Hi,
So a while back my phone died (it will die again). Some sectors got corrupted from a drop, which took me to the boot loop stage. My device was rooted, but I highly doubt this was related.
Before re-partitioning the device, I was able to enter into CWM's recovery mode and create a back up. I was happy to know my device was backed up on the extSDcard.
When I restored the backup, everything was restored except the pictures (All gallery pics). As soon as the phone booted, it would show empty folders as if the pics are loading, but then they would disappear. So basically I can not access my pictures.
How can I extract these pictures from the CWM recovery files on my computer desktop now? I have boot.img, recovery.img, cache.ext4, data.ext4, system.ext4, nandroid.md5.
Can someone tell me where the pictures would be? Please help. I have searched quite a lot and couldn't find solutions. The solution using unyaffs did not work for me. What do you all reco?
the backup only has your system and apps, it doesn't back up your files like pictures. so if you formatted the internal SD, the the pics are go e
Glebun said:
the backup only has your system and apps, it doesn't back up your files like pictures. so if you formatted the internal SD, the the pics are go e
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basically, you have lost your pictures unless they are backuped somewhere online (Google+, Facebook, Dropbox)
Thanks for the responses guys. I basically did a backup on my laptop a month before the crash. So my phone has lost one month worth of data. It's fine. I can deal with it. All pics will be saved on the extSD from now on. Lesson learnt!
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Thanks for the responses guys.
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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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KitsuneKnight said:
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.
gotsflat4love said:
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!
I had a wi-fi issue this morning, used titanium backup to create the backups but I forgot to copy the files off my prime and thus resulted in them being wiped when I cleared the prime.
Is there any way to recover some pictures, I would really love it if I could access them all again.
If you're rooted you can try Undelete from the market.
Pretty sure anything that was on the internal memory is gone if u didn't back it up.
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Pretty sure anything that was on the internal memory is gone if u didn't back it up.
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That's what I thought but I just thought I'd post here just incase, the undelete app only works on external storage such as SD cards or usb hard drives..
Hello ,so i have samsung galaxy s2 with miui jb rom..
i connected an pendrive through usb otg cable but when mounted it shows it is corrupted and need to be formatted.
so i confirmed this operation and it starts to format..
after format
VOILLA MY INTERNAL SD CARD GOT FORMATTED INSTEAD OF USB ONE WHICH I HAVE MOUNTED THROUGH USB OTG CABLE..
I have no backup and i have lost all my data on internal sd storage... photos, music,videos, other data such as text documents , pdf documents , tar files of recovery etc.
its very very sad for me as i have collection of all memories as photos and videos...
I'm very tensed..
please help me to recover back all my data ..
after format there is no data stored on internal storage means no over write of any data so i have that my data can be backuped up..
i've tried couple of softwares to backup my data but one of softwares called "photorec" is able to recover only 2.5GB and also in random named folders with random data...
everything is finished..
please... it will be great of you to solve my this problem..
is there any way to UNDO this operation?? I mean can we UNFORMATthe internal storage ???
really need your advices and solutions
thanks..
Yes solution is simple.
Go back in time.
Backup data like any sane person would have done.
If your files were that important why didnt you do simple things like make backups to your PC or even just via dropbox app that automatically uploads photo's via wifi?
Try a partition recovery software.
If you cant fix I have no sympathy since its easy to make backups of needed data. No excuse really.
TheATHEiST said:
Yes solution is simple.
Go back in time.
Backup data like any sane person would have done.
If your files were that important why didnt you do simple things like make backups to your PC or even just via dropbox app that automatically uploads photo's via wifi?
Try a partition recovery software.
If you cant fix I have no sympathy since its easy to make backups of needed data. No excuse really.
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So GENIUS..
You should be MILLIONAIRE...
GO home friend... you can't really help..
i need expert advice...
akhil17kr said:
So GENIUS..
You should be MILLIONAIRE...
GO home friend... you can't really help..
i need expert advice...
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I am a millionaire
I am home
I did give you expert advice. I am an expert in backing up my data in case of device problem or if I somehow decide to format my card.
As I said earlier try a partition recovery software.
Expert Advice:
Follow XDA rule #1 and use search. We have many topics about users formatting cards and then needing to recover data. This is a non-device specific topic so search whole site or even google.
Well you coud try Testdisk and Photorec
the site is cgsecurity
Or option 2 try recuva with deep scan enabled, also the option to scan for lost or damaged files should be turned on.
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Well you coud try Testdisk and Photorec
the site is cgsecurity
Or option 2 try recuva with deep scan enabled, also the option to scan for lost or damaged files should be turned on.
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- Connect your phone trough USB cable and activate mass storage mode
- Depending on what files are lost (probably photos and videos), look for format recover software (Like recovery my files)
- Use it on mounted SD card
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If you have used some part of your internal sd card after formatting, you probably lost some files forever, if you haven't yet, DON'T USE IT BEFORE RECOVERY !!
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I am a millionaire
I am home
I did give you expert advice. I am an expert in backing up my data in case of device problem or if I somehow decide to format my card.
As I said earlier try a partition recovery software.
Expert Advice:
Follow XDA rule #1 and use search. We have many topics about users formatting cards and then needing to recover data. This is a non-device specific topic so search whole site or even google.
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Give some app suggestions is fine. Once we have those, we know the key terms to search for.
I've tried cg-security apps, they're made for Windows/Linux/BSD etc, but won't install on android.
I tried aidfile installed on Windows but it won't detect the phone internal storage either.
I have all my photos.
I lost a database document that is 760mb. Most backupsoftware (Skydrive, Asus Webstorage, DropBox etc) won't upload it.
I sent the phone for warranty and they formatted my phone, and lost that document. I just need that back. It is in internal storage, there is no sd card on this android.
Try Recuva but don't get your hopes up. Not likely to work. If they've formatted the phone, it's gone. Android isn't like Windoze where 'files aren't really deleted'.
Edit - Also, beware of some (all ?) of the 'data recovery' apps on Google Play. Many (certainly the several I've tried) of the non-paid versions will go through their process of checking, and tell you that your file can be recovered, but you need to get the paid version of the app. You pay for the app, and then find they tell you the file recovers OK (funny about that, right ?) but is 'corrupted' (which is basically bull****, the file can't be recovered at all, but you paid for the app so they have to give you something, right ?) & useless. This scenario is highly likely in the case of a file like the one you're talking about if you do get suckered in by those apps.
Hans Brown said:
You can't undo the formatted, but the data was not really gone, you still can use some data recovery tool to recover your photos.
You can try this guide about how to recover photos from Samsung Galaxy S II.
I recommend you backup your photos with Google Photos, it has 15GB free storage, I think it's enough for your 1 year's photos.
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Wow, the guy posted 4 and half years ago, that's too late, don't you think? :silly:
Anyway, Late is better than never
Hi. My phone was bootlooping this morning, I decided to wipe data (I had a backup of /data) reflash, and carry on. However, I accidently confused the factory reset option in TWRP with the one in the bootloader, and clicked the bootloader one. This wiped my internal sd card. I tried to use things like Undelete from play, but it only works on the external sd. I've been trying to follow this guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705) to regain my data, but I don't know what the name of the /data partition is (for example, for the galnex, it's mmcblk0p12). Does anyone know A. what the name of the partition is for the evo, or B. an easier/different way to recover my files? Thanks in advance for any assitance.
/data is mmcblk0p37 according to steelh over in this thread
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/data is mmcblk0p37 according to steelh over in this thread
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awesome. however, is /data the same as internal sd card?
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awesome. however, is /data the same as internal sd card?
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I am not sure. You could try and use the Mount Point Swapper and see if undelete will work then. I'm just tossing out some ideas. I've never actually tried to recover anything.
I'm gonna necrobump that first thread you linked to and see if anyone knows. I'll also try mount point swapper.
Edit: I've tried everything. mount point swapper caused bootloops, the guide i mentioned earlier created .raw files with nothing inside, etc. The upside is that I didn't have my roms, photos, or music on the internal. I can't remember. What else does android normally store there?
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I can't remember. What else does android normally store there?
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Usually not much, random app data, downloads, photos, music(depending on settings). You may get a warning in Titanium Backup(if you use it) about a different android id, you can restore your old id, or keep your new one. I have yet to see any issues. I've restored old id's and kept new is's without issues.
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Usually not much, random app data, downloads, photos, music(depending on settings). You may get a warning in Titanium Backup(if you use it) about a different android id, you can restore your old id, or keep your new one. I have yet to see any issues. I've restored old id's and kept new is's without issues.
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Thanks, I don't think I had anything of massive importance on there (at least not that I can remember)
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.
rootSU said:
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
cramhead said:
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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