i tried to copy some music but it blocked, i tried several times but same issue. then i unplugged the phone and replugged it. i could still see all files but not access anything. i just reboot the phone and there all files on the sdcard had disappeared !
i plugged again on the pc, i could see a few files that i don't see on the phone with a root browser. i unplugged and plugged back and there no files anymore even on the pc (of course on my options i can see hidden or system files).
Strange enough when i check partition size on the pc it says i have over 500Mo used and when i look on sdmaid (android app) it tells me that mnt/sdcard is 543Mo size. but me i can't see any files. Apps using the sdcard (like evernote) had to recreate a new folder on the sdcard and i lost my datas. if i check folder by folder it tells me only 2.6Mo used... (LOST folder being empty)
i guess it is possible to recover all as i can see the used space but i don't know how.
i tried recuva or testdisk but it does not detect this kind of partitions
i searched on xda/sonyforums/google but did not find anything relevant
does anyone know about this issue ?
(using ka10.2+ksskernel 4)
lagren said:
i tried to copy some music but it blocked, i tried several times but same issue. then i unplugged the phone and replugged it. i could still see all files but not access anything. i just reboot the phone and there all files on the sdcard had disappeared !
i plugged again on the pc, i could see a few files that i don't see on the phone with a root browser. i unplugged and plugged back and there no files anymore even on the pc (of course on my options i can see hidden or system files).
Strange enough when i check partition size on the pc it says i have over 500Mo used and when i look on sdmaid (android app) it tells me that mnt/sdcard is 543Mo size. but me i can't see any files. Apps using the sdcard (like evernote) had to recreate a new folder on the sdcard and i lost my datas. if i check folder by folder it tells me only 2.6Mo used... (LOST folder being empty)
i guess it is possible to recover all as i can see the used space but i don't know how.
i tried recuva or testdisk but it does not detect this kind of partitions
i searched on xda/sonyforums/google but did not find anything relevant
does anyone know about this issue ?
(using ka10.2+ksskernel 4)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I had this problem and had to reflash a stock rom. That fixed it but I lost everything on the card. Not a big deal though since I had backed stuff up. Seems like it may get corrupted somehow.
i tired some recovery softwares, it did not really work (hexamobile found a lot a of things but not the ones i needed and undelete found almost nothing) but i noticed with "undelete" that it proposed me 2 "mnt/sdcard" path with different results, so i guess the problem is here ! Also when i plug to my computer i don't see the folders created today, only the ones created yesterday :/
thanks for the feedback Mr Satan, i chek a bit if i find a better solution but if not i will have to do like you did
Related
I have a device with stock ROM, rooted.
I tried to install ubuntu and followed a guide I found on Google (not allowed to post links yet). The files to put on root of SD card would always be about four gigs in size. I would always try to run it through terminal, but it would hang on booting ubuntu.img. The first time, I just ended the Terminal process and tried again, but this would always happen. I ended up deleting the files using Android Mate, but the system told me that 5 gigs were still used up (even though before I tried installing Ubuntu less than a gig was used). I put the files back on the device, and tried to run it again, getting the same problem. I then deleted those files also (using the built-in My Files program). However, now the system says that 10 gigs are used up! Am I missing something, or is there a way to get my space back without formating?
jcracken said:
I have a device with stock ROM, rooted.
I tried to install ubuntu and followed a guide I found on Google (not allowed to post links yet). The files to put on root of SD card would always be about four gigs in size. I would always try to run it through terminal, but it would hang on booting ubuntu.img. The first time, I just ended the Terminal process and tried again, but this would always happen. I ended up deleting the files using Android Mate, but the system told me that 5 gigs were still used up (even though before I tried installing Ubuntu less than a gig was used). I put the files back on the device, and tried to run it again, getting the same problem. I then deleted those files also (using the built-in My Files program). However, now the system says that 10 gigs are used up! Am I missing something, or is there a way to get my space back without formating?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
back up your files and format. in the amount of time you could find a solution, it would already be done the right way.
Pirateghost said:
back up your files and format. in the amount of time you could find a solution, it would already be done the right way.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Never mind, I fixed it. Opening up the sh executable I found that it creates a temporary directory on the sd card, and deleting that gave me back my space.
I just had something a bit disturbing happen and I am hoping someone can help me out real quick. I just plugged my phone into the computer, pushed a file to the sdcard and then unplugged it. When I opened Root Explorer, it didn't default to my sdcard as usual so I opened the built in file manager and it found the card just fine. I checked the /mnt folder and sure enough the sdcard appears in there. /sdcard has always shown in my root directory and has done so up until now. Now, instead of a /sdcard folder, I see a file in the root directory named sdcard. I fear the location change could cause issues (the least of which is tweaking out my OCD). Can anyone tell me why this happened or what to do to fix it?
Further details:
I didn't do anything out of the ordinary. USB Debugging is enabled, I left the phone in charge only mode, I ran the command "adb push C:\directory\file /sdcard" and it appeared to be successful, I unplugged it without using the "eject" function on the computer. I've done this many many times before and this has never happened to me. I have a Droid X and am running Wizard0f0's MIUI build. Again, none of my steps vary from what I've done before. The computer is the same, the drivers are the same, the location of adb is the same, etc.
Disregard this... I shutdown my phone, pulled the card, started it up, shut back down, put the card back in and started it again: everything is fine now. Not sure whether pulling the card or simply rebooting was the fix.
This is one of the strangest problems I have ever encountered, so be prepared to be stumped.
I have many android devices, as you can see in my sig. Lately, I have been having problems with pulling files off of all of my devices., Here's what happens.
Say I use mybackup pro. I create a backup of my apps and their data on 9-6-2013. Then I create one on 9-7-2013. If I plug in my device on 9-8-2013, and attempt to copy the 2 backups I made, not all of the files will transfer to my computer.
Guessing that the files are corrupt or something, I deleted them. I create a new backup on 9-8-2013. HOWEVER, when I plug the device back into my computer (doesn't matter which machine), Explorer still shows me the OLD files that I deleted off of the device! It appears that something is caching my device's filesystem but I cannot clear that cache or refresh the device's content list.
This happens with all of my computers and all. of my Android devices. The only similarity is that I am running Windows 7. That's it.
Can someone help me please diffuse this problem?
jerry43812 said:
This is one of the strangest problems I have ever encountered, so be prepared to be stumped.
I have many android devices, as you can see in my sig. Lately, I have been having problems with pulling files off of all of my devices., Here's what happens.
Say I use mybackup pro. I create a backup of my apps and their data on 9-6-2013. Then I create one on 9-7-2013. If I plug in my device on 9-8-2013, and attempt to copy the 2 backups I made, not all of the files will transfer to my computer.
Guessing that the files are corrupt or something, I deleted them. I create a new backup on 9-8-2013. HOWEVER, when I plug the device back into my computer (doesn't matter which machine), Explorer still shows me the OLD files that I deleted off of the device! It appears that something is caching my device's filesystem but I cannot clear that cache or refresh the device's content list.
This happens with all of my computers and all. of my Android devices. The only similarity is that I am running Windows 7. That's it.
Can someone help me please diffuse this problem?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
EDIT
----------------
Ah did some more digging around. It appears it's this known bug.
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38282
Solution for now is to reboot before using MTP to copy files off the tablet. Simple enough workaround for now.
Thank you for the reply, even if the thread was necro'd, Lol! At least I finally got an answer
So my gf's phone factory reset itself. She turned it on in the morning and it was a clean phone, asking for google data, clean reset, nothing but stock on there. She lost all her pictures(which is the end of the world for her), apps, everything.
I plugged the phone to the PC and it shows 5Gb free of 11.3GB. Perhaps that means the data is still there? The internal memory has all the stock folders(android, dcm, notifications, etc.) but nothing is in there. Is there anyway I can perhaps save data?
This has been asked many, many times -I've not heard a single success.
You can dump the whole 16Gb data partition to your pc using ADB, then use a date mining program on your pc to search for file fragments. It's like trying to unscramble eggs so you're unlikely to recover much.
Google xda adb partition dump s3 for the guide on how.
boomboomer said:
This has been asked many, many times -I've not heard a single success.
You can dump the whole 16Gb data partition to your pc using ADB, then use a date mining program on your pc to search for file fragments. It's like trying to unscramble eggs so you're unlikely to recover much.
Google xda adb partition dump s3 for the guide on how.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well I'm glad to be the first who succeded. The things I did was install Philz TWRP with Odin. Made a backup of data partition. Used this command "type data.ext4.tar.a data.ext4.tar.b data.ext4.tar.c data.ext4.tar.d data.ext4.tar.e data.ext4.tar.f >> data.ext4.tar" to join the cwm tars into one tar. Then I used WinRAR to extract the archive. I just searched with explorer for all ".jpg" and ".mp4" then copied them to a new folder.
All the "lost" files were in the Lost.Dir folder. There was thousands of them though, but like I said, searching for extensions makes it easier. I managed to save all my(her) files.
Hello,
I have bought an Acer E380 about two months ago, and I rooted it two days later.
It was (afair*) always on 4.4.2, and I never had problems with it.
But about a week ago, I installed the popcorntime app from the official said website (Horrible app, torrent downloader is slow and often breaks, if you restart your phone the 'checking files...' goes on forever,...) and said app, that was downloading a file, crashed and would not let me restart a download because of "insufficient space".
I tried deleting said file, unusable but full size, thanks to that useless torrent client, and it kept coming back.
I could not edit the SD card files from another computer with linux, and windows would straight out not recognize it.
After wiping it with gParted, it worked fine on both windows and linux, but android started screwing with my root.
Some apps like linux deploy would not be able to write, impossible to copy a file from the phone's memory to the card, and much more...
But it strangely worked fine with "normal" apps without root access!
After opening a terminal, I made a quick dummy file and tried to copy it to sdcard0, worked fine.
I then tried to proceed the exact same way with superuser rights, and it threw some Endpoint errors as well as just "Read-Only Filesystem"
Does anyone knows what's going on, and how can I fix this mess?