Help! Need to recover lost files! :( - Xperia Z5 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Stupid phone/app decided to do something weird during (cut and paste) file transfer (from internal storage to sd), and now, most of my photos and 4k videos are gone. -_-
Any suggestions on how I can recover them if possible? I've stopped using the phone since it did this a few hours ago, so hopefully, that can increase how much I can recover.
Phone is a stock rom E5823 on 5.1.1. (no root) I don't mind rooting, but I'm worried about losing potentially recoverable files during the root process.
Pretty dang irritated right now. Any help would be much appreciated as these photos and videos were taken 9 hours away from home over the course of several days.
Thanks.

Did you try searching on the web? I don't think there's a particular way to recover files on the Z5 so you should look at other threads regarding Android phones with ext4 filesystem.
Unfortunately i'm not expert in this matter. I wish you success in your recovery, and let us know if you get through.

diskdigger is the BEST!!!
but works wonder only on rooted fones!

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[Q] Delete Internal Storage Partitions

I am a noob and I am not a developer or even really great at programming or PC's in general.
I've managed to mess up my phone and have been looking all over the web for how to fix it and I am at a loss.
I decided to register and ask for help. Please be patient and understanding if I ask a lot of questions or don't understand things you accept as basic, understood or common. I looked through existing threads for help and couldn't find the answer I needed. Many thanks in advance for the help. Readers digest of the issue below.
Samsung Galaxy S 4G. T-Mobile. T959V5B5-Custom.
I tried the non-mandatory firmware update from T-mobile and it wrecked the functionality of my phone. I tried to go back with a couple new Rom versions and think I more or less ended up with three roms installed on my internal storage which has given me basically no space which was never an issue for me before. I have used a disk viewer to verify there is unmounted data that is taking up space but I can't figure out how to get to it through the phone or my pc to delete it. I assume if I do this that the empty space will be absorbed and fix the internal storage issue.
Again, thank you for taking the time to read and respond. I love my phone and just want it working right again.
JBMFT said:
I am a noob and I am not a developer or even really great at programming or PC's in general.
I've managed to mess up my phone and have been looking all over the web for how to fix it and I am at a loss.
I decided to register and ask for help. Please be patient and understanding if I ask a lot of questions or don't understand things you accept as basic, understood or common. I looked through existing threads for help and couldn't find the answer I needed. Many thanks in advance for the help. Readers digest of the issue below.
Samsung Galaxy S 4G. T-Mobile. T959V5B5-Custom.
I tried the non-mandatory firmware update from T-mobile and it wrecked the functionality of my phone. I tried to go back with a couple new Rom versions and think I more or less ended up with three roms installed on my internal storage which has given me basically no space which was never an issue for me before. I have used a disk viewer to verify there is unmounted data that is taking up space but I can't figure out how to get to it through the phone or my pc to delete it. I assume if I do this that the empty space will be absorbed and fix the internal storage issue.
Again, thank you for taking the time to read and respond. I love my phone and just want it working right again.
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The course of action I would recommend at this point is using a tool called Odin to re-flash the stock ROM to your phone. I would recommend taking a look at this guide for the step-by-step procedure on how to do this. Let me know if you still have questions .
shimp208 said:
The course of action I would recommend at this point is using a tool called Odin to re-flash the stock ROM to your phone. I would recommend taking a look at this guide for the step-by-step procedure on how to do this. Let me know if you still have questions .
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Hey! Big thanks for the reply. Here come the questions...
I used Odin to put the other OS versions on the phone so I am familiar with the software though its been several months. I also still have the ROM that I flashed to phone. I am curious though that if it didn't wipe the previous partitions last time, what would keep it from doing the same thing this time and really messing me up? Or did I click or not click something in Odin or use the wrong option and doing it differently this time would fix the problem?
I located the files on the phone and have verified they are not mounted and looked at their size using DiskInfo. They are located at "/dev/block". Do you know what this is or why they are there? I can delete them using ES File Explorer with SuperUser. Is it ok to delete these and would I get the benefit of increased storage by doing so? I played around with moving them to the SD card and didn't see an increase in my internal storage but was afraid that a reboot after doing to might be bad.
Can you tell I am a little gun shy?
Here are the names of the files, the set starting with t starts at 0 and goes to 12 and the other 1 to 12.
tsfr0-tfsr12
bml1-bml12
Thanks again!
JBMFT said:
Hey! Big thanks for the reply. Here come the questions...
I used Odin to put the other OS versions on the phone so I am familiar with the software though its been several months. I also still have the ROM that I flashed to phone. I am curious though that if it didn't wipe the previous partitions last time, what would keep it from doing the same thing this time and really messing me up? Or did I click or not click something in Odin or use the wrong option and doing it differently this time would fix the problem?
I located the files on the phone and have verified they are not mounted and looked at their size using DiskInfo. They are located at "/dev/block". Do you know what this is or why they are there? I can delete them using ES File Explorer with SuperUser. Is it ok to delete these and would I get the benefit of increased storage by doing so? I played around with moving them to the SD card and didn't see an increase in my internal storage but was afraid that a reboot after doing to might be bad.
Can you tell I am a little gun shy?
Here are the names of the files, the set starting with t starts at 0 and goes to 12 and the other 1 to 12.
tsfr0-tfsr12
bml1-bml12
Thanks again!
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Using Odin to re-flash the stock ROM will automatically setup the right configuration for. Do Not delete the files in /dev/block these are critical to the phones operation and part of the phones normal partitioning and operation as previously stated deleting these will cause a lot of problems if you delete them. If you really want to free up some internal storage space I would recommend deleting the carrier pre-installed bloatware, before you delete any bloatware makesure to backup the apps you deleted with Titanium Backup or a similar backup or flash Clockworkmod Recovery or Team Win Recovery Project and make a Nandroid Backup which is a complete backup of your phone. And don't worry about being gun shy we are all beginners at some point the only real way to become an expert if practice, practice, practice .
So I am working on the Heimdall One-Click.
Handshaking with loke, got no response. FML.
Help.
Edited: Apparently a low battery is not your friend...
after a little reading around on the net I tried a different one and BAM.
Back to stock. We'll see how this goes.
Being rooted with superuser had me spoiled...so much bloatware.

[Q] The 2gb problem....

I see countless threads on this issue everywhere, but frankly, they are all completely over my head. I have 0 experience in any of this stuff.
I gave my s2 9100 international unbranded version that I bought used from a hacker kid with cyanogenmod on it to my parents after i upgraded to an s3.
I never had any issues with space and had a lot of apps.
my parents have installed solitaire, and not much more, and it's out of space already. wtf.
I did a factory re-set to format the phone before i gave it to my parents. So, i'm guessing the kid i got it from did something to it to not have the app space problem and by doing the reset i ruined it.
I don't know where to start. All this pit, odin, etc etc talk is all completely over my head and i really need a spoon-fed, hand-held guide on what to do explaining everything. like- if i need to put the phone in dev mode, tell me how to do that too because I have NO IDEA what i'm doing. I've tried to follow along a couple threads and i'm just completely lost because they all assume you kinda know what you're doing.
Thanks for any help.
briansol said:
I see countless threads on this issue everywhere, but frankly, they are all completely over my head. I have 0 experience in any of this stuff.
I gave my s2 9100 international unbranded version that I bought used from a hacker kid with cyanogenmod on it to my parents after i upgraded to an s3.
I never had any issues with space and had a lot of apps.
my parents have installed solitaire, and not much more, and it's out of space already. wtf.
I did a factory re-set to format the phone before i gave it to my parents. So, i'm guessing the kid i got it from did something to it to not have the app space problem and by doing the reset i ruined it.
I don't know where to start. All this pit, odin, etc etc talk is all completely over my head and i really need a spoon-fed, hand-held guide on what to do explaining everything. like- if i need to put the phone in dev mode, tell me how to do that too because I have NO IDEA what i'm doing. I've tried to follow along a couple threads and i'm just completely lost because they all assume you kinda know what you're doing.
Thanks for any help.
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Is the whole internal sd card full? Try deleting the lost.dir folder and see what happens. Delete any battery logs and try another factory reset
Where is that file located, and how do i delete it? just through the phone? (i don't have it with me, as it's my parents)
briansol said:
Where is that file located, and how do i delete it? just through the phone? (i don't have it with me, as it's my parents)
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It's a folder located in the internal sd card. You can delete it through es file explorer or other file explorer.

Urgent: Recover deleted photos/videos from internal memory (Galaxy S6)

Dear guys,
I accidentially deleted around 70 GB of videos and photos on my Galaxy S6 128 GB (SM-G920F, Android 6.0.1, G920FXXU3DPDP). I was so stupid to try to move the camera folder instead of copying it to the computer and since the process was aborted it was gone from my phone and not on my computer. I'm missing a lot of family pictures and videos that were very very valuable for me.
My phone is rooted (odin) and the root works properly. I tried several recovery programs, some are working in general and are requesting supersuser rights (like phone paw android recovery) - but can't find any of the deleted images and videos. Others (like Wondershare Dr..Fon Android recovery) do not work properly (it gets superuser rights but in the last step before scanning the phone it tries to get (other?) super user rights that are not properly requested).
I should be gratefull for any kind of help. Please let me know if you need any additional information. It would be the biggest present to get back any of the many photos and videos I lost.
Best,
Sonstiger
Or does anybody have an idea where I could find help? The photos and videos are precious memories of my daughter and two holidays.
Thankfull for every help!
An addition: I wouldn't mind if the procedure to recover (part) of the photos / videos would break my phone.
you didn't have any back-up solution? try some photo recovery apps from play Store like: DiskDigger or DigDeep Image Recovery, i can recover almost all deleted photos but have no experience abt recover video
In the past I've had phenomenal success with Dumpster: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.baloota.dumpster&hl=en
Of course I can't guarantee anything, as file deletion and recovery is a bit.... weird. However, with Dumpster I've been able to recover many photos on multiple occasions, even really old ones (months, maybe even a year for a few of them) I had forgotten I had deleted. I didn't even have it installed before deleting said photos either. That being said, since your photos/videos are freshly deleted, it may work out for you.
Good luck!
Thanks ubergeek77.
Unfortunately, Dumpster only recovers files that have been deleted after Dumpster has been installed. So it can't help in my case.
Any other ideas?
And there are some more promising tools for the PC. E.g. I tried Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android. It scans my phone (with superuser permission). But not a single photo / video of the ones that I deleted (70 GB) are found. What could be the problem here? Anybody out there who can help me and finds the time to reply?
Connect your phone to your Pc and try some recovery software like EaseUS..... (this is not a free software but you can install trial version).
hope it help.
Next time, if the transferring process is aborted , just undo and get back your file right from PC.
None of this tools found relevant photos or videos from the 70 GB i lost. I will now try to get an image of the data partition to recover the files on PC. Anybody can help me here?
I was now able to copy an image of the data partition on my computer -- using Photorec I could scan this partition for lost files. Unfortunately only undeleted or not relevant files were found. None of the files of the 70 GB deleted pictures and videos. But there have been tousands of files (from 4 MB each) extraced with the file extensions ".elf" and ".sqlite". I assume that these files are my lost photos and videos and that they, for any reason, cannot be assigned correctly .
This may be related to the file system ext4? Or the blocksize? Or any other reason related to the fact that these files were not deleted the standard way but while trying to move a to big folder to my PC.
What can I do here? I would be gratefull if any expert here being familiar with the ext4 filesystem or Android partititions could help me in any form. Please let me know if you need an additional information.
Looking forward to any reply. Thanks!
Sonstiger said:
Thanks ubergeek77.
Unfortunately, Dumpster only recovers files that have been deleted after Dumpster has been installed. So it can't help in my case.
Any other ideas?
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Very sorry! I totally misremembered what app I used. I just checked, and it was definitely DiskDigger, it works without having been installed first, and works even better with root: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.defianttech.diskdigger
Sorry for the confusion!
The results I mentioned were with root, so that may be something to keep in mind.
Also, I'm not 100% sure if TWRP backups are 1:1, but you should research a way to make a complete raw filesystem backup of your device if DiskDigger doesn't work. The more you use this phone, the more you risk losing some of those photos. With a raw disk image, you could mount it in Linux and throw every recovery tool you can find at it.
Best of luck. If I run across anything that may help, I'll be sure to post it here.
Recover Deleted Data From Galaxy Phone
It is quite sad to hear that your 70 GB data is deleted. But, don’t worry here are few steps which will help you to recover your deleted data from your Galaxy phone. Even I have tried out these steps and recovered my deleted data. Here, are the steps:
1. Connect Your Android device
2. Choose file types to Scan
3. Scan your device to find the lost data on it
4. Preview and recover deleted data on Android devices
Hope that these methods work for you. For more information go to:
androiddata-recovery.com/blog/samsung-galaxy-mega-data-recovery-recover-lostdeleted-files-from-samsung-galaxy-mega

Recovering deleted media on my Mate 10 Lite

Hey there, its my first post over here as it's obvious, i know my question might fit better under the dev section but it wont let me create a thread there, so bare with me.
Anyway, the problem is that i accidently deleted some media files from my Huawei Mate 10 lite (Images & Videos) and since then i spent like over a week googling trying to find a way to recover them without a clue. All the android data recovery apps require Root access to be able to do its magic, then again as i heard it's not possible to root Huawei phones on Android 8 with the latest security patches since its not possible to unlock the bootloader in order to install a custom one to flash whatever is needed to root the device, so that's a dead end at least to my knowledge.
The question is, Is there any way at all to recover those deleted files without the need to root the device ? if root is required, is there any safe way to accomplish this nowadays ?
Thanks in advance,
more than 3 months and not a single reply
CarboniiC said:
more than 3 months and not a single reply
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Unfortunately, there's no way to recover deleted media files . I had the same problem on rooted phone. I have tried several programs without success.
(If you store some new data in your memory then there is a big chance that the data get stored over the deleted data. So no chance of recovery after overwriting a humongous amount of data.)

Help with recovering deleted photos

Hi everyone,
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask but I am running out of ideas.
I have lost some important photos on my Samsung Galaxy S9+ and I have tried a couple of photo recover apps such as diskdigger, dr.fone, to name a few and they do not find them. It says to perform deep scans i need to root. Is there any app or pc software I could use to do deep scans on the internal memory of my phone?
P.s. I've looked at ways of rooting the phone but I'm confused, was looking at using twrp and magisk but not sure how to start as I read somewhere samsung phones have their own flash software.
Thanks for any support
If I recall correctly, rooting any Samsung phone requires a hard reset, so that's probably a worse idea lol
Why not check if they're in the "thrash" folder in your gallery, if you have it on
Or check if you have sync on on any of your photo apps
Cheers, ive checked the trash folder and its empty so they must have gone outside the last 30 days, and until this weekend I never synced my photos with the cloud (rookie mistake I know)
Guess they are gone forever
Am33k3r said:
Hi everyone,
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask but I am running out of ideas.
I have lost some important photos on my Samsung Galaxy S9+ and I have tried a couple of photo recover apps such as diskdigger, dr.fone, to name a few and they do not find them. It says to perform deep scans i need to root. Is there any app or pc software I could use to do deep scans on the internal memory of my phone?
P.s. I've looked at ways of rooting the phone but I'm confused, was looking at using twrp and magisk but not sure how to start as I read somewhere samsung phones have their own flash software.
Thanks for any support
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Usually, if the deleted photos not being overwritten by new data, such data recovery softwares can help us recover them back. But before that, we need to root it by using samsung root app. You can search such root apps online and choose the one you like better. Then it can help you scan out all data on your Samsung Galaxy S9+ and recover them back. Please note: If the deleted photos are overwritten, there is no way to recover them back.

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