my /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup folder i have 9 backups. I'm guessing I might want to keep the oldest one in case it has a backup of my stock phone (I'm rooted now) and the latest one. The rest can be deleted, right?
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TBH I haven't made a back-up since december 2010 and have deleted all mine long ago. With odin/TiBkup I find it to be an error free process. Restores always seem to have their own issues so I just gave up on them. But yes you can delete all older ones and keep the most current.
good day.
^^ same here. Haven't done a nandroid since November. Nandroid backups are a pain. It only takes like 10 minutes to get all your settings back the way you want them after a good ol' clean odin. Plus titanium backup, of course
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Agreed. Delete all your old backups. I had about 10 on mine at one pint. They eat about 1gb each
I've been KANGBANGED!!!!!
I've done a Nandroid restore a couple of times now and it went smoothly. A couple of cache and Dcache clears before, wipe data, clear caches again, install ROM, clear caches a couple of times, boot to make sure the ROM functions, then recovery, cache clearing, then advanced restore and restoring just data works for me. I used to use TiBu to restore everything but this has been working out fine, although I'd heard some people had problems with it. Although now that I think about it, I've only done this when re-flashing the same ROM as before. Maybe with different ROMS some things don't play nicely.
Still, I don't need 9 backups just sitting there taking up space, so thanks for the go ahead on deleting them. And I still do TiBu and MyBu backups because I've found you can never have too many resources when things go bad!
Hello XDA, I'm sure there are somewhat similar threads for other devices, but they didn't seem to answer my question (at least in my opinion) and there wasn't a thread for this when I looked through the section.
I have a crapload of files in my SD Card and recently after trying out many roms and having titanium backup fail on me multiple times, i've been downloading and wiping apps frequently. My SD does have files that I've placed in there like images and music, but it definitely shouldn't be taking up as much space as it is currently. Are there any methods of successfully removing whatever is extra on my card? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Root explorer from play store
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Or mount the device to your computer and start deleting files
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Or mount the device to your computer and start deleting files
Over 10000!!! You bet I am.
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That's the problem, I don't know what's safe to delete and what isn't.
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That's the problem, I don't know what's safe to delete and what isn't.
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You can delete everything the computer sees. The whole sd card. Android will remake the necessary information
Over 10000!!! You bet I am.
If you used Apps2sd, you should move them to the phone storage. If you have any rom backups, definitely transfer it over to your pc, along with anything else you backed up. Everything else can be wiped off of the card.
So I was cleaning up in Windows Explorer some junk and photos from my phone. I saw an empty folder and deleted it, it was the only folder so I then, without thinking, deleted it's parent folder sdcard. I caught myself right away actually reading the name of the folder and tried Control+Z for undo delete immediately but it's not a command that works while browsing on the DNA in Windows. I should of immediately unplugged my phone, but was trying to just undelete the folder.
So no I sit here trying to figure out if there's any hope at all for my Droid DNA and all the pictures that I hadn't saved onto my PC yet. I've tried running various recovery programs, I have the full version of Easus Data recovery, but no recovery software recognizes the phone as a drive.
I have twrp but no backups. I know as I use the phone the files are being overwritten, but is there any Droid DNA specific recovery program I can use to retrieve my pictures?
Also I have a bootable FatDog64 linux that I could use if there are recovery programs I could use in a Linux environment.
Anything is appreciated.
Thanks
How about booting into the bootloader, then make the sdcard folder (it might be a symbolic link, please correct me if I'm wrong) using adb.
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wakkadojo said:
How about booting into the bootloader, then make the sdcard folder (it might be a symbolic link, please correct me if I'm wrong) using adb.
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But that wouldn't repopulate the old contents of sdcard. I'm looking for something like a recycler folder where I can undelete the folder. Although I think I had too much to be able to do that. The crappiest part is I have a large range of tools for recovery, but the Droid DNA's internal SDcard doesn't act like a drive in any way.
I have Windows 8 and it reads my DNA as a portable device. Can you not use your recovery program(s) by right clicking on the "sdcard" (mine calls it "internal storage" and opening you recovery program that way and then try to recover your pictures?
Unfortunately there's no way to recovery the images if you deleted them. If it was a corrupted storage there might've been some hope but in this case I'm sorry there's not.
I believe there is a app that you can download and is supposed to work like you want to recover things that have been deleted but you must be rooted. I can't remember the name of the app though.
Edit: I found 2 the first one seems better and more towards what you want. Also not sure if it works since I've never used it but reviews seem to say it works.
Hexamob Recovery Pro:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hexamob.hexamobrecoverypro
Android Recycle Bin:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hexamob.androidrecyclebinpro
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same problem here
i am facing the same problem with my vivo v7+ phone. I deleted a folder named "SDcard" on internal memory and just thereafter everything on my internal memory vanished away in a blink. Send me some solution. I am also unable to root my Vivo V7+
Did you find a solution to this? I also deleted the sdcard folder by mistake and lost
Did you find a solution to this? I came across a similar problem
Hi, I'm in desperate need of help, please.
I'm using SGS2. Several months ago my device suddenly started acting weird, thumbnails in gallery didn't load, apps didn't refresh (instagram, facebook etc.)... Rebooting would help but only for a certain amount of time, until it suddenly started to happen again. I realised the internal SD card simply becomes read-only randomly, but I didn't know why. I made peace with it since I'm not a big smartphone user.
Anyhow, today I went through my phone files and saw that several cache folders were oddly big, so I deleted a ****load of files, and then(!!) that one folder would not delete... So I clicked it and saw a bunch of gibberish files that do not want to get deleted.
I tried SD Maid app, but the thing is, once I browse to that specific corrupt folder the SD card goes crazy and becomes read-only, so basically at that moment I realised that folder is what's making the phone act like this.
Connecting it to PC and deleting doesn't work either. Renaming the files doesn't work. Copy/paste does work but is useless. Factory reset/installing new ROM/kernel/whatever doesn't work either. The files will still be there, I've tried.
Anything, please?
Format sdcard.
Out of phone in PC slot if available.
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I'm sorry if I was unclear. I'm talking about the internal SD card... not an external one.
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I'm sorry if I was unclear. I'm talking about the internal SD card... not an external one.
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Oohhh. Eek...umm I have to Google that one.
Give me a few.
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I tried to google it... I found too many entries that did not exactly give me precise directions to "format internal sdcard". If you have a link it'd be great.
Just to remind you, trying to delete that folder with all of its files through PC does not work. ES file explorer/SD Maid etc. don't work either. I've tried formatting /data /system and every single thing possible in recovery mode.
There is no escape from formatting the entire phone? Either way I'd love a link to directions or something helpful...