During the holidays, I made films of my kids, using my Nexus 7. I have watched them several times since, but now they've all disappeared. I must have deleted them by mistake. Is it like in Windows where one can restore binned items? Any chance of retrieving them somehow? Thanks for any help!
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StrangerWeather said:
During the holidays, I made films of my kids, using my Nexus 7. I have watched them several times since, but now they've all disappeared. I must have deleted them by mistake. Is it like in Windows where one can restore binned items? Any chance of retrieving them somehow? Thanks for any help!
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You can try a program called recuva. Google search for it and install it on your pc. Then connect your N7 to the PC and scan it with recuva. If it is able to find them, you can restore them to the PC.
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Thanks but it doesn't give me the option of scanning the N7...
Any more ideas?
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I've now tried various pieces of similar software, but they don't seem to recognise the Nexus 7 even though my PC does. Is there another solution?
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I don't think that any PC-based recovery programs will work because the Nexus 7 gets mounted as a media device, not as a mass storage device. You can try Undelete for Root Users in the Play Store (I've never tried it myself) but you need to be rooted to use it. If you're not rooted, then you're in a catch 22 because you need to wipe the device in order to root it, which might eliminate your chances for recovery. You should also make sure that you're not using the Nexus 7 for anything other than recovery during this time because you might be overwriting your videos as you use it.
In short I can't recover the movies because I am not already rooted? Or is there hope if I root my device as early as tomorrow?
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StrangerWeather said:
In short I can't recover the movies because I am not already rooted? Or is there hope if I root my device as early as tomorrow?
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The process of Rooting is not your problem. Unlocking the bootloader is. THAT wipes your device. You cannot root without an unlocked bootloader.
There is a way to do a full backup without having root, but it most likely would not provide you with any relief since it only backs up valid objects. A deleted file is not a valid object.
Having a backup of your data would have been your rescue... learning the hard way...
Yes, I should have been more clear that it's unlocking the bootloader that will wipe your device, which is a prerequisite for rooting. Unfortunately, unless you've already unlocked your bootloader, it seems that you have no options for file recovery outside of the forensic route (paying an expert to take your device apart and do a low level recovery, which is quite costly). If these videos are truly something that you can't live without, then I think that this is your last resort. If you don't plan to go the forensic route, then I suppose you have nothing to lose by trying to root now, but don't forget that unlocking the bootloader will wipe the entire device, meaning not only will you lose the existing data on the device, but it might overwrite your deleted videos, so if you're considering going the forensic route at all, DO NOT UNLOCK THE BOOTLOADER (caps added for dramatic effect).
I'd call them lost, and use a "real" camera on the next holiday. Can't image the quality of an N7 movie.
tcat007 said:
I'd call them lost, and use a "real" camera on the next holiday. Can't image the quality of an N7 movie.
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LOL, not bad at all actually!
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Ok, I rooted my device. No sign of the clips when using a recovery app. But I wanted to root it anyway, so never mind!
Now that you are rooted, setup a backup process so that in the future you don't have to go through this. I personally do a full nandroid backups at a minimum of once a week (use Sundays as backup date). But I also backup my media stuff as well since the Nandroid only backs up system, apps and app data, not really the SDcard memory.
Anytime I make a big change, I do a backup as well. The whole process takes less than 10 minutes, but if I lose/destroy my device, I can take a brand new one, restore and be right back to where I was.
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krelvinaz said:
Now that you are rooted, setup a backup process so that in the future you don't have to go through this. I personally do a full nandroid backups at a minimum of once a week (use Sundays as backup date). But I also backup my media stuff as well since the Nandroid only backs up system, apps and app data, not really the SDcard memory.
Anytime I make a big change, I do a backup as well. The whole process takes less than 10 minutes, but if I lose/destroy my device, I can take a brand new one, restore and be right back to where I was.
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I think people miss the intended use of cloud storage on mobile devices . I use google docs Box . And my ftp site my ftp mostly.. Set up some type cloud sync storage for the folders your store your data on the device. data/media is a good but will be quite large to sync.. make it a habbit to save to cloud and this will not happen.. Once you start using cloud base storage you will find it less intrusive and the extra steps will be worth it..
if your say at a friends house and want to see a image or open a created document and do not have your nexus just got o the storage url and there is your stuff... NIce and fairly safe.. i backup to to ftp.. and sync the ftp with desktop storage drive. So if either of the 3 devices or two of the 3 loose my stuff Its in the cloud..
PLEASE READ THE POLICY Of the cloud storage you choose.. Personal web ftp base storage is best if you want your stuff to be TOTALLY CONFIDENTIAL...
JUST LIKE YOUR PC . BACKUP IS A MUST ON ANDROID DEVICES...
Cloud storage is nice and all, but time consuming, especially for video files and many times not a good backup solution. You end up with pieces and parts all over the place and no easy quick restore of all of your data from a single source.
I use the following guide to confirm backup and know I can restore every time 100% of the time, Cant ensure that with cloud storage.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20868527
That plus it is on MY equipment, not someones elses I have no control over and my workstation has triple redundant backups itself ensuring I don't lose stuff.
If backups are hard, time consuming or take too long, people simply won't do them.
I'm not sure if this works on the Nexus7 too but Google+ app has a tool in the settings to auto upload pictures /videos. You can set it to auto upload when it's on WiFi and charging or when there's new pictures (and WiFi of course lol)
I have my 3VO automatically backup images and vids since those are usually unreplaceble unlike apps and downloads
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StrangerWeather said:
LOL, not bad at all actually!
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Are you sure they are gone? have you used a file manager to look in the various directories? Maybe an app created a nomedia file in the dir and you cant see them. Quickpic has an option of showing hidden folders (nomedia hides the folders from media apps)
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Are you sure they are gone? have you used a file manager to look in the various directories? Maybe an app created a nomedia file in the dir and you cant see them. Quickpic has an option of showing hidden folders (nomedia hides the folders from media apps)
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Well, if they weren't gone before, they're gone now because the OP unlocked the bootloader to root the device, which wiped everything.
See attached picture, but I only have mbs of space left. Over 6GB of misc space. What is eating the memory? I only have one nandroid stored. I have searched around with a root browser too
Try using SDMaid to clean it up.
Also, if you play games, a lot of them download tons of data.
weird
I checked for nandroids before and only one was present. When plugged into computer 5 more backups were visible. I'm now fine on storage. Weird...
Are you using titanium backup? The backups take alot of space depending on your amount of apps.
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Are you using titanium backup? The backups take alot of space depending on your amount of apps.
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I'm good now, thanks. It was some rogue nandroids that were hidden. Also, I use Rom toolbox pro, not titanium. But i only keep one set of backups at a time, no need for more.
I'm just wondering of anyone out there got tired of having TiBu eat up 1-2 gigs of otherwise usable storage. I would much rather have that space for some hi-def games or music.
If so, does anyone know of a good primer or website with some instructions?
No I don't backup over adb. Titanium backup has a feature to sync your backups to cloud services such as drop box. Or alternatively you can back the backups locally on your computer by simply just pasting the folder onto your computer
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I ran a batch Titanium Backup today as I'm about to wipe, but noticed it did not backup the big games such as Horn, Asphalt 7 and Mass Effect Infiltrator. For example, Horn is 1.73GB but it only made a backup as an 8MB apk file. According to Root Explorer the TB folder is only 573MB big, with Anomaly Warzone earth being the biggest backup in there at 151MB.
Is there a setting in TB I can configure, or does TB just not support backing those games up?
Would like a way to backup these games so I do not have to re-download them. Thanks!
How well does Titanium Backup handle external storage now?
I can't imagine backing those big games up on the device.
I don't really have room for one copy...
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Try "backup app external data" and change the max size limit?
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How well does Titanium Backup handle external storage now?
I can't imagine backing those big games up on the device.
I don't really have room for one copy...
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I don't intend to keep on the device, going to copy it to store on the PC
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Try "backup app external data" and change the max size limit?
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I changed that setting to Enabled (Always) but didn't make proper backups still.
I'm just going to manually backup/restore the /sdcard0/Android/ folder and hope it works, most of the large game data seems to be in there.
edit: One thing I noticed about these problematic games is they store most of its data in an area called "USB Storage app" when viewing its app info, maybe TB doesn't know how to process that yet.
rmm200 said:
How well does Titanium Backup handle external storage now?
I can't imagine backing those big games up on the device.
I don't really have room for one copy...
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I've set the backuplocation to my mounted USB stick and it does the job pretty good.
Only 1 big game didn't backup, NFS most wanted, will have to check for that asap. All the other stuff went perfect (also some other big games).
Maybe it is indeed a problem with the location that some apps/games use to store their files.
I've had the same problem as you before. Normally I run a batch backup for all the apps except these games directly to USB storage and then backup the games one by one as they take more than half an hour each one to backup. As for external data I have never put any limit and besides the long time it takes to backup I haven't had any other problems.
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Ok, for NFS most wanted he only makes a backup for the game data, not the game itselve.
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Setting up TB Pro on my tablet (installing the latest update with menu button in corner), I noticed the same - a small backup size compared to what I'd have expected for one of my games. Checking, came across the default setting for Backup app external data set to "Enabled if it's smaller than a chosen size". Looking, I don't see where to set this "chosen size". After selecting always enabled, the size backed up increased...
Several questions:
Where is this size setting if I want to change it - not finding it under preferences?
When backing up "external data", what exactly is being included/excluded if over that size - all user data for that app or ?
Is external data considered the same as the app data (except what's on the sdcard,etc rather than in internal storage)?
- On my tablet, "sdcard" is part of my 32GB internal storage but TB appears to treat it as external (vs the actual removable sdcard in my slot).
Thanks for any clarification - want to make sure I'm getting everything and understand it fully!
Foggy79 said:
I've set the backuplocation to my mounted USB stick and it does the job pretty good.
Only 1 big game didn't backup, NFS most wanted, will have to check for that asap. All the other stuff went perfect (also some other big games).
Maybe it is indeed a problem with the location that some apps/games use to store their files.
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i tried backing up leo's fortune with Tb . changed setting for external backup couple of times , no result , only apk was backed up . can u help here
Hey,
I just recently switched from iphone to android. On iphone if you format the phone you can restore all your apps/texts/ and data. Well i thought android would have this built in by now but when i went back to stock(from rooted and twrp), it deleted all this information but then offered to recover from backup. So i did that and it downloaded all my apps again but it didnt have the data for the apps. It was as if i just installed them. Also texts werent saved. Is this normal? Am i required to use an external app?
Yes, this is normal since Android doesn't have a good built-in backup system in place yet. Apparently, this is supposed to improve in Android N.
For the time being in Lollipop, some app settings are backed up to your Google Drive. You can check to see which ones support this by opening up the Drive app, go to settings, and then click on Manage backups. However, this too is inconsistent because the author of the app decides what kind of settings the app will back up.
For the time being, it can be best to use third party apps. Titanium Backup is a popular one but it requires root for certain functions. SMS backup & Restore is a good app for texts.
Thank you for the clarification
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You can use Titanium