Decided to flash a rom later and night and wasn't on my toes. Accidently forgot to backup my internal SD card before I odin'd over.
Now I am tryin gto look into my options of recovering the images from my phone. Most of the apps I have looked into require USB storage which I can't find a solution for the note 3.
Anyone else run into this issue and can recommend a good program to try and restore some of the deleted content
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Hi, ppl. I accidentally wiped my sd card, and now i want to get the factory data back. But unfortunately, those data are not part of the phone's rom.
Can someone list me the multimedia content that comes with the phone?
I know I don't have the multi-alarm alarm sound anymore, and by what I can recall, there was a folder named "media" where those files were.
Can someone check that for me please? Thanks.
The folder name was "alarms" ...media folder I think was empty.
Anyway, phone can work with no card so everything in the card is useless if you dont use it. My alarm never wake me up for a reson so I cant understund the reason to retrive this folder. (did you tried to find your data from sd deleted files?)
try Recuva from piriform.com..its has ability to recover files from card i've not tested it..but it worth a try..goodluck and be careful next time
mhm
i using link2sd
Most all directions to installing a custom ROM always start with “be sure to do a nandroid backup.”
So I always do that to the 32 GB microSD card that I have added to my 16 GB Acer Iconia A500 when I install a custom ROM.
I have found that you can backup to the USB port as you do to a microSD card, if you have a flash drive attached to it. It will actually default to going there instead of the microSD card when you have both attached to the tablet at the same time. This must have been discussed before but I missed it.
However, there is one difference in the backups that I can see. The microSD card backup has 10 files in the directory for the backup while the backup on the USB port flash drive only includes 9 files. The file that is missing is the “android_secure.vfat.tar” file, 1.5k in size, and it's not on the USB port flash drive.
I have restored backups from both the USB port flash drive and the microSD card. The USB port flash drive backups appear to work the same as the ones from the microSD card. However, since they are missing a file, they must be missing some user information, but I’m not sure of what.
My question: Is the backup from the USB port drive OK or is there something internally wrong with it since its missing that one file, the android_secure.vfat.tar file?
What does that file do? And is it absolutely necessary for a backup? Can you add the missing information to the tablet afterwards, if any are in fact missing?
Thanks
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And is it absolutely necessary for a backup? Can you add the missing information to the tablet afterwards, if any are in fact missing?
Thanks
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1. Backups are not necessary if you like to live dangerously. You only need them if you mess up a rom install, or you can't boot up normally. What do you think?
2. Backups have some tab saving information in them, more specifically your UID number. Without this little number, you'll be in for a long method of restoring an OS if you mess up. If you haven't run a dmesg or used dmesgview to get your current UID, you should do so and write it down somewhere. Never know when you will need it.
3. You can check if your backups work, by just making one, and doing a Restore. Yes, sometimes, recovery backups get corrupted. So you should always check it out.
4. I would never try to transfer 1 file from 1 backup to another. But hey, try it and see if you can recover. Might work. Might not. More than likely you would get something like an MD5 Checksum error. At worst you'll start smelling smoke.
Thanks but does anyone have the answer?
Thanks for the answer but I understand why you make a backup.
It's why is there a difference in the backup files between that places you send the backups to that I'm really curious about.
The microSD card backup is the way that is described as the right way, which I don't disagree with.
It's the backup on the flash drive which is missing the one file that is puzzling.
Is it good? or is it flawed due to the missing file? It would appear that it is flawed but the backup does work. However, if it missing something about the user, can you just add that back as you use your tablet? and what exactly is it missing?
I really like being able to do backups to a flash drive. It's easy to attach and you can have a separate flash drive used for such purposes and free up the space on your internal microSD card for other storage. You don't have to carry around your backups with the tablet, and you can easily restore your system if you need to.
Thanks.
...Didn't notice until I accidentally wiped my ext. storage, which had all my nandroids & downloads...Tried to mnt. usb storage via twrp & was unsuccessful (had to put sd into another phone in order to get info on in)...
.....Has anyone else had this problem & does one know how to fix?
Guys as usual I was talking backup via PC.
I found two folders into my Internal memory named SDCARD0 & SDCARD0.
I thought it must be a duplicate and deleted one of them.
Immediately I found I lost all my data from Internal memory.
Folders like whatsapp, dcim, movies and all other whcih were created by other apps got lost.
So has i actually accidentally deleted them due to sdcard0 folder or they are present but HIDDEN somewhere?
Coz still my internal memory says 3.60gb free which was same size before doing this unusual accident.
My phone hasnt got any root access.
Please how can I get back my files in this case?
My all apps r functioning properly except they lost all their custom settings...
What can be done to get my data back from Internal memory?
What you can do is, NEVER DELETE SUCH FOLDERS AGAIN.
To be aware of this in future, have a backup via foldersync or similar...
The chance that ull get ur data back going against zero...sorry
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Oh you can do it. Did it myself a few weeks ago..
Check out this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...de-internal-memory-data-recovery-yes-t1994705
is there no way of running recovery software when plugged into a PC? I know I saved a lot of data from a camera while back by scanning its memory in recova or something similar while hooked up via usb
You should do some research first if you don't know something
Hi guys,
First of all, great forum and great place to learn a lot of stuff about ROM's.
I have been using the forums here for a while.
Now I have a problem with my Galaxy S 4.
Galaxy s4 :gt- i9505 (Beglium)
16Gb version
Custom Rom: optimized cm 12.1 -20160118
android 5.1.1
I had some problems playing my music files on the phone, so i connected the phone to my PC.
I deleted my MUSIC folder from my EXTERNAL card.
Then I saw There are a lot more random folders in the ROOT of my EXTERNAL card.
So I deleted the LOG files, some maps that where for AD's (like GO sms), etc.
As far as I know, I did not delete any system files or folders.
While I was in the external card, connected to the PC, I saw that my INTERNAL card had wheeeeyyy much more free space than 5 minutes before. ( normally 0.9Gb free... suddenly 5.72GB free)
So i disconnected the phone and reconnected it again.
Again same thing.
Again disconnected it and on the phone I could not find ANY FILES, NO pictures, No downloads, NOTHING
Basically, my INTERNAL and my EXTERNAL are fully wiped.
with easeUS data recovery I can see all my files and maps on the external, BUT almost all of them are corrupted.
I can not recover them/ preview them.
I have not tried the internal memory yet. It is now doing a DEEP SCAN on the EXTERNAL card, connected to my PC via a SD Card Adapter.
Any possibilities to save something from the external and the internal memory ?
Everything else works normally.
My apps work, my contacts are ok.
PC is set to show hidden and system files => nothing to see
Recycle been on the phone is empty
used some recovery apps from the play store => nothing
Many thanks in advance.
PS: I have already done a search, also on google. But could not find anything useful.
Try Deleter.
I run easeUS recovery all night on the external memory.
Got back 5% of my pictures.
Most ara corrupted.
Same story for the internal memory.
Other suggestions, tips are welcome.
If the data was deleted corrupted then it might be restored corrupted.
I suggest, from now on, to upload your photos Google's servers with the Google Photos app.
You have unlimited storage for photos up to a certain quality.
Yep, i have installed google drive.
Sh#t has happened
Will try to use some other applications for recovery.
Had some pictures i needed.
Any names of really good software to recover sd card of internal memory ?
I told you, if the data was wiped in a corrupted state, then it will be restored in a corrupted stated. Because that's how it was the last time before it was deleted. It's like a checkpoint in a game. If you die, you will revive at the checkpoint in the same state you were when you reached that checkpoint.
You could give Deleter a try. But it won't magically repair corrupted data.
Try a program called recuva: https://www.piriform.com/recuva
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Try a program called recuva: https://www.piriform.com/recuva
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I won't recommend it. It failed to recover two videos from my SD card that I needed to recover for investigation purposes, even when status of these files were Excellent. After restored, these files were corrupted. The same thing went on my .OGG file that was deleted accidentally by dBpoweramp before Vorbis Comments ID Tag was applied.
Even my friend said that Recuva was unable to recover her deleted photos as it should be. Yeah, the same thing, corrupted.
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I have used recuva many times but, as with any software, it really depends on the state of the data at the time the software is run.
When one is desparate to recover files, I recommend trying as many programs as possible.
Hey guys.
Today i will try many different software.
I am trying to find a way to mount my internal storage as a drive with a driveLetter, so i can scan it.
Now its mte/umte or something like that.
So it has no driveletter.
Hey guys.
I managed to retrieve some pictures from the sd card.
Software i used.
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EAsuse
Foenix recovery
For the internal memory.
Digdeeper
And some other ones on play store.
Just search for " photo recovey".
Maybe someone can use the names, if they get in the same situation as me.
Thx for the tips guys!