from what im gathering theres absolutely no way to recover files without being able to mount as mass storage, is that correct?
The phone has been formatted or factory data reset.
I rooted the phone thinking there was a way and...nope
Verizon SCH-I545
Any help would be greatly appreciated..just trying to get pics back of my daughters first two years of her life.
Were the pics on an SD card or internal storage? If they were on an SD card then you can take the card and mount it on a Windoze PC then use something like Recuva (free) to restore the images somewhere.
LGtMgG2t said:
Were the pics on an SD card or internal storage? If they were on an SD card then you can take the card and mount it on a Windoze PC then use something like Recuva (free) to restore the images somewhere.
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Internal Storage.
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Ok, so i have my atrix. Now i dont really get this part.. when i use efile for instance or anything like it. I already had a mnt/sdcard with stuff on it before i even had a sd card. All i had was the internal memory the phone came with. Why is it under sd card?
So i have 2 folders
sdcard
and
sdcard-ext which is my new card i take it because there is nothing in it yet.
Question should i transfer everything to my actual sd card? like backup it all? any info on how to do this or if i should is a good idea. Should i keep my internal memory clean as possible? thanks.
the atrix treats the internal 16gb memory as an SD card hence the SD card name. Now to differentiate between the Internal and External the other is called SD-EXT. Basically what ever you place in the SD slot, be it 16gb 32gb etc, it will show as the SD ext. Where you palce your files is up to you. By default most Apps will use your SD folder instead of SD EXT (titanium backup for example)
tjjensen23 said:
the atrix treats the internal 16gb memory as an SD card hence the SD card name. Now to differentiate between the Internal and External the other is called SD-EXT. Basically what ever you place in the SD slot, be it 16gb 32gb etc, it will show as the SD ext. Where you place your files is up to you. By default most Apps will use your SD folder instead of SD EXT (titanium backup for example)
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So how would i go about transferring everything from my internal to my external sd card? Should i do it and can it be done? Or should i just leave it how it is? Plus for titanium backup should i backup my stuff on my external card for that or what? im kinda confused. ANy help would be appreciated. thanks
wishb0n3 said:
So how would i go about transferring everything from my internal to my external sd card? Should i do it and can it be done? Or should i just leave it how it is? Plus for titanium backup should i backup my stuff on my external card for that or what? im kinda confused. ANy help would be appreciated. thanks
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Well you can use your computer to move files if you place your phone in mass storage mode, or if you are rooted you can use a program like root explorer. The only things you should need to transfer would be backups of programs or music. everything else is fine on the internal storage. The only things I put on my actual sdcard are my music and documents. I would not worry about transferring anything, internal storage is really just as safe as an sdcard unless you brick your phone.
My phone is asking me to format my sd card out of the blue. I have a 32gb Kingtson, I have a lot of crucial data. I have not yet formatted the sd card. I've tried conventional ways of getting my data like using GETDATABACK FAT32 but it did not work. I have used other but no to avail.
Does anyone know what is the best method to recover files from a sd card that was working but now it is not?
Go to settings>storage and unmount microsd. Remove the microsd feom ur phone. Use a microSD card adapter ... a full size sd card that u can put ur microsd card into and will fit into your pc. Click and drag important data from microsd onto desktop. Then fat32 format the microsd and reload the data onto it. Done.
Or u can upload all data to dropbox and then format amnd reinstall... but it may take a while.
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Hello..
I deleted a folder in my picture gallery which I want to recover but I am unable. I don't have an external memory, I am only using the internal memory of the S3. My phone is visible but like phone (GT-I9300) not am external drive.
How to recover them back?
Also, I read about USB debugging, what is this? I didnt find any option about USB in the S3.
The.Cancerian said:
Hello..
I deleted a folder in my picture gallery which I want to recover but I am unable. I don't have an external memory, I am only using the internal memory of the S3. My phone is visible but like phone (GT-I9300) not am external drive.
How to recover them back?
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I don't think so it is possible to get them back. However, you can try some recovery software tools like Recuva
search for undelete apps in the market, or use recuva with a card reader
Both is not possible.
The internal storage is a shared EXT4 filesystem partition between the phone's storage and the internal sdcard.
So it's not possible to mount it or access the filesystem's blocks for data recovery.
Sorry
disk digger helped me.
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I'm not very Android savvy so maybe you can help me with a questions: I was wondering if it's possible to put an SD card that's used/formatted as "adoptable storage" in an Android phone into an SD card reader on a PC/Win10? I read on several occasions that you should not remove the SD card from your phone when it's used as adoptable storage so I thought I might ask first
Obviously, it's not the same like having the SD card as external memory in an Android phone (which makes it easy to just take and plug it into your SD card reader). But what will happen in Windows? Will it not recognize the card? Will it prompt me to format the card? Thanks in advance!
Reasoning behind that is that my SD card seems to make problems on my HTC10 (HTC is losing it all the time) and I thought about maybe removing and "cloning" the SD on my Windows machine. I already purchased a new SD card but I don't want to reset my phone to factory settings to use it
[Any other ideas on that would be greatly appreciated too]
Thank you!
Sam
Nope. The phone encrypts the card and only it holds the key to unencrypt it. You have to format the card for the PC to recognize it.
es0tericcha0s said:
Nope. The phone encrypts the card and only it holds the key to unencrypt it. You have to format the card for the PC to recognize it.
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Thank you very much! Noticed that when I just tried to put it in my PC. One approach that I have now is to try to "Migrate" the data back to internal storage at the time when the phone would recognize the card so I may switch off the adoptable storage configuration of my SD on my HTC10. Then I'm going to replace the SD and try to re-enable it. Thus I hope I can avoid the complete re-setup of my phone.
Strangely enough though, I noticed that the phone is also running without the (adoptable storage) SD card. Some apps are greyed out, some functions missing, but the basics work.
Is this normal?
Sam
SamADX said:
Thank you very much! Noticed that when I just tried to put it in my PC. One approach that I have now is to try to "Migrate" the data back to internal storage at the time when the phone would recognize the card so I may switch off the adoptable storage configuration of my SD on my HTC10. Then I'm going to replace the SD and try to re-enable it. Thus I hope I can avoid the complete re-setup of my phone.
Strangely enough though, I noticed that the phone is also running without the (adoptable storage) SD card. Some apps are greyed out, some functions missing, but the basics work.
Is this normal?
Sam
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Yea, that's normal.
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I have an adoptable sd card which works fine. But now my phone bricks and i flash my phone with same stock rom but now i am unable to get my data. Is there any way to get my data back?
Phone the card came out of is a Doogee S68 Pro. I configured the SD card to be internal memory and for the camera app to save pics taken to the SD card. I assumed when the SD card was full the camera would save back to the internal memory but instead it gave an error saying storage full and wouldn't take more photos. There was no option within the camera app to switch the save location to the internal memory so I removed the SD card. This forced the camera to now save to internal memory. BUT. Now when I put the SD card back in it doesn't read and says I need to format the card to use it. Same result if I put the card in different android phones or pug it into a PC. I don't want to format the card because I want the pictures on it.
How can I get the image files off this SD card? I've tried a few file recovery programs without any success. I don't have a linux machine, just a PC, and I have no experience with rooting phones or the like.
Probably card is in raw mode now.
What you mean by saying that you have configured card as an internal storage?
gotaquestion said:
Same result if I put the card in different android phones or pug it into a PC. I don't want to format the card because I want the pictures on it. How can I get the image files off this SD card? I've tried a few file recovery programs without any success. I don't have a linux machine, just a PC, and I have no experience with rooting phones or the like.
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The External SD-card got encrypted as soon as you decided to use it as internal memory. It's no longer readable by any card-reader. IMHO forensic tools are needed to retain the data stored there.
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Probably card is in raw mode now.
What you mean by saying that you have configured card as an internal storage?
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When I pulgged it in the first time it gave two options, use as internal memory or as mass storage device. I choose the internal memory option.
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jwoegerbauer said:
The External SD-card got encrypted as soon as you decided to use it as internal memory. It's no longer readable by any card-reader. IMHO forensic tools are needed to retain the data stored there.
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I feared this was the case. I don't understand why the original phone cannot decrypt the card though as it would with a Samsung device. I have sent a support request tot he phone manufacturer so hopefully that bears fruit.
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When I pulgged it in the first time it gave two options, use as internal memory or as mass storage device. I choose the internal memory option.
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Ok thank you for confirmation. As above card encrypted and furthermore you might have lost all the data of the phone as well as sms , apps, updates basically everything since you choose that option has been storage on ad card, and your internal storage was not used or useless in a different world, access has been denied to it.
Which tools have you tried to recover data?