Hello everyone.
I really need your help.
My SD card went crazy, and now all of my pictures are gone.
I set two pictures as wallpapers for my home and lock screen.
They still show up, so I'm assuming they're still located on the phone somewhere.
Where are they, and can I move them to my PC?
My GS4 is rooted, and I have Root Explorer.
Put the sd card in the computer (not through the phone) and download a program called Recuva and run it on it. Should be able to get them back.
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wslguy said:
Put the sd card in the computer (not through the phone) and download a program called Recuva and run it on it. Should be able to get them back.
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+1 on putting it in your computer and using recuva. Its very straight forward.
It worked!
Thank you.
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I accidentally deleted a couple photos that I wanted to keep. Is there a way to recover them? If mass-storage worked I could just connect to a computer and have it work, but with MTP that won't work. Is there a way to do it? Could I image the internal memory and put it on an SD card or something?
I don't know if there is a way to undelete pics, but you can download Dumpster from the Play Store. It can't help you with what's already been deleted, but once you run this app it will keep tracknof everything you've deleted and then you'll be undelete them.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5iYWxvb3RhLmR1bXBzdGVyIl0.
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Can you connect your phone as an external storage device and then use a file recovery program? That's how I retrieve deleted files from devices and SD cards. Pretty easy, a company called "stellar phoenix" has a good recovery program, but there are tons of free ones.
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Disk digger from the play store. Needs root. Takes a long time
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are you rooted? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.undelete&hl=en
I deleted my pictures taken on the camera in the gallery, how do I recover it?
Recuva, stellar phoenix are windows options. undelete from the market if you have root.
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Did you have them stored on the phone or on an sd card. If an sd, I would pop it out and stop using it. Look for a data recovery program for your os, and try to recover it. If it was stored on your phone, you may still be able to recover, but it may not work since that space may have been overwritten. Wish I could be of more help but I'm not home right now.
Also check out disk digger the play store. Looks like what you need.
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I deleted it from my phone, I don't have an SD card installed and I tried looking for a software to recover it but I have a Mac.
Not sure if anyone would know how, but here we go. I found an old Micro SD Card, and thought it'd be cool to load some old pictures onto my DNA. When I go into my gallery, I see the entire image as a thumbnail. However, when I click the image, half of it is covered with a weird grey box. Anyway to restore the image?
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Not sure if anyone would know how, but here we go. I found an old Micro SD Card, and thought it'd be cool to load some old pictures onto my DNA. When I go into my gallery, I see the entire image as a thumbnail. However, when I click the image, half of it is covered with a weird grey box. Anyway to restore the image?
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I would suggest using a microSD to USB adapter (or if you have a card reader microSD to SD Adapter) pull the pictures via a computer. If you see the same issue, the actual photos are corrupt. However, if they are clear, you might want to just transfer via the computer, drop box or google drive.
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I would suggest using a microSD to USB adapter (or if you have a card reader microSD to SD Adapter) pull the pictures via a computer. If you see the same issue, the actual photos are corrupt. However, if they are clear, you might want to just transfer via the computer, drop box or google drive.
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Thanks man I will try that when I get home. It's just weird because the thumbnail is perfect but when I click on it half of it is gray. Is their anyway to fix the image if transferring it via computer doesn't work?
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Thanks man I will try that when I get home. It's just weird because the thumbnail is perfect but when I click on it half of it is gray. Is their anyway to fix the image if transferring it via computer doesn't work?
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More than likely the images are fine, the file architecture has changed a few times so the card may not be in a proper format for your current android OS to read it correctly. In the case that the SD card/images are in fact corrupt, there isn't really a way to correct them. Find out via your computer first, there MIGHT be some tools that could help but it's a slim chance.
For the second time, I have lost all pictures I've take with this phone that automatically get put in the camera folder. I have camera set to store on SD card. Gone. Can't find in file managers. Anyone have this happen or have an explanation? Or how to get them back? Stock, unrooted.
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Cyrene said:
For the second time, I have lost all pictures I've take with this phone that automatically get put in the camera folder. I have camera set to store on SD card. Gone. Can't find in file managers. Anyone have this happen or have an explanation? Or how to get them back? Stock, unrooted.
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So it's set to store to external SD card? Hmm I'm just guessing here but maybe just an issue with the SD card,, have you tried reformatting it ? I'd either try that or swap it out with another card and see if it happens again. Maybe that card is corrupt.
Again I'm kind of speculating... since it's probably not a ROM issue since your stock unrooted
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Cyrene said:
For the second time, I have lost all pictures I've take with this phone that automatically get put in the camera folder. I have camera set to store on SD card. Gone. Can't find in file managers. Anyone have this happen or have an explanation? Or how to get them back? Stock, unrooted.
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Have you tried putting the card into a computer and seeing if they are still there? You could always use Recuva once you put it in your physical computer. Also what kind of card is it? Size?
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Have you tried putting the card into a computer and seeing if they are still there? You could always use Recuva once you put it in your physical computer. Also what kind of card is it? Size?
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Its a 32g card. I've been using it for a long time. I will try your suggestion. Thank you.
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Seems that I have no room left on my phone storage & tons of space left on my SD card. How can I get my phone to put everything on the card, by default??
Would this work: if I hook my phone up to my PC, then just took all the folders on my phone storage, and moved them to the Card. Would my apps & stuff still work or would doing that not be good??
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I am rooted also
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Seems that I have no room left on my phone storage & tons of space left on my SD card. How can I get my phone to put everything on the card, by default??
Would this work: if I hook my phone up to my PC, then just took all the folders on my phone storage, and moved them to the Card. Would my apps & stuff still work or would doing that not be good??
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I don't think just copying the apps will allow them to work. You can use Application Manager to move some apps to the sd card.
I went thru all my apps & moved whichever ones I was able to move. But I did that a long time ago. So I still have no room on my phone storage.
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I went thru all my apps & moved whichever ones I was able to move. But I did that a long time ago. So I still have no room on my phone storage.
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Move photos, downloads and any music on your phone to your SD card too. Then in your camera app go to settings and change the SD card as default.
Download the free version of SD Maid and use it to clean up old thumbnails and program files still on your phone from before you moved them.
I once deleted 2gb of photo gallery thumbnails from my phone with this app. You can also see which files are the largest on your phone and SD card to see if you can move or delete anything.
I have this app on my phone, tab, and my kids tabs to keep up with their memory and storage usage.
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Move photos, downloads and any music on your phone to your SD card too. Then in your camera app go to settings and change the SD card as default.
Download the free version of SD Maid and use it to clean up old thumbnails and program files still on your phone from before you moved them.
I once deleted 2gb of photo gallery thumbnails from my phone with this app. You can also see which files are the largest on your phone and SD card to see if you can move or delete anything.
I have this app on my phone, tab, and my kids tabs to keep up with their memory and storage usage.
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Thanks, I'm also running out of space, I'll give this a shot.
Tonight I was gonna try to just backup all my.stuff and then start over. I use GO launcher and I saw that I have GO backup on my phone, so I was gonna try to.use that. I started the app & it said my SD card is corrupted or damaged. I included a screenshot of what it said:
So would this be the reason why everything is on my internal storage instead of my card? Or is that message just something I.should ignore??
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Tonight I was gonna try to just backup all my.stuff and then start over. I use GO launcher and I saw that I have GO backup on my phone, so I was gonna try to.use that. I started the app & it said my SD card is corrupted or damaged. I included a screenshot of what it said:
So would this be the reason why everything is on my internal storage instead of my card? Or is that message just something I.should ignore??
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If you have a card reader unmount your SD card, take it out and try reading it on a computer. If you can read it I would copy everything off and put in a temporary folder on your desktop. Then format the card with the computer and put it back in the phone, format it using the phone and try your back-up again.
If it works put the card back in your computer and copy your files back. Be sure to unmount the card each time. Mine went corrupt once because I didn't.
How do I make the SD card, the default storage for everything? Or is that not possible...
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How do I make the SD card, the default storage for everything? Or is that not possible...
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You would have to change defaults on all your apps, camera is a big one.