So, I bought my wife a new Nexus 7 (2013) as a wedding gift last month and she loved it. However, a couple days ago she installed an update and got the 'hanging at x' issue. After trying to fix it without a full wipe, I was forced to wipe it. Unfortunately, she took a lot of photos of our honeymoon on the Nexus 7's camera. I am trying to recovery those files and have tried Recuva and Odboso FileRetrieval, but neither one seems to recognize or read the Nexus 7 when plugged into my laptop and thus cannot even attempt to recover any files. Does anyone have any tips on how I can get one of these types of programs to recognize the Nexus 7 when it is plugged in so I can see if any file recovery is possible? Thanks in advance.
If the files are still on the device: have you tried installing a file manager (like "AntTek Explorer" or "Astro FileManager" or something like this)? If not, try to connect the Nexus to your computer, it should show up as an mass-storage device - from that you could take a raw snapshot and give some file recovery tools a try.
Your data is most likely gone.
An ext4 partition is used for '/data' that also includes a '/data/media' folder that is mounted as a virtual '/sdcard'. So you need a recovery tool that understands the ext4 file system. Even if you find a tool to recover files from ext4, Android 4.3 uses trim and if a trim cycle did run in the meantime (runs every 24h if there is idle time + enough battery), your data can't be recovered anymore.
Even after you've accidentally deleted and/or formatted the partition, the data is still on your device. There are apps in the Playstore that claim to do the same thing as similar PC software does as long as you have not overwritten the data.
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Unrooted LTE Galaxy Nexus here - thought I was deleting a picture from my gallery, turned out it was a folder. Lost a bunch of videos and pics I would love to get back. Tried a bunch of recovery programs, but they all need a mapped drive letter to work. Google+ backed up some of the pics/and videos but most are not there (also have no idea how to get them back into the phone...) Anyone have any suggestions? I would rather not root, and it this stage its probably too late any way. Thanks!
I dont know how easy data recovery is on flash memory.. For physical disks I have always used Ontrack EasyRecovery Pro. It isnt cheap, but it has restored stuff that I did full pass wipes on.
Thanks for the response - there are a ton of recovery software out there, that will work great on the flash memory. Unfortunately, as I mentioned, they rely on the attached storage to be mapped as drive in Win 7, and the retarded MTA usb connection doesn't allow that for Galaxy Nexus...
You can use dd to create an image of the Galaxy Nexus Flash memory (just the sdcard folder), and use that image as input to a recovery program that supports it. There is a very good and powerful one for linux, its name is foremost. I know it might be difficult if you dont use linux but I sure recommend it.
Here is a tutorial on foremost on Ubuntu linux.
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/recover-deleted-files-with-foremostscalpel-in-ubuntu.html
EDIT: I dont know if you have to be rooted to use the dd command to create an image.
Interesting idea, thanks! There are Windows image creating software like Daemon Tools that seems to do same job. I wonder though if the image will carry over the deleted files if they are not seen by the Android OS...
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/zaimagerecovery.html
Try this solution that helped me before: How to recover photos videos from galaxy nexus phone
hope this helps.
Hello there,
it is one of the best phone and the easiest to recover or update in my opinion but,
the issue of no memory card is really something bad for your files in case if something happened to the phone!
i know backup is so important but what if you phone crashed all of the sudden because of an application update and you will enter in the repeated boot loops and you have to reset the phone or flash new software!!
OH! Then your will loose everything in the mobile !
it is really sad it happened to me twice in2 weeks i lost allot of good pictures.
i am sure most of the phone users tried to recover the lost files and no one could do it because the phone is identified as MTP, no logical letter drive can be assigned to the phone!!!
All recover software’s couldn’t find the phone and even when i tried hexcomp from the market to recover the pictures, couldn’t do it.
my question for our developers is there any scripts can make the phone work as usb when it is switched off ??
or ,
is there any way to assign a logical drive to the phone instead of MTP so we can recover the lost files?
I don’t know why Goggle didn’t think of such problem because it happened to allot of people and I am not used to back up my files before because there were in memory card.
I really hope the developers will work on such issue because this is the worst thing I found it in the phone.
I might be wrong but I think you can pull everything off the phone using adb whilst in recovery mode?
Dropbox.
It can sync pictures as soon as you take them.
You can sync files between multiple devices, including uploading and downloading to your phone.
Titanium Backup can be synced to drop box.
Check it out,
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTc4MjI1MTU5
Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Galaxy Nexus.
i tried Pull before it took long time without doing nothing
i know dropbox and i know what it do
i am asking the DEVELOPERS:
1-is there any scripts can make the phone work as usb when it is switched off ??
2-is there any way to assign a logical drive to the phone instead of MTP so we can recover the lost files?
Thanks
husme2000 said:
i tried Pull before it took long time without doing nothing
i know dropbox and i know what it do
i am asking the DEVELOPERS:
1-is there any scripts can make the phone work as usb when it is switched off ??
2-is there any way to assign a logical drive to the phone instead of MTP so we can recover the lost files?
Thanks
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Theoretically you probably could write a CWM script to create a virtual folder and mount that as USB media via CWM. But it would require loading the script to the phone via ADB anyways.
This has also been discussed before:
[Any way to save data on a Nexus in a bootloop?]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1448633
While updating to lollipop i accidentally relocked and unlocked the bootloader resulting in a full memory wipe but i had my college work on there so i really need to recover the data lost but upon connecting the phone to the pc it appears as "portable device" which is not detected by recovery tools as well as the android apps as the undeleter root couldn't recover the data i need so is there a way to
1- connect htc one m8 to the pc as usb storage (aka removable disk)
2- another way to recover files
Thanks in advance
The issue is that Android now mounts internal storage by MTP, as opposed to the old Mass USB storage format. So computer's can no longer read the memory like its a USB drive. I think at some point (probably not even for this phone) I saw a method to dump the files in order to perform a file recovery, but it was pretty complicated and looked like a PITA.
You can try some apps on the Play Store that claim to recover files (using the phone itself, not a computer). But I've never used any, can't vouch for them, and don't know if they really work. Also keep in mind, the more you use the phone, the higher the likelihood that the files you want will be overwritten by other data.
Good luck. But in the future you have to remember to backup important personal data before making any major changes or mods to the device. I never fail to be disappointed at how many folks never bother to backup their important data; than freak out about it once its lost. Most of the time, at that point its too late. You should have been backing it up all along. If its important to you, back it up.
Well sir thank ypu for your help i don't think ill be able not to use the phone all that long as well as im now facing that the wifi wont open which is really annoying
So I'm brand new to Android (coming from iPhone) and my friend convinced me to try and get Cyanogenmod on my phone.
Somewhere along the line I used command prompt on windows to transfer a 2GB .zip file to /system or something. This folder is nowhere in the Nexus device when you plug it in to view files.
I have no idea how to locate it or delete it (along with any other files I transferred to various system locations).
I'm basically at factory reset with nothing on my phone and it still says I have 8GB free of 10.6 - so that 2GB file is hidden somewhere I imagine.
Any ideas/advice is appreciated.
if you just flash the factory system.img file it will override whatever you have in the system folder.
You won't be able to see that with a pc viewer.
My advise is flash the stock image and then take a week and learn what you are doing. Compared to the iPhone you just skipped like 5 grades. If you do something wrong and end up with a brick then you are out a ton of money and will have to get a new device.
Hello,
I have an Oppo Find 7 for a while and I always thought that the Color OS is not very good, and specially, it comes with a very limiting partition division.
So, when I could no longer decide on which Apps to keep and which to uninstall, since I had no longer space left on my phone due to the stupid small partition for applications, I decided to format my phone, reconfigure the partitions and install a new ROM (CM 13).
I had done it often on my lapton, how difficult could it be to do it on the phone?
It all seemed to work fine, but when I started my "new" phone with CM I noticed that something was wrong. I tried to use the camera and it showed an error saying I did't have a storage device.
Well, I was sure I had left enough space for photos in the other (not OS) partition, and I had also the SD card.
I went to Settings->Storage and I saw that my phone was recognising the OS partition only (about half of all internal storage) and had a portable storage device called "sdcard0" (not the actual SD card) reading "Damaged" below.
I've tried to erase and format that partition, but it shows an error reading "command '41 volume partition disk: 179_0 public' failed with '400 41 Command failed'".
I've tried to rearrange the partitions again, to reinstall CM13, but nothing worked, so I just accepted that my phone could not take pictures. Everything that did't require to have a file system worked fine (well, I cannot see the naked ladies pictures my friends share on whatsapp). This was a few months ago, so I don't remember precisely what I did.
Recently I decided that I actually need a phone that takes pictures, so I went back to trying to fix it.
Unfortunately, I can't. At least without some custom help. I've read plenty of tutorials, forum pages, but there's always something that doesn't work in my case.
Here's what I can do with my phone:
- It boots
- It works
- Computer recognises it
- adb recognises
Here's what I can't do:
- Have any files (the file system is broken)
- Take photos
- Restart with bootloader - when I tried, the screen just shows a sitting penguin for a few seconds and then turns off. I do remember to be able to do so, but I can't now.
I've tried to load bootloader though the phone's interface, through the power+volume down button combination and through adb. They all had the same result. The stupid penguin and then darkness.
Can someone help me?
Hello, you're phone is not bricked. What is the exact name of you're ROM ? Do you have make LVM, or chinese storage partion?