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[Q] Accidently formatted sd card ... on CWM

My heart litterally stopped at that point .. What can i do to get it back? ... never again CWM even if i enjoy it.. right now im enjoying team win recovery more... Anyone can help get me bak my data? MY MUSIC PROJECT WAS INSIDE!!!
NExt time ill back up if i really cant get it bak

lokenok said:
My heart litterally stopped at that point .. What can i do to get it back? ... never again CWM even if i enjoy it.. right now im enjoying team win recovery more... Anyone can help get me bak my data? MY MUSIC PROJECT WAS INSIDE!!!
NExt time ill back up if i really cant get it bak
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It's not CWM's fault! It's your own stupidity! There is no such a thing as accidentally formatting! Your music project is gone for good...
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i mean but on cwm the format sd data is ever so close to fomat system and other stuff no way of getting it back?

lokenok said:
i mean but on cwm the format sd data is ever so close to fomat system and other stuff no way of getting it back?
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No its all gone now.
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If this project was so important to you why didn't you back it up off of the phone somewhere? Dropbox or the free 50GB Box account most got with the Nexus 4 come to mind. I'm not sure if a full nandroid backup includes the contents of the sdcard on the nexus 4 but that might be a place to start looking, that is if you ever bothered to do a full backup of your phone.

You can get your files back, the same thing happened to me, my pocket somehow formatted my sdcard. Look for software that recovers deleted files
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kzoodroid said:
I'm not sure if a full nandroid backup includes the contents of the sdcard on the nexus 4
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It doesn't.
inf3rno1 said:
You can get your files back, the same thing happened to me, my pocket somehow formatted my sdcard. Look for software that recovers deleted files
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Why not share that precious secret then..? What is the point of your post unless you share the name of that software..???
Difficult to understand xda sometimes..

OP try this method. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
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tried that method but it hangs when making the image file..

Vangelis13 said:
It doesn't.
Why not share that precious secret then..? What is the point of your post unless you share the name of that software..???
Difficult to understand xda sometimes..
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What secret? I said there is software that recovers deleted files. Have you heard of Google? Search for software that recovers deleted files and voila, you'll have your dats back. There are hundreds of programs that can handle your problem.
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lokenok said:
My heart litterally stopped at that point .. What can i do to get it back? ... never again CWM even if i enjoy it.. right now im enjoying team win recovery more... Anyone can help get me bak my data? MY MUSIC PROJECT WAS INSIDE!!!
NExt time ill back up if i really cant get it bak
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I don't know if it works for our phones, but I accidentally formatted an external hard drive before and used the Easeus data recovery wizard software. It recovered everything. Worth a shot
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That happened to me on TWRP. I am glad I had a backup on my Google Drive so I could just redownload
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inf3rno1 said:
What secret? I said there is software that recovers deleted files. Have you heard of Google? Search for software that recovers deleted files and voila, you'll have your dats back. There are hundreds of programs that can handle your problem.
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No offence but he could've searched on Google without anyone telling him to. that's why people come here on xda to get help from fellow members.. what's the point of replying if someone asks for help here and in reply what he all gets is 'go search Google'..
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Sak3ater said:
No offence but he could've searched on Google without anyone telling him to. that's why people come here on xda to get help from fellow members.. what's the point of replying if someone asks for help here and in reply what he all gets is 'go search Google'..
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XDA also encourages users to search for answers before asking for help. This place is for learning new things and expanding current knowledge. People won't really learn if they're spoon fed what they want to know.
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Sak3ater said:
No offence but he could've searched on Google without anyone telling him to. that's why people come here on xda to get help from fellow members.. what's the point of replying if someone asks for help here and in reply what he all gets is 'go search Google'..
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Boy do you have it wrong. XDA is not a place to come and get help. IT is not a support site. This is a developers site. You are EXPECTED to put in the time and effort to fix your own issues first. Then spend some time searching. (and do search outside your own devices forum) Then you try some things you have seen. If that doesnt work then you can post a thread but dont expect a solution.

inf3rno1 said:
What secret? I said there is software that recovers deleted files. Have you heard of Google? Search for software that recovers deleted files and voila, you'll have your dats back. There are hundreds of programs that can handle your problem.
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I'd love to here about the hundreds of software that recovers deleted files from MTP devices (MTP is not direct hardware access like plugging a flash drive into your computer)

espionage724 said:
I'd love to here about the hundreds of software that recovers deleted files from MTP devices (MTP is not direct hardware access like plugging a flash drive into your computer)
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So you mean the software like PC Inspector or Recuva or any other file recovering software will not work on our Nexus 4..??
once i deleted my photos from my old desire HD and i recovered it using PC inspector...now Nexus does not have SD card so i am not sure weather that will work or not..

ramkumar2000 said:
So you mean the software like PC Inspector or Recuva or any other file recovering software will not work on our Nexus 4..??
once i deleted my photos from my old desire HD and i recovered it using PC inspector...now Nexus does not have SD card so i am not sure weather that will work or not..
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I haven't tested such software, and I could be wrong, but when you connect (most) newer Android devices to a computer, you get access to the files via MTP. You don't have direct access to the filesystem (which I think is ext4), and because of this, you can't do the "advanced" stuff needed for file recovery (I guess checking sectors, free space, and etc.)
Older (and some newer) Android devices when hooked to a computer let you do USB Mass Storage (essentially the same kind of access you have when you plug a flash drive in), which is giving you direct access to the file system (FAT32), and in-theory, should work fine with file recovery software.

so can we mount the nexus 4 as fat32 or ext4? because on mine it just shows up in device section with no name

Backup via ADB?

Hey everyone
My Nexus 4 screen cracked, I'm sending it to LG for repair, they explained it will be factory wiped.
Before i send it, can someone explain to a n00b how I can back up my phone's data? I can't use the phone at all, the digitizer is cooked.
Thank you!
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For the SD card, use adb pull. Your apps should be backed up with your Google account
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Read here. 2nd post. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34744848
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El Daddy said:
Read here. 2nd post. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34744848
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When I get home, I will look into this. Thank you,!
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New Jer-Z said:
When I get home, I will look into this. Thank you,!
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Note that adb backup can be unreliable. I suggest making several types of backups--with APK, without APK, with system, without system, etc. Because you don't know which one will restore properly. Also do the more traditional backups, like SMS backup.

fenstre said:
Note that adb backup can be unreliable. I suggest making several types of backups--with APK, without APK, with system, without system, etc. Because you don't know which one will restore properly. Also do the more traditional backups, like SMS backup.
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Truthfully, i'm interested in saving my pictures - everything else is salvageable.

New Jer-Z said:
Truthfully, i'm interested in saving my pictures - everything else is salvageable.
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That's easy if they're in /sdcard/DCIM. ADB could theoretically back up your photos ("adb backup -shared"), but I wouldn't trust something so important to a tool that didn't appear quite reliable when I tested it.

fenstre said:
That's easy if they're in /sdcard/DCIM. ADB could theoretically back up your photos ("adb backup -shared"), but I wouldn't trust something so important to a tool that didn't appear quite reliable when I tested it.
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I appreciate the input!
I totally just realized, I can just plug my phone into the computer and copy and paste. The phone works - the screen just won't register touches. Very silly of me!

Lost pictures help please.

Ok so I tried deleting something .-. And well I wasn't paying attention and i deleted a whole album of my pictures and these pictures are when I first went to see my girlfriend for the first time to canada. And I just want to know if theres anyway recovering them back? ._.
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Jellybeanteeker said:
Ok so I tried deleting something .-. And well I wasn't paying attention and i deleted a whole album of my pictures and these pictures are when I first went to see my girlfriend for the first time to canada. And I just want to know if theres anyway recovering them back? ._.
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IF they were on your external SD you can use a recover app like recuva or similar to attempt to recovery them. JUST don't write ANYTHING to it till you've attempted a few recoveries.
Can also use testdisk and photrec on linux
You can always just break up if not. Might be easier software way..
Good luck.

leaderbuilder said:
IF they were on your external SD you can use a recover app like recuva or similar to attempt to recovery them. JUST don't write ANYTHING to it till you've attempted a few recoveries.
Can also use testdisk and photrec on linux
You can always just break up if not. Might be easier software way..
Good luck.
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Can you guide on me this?
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Try this:
http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download
http://www.piriform.com/docs/recuva/using-recuva
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step
http://petapixel.com/2010/10/13/how-to-recover-deleted-photos-from-a-memory-card-with-photorec/

leaderbuilder said:
Try this:
http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download
http://www.piriform.com/docs/recuva/using-recuva
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step
http://petapixel.com/2010/10/13/how-to-recover-deleted-photos-from-a-memory-card-with-photorec/
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On phone or computer?
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take your SD card out of phone - if that's where you're pictures were, then place it in PC and try one of the suggested solutions.
or maybe these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVjiaes-vTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCvl9IXlb1k

leaderbuilder said:
take your SD card out of phone - if that's where you're pictures were, then place it in PC and try one of the suggested solutions.
or maybe these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVjiaes-vTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCvl9IXlb1k
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Thank you so much
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Jellybeanteeker said:
Thank you so much
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Hope you get em
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leaderbuilder said:
Hope you get em
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I'm trying there's so many things tho like idk what to do now x.x
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Have you had any luck recovering those deleted photos?
I had success useing "disk digger" it recovered 2500 photos. (accidentally deleted a album) roughly 650 of them were corrupted but it was still a success most of them were salvaged.
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I used Sandisk RescuePro and it worked great for a microSD card. The key to recovering lost photos is to not shoot any more pics or format i.e. the less you write to the card the better your chances of recovery.
For things stored on your phone, try Disk Digger that 'Menance_69' mentioned or checkout Undelete For Root Users (as the name implies it's only for rooted devices). Hope this helps.

Re: Lost pictures help please
See, now a days so many data recovery tools are available on internet to help you out from this kind of situation. Some days ago I found one tool named as Remo Recover and it fascinated me with its qualities.

MENACE_69 said:
Have you had any luck recovering those deleted photos?
I had success useing "disk digger" it recovered 2500 photos. (accidentally deleted a album) roughly 650 of them were corrupted but it was still a success most of them were salvaged.
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Yes it definitely worked and yeah I recovered over 2500 aswell and I deleted an album that I had 250 pictures of me and my gf if only seen her once cause long distance me in usa and her in canada so after deleting it by accident you could of guess how I felt anyway some were corrupted but still backed up most even pictures I deleted like year ago by accident as well. It's just amazing how I got everything back and thanks so much to @leaderbuilder
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Jellybeanteeker said:
Yes it definitely worked and yeah I recovered over 2500 aswell and I deleted an album that I had 250 pictures of me and my gf if only seen her once cause long distance me in usa and her in canada so after deleting it by accident you could of guess how I felt anyway some were corrupted but still backed up most even pictures I deleted like year ago by accident as well. It's just amazing how I got everything back and thanks so much to @leaderbuilder
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congrats, man! one thing you could do, too, is get a free dropbox account, and install the app. it will automatically backup all your photos onto your dropbox account as you take pictures. definitely saved me more times than i can count.
for other people's reference, there's also an app called DiskDigger that you can run from your phone that does the same thing as programs mentioned in other posts.

iamonyx said:
congrats, man! one thing you could do, too, is get a free dropbox account, and install the app. it will automatically backup all your photos onto your dropbox account as you take pictures. definitely saved me more times than i can count.
for other people's reference, there's also an app called DiskDigger that you can run from your phone that does the same thing as programs mentioned in other posts.
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Yeah I used diskdigger and I've had dropbox but I stopped the auto upload but after that I uploaded them
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[Q] Girlfriend's S4 sent up for repair ... will all data be deleted?

Hello everyone
My girlfriend has sent her S4 up for repair because apparently it wouldn't power up anymore, (I Couldn't help and try to fix it due distance and no one really in her family knows how to fix things such as...) so after going to a store they sent it up for repair. She got the SD out of it.
I was wondering how they do it at Samsung, she had the SD card in all the time while using it daily, and had Google+ logged in.
But there are no photo's on her Google+ and she doesn't know about her SD yet.
So the big question is : Will she lose her data, and 5000(+) photo's?!
Kindest regards.
Siem

They will still be in her dropbox account!.

theunderling said:
They will still be in her dropbox account!.
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Dropbox? I don't think she mentioned having that setup..

Is your phone traceable
I mean that did you turn on the backup setting on the settings menu
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KIBS2173 said:
Is your phone traceable
I mean that did you turn on the backup setting on the settings menu
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I do not mean to talk bad about her but she isn't the best with Technology, so if it isn't standard turned on then sadly I don't think so, no.

If her photos are saved on the internal storage then yes, it would probably be gone. The service center guys will always highlight to you if data will be gone
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siemz said:
Dropbox? I don't think she mentioned having that setup..
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My moneys on they wipe the phone.If stuff on the phone is important she should back up her stuff to dropbox or mega.
Its the same scenario shes in as if she lost the phone.

When it doesn't boot anymore they replace the whole sdcard most of the time.
If it's an external sd card they won't touch it, if you're talking about the internal then it's most likely wiped

siemz said:
Hello everyone
My girlfriend has sent her S4 up for repair because apparently it wouldn't power up anymore, (I Couldn't help and try to fix it due distance and no one really in her family knows how to fix things such as...) so after going to a store they sent it up for repair. She got the SD out of it.
I was wondering how they do it at Samsung, she had the SD card in all the time while using it daily, and had Google+ logged in.
But there are no photo's on her Google+ and she doesn't know about her SD yet.
So the big question is : Will she lose her data, and 5000(+) photo's?!
Kindest regards.
Siem
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The most probally answer is: yes, she will lost everything.

Same answer she will lose everything
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Anyway to recover an accidentally deleted video

Wondering if anyone has a way (without root) of recovering an accidentally deleted video. Not sure why my fingers and brain were not in sync this morning but deleted a video I would really like to have. Tried a bunch of Google results but no joy yet. Thanks in advance!
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You could try diskdigger for both the PC and the one in the app store. There was one I use to use on my PC that was able to recover photos I deleted months beforehand, I can't remember what it was called unfortunately, but it would allow searching of connected devices. Best of luck!

Appreciate it! I did try disk digger apk from the playstore, but only showed me photos and not even one's I deleted, no videos at all. I'll give the pc version a try though thank you
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No luck says phone has to be rooted to recover videos and it won't recognize my phone as a drive anyways. Smh never did this before
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jroyalty7 said:
No luck says phone has to be rooted to recover videos and it won't recognize my phone as a drive anyways. Smh never did this before
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Okay, so that application I was thinking of was "Disk Drill", by clever files. It may be able to recover the video if it wasn't too long ago!

bertmag said:
Okay, so that application I was thinking of was "Disk Drill", by clever files. It may be able to recover the video if it wasn't too long ago!
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I'll check it out thanks man!
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No go on that one either, nothing seems to recognize by phone as a drive unfortunately
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