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[Q] I think my epic killed the microsd that was in it. Help?

This was the orignal microsd that came with the phone.
This is what happened...
I was taking some pictures when the last picture I took showed up just black in the preview window and wouldn't let me view that picture. I then rebooted my phone, this time the small preview window showed the most recent picture but when it went to preview the picture it was black with some sort of error looking image in the middle, same with the other pictures I would browse to. I had some calls to make so made those calls and figured I'd try to reboot again, this time when android finished booting it was complaining about the sdcard not being supported or the wrong format.
At this point I was pretty geeked out, have lots of pictures/video from the last month of traveling, so I turn off my epic pop out the sdcard and throw it in my nook color that has CM7 on it. The nook complains about the sdcard being blank.
So here I am now. Hopefully somebody will have some ninja way of retrieving the media off that microsd...
Also, do you think it's safe to use the sdcard from the nook or is that a bad idea as what happened might be something hardware related with my phone?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

What ROM and kernel are/were you using at the time? Stock rooted or a custom setup? I have had this happen twice before since I began using custom stuff and I lost everything both times. Hopefully someone may know a backup folder (if it exists) that your media is sent to. More info on your setup may help though
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You might want to try putting your SD card in a reader attached directly to a PC and try some file recovery utilities. Just google free file recovery and I'm sure you'll find some utilities to try. You may lose filenames and stuff, but if there's data left on that card you should be able to raw read it.

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@John - were the microSD both dead or did a format fix the issue?
I won't really have access to a computer until Wednesday or Thursday when I get back from this trip, so no point in stressing out and ruining the left few days of my summer. It's just really going to bum me out if I'm not able to recover that stuff, had lots of stuff from the last couple weeks that I hadn't done anything with yet. Probably the most bummed about the videos of A Perfect Circle and the Black Keys from last weekend that hadn't made their way to YouTube yet.
What do you guys think about using the sdcard from the nook? I don't want to fry that one too if something is wrong with my epic.
Appreciate the input, thanks guys

If you format, you delete everything. Try copying your SD to your PC, then format, then copy back to SD. That may help. I had no luck when it happened to me though :-(
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You SHOULD be able to save the SD card but most likely your stuff on it got corrupted somehow. What exactly have you tried so far and what is your current setup?
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[Q]Help: unlocking deleted pictures

Like an idiot I did not remember that with the stupid internal SD card, the unlocking would delete pictures/videos/etc. is there a way to get it back? I am unlocked but not rooted. This is a friends phone and I'd appreciate any help getting his pictures back.
Why can't this freaking thing have an external SD card?

You can't, once it's wiped its wiped
If he had google+ his pictures may be backed up to his account
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loveubuntu said:
Like an idiot I did not remember that with the stupid internal SD card, the unlocking would delete pictures/videos/etc. is there a way to get it back? I am unlocked but not rooted. This is a friends phone and I'd appreciate any help getting his pictures back.
Why can't this freaking thing have an external SD card?
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No idea if something like this would work, but just throwing it out there: http://extundelete.sourceforge.net/

loveubuntu said:
Like an idiot I did not remember that with the stupid internal SD card, the unlocking would delete pictures/videos/etc. is there a way to get it back? I am unlocked but not rooted. This is a friends phone and I'd appreciate any help getting his pictures back.
Why can't this freaking thing have an external SD card?
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Hehe dude go to www.torrentz.com once there Look for magic photo recovery download the torrent with utorrent or bittorrent once downloaded install to your pc and plug the phone... Start the photo recovery and Select the drive you need to run the recovery and choose the phone drive next or at the same time Select a folder where the software will put the recovered files and thats it magic
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msedek said:
Hehe dude go to www.torrentz.com once there Look for magic photo recovery download the torrent with utorrent or bittorrent once downloaded install to your pc and plug the phone... Start the photo recovery and Select the drive you need to run the recovery and choose the phone drive next or at the same time Select a folder where the software will put the recovered files and thats it magic
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The problem is that the GN does not support USB mass storage mode, so it will not see a drive...

efrant said:
The problem is that the GN does not support USB mass storage mode, so it will not see a drive...
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Oh i see... Well worth the try i guess?
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Thanks people. After a few hours of digging around, it appears that it can't be done. Oh well, dropbox sync from now on. I will never ever buy a phone that has a virtual sd card, Nexus device or not. Starting to like the new HTC devices.

loveubuntu said:
Thanks people. After a few hours of digging around, it appears that it can't be done. Oh well, dropbox sync from now on. I will never ever buy a phone that has a virtual sd card, Nexus device or not. Starting to like the new HTC devices.
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I hope that decision isn't based on this one experience with the pics being deleted.. Because you know it would have been extremely easy to just transfer them to your computer via USB before unlocking and then transfer them back after.

It is possible I have recovered wiped files off of an sd card before although not the nexus's internal storage. the software recuva is free and should work. The key is that you do not want to write any files over the data that is gone, the more data overwritten the less chance of recovering. You might be able to recover some files off the storage with this program. Although I am not entirely sure how the nexus erases files through the unlocking process

everywhere warns you to backup because it will do a full wipe.
your fault, not the nexus.

Just had a thought...if you have a USB OTG adapter, you can try hooking up a USB drive and then use dd to dump all of /data to the drive. There are many file recovery tools that are able to analyze such dumps.

WiredPirate said:
I hope that decision isn't based on this one experience with the pics being deleted.. Because you know it would have been extremely easy to just transfer them to your computer via USB before unlocking and then transfer them back after.
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not just this experience but in general I hate the fact that this phone does not have an SD card. I understand that we are going to cloud computing and the iPhone lovers have had it this way for a while and blah blah blah... I just feel more secure knowing that if I accidently drop my phone in the toilet (done that) or go in the pool while my phone is in the pocket of my swimsuit (done that too, why the hell do they make swimsuit with pockets is beyond me), I could get the SD card out and be able to recover some of my data. I guess we all have our quirks. I just love the little micro SD card.

kvizz said:
everywhere warns you to backup because it will do a full wipe.
your fault, not the nexus.
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really? you bothered posting this response? Don't you think I know that? Thanks anyways. Someone actually thanked you for these comments. That is too funny. He must be a bigger troll.

theSpam said:
Just had a thought...if you have a USB OTG adapter, you can try hooking up a USB drive and then use dd to dump all of /data to the drive. There are many file recovery tools that are able to analyze such dumps.
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Great suggestions, hopefully I won't need it in the future. The owner of the phone convinced me that it wasn't worth it. It was just an embarrasing thing. I should have known better.

theSpam said:
Just had a thought...if you have a USB OTG adapter, you can try hooking up a USB drive and then use dd to dump all of /data to the drive. There are many file recovery tools that are able to analyze such dumps.
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That won't work. You cannot use dd to dump /data because you need somewhere to write the dump. /sdcard is located on /data, and a USB OTG mounts in /sdcard, so it becomes circular.
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loveubuntu said:
not just this experience but in general I hate the fact that this phone does not have an SD card. I understand that we are going to cloud computing and the iPhone lovers have had it this way for a while and blah blah blah... I just feel more secure knowing that if I accidently drop my phone in the toilet (done that) or go in the pool while my phone is in the pocket of my swimsuit (done that too, why the hell do they make swimsuit with pockets is beyond me), I could get the SD card out and be able to recover some of my data. I guess we all have our quirks. I just love the little micro SD card.
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I too was turned off at first by lack of ext storage, but now I dont even miss it. The phone seems to run smoother without having the ext card imo, dont have to worry about read/write speeds and compatibility. As far as recovering data from ext.. All my pics/vids are instantly uploaded to Photobucket as soon as I snap them, contacts/calendars/email are saved to Google. You can usually always just re-download ROMs/mods, not that you would instantly need them anyways if your phone is gone - plus anything like that you felt was too important to loose should be backed up to Box/Dropbox anyways. Did I miss anything that might be on the card you think you need? Because I almost guarantee I can find/already have a solution to that too.

WiredPirate said:
I too was turned off at first by lack of ext storage, but now I dont even miss it. The phone seems to run smoother without having the ext card imo, dont have to worry about read/write speeds and compatibility. As far as recovering data from ext.. All my pics/vids are instantly uploaded to Photobucket as soon as I snap them, contacts/calendars/email are saved to Google. You can usually always just re-download ROMs/mods, not that you would instantly need them anyways if your phone is gone - plus anything like that you felt was too important to loose should be backed up to Box/Dropbox anyways. Did I miss anything that might be on the card you think you need? Because I almost guarantee I can find/already have a solution to that too.
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You're right. It's probably that you can't teach an old dog new tricks
Another downfall of an sd card you forgot is the corruption issue. I've had a few go bad on me over the years, which probably can happen to the internal one also but hopefully the quality is better with an oem.
I don't like the mtp either. I've setup gmtp for my Linux box but this thing can't be easily used on just anything as a mass storage device on the road. Hate it although that may have benefits too.
I do have a Nook Color that can be brought back to life from all kinds of trouble with a bootable sd card.
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loveubuntu said:
You're right. It's probably that you can't teach an old dog new tricks
Another downfall of an sd card you forgot is the corruption issue. I've had a few go bad on me over the years, which probably can happen to the internal one also but hopefully the quality is better with an oem.
I don't like the mtp either. I've setup gmtp for my Linux box but this thing can't be easily used on just anything as a mass storage device on the road. Hate it although that may have benefits too.
I do have a Nook Color that can be brought back to life from all kinds of trouble with a bootable sd card.
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Very true. There are great advantages and there are disadvantages to removable storage. For the most part it always good to have the option. I, for one, am a data hoarder and would have loved to have the option. But I am very happy with the Nexus and glad I decided to take the chance on it. That was all I meant in my first post, just that I hope your not turned off by a device you like just because of the lack of removable storage. And your right about trying to teach a old dog new tricks. I still love and prefer all my oldschool apps even though there are new ones that may look/function better lol.

Man your friend must be pissed at you..

I suggest that you take a look at this android photo recovery solution which seems very helpful.
hope this helps.

have a second hand evo

Hi
i recenty got my sister evo i was originally an blackberry user im loving the android world right now but i have few problems one i cant get registered to intantgram due to it keep telling me to many users on this device also my biggest issue is my sd card the pictures i had on it just some of them are coming up on the phone and the last 6 pictures i took only one is still in the phone none of them are saving to my sd card or to my pictures how do i get this fixed Thanks

montycash said:
Hi
i recenty got my sister evo i was originally an blackberry user im loving the android world right now but i have few problems one i cant get registered to intantgram due to it keep telling me to many users on this device also my biggest issue is my sd card the pictures i had on it just some of them are coming up on the phone and the last 6 pictures i took only one is still in the phone none of them are saving to my sd card or to my pictures how do i get this fixed Thanks
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I'd love to help you. But without any punctuation, its hard to decipher what you are trying to say. What ROM are you using?
Riding the Uni on the GSIII

the phone is completely stock. I got it from my sister who is currently using a galaxy 3s. She said she had to much datta that why she went to get the 3s . Since i have had the phone some times it lags to comeback to home screen also the phone is not saving the pictures to the sd card or the phone. If i take out the sd card the phone will not take picture unless have the card installed . I really want to fix the picture issue and wonder why its lagging

jwitt418 said:
I'd love to help you. But without any punctuation, its hard to decipher what you are trying to say. What ROM are you using?
Riding the Uni on the GSIII
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Lol great reply! @op try to wipe all user data from the phone. This will not erase anything on your card. On your SD card you will look for a file using astro, es file explorer, or whatever file explorer you wish, called dcim. That is where your pictures should be stored. If you find them in a different directory, move them to dcim and they will show in gallery. But do a factory data reset, that should help with your lagging and also help you get signed into instagram.
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Micro SD Card mount problem

Hey folks, I have a bit of a problem here. I just recently started having this problem of my micro sd card not being able to be mounted to my GS3 for anything. I don't know what the problem is nor how it can be rectified? So it's known, I'm rooted with the latest CW recovery mod for JB fw version 4.2.1. I tried recovering to factory settings but that doesn't work because I have wiped all my caches. Any ideas as to what I can do to fix this issue? I have no problem losing full, permanent root access by the way but also keep in mind that I currently do not have a computer of any kind. I was able to gain permanent root access when I borrowed my buddy's laptop last week but gave his laptop back.
The message I always see on my phone when I go to manually mount my SD Card in Settings is ..."Your SD Card is ready to be removed."
- Bummed Out
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spicy_puerto_rican said:
Hey folks, I have a bit of a problem here. I just recently started having this problem of my micro sd card not being able to be mounted to my GS3 for anything. I don't know what the problem is nor how it can be rectified? So it's known, I'm rooted with the latest CW recovery mod for JB fw version 4.2.1. I tried recovering to factory settings but that doesn't work because I have wiped all my caches. Any ideas as to what I can do to fix this issue? I have no problem losing full, permanent root access by the way but also keep in mind that I currently do not have a computer of any kind. I was able to gain permanent root access when I borrowed my buddy's laptop last week but gave his laptop back.
The message I always see on my phone when I go to manually mount my SD Card in Settings is ..."Your SD Card is ready to be removed."
- Bummed Out
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Honestly, this sounds like your SD Card is in its last days, so to speak. This happens quite frequently and they just do not last forever.
What brand is it?
What is its class and size?
How old is it?
Where did you buy it?
If you boot into CWM, can you mount it there?
Your best bet is to try your best to get any important info off of it, then format it. If you have the space, copy everything important to your Internal SD, then format it through the settings menu. If that doesnt help, you will need to try again from a computer. Use the SD formatter tool from http://www.sdcard.org
I am assuming the card was working fine on your phone and this just started happening recently.
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The SD Card is a legit 64GB, Class 10, micro SD Card that I bought not even a year ago from Amazon for $55. It's the card that looks half red and hald grey. I had a ton of stuff on it too... movies, about 2k songs, tv show series, hundreds of pics, paid-for apps, emulated games and more. I think once I flashed a new different rom from the original regular CW 4.2.1, that's when my card was wiped clean. Now I can sometimes go to my sc card in the EZ Explorer Android app and it shows that my card has no files on it whatsoever.
Oh, I also get an error message of something like "cannot mount sd card... error." .... when I mount my card in the CW Recovery screen. I've also tried adding new files to the sd card and when I go back later that day or the next day, those files were wiped clean like they were never written to the card.
So now, the only place I can save files to is my internal phone memory.
So sad and blue...
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spicy_puerto_rican said:
The SD Card is a legit 64GB, Class 10, micro SD Card that I bought not even a year ago from Amazon for $55. It's the card that looks half red and hald grey. I had a ton of stuff on it too... movies, about 2k songs, tv show series, hundreds of pics, paid-for apps, emulated games and more. I think once I flashed a new different rom from the original regular CW 4.2.1, that's when my card was wiped clean. Now I can sometimes go to my sc card in the EZ Explorer Android app and it shows that my card has no files on it whatsoever.
Oh, I also get an error message of something like "cannot mount sd card... error." .... when I mount my card in the CW Recovery screen. I've also tried adding new files to the sd card and when I go back later that day or the next day, those files were wiped clean like they were never written to the card.
So now, the only place I can save files to is my internal phone memory.
So sad and blue...
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Yup, sounds like its on its way out. Unless you specifically tell cwm to do so, it doesn't touch your external sd. Some people have made the mistake and wiped out their data by not paying attention to what they're doing.
Anyway, there are data recovery tools you can try to use. Many people have had some success recovering info off of flash memory like that.
Sounds like it was a sandisk, but it should be clearly labelled as such. If its not its probably a knock off. Youd be surprised how many fakes are out there. Even highly reputable sellers have been known to sell cheap knock off sdcards. They don't do it on purpose of course, but I've even seen where they came from stores like Best Buy. The last time I looked I think Samsung, Kingston and Sandisk were the most popular targets for fake sdcard dealers.
This is why I only buy Samsung brand cards, and only from sellers who are Samsung Authorized Dealers. They buy direct from Samsung so you can be confident that you are getting a real one.
Even so, the best ones are still known to fail. I'd google for flash memory data recovery to see if you can rescue some stuff. And I would replace the card.
Its always a good idea to keep a backup even of your sd data. Sorry for your troubles.
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Thanks man, you've been a tremendous help with this issue! I will try recovering my stuff on my card later using recovery software. Thanks a bunch!
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And yes, it was clearly labeled as SanDisk too. But I, like you, have a feeling it's on its last leg.
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I wish you luck with it!
When you get a new card, there are ways to tell if its a fake or not. You will have to search them out as I really don't remember, but just so you know, the info is out there.
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All items on sd card deleted

Last night i've try to clean up internal storage. I open the storage using my laptop..
I selected folder that i want to delete, click then the unwanted items deleted. Suddenly my laptop show the disk capacity, and i noticed that my sd card also empty..
I've been searching everywhere on internet and forum, download few dozens software to get back my file.. it was nothing can do..every software only ask to buy if want to recover them all..One more thing, most of file seems like mess up..i mean mp3 file named as picture name, the pictures name gonna be something else.
anyone got an idea??
-sorry for bad English-
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Sucks to hear that I would die if that happened to me and I didn't have backups.
All I can say is, something most likely went wrong when making the modification. It sucks, but technology isn't perfect.
And ALWAYS BACKUP!