Hi
Long story short .. i formatted my sd card by lg v20 and i can;t recover my files ... tried many applications but nothing been found!
Is it true that LG does wipe the data completely or it';s a lie from the DATA recovery company which i ask to help?
If someone can advice please do so.
@AhmedQatar
What are you speaking of - internal SD-card or external SD-card? What's partition's name you want to recover data from?
jwoegerbauer said:
@AhmedQatar
What are you speaking of - internal SD-card or external SD-card? What's partition's name you want to recover data from?
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An external one .. 32 GB.
I was trying to recover pictures and videos!
@AhmedQatar
Chances to retain data from a formatted SD-card are equal 0.
Anyway: If you plug the SD-card into Windows computer's SD-card slot, is it detected? If YES, then try out Zero Assumption Recovery tool.
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Help!
I moved to GS2 and wanted to use my SD card I used on another phone; it had an ext4 partition and a FAT32 partition.
All went well.
Then I decided to remove the ext4 partition and have the SD fully formatted with FAT32. I tried both Primary and Logical, tried NTFS too and even recreated and ext partition with ClockwordMod, but I end up always the same way, that is if I put the card in the phone and then boot, it freezes, terminate processes and does not see ANY internal or external SD card!!
Please help! How can I get back to a working full FAT32/NTFS card?
Thank you!!!
Dude looks like you have really messed up not only your phone, but also the way you put your problem. How is it possible that you boot up your phone and still you cant see at least your internal SD... Anyhow my suggestions are:-
1. Remove SD card and boot normally without SD card. See if your internal shows up. If YES, format the SD card in PC and put back in cell.
2. If the phone still crashes, you need to clear all caches in Recovery. Do and see what happens. Also tell us if you are rooted? what ROM are you using..
3. Apart from the SD, does your phone work normal?
Bro, your query is kinda too complex and one of the noobiest one i have come upon in a long time.
Sorry for not having said before: without the SD the phone boots normally. AND however I format the SD card, is it always readable in Windows 7.
About your question "How is it possible that you boot up your phone and still you cant see at least your internal SD", it is what I'm wandering too... It looks like the "badly" formatted SD messes the partition logic in Android.
Now I'm trying this: deleted all partitions, created a new unformatted one trying to format within phone.
Thanks for help and patience!
Yes! It worked!! The phone saw the unformatted card and prompted for action; I made it format and now it's back
I'm a custom ROM on Android 4.2.2 and used the Settings > Privacy > Encrypt phone feature. What exactly did this do, did the encrypt the internal SD card, the external SD card, the entire filesystem (i.e. root of filesystem), or some combination?
If it didn't encrypt my external SD card, how can I do so? But if it did, how can I access the contents of my external SD card (after providing my PIN/password) from a laptop when I put the SD card in it? Would I just mount it like I do any other encrypted USB drive with LUKS?
If not, then isn't it risky because if my phone gets broken and I must start from a new ROM, then I've lost my most recent data (backups could be a few days old). Or lets's say someone flashes a new ROM, the new ROM wouldn't be able to read the card, or would it be able to if you use the same PIN/password?
iamthemandroid said:
Or lets's say someone flashes a new ROM, the new ROM wouldn't be able to read the card, or would it be able to if you use the same PIN/password?
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Encrypted internal /storage/sdcard0 cannot be read after installing new ROM while using same password, just checked.
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Hi I have a problem with my 64gb sd card.
Phone tells me error: have to reformat.
PC the same
when i start into bootloader I can access the sd card. Backup the phone to it read from the card no problem.
What can i do to recover the sd card data? Afterwards i can reformat but forst i have to get the data that is actual on there and seems also accessible.... but not by android or Win
deady said:
Hi I have a problem with my 64gb sd card.
Phone tells me error: have to reformat.
PC the same
when i start into bootloader I can access the sd card. Backup the phone to it read from the card no problem.
What can i do to recover the sd card data? Afterwards i can reformat but forst i have to get the data that is actual on there and seems also accessible.... but not by android or Win
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I had the same problem but with 16GB
On SII specification you can read that it supports sdcards up to 32GB
But I'll try to help you
Check SDCard on another computer (if it reads it, make backup on HDD, Pendrive, etc. and then format it on FAT32) or another phone (it's not important on which). If it won't help, I'll think about it
I was using my 8gb sd card as adoptable sd card(formated as internal) but I replaced with 32gb card and formated new one as internal. Now when I tried to insert sd card in pc it doesn't shows any drive and 2 drive one approx 150mb other approx 7.5 gb is shown in disk management. Both are shown as 100% free. But I didn't formated the 8gb card on device nor on pc. Is there any way to recover the data from that card? I don't have the device right now. I sold it to someone else
@prashantvrm
The feature called Adoptable Storage allows the Android user to format an external storage media as permanent internal storage to be used with this specific Android device: Hereby Android formats and changes it’s FAT32 or exFAT format to ext4 or f2fs, it gets tied to this specific Android device. The key used to encrypt the data on the SD card is stored on the Android device’s internal memory.
So, it is not possible to mount the adopted storage to another device because of its encrypted nature.
jwoegerbauer said:
@prashantvrm
The feature called Adoptable Storage allows the Android user to format an external storage media as permanent internal storage to be used with this specific Android device: Hereby Android formats and changes it’s FAT32 or exFAT format to ext4 or f2fs, it gets tied to this specific Android device. The key used to encrypt the data on the SD card is stored on the Android device’s internal memory.
So, it is not possible to mount the adopted storage to another device because of its encrypted nature.
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Consider this scenario:
SDcard1 was used in mobile as adoptable
Then it was removed from the device and card was not formated and no device reset.
Then card with high storage capacity was inserted and this new card got formatted as adaptable and but still no device reset.
Now I want to use the old card in this device. Will the device recognize it as it was used there before?
Adoptable storage is a nightmare as cards fail regularly, as you have found out. With an unencrypted SD card, you could run chkdsk in Windows to repair the card. The only thing I am unsure of is if there is an equivalent in Linux. If there is, the card which has an ext4 file system could possibly be repaired.
Try iBoysoft Data Recovery. If a file is a recognizable format, iBoysoft will find it and recover it. (And take days for a decent-sized card.) Instructions are at the software Step By Step. (If each file is encrypted, it may not find anything, but if the file structure is encrypted, iBoysoft never looks at the file structure except to see how large the clusters are - and it can work without that information.
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?
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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.
gotaquestion said:
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?