Hi there,
A friend of mine accidentally erased photos and videos from the internal memory of her Honor 7 Lite (NEM-L21) with a locked bootloader, stock recovery/ROM (Android 6/EMUI 4.1.2). DiskDigger was able to recover only a couple of them after running a basic scan.
DiskDigger offers a full scan functionality which requires root privileges. I've tried running it on my rooted Honor 5C (NEM-L51, which is almost the same as the NEM-L21 AFAIU) and it indeed recovers more files than the basic scan (8 times more on my phone).
I'm willing to root here phone in order to be able to run a full scan with DiskDigger but I'd have to unlock the bootloader in the process and it's gonna wipe the /data partition. Now, I suppose that DiskDigger is able to recover files because there are not actually erased from the memory (i.e the corresponding bits are not set to 0) but this answer suggests that on recent Android versions a factory reset would actually make the data unreadable.
Can anyone confirm all of this ? Any alternative ideas to recover photos/videos from internal memory ?
PS : I've also dumped the /data partition of my phone to my computer following this guide but PhotoRec was unable to find any picture (which is somehow strange since DiskDigger finds a lot of them).
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I was trying to make my 64gb sandisk microSD card to work on my i9100 (Galaxy s2). I have heard from reviews and forums that it is possible to make it work by just putting it in the phone and format the card from there and then the phone will recognize it. I got the option to "Format SDcard" which I used but it didn't format my external SDcard, it formatted my internal..
I have tried with this Guide, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705. Fortunately, it worked, but it was not the part that I was trying to restore. When I try to restore the part I want to restore, I get an error message. The error message is
Code:
nc: bind: Address already in use"
and the part I want to restore is called /dev/block/vlod/259:3 according to diskdigger.
I manage to restore some pictures with diskdigger but I am still missing some photos that I would like to restore. Have anyone else had this problem and was able to restore everything? I have also recovered some with ZAR.
I have for now formatted my 64gb to NTFS with windows disk formatter (or whatever it is called) but I don't want to do anything on my phone since I suspect that it will ruin my chances to recover my lost photos.
I have only installed diskdigger and busybox on my phone since the formation.
I managed to restore almost every photo I had with diskdigger on my computer and on my phone, strangely, they detected different pictures and I was getting the impression that most of the photos was discovered with the android version of the app, even though the app itself could have lead to some pictures corruption.
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The other day I was moving files around when I accidentally deleted both copies of my photos folder from my internal memory. All the recovery programs Ive found either require root or need to be running around 4.3. I was wondering if downgrading my firmware and rooting might give me a chance to recover the lost data or is it a lost cause?
Dear brilliant folks,
My dilemma is that I inadvertently did a factory restore without backing up my data from the internal storage of my HTC Max Verizon 6600LVW. I have rooted it, I have a TWRP recovery installed, BusyBox and have tried some options but these software application options (in Windows) do not dig deep enough into the memory for me to dredge up the lost photos, audio files, etcetera.
Is there a simple way or not so simple way to get the complete RAW image of this internal memory and do a full deep scan with Recuva or other recovery software? I have done all that I am able but seem to be at a roadblock now.
I have looked at other links in the various forums but I am not sure how I can apply those options to this phone as the commands and memory blocks are different.
Please advise if you can.
Thank you.
Hi there. So, I had a rooted device running Android 5.1, which I wanted to update to 6.0.1.
I had the device softbricked for a while and I could only fix it by flashing it with new partitioning.
So now, I have an internal storage which appears to be empty (in windows explorer) but of course there are still tons of old data on that drive.
I realised, that my backup does not contain certain data which I would have liked to keep.
I hope, that I can recover some files using Recuva. For that I need a full mirror/copy of my internal storage.
How can I do that? At the moment I don't have root, but I could root it, if needed. I think that could possibly override more old data though.
Thanks in advance.
Doesnt seem to be an ideal solution, but I just rooted the phone with 6.0.1, installed busybox to add linux tools like netcat and installed a terminal to copy a full image of the userpartition to my desktop.
I can run Recuva on that image then.
I formatted my lenovo g5 plus; is it possible to recover the data? I already unlocked the bootloader, installed twrp and already tested it with magisk and supersu. The software I tested (these most famous of the internet) failed to recover. (with magisk the software says that i have root but the app does not have access and with super su the software does not recognize the root). The question is even if it is possible to recover data after factory reset. Its possible?
This question gets asked about every other week. When you formatted the minimum damage you did was to destroy the file structure.
If anything remains you'll be sorry once you see the huge, jumbled mess of gigabytes of data...
Files have lost their association with their folders and unfortunately it goes much deeper than that.
You now have or are about to learn what everyone including myself has learned the hard way by losing a database completely. Always backup up your critical data redundantly to at least to 2 hhds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other.
Do that in addition to any other backups you have. Backups can fail too.
Some of my data is backed up over 6 times on isolated hdds and secondary flash drives.
Do not encrypt the bloody backup hhds...