Hello all,
Well, during a copy of files last night from the tablets internally memory to the MicroSD card it has buggered up and I have lost of a load of videos and photos that I will never be able to recreate. I have tried recovering files from the MicroSD card that they were made on and while they have been recovered none of them will play - gutted.
Now, in order to try and recover the files from the tablets memory I will need to root it but my question is about the actually rooting process. Does it write a ton of new files or is it simply editing existing files to open up privileges? Obviously I am trying to avoid any new file creating on the tablet in the hope I can still salvage something. I am wishing I had rooted earlier now!
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Tim
skimpychimpy said:
Hello all,
Well, during a copy of files last night from the tablets internally memory to the MicroSD card it has buggered up and I have lost of a load of videos and photos that I will never be able to recreate. I have tried recovering files from the MicroSD card that they were made on and while they have been recovered none of them will play - gutted.
Now, in order to try and recover the files from the tablets memory I will need to root it but my question is about the actually rooting process. Does it write a ton of new files or is it simply editing existing files to open up privileges? Obviously I am trying to avoid any new file creating on the tablet in the hope I can still salvage something. I am wishing I had rooted earlier now!
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Tim
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It only adds about 5 or 6 files to system partition...
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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!)
Hello all, could not find this problem in search, so.
I bought a 32gb to replace the 8gb I was using, and im having trouble moving the files from .android_secure to the new card.
i copied files in usb mode from the galaxy to my computer and then swapped the sd cards , then tried to copy stuff back. but it just aint working , windows shows everything copys over except the .android_secure dir that is. my device will not recieve the files. and some other stuff in just plain dir's are not found when using root explorer. WTF is going on here.
Can anybody please help.
Thank You
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Hello all, could not find this problem in search, so.
I bought a 32gb to replace the 8gb I was using, and im having trouble moving the files from .android_secure to the new card.
i copied files in usb mode from the galaxy to my computer and then swapped the sd cards , then tried to copy stuff back. but it just aint working , windows shows everything copys over except the .android_secure dir that is. my device will not recieve the files. and some other stuff in just plain dir's are not found when using root explorer. WTF is going on here.
Can anybody please help.
Thank You
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Have you tried doing all your copying on a PC? I mean, taking your 8GB to a PC... copying files to a temp folder. Putting the 32GB card into the PC and copying all your files to the new card. I have always done this and I had no issues with folders not copying properly.
WarrantyVoided said:
Hello all, could not find this problem in search, so.
I bought a 32gb to replace the 8gb I was using, and im having trouble moving the files from .android_secure to the new card.
i copied files in usb mode from the galaxy to my computer and then swapped the sd cards , then tried to copy stuff back. but it just aint working , windows shows everything copys over except the .android_secure dir that is. my device will not recieve the files. and some other stuff in just plain dir's are not found when using root explorer. WTF is going on here.
Can anybody please help.
Thank You
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Like the pserson above me said, have you tried on the PC? Also when you do copy it over on PC make sure that you have all administrative rights on your computer so it can go through.
I know this is a tad old, but A nandroid backup such as done by 4EXT Recovery or even ClockworkMod should backup the .android_secure folder/partition/etc (in 4EXT Recovery when you do a backup, it saves the boot, system, data, cache, sd-ext/sd-ext2 into a backup which can be then be copied over to a new card after you partition it how you want, then run the restore process).
Likewise you could probably tarball it via adb shell in order to transfer it across file systems that do not support linux permissions and ownership flags.
Hello everyone! I hope I can find help here and I hope I don't get my post deleted. If this is not the most suitable forum for the subject please tell me where I can post it.
My Lenovo tablet started to have problems reading external microSD after someone extracted the MicroSd card from the device when it was turned on, that was some time ago, but suddenly yesterday it stopped working, I rebooted but it didn't work, after some "research" on the internet I found out that "vold.fstab" might causing problems. At that moment I could access internal memory through any file browser, but I decided to edit "vold.fstab" and after that even Internal memory became inaccessible although it installs apps and works more or less "normally" then I tried to restore factory settings, it didn't work and if tried to connect to a PC (just trying to restore the original files) simply it won't load on the PC. Is there a way to restore the original files(vold.fstab, vold.ftsab.nand)? or is there a way to find out or test if there's a physical damage?
Sorry if my post it's a little bit long or if my redaction isn't the best. Thanks :good:
Hi all! I was trying to install a new ROM and accidentally formatted my microSD card in TWRP. I was wondering if there was any way to recover it. I have all my music, pictures, files, docs, and ROMs on there, so I really hope I can! Thanks in advance!
You might be able to take it out. Don't do any writing to it. Then use recovery software on PC
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Hi gsciullo17
The short answer is yes you can recover your data. (As long as your SD card was not encrypted). A friend of mine accidentally formatted her camera sd card while she was vacationing in India and thought she had lost all her photos. I was able to recover all 260 photos.
An important step is to immediately remove the card from the phone and do not use it.
There is a free application called TestDisk that I use. It is a CMD based utility so if you are not comfortable with the CMD prompt it may be a bit difficult, but not impossible, to navigate through. Within TestDisk is a utility called PhotRec, this will recover all sorts of lost data including your photos and music files. If you want a GUI based tool then Recuva is a decent application. Both Recuva and PhotoRec are free, but beware most of the sites that offer the freeware applications also attempt to throw in crap you don't want.
Hey guys, I realise that I may not be on the correct forum for this and for that i apologise, however I am quite new to this website and don't know my way around.
Anyway, I have recently backed up my whole phone storage to SD card using CWM recovery as there was no option to backup to an internal device. I wanted to take the backup and move it to my computer but I have a HTC One m7 which has no SD card. This isn't normally a problem for me because all the files seem to show up on the internal storage when i look on my computer anyway however despite searching through all of the folders, I simply cant find. The backup is 5gb in total and I know that it has been made sucessfully because my available storage has decreased by 5GB but it simply can't be found. Even when i look at the file manager on my phone I can't see it. Even if I can't move it to my PC I atleast want to be able to delete it, will factory resetting the device remove root access aswell as everything else and will I have to start all over again to delete this hefty 5GB backup?
Thanks for reading