I accidently erased my pictures folder from the internal memory of my S3. I understand I may be able to recover the deleted photos/videos with photo recovery software and enabling my phone as a USB mass storage device so I have.... 1. successfully rooted my phone 2. downloaded Stellar Recovery Software 3. downloaded SGS3 Easy UMS. The problem is I can't get the software to mount to the internal memory to see the file.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you ....
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I need to recover some pics that somehow got deleted on my phone. Anyone know of a file recovery tool that works for the Nexus? Since the phone used MTP for connections to a PC, the internal drive is not seen as an attached drive like an external sdcard. Therefore, conventional file recovery tools won't recognize the storage.
Hello,
I recently flashed to CM. I then wanted to flash to stock so that I could update the PRL. When I did I accidentally wiped the Internal flash memory. I had a bunch of pictures and video that I'd like to recover if possible. I've found that all the disk/photo recovery software requires USB Mass Storage so that the card is recognized. I am unable to get USB Mass Storage on my Galaxy S3 and SGS3 UMS App seems to only work for External SD Cards.
I was unable to find a way to use adb to mount the drive, but if there is I'd appreciate the help.
Is there a way to mount the internal flash memory so that it is recognized as a hard drive that can be scanned by the data recovery software?
Phone: Sprint Galaxy S3 16gb
Recovery - TWRP 2.3.0.0
ROM - CM10
Thanks
Samah
I do not think you are going to be able to mount the internal storage (which appears as the internal sdcard) as Mass Storage that is going to allow you to run a normal recovery program. There are android apps (such as Undelete For Root) that would do what you want from the phone but as far as I know they only support FAT partitions. The internal sdcard of your phone is not FAT (I believe it is ext4) even though it looks as if it is. It still may be worth trying Undelete For Root... nothing to lose!
You may be out of luck, but keep looking.
Hexamob Recovery has support for ext4. I have never used but it may be your only chance. I be curious to see if it works.
It does look like Hexamob may work (according to the claims). There is a Hexamob Recovery Lite that is a free app and also a Pro version that is pay.
Hexamob Pro worked
I've now tried both suggestions.
The Undelete for Root didn't work as it does not recognize exFat.
Hexamob Lite was unable to find anything to recover, but the Pro version worked. It seems to be able to recover a set number of files each time it's run. After running it a few times, I was able to recover a good number of the pictures.
Thank you.
I am happy that Hexamob Recovery worked for you, I cant stand losing pictures.
Me either. I downloaded at least 6 different disc/photo recovery softwares to get my photos back.
Can someone tell me how to change the subject of this thread to [Solved]? I think that's what I'm supposed to do.
Firstly Happy New Year to all on the forum, my phone has just had a disaster can anyone help please.
My AT&T Glide crashed today in town, and on reboot I couldnt see the MMC 32gb card, which I thought had been corrupted. Well it was, when I put in another 16gb card the phone wont mount it, then I noticed that the internal usb disk isnt mounted either or even recognised ??
Hows this happened and can it be restored simply do I have to download a new dev rom and re flash from the 1.18gb I have left shown on phone as I cant put it to MMC card.
My phone has custom firmware Osimood.0122.RUXKJ5 which has been great up until this MMC sd card crash.
Any help gratefully received as its my work phone and I need it up and running asap.
Many thanks
Paul
Can you boot into cwm? I assume you have it installed. See if you can access the internal sd card from there. If yes then most probably a simple flash will fix everything, or even a nandroid backup assuming you have that as well. If no its not seen in CWM, then I do not know someone else will have to chime in, seems like something is very wrong for it to suddenly lose its memory. Could be some type of controller our buffer that went.
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Thank you for your reply, I went in to CWM and can see an update file on a the sd card so technically if I get the Osimood zip file I could reinstall the system but I am unsure which disk it is seeing this file from I dont think its the external MMC or internal USB so how to I get the file on a storage area that the phone can see.
On the phones settings, under storage pane, USB now has the option to Format USB storage, this has appeared since mounting the system files etc within CWM as most were set to unmounted, but it would not let me mount the sd card as far as I could tell from CWM, when I go to update system menu the option to install update.zip but which disk is this as I could not mount any disk from CWM to view mounted files such as directories etc.
I am in the process of recovering the MMC card that the phone crashed so not all is lost, but I am pretty sure there were files in the Glides USB storage that I would like to save if possible, if I format this storage I am unlikely to recover whats on it, but would a straight reinstall of Osimood format this disk anyway ?
One last question does anyone know what the option "download" is on the power off menu on Osimood it is along side recovery, reboot and power off etc.
ATB
Sorry one last thing I have noticed, when in storage settings SD card has the option to mount when selected it says preparing sd card but nothing actually happens the notice just goes and I'm back to square one, USB has no option in the menu to mount just to format.
I hope that the above is significant in what has happened here.
Thanks
Boot into CWM, enable "mount USB storage", then use a PC to check the internal storage for filesystem problems.
If that doesn't fix it, next step is to factory reset I'm afraid.
Hi everyone, thank you so much for all the assistance I have been at work and therefore forced to format the internal disk which once down the ext sd card became visible again ??? once reinstalling the apps again all is well again, my biggest issue is that all the sd card app back ups failed me as it wiped the ext sd card the internal was wiped on reformat so had to start again.
Note to self back up apks to computer is much safer the ext sd card.
Just hope it doesnt happen again the apk shopper was the culprit that crashed it all.
Many thanks brilliant forum.
ATB
Hello
camera pics was accidentally deleted now ..i downloaded wondershare ( photorecovery program ) connected phone by usb to scan and recover..but nothing was found
any other accurate app or way to recover lost pics?
( no sd card attached ..everything on phone memory)
thanks
Hello
You can try Undelete Files recommended by Dr.Ketan in the All-in-one thread.
Root needed.
I forget to update thread but it works only on FAT partition, so won't work on note2
On note 2 we don't have mass storage so really difficult task.
@OP
Some have reported Drivedroid on play store can enable mass storage on note2, try it if you get mass storage for int memory then use PC recovery SW.
Hi
I am running omega v15 with teamwin and i went and stupidly wiped internal storage!! so now all my photos are gone!
Is there anyway to recover that partition? anyway to recover the data that I wiped?
Super super mad with myself!
if there is anyway you can make your internal memory appear as a storage device, besides MTP, on your computer you maybe able to recover using recovery software for Windows. Also, try disk digger, it's not guaranteed but worth a try.
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its crazy!!
Why is it possible to recover from SD Card but not internal storage?
1. Boot into recovery
2. Mount as USB storage
3. Use drive recovery software like Recuva
4. ???
5. Profit
Nah stupid is not keeping a backup of your photos.
Sent from the mighty Note II
So I didnt give up and was able to recover over 2 gigs of photo and videos using hexamob recovery app. Awesome stuff