Good Day All.
I'd like to share a weird problem that I've encountered today.
I have a Lt26 running .55 firmware stock, and my OS is Windows 8 Pro 64bit.
Now what happened today was I plugged my phone in my PC via USB, the "Xperia“ icon appeared in My Computer, under removable devices. I clicked on it, it will show Internal Storage (Contents on my phone)
Until this stage, everything was fine. I then went into my phone's internal storage to look for a mp3 file, but ended up finding an empty folder called "sdcard". Now the strange part comes, I've never seen this folder, and it appeared in my internal storage's root folder. I went into this folder, there was an empty folder called "Screenshot".
Bear in mind at this time there are 11GB of files on my phone. And all other files are presence on my internal storage, all was normal.
I made a bad decision to delete that empty folder, by pressing Shift + Del. Bad choice, my Explorer process got stuck, so I had to force close it. Then I pulled out my USB cable....
Now when I plug in my phone again, the internal storage shows that I have 25 GB of space available, but when I goto the root folder of the internal storage. I can see ALL THE FILES ARE STILL THERE, WITH CORRECT FILE SIZES. But if I unplug the usb cable, and open Root Explorer on my phone, the SDcard folder now has nothing in it, completely wiped. And the total available space now shows as "25GB" (Which is the full space)
I can only see those files on my PC. But when I try to copy them out of the phone, Windows tells me "Unspecified Error". I looked up for the meaning of that error code - Access Denied.
I have tried to mount Internal Storage as SD card using SD Mounter V2.0. Then used some recovering software to scan for files on that drive. I manage to recover 9000 files with a file size of 32kb only. Interesting enough, I can not copy anything back to the internal storage anymore.
I suspect that I might accidentally deleted the file index. As I've never seen that folder before.
MY QUESTION is. Are those data still there on my phone? Should I just give up trying to recover those files and clear internal storage within my phone's option?
Many thanks.
Use sony pc companion and try to back up everything on ur computer.
After that format ur cell.
Thn restore ur backup.
If the files are available it should help
Or else no way out.
Press thanks if helpful!
Sent from my LT26i using xda premium
Yesterday I had same with u. If you moving files with root explorer, when u plug hh at computer that cant record.
And now I ussualy use es explorer, all moving same with my computer screen.
Sent from my LT26w using xda premium
SyedMusarraf said:
Use sony pc companion and try to back up everything on ur computer.
After that format ur cell.
Thn restore ur backup.
If the files are available it should help
Or else no way out.
Press thanks if helpful!
Sent from my LT26i using xda premium
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Hi there. I tried your method, and unfortunately the files can not be recovered this way. PC companion "having error trying to copy files". So I used Final Data and recovered about 70% of my stuff.
Thanks again for the input.
fksoul said:
Good Day All.
I'd like to share a weird problem that I've encountered today.
I have a Lt26 running .55 firmware stock, and my OS is Windows 8 Pro 64bit.
Now what happened today was I plugged my phone in my PC via USB, the "Xperia“ icon appeared in My Computer, under removable devices. I clicked on it, it will show Internal Storage (Contents on my phone)
Until this stage, everything was fine. I then went into my phone's internal storage to look for a mp3 file, but ended up finding an empty folder called "sdcard". Now the strange part comes, I've never seen this folder, and it appeared in my internal storage's root folder. I went into this folder, there was an empty folder called "Screenshot".
Bear in mind at this time there are 11GB of files on my phone. And all other files are presence on my internal storage, all was normal.
I made a bad decision to delete that empty folder, by pressing Shift + Del. Bad choice, my Explorer process got stuck, so I had to force close it. Then I pulled out my USB cable....
Now when I plug in my phone again, the internal storage shows that I have 25 GB of space available, but when I goto the root folder of the internal storage. I can see ALL THE FILES ARE STILL THERE, WITH CORRECT FILE SIZES. But if I unplug the usb cable, and open Root Explorer on my phone, the SDcard folder now has nothing in it, completely wiped. And the total available space now shows as "25GB" (Which is the full space)
I can only see those files on my PC. But when I try to copy them out of the phone, Windows tells me "Unspecified Error". I looked up for the meaning of that error code - Access Denied.
I have tried to mount Internal Storage as SD card using SD Mounter V2.0. Then used some recovering software to scan for files on that drive. I manage to recover 9000 files with a file size of 32kb only. Interesting enough, I can not copy anything back to the internal storage anymore.
I suspect that I might accidentally deleted the file index. As I've never seen that folder before.
MY QUESTION is. Are those data still there on my phone? Should I just give up trying to recover those files and clear internal storage within my phone's option?
Many thanks.
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fksoul said:
Hi there. I tried your method, and unfortunately the files can not be recovered this way. PC companion "having error trying to copy files". So I used Final Data and recovered about 70% of my stuff.
Thanks again for the input.
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That's exactly what happened to me (deleted sdcard folder inside internal storage, etc, pc companion has errors trying to copy files). So I'm pretty much in the same situation now. Did Final Data really solved your problem? Where can I get it? Do you know any other software that might do it?
Thanks
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nariz said:
That's exactly what happened to me (deleted sdcard folder inside internal storage, etc, pc companion has errors trying to copy files). So I'm pretty much in the same situation now. Did Final Data really solved your problem? Where can I get it? Do you know any other software that might do it?
Thanks
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And how did you recognize the internal storage inside Final Data?
nariz said:
That's exactly what happened to me (deleted sdcard folder inside internal storage, etc, pc companion has errors trying to copy files). So I'm pretty much in the same situation now. Did Final Data really solved your problem? Where can I get it? Do you know any other software that might do it?
Thanks
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And how did you recognize the internal storage inside Final Data?
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Firstly, you can google around Final Data. Or try using Recuva. They both work, but I'd say Final Data works much better. I managed to recover 29G of stuff (Most of them are not working) from both softwares.
To get Final Data recognize your phone's internal storage, you must remember to use SD Mounter by Soheli (I used V2.0). It's in the same forum, maybe you should look for it. Sorry I don't have the link anymore.
DO NOT TRY TO COPY ANYTHING INTO YOUR PHONE AT THIS STAGE (Except for SD Mounter Maybe). Mount your Internal Storage as Mass Storage after you installed the apk file. Your PC should recognize the drive as a "Removable Drive", then open Recuva or Final Data, do a deep scan (It took me a whole night just to scan through 11GB of files, another 3 hours to recover the files).
Good Luck. I recovered 70% of my stuff with this method.
Can somebody explain what that SDCARD folder actually is?
fksoul said:
Firstly, you can google around Final Data. Or try using Recuva. They both work, but I'd say Final Data works much better. I managed to recover 29G of stuff (Most of them are not working) from both softwares.
To get Final Data recognize your phone's internal storage, you must remember to use SD Mounter by Soheli (I used V2.0). It's in the same forum, maybe you should look for it. Sorry I don't have the link anymore.
DO NOT TRY TO COPY ANYTHING INTO YOUR PHONE AT THIS STAGE (Except for SD Mounter Maybe). Mount your Internal Storage as Mass Storage after you installed the apk file. Your PC should recognize the drive as a "Removable Drive", then open Recuva or Final Data, do a deep scan (It took me a whole night just to scan through 11GB of files, another 3 hours to recover the files).
Good Luck. I recovered 70% of my stuff with this method.
Can somebody explain what that SDCARD folder actually is?
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Damn, it requires root and I don't have the phone with it and trying now to root it would wipe data (at least it seems so)...
nariz said:
Damn, it requires root and I don't have the phone with it and trying now to root it would wipe data (at least it seems so)...
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Ok, I was able to do it. Having stock ICS without root and bootloader locked, I had to get root to try the sd card mount and recover data.
Luckily, I found Bin4ry's root method for Xperia S: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886460 . It worked as a charm, and now I have root in stock ICS (without unlocking bootloader).
After, I follow your comments, installed SD Mounter: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1744878 , mounted the Internal Storage as SD Card and was able to run the PhotoRec and recovered almost all pictures (without the correct name). Couldn't use Final Data and Recuva only found 5% of the photos.
You can recover data from android phone internal storage, see this solution: recover data from android phone internal memory
hope this helps.
I accidently erased my pictures folder from the internal memory of my S3. I understand I may be able to recover the deleted photos/videos with photo recovery software and enabling my phone as a USB mass storage device so I have.... 1. successfully rooted my phone 2. downloaded Stellar Recovery Software 3. downloaded SGS3 Easy UMS. The problem is I can't get the software to mount to the internal memory to see the file.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you ....
Hey guys, I am trying to mount my internal storage from within TWRP because I messed up my Kernel settings and want to flash a new Kernel and/or Rom and need to copy it to my phone. I do not have an external SD card yet, so I am stuck with the internal memory. Device Manager has an unknown device called SAMSUNG_Android and I cannot access the storage. Any ideas. I am running windows 8 64-bit
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Hey guys, I am trying to mount my internal storage from within TWRP because I messed up my Kernel settings and want to flash a new Kernel and/or Rom and need to copy it to my phone. I do not have an external SD card yet, so I am stuck with the internal memory. Device Manager has an unknown device called SAMSUNG_Android and I cannot access the storage. Any ideas. I am running windows 8 64-bit
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I can't get USB storage to work in TWRP either.
It works in PhilzTouch Recovery. You can flash that through Odin (Unless you have the flashable .zip saved on your internal storage, in which case just flash it in TWRP) and then use PhilzTouch to mount USB and transfer the ROM file over.
This is a littel cumbersome, but it'll work.
I'm receiving the attached error when attempting to copy files to either the internal or external sd storage when in TWRP. I am able to copy to the internal SD when the phone is booted. It doesn't seem to matter what type of file I attempt to copy, nor does the size of the file. The device also no longer shows up when trying to use ADB.
I'm running TWRP 2.8.4.0, the phone is rooted, usb debugging is enabled.
I've tried two separate USB cables, two separate computers, same result. Both computers running windows 7 x64. I've tried googling the problem, but I haven't been able to really find any good solutions.
Anyone have any ideas?
UPDATE: Able to bring it up with ADB again after flashing a new ROM, but I'm still unable to copy files when mounted in TWRP.
I have a USB c flash drive. Whenever I copy a file from internal memory to the flash drive, it seems to be successful, but when I expell it and re connect it the file is not readable. This happens with solid explorer, while the internal file app seems not to have this problem. Upon first connection I have the given the access to the flash drive as required. Did anyone have my same problem and find a solution?