My wife and I both have Motorola Droid X phones that were activated through Verizon. My phone died on vacation and will no longer power on. Her's WAS fine.
We switched to Sprint (I got a SGS3 and my wife got an iphone 5) and I wanted to backup the information from our old SD Cards to our computer (Windows XP) so that I can re-use one of the cards in my SGS3 and transfer the good stuff (mainly the pictures and videos) to our new phones. Unfortunately, I am now unable to power on either phone (both batteries have kind of puffed up and they do not seem to work any longer).
I tried putting the SD Cards into an adapter and putting them directly in my SD Card Reader, but I can only see the files and cannot copy them. When I try the windows cmd line, I get a message saying, "The syntax of the command is incorrect." and when I try through Windows Explorer, I get the following error message:
Error Copying File or Folder
Cannot copy *FILENAME_WITH_NO_EXTENSION*: The parameter is incorrect.
Anyone have any ideas? I would like to just make an entire backup of the SD cards, but would settle just for the pictures and videos.
Have you tried just putting the old cards in the new phones? The pictures should be recognized. You may need a recovery program or app if the files/card was damaged.
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Thanks. I was actually able to get one of the old phones working again and was able to copy the information from both cards to my computer using that phone.
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Hello, I am considering buying a Htc hd2 from ebay. Will i simply be able to pop in my t-mobile SIM card? I also do not have a data plan and was counting on using the wifi. I also want to install android 2.2 with sense or maybe a cyanogen mod. I am very unfamiliar with android and was hoping for a recommendation. In order to install custom Rom's i understand that it requires accessing the SD card on the phone. Can i simply do this by plugging in my phone with the SD card inside? or do i need a separate cable? Also I used to be into jailbreaking my ipod touch, and I was fearless about it because you could always restore the device if you messed up the jailbreak. Is there an equivalent for the HD2?
Sorry i have so many questions, and thanks in advance for anyone who chooses to answer.
Yeah
Buy a Nokia 5110 man, you will be more happy!!!
+1 for Nokia 5110
Lol no thanks... can anyone answer some of my questions?
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Hello, I am considering buying a Htc hd2 from ebay. Will i simply be able to pop in my t-mobile SIM card? I also do not have a data plan and was counting on using the wifi. I also want to install android 2.2 with sense or maybe a cyanogen mod. I am very unfamiliar with android and was hoping for a recommendation. In order to install custom Rom's i understand that it requires accessing the SD card on the phone. Can i simply do this by plugging in my phone with the SD card inside? or do i need a separate cable? Also I used to be into jailbreaking my ipod touch, and I was fearless about it because you could always restore the device if you messed up the jailbreak. Is there an equivalent for the HD2?
Sorry i have so many questions, and thanks in advance for anyone who chooses to answer.
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first off buy one from craigslist, there about 200 bucks. much cheaper then ebay. Ive bought 8 of them in the past month, never spending over 230. No more Iphones in my family!
I am not sure how tmobile does things, but on att you do not.
Custom Windows Mobile roms Do not require the SD Card, but are required to run android successfully. There are other steps involved in the, its the first sticky in this forum.
Running Android does require an SDcard and cable. Your phone should come with both, if it doesn't, they are ripping you off and look else where.
You can keep the card in the your phone while you do the transfer, there is no reason to take it out.
there are many recovery options available if you break your phone, which is nearly impossible to do.
For android i use darkstones hd2proyo and cm6_leo. both are amazing. I lean towards darkstone, because its faster and has better compatibility with games, however cm6 has many many more features.
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In order to install custom Rom's i understand that it requires accessing the SD card on the phone. Can i simply do this by plugging in my phone with the SD card inside? or do i need a separate cable?
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You can either take the memory card out of the phone and connect to your PC directly, or just plug the micro USB cable in to your PC, active sync will allow you to access the "Storage Card" on your phone within My Computer.
Android is simple to install - just read a few of the chefs posts - just download and unzip, copy to memory card.
I think you will enjoy.
Thanks for all the help! also is there any downside to dual booting? For example, will texts i receive on android show up on wm and vise versa?
If you receive a text while in WinMo it will not be in your message list when you start Android.
what about the other way around?
Which ever os you happen to be using at the time any notification ie missed call, call log , txt etc will stay on that particular os.
I recently switched from Windows to LinuxMint and wiped my drive intentionally but forgetting to get FRM off it, it's on my phone so it's not that big of a deal but I was wondering if I could get it from my phone and onto my comp without taking it off my phone. If not, no big deal have absolutely no problem donating again and will do it regardless. I'd just like to have to on my comp just incase I ever needed it ya know?
Should be able to just put the apk on your sdcard and then usb mass storage mode to your linux mint computer.
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I'm trying to set up my Samsung Galaxy S2 phone plus my Nexus 7 tablet so that I can copy the photos I've taken during the day with the S2 onto the N7 and process them on the tablet prior to uploading them to various online services.
I tried copying 58 files via Bluetooth today using ES File Manager. It took about an hour and a half and used a fair portion of my batteries. It didn't leave a lot of time for actually doing any processing.
In a place where public WiFi was accessible, albeit slow, I tried using AirDroid but the AP wouldn't let me log on twice using the same user name on two separate devices and, if it had, I doubt that it would allow peer-to-peer software for obvious security reasons.
I could upload the 58 files to Dropbox or Google Drive but that would involve twice the data transfer and the public WiFi seems to be even slower than Bluetooth. That many files would also hit my phone's data allowance pretty hard.
The Galaxy S2 can take a USB-OTG cable so I could transfer the
photos onto, say, an SD card. But to copy them onto the tablet I'd have to root it to get USB-OTG working. And that would mean wiping my apps and data.
I'll root the N7 eventually but, in the mean time, does anyone have an alternative solution that's relatively inexpensive? By which I mean not, for example, having to shell out for, and carry around, a wireless drive.
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Hey Garry! ...I'm one of your Flickr contacts (Michael). I picked up a Nexus 7 this Friday, and intend to use it with my HTC One X phone. I will be experimenting with this too, and will let you know if I find anything. I tried Photo Transfer App, but it locked up after 15 photos, and that was on a really good wifi network. So far, Dropbox is my best option.
Hi, Michael
The problem with Dropbox is that you have to upload the photos then download them again, which would eat heavily into my data plan, not to mention the time it would take.
Someone mentioned an app called Bump which I'm going to try out but I expect it will be as slow as using Bluetooth.
Whatever I find, I'll post back here.
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The other apps I'll be looking at when I get time are Nexus Photo viewer and Nexus Media Importer, both of which are being developed by an XDA from member. Hmmm... when I get time...
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My current set up is with +google instant upload. Photos taken are uploaded on the fly to my picasa account. I have an all you can eat data plan so I'm not that worried about usage however I generally have this set to wifi only. I find any time I want to mess around with my pics they will be there on the N7.
I never really have a need to edit something immediately.
I do have a problem trying to find files I've edited on my phone as they don't sync to the tablet.
Hello,,,
I recently broke my Galaxy S4 screen and its not responsive anymore. It doesn't work and doesnt show anything. Blank screen.
I bought a new Oneplus One and I want to transfer all my data from my old phone. Contacts were 30% saved to the device and 20% were to my sim card and the rest were on my Samsung account. I dont have an SD card so everything is on the internal storage for my phone.
I also would like to transfer my apps cache data.. like whatsapp's groups and contact's chat history.
I never hooked my phone up to my PC so my PC doesnt recognize it when I connect it. I dont really want to fix my screen for 100$ in order to transfer all my stuff to my new phone I also cannot unlock my screen cause It doesnt work, I do know the pattern though. just saying
pls help
Only way is to connect to pc
Look in the android section, there's a thread for controlling phones with broken screens via PC
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Only way is to connect to pc
Look in the android section, there's a thread for controlling phones with broken screens via PC
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Could you please link me the section or the thread? I don't really know my way around here in this website..
Thanks for the response!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android
Hello,
I recently got a Galaxy S7 Edge and was using Google Play Music to download songs onto a rather new 64gb microSD card (Samsung EVO brand). I was downloading several songs and didn't have any problems writing to the card at first. But then I had to leave my WiFi connection for sometime, which paused the downloads. When I returned the downloading attempted to resume, but I got an error saying it was unable to download due to lack of space on my card. I knew this wasn't possible since the card was empty and I hadn't download even close to 64gb of music, or anything else. So I checked my storage, and it said my card was corrupted and needed to be formatted. So I formatted it but still got the same problem, saying I didn't have enough space on the card. I then decided to try downloading music using Spotify to see if it was a bug with GPM. Unfortunately Spotify was giving me the same error, and now I'm stuck with a useless microSD card. Has anyone else had a problem like this? Note the card is recognized and shows me that I have about 60gb available, but I cannot write anything to it. Please help!
Check the microSD card using a PC. If needed, you can also try formatting the microSD on the PC.
If still unrecoverable, you can ask for a replacement under warranty.
Anyway, if you bought the microSD on eBay it's even possible that it's a fake.
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Check the microSD card using a PC. If needed, you can also try formatting the microSD on the PC.
If still unrecoverable, you can ask for a replacement under warranty.
Anyway, if you bought the microSD on eBay it's even possible that it's a fake.
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Thanks for the tip, I purchased the card from Office Depot, highly doubt it's counterfeit.
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So I formatted the card on my PC and still have the same issue... Going to try another card to see if it's an issue with the phone itself or my card just went bad.
I'm having same issue on both sd cards which both worked on another s7 edge but since updating the new software update its not been working and I've read somewhere else it may be to do with this so don't know if Samsung are working on a fix
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One sd is recognized but the other which is full of music isn't even recognized at all nothing appears in storage or no notification or anything
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russellcausier said:
I'm having same issue on both sd cards which both worked on another s7 edge but since updating the new software update its not been working and I've read somewhere else it may be to do with this so don't know if Samsung are working on a fix
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I cannot speak for software updates as my Galaxy S7 edge is less than a month old and I haven't had to do any updates since I got it. The people at Best Buy were able to swap out a different working SD card for me just to test, and it seemed to work. They said once the card becomes corrupt it's a lost cause, although I'm skeptical about that. Anyway I went ahead and got a new card for the time being, and am going to try to get Samsung to replace the dud.