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.
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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!
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.
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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So today I noticed all my photos in my gallery app were greyed out... thought it was strange. Selected one... big grey pic... then another.... and another....
These pics span the internal storage and sd card....
First I deleted the cache to the gallery app.... same result...
OK... went into es file explorer.... dcim... camera..... all JPEGs gone....
Went into the sdcard..... have multiple folders under pics main folder... all empty... except for any video files...
Then mounted on my PC... and they also don't show.
What could of happened to cause this.... I wouldn't normally care but I lost a lot of pics of my kids... that spanned 3+ years that weren't all backed up. Any help on the snowballs chance in hell of recovering this would be appreciated.... but at the very least any reasonable explanation as to why this may have happened would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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You could try pulling the sd card out, putting it in the computer directly, and then using a data restore or undelete app. As long as the sectors haven't been rewritten, they should be recoverable.
Also, this may help for the future. I use my phone to capture my kids as well. What I've been doing is using the auto upload features in both Google+ and DropBox, to back pics up in replicate. Sucks for bandwidth and battery usage, but it is what is is. lol
Hope you get them back!
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Forza Palermo!
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You could try pulling the sd card out, putting it in the computer directly, and then using a data restore or undelete app. As long as the sectors haven't been rewritten, they should be recoverable.
Also, this may help for the future. I use my phone to capture my kids as well. What I've been doing is using the auto upload features in both Google+ and DropBox, to back pics up in replicate. Sucks for bandwidth and battery usage, but it is what is is. lol
Hope you get them back!
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I will try that when i get the chance.... just wish i knew WHY this happened. So frustrating!
So i was able to recover my files on the external sd card with a card reader.... now how would i do the same on the internal card, if we cant mount it with usb mass storage mode?
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So i was able to recover my files on the external sd card with a card reader.... now how would i do the same on the internal card, if we cant mount it with usb mass storage mode?
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There is a pc program called recova I think it's from pirova. I wiped my phone once and was able to do the deep scan and recovered them. Hope it helps good luck.
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So i was able to recover my files on the external sd card with a card reader.... now how would i do the same on the internal card, if we cant mount it with usb mass storage mode?
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Unfortunately, I don't think that one's doable with the way the device mounts. You may be able to mount it as a drive via recovery, but I'm not sure.
Edit: Just noticed your other post. You're asking the right thing. Hope you get an answer. If CWM doesn't have it, you could try TWRP.
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Unfortunately, I don't think that one's doable with the way the device mounts. You may be able to mount it as a drive via recovery, but I'm not sure.
Edit: Just noticed your other post. You're asking the right thing. Hope you get an answer. If CWM doesn't have it, you could try TWRP.
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Recova is what i used on the SD card and worked perfectly.
Also, i flashed TWRP... and the option isnt there either, so i will assume that its not possible on our phone yet... so for now im screwed...
am afraid to install any new programs or files, in fear of losing my more current pics, which were internally.
That happened to me too, but i am using the GS2 Tmobile, after flashing cm 9 nightlybuild. but my picture on my sd card, so i guess will use recova.
Thanks and hope you get your pictures recovered.
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It sucks that you lost quite a few pictures that mean a lot to you. I do see sincerely hope that you now understand the importance of backing up these important files. This really goes for everyone. Keep important files backed up in at least one other place, and keep it up to date. Most people don't start doing backups until they've lost something that's irreplaceable.
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.
Hi guys I am on clean rom 3.5 with the perseus kernel 29 running his 5g profile for undervolt. I recently noticed I wasnt getting that great battery life. I installed battery stats and have noticed that something cslled media server is eating aloy of my battery. Even when I am not consuming any media. Any ideas on this situation and what I ciuld do to rectify it? Also how much battery to twitter and google reader widgets generally drain?
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It's an app. I had to uninstall Hotels.com due to this same problem.
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How the hell can I figure which app?
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I had this same problem. Are you using an external sd card? If so remove it. Reset battery statistics and see if it is still draining. Also take note of what processes media server is using. I had to reformat my sd card... And put the files I wanted on it back on... Now everything works fine. Apparently I had a few files on my sd card that forced media server to be in a scanning loop.
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Also, if you've ever linked that phone/sd to a Mac computer either via phone or sd card slot, Macs put erroneous files onto sd card. So I suggest formatting the sd card via phone or via a Windows system. FYI.
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I had this same problem. Are you using an external sd card? If so remove it. Reset battery statistics and see if it is still draining. Also take note of what processes media server is using. I had to reformat my sd card... And put the files I wanted on it back on... Now everything works fine. Apparently I had a few files on my sd card that forced media server to be in a scanning loop.
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Also, if you've ever linked that phone/sd to a Mac computer either via phone or sd card slot, Macs put erroneous files onto sd card. So I suggest formatting the sd card via phone or via a Windows system. FYI.
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Are you talking about the the phones memory or the external memory card? Thanks
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The physical sd card. My problem was that I have used that sd card since the days of my nexus one. When I took a look at that sd card on my mac and viewed the hidden files there were some odd files on it. So I did some googling and come to find out some of those files would craft problems with Android. So I backed up all my music and pics from the sd card into a Windows system. Then I reformatted the card, threw the files back on. And voila, it worked. I have seen on other forums that people have had this problem. Some of which weren't running sd cards. .. But this seemed to fix my problem. I must also add that I didn't narrow the problem down 100%. While reformatting I also deleted a lot of files from previous applications. So that not too say that maybe those particular files weren't causing the problems.
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