I have a partially destroyed sgs2 epic 4g touch that I need to retrieve data, pics and whatever else I can get off of the internal sd card. I can't turn it on to get the internal sd card to connect to the computer. Can someone help me with this if it's possible?
Thanks,
Josh Talltree
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How broken is it? Is the battery charged for certain? Any possibility just the display is broken? If you could boot one more time and you had debugging enabled you could pull the sdcard folder with adb or droid explorer. If you had clockwork recovery installed you could possibly navigate the menus by count and mount the SD Card to USB. Have you tried getting into download mode or recovery and checked if it gets recognized by your PC?
If no, your next step would be to buy another identical phone and try swapping parts to fix yours or move the board to the new phone or something.
I'm sure there's other ways too, just depends on how much time and money the data's worth.
There is a way to do this through ADB but I don't remember how. Sorry. If I can find out ill post it or hopefully someone else will know.
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Ok so ive had an iphone since day one and just switched to the EVO and i am absolutely in love wit it, i feel its better than the iphone. Stupid question tho, i cant seem to figure out how to add music to the phone from my computer. Can anyone point me in the right direction?? Thanks.
I pretty sure you just add your music to your SD Card and the music app will find your files
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i cant get my comp to recognize my phone so i have no way of adding it to the sd card unless im missing something
Pull down on the status bar and select disk
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i did all that, the comp sees the phone for 2 secs n then it disappears, and i downloaded HTC Sync from their website but still nothing, very frustrating.
Everytime I try to download something it gives me unsuccessful: Memory Card Does Not Exist. Have anybody ran into this problem?
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Try rebooting. If that doesn't work, try cleaning the sd card contacts with a rubber eraser
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Thanks for responding. I will try the rubber eraser. I tried to reboot but to no avail.
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You may want to take your SD card out and put it in your computer. transfer all data to a safe place then put your SD back in the phone and format it. You can then put your data back on the card and should be good to go unless the card itself is borked which does happen occasionally. Happened to me and I lost a years worth of pictures and other data.
Its just doesn't make sense to me. I tried the eraser thing and that didnt work. I can download from the market with no problem. I dont have any problems accessing my files on my SD Card either. Its just only when I go to download a zip file from one of those file sharing sites it gives me the memory card does not exist.
Epic Life, Epic Phone... It all makes sense to me.
Actually your better formatting it on the computer too. The phone doesn't always do the best job.
I was really trying to avoid reformatting. I wonder how that happened.
Epic Life, Epic Phone... It all makes sense to me.
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I was really trying to avoid reformatting. I wonder how that happened.
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It only takes an hour and you'll enjoy the difference. I do it every few months. As long as you back up right before.
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Could you PM me directions on how to reformat? Im going to do it this evening. Also could you tell me what folders to save thats on my SD Card to my computer?
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It only takes an hour and you'll enjoy the difference. I do it every few months. As long as you back up right before.
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Could you PM me directions on how to reformat? Im going to do it this evening. Also could you tell me what folders to save thats on my SD Card to my computer?
1. Turn phone off and remove card
2. Put card in adapter and then in computer
3. Make a folder in desktop named sdsave
4. Right click sd card and copy
5. Paste into new folder
6. Right click sd card and choose to format. Make sure it's set to fat32
7. Format
8. Go into sdsave and highlight all folders and items and copy them back to card
Epic Life, Epic Phone... It all makes sense to me.
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I have to buy a adapter?
Epic Life, Epic Phone... It all makes sense to me.
Well, I pulled a boneheaded stunt. I accidentally formatted my internal storage instead of the SD card in my phone.... SIGH.... The bad part is, I had a couple of pics I hadn't moved up to the cloud yet, and they're irreplaceable. (One was of my wife and her 4 cousins after her grandfather's funeral) I'm hoping someone has an idea... I've tried Recuva and Pro Discover Basic to try to recover, with no luck.
Any other ideas?
None that I know of, sorry bud. You should start backing up you're pics and important files. I hope someone else can find something but from what I know people have never been able to recover after a format
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Yes, I usually do. Thanks for the sage advice. I never would have thought to back up important files and pics.
Robbzilla said:
Yes, I usually do. Thanks for the sage advice. I never would have thought to back up important files and pics.
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Look at the get more storage from drop box thread and u can have it upload photos automatically so you never loose them. I have 7 GB on there now
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Try unformat software using your PC. You must stop using your phone immediately though. As when you use the phone new stuffs are being written on the internal card and less chance of you recovering old data from it.
I've had some success with Recuva before.
So recently i crack the screen on the s2 n i was wondeeing how can i go about to pull the pics off the device since the screen is blk n cant see anything? Can i use adb even if usb debug is off? Any other ways to do it?
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Look at one at a store or a friends and see where to press
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If your pictures are on your micro SD card then you can just put that in another device and get the pictures off that way or get a micro SD to SD card converter on eBay.
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i know this isn't really a how to fix it, but there was a thread somewhere i think that was posted in the in the general section that had the exact same problem. It was fixed by running a program where you control the phone with your computer... i think.. or it allowed you to display the screen of the phone on your computer... you can also try to use an mhl adapter.
sorry i can't help, but if you dig a little you might be able to find that thread. don't exactly remember how the exact process went, but it solved the problem
Teo032 said:
i know this isn't really a how to fix it, but there was a thread somewhere i think that was posted in the in the general section that had the exact same problem. It was fixed by running a program where you control the phone with your computer... i think.. or it allowed you to display the screen of the phone on your computer... you can also try to use an mhl adapter.
sorry i can't help, but if you dig a little you might be able to find that thread. don't exactly remember how the exact process went, but it solved the problem
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You're thinking of using a VNC server? That will do it but the problem is that he has to install it on his phone....wait but that a can be done via adb or desktop play store. He will have to do it over wifi in order to determine the IP of the device so he can connect to the server.
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Can't you just connect the phone to your laptop via usb and transfer the pics?? Or am I missing something here
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I got pics off my broken vibrant with Droid explorer. It does require root and USB debugging to be on. Thankfully I always left it on. You also need to set up adb on your computer.
Other than that I'm not sure. It took months of asking arOund and almost wiping my Sd with bad adb commands.
My phone broke and it took five months before figuring it out after giving up.
Praise to Droid explorer
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iLeopard said:
You're thinking of using a VNC server? That will do it but the problem is that he has to install it on his phone....wait but that a can be done via adb or desktop play store. He will have to do it over wifi in order to determine the IP of the device so he can connect to the server.
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nope not this, it was like a direct connection
tonomon said:
I got pics off my broken vibrant with Droid explorer. It does require root and USB debugging to be on. Thankfully I always left it on. You also need to set up adb on your computer.
Other than that I'm not sure. It took months of asking arOund and almost wiping my Sd with bad adb commands.
My phone broke and it took five months before figuring it out after giving up.
Praise to Droid explorer
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I think it was something like this.
I really can't remember the thread was like in January/February.
So OP hope you're up for some searching and hope you can find the correct terms to search with...
edit: found it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1501169&highlight=mhl&page=2
it is droid explorer.
However, if you're not rooted yeah.... and if your usb debugging isn't on... yeahh....
if you think you can still control the screen... then try an mhl adapter. that may be your last choice besides replacing the screen.
I've been on the cm 10.1 rc2 since it was released without issue.
I'm constantly listening to music stored on my sd so I know this problem is short lived.
Last night my phone would start skipping every couple of songs and eventually it would stop reading the sdcard. A restart would fix this for about 5 minutes. All of today up until about 20 minutes ago my phone would constantly say "preparing sd" or "sd card removed unexpectedly"
I tried removing and reinserting the sd card multiple times and same issue. My sd card became inaccessible on my phone. I tried accessing it via twrp and it worked sort of. It was EXTREMELY laggy trying to navigate through sd card contents.
I thought my sd card was gone so I put it in my evolte and the phone read it no problem and played my music no problem. I put it back in my s3 and it still wouldn't do anything. Now it seems to have fixed itself but I wouldn't be surprised if it happens again soon
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It sounds like the SD Card is on it's way out. But you might be able to salvage it. I use SD Formatter. It works wonders. I would back up everything. Then format the SD Card.
prboy1969 said:
It sounds like the SD Card is on it's way out. But you might be able to salvage it. I use SD Formatter. It works wonders. I would back up everything. Then format the SD Card.
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Thanks, I'll try formatting it. The odd thing is my s3 stopped reading the sd card completely but I popped it into my evolte and its reading it just fine.
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Just an update. Haven't had a chance to format the card but my evo lte has had no trouble reading as where my s3 wont even detect when the card goes in
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Just an update. Haven't had a chance to format the card but my evo lte has had no trouble reading as where my s3 wont even detect when the card goes in
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It is still possible that the problem is the sd card - if the evo has better sd hardware, then that could explain why it isn't affected yet...
But it is also possible that the gs3's hardware is starting to fail - one way to test it is to try another sd card in the gs3. If it reads the other card just fine, that should be enough to reasonably rule out failing hardware (trying the card in a different phone is a good step, but not definitive proof by itself). If you don't have any spare sd cards, see if you can borrow a friend's for a minute (no need to alter their files, so hopefully you can find at least one person who won't have any objections)
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styles420 said:
It is still possible that the problem is the sd card - if the evo has better sd hardware, then that could explain why it isn't affected yet...
But it is also possible that the gs3's hardware is starting to fail - one way to test it is to try another sd card in the gs3. If it reads the other card just fine, that should be enough to reasonably rule out failing hardware (trying the card in a different phone is a good step, but not definitive proof by itself). If you don't have any spare sd cards, see if you can borrow a friend's for a minute (no need to alter their files, so hopefully you can find at least one person who won't have any objections)
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Well I've put in 3 different cards right now, including the one that initially gave me trouble(without any fotmatting) and the phone has read all of them no problem.
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jesuscash said:
Well I've put in 3 different cards right now, including the one that initially gave me trouble(without any fotmatting) and the phone has read all of them no problem.
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Weird (hopefully in a good way) - did you make any changes to the phone between then and now?
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