Hi! This is a very sad (and weird) problem, my sister has this phone and she has been using it for a while but a week ago she decided to buy a new SD card because she was running out of space. Everything was fine, I inserted the SD on it and the phone asked me if I wanted to move the files from the phone to the SD card. I accepted and the phone started moving them. I thought that it was safe to do that but I felt terrible when my sister told me that there were many missing files, in the case of the photos and images there are some of them that "appear" in the gallery but they are corrupted files and it's impossible to open them. In the case of the audio files there aren't any of them and they actually disappeared from both phone and SD card. I hope that you can help me because I don't know what to do.:crying:
Thanks in advance.
PD: sorry if my English is bad, it isn't my native language.
hey have you tried using some recovery software on your computer? there is a good chance that a recovery software might be able to recover your data. i once recovered data from a corrupted hard drive on my mac, i don't remember the software's name though.
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I need some help from the community to know how I can restore the files on my 2GB Kingston microSD!
My TyTN crashed today (as it does about once a month max, WM5), but this time it booted back with no more files or folders on the memory card.
The weird thing is, the memory gauge still says it has 1.6GB of data on it, and I get the same reading when I plug-in the microSD card in my USB card reader (ie: no files and folders, but card 70% full).
I suspect that the file table is corrupted or something of the sort. I would need a way to restore it since the data seems to be still there.
I would really like to avoid having to revert back to my SPB Backup file that dates a few months since I have many new files and software installed.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Eric
maybe the files r just hidden?? sounds stupid.. but it cud b...
or
try some sort of recovery software like
Recover My Files Data Recovery
http://dw.com.com/redir?edId=3&siteId=4&oId=3120-20_4-0&ontId=20_4&lop=link&tag=tdw_dltext<ype=dl_dlnow&pid=10756491&mfgId=100285&merId=100285&destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.download.com%2F3001-2248_4-10756491.html
or
Restore Digital Camera Deleted Pictures (dont notice the software name.. it worx!)
http://dw.com.com/redir?edId=3&siteId=4&oId=3120-20_4-0&ontId=20_4&lop=link&tag=tdw_dltext<ype=dl_dlnow&pid=10619506&mfgId=6289559&merId=6289559&destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.download.com%2F3001-2242_4-10619506.html
or
VirtualLab Data Recovery
http://dw.com.com/redir?edId=3&siteId=4&oId=3120-20_4-0&ontId=20_4&lop=link&tag=tdw_dltext<ype=dl_elite_dlnow&pid=10659383&mfgId=112065&merId=112065&destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.download.com%2F3001-2248_4-10659383.html
good luck! =]
Maybe bad SD
I hate to say it, but I had some similar weird issues and the problem was just that the SD had gone bad. I just got a new one and everything was back to normal.
Thanks eliran9
Your input is much appreciated.
There seems to be hope...
I tried "Restore Digital Camera Deleted Pictures". It was very easy to set up and worked quite well... but only seemed to be able to restore pictures! I could see thumbnails of pictures I have/had on my microSD card, but no mention of all my other files.
I then tried a free tool called "PC Inspector File Recovery". With this one I could see all of the folders and files with their extensions, but without the file and folder names... arg, I'm almost there!
I didn't get it to work with "VirtualLab Data Recovery", but I'll try it again tonight, maybe there's an option I didn't see. I will also try "Recover My Files Data Recovery".
Unless someone has a better tool to suggest.
Hi there all,
I am pretty inept when it comes to this technology business so I was wondering if anyone has had experience with this or like this and if so could help me to figure out what went wrong, why and how to fix it a bit easier than formatting the card and hard resetting to reload/reinstall everything... sigh...
So I was just moving some files across to my sd card on my phone when it received a text and when the text was received the folder I was moving the files into all of a sudden had a load of extra folders with weird character combinations (some Chinese characters (not the weird bit) and some of those "forbidden" symbols)... I tried to delete them (about 56 of them) but I was not allowed... I tried to delete them by plugging the phone into the laptop again, still would not let me (this was when I found out you cant name a folder with certain symbols... if only it was me!) and I finally took the card from the phone and tried to access it via the sd card slot on my laptop... could not scan it but could open it... and when I tried to analyse it with computer management it would not go past the folder that this happened to and told me I had a corrupt folder... sigh, so the only thing I could do to get rid of all these extra mystery folders was to format the card using the cmd prompt... that worked thank goodness but I have had to spend all evening reinstalling and reloading everything... what fun... still at least its given me a clean slate so to speak... sorry for the long winded post... any ideas as to what happened?
many thanks
Consider yourself lucky - relatively.
My Xperia toasted a 16GB card to the point where it is totally inaccessible by any explorer system, either on the phone or a PC. Even the format command via command prompt fails (but thanks for that idea).
My replacement card is suffering too - I run Pocket Mechanic's scandisk utility regularly (once bitten, twice shy), and a couple of times now I have had a FAT table mismatch. Thankfully I've been able to copy all the files & folders off the card, reformat it and load the data back on again.
I'm also wondering what is causing these errors. In all my years of PDAs I have never known anything like it - the instability of WM and my Xperia is really disappointing.
I had this problem a few weeks ago . I guessed it was caused by a Chinese program which generated folders repeatedly by accident. Luckly, I could format the 16G SD card and restored all files.
Had Same problem
except it did not happen when receiving a text. I researched a bucn and stumbled across this http://www.datarestore4dummies.com/Index.html. I Purchased the data recovery software metioned on this website, Data doctor recovery. If you cannot get your card reader to read the card you will also need the cardexport software mentioned in the website referenced above. It worked perfectly. You can try the Data doctor recovery software for free to see if it can fix anything on your card but it will not restore anything until you purchase it. You will have to rescan which will take awhile, again.
on another note I have started backing up my storage card using cardexport (it basically makes your storage card while still in your phone look like an external drive) and a free microsoft tool called synctoy.
hope this helps
Jbf5333 thanks for the info re the apps that can help I will look into these just in case... cheers
This may be in the wrong forum so mods please feel free to move it.
I am at work and needed some images from my Nexus's camera that were stored on the microsd card. I didn't have my cable with me so I removed the card from teh phone and inserted it in the card reader port on my laptop to copy the images. When I opened the sd card I noticed that all folders belonging to android were gone. All downloads DCIM everything. Most files that are just on the sd card without a directory are untouched. I put the card back in my phone to check for sure and everything is gone.
I'm currently using a recovery tool to try to get back my images and videos.... Hopefully I don't lose too much.
I have no idea why this would happen. Does anyone have a clue what would cause this? I have never had any trouble using a microsd card from a phone in my computer before.
Any clue how/why this happened and how to prevent it in the future?
Thanks!
Bad dismount. You probably pulled the battery without shutting down the phone first.
Did you try putting it back into the N1 to confirm lost files/folders, before further risk/modification from your computer?
HTCinToronto said:
Did you try putting it back into the N1 to confirm lost files/folders, before further risk/modification from your computer?
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Says so right in his post.
Any one experiencing random files being deleted off the SD card,
It seems to effect photos and pictures more than APK's or zip files
Cant work it out, not sure if the Sony sync software is backing them up and deleting them or its my SD card.
Any one else experiencing this ?
I cant remember if i read something about Ginger break maybe the cause of doing this or not
I never heard of this issue before, but GingerBreak did not remove any contents from my SD card when I rooted my Rogers Arc.
I had the same problem, at first I thought that it seems to me but no its real problem. You must format your SD Card in the Arc (i changed from FAT32 to NTFS and put it in phone then phone ask for formatting, maybe there is otherway for formatting but i know only this one) I am on the third day of testing and so far i have all files Other symptoms of this problem can be lags in video recording (strange randomly big lags about 1s long visible on the recording) or slightly longer shutter speed in photo mode.
Conclusion:
I think the culprit is allocation unit size.
Btw. Ofc i copy my files from card to harddrive befour and after formatting i just paste it back.
Yeah i copied all files to computer, formatted it and placed them all back
on the newly formatted SD card
Thing thats annoying is that iv lost about 70 pictures. with no way off gettting it back.
The Arcs starting to p*ss me off with other little problems like the back button is stuck in, and does not push,
CarbonX13 said:
I never heard of this issue before, but GingerBreak did not remove any contents from my SD card when I rooted my Rogers Arc.
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Hi... i wanna ask whether i must format the sd card 1st before rooting my arc? =) thanks
Alright... As you might have noticed, I Have a LG K8 K350Z, wich I rooted 4 to 5 months ago I think.
I rooted this phone just to use Link2SD, since I have the 8GB variant, And I kinda succeded.
After rooting and moving apps to the SD second partition (The card has a fat32 and an ext4 partition), I noticed some strange things.
First of all, I noticed that if I move something from the phone to the first partition without using a computer, the archive will be "moved" but no app can find it there but the file manager (ie. moving a song, then no app will detect that song. even if I reboot this crap). Then I have to move it back to the phone and move it to the sd card using a computer, then the archive will be detected.
And to get it worst, I just noticed that no apps I move to the SD Card will save its data. I play a racing game, wich everytime since I moved it to the SD card, I keep returning to the same spot (same last upgraded car part, same garage, etc.). Apps like google maps keep crashing if they try to download anything into the phone.
Also, I cant choose to store my camera pictures to the SD card. The option simply isnt there.
Is there any way to fix this damn phone? I had an LG L70 D325F8 before, I did the same procedure and it worked fine until it was stolen. Also, a way to fix this crap wich isnt "not using Link2SD" if possible... this phone is starting to annoy me.
Sorry if there's any typo or anything wrong there, since I'm not a native english speaker.