I have accidentally formatted the SD card with the backup in it (in a sleepy stupor with two SD cards), I hope this is the right place to make a request, and I hope a fellow Singaporean or someone with a Singaporean set (Starhub if I have to be specific) could help me out here!
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Hi,
Probably a silly question, but is there a way of accessing some of the files in a nandroid backup? I recently flashed a new ROM and in preparation I completely re-formatted my sdcard. I did take the precaution of doing a nandroid backup but I didn't copy over an important folder - my holiday snaps.
Now, rather than nandroid restore completely, I'm just wondering if there is a way of opening the file and extracting just what I need?
Thanks
Nandroid only back-ups your system files on the phone not the SD card. If you think about it, it is backing up to the SD card so if your holiday snaps were stored on your card you will have lost them.
Aha! Yes, of course. Bottoms!
Recovering files from SD
stupid suggestion but did you try a program that undeletes/retrieves data from memory cards?
No, I've moved on and, formatted Fat32/Ext3/Linux-Swap and flashed a new ROM
I'll just say I deleted the piccies by mistake and take the flak from the missus.
Thanks all.
palexr said:
No, I've moved on and, formatted Fat32/Ext3/Linux-Swap and flashed a new ROM
I'll just say I deleted the piccies by mistake and take the flak from the missus.
Thanks all.
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If the portion of the SD card your photos were sitting on hasn't been over written yet by new data, a recover program may work. The longer you use the card the less likely you are to recover them.
Please share wats on the SD card by default.
well, if noone has done it by tomorrow, then il'l try to remember doing it
if it doesn't take too long time to upload. Since I hate waiting...
Curious about this aswell...
A collegue of mine unpacked my phone first, and set the language to russian......
Trying to change the language to norwegian, i formated the sd card by accident.
(Had to upgrade the phone, to solve my problems )
So, I have an x10, with a blank SD card
The only "important" thing on the SD card is the SE software(sync, update phone software and something else i don't need ).
If you can live without there is nothing else on the card. I'll make a dump tonight and upload it to you guys but you aren't missing anything
i would need sd card dump cause using .nomedia file delete all images on the "cd Browser" folder!!
appreciate any help
thanks
Hi All,
I have checked/Search the forums... but haven't found a sure and certain answer.
Device: Dell Streak 5 : Carrier unlocked
Android 2.2.2
Baseband version: GAUSB1A135411-US
Kernel Version: 2.6.32.9-perf
Build: 15881
Recovery: Streakroid Dr. fixit
Current Status: Very Stable with Zeam Launcher giving good battery backup.
I was using a 4 GB class 6 card as a Ext. Micro SD Card on my dell streak 5, But now i want to use a 16 or may be a 32 GB Ext. Micro SD Card.
My questions are:
1. Do i have to do a nandroid restore for this using new card with backup nandroid on it. (to do this i have to take backup of my nandroid to my PC first and then Back to my new card, will this mess-up the MD5 check-sum?)
2. Or it can be simply done by:
a) Formatting new card as Fat32 Using PC/XP sp3
b) Copy-Paste the old card data into new card.
c) Placing new card with data into phone and reboot.
3. Or I have to move back the apps from sd card to phone before following above steps, and then again move them back to sd card after above listed things are done.
Concerns: I have moved a lot of apps/games/data onto SD card via going into Settings>Applications>Manage applications>move to sd card. So will it still work that way.
I am Asking this as once i had took out the memory card from my streak and rebooted it, it refuses to restart and i had to do a factory reset via recovery to make it work again.
Note: i cant afford to mess this thing as now this is my primary phone.
thank-you all for your time
Hi All, 91 views and not even a single reply... Is my question is extremely nooby ..or its too common and answered everywhere on Internet.
In either of case pls accept my apologies.. but i have yet to find a certain answer for this.
Anyone want to share a word.
Thankyou
Could be that noone know. I dont know the answer, but then I dont use hundreds of apps and when I have helped other who use apps2sd we have been flashing from scratch so havent needed to restore to sd.
If you do find out I'd be interested to know for future reference.
hey Marky, thanks a lot.
I was thinking the solution is so obvious that nobody cares to answer.
thank-you
I think everyone was just leaving it to someone else.
OK, here goes...
There are three possible ways this can go
Firstly, if you have NO apps on the SD card at all, all apps in internal memory, then all you need to do is
1) mount the card to your PC
2) copy all the card data onto it
3) power off the phone
4) put the new card in
5) mount it again on the PC
6) copy the data back.
Secondly, if you have used the move to SD card option from froyo, you have two choices - you can move them all to main memory, then do the above one, or you can
1) power off the phone
2) use a card reader to copy all the data from the old phone to the new one
3) put the new card in
4) reboot as normal
Finally, if you have repartitioned the card so that you can use a different app2sd system (such as Dark Tremor), then the easiest way is
1) mount the old card on your PC and back up the FAT data
2) use nandroid to backup the EXT data
3) swap the card out
4) partition the new one
5) nandroid restore the EXT data
6) boot up normally
7) mount and restore the FAT data
(and if you are not sure if you have partitioned the card, then you almost certainly haven't)
I'm pretty sure from what you asked that the middle option describes your position, and yes, apps on SD will work fine if just copied across to the new card, but it is advised not to boot the phone up without them there, hence the card reader being needed. I added the other methods in for anyone else who may be looking for answers from slightly different cases
thankyou Jim bro ,
I have moved a lot of apps to sd card, but i think i will play safe and just move them back to phone manually .
then do a reboot > turn if off> plug in new fat32 formated microsd card and turn on the phone.
if everything works fine then reboot it again just to make sure.. or do you suggest or not suggest a wipe cache and delvik cache via recovery and a reboot.
Option #1 (Jim-bo post) or option #2 (your post) above. PERIOD! I do it all the time. (see my signature)
Dalvik and wipe cach have nothing to do with EXTERNAL card. It's just like changing sd cards in your pc. Just make certain to copy EVERYTHING including hidden files/folders.
If you're talking about the INTERNAL card......that's an entirely different process.
kraz
thanks kraz, I thought when I change card (external ) still system must be changing some entries. .. might be some very small entries which does not affect the stability overall.
thanks for your clarification.
on a side note... I am planning to shift to di's 1.9.1 but I am confused on few issues.
1. do I need to update the amss.mbm and dsp1 , currently my streak is on
Android 2.2 .2
Baseband version: GAUSB1 A135411- US
Kernel Version: 2.6. 32.9-perf
Build : 15881
2. should I go for prefmod or not, long battery life is my concern... currently on my rom I am getting around 1% battery drain per hour in ideal with screen off (with edge data turned on and auto sync on for data and mails)
how much battery performance shouuld I expect from dj's 1.9.1
thanks
You're on baseband 354 A135411-US. Should be compatible with 1.9.1 for both amss and dsp1.
Couldn't tell you about battery. My streak was only on stock rom first 30 minutes I had it. I don't worry about battery life as I have charging cables at home, work, and car. Charge is never a problem for me! My cars and my phone are all about the speed. I don't wory about gas mileage either.
kraz
, thanks for breaking it up for me,
354 nice to know that I m on latest updated band...
Good afternoon guys, there have been a lot of SS roms lately and I want to try them out. The 8gb card I used is filled up with my backups. WHen upgrading to a 32gb card, is it as simply as copying over the stuff in my 8gb to the new card including the other stuff needed to flash the new roms?
Any tips on making this as painless as possible is much appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help.
It's as simple as copying your old stuff over and inserting the card
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thanks chief. much appreciated.
Whenever I upgrade to a new/larger card, I prefer to make an image backup of my old card and restore the image to the new card (resizing if necessary). I use Acronis for this, but any image backup tool should work. Unlike Windows copy, this ensures that the file formats, hidden files, permissions, and everything else (except for the volume size) is exactly the same on the new card as it was on the old one. Whichever method of backup you use, don't forget to run h2testw to check your new card for errors before restoring your backed up files to it.
Once you've verified that all your important programs and data work with the new card, you'll be in a great position to make a nandroid backup (that you can always go back to) before trying out some new roms.
Hi! This is a very sad (and weird) problem, my sister has this phone and she has been using it for a while but a week ago she decided to buy a new SD card because she was running out of space. Everything was fine, I inserted the SD on it and the phone asked me if I wanted to move the files from the phone to the SD card. I accepted and the phone started moving them. I thought that it was safe to do that but I felt terrible when my sister told me that there were many missing files, in the case of the photos and images there are some of them that "appear" in the gallery but they are corrupted files and it's impossible to open them. In the case of the audio files there aren't any of them and they actually disappeared from both phone and SD card. I hope that you can help me because I don't know what to do.:crying:
Thanks in advance.
PD: sorry if my English is bad, it isn't my native language.
hey have you tried using some recovery software on your computer? there is a good chance that a recovery software might be able to recover your data. i once recovered data from a corrupted hard drive on my mac, i don't remember the software's name though.