OK, I don't get this at all and need a little help.
About two weeks ago I was locked out of my phone (a problem some of you may have seen posted more than a few time).
I am synched with the Exchange server here at work and they force out a password policy. After too many tries, soft resets and other the damn thing wiped ALL my data including my SD card.
Since then I have hacked the registry and disabled the lock policy (sorry MIS).
I had a LOT of pictures on that SD card (kids, family et al). Luckily I had off-loaded most of them just before the wipe took place, but I did lose quite a few save for about a week's worth.
Since reestablishing my "Album" and directing it to the SD card I am now saving pics as I had been (SD Card), but on my device there are these phantom images!
Some of them are pictures that I lost! I don't know how as they were being stored on the old SD card, but they are listed as on "my device" and every single one in their own separate folder (ie. 110C4E1, 14AE0F4B, etc.) listed when I go to the Album tab and then press "albums" again twice.
In addition, some of the photos are only thumbnail size while some are the originals in their full glory.
Added to this I see separate folders holding a multitude of pics from browsing and facebook!
I cannot find a centralized location to either recover the photos that I had lost and/or clean out the ones I don't need (it looks like browser cache).
I was able to send myself one of the photos by email and it had a ridiculously long name (40322_424045451143_521416143_4867882_1223745_n.jpg). This was one of the photos of one of my kids! I have it, but I want to find the directory where it resides and just can't even when using search features.
PLEASE NOTE: They are on my device, not my SD card as HTC was kind enough to send me a new SD card noting there have been some faulty ones about. The SD card in there is brand new.
There is no DCIM folder on my device as I store all my photos on my SD card.
Also note: after the wipe I did four hard resets...FOUR and these photos are somehow still in my device! I am thankful, but why are they there and how can I recover them?
Thanks for reading this far and hopefully some guidance will be forthcoming.
Any ideas on these photos?
I know that some of them are facebook avatars...where are those stored on the device?
I just need the path!
I made a discovery regarding pictures disappearing and videos becoming permanently corrupt that I find hard to believe, considering the presumed maturity of development (Product Management) on Samsung's Galaxy S4.
Discovery came in a "painful" way, i.e., emotionally - frustratingly - angering
It started when I lost several priceless pictures and videos from my daughter's graduation from the College of Nursing.
On our way home, I decided to move the pictures to a folder, I then deleted some pics and moved the entire folder to the memory card. I uploaded a few to my Onedrive but wanted to wait to get home to transfer the rest because of 4G costs.
Well, when I got home, most of the pictures were gone!!!
I was stumped.But it also explained what may have happened to the pics/vids I took of conversation between my mother and sister when my sister was breathing her last breaths, falling to cancer.
The good news for my daughter's pics is with Onedrive Synching, and WiFi in most places where I've taken photos, I've since retained most of my pictures, but some are gone forever, or so it would seem.
Here's my hypothesis I'd appreciate a response to.
I hypothesize that the cameras, during "capture" write to a temp folder in internal memory, then transfer the photos to either the internal camera folder, or to external "card" if that's how you have the camera set.
That's where the problem is. What if your SD card is bad, as I discovered was the case with mine? You can not write to it.
And here's my accusations against Samsung/google for what I consider to be minimally amateur Product Management/Development Management, at the least, if not injurious and worthy of a law suit by some ambulance chaser.
Based on observation and hypothesis, here are my accusations/analyses, :
AT&T/Samsung/google:
1. Do not allow me access to internal memory any more. The phone is "locked down" and therefore I cannot get to internal memory with undelete software.
2. Did not think through the ramifications of what that would mean in the event of accidental deletion of files, let alone priceless photos and videos, and so their amateur, imbecile brains failed to provide an undelete "button".
3. Do not verify written/moved files, before deletion, when the camera is configured to store images on the external card. They ASSume, rather, they surely were written, and simply delete them from the temporary area.
4. Do not warn me that the external card cannot be written to, and therefore fail at the move function.
laughable amateur stuff!!
Can anyone verify my hypothesis?
I'm further speculating the files remain in the temporary folder, deleted. Is this a correct hypothesis. One reason I believe it is, is because upon inserting an SD, the popup tells you it is configuring the SD for camera, except "burst". Of course, this adds 5. to the list above.
5. Do not test to then warn me, by simply writing a quick file to the card, that the card cannot be written to.
So when you shoot vids and photos, you can review them for a few minutes, then they "magically" "mysteriously" disappear (pics), or become corrupt (vids). I uploaded a video of a dolphin jumping fully out of the water to my facebook last week, I then went to show it to my daughter and it was gone, except it was on facebook,, in very poor quality.
Can anyone tell me where the temp folder it is? Is it accessible without "root" ing?
Will "root" ing format it?
I found a utility that can recover even after a format. Has anyone tried any of those after "root" ing?
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Will "root" ing format it?
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We need more information... but there is a good chance you can root without losing any data.
Go to your About Device and provide us with the listed fields.
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THANK YOU!!! Here you go.
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[*]Model Number: SGH-I337
[*]Baseband Version: I337UCUFNC1
NOTE: I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 through AT&T. I can't figure out how to change my screen name from my first on here which was S2.
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[*]Model Number: SGH-I337
[*]Baseband Version: I337UCUFNC1
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Your in luck, simply go to https://towelroot.com/ on your phones web browser, tap the Lamba symbol which will download a APK, open the APK and install Towel Root, once the app is open hit the "Make it Ra1n" button. Once that's done head over to the Play Store and grab the SuperSU app. If you need further instruction you can PM me or call me via Skype.
I am making a thread to let developers and users discuss and talk about known issues with the JFLTE-GPE rom
1.) when you go to format your sd card, it ask to draw a lock pattern even if you have a password, it stilll allows you to enter a password.
2.) Sd card support for apps, i know google changed the way the sd card works in lollipop but that was a very useful feature
3.) Camera saves to phone by default even if card is inserted, you have to manually change it to sd card
4.) When using facebook messenger i had a issue when trying to send a photo the phone would detect media files such as thumbnails for media and stickers and I had to drag for ever to get to the photo I wanted to send
Will anybody like to reply to this post to state their issues with the rom please I will help people from the information I know about it already.
Thanks for everyones time
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I am making a thread to let developers and users discuss and talk about known issues with the JFLTE-GPE rom
1.) when you go to format your sd card, it ask to draw a lock pattern even if you have a password, it stilll allows you to enter a password.
2.) Sd card support for apps, i know google changed the way the sd card works in lollipop but that was a very useful feature
3.) Camera saves to phone by default even if card is inserted, you have to manually change it to sd card
4.) When using facebook messenger i had a issue when trying to send a photo the phone would detect media files such as thumbnails for media and stickers and I had to drag for ever to get to the photo I wanted to send
Will anybody like to reply to this post to state their issues with the rom please I will help people from the information I know about it already.
After further use I found out I cannot unlock my device while in call
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2) The sd card support for apps was not there in the first place.
Google doesn't want apps and app data to be on the SD card.
I don't know if the rom devs can do anything.
3) The only camera that supports saving to SD is the Motorola camera. Or, maybe, a third party camera app.
This issues should be posted on the actual development thread. That's what it is there for. To discuss issues and problems.
1. Never encountered this, as I don't use a pattern lock or password.
2. As mentioned, Google does not want apps or app data on the MicroSD card. In fact, their phones do away with the MicroSD card entirely.
3. The One Plus camera app also requires the user to manually select the MicroSD card. I don't see this as a major issue, especially when more phones are coming without MicroSD card slots.
4. This is normal behavior, though I agree that it is annoying. The solution is to create a blank text file named ".nomedia" (period required) in every folder that you don't want scanned. For example, I have Moon+ Reader Pro. That app stores every single book cover it extracts from my PDFs in a folder on the internal storage. When using the AOSP Gallery the media scanner would find all those images for my book covers. Adding a .nomedia file to Moon+ Reader Pro's cover storage cache removed those files from the Gallery the next time I opened it.
Like the title says, my wife is pretty upset. I got us both new unlocked s8+'s from best buy just prior to our cross country trip with our kids.
No SD card installed.
She took 200+ pictures and today they are gone. Only videos remain in the gallery, in my files, or even using a file explorer.
I called Samsung, waste of my time.
Google drive is the only cloud app being used (for documents), pics aren't there.
Any advice or thoughts? I've seen older posts on forums of this happening on android phones and not of the fixes have worked. (Clear cache, search for and remove .nomedia files)
Thanks,
Dave
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Samsung has a junk file cleaner so you can get rid of unnecessary files. Your wife might have accidentally included her photos while getting rid of unnecessary files. You can ask her about this but besides that I don't know why the photos are lost (probably due to hardware error).
Kirbocolypse said:
Samsung has a junk file cleaner so you can get rid of unnecessary files. Your wife might have accidentally included her photos while getting rid of unnecessary files. You can ask her about this but besides that I don't know why the photos are lost (probably due to hardware error).
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I'll ask her but I don't think k she did, it still says it can recover 1.5+gigs of space.
I used one of them file digger apps, I was able to retrieve all the smaller 200kb cached pictures from thumbnails and what not, but from what I've read you need root to recover the full size images...
There are a lot of stories of this happening to people when I search it and all different devices. So I hope it's not hardware. SD card going in and Google photo backup being turned on, just like the data thieves wanted us to do in the first place.....
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If internal then she must have done something, if pics dissapear from sdcard its most like corrupt, best is to have that when u take pics it automatically syncs to a cloud service for backup.
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I'll ask her but I don't think k she did, it still says it can recover 1.5+gigs of space.
I used one of them file digger apps, I was able to retrieve all the smaller 200kb cached pictures from thumbnails and what not, but from what I've read you need root to recover the full size images...
There are a lot of stories of this happening to people when I search it and all different devices. So I hope it's not hardware. SD card going in and Google photo backup being turned on, just like the data thieves wanted us to do in the first place.....
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Are you going to root? Afaik you can only do that on the exynos version (not usa)
Correct. No root available yet/ever, was just saying root seems like the only way people are getting back full res lost photos.
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What gallery app are you using? Did she hide or exclude any folders by accident?
Thirdly, try running a recovery programme. You can get for free on the net. So long as she has taken no further photos or put anything else on hard drive should be able to recover.
Finally check all folders on phone and also check camera app settings to ensure the folder they are saving too is correct.
This issue is not exclusive to the S8 and looking around the internet this is an existing yet unsolved issue on certain Samsung devices. I'll post here to add a bit of extra information.
My mom's Note 4 also had the same exact issue where the pictures just flat out disappeared. (Pictures, videos, screenshots). No traces of it in any folders even with a different file browser. Issue happens again and again with no pattern or known cause. I told her to buy an SD card for it this time so if it did happen again, I have full access to the storage medium. I then set the camera to save to the SD card and let her use it as usual. Guess what, the problem happened again today.
This time I took the SD card, popped it into my PC and ran Recuva recovery. I was able to recover a few intact pictures and videos from it.
Note 4 SM-N910C (Exynos 5 Octa)
Android 6.0.1, Unrooted
No root available for S8 yet so none of the recovery tools work, your photos are really gone, that's so sad.
Suggest keep your Google photos sync on and regular backup of your entire phone with Samsung Smart Switch PC version.
See if this help to recover photos from Samsung Galaxy S8+.
Why do you need root to access recovery programme?
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This issue is not exclusive to the S8 and looking around the internet this is an existing yet unsolved issue on certain Samsung devices. I'll post here to add a bit of extra information.
My mom's Note 4 also had the same exact issue where the pictures just flat out disappeared. (Pictures, videos, screenshots). No traces of it in any folders even with a different file browser. Issue happens again and again with no pattern or known cause. I told her to buy an SD card for it this time so if it did happen again, I have full access to the storage medium. I then set the camera to save to the SD card and let her use it as usual. Guess what, the problem happened again today.
This time I took the SD card, popped it into my PC and ran Recuva recovery. I was able to recover a few intact pictures and videos from it.
Note 4 SM-N910C (Exynos 5 Octa)
Android 6.0.1, Unrooted
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Exactly. I've tried multiple gallery apps, file explorers and android file recovery programs (which all end up requiring root).
I don't know why root is required to access the non-root folders for a deep scan, but they do.
I was hoping there was a way with ADB that I could make a copy on the computer to then scan, but I think it's probably a waste of time now.
And yes, it was internal storage like everyone days.
I'm hesitant to use any of the cloud backup programs because of some the vulnerabilities I don't agree with. We don't even put pictures of our kids on Facebook. Which is the most secure and least likely that I'm "agreeing to allow them to use the pictures for anything", because most programs say that in the TOS.
FOR NOW, we put an sd card in. If this seems to be a software issue, should we reset her phone or reflash the unlocked firmware with odin? I wonder if a specific app could be related to it.
I convinced her to not return the pho e, but now I'm not sure it's worth keeping if it's possible to happen again.
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Arcolog2 said:
Exactly. I've tried multiple gallery apps, file explorers and android file recovery programs (which all end up requiring root).
I don't know why root is required to access the non-root folders for a deep scan, but they do.
I was hoping there was a way with ADB that I could make a copy on the computer to then scan, but I think it's probably a waste of time now.
And yes, it was internal storage like everyone days.
I'm hesitant to use any of the cloud backup programs because of some the vulnerabilities I don't agree with. We don't even put pictures of our kids on Facebook. Which is the most secure and least likely that I'm "agreeing to allow them to use the pictures for anything", because most programs say that in the TOS.
FOR NOW, we put an sd card in. If this seems to be a software issue, should we reset her phone or reflash the unlocked firmware with odin? I wonder if a specific app could be related to it.
I convinced her to not return the pho e, but now I'm not sure it's worth keeping if it's possible to happen again.
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You guys can try a factory reset. I am actually going to observe this phenomenon happen. Also my mom doesn't like loosing her game saves. I told her to copy her pictures and videos frequently to her laptop in case it happens again (and it will happen again).
Arcolog2 said:
I'm hesitant to use any of the cloud backup programs because of some the vulnerabilities I don't agree with. We don't even put pictures of our kids on Facebook. Which is the most secure and least likely that I'm "agreeing to allow them to use the pictures for anything", because most programs say that in the TOS.
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Try the below app from play store. This can help you setup an easy and automated backup to a local computer or a NAS.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sweesoft.sweethome
The app can be set to auto backup on connection to the home wifi or when connected to the charger and your home wifi at the same time.
mbashat said:
Try the below app from play store. This can help you setup an easy and automated backup to a local computer or a NAS.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sweesoft.sweethome
The app can be set to auto backup on connection to the home wifi or when connected to the charger and your home wifi at the same time.
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Thank you, I will look it up in the morning.
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Root is now out on the S8 (snapdragon) variant so you may still be able to recover them if you haven't found a fix :good:
Galaxy S8 photos vanished
Many thanks for this post. I suffered from exactly same problem yesterday. This is the first time ever I had this problem with Samsung. I have been user of Samsung S2, S5 and now S8.
I am extremely disappointed that one of the most expensive mobiles has caused this problem. I am going to contact samsung about it because many important picture files lost.
The only precipitant was that my battery completely drained out yesterday and when I turned it on there was loss of photos last from three days.
This is completely unacceptable service from such an expensive mobile. I am very upset. My camera photos gets saved in SD card and are backed up by samsung cloud as well as in google drive.
Please help me with suggestions to recover the lost data.
Samsung s8 plus issues lossing pictures
Thought samsung is the best of the best in phones software and the rest all in one phone but clearly I was wrong I lost loads of pictures on my samsung s8 I sold yesterday and my samsung s8 plus now doing the same thing to lost 100plus pics to I'm going sell this one it's my contract phone but I don't care I just carry on paying it off but I get better phone then this that I can trust....best ones are Vodafone platinum 7 and Vodafone v8 so far are the best phones money can buy reliable to and trustworthy..... samsung makers are in software they need to do better much more improvements to
Please help me.
My problem was: suddenly my pictures disappeared from the Samsung Gallery App, but they do exist on several folders for ex. DCIM/Camera. Why arent they appearing inside Samsung Gallery? I did nothing different than what I usually do... I am so mad about this! I even did factory reset and I still cant see my pictures on Samsung Gallery
Same issue here. Just moved over from iPhone.
I've noticed that so far the pics affected have been in their own albums. One was hidden and one wasn't. 1 photo remains from the one that wasn't hidden. I think it only remains because I had texted the pic to someone.
Internal storage.
Developer Mode On.
Auto Update Off.
Have connected phone to a PC via USB prior to issue.
Images don't show in the file folders when I browse them from the My Files app, either. They're gone.
The other odd thing is this may have only started after changing this device name in About Phone.
Anyone else have a changed device name?
You guys should sync with Google Photos!
Can any of you stop this process?
Actually, I tried SD card to set as internal storage, used the app you mentioned here -- can't remember it's name... some kind of Launcher, so it's possible that though it didn't work on my phone, but has made some changes to my phone are cannot make back to the original factory settings -- I guess this is why I can see what should be hidden system process... I downloaded the ... Launcher from Google Play Store, so it is legal!
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This is what I wrote to Xiaomi
Hi there,
I know I've had some issues up to now. It is one more.
Can you happen to tell me why it is allowed to use an SD card if MIUI Gallery stores all my personal data??? In this case all my saved pics??? Why??? In my point of view you aka MIUI are spying on me! Your File Manager makes it clear. I delete my pics from MIUI Gallery and soon after they are all back again in your folder and phone is keeping remind me that there's not enough free space!
Actually, I had to make a Factory Recovery again. Somehow I needed to recover some files including videos. I had to buy an app to can do this... but videos cannot be recovered only if the phone is rooted...
No, I don't use my MI account as it is like some kind of ransomware!!! My online store is full all the 5GB is in use. Actually, I acceded... How did I do that? Why did you save my date over the limit of 5GB? I was told to buy more storage to get my stored data back... What??? Delete all my data stored in my MI account! I don't care! How dare you threatening me not making my data accessable to me only in case I pay for more storage?!
I bought an SD card not logged in my MI account, but you still keep my new data???
This is insane!
I am waiting for your reply and explanation!
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Android/data/com.miui.gallery/gallery_disk_cache/small_size
Android/data/com.miui.gallery/gallery_disk_cache/full_size
This pile of sh*t copies all my photos into these folders from my SD card. I want to stop it.