I have to send my phone back as I'm getting a replacement so I wanna take EVERYTHING off the SD card however I can't get any of my titanium backup files to go. Does anyone have any ideas?
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I have to send my phone back as I'm getting a replacement so I wanna take EVERYTHING off the SD card however I can't get any of my titanium backup files to go. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Have you tried to adb pull yet? Did this just the other day.
adb pull /sdcard/TitaniumBackup/
Will copy the folder to your cpu; Android\android-sdk\platform-tools, unless you direct it elsewhere. This assumes you have the Android SDK installed.
Didn't even think of that I'll give it a try thanks man. Could I do adb pull /sdcard?
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Didn't even think of that I'll give it a try thanks man. Could I do adb pull /sdcard?
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Should be able to; might take a while though.
Thanks a ton
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unfortunately that doesn't work. Mtp's a *****, really. Adb pull doesn't work on folders recursively, so it'll pull all of the folders without any of the contents. Been there, done that :-(
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Damn. I really would rather keep all my stuff...
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adb pull will work just fine. I've pulled my entire sdcard partition using it. It pulls all folders and files no problem. Just use the following:
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adb pull /mnt/sdcard C:\whateverlocationyouwant
That will pull everything and put it in 'whateverlocationyouwant' under your C:\. You can obviously change or leave off the C:\whateverlocationyouwant. I just like it to put all content into a separate directory rather than platform-tools.
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unfortunately that doesn't work. Mtp's a *****, really. Adb pull doesn't work on folders recursively, so it'll pull all of the folders without any of the contents. Been there, done that :-(
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Nice to see you here Petsasj! I have moved to the GNex as well!
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because of the problems with linux and MPT I use ES File Explorer and transfer files over lan (samba) to & from my windows machines & (s)ftp to my tux.
Easiest way is to mount a stick through an OTG cable...
Try Airdroid, it's free/easy. I use it since my phone is on wifi when I'm at home on my computer anyway.
Market Link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sand.airdroid&hl=en
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Hi I am using a Macbook and I plugged the Nexus selecting MTP option. I am unable to transfer data like songs amd downloaded from my phone to the Macbook. Is there something I should do? When switched to PTP iPhoto was launched and was able to transfer images only. Thanks for the help!
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Dunno much about Mac but I use es file explorer to send file to or from PC via wifi u may try it
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Hi I am using a Macbook and I plugged the Nexus selecting MTP option. I am unable to transfer data like songs amd downloaded from my phone to the Macbook. Is there something I should do? When switched to PTP iPhoto was launched and was able to transfer images only. Thanks for the help!
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You need to download Android File Transfer.
http://www.android.com/filetransfer/
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Hi I am using a Macbook and I plugged the Nexus selecting MTP option. I am unable to transfer data like songs amd downloaded from my phone to the Macbook. Is there something I should do? When switched to PTP iPhoto was launched and was able to transfer images only. Thanks for the help!
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Here is exactly what you need! all you need to do is download it, plug your phone in, and run it!
Link to android file transfer for mac: http://www.android.com/filetransfer/
Note that it may not read the phone if the lock screen is up. Can be a pain if you're in a rush.
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Also.. be aware that the app has a lot of bugs... I can hardly use it since its always freezing...
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sergioosvaldo1 said:
Also.. be aware that the app has a lot of bugs... I can hardly use it since its always freezing...
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Yup. Random freezing, disconnecting, etc. Also takes forever to open a folder.
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Also.. be aware that the app has a lot of bugs... I can hardly use it since its always freezing...
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Yup. Random freezing, disconnecting, etc. Also takes forever to open a folder.
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has anyone found a way around using this horrible program
i like airdroid (find it on google play) it connects to the same wifi as your pc or you connect to the mobile hotspot and you open http://ipaddressofthephone:8888 and theres a website where you can push and pull files and other cool things.
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has anyone found a way around using this horrible program
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Many file explorers have WiFi transfer capabilities to/from your PC.
I deleted photos from my gallery (sprint gnex). Is there a way to recover them?
Nope. The internal storage can't be mounted as UMS so normal "deleted file recovery" tools don't work.
From now on use Google+ instant upload or Dropbox instant upload so you don't have to worry about it anymore. You can have it only upload on WiFi to save your data plan also.
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I was hoping there might be a way with with a rooted phone.
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I was hoping there might be a way with with a rooted phone.
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Nope
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Well at least they were just vacation pix and not my kids. Thanks for replying.
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Well, the OP in this thread is working on the same thing: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30706842. Maybe you can help each other out.
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Yes you can!
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I deleted photos from my gallery (sprint gnex). Is there a way to recover them?
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You will have to root but it is absolutely possible:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34185439
You can recover deleted photos from android phone gallery, see this solution that helped me before: android photo recovery
It is easy to follow, so try it.
@slyd0997 I used the app DiskDigger and search /system and /userdata partition and i found all my deleted photo
Recovering deleted photos
I have accidentally deleted some photos on my Nexus 7(2013). I have been trying to attach the Nexus to the computer and make it appear as a disk and not a media device in order to scan and retrieve the photos.
I have turn developer mode on and switched usb debugging on. However the computer will not find the correct drivers for my Nexus (win 7).
SO i am stuck! All recovery software need it to appear as a disk otherwise they don't recognize it.
Today i have installed SKIPSOFT ANDROID TOOLKIT but it will not work! (i thought about getting the right drivers i need)
I keep getting the black screen for a second and it closes.
As far as i can tell My Avira doesn't block it.
I wanted to get help but i am not allowed to post questions on the original skipsoft thread.
CAN SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE??? :crying:
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Nope. The internal storage can't be mounted as UMS so normal "deleted file recovery" tools don't work.
From now on use Google+ instant upload or Dropbox instant upload so you don't have to worry about it anymore. You can have it only upload on WiFi to save your data plan also.
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Nope
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What??? I have been using this app for the exact purpose since forever... It works just fine for me
Guys I'm looking to bring my phone to Samsung to ask them to change some faulty components for me.
I've unlocked and rooted my phone.
So I saw that by locking my Gnex again. All my internal storage will be lost? Does that me all my titanium backups as well as my Cwm backups?
How do you guys deal with this?
Previously on my gs2. I just had to backup to my external sd card.
Anyone have any ideas?
Much appreciated
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Last time I unrooted an factory reset I just copyed all clockwork backups to one folder on SD card(virtual) as we don't have a external one. And then just copyed it all over to my laptop. Once ready just re-root phone copy/paste all files back and ur golden..
at least that worked for me.
Heaven tried on titanium files tho
Cheers
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You're gonna want to take all of your personal data off before you factory reset and set it all back to stock anyways.
Takes ages to transfer backups over doesn't it. So long that it crashes. What do you mean by virtual drive?
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Takes ages to transfer backups over doesn't it. So long that it crashes. What do you mean by virtual drive?
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The Galaxy Nexus doesn't have a physical SDcard. It has a "virtual" spot that acts like an SDcard. Your files are stored there, that's where you need to take your stuff from and put on your computer. If USB transfer isn't working. Put it on WiFi & stuff them all on Dropbox or use an FTP app.
My main concern is the pad lock on the boot screen. Is there anyway to remain on my flashed rom and remove the unlocked sign? Cause i just wanna do some over the counter exchange.
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Don't think so.
The lock signifies u unlocked the boot loader(90%) sure bout that.
And u cant stay on a custom ROM with it locked. Unless someone found a way around it.
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Someone has to find a way! My god it's quite trouble some to move them big files.
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Also. If u think that the store won't be able to the the diff between u being unlocked or not. U can get "logo me" from market and change the unlocked pad lock to a pic if a locked one. So phone is still rooted unlocked but looks stock in boot process
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Also. If u think that the store won't be able to the the diff between u being unlocked or not. U can get "logo me" from market and change the unlocked pad lock to a pic if a locked one. So phone is still rooted unlocked but looks stock in boot process
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Hmm.. I'm actually just trying to swap my battery for a new one. That should work eh?? Haha. There aren't really any other differences.
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Hmm.. I'm actually just trying to swap my battery for a new one. That should work eh?? Haha. There aren't really any other differences.
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Oh damn its 3 bucks.
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There's an app called BootUnlocker that let's you lock and unlock your phone within android without losing root.
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You don't have to take it to Samsung you could always take it to a 3rd party phone repairer that deals with Samsung phones an doesn't care if its rooted.
Yea, its a bit pricy but worth it IMO. I paid for it and love the customization.
If u have a bit of time on or hands, u can try looking thru or system.apk file. I think its also in there but I'm not 100% on that.
Use root explorer or any other explorer and go to system/app/ and pull or system apk. Put it on or PC or laptop.
Open it with 7zip (right click , open archive. DO NOT EXTRACT) then go to red/drawable. And in the xhdpi folder look thru the pics. I believe one of them is the boot logo lock.
I'd give u exact paths and file names but I dont have my laptop on me right now.
Hope this helps
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There's an app called BootUnlocker that let's you lock and unlock your phone within android without losing root.
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Ty. Did not know that. Its on market?:beer:
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There's an app called BootUnlocker that let's you lock and unlock your phone within android without losing root.
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Holy **** dude. That's the best ever. That should be on the toolkit guide!
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I find the most reliable way to backup your entire /sdcard contents is via ADB. I can't recall the exact syntax that works but it's so much better than trying to make it work by MTP...
adb pull /sdcard sdcard possibly? Or some variation of that. And then it just starts copying en masse, and you leave it for whatever 25-50 minutes it requires, and then you're all backed up. Restoring by adb push works well too.
If the pull gets interrupted or messed up in any way while booted into the OS, you can try again while booted into CWM Recovery. Careful when pushing entire directories back via CWM - sometimes this can leave you with messed up permissions and then you will be unable to edit/delete/create files in some places. More info about how to fix that in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=22970837&postcount=14
But yeah once you backup your entire internal storage, including whatever nandroid backup you need to get back to your custom setup, you can flash it all clear back to wiped stock without any concern of data loss.
I've been trying out various 4.2 ROMs over the course of the past few weeks, only to return back to 4.1.2 each and every time. I always manage to get all of my files transfered back from that dreaded "0" files without any issues. That is until yesterday. After deciding that I'm still not sold on 4.2, I flashed back to 4.1.2, transfered all of my files, and then restored a backup from just before flashing. Apparently, now I can't view any of my pictures. They're in the gallery but they're all greyed-out and I cannot view them. What happened and is there any way to get them back to normal? I'm extremely disappointed as they're all quite meaningful to me... Help!
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Try any other gallery app such as QuickPic which is available on the Play Store. I hope this solves your issue somehow
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Try any other gallery app such as QuickPic which is available on the Play Store. I hope this solves your issue somehow
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Tried it. Same outcome. Bummer. Thanks though!
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If you can access them via any file manager, then I suggest to take them to your PC and ensure that they are viewed correctly on your PC. If so then they are safe and just restore again or flash a new ROM and put them back. Hope this helps
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If you can access them via any file manager, then I suggest to take them to your PC and ensure that they are viewed correctly on your PC. If so then they are safe and just restore again or flash a new ROM and put them back. Hope this helps
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Yeah, they're visible just not viewable, if that makes any sense to you. I'll try transferring them to my computer now to see what happens. Thanks again!
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OK. Connected to computer. Every picture pops up as a file as they usually would. However, every time I try to view a picture, I get "Photo Gallery can't display this picture because it is an empty file." Ouch. Sounds like they're lost and gone forever...
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OK. Connected to computer. Every picture pops up as a file as they usually would. However, every time I try to view a picture, I get "Photo Gallery can't display this picture because it is an empty file." Ouch. Sounds like they're lost and gone forever...
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Did you try restarting your GNex to see if they will not be grey?
Assuming you have some pictures in the DCIM folder, then try accessing them from storage/sdcard0/DCIM not /sdcard/DCIM then sending them to PC to check one more time.
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Did you try restarting your GNex to see if they will not be grey?
Assuming you have some pictures in the DCIM folder, then try accessing them from storage/sdcard0/DCIM not /sdcard/DCIM then sending them to PC to check one more time.
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I rebooted a couple of times and even reflashed the ROM yet still get the same result. When I try to open one of the greyed-out pictures and click on details, I get - Path: /storage/sdcard0/DCIM/Camera/IMGxxxxxxx.jpg
That help at all?
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I rebooted a couple of times and even reflashed the ROM yet still get the same result. When I try to open one of the greyed-out pictures and click on details, I get - Path: /storage/sdcard0/DCIM/Camera/IMGxxxxxxx.jpg
That help at all?
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OK so did you send them from /storage/sdcard0/DCIM/Camera/ to PC then check if they are viewed successfully on your PC?
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OK so did you send them from /storage/sdcard0/DCIM/Camera/ to PC then check if they are viewed successfully on your PC?
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The "0" file no longer exists as I deleted it after transferring all of the files back to my SD card. I always use ES File Explorer and the cut and paste method. Must be something happened when I tried to transfer them this last time...
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The "0" file no longer exists as I deleted it after transferring all of the files back to my SD card. I always use ES File Explorer and the cut and paste method. Must be something happened when I tried to transfer them this last time...
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Are you talking about the 0 folder on the /sdcard/ ???
I was talking about /storage/ directory which you can only access if you have root and enable it in ES File Explorer.
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Are you talking about the 0 folder on the /sdcard/ ???
I was talking about /storage/ directory which you can only access if you have root and enable it in ES File Explorer.
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Yes, I was. I will go into ES File Explorer now and enable it and give it a shot. Thank you so much for your time! I really appreciate it!
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This is what I see:
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Hi, I'm having a similar issue, been trying to fix it by flashing different versions and lock/unlock combinations, but all my files are screwed up, can't seem to fix it. I too get grey/black photos and videos, but what's worse is that I can't access any of the files through regular PC exploration.
I used Nexus Root Toolkit v1.6.1 to backup my stuff, but it gave me this problem :/
If I find a way to fix it, I'll let you know
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This is what I see:
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Honestly, this is the first time I see such pictures with this yellow triangle. I do not exactly know what this means but if these images are lost then they would not have shown at all I guess, so I will try to search for a solution on the Internet and will let you know if I found anything. For the time being, I hope some other more experienced members will be able to help you much bettER. Good Luck!
This is the first time I've encountered this issue as well. I'm at a loss... Its strange, all of the files are there but have that little yellow triangle and contain no data. My only hope is that they're still in there... somewhere.
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Genmita said:
Hi, I'm having a similar issue, been trying to fix it by flashing different versions and lock/unlock combinations, but all my files are screwed up, can't seem to fix it. I too get grey/black photos and videos, but what's worse is that I can't access any of the files through regular PC exploration.
I used Nexus Root Toolkit v1.6.1 to backup my stuff, but it gave me this problem :/
If I find a way to fix it, I'll let you know
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Sorry to hear you're experiencing a similar issue but also glad to hear I'm not the only one! Let's hope there's a solution out there somewhere!
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This is the first time I've encountered this issue as well. I'm at a loss... Its strange, all of the files are there but have that little yellow triangle and contain no data. My only hope is that they're still in there... somewhere.
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Check the following two things:
1- If you go to the details/properties of any of the images, is there a logical size for each of them?
2- Does it show the same yellow triangle when checking the pictures via /data/media/0/ , /storage/emulated/0/ , and /sdcard/ ?
I am just trying to collect more information so hopefully other members also can help you bettER
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Check the following two things:
1- If you go to the details/properties of any of the images, is there a logical size for each of them?
2- Does it show the same yellow triangle when checking the pictures via /data/media/0/ , /storage/emulated/0/ , and /sdcard/ ?
I am just trying to collect more information so hopefully other members also can help you bettER
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Here's an example of one of the "picture's" properties. And no matter which way I check them, they all have the same yellow triangle over them...
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Check the following two things:
1- If you go to the details/properties of any of the images, is there a logical size for each of them?
2- Does it show the same yellow triangle when checking the pictures via /data/media/0/ , /storage/emulated/0/ , and /sdcard/ ?
I am just trying to collect more information so hopefully other members also can help you bettER
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Do you know if there's a way to extract files from an .AB (Android Backup) file for windows? I want to know if my pictures and videos are really in there; after running an SD rescan, all my files disappeared from the SD Card and I can't see them on the PC or phone, I'm starting to believe the backup I made with Nexus Root Toolkit just made some "ghost" image of the files but they are actually gone.
I was using Astro file manager to clear some space on my phone, and noticed that I had a folder called emulated on there that had all the same files, figuring that was what was taking up so much space I deleted it. Now all my files are gone from sddisk0 too! Is there any way to reverse a mass delete like this??
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Maybe try connecting to a PC (or Mac) and running an undelete prog. or check to see if there is an undelete app out their.
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Just tried two apps from the marketplace once couldn't scan it the other just FC instantly :-/ I need to get my files back
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The apps you are trying to use wont work as the phones internal sd is MTP and cannot be mounted as a disk. THIS HERE is your only option. Its a pain in the ass but youll get all your stuff back provided you havent been using the phone heavily overwriting the stuff u want to recover. Used this on two GS3's, a Galaxy Nexus and my Note II. Flawless if you follow the instructions