So my internal SD was accidentally wiped, I really need a CWM backup I had in there. Is there any good file recoveries? All I've tried failed. Am I screwed? thanks
Sad to say but yes. Just about everyone who flashes has been where you are. Experience teaches you to not only have a cwm backup but to use dropbox or picassa for photos, your laptop for music and your google or Gmail account for contacts . Sorry this doesn't help you but it will anyone else that reads the thread.
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Okay thanks. I'm fine for music and photos, mostly my titaniumbackups that I really miss
Yes, you are screwed. There are a few other threads about this. I lost some pictures on my Xoom due to the same thing.
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I'm not sure if this will work, but I took classes on forensic recovery. There is a program called FTK imager. It's free and an amazing piece of software. You connect the card to your computer and perform an image. The program takes a bit getting used to, but after the image, open the image in ftk if it doesn't automatically and you should see your typical file structure. You can then recover files that haven't been overwritten.
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Well crap.. I originally thought you said external... You may still give it a shot mounting your phone on your computer and trying it then. I've never tried it with a phone before..
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I'm on hc gen2.... Can I downgrade to gen1 on the tablet?? Or can I go straight from gen2 to the ics leak?? Please and thanks for the help
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I'm on hc gen2.... Can I downgrade to gen1 on the tablet?? Or can I go straight from gen2 to the ics leak?? Please and thanks for the help
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Go straight to ics. Remember this is a beta. There are still bugs in them.
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I tried to go straight to ics and I got it to go for 5 seconds then the android guy with the orange triangle popped up.... I have it named to update.zip
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hello brotha....you will need to name your file [update]. it is a .zip file already if you haven't extracted it. make sure that it is around 293 mb. if you have anymore trouble let me know and i will be glad to help you get it going.
To add to the excellent comments so far, it could be that the file you downloaded is corrupt (the file size should be 293MB as oneovakindoldys2 stated), or that your memory card for some reason isn't compatible. If you suspect the file, download it again. Be sure to turn off anti-virus real-time scanning. If you have another sd card you can try, do that as well. Hope this helps.
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Anti-virus scanning - that's if you're downloading the file on your pc . Wanted to make that clarification of what I meant.
I've downloaded it on the tablet 5 times now and same thing orange triangle.... I'm downloading it on my pc and I'm gunna format my sd card...... Will post back after I try.... Everytime I have tried the file was named correctly... update.zip ....
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Here this worked on my a100
http://orthrus.net/android/update.zip
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Edit.... I got it on finnaly..... Thanks everyone
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I have accidentally factory reset my SIII and I need to recover all my photos. They are vacation photos from Disneyland. I didn't backup or put them in dropbox I know I am very stupid....I should have backup. I really need help here please...
All help appreciated! Thank you!
Do you have Google+ ? If so and you had instant uploads enabled they will be there backed up
maybe it all sync'd to picasa web album.
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Unless you backed them up somewhere, they're gone. I tried to restore them too when I accidentally formatted my gfs Gnex and they use the same file system.
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there is an undelete app in the market, ive recovered a few things i accidentally deleted. worth a try.
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They may be recoverable using an undelete app. Do not take any more pictures or download anything until you run the undelete.
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And by the way, now that you have 50gb drop box space, it might be a good idea to use their auto upload photos feature.
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there is an undelete app in the market, ive recovered a few things i accidentally deleted. worth a try.
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That app is very limited. It states that it will only work on Fat32 filesystem which is only the external memory card. Totally useless for trying to undelete anything on the internal mem card. It needs an update or a new dev who knows how to make it more useful.
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Hello everyone!
I have accidentally factory reset my SIII and I need to recover all my photos. They are vacation photos from Disneyland. I didn't backup or put them in dropbox I know I am very stupid....I should have backup. I really need help here please...
All help appreciated! Thank you!
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Ive recovered a wiped phone with a pc program called pirnova. Worked like a charm. Let me know
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Try DiskDigger
I used DiskDigger on my HTC Sensation and it worked great! It found tons of pictures from way back, taken back before several re-formats of my sdcard. Now, this was all recovered from my external sdcard, but the app description does say it will work on internal memory as well. I would definitely give it a try.
I forgot to add - You do have to be rooted to use this app.
How did it go?
You can recover photos after Samsung galaxy SIII android phone reformat with data recovery software, see this guide: android phone photo recovery
hope this helps.
I have tried android file transfer but not successful.
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iSyncr? Though haven't tried that before.
Who has a working method? I mean they can't make this so hard putting music on a phone from a macbook....
There's been other posts about this I'm pretty sure, did you search to find similar threads? Search the other lte variants forums as well.
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I do it manually. Pop my micro sd card into the usb slot on my macbook and use finder to copy files over. I'm using neutron music player so it handles my mp3 and m4a/alac lossless files with no problem.
There's a couple apps that try to automate this but my collection doesn't change a lot so I found this approach easier.
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Oh, and if you want to use the built-in storage on the device, the android file transfer app for mac works and is fast - even faster than copying to my sd card.
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The issue I have is when I am copying files over, it says screen is locked but its not and then transfer stops through android file transfer..i could put the micro sd in a sd card in the card reader...
I searched but couldn't find anything...could anyone post those links?
Samsung Kies?
Andriid file transfer doesnt even work for me. Wont read that the phone is even plugged in.
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Andriid file transfer doesnt even work for me. Wont read that the phone is even plugged in.
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Make sure your device is connected as a camera, not an mtp device.
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Samsung Kies?
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Kies doesnt have a working version with Mountain Lion
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Make sure your device is connected as a camera, not an mtp device.
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I have tried that but it still gives me the same message. If I use the UMS app I can get access to external without android file transfer but not internal. I really would like access as my backup from my old phone are all on my mac
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I use TuneSync. It will allow wired or wireless syncing of music from iTunes to your android device. Fairly simple to set up.
Here is the Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...EsImNvbS5oaWdod2luZHNvZnR3YXJlLnR1bmVzeW5jIl0.
Easy phone tunes is the best one I used so far. I haven't upgraded to mountain lion so not sure if it compatible. However the only annoying thing is that you can only sync everything or 1 playlist. But it's super fast so I guess that makes up for the lack of functions.
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I use TuneSync. It will allow wired or wireless syncing of music from iTunes to your android device. Fairly simple to set up.
Here is the Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...EsImNvbS5oaWdod2luZHNvZnR3YXJlLnR1bmVzeW5jIl0.
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Just downloaded this. Well worth the few bucks, IMO.
Thanks for the link.
I'm having an issue with my external sd, it's only 4gb. I formatted to fat32 and the phone acts like it wants to load, but Doesn't do anything.
This is my first time with this phone running anything aosp so I'm kind of new to this.
Any idea or suggestions? I'm on liquid smooth rc7 w/ ktoonz kernel btw.
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I'd try another Rom, personally. But this thread seems instructive.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1967242
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I'm using a 32 right now from SanDisk without trouble
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I'd try another Rom, personally. But this thread seems instructive.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1967242
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I'm using a 32 right now from SanDisk without trouble
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Yeah I tried that. I even tried the sdcard.org site but for some reason my sd card wasn't recognized! I have a mac so I just used disc utility. The funny thing is, I formatted the card, dragged my ring tones to the card and tested. They showed up, so I dragged the rest of it over. My stuff disappeared and wasn't seen in the gallery, but was in root explorer.
Is there a folder or file or something that determines the formatting? I have a lost.dir folder that comes up and I have no idea why.
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Yeah I tried that. I even tried the sdcard.org site but for some reason my sd card wasn't recognized! I have a mac so I just used disc utility. The funny thing is, I formatted the card, dragged my ring tones to the card and tested. They showed up, so I dragged the rest of it over. My stuff disappeared and wasn't seen in the gallery, but was in root explorer.
Is there a folder or file or something that determines the formatting? I have a lost.dir folder that comes up and I have no idea why.
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Ok, the lost.dir is normal.
Go into app manager, clear cache and data for Media Storage, then reboot and wait a few min for it to rescan.
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Ok, the lost.dir is normal.
Go into app manager, clear cache and data for Media Storage, then reboot and wait a few min for it to rescan.
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Thanks, I'll have to give that a try. I'm going to give Frosty JB a try and see what happens. Hopefully it works out like I'm hoping it will.
I took some pictures and a few hours later, when I decided to review them, the files wouldn't open. My S3 says that the files are corrupted. I tried opening them up with my pc but it still states the same. I don't know what happened, I didn't take the sd card out or anything. I can view older photos but not the last ones I took. I really need those pictures, is there any way to retrieve them or to fix the files? Please help!
I have a T-Mobile GS3 4.1.2 and a Samsung 64gb class 10 SD card.
Are you rooted? Using a Rom? Any mods, particularly camera mods?
Is your sd formatted as exFat? May be that the card is going bad. Make sure you back up all the data on it just in case.
If you take more pics, do they all show up correctly?
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Are you rooted? Using a Rom? Any mods, particularly camera mods?
Is your sd formatted as exFat? May be that the card is going bad. Make sure you back up all the data on it just in case.
If you take more pics, do they all show up correctly?
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Thanks for the quick response.
-My phone is rooted.
-I am not using any roms.
-No mods, everything is stock (except for the root).
-The sd is formatted as exFat.
-I can still view and save things in the sd card.
-I made a copy of everything and saved it in my laptop. I can see the corrupted files, it shows they are there, their size, info, and everything but when I try opening them it just says that the files are corrupted.
Set the camera to save to internal storage. Take some pics and if they're corrupted its a camera or software problem. If they're ok it may be the card.
Try reforming the card and try again.
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Set the camera to save to internal storage. Take some pics and if they're corrupted its a camera or software problem. If they're ok it may be the card.
Try reforming the card and try again.
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I can save them in my internal storage. I'm pretty sure its not the camera. I just want to recover my photos but if I reformat it, I will lose everything.
Is there any way to fix the files or do something around those lines that will allow me to recover them?
No idea. If they were corrupted when they were saved, you're probably outta luck I'm afraid. Even.If they were corrupted later, I wouldn't know how to even start on something like this. I doubt it's really even very possible. Sorry.
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And the only way to know if it's the camera is to set it to internal, and take pictures.
If they're fine, it's not the camera. If they're also corrupted, it MIGHT be the camera.
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No idea. If they were corrupted when they were saved, you're probably outta luck I'm afraid. Even.If they were corrupted later, I wouldn't know how to even start on something like this. I doubt it's really even very possible. Sorry.
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And the only way to know if it's the camera is to set it to internal, and take pictures.
If they're fine, it's not the camera. If they're also corrupted, it MIGHT be the camera.
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Thanks for the help, I'll keep trying to figure something out.