Hello, I had a verizon samsung galaxy s5 and I had some files and pictures hidden in the private mode. I switched carriers and got the galaxy s5 for sprint and did a reset for my Verizon device because I sold it but before I did the reset I moved all the files inside the device to the SD Card. So now is there a way I can get those files and pictures that were hidden in the private mode?
P.S. I completely forgot that I had some stuff in the private mode so the private mode wasn't on when I did the rest or when I copied all the phone files to the SD Card.
Please someone help me with this.
Thanks,
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Hello All,
I am new to the Samsung Galaxy S series of phones...actually I'm new to any Samsung android device. So with this Galaxy S4 I'm trying to figure things out that came standard with HTC androids that I have had before this phone. One thing that I can't figure out is how to save downloads onto the microsd. For instance, any attachments that I get on my email through the gmail app...in the past when I downloaded any attachments on my HTC devices it would download onto the microsd in the "downloads" folder; but now on the Galaxy S4 anything that I download goes to the "Downloads" folder on the devices internal storage (sdcard). The same goes for MMS images and files...on my prior devices the images and files would save directly onto the microsd, but on the Galaxy S4 it saves to the same "Downloads" folder on the internal storage (sdcard). I thought this was something simple that could be done by changing some settings, since I never really gave it some thought with my prior devices...but it seems that there's really no way of doing this; at least none that I have found. I tried doing some research on this forum and online, and really didn't find anything that answered my questions. It might not seem like a big deal to most, but it seems like something that should be standard functionality, being able to download files and attachments straight to the microsd; instead of having to constantly move them from the internal sdcard to the microsd...it just seems tedious to keep on doing this. Any help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated...thanks in advance.
My Galaxy S4 screen cracked and I can't see or touch anything. I connected my phone to the PC and downloaded latest Kies to backup EVEYTHING. But Kies asked me to ##UNLOCK THE PHONE##. I found away, one of samsung websites to unlock the phone remotely.
Once the website unlocked my phone, Kies detected and backed up everything ##EXCEPT THE SD CARD SINCE IT IS ENCRYPTED##
After I replaced the screen I put the SD Card in the phone since it contains my wifes and families photos and videos. After I turn the phone I could see the files on my SD CARD but the files ##CAN'T BE OPENED##. I went to the security to remove the encryption but I found a strange thing whcih is the phone asks me if I should ENCRYPT THE SD CARD <NOT DECRYPT>.
Please help me . I want to see all my family photos and videos and other songs.
Sorry if this has been covered, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
A recent policy push from my work to encrypt my phone failed and I ended up having to reset my phone.
I've got everything back up and running. Encrypted. Rooted. Xposed. and with the XSecureStorage module I got Private Mode working again. But it doesn't recognize the previously hidden files.
Is there any way to recover these files? Or even just delete them from the SD card?
Thanks!
I found this post and i have the same problem. Viewing the private folder in windows shows 8.22 GB available of 11.5GB, but there is no file on there . Can i restore the previously lost data or even just format that partition for getting free space again?
Dear friends,
My family just came back from a trip to California. And I did a stupid thing that cost all the photos I took with my Samsung note 3. After I took a lot of photos, I want to transfer the photos from internal storage to the external micro SD card, which I've been using for more than 3 years. But the problem is, I did an system update pushed by AT&T to android 4.4.4(KitKat) a while ago. And I didn't know it prevent to write to the ext SD card. The app I used to transfer photos to ext SD card is, MyFiles, a stock app comes with the Samsung phone. The nightmare starts, the app, MyFiles, didn't give out any error/warning message, just pretend the "move" operation was done successfully and erase all the photos from the source, internal storage (DCIM/Camera). I've been working with a data recovery shop in San Francisco, but no luck. I'm wondering if I can find any help here. Any idea that might bring back the photos?
And also, in this case, is AT&T or Samsung or even Google responsible for my loss? Thank you in advance!
Best regards,
Joe
For future reference, there are SDFix apps on playstore to fix the 4.4.x problem with extSDCards.
I'd remove the card and use a adapter to insert into a PC or laptop and then run Recovery software from either Linux or Windows to see what you can get back. They will be .jpg files and most undelete programs will let you put in a mask to find only those files.
With any luck, Android simply deleted them and has NOT written over the space on the card - most OS's will leave recently deleted file space until after other free space has been written to, so the sooner the better.
Good luck.
It's been a while since I last asked for help here but this is serious... I (finally) updated my S5 to Official Android 6.0.1 and now I can't access my Private Mode files. Accessing them isn't the problem, problem's that I don't even see them when I use Root Browser and go in the private folder. But all of my internal storage files are there, same with the SD Card files (all hidden files were on the SD Card). I tried reflashing KitKat and enabling Private Mode to no success. How to get back my files?