Hello
Just today, i happen to make a big mistake - as in deleted my Whattsupp Photo Gallery. I've read all about the internet about certain software doing a kind of recovery work and being able to get the pictures back, yet all are paid (and pretty expensive too)
Is there an alternative way, please? Some free, eventually.
I'm using OmniROM on a N7100 Note 2 - if it matters at all. Phone is rooted, of course.
Thank you very much, any help would be greatly appreciated
if you can get your phone to mount the sd as usb mass storage (some kernels, apps can do it) instead of MTP, you can try to use recuva on windows, DONT write to your SD until you recover it. You can write over the photos sections and they will be erased for good.
Well, AGNI kernel couldn't do it - anyone knows some apps that i can mount my internal SD with?
Thank you very much
Did you find anything useful? I need to mount my internal sdcard as mass storage to run a recovery software, too
Thanks
alexandruvlad said:
Well, AGNI kernel couldn't do it - anyone knows some apps that i can mount my internal SD with?
Thank you very much
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alexandruvlad said:
Well, AGNI kernel couldn't do it - anyone knows some apps that i can mount my internal SD with?
Thank you very much
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.defianttech.diskdigger
This has worked for me various times. But be careful as it sometimes causes the insufficient storage error.
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Hey guys for some reason there is close to 8gb lost on my phones internal memory. I looked on the DiskUsage app and there is close to 8gb that is just taken up by "System Data". Is that normal? I have 32 Gigs total. 26 Available to user. 10 gigs of music. Apps and stuff are on the "Internal Storage" which is 2.11 gigs. Where is the rest? It says the "System Data" alone is worth 8 gigs. Im just confused.
Any Advice or help would be nice. Thank you!
There's a massive thread on it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25568370
Basically you need to copy everything onto your computer, format the card then copy everything back onto it.
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hopscotchjunkie said:
There's a massive thread on it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25568370
Basically you need to copy everything onto your computer, format the card then copy everything back onto it.
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Hey bro thank you for reply and help! Just a quick question. Doing that, will that affect my ability to use my current rom which is CyanogenMod 9. In other words will formatting the internal storage mean that I will have to reflash the ROM onto my phone?
Packer2058 said:
Hey bro thank you for reply and help! Just a quick question. Doing that, will that affect my ability to use my current rom which is CyanogenMod 9. In other words will formatting the internal storage mean that I will have to reflash the ROM onto my phone?
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No. ROMs are stored in your internal storage, not the user-accessed storage that the phone sets as SD card storage.
ISSUE!
OMG PLS HELP! The USB wont mount after format and says "Damaged SD Card" and "SD Car Error" :/ idk what to do ... I formatted the Storage to regain lost space upon the recommendation of another peson on the forum ... But I formatted on my Mac and it did it as Ex-Fat :/.
PLEASE! any help would be appreciated! Really worried :/
Can you still mount it on your Mac? Try reformatting again - it needs to be fat32 (preferably with 16kb block size).
Cant Mount
no cant mount it. doesnt show up :/
Packer2058 said:
no cant mount it. doesnt show up :/
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I don't know anything about tools available on OSX, so I'm not sure I'm going to be much help for that side of things. If you've got a windows machine sitting around I'd plug it into that; it should recognise that it's not formatted correctly and offer to format it to fat32 straight away. Otherwise maybe something like whatever the OSX equivalent of a partition manager like gParted is would work to write a new filesystem without mounting the drive, but I can't advise you there.
I am having an issue with my epic 4g touch. The phone is confusing the internal memory and the external sd card. So when I download something it ends up going into the internal from music to apps. In the settings/storage it says I have things on my sd card but if I go to it in root explorer, it shows nothing. My problem is that when I flash a new rom and do a nandroid backup, the backup disappears on me. I will put the backup on the sd card but when I go back to it, it's gone. It doesn't show up on the internal either. The last time I flashed a rom I got stuck with no backup. Needless to say I am a little scared to try again. It has done this with two separate sd cards. Please help? I am confused. Does anyone else have this problem?
I have had some similar issues. For me it doesn't acknowledge my external sd card alot of times lately.
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You guys would get alot more help if you made it easy for people to help.
What ROM are you on....have you modded anything, etc
Snazarian said:
You guys would get alot more help if you made it easy for people to help.
What ROM are you on....have you modded anything, etc
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I am stock just rooted.
OcXcPunk said:
I am stock just rooted.
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Have you tried removing and formatting the MicroSD card through Windows?
(Or mount as USB in FI03 and format that way)
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.
I've been using CM10 and now 10.1 for a while now. I like it alot but im having a little issue...
I've searched XDA and found a couple of mention of this issue but no workaround or more info than the usual "yes, i'm also having this issue".
When i connect my phone to the computer, the SD card and internal storage are inverted, yet they report proper sizes.
I wouldnt mind if it was only a cosmetic issue, however i'm having issues copying files on my internal memory because my SD Card is full...
For exemple... when i plug my phone i see "SD Card" with 346mb free out of 59.4gb (using a 64gb sdcard) and i see Internal memory as 8.41gb free out of 12gb. If i want to copy a file that is bigger than 350mb on my internal memory, i have to go into "SD Card" and copy it there and then it fails to copy saying there isnt enough free space.
So yeah, while the cosmetic inversion doesnt bother me, the fact that it's checking for the required free-space in the wrong place before copying is a bit annoying.
I'm using my SD Card for music storage, i like to keep things separated and well sorted... so right now, my solution is to delete enough stuff on my SD Card so that it has more free-space than the files i want to copy on my internal storage
Any workaround other than that?
nlz242 said:
I've been using CM10 and now 10.1 for a while now. I like it alot but im having a little issue...
I've searched XDA and found a couple of mention of this issue but no workaround or more info than the usual "yes, i'm also having this issue".
When i connect my phone to the computer, the SD card and internal storage are inverted, yet they report proper sizes.
I wouldnt mind if it was only a cosmetic issue, however i'm having issues copying files on my internal memory because my SD Card is full...
For exemple... when i plug my phone i see "SD Card" with 346mb free out of 59.4gb (using a 64gb sdcard) and i see Internal memory as 8.41gb free out of 12gb. If i want to copy a file that is bigger than 350mb on my internal memory, i have to go into "SD Card" and copy it there and then it fails to copy saying there isnt enough free space.
So yeah, while the cosmetic inversion doesnt bother me, the fact that it's checking for the required free-space in the wrong place before copying is a bit annoying.
I'm using my SD Card for music storage, i like to keep things separated and well sorted... so right now, my solution is to delete enough stuff on my SD Card so that it has more free-space than the files i want to copy on my internal storage
Any workaround other than that?
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I'm not sure if there's a workaround but you could try mounting through recovery?
It sounds like a ROM problem, did you clean flash CM10.1?
BWolf56 said:
I'm not sure if there's a workaround but you could try mounting through recovery?
It sounds like a ROM problem, did you clean flash CM10.1?
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I did do a clean flash. Over the holidays, i played around with AOKP and CM10.1 as i had issues getting my Wifi to work on CM10.1 and AOKP was working fine (ended up breaking in AOKP after the holidays too, had to change my router's setting from simple WPA to WPA2, but thats another story). So while playing around, i ended up wipping the phone a few times.
Sadly, i don't remember if the issue was also present in AOKP or if it was just CM10.1
I'm using TWRP, nothing shows up on my computer when i plug the phone while running TWRP. So i'm not sure...
Just for reference, here's two other posts with the same issue, both on CM10.1:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35955212#post35955212
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36524266&postcount=184
nlz242 said:
I did do a clean flash. Over the holidays, i played around with AOKP and CM10.1 as i had issues getting my Wifi to work on CM10.1 and AOKP was working fine (ended up breaking in AOKP after the holidays too, had to change my router's setting from simple WPA to WPA2, but thats another story). So while playing around, i ended up wipping the phone a few times.
Sadly, i don't remember if the issue was also present in AOKP or if it was just CM10.1
I'm using TWRP, nothing shows up on my computer when i plug the phone while running TWRP. So i'm not sure...
Just for reference, here's two other posts with the same issue, both on CM10.1:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35955212#post35955212
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36524266&postcount=184
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I'm not having this issue on AOKP, like I mentioned, it could be ROM specific.
As for TWRP, there should be a mount option.
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I'm not having this issue on AOKP, like I mentioned, it could be ROM specific.
As for TWRP, there should be a mount option.
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Yeah, im pretty sure its ROM specific too...
For TWRP, there is a mount button, but it doesnt seem to be there for USB mounting. I couldnt find the option to mount anything on USB...
I backed up everything and ill do a complete wipe now, just to see if it fixes it...
nlz242 said:
Yeah, im pretty sure its ROM specific too...
For TWRP, there is a mount button, but it doesnt seem to be there for USB mounting. I couldnt find the option to mount anything on USB...
I backed up everything and ill do a complete wipe now, just to see if it fixes it...
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Mount storage perhaps? Or mount internal/external.
I'm downloading a big file right now so I can't check but will check later if you haven't got it.
BWolf56 said:
Mount storage perhaps? Or mount internal/external.
I'm downloading a big file right now so I can't check but will check later if you haven't got it.
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Well good sir, it seems like your initial assessment was quite correct. After wiping everything (Factory, cache, dalvik, format internal) and re installing CM10.1 latest nightly, my issue is fixed.
Now im reloading everything using Titanium Backup, hopefully i get all my settings back, without restoring the issue... :laugh:
Thanks alot!
Hey everyone,
I am having issues with my external SD card, which apparently is a design part of KitKat. I have read of some fixes for other devices, but before I try any of those, do you know if they will work on the T989? If so, what fix do you recommend? Thanks in advance!
I am having no problems running HellKat which is a 4.4.2 ROM if I remember correctly. External storage seems to function fine on my device.
What issues are you having? The only issue I had was that the phone didn't allow for Mass Storage anymore and needed to use MTP/PTP. I did up a quick and dirty shell script to get around this though and I'm more than happy with the results.
bmg002 said:
I am having no problems running HellKat which is a 4.4.2 ROM if I remember correctly. External storage seems to function fine on my device.
What issues are you having? The only issue I had was that the phone didn't allow for Mass Storage anymore and needed to use MTP/PTP. I did up a quick and dirty shell script to get around this though and I'm more than happy with the results.
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I am running this ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2521015
I've been happy with it for quite a while, but maybe it wasn't using my external SD when I thought it was. My external has 12.29GB avail, but my internal is full. Everything tries to download to the internal, and I get a message that download failed for no space. I was reading some on it, and it seems like KitKat doesn't really support external SD. (Unless I've interpretted things wrong, which I guess is a possibility.) I found a few workarounds online, but I haven't heard of the devs before, and I couldn't find much on XDA, so just thought I'd post it here for the experts.
Thanks!
Brando81 said:
I am running this ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2521015
I've been happy with it for quite a while, but maybe it wasn't using my external SD when I thought it was. My external has 12.29GB avail, but my internal is full. Everything tries to download to the internal, and I get a message that download failed for no space. I was reading some on it, and it seems like KitKat doesn't really support external SD. (Unless I've interpretted things wrong, which I guess is a possibility.) I found a few workarounds online, but I haven't heard of the devs before, and I couldn't find much on XDA, so just thought I'd post it here for the experts.
Thanks!
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Sounds like normal issues...look into app2sd or similar apps. And check your app default download locations. I know most default to internal.
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