Hi,I ended up deleting alot of my pictures off my phone by accident and was wondering if there is a tutorial in linux to recover them?I found this tutorial but i dont have a windows machine on hand to try it out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
I have searched but havent came up with anything as far as how to do it in linux.I apprecitate the help.thanks
cadogan32 said:
Hi,I ended up deleting alot of my pictures off my phone by accident and was wondering if there is a tutorial in linux to recover them?I found this tutorial but i dont have a windows machine on hand to try it out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
I have searched but havent came up with anything as far as how to do it in linux.I apprecitate the help.thanks
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Quite frankly data recovery in linux = major pain in the butt, desperation to recover from a ext4 partition once led me to an app called "photorec" don't be fooled by the name it's a data recovery app, oh I was on Ubuntu and I don't know whether other Linux distro's have this or use it, after going through settings, synaptic, terminal commands *shudder*(it still gives me the creeps) I recovered a corrupted piece of my important data, turns out even a minor use in the partition in question will corrupt most deleted data, so I suggest you use a Windows PC for recovering, it will give same results without taking you through a ride in Hell.
Edit :that windows tutorial is another Hell there is an easier way for you, mount the device in UMS mode in your windows PC run data recovery software like Recuva for the mounted partition.
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Yeah sounds like ill stick with the windows method when i get a chance.Thanks for the help!
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Hello guys!
Yesterday, i notice in my memory card a folder named "cache-49038502", and in the last while, my phone was wery slow, and i got internal memory like 115mb, in my opinion should run smooth. The system didn't make this folder, so i try to erase it....it got me error deleting file.
I download from market the antivirus, i scaned and my phone was very clean. Still i cant erase the folder! Then i format my sd, and i give a factory data reset, then no folder, i try to sync with the computer, then the folder is back again, i repeat again the steps above and is clean again.! Is clear that is from computer! Till my computer it will be clean, i wont be able to sync, add music, picture for my contact's! So what i got to do to got all of my things back to my phone? It is a virus?! I never hear sombody to got a virus in to a phone... So any of u confront this problem? I got a Hero, not rooted yet ! Thank you in advance!
carmen2009 said:
I never hear sombody to got a virus in to a phone... !
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Your phone doesn't a virus - your PC does! Everytime you mount the SD card in your phone as a drive on your PC, the virus is being copied to the "drive".
You need to clean your PC.
Regards,
Dave
Thank you Dave! So, still need to wait to heal my Pc first, then to sync, and add my stuff...
Why do you even think it's a virus? It might (as the name suggests) just be a folder for cache that the syncing/mounting program creates.
olafos said:
Why do you even think it's a virus? It might (as the name suggests) just be a folder for cache that the syncing/mounting program creates.
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Google cache-49038502, and you'll see.
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Dave
bro its android which is linux. and linux doesnt got virus.
i just wanted to notice that linux kernel of android doesn't "support" ( ) viruses as microsoft operating systems does, so thinking about any antivirus on android is (as for me) crazy. However the "cache" folder that you don't like could be created by browser or android market or any other app you use. so there is no reason to be scared of having virus. android 1,5 is slow (in my openion) and that's why i don't use Touch Flow on my Hero, the default android desktop is good enough
dying4004 said:
bro its android which is linux. and linux doesnt got virus.
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Don't rely on that.
Indeed it has only few, though.
bro its android which is linux. and linux doesnt got virus.
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i just wanted to notice that linux kernel of android doesn't "support" ( ) viruses as microsoft operating systems does...
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Erm, as has already been said, it's his PC that is infected.....
Probably the best thing to do is to use a file manager like Astro, and delete that folder. Then also check to see if it has put an autorun.cfg file on the root of the card and get rid of that as well.
then at least it should stop it spreading to any other PC's you connect to.
And get your PC cleaned. just download AVG free or Avast free and let them clean it. just let it run while you are at work/school/college/whatever and it should be done by the time you get home.
Hi anyone and everyone,
So let me start by saying I am really in need of help two months ago i had a flawless CM7 Nook Tablet 16GB that worked like a dream and now i have a useless brick and im about to through it away the problem i have can be viewed here............ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BAZ...&playnext=1&list=PL05B917C134DF82A7........It gets stuck on the white screen everytime i was able to boot into CWM with a bootable sd card and I have tried to flash many roms from there and yet every time i get stuck at white screen please help help help help!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks in advance to all that reply!
well for starters it would help if you could tell us how you came to be bricked in the first place. you say that you had a perfectly fine NT before, so what did you do to get to where you are now?
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well for starters it would help if you could tell us how you came to be bricked in the first place. you say that you had a perfectly fine NT before, so what did you do to get to where you are now?
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I was editing my build prop and I made a mistake so it booted into cwm recovery and I think I might of partitioned my rom or something I really don't know what happens but I do know that everytime I go into cwm I get a bunch of errors and can't even mount it all fails I found my problem alot through these forums with no answer which is why I made the post
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I was editing my build prop and I made a mistake so it booted into cwm recovery and I think I might of partitioned my rom or something I really don't know what happens but I do know that everytime I go into cwm I get a bunch of errors and can't even mount it all fails I found my problem alot through these forums with no answer which is why I made the post
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and as to where I am now......everytime I turn on my nook it gets stuck at the white screen with the cardboard box.....unless I use a bootable sd card which then I have tried to flash old roms new roms and I get nothing
Clksk8 said:
I was editing my build prop and I made a mistake so it booted into cwm recovery and I think I might of partitioned my rom or something I really don't know what happens but I do know that everytime I go into cwm I get a bunch of errors and can't even mount it all fails I found my problem alot through these forums with no answer which is why I made the post
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Your partitions are : shot / corrupt / messed up. They "really" gotta be working okay . . . Will the near by B&N store put them back in good working order for you ?
Clksk8 said:
I was editing my build prop and I made a mistake so it booted into cwm recovery and I think I might of partitioned my rom or something I really don't know what happens but I do know that everytime I go into cwm I get a bunch of errors and can't even mount it all fails I found my problem alot through these forums with no answer which is why I made the post
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With a bootable SD card are you able to.use ADB? If you are you might be able to push a normal build.prop to /system and be able to boot back into your rom. If not then like old fart said you may have messed up your partitions.
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If my nook keeps loading to the white box which is part of cwm (right) won't B&N know iv rooted and most likely tell me in screwed if not I will gladly ask for there help
Thanks for the quick reply's......in not very familiar with adb
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If my nook keeps loading to the white box which is part of cwm (right) won't B&N know iv rooted and most likely tell me in screwed if not I will gladly ask for there help
Thanks for the quick reply's......in not very familiar with adb
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assuming you have adb setup correctly the commands aren't too difficult. i believe the following should suffice. i only know windows commands so yeah..
open your start menu, type in cmd and then enter.
navigate to directory where you have adb installed. in my case it was -> cd C:/ntroot
then connect your NT to your computer, make sure usb debugging is enabled which it most likely is if you can get into cwm.
use adb devices, and there should a string of numbers which is your serial number. if you see it then that is a good sign.
then adb remount, which makes the file system writable.
next make sure you have the normal build.prop in that directory that you have adb installed in.
then do adb push build.prop /system
should be very quick, if all goes well you should be able to boot back into your rom. otherwise, your partitions are likely screwed up...
if your partitions are screwed up, there should be a couple of links in the android development section that tell you how to repartition so you can start anew.
good luck.
When I connect to adb I get 0000000000 as my serial does this make since can anyone point me to a link to re do partitions I will look around also
but it is just easier if some one can point me to the right area
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When I connect to adb I get 0000000000 as my serial does this make since can anyone point me to a link to re do partitions I will look around also
but it is just easier if some one can point me to the right area
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that serial number is normal, you should really learn to use the search function provided by this forum but here are two that i found...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1562130
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1605664
those two are assuming you screwed up your partitions.
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When I connect to adb I get 0000000000 as my serial does this make since can anyone point me to a link to re do partitions I will look around also
but it is just easier if some one can point me to the right area
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adb is hooked up correctly but when i put adb devices i get
0000000000 recovery instead of a serial number?
So I have bricked my Nook dozens of time but when I do I just download the acclaim_update.zip from one of these threads and go to a file in it.
Go to /META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script and then I just edit the first two lines. Edit both parts where it says "blaze" and change it to "acclaim". If you're on ubuntu then all you have to do is press saveand it will ask if you want to update the file (or something like that) and click yes. Then just make a CWM bootable sd card and flash that file Hope it helps!
Am I correct, that the data-partition is FAT32 by default? If that is the case, is there a tool available to easily format it to something else (ext,xfs,...) or would I need to do it by hand? How would it be unmounted before, i.e. is it needed to be mounted to have the system running?
I'm asking this, because I'm having trouble moving files (via Airdroid) onto the device, I encounter "Network errors" when filenames contain characters which are illegal on FAT/NTFS. As I'm running pure Linux, ok sometimes OSX, at home and I'm not planning to connect the phone directly to a Windows machine, that would be easier for me.
I think some devs are working on this. For now, I think it isn't possible. Also, Q&A section is for that...
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Ups, sorry, please move.
Ok, thought I could move something like ConnectBot to internal memory and do it from there or the same but via SSH.
TLDR: Phone was bricked revived it now stuck with generic IMEI
Ok so basically my GS3 got bricked dont know exactly why but in recovery it said e: failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument) i was able however to revive it with this thread post #4 ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2204960 ) but now my IMEI is "generic" 004999010640000 and now i cant connect to the network. Im on a mac and the only tutorials ive seen are for windows. my question is is there anyway to change it from the phone itself or on a mac? Sorry if this has been asked before but if anyone can point me in the right direction that would be great.
PS i know changing your IMEI is HIGHLY illegal but i just want to change it back to the original one on the back of the phone.
You're #2 today and #1073453 in total, asking for help with 00499... issue! Not nice...
Use the flipping search bar! :/
Im on a mac...
oh im sorry but if you read the whole thing IM ON A MAC so anyway to fix this would be great...
djembey said:
You're #2 today and #1073453 in total, asking for help with 00499... issue! Not nice...
Use the flipping search bar! :/
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Restore your backed up EFS folder through whatever method you used .
No backup then a Samsung service centre .
jje
Ok so i have a backup but its the coorrupted one... anyway to open up the .img and copy the files manually on a mac? sidenote when i restore the corrupted one im in a boot loop
JJEgan said:
Restore your backed up EFS folder through whatever method you used .
No backup then a Samsung service centre .
jje
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Sorry not a clue don't even know how to switch a Mac on .
jje
If your EFS dump is a full partition dump (it being .img suggests that), you can simply write it back in recovery with:
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umount /efs
dd if=/sdcard/yourefs.iso of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3
reboot
If that fails or throws errors, repeat the steps in the tutorial you linked to re-create an empty EFS partition.
By the way /efs is an EXT4 partition so neither Windows nor Mac (or any other BSD-derivate) are natively capable of reading it, only Linux computers (read: Ubuntu, ...) or specialized tools that simulate filesystem drivers are able to do so.
so i tried that and wasnt able to boot past the i9300 screen. any other suggestions?
d4fseeker said:
If your EFS dump is a full partition dump (it being .img suggests that), you can simply write it back in recovery with:
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umount /efs
dd if=/sdcard/yourefs.iso of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3
reboot
If that fails or throws errors, repeat the steps in the tutorial you linked to re-create an empty EFS partition.
By the way /efs is an EXT4 partition so neither Windows nor Mac (or any other BSD-derivate) are natively capable of reading it, only Linux computers (read: Ubuntu, ...) or specialized tools that simulate filesystem drivers are able to do so.
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Ok so i havent updated this in awhile but here it goes...
First i installed ubuntu on my mac and converted my corrupted EFS partition to .iso and opened it in linux. Anyway no files in there.
Second the samsung service center here in alaska is only for TVs...
Third ill call samsung on monday but dunno what i can do besides save up for another phone or a octopus box or what you call it.
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.
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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.