recently I unlocked my galaxy nexus's bootloader in order to fix it. I was panicing and forgot that it will erase all my data.
I lost all my pictures, i tried many suggested applications/softwares out there.
the problem is, "undelete" and "hexamob" wont work in ICS, other softwares llike recuva and stellar photo recovery wont recognize my galaxy nexus (only mounts as a digital camera or MTP) which sucks...is there another to way to fix ? or should i should just lose hope?? please I need your help...I appreciate it .
Thanks.
They are lost forever...
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I have a real cry for help!
Somehow all my pictures disappeared from my Galaxy Nexus. My only possible explanation (since it could not have decided to delete them itself!) is that I must have been a complete idiot and last night when I thought I was deleting a video I had just taken I must deleted the camera directory itself. This is supported by the fact that there was no ‘camera’ directory when I looked this morning. I then took a new photo and the directory reappeared. I have plenty of experience with PC’s but I’m a newbie with smartphones. I figured if I don’t write any more files to the phone then most of the actual data should still be there so I hoped to do some kind of undelete.
I’ve done some research and it looks like the ‘feature’ of only connecting as an MTP device (rather than USB mass storage) is potentially a killer blow. Without an assigned drive letter it seems that none of the usual recovery programmes will recognise the phone.
In theory an alternative might be to take a complete image of the phone contents and somehow recover the data from here?
I am pretty desperate as I have five months of pictures/videos of my kids etc, and most of that data must still be on the phone – but how to get to it?
Finally – yes I am a complete plonker, I shouldn’t have made such a stupid mistake and I should have backed up the phone or the pictures. I have learned my lesson. But given that, is there anything I can do?
BTW - the phone came from 3 network (via a reseller) and I have not touched it with respect to unlocking/rooting etc. It is in the state I received it.
HELP please!
Thanks very much...........
I believe the MTP vs. USB Mass storage would be a driver thing. There are many different versions of drivers so its possible there are ones that will mount the phone with a drive letter. I can think of some other things to try (Boot into fastboot mode by turning phone off then powering on by holding power, volume up and volume down at the same time and holding till it vibrates). You could also try Disk Management under windows to see if you can assign a letter
In the future I highly recommend setting up a google account and using Google Photo/Instant Upload to keep a backup of your photos. You dont even have to sync anything else
Thanks for your suggestions, much appreciated.
I’ve now tried going into fastboot mode and connecting to PC but no joy – Windows recognises there is a device connected (usually ID’d as an OMAP4440) but can’t find a driver.
Disk Management also doesn’t show the Nexus as a drive and therefore won’t allow a Drive letter to be assigned.
Try these (obviously no guarantees and I havent used any personally)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.undelete
http://android-photo-recovery.com/tutorials/deleted-file-recovery-for-google-nexus-phones.html
EDIT: Found another:
http://www.wondershare.com/disk-utility/recover-deleted-photos-from-nexus-s-and-galaxy-nexus.html
Thanks again, I appreciate all suggestions. Yes I have come across these and unfortunately they don’t solve my issue. The last two are amongst those I’d seen reported as not working as they need a drive letter. I had installed both anyway but found that to be true (
The first requires root access which I don’t have. If I understand correctly, to root I’ll need to unlock the bootloader first, and unlocking will erase all the data anyway??
Unfortunately, you are out of luck. You cannot mount the storage on a GNex in USB Mass Storage mode, and I am pretty sure that none of the "undelete" programs that run in Android support ext4 (which is what our GNex internal storage is formatted).
If you are running 4.0.1 or 4.0.2, you can still get root access without losing your data (but not on 4.0.4), but I can't see how it will help you given what I mentioned above.
I am on 4.04 so sounds like I can't get root access without overwriting, can I roll back to 4.01/2 without overwriting the data? (sounds unlikely but I have to ask - I upgraded from 4.02 without losing data....).
If not, is there a way to get a data image without rooting? That way at least I have the data preserved if at some future point it becomes possible to do an undelete on Ext4 data??
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can I roll back to 4.02/3 without overwriting the data?
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Unfortunately no.
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If not, is there a way to get a data image without rooting? That way at least I have the data preserved if at some future point it becomes possible to do an undelete on Ext4 data??
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I believe there are utilities to "do an undelete" on ext4. The problem is how to get access to the data image. I don't really know of any way to pull off the data partition of a GNex to your computer, but it may be possible.
Have a look at this thread. I think shaaXo managed to find a way for your computer to see the memory on the GNex and likely dump it (although it is not very user-friendly).
That sucks. If it's deleted, it's gone for good. Sorry, buddy.
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Thanks very much I will go through that post and see where I get to!
Edit! - uh-oh, taking a quick look it seems you need to use CWM, which I take to be ClockworkMod, which I thought required the phone to be rooted to install it? And if I understand correctly, rooting requires an unlocked bootloader, which wipes your data??
I will take a deeper look in case I've misunderstood (very likely), but am I thinking clearly here?
My company's IT department set an enterprise-level Exchange 2010 ActiveSync mailbox policy that enables a local device wipe after multiple failed password attempts. My child was playing with my phone and apparently enacted this, creating a factory reset and complete wipe of my phone. I am now looking for any way to recovery the hundreds of pictures (and videos and other data) that were stored locally on the phone's internal memory. Note: I do NOT have an SD card and unfortunately I did not back up the files in the cloud or anywhere else. (shame on me)
I have scoured this board and others and been unable to find a solution or work around. Or, the things I've tried have been thwarted by issues. (example: apparent inability to enable USB Mass Storage (UMS) on an un-rooted device?) I'm fairly savvy with computers (mainly Windows) and am very logical and methodical in troubleshooting but I don't have dev experience, Linux familiarity, file recovery experience or any advanced knowledge in this area. I would be very grateful for any insight. My basic question is this:
Question: How can I recover deleted files from a stock 4.1.2 SGH-I747 after a factory reset?
I will actively monitor this thread and answer any additional questions. Thanks in advance for any help or guidance!
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Just wanted to bump this thread as I am still desperately trying to find a solution.
Also, here is an update/recap:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 (SGH-I747) running Android 4.1.2. My phone is rooted. A factory reset was inadvertently performed on the phone that wiped the entire internal memory (I do not have an external SD card). I had many very important pictures of my children, family, etc. that I would really like to get back if it’s at all possible. I installed DiskDigger and performed a scan for all .jpgs. The tool sees “/data” of 12.24 GiB (and other devices) but the scan does NOT result in any files. Does this mean none of the files are recoverable? Or, would it help to try another tool? I’m happy to purchase DiskDigger Pro or try anything else if it will help at all. Or, I'm also up for trying much more drastic measures if there is a reasonable likelihood of some recovery. Thanks in advance for any information or feedback.
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Hi, you should try "UnDelete"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.undelete&hl=en
This may or may not work on the phone as long as you didn't overwrite many files. ( I have not tested hard resets.)
Thanks
EDIT : Sorry! I was wrong! I just tried a different app, and it recovered half of a deleted image on a phone I was repairing. Its called DiskDigger.
Search in /data (that is the internal SDcard)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.defianttech.diskdigger&hl=en
Hey Guys,
I've got a big problem, maybe anybody can help.
Currently my girlfriend is spending a few weeks aboard at here
parent's house.
This morning she wrote me a message in a textfile aon her Nexus
Galaxy and and wonted to encrypt it first on pc, but after she
didnt manage to copy it via USB she tried openpgp keychain App.
During Copy and Paste tshe reported there are suddenly no
Folders and Files exccept "Android" Folder anymore in her
Filebrower.
Even after Rebooting the Storage remains like this and after
reboot only a "WhatsApp" Folder was added to the Android one.
Apperently her data is gone and shes not able to recover it via
the PC because it only is mounted as MTP/PTP Device on the PC.
Her Phone is not rooted and she never tried, she doesnt do any
fancy stuff with it just normal useage.
This Guid may could help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
but its not realy an option cause A: I think its to complicated
to do for her and I have no access to the device and B: the
available PC of her parents must be the slowest and oldest xp
maschine existing.
Does anybody have a clue how we could retrieve her data?
Importent to her are her pictures and a few work related text
files with important notes.
And while I read a lot of stuff about loosing data on attempting
to root, I didnt find any reports on cases where data was lost
without deleting it accedently or trieing to root.
Must she be concerend about her memory being damaged?
Thank you very much,
Stefan
Hello friends,
I am in need of some desperation assistance.
I am trying to recover data on my mom's Note 4.
Device is less than 3 weeks old, and she said she got a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark, and some very small print, then the phone rebooted.
It happened again today, but it factory reset itself...
She lost everything including very important pictures.
She is devastated.
Is there any way to recover without root?
Any input/suggestions are very appreciated.
I do not want to let her down.
Theres several ways 1. If she had a micro sd card and all data was stored on there like pictures.. That shouldnt be effected. 2. If she used verizon backup or googles storage alot of her information and pictures etc will be backed up. Also her google account should have backed up her contacts. 3. Theres a program which MIGHT help called Jihosoft Android Phone Recovery (theres others too) but they have to recognize your device and have usb debugging on. This is a bit complicated on these options.. It all depends on what your recovering.
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Theres several ways 1. If she had a micro sd card and all data was stored on there like pictures.. That shouldnt be effected. 2. If she used verizon backup or googles storage alot of her information and pictures etc will be backed up. Also her google account should have backed up her contacts. 3. Theres a program which MIGHT help called Jihosoft Android Phone Recovery (theres others too) but they have to recognize your device and have usb debugging on. This is a bit complicated on these options.. It all depends on what your recovering.
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I have actually had the same awful experience a few days ago where the phone somehow updated without authorization and ERASED everything. I lost all of my photos and videos from internal storage which can never be duplicated. Most of the data recovery programs seem to require rooting or won't detect the device. I have 4.4.4.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
While updating to lollipop i accidentally relocked and unlocked the bootloader resulting in a full memory wipe but i had my college work on there so i really need to recover the data lost but upon connecting the phone to the pc it appears as "portable device" which is not detected by recovery tools as well as the android apps as the undeleter root couldn't recover the data i need so is there a way to
1- connect htc one m8 to the pc as usb storage (aka removable disk)
2- another way to recover files
Thanks in advance
The issue is that Android now mounts internal storage by MTP, as opposed to the old Mass USB storage format. So computer's can no longer read the memory like its a USB drive. I think at some point (probably not even for this phone) I saw a method to dump the files in order to perform a file recovery, but it was pretty complicated and looked like a PITA.
You can try some apps on the Play Store that claim to recover files (using the phone itself, not a computer). But I've never used any, can't vouch for them, and don't know if they really work. Also keep in mind, the more you use the phone, the higher the likelihood that the files you want will be overwritten by other data.
Good luck. But in the future you have to remember to backup important personal data before making any major changes or mods to the device. I never fail to be disappointed at how many folks never bother to backup their important data; than freak out about it once its lost. Most of the time, at that point its too late. You should have been backing it up all along. If its important to you, back it up.
Well sir thank ypu for your help i don't think ill be able not to use the phone all that long as well as im now facing that the wifi wont open which is really annoying