I'm new at rooting devices.
I used the Google Nexus 7 Toolkit v2.0.0 to root my Nexus 7 16gig. Before rooting I made a backup file of my data, the program created a 8.2gig .bak file. After all that rooting I went to restore my device files. Turned out good as I have all my apps and theme setting back to the way it was before rooting. What was not include into this data restore are my music, pictures, and video files.
My media files plus apps takes a big chunk of space, I'm left with around 3-4 gigs left on the device. My apps only takes about 1.2gigs of space and the majority of it is my media files and various downloads. After rooting and restoring I checked my data info via settings and I got about 11gig left. if you do the math it don't seem right.
Are my media files actually included in this bak file, if so how do I restore my media files back?
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So I have a few folders which cannot be deleted. ES file explorer just says xxx cannot be deleted. I can rename the folder but not move or delete. I'm guessing there is a problem with one of the files in the folder but there are loads.
I origionally rooted the nexus 7 so I could use sixaxis but found too much lag compared with plugging in the controller so decided to return to a stock image. I did an app+data+sd card backup with nexus tools and it was after doing this I have had this problem. (also most of my games which I backed up lost their saves - wheres my water, dead trigger + others is this normal for these games?)
Any advice much appreciated
(oh since applying the stock image I no longer have root)
Could be a file permissions problem, try rooting your device again then changing permissions on the files to give yourself full read/write access to these files.
If this doesn't work you could try deleting them through the command line, but this would also require you to root your device again.
Hope I helped.
Hi thanks for your suggestion. I completely forgot I posted this. Anyway I rooted my device using the toolkit and all worked well. But I still cannot delete many folders and files and also some apps don't seem to be able to save properly.
Does anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong? Apart from this the system is stable and I would rather not do a fresh install because of all the games I have (long downloads and I have had problems backing up and restoring saves in the past) is there a way to just set all the files and folders on my phone to read / write (es file explorer reports these files have the required permissions but maybe setting them might do something)
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I have accidentally Deleted all my photos in the camera folder. Can it be recovered?
If you are Rooted. Theres a solution called Disc Digger Pro...get that app or apk file and download it. It recovers lost files and folders and such. I got my pics back using it before. It is a must have app
Yes and next time download Dumpster so if by accident you delete something it is stored into the dumpster sort of like a recyclebin in windows you can also set it to clean regularly or you can clean it manually it is available in free which practically the full version of the app but without a security pass and with ads
Hi All,
For the second time in a year or so, my media files have all been wiped from default locations. About a day ago, I realised that everything from:
Internalsd/DCIM/**
Internalsd/DCIM/Downloads
externalsd/DCIM/**
All WhatsApp media files
it seems to have just been my media based files (pics, videos, sound files, pdfs), but the .thumbnail files are still there?
Last time I found some .nomedia files in some dirs, and removed them and apps were then able to see the files, as well as some files deleted which I painstaking recovered using Undeleter and GT Recovery, which got back the majority of them.
This time round however, the files have simply been wiped, Ive got no explanation. Using the undeletetion apps, I can see the files that I had previously deleted manually. But not the files I believe to have been wiped.
There was a dozen or so apps updated automatically via the play store the day before, but i couldnt say whether this was around the time the files were wiped. Also it seems that the files were only wiped from the 'default' media file locations. image files in dirs I had created are still there on externalSD.
I didnt have a backup of these media files, so I guess they are gone, unless anyone has any ideas?
What Im more concerned with is to discover why it happened and prevent it from happening again.
Im running CM12.1 nightlies, although I only update about once a week, never had a problem except this deletion issue twice.
Any ideas/comments/solutions most welcome - as Im pretty bemused.
Cheers.
On my Nexus 7 (5.1.1) I'm trying to transfer data from one user profile to another using Titanium Backup. SU is set to allow multiple users. So, TB has root access on each user. I've also made sure that the sd card writing bug was taken care of. (I tried Helium, but the app said that helium was only available for use by the main user, and the profiles I'm trying to work with are not my main user).
When I backup an app, the TB backup folder only containts the .properties text file. I do not see the tar.gz or apk.gz file. (Also don't see the Tibkp file). In TB, when I "backup" an app, the backup runs like normal and the app shows that I have a backup. But if I close and restart TB, for the same app, there is no backup available.
Anyway, dunno if this is the right place to ask. But I 'm a bit stuck.
Was running stang5litre's S7 ROM for a good long while but kept having issues. Figured I'd backup, then go back to stock to see if I can handle not rooting/ROM'ing. So far I'm cool with it - BUT - I use QuickPic as my picture Gallery. Well... upon coming back to stock, the folders I had in QuickPic, where I had a good amount of pictures I wanted to keep, the folders were gone*. Hence, my pix appear to be gone.
SO. The questions are: has anyone seen that before with QP and know of a fix for it? Maybe it just turned those folders into hidden folders or something? Two: is there a way to extract from a FlashFire backup those picture files?
Appreciate any help,
Steve
*and absolutely shame on me for not keeping a copy of them in the cloud
Mine was actually the other way around. I was missing pictures and quick pic found them when the stock gallery couldnt. That's also when I started regularly backing up to the cloud too.
scauffiel said:
Two: is there a way to extract from a FlashFire backup those picture files?
*and absolutely shame on me for not keeping a copy of them in the cloud
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If you did a full FlashFire backup including internal storage, then you should be able to restore it, but you'll need to be rooted. You could root and restore internal storage, then make copies on your PC/cloud/SDcard/ect, and finally flash back to stock. This will only work if you backed up internal storage, which is selected by default.
Yeah, I was really hoping there's be something like 7zip I could use to easily extract the images instead of going through that entire rigamarole. <sigh>