My sister recently did a factory reset on her Xperia X10 mini.
Ever since the reset her phone keeps saying that the Sdcard is unavailable
I have tried the card in other phones and they say the same.
I connected to pc as mass storage and the folders where like this.
Is the card beyond repair as she has all her pictures on it?
Is there any way to recover the pics?
Thanks
Have you tried backing up everything on the SD card and then re-format it?
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Are the data also corrupt or do they only have strange names?
If they aren't corrupt you can search for the pictures on the SD card and take them off there
it keeps saying error everytime i try opening a folder or file so im assuming its all corrupted.
All the file names have changed aswell as they were all basic folder names eg pics, music, dcim, bluetooth.
As you can see from pics that is no longer the case.
Thanks
dm140209 said:
it keeps saying error everytime i try opening a folder or file so im assuming its all corrupted.
All the file names have changed aswell as they were all basic folder names eg pics, music, dcim, bluetooth.
As you can see from pics that is no longer the case.
Thanks
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I guess then the best is to do what andy_dunlop said: "backing up everything on the SD card and then re-format it".
You might can try as last shot to install a application to recover corrupted files.
For example: http://download.cnet.com/1770-20_4-...Name=platform=Windows&filter=platform=Windows
Although I have less experience with that so do on own risk.
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Bro.
I need these pictures bak. I have no idea how I lost alllll my files in my camera.
The folder had them all. Over 600 files (that's why I need them!!!!!)
But when I go to change the extension, it doesn't show the picture!!!
What can I do?
murdamo305 said:
Bro.
I need these pictures bak. I have no idea how I lost alllll my files in my camera.
The folder had them all. Over 600 files (that's why I need them!!!!!)
But when I go to change the extension, it doesn't show the picture!!!
What can I do?
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Let's start with what exactly you did that resulted in you losing the pictures in the first place.
do you see a bunch of items in the lost.dir directory?
If so, then try opening some of the smaller ones with an image editing program. You never know... it might still open them. If that's the case then all you need to do is rename them with the proper extensions. Worth a try.
I lost over 600 image files myself for no apparent reason.
A google search quickly told me this was a "known android issue", but no effing idea why...
For me it want just camera images but ALL images on the sd card.
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This is why flashing experimental/custom roms is often a process that will teach you to back up your stuff. Sometimes this lesson is learned the hard way....
You can try to mount the partition in Windows or MacOS and throw file recovery software at it, Recuva being one of the better free ones for Windows. Best of luck
lost.dir is a filesystem folder, (kinda like if you realy explore and ntfs drive, you'll find a SystemVolume folder, and a few other ones).
Your pictures aren't in the lost.dir folder. And you're probably one of the ones who had their internal SD wiped while using the dead horse kernel. Sorry to say, but there's no way to get them back.
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This is why flashing experimental/custom roms is often a process that will teach you to back up your stuff. Sometimes this lesson is learned the hard way....
You can try to mount the partition in Windows or MacOS and throw file recovery software at it, Recuva being one of the better free ones for Windows. Best of luck
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That's why I remove my sd card everytome. I have no idea what happen.
Ima try that app
you can't remove your internal sd card
geoffcorey said:
you can't remove your internal sd card
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@murdamo305:
Exactly. So as another use has already suggested...BACKUP! Both Titanium and MyBackup are available freely from the Market. Android bug or not with a working backup handy you don't lose anything.
Here's your situation:
You = lost information, want it back.
Problem = the way sdcards store info + the filesystem = pretty much impossible to recover usable info from your sdcard (specially since it has been written to again, no matter what you think). Sorry to say, but you're SOL.
lost.dir is a filesystem maintenance folder, pretty much exclusively for OSX use. It's not a "trashcan" or anything like that. It's not user accessible.
Besides, that kernel doesn't have code in it that says "move everything to lost.dir". It's got a bug in it that essentially runs a remove recursively and forced on the /sdcard/ directory.
Do a "check disk". It worked for me when i corrupted my memory card.
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Do a "check disk". It worked for me when i corrupted my memory card.
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What's that?
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This???
http://m.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-recover-data-from-a-corrupt-memory-card-or-usb-drive/
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lost.dir is a filesystem folder, (kinda like if you realy explore and ntfs drive, you'll find a SystemVolume folder, and a few other ones).
Your pictures aren't in the lost.dir folder. And you're probably one of the ones who had their internal SD wiped while using the dead horse kernel. Sorry to say, but there's no way to get them back.
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can we delete it? there's nothing in it at all for me
you can delete it, but the android system will create it again.
I dont appreciate some of your assumptions
Just to automatically assume someone has their phone rooted and or flashed right off the rip is stupid. My fiancée just came to me telling me all her music on her SD Card was gone. Windows says the memory is still occupied however I found all the music files renamed to digit only filenames with no file extensions in the Lost.Dir. I renamed one to Test.Mp3 and opened it. Kabam it played a 3 and a half minute song. So to tell someone that welp your files are gone sorry nothing you can do this is what you get for doing something that they might not even have done in the first place. Her phone is stock no mods, no roms no tweaks. It is a rare occurance that happens in the Android OS. Not a direct result of what someone might have been doing.
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Just to automatically assume someone has their phone rooted and or flashed right off the rip is stupid. My fiancée just came to me telling me all her music on her SD Card was gone. Windows says the memory is still occupied however I found all the music files renamed to digit only filenames with no file extensions in the Lost.Dir. I renamed one to Test.Mp3 and opened it. Kabam it played a 3 and a half minute song. So to tell someone that welp your files are gone sorry nothing you can do this is what you get for doing something that they might not even have done in the first place. Her phone is stock no mods, no roms no tweaks. It is a rare occurance that happens in the Android OS. Not a direct result of what someone might have been doing.
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100% agree with you, i also suddenly lost my pictures from my ext sd card, i founded the lost.dir with the files i just rename with the JPG extension and the pictures come back to life.
For everyone that append the same, don't lost your hope, you DON'T loose your files rename with the correct extension and you'll recover the lost file.
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After I used sdformatter to do a full overwrite of my internal sdcard my android tablet mounts it but no longer shows the internal sdcard please help
HI
I took the 32gb memory card out of my old HTC Desire HD and put it into my new S3.
Very strange because although the directory structure appears, the file explorer reports that every directory is empty - which they aren't.
The storage statistics correctly tells me that the memory card is almost full - so why won't it read the files?
I think that's the same thing as what happened to me today. No idea why it happened, but the SD contents showed up correctly after rebooting my phone.
Thanks.
Comforting to know that it isn't only me. However I rebooted the phone but no change.
Sounds like a formatting problem. You might have to copy the data off to a computer using a card reader or the old phone then reformat the card using the gs3 before putting your data back on the card.
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Yes, I think that must be the explanation. What a nuisance.
I'll try it and report back. Ta
Well it is very wierd.
I formatted the sdcard both on the PC and also in the phone.
Despite this, the file explorer still reports the file structure - which now no longer exists.
I've rebooted the phone. Makes no difference.
Phantom file structure reported on the phones file explorer - even though the available storage size is correct in the storage stats.
Does the computer also report the phantom file system?
This seems really strange indeed.
Have you tried writing new files to the card on the gs3 then see if they show up in the computer?
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No. The computer shows correctly.
But now - even more wierd, I downloaded a lot of files to the phone's internal memory.
Although the SDcard is empty, the phone's file explorere now shows the SDcard as containing the files.
My head is spinning.
I wonder if this is at all related to my issue (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698672). I also experienced a phantom file structure, but it only affected a few hundred picture and music files (out of several thousand).
Thanks for this suggestion.
I don't think that the issue is the same. It was never formated exFAT and also there is no trace of the files at all.
When the car is inserted back into the HTC there is no problem. When it is in the PC - no problem.
I have now tried with another card - 16gb. Same thing.
These are good quality cards which have been used for more than a year on other phones.
I'm starting from scratch today. I'm going to reformat the 16gb using a full format - FAT32 and see what happens.
It shouldn't neeed to be this hard
Just to reiterate:-
The really puzzling things are:-
The phone's faliure to see the files - but it sees the directory structure.
The phone sees a "virtual/phantom" directory structure after an in-phone formatting
The phone sees files on the card if they have been copied there from the internal memory.
have you tried another card with the same capacity? what about reformatting the card from the phone after backing up the contents?
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have you tried another card with the same capacity? what about reformatting the card from the phone after backing up the contents?
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Yup - done all of that. No difference
what ROM are you using? are you using a custom ROM?
No. Brand new received yesterday t-mobile s3
Is it possible that the internal memory and the sdcard are being spanned in some way so that to the file explorer they all appear as one?
In fact even my Profimail email application reports that the directories and files are on the sdcard when in fact they are now on the internal memory and the sdcard is newly formatted and empty
Are you sure that you try to access your sdcard via /mnt/extSdCard/ ?
Samsung points the folder /sdcard/ to the internal memory and not to your sd card, so please make sure this isn't the problem.
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Ah - that sounds like a likely possibility.
Where can I find out more about this pelase.
Is there a way that I can point it at the physical card.
I really just want my phone to work in a way that I am used to and not in some wierd Samsung-controlled way
Yes, I can confirm that is what is happening.
It is really very ambiguous. ESfile explorer reports the directory structure on the external card but doesn't report the files. This is definitley a glitch which needs to be sorted out.
It also means that if you use windows file explorer to upload data directly on to the external card, it doesn't seem to be accessible to the phone.
Surely this can't be right
When I try to connect my Acro S to PC Companion (WiFi), it saya that the config program needs to create a file at the root of my computers drive but that file already exist. Where do I find that file? I've talked to Sony about this and they say that I should try to repair my phone (re-installing the software). This deletes the whole memory, so I won't do it. Any suggestions where I might find this file? I'd be thankful for any help I can get. I've reinstalled PC Companion, that doesn't help. This problem occurred when I earlier today deleted all of my settings (reset).
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When I try to connect my Acro S to PC Companion (WiFi), it saya that the config program needs to create a file at the root of my computers drive but that file already exist. Where do I find that file? I've talked to Sony about this and they say that I should try to repair my phone (re-installing the software). This deletes the whole memory, so I won't do it. Any suggestions where I might find this file? I'd be thankful for any help I can get. I've reinstalled PC Companion, that doesn't help. This problem occurred when I earlier today deleted all of my settings (reset).
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You've mentioned that you don't want to reinstall the software because it deletes the whole memory(false), but the problem started after you deleted all of your settings. Let me explain you what PC Companion actually does and means by wiping/erasing memory: it actually only erases the phone settings + user data(Contacts, Messages, App Data like savegames or options, Accounts, Music Playlists, Groups, wipes all apps installed) so it doesn't really wipes the entire memory, only the phone and data. Your music, videos, photos and other files and folder that you see as "Internal Memory" when you connect the phone to the computer are still kept, until you select to format/wipe/erase internal storage(pretending you don't have a SD Card, only files and things stored in the internal memory). At least this is for Xperia S, and as far as I know Acro S has too an internal memory of about 11 GB user-available beside the SD Card slot.
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You've mentioned that you don't want to reinstall the software because it deletes the whole memory(false), but the problem started after you deleted all of your settings. Let me explain you what PC Companion actually does and means by wiping/erasing memory: it actually only erases the phone settings + user data(Contacts, Messages, App Data like savegames or options, Accounts, Music Playlists, Groups, wipes all apps installed) so it doesn't really wipes the entire memory, only the phone and data. Your music, videos, photos and other files and folder that you see as "Internal Memory" when you connect the phone to the computer are still kept, until you select to format/wipe/erase internal storage(pretending you don't have a SD Card, only files and things stored in the internal memory). At least this is for Xperia S, and as far as I know Acro S has too an internal memory of about 11 GB user-available beside the SD Card slot.
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I know, but I don't feel like setting up everything again, I've already done that today. The problem is where the file is located. The popup window says it's located at the root of my drive, so I navigate to C:\ and find nothing that's not supposed to be there. I thought anybody would know where it's located? :\
You need to write down the entire path listed on the error message so you can successfully navigate to the correct file.
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You need to write down the entire path listed on the error message so you can successfully navigate to the correct file.
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But the error message doesn't say any path, only that there's a file that I need to delete.
Hi
Something strange has just happened
My phone was connected to my PC. I was browsing on both internal and external SD cards and then it stopped detecting the device. I reset both phone and PC and now MOST of my files have dissipated! Music, Photos gone!
The strange thing is that the slimbean.zip and gapps.zip are still on the card along with
clockworkmod, data, lost.dir and whatsapp folders.
Is it possible to get my stuff back?
cramhead said:
Hi
Something strange has just happened
My phone was connected to my PC. I was browsing on both internal and external SD cards and then it stopped detecting the device. I reset both phone and PC and now MOST of my files have dissipated! Music, Photos gone!
The strange thing is that the slimbean.zip and gapps.zip are still on the card along with
clockworkmod, data, lost.dir and whatsapp folders.
Is it possible to get my stuff back?
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How long have you been on slimbean? Are you aware of the 4.2 /sdcard location change as per the link in my signature? Not saying this is teh answer, but if you have only just flashed 4.2, you should read it.
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How long have you been on slimbean? Are you aware of the 4.2 /sdcard location change as per the link in my signature? Not saying this is teh answer, but if you have only just flashed 4.2, you should read it.
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definitely files have been deleted. Ive been on 4.2 for ages
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definitely files have been deleted. Ive been on 4.2 for ages
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Have a look through LOST.dir see if anything is there. If the files truly are deleted, theres not really much you can do now. There are various android apps that claim they can recover files but you have to pay and I don't believe that any of them will actually work (may be wrong there though).
You cannot get anything back from an internal card on your computer either as there's no mass storage mode, so PC apps cannot scan it.
All I can do is recommend advice for the future.
Install FolderSync and sync important stuff to the cloud or better yet, a computer on your home network that is "always on".
nothing in that lost folder
Everything here is an explanation
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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...