My Lumia 900's primary computer was my work laptop(say SYS1). One day my work laptop crashed.
The IT team had the OS re-installed on a new Hard disk and gave it with the restored backup, how ever the zune sync profile located in appdata folder wasn't. I tried manually copying from the old drive (that crashed), but no luck. Now that old drive is gone.
Now i synced with the new system (say SYS2), and edited the sync relationship to make it primary computer.
The songs, media i had synced with the SYS1, is not visible any more in neither phone nor Zune. But it is still there in my Lumia 900.
I'm not able to see the songs i had in Zune from SYS1, only a handful of songs that i synced from SYS2. It is occupying about 5GB of space.
Please help me solve this.
The solutions i'm trying/tried are:
Going through this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2361350) to get to mass storage mode and delete the files. Will post update if there is any progress.
Format my phone
Please let me know if there are alternate solutions, whether i'm going in the right direction?
Please let me know if you need more information.
thanks
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I have deleted all my pictures and videos by accident is there anyway i could recover them as i cant use a program on pc as it mounts as mtp and they dont recognize it.
i am on LiQUIDSMOOTH-v1.1-Maguro rom if that is of any help.
Thanks
Hopefully you have google plus installed with instant upload on, if you do then they're on your google account and you can get them back. If not your sol... Sorry.
You can maybe mount your sdcard and try to un delete files with a disk recovery program but its not a guarantee since it works by read data blocks that are marked as deleted aka writable.
how will i mount it as a sd card as when i plug it into pc it just sees it as mtp and cant see it with recovery programs.
and i dint set up the google plus instant upload so no way that way.
And i havent used the phone really since deleted everything so dont think anything will have been written to them parts so maybe more chance of getting them back
Thidge said:
how will i mount it as a sd card as when i plug it into pc it just sees it as mtp and cant see it with recovery programs.
and i dint set up the google plus instant upload so no way that way.
And i havent used the phone really since deleted everything so dont think anything will have been written to them parts so maybe more chance of getting them back
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You can't mount it as USB Mass Storage. Its all one partition, so it can't be done. You've got MTP and PTP, that's it.
Everything is probably lost.
Set up Dropbox instant upload or Google+ instant upload for the future.
I never used this app but its worth a shot. I have used similar on a PC and it brought back files from 7 plus years ago. Tell us how it works cause these apps, while not used often are priceless and ill make not of it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hexamob.hexamobrecoverylite
Well scratch that our phones arent supported...
Hello,
I am moving from my HTC Desire S to the GN2. I am very happy with the phone and plan to keep it stock non-root.
I am having a hurrendous time copying files, I use a Mac at home and after a few hours messing about I managed to get kies working (Android File Transfer is useless!!)
On my work Laptop I'm running Windows 7 and have admin rights and connect my GN2 and it comes up as a Portable device. I can browse to the internal and external storage and can read the data but not write.
Am I doing something wrong?
why doen't it come up as removable storage??
I did search the forum but couldnt find much on issue with Windows 7 and GN2, plenty on Mac and GN2 but I have that working now.
Thanks
I used this last night and it worked perfectly. I opened up iTunes and just dragged my playlist over. I was browsing through developer options and i noticed a check box "protect sd card" perhaps you have that checked which is preventing you from copying files.
www.android.com/filetransfer/
So I connected it to my laptop to clean up some of my files and folders and to transfer some things onto my pc.
I remember deleting some folder called Mogo-Audiance or something along those lines, as well as another folder that seemed to be unimportant. I try to then move some music files from the download folder into my Music folder (transferring within the phone at this point) but it says theres some error and it can't be moved. I rebooted and replugged tried again no avail. Then tried moving a picture from phone to the computer. Error message again. Reboot once more and this time when I go into MTP only two files remain: Android and Viber. I check my phone itself and all my photos/videos/music are gone. Apps still remain intact however. I already tried Stellar Phoenix Recovery but it won't detect my phone.
Very frustrated and have no idea how to proceed.....
I attached some screenshots showing empty phone folders on pc and phone itself as well as recovery program being unable to detect phone.
Android 4.3 Jellybean-Carrier: WIND Mobile (Canada)
It cannot detect phone because it needs to Mount as USB mass storage device. No external storage= no UMS
You might be able to dump raw IMG somehow of storage and put on flash drive and try to recover... but takes lotta work.
Seems like you deleted something you shouldn't have. Take it as lesson learned to not just delete random files if you don't know what it is
ashclepdia said:
It cannot detect phone because it needs to Mount as USB mass storage device. No external storage= no UMS
You might be able to dump raw IMG somehow of storage and put on flash drive and try to recover... but takes lotta work.
Seems like you deleted something you shouldn't have. Take it as lesson learned to not just delete random files if you don't know what it is
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I'm actually about to cry. The photos I had on there were invaluable to me, please explain that way that you said I might be able to get it back.
taino001 said:
I'm actually about to cry. The photos I had on there were invaluable to me, please explain that way that you said I might be able to get it back.
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I'm sorry to hear that.
And also sorry to say I cannot help anymore than providing this information here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
As I said, it is a lengthy and maybe in depth process but MAY be possible. No guarantee.
I haven't ever had to try this tho so I cannot give any more or better info other than what is in that thread.
Just take your time, use Google for things you cannot understand(you may ask me or here in this thread also for clarification of some steps and if I can help I will) and try not to stress.
And one thing I will recommend for future use is to install G+ and turn on photo sync settings. I have this on. You get 15gb free storage for photos and will backup as you take pictures and videos OR whenever you tell it to.
Or you could use dropbox or similar as that also has a photo sync option available. These things are invaluable in terms of peace of mind for if situation like this ever occurs again.
Hi, a few weeks ago I tried to get a new app so went to my Google Play account and it wouldn't let me open it, kept asking me to log in. Anyway I eventually left it as it was driving me nuts but since then none of my apps will update and none of my Google accounts will backup, the most important one being my photos. I can't use Google to seach either. I can log in to my account on all other devices just not my phone. I also tried to connect my phone to my laptop to backup my photos as I'm thinking I'm going to have to do a hard reset but all my older photos were showing but not the newer ones that I have taken and you can view on my phone.
Can anyone help as this is driving me crazy.
Thanks
Remove the Google account from Accounts and add it again..?
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Remove the Google account from Accounts and add it again..?
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I've tried this and it didn't help but thanks
What are you using to view your files? A file explorer or HTC Sync Manager? I would use the former.
If that doesn't show all your stuff, then I would use TWRP to backup everything or to copy files onto an external SD card and then plug that into the computer to copy everything before running an RUU and resetting everything, which is what I would do.
Hello Guys,
Phone Specs: Note 4 SM-910A Android 6.0.1
I'm felling kinda "not so smart" today, because by mistake I pressed the Trash icon when in the Gallery, just wanting to get rid of one image in a folder and quickly realized that preview was for the entire folder and not a simngle image thus the entire folder of 3000+ images and videos where deleted by mistake
I tried to stop it and it looked ok, nothing happened "seemly", but within a few mins all was gone.
The second not so smart thing is a lack of a current backup, as I don't seem to connect my phone to a computer like I used to, so it was out of sign out of mind. So my last backup was May of 2017.
Then using apps like DiskDigger shows me 13,000+ files, but most are junk from what I can see and I'm still missing what I wanted to keep / restore.
dr.fone and anything I could find seems like pure trash or at least for my phones version it has ZERO value. Also tried taking the MicroSD and using working USB converter(s)many computers will not even read it. So I will not reform it, or maybe all will be lost forever. It must be in some type of proprietary format, but I can read the card, :when it's in the phone" in the list under My Computer showing SAMSUNG-SM-N910A as a drive / device.
Also I'm not sure what to use that works like an Itunes type of backup, that will always backup even over WIFI, so this can never happen again. Are there any tricks to this that I'm missing, is there no file restore that indicates previous path and or deletion time and date.?
Thank guys for any help / direction you can offer.
Don't know about recovering your files but I use foldersync to backup my phone automatically at night when it's plugged in to the wall and on wifi, I set it so it backs up to my smb share. The app has several ways of doing backups and where to save backups
If u have Google photo sync enabled then ure stuff is backed up so check ure Google account first.
If not them there are 2 ways go about it from pc or straight from ure phone.
Install one of the hundred of free undelete/restore apps from playstore or Google on pc. And just let it scan ure SD card it will find all ure pics just don't save anything new to the SD card until I've recovered it or u will start to loose some data as new stuff overwrites the old. As for videos Ive had mix results so your milage may vary u may get some u may get no n e u may get all but unplayable.....who knows video files are more complex than pictures and documents.