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I can't seem to get this running properly. Itwont store info on my sdext4 because there is already read only files there. How can i get rid of that? I've tried every avenue via Google. Surely to God there must be an app for rooted users to change read only files.
Will someone be kind enough to offer a suggestion?
Hope this helps.
TheEvoNoob said:
I can't seem to get this running properly. Itwont store info on my sdext4 because there is already read only files there. How can i get rid of that? I've tried every avenue via Google. Surely to God there must be an app for rooted users to change read only files.
Will someone be kind enough to offer a suggestion?
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If you're talking about file permissions, I use ES File Manager to change file permissions.
Nah... That didnt work. I couldnt see them. They were evil. Not sure where i picked them up. The script was set to delete my data connection and Wifi. I ended up finding the script when I tried to partion my SD card. I had a third hidden partition with 33Mb of something F'ed up. I used another SD card and downloaded the same ROM and everything was fine. I ended up using Gparted to wipe my card. Its the ONLY thing that will wipe EVERYTHING no matter what it is. Its doesnt see "read only" scripts.
TheEvoNoob said:
I can't seem to get this running properly. Itwont store info on my sdext4 because there is already read only files there. How can i get rid of that? I've tried every avenue via Google. Surely to God there must be an app for rooted users to change read only files.
Will someone be kind enough to offer a suggestion?
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Download and run this app,make sure you follow the directions and read what each tweak is,does and how it effects your phone,before applying them,theres a tweak in miscellaneous,it will change all of your files in internal and external to (read/write).This is a beta version,even though it says pro.Also make sure whatever rom your running,theres init.d support,if not it will install it,do this first.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m8a074o1ixvr6k0/Android Tweaker ProV3.0.1.apk
My friend deleted a very important video from her Xperia Z1 Compact. The video was recorded with camera and stored in internal storage. Is there ANY way to recover it? Internal storage is mounted through MTP when connected to PC, so I can't do it via PC. Is there any way to connect internal storage as mass storage so I'm able to dig through it with a software on PC?
If not, there are apps for Android which can do this but they require root. This phone is not rooted and it's under warranty, but she said that the video is very important so she's ready to risk the phone and lose warranty. I've done rooting hundred times on my old X10 phone, but never on my Z1 (yes, I have it too, but c6903, not compact) so I'm a total newbie here. There's a 14.4.A.0.157 firmware on the phone currently (android 4.4.4) and as far as I know, I'll have to flash .108 first, root the device and then flash .157 again. But, would this wipe data on internal storage? If not, there's still a high possibility that something will overwrite the deleted video, since this is a free location now?
What should I do?
It might be possible to connect the phone to PC in USB Debugging mode, open a command prompt and adb pull the internal storage to the PC then dig through it with recovery software. Not sure if it will work but might be worth a try and make sure you have correct drivers installed to use adb. Good luck
spudata said:
It might be possible to connect the phone to PC in USB Debugging mode, open a command prompt and adb pull the internal storage to the PC then dig through it with recovery software. Not sure if it will work but might be worth a try and make sure you have correct drivers installed to use adb. Good luck
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Thank you for your answer! I tried this: adb pull/ \test and it pulled everything to C:\test but while it was doing, in CMD I saw a lot messages "Ignored special file ...." etc. and I tried with Recuva to deep scan that folder but it didn't found not a single one deleted file. Am I doing something wrong or it's not possible to do this in that way? Maybe another program instead Recuva?
xplod2841 said:
Am I doing something wrong or it's not possible to do this in that way? Maybe another program instead Recuva?
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I've yet to see a success story of recovering something deleted from the internal memory.
XperienceD said:
I've yet to see a success story of recovering something deleted from the internal memory.
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You're saying that this is impossible or almost impossible? If it is, tell me now, before I proceed with rooting the device. Don't want to risk the phone and void the warranty for nothing.
xplod2841 said:
You're saying that this is impossible or almost impossible? If it is, tell me now, before I proceed with rooting the device. Don't want to risk the phone and void the warranty for nothing.
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I'm saying based on the number of times People have tried and failed the odds suggest it's more likely to be impossible than possible.
I've rooted the phone successfully and tried with Disk Digger app. It found 100+ deleted MP4 files, but if I understood right, those are not mp4 files but sectors containing mp4 data, and I can't do nothing with them. Each of them contains a few MBs and this video was 1080p and more than 5 minutes length so it should have a few hundred MBs. So, this app is practically useles, as long as it doesn't join all those sectors and give me a full video.
So I proceeded to this method: http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...de-internal-memory-data-recovery-yes-t1994705
But I have problems with it. My post with screenshoots is on the last page (last post). This thread is in the nexus forum so it could be that there's something different on our Xperia Z1 Compact. Can somebody take a look and see if I'm typing something wrong?
What are other possibilities to create a complete image of internal storage, now when I have root access?
xplod2841 said:
What are other possibilities to create a complete image of internal storage, now when I have root access?
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None of your screen shots are showing in the thread, but the partition number doesn't look quite right to me so this might help finding the right one - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2450045.
XperienceD said:
None of your screen shots are showing in the thread, but the partition number doesn't look quite right to me so this might help finding the right one - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2450045.
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Thank you for warning me, I didn't even notice. That's because I'm stupid: I uploaded my photos to my dropbox, and shared the link but I thought that if I shared link, a direct link to photo will be visible as well, but it was visible only to me
Thanks for this link, I'll try.
xplod2841 said:
Thanks for this link, I'll try.
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No worries, you've shown a bit more persistence but you're on your own at this stage with any trial error. Fingers crossed.
XperienceD said:
No worries, you've shown a bit more persistence but you're on your own at this stage with any trial error. Fingers crossed.
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Thanks! It's not me who is persistent, I wouldn't problably do all this if this was my phone and my video, but this is not my phone. I'm just doing a favour to my friend and now when I've already rooted the phone, it would be shame to give up.
Hi everyone, I'm back to the W10M scene now that I got a new battery for my Lumia 625 and I would like to ask if anyone knows where unfinished update data goes in the system memory so I can delete it?
I have my 625 rooted with WPIntenals and the updates failed (multiple times) but the system now still takes up almost 6GB and I would like to free up some of that space as I have only a 8GB internal memory, I already checked the usual update download folders in Data and can't find anything nor can I find any spkg files by searching so I think there might be some sort of other files that take up that space because I am pretty sure it only took up about 2-3GB before. So does anyone know what files I'm looking for and where they are?
Does no one know?
Now I have only 200MB free on my system and it's only cause of the update that keeps failing, I didn't install anything new in weeks and I anyway have it set to install to SD card. If this keeps up I will be left without any space free on the system.
What Storage said?
augustinionut said:
What Storage said?
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Storage reports System is taking 7GB something, can't say exactly now as my phone is dead.
Softreset. Hardreset. Reflash only if not rooted.
wats telemetry data(2-3 mb). can find that on system> storage>this device>temp files
regds
niz
nizuak said:
wats telemetry data(2-3 mb). can find that on system> storage>this device>temp files
regds
niz
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That folder is empty unfortunately but it also does seem like it stopped eating up any more space even though I got lots of "Couldn't download updates" messages so I'll just leave it as this with those 200MB free.
Ok... phone\data\shareddata\dushared\packages
or phone\windows\servicing\packages do not erase nothing from this folder. After hardreset ...bum, blue sad face..
Data\ProgramData\SoftwareDistribution
It's safe to delete the entire folder (i did twice), but it won't stop the updates from failing.
augustinionut said:
Ok... phone\data\shareddata\dushared\packages
or phone\windows\servicing\packages do not erase nothing from this folder. After hardreset ...bum, blue sad face..
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I unfortunately do not have anything in dushared.
TheBITLINK said:
Data\ProgramData\SoftwareDistribution
It's safe to delete the entire folder (i did twice), but it won't stop the updates from failing.
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This did free up 2GB data, thanks a bunch.
And yes, unfortunately there seems to be no way to stop the updates, none of the registry keys that would work on Windows seem to work on W10M. (except not connecting to wi-fi and setting your data connection to metered that is)
TheBITLINK said:
Data\ProgramData\SoftwareDistribution
It's safe to delete the entire folder (i did twice), but it won't stop the updates from failing.
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There seems to be a way to actually prevent windows update from doing it's job, I have removed all the update data and then modified the hosts file redirecting all the links I could find listed online (and with fiddler) to be related to windows updates to 127.0.0.1 and now the update just sits on 0%, it's been a couple of hours already so I am pretty positive that it won't start the download, perhaps if this was done on a clean install (before the phone even noticed there is an update on the server) it would just never detect an update again.
Hi Guys,
yesterday my wife was deleting a couple of pictures from the gallery, and suddently the phone started deleting all of them.
I trust her in saying she didn't select them all since she also told me that the screen was displaying "deleting 3 elements".
She was fast enough to power down the phone but nevertheless all pictures are gone.
I tried with some tool found on the web but said tools were not able to recover any deleted pictures.
It's a non rooted phone, everything stock, 6 months device.
It's just for the value of the pictures of our kid inside of the phone that I'm writing here and yes I know backup should have been made, but alas they were not made...
We recovered something through friends and whatsapp but most are gone.
If anyone has some idea please I'm all ears
Best regards and thanks to you all, it's a great community
kidamnesiac said:
Hi Guys,
yesterday my wife was deleting a couple of pictures from the gallery, and suddently the phone started deleting all of them.
I trust her in saying she didn't select them all since she also told me that the screen was displaying "deleting 3 elements".
She was fast enough to power down the phone but nevertheless all pictures are gone.
I tried with some tool found on the web but said tools were not able to recover any deleted pictures.
It's a non rooted phone, everything stock, 6 months device.
It's just for the value of the pictures of our kid inside of the phone that I'm writing here and yes I know backup should have been made, but alas they were not made...
We recovered something through friends and whatsapp but most are gone.
If anyone has some idea please I'm all ears
Best regards and thanks to you all, it's a great community
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She mistakenly selected all to delete..
But she has bin so she did delete twice???
Does she have Google photos active?
PhoneTechShop said:
She mistakenly selected all to delete..
But she has bin so she did delete twice???
Does she have Google photos active?
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No she didn't select them all. She only selected 3 of them. A system failure, or bug, caused the phone os to start delete everything from the gallery. Photos were never transferred to the bin, which happens when you willingly delete them. Sadly we did not have Google Photos active, so we're not able to recover them from the cloud.
Do you think there's a chance of getting them back somehow. I've tried with commonly know recovery software but they require root for deep scan, and the booloader is unlockable... :crying:
kidamnesiac said:
No she didn't select them all. She only selected 3 of them. A system failure, or bug, caused the phone os to start delete everything from the gallery. Photos were never transferred to the bin, which happens when you willingly delete them. Sadly we did not have Google Photos active, so we're not able to recover them from the cloud.
Do you think there's a chance of getting them back somehow. I've tried with commonly know recovery software but they require root for deep scan, and the booloader is unlockable... :crying:
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No photos gone... Really weird how she done it.. This never happens... She musted done something else..
Sorry to here that.
To the best of my knowledge. If you really want to recover the images, you need to keep the phone turn off until you can find the way to recover it. If you keep using it all your data will be overwritten.
I have not been hacking Android device for a while. For Qualcomm devices, you may force the device to enter the flashing mode which can be used to dump ram data from flash memory of the phone (e.g., using dd command). Also, you need to know number of memory block in order to do that.
After getting all raw memory (flash) image from you phone. You can you generic linux photo recovery tool to recover you files.
You might read more from this post.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/guide-fixing-hard-bricks-t3403868
https://www.forensics-matters.com/2018/07/08/dump-android-partition-for-forensics/
However, you need to do quite a lot of research. For example, how to force Huawei device into a download mode (like Qualcomm), how to dump raw memory from the mainboard, etc.
kidamnesiac said:
Hi Guys,
yesterday my wife was deleting a couple of pictures from the gallery, and suddently the phone started deleting all of them.
I trust her in saying she didn't select them all since she also told me that the screen was displaying "deleting 3 elements".
She was fast enough to power down the phone but nevertheless all pictures are gone.
I tried with some tool found on the web but said tools were not able to recover any deleted pictures.
It's a non rooted phone, everything stock, 6 months device.
It's just for the value of the pictures of our kid inside of the phone that I'm writing here and yes I know backup should have been made, but alas they were not made...
We recovered something through friends and whatsapp but most are gone.
If anyone has some idea please I'm all ears
Best regards and thanks to you all, it's a great community
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jskasia said:
Sorry to here that.
To the best of my knowledge. If you really want to recover the images, you need to keep the phone turn off until you can find the way to recover it. If you keep using it all your data will be overwritten.
I have not been hacking Android device for a while. For Qualcomm devices, you may force the device to enter the flashing mode which can be used to dump ram data from flash memory of the phone (e.g., using dd command). Also, you need to know number of memory block in order to do that.
After getting all raw memory (flash) image from you phone. You can you generic linux photo recovery tool to recover you files.
You might read more from this post.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/guide-fixing-hard-bricks-t3403868
https://www.forensics-matters.com/2018/07/08/dump-android-partition-for-forensics/
However, you need to do quite a lot of research. For example, how to force Huawei device into a download mode (like Qualcomm), how to dump raw memory from the mainboard, etc.
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Thanks for the heads up, will surely do the reading required, though from the look I gave, it seems root is always required to access those kind of data. And rooting this Huawei proves to be quite impossible without the unlocked bootloader. Well one may say there're just pics and videos, but the first words of my son.... ?
kidamnesiac said:
Thanks for the heads up, will surely do the reading required, though from the look I gave, it seems root is always required to access those kind of data. And rooting this Huawei proves to be quite impossible without the unlocked bootloader. Well one may say there're just pics and videos, but the first words of my son.... ?
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you won't be able to recover them as windows doesn't see the drive as normal mass storage from the phones .. so once u open some recovery software it won't see that drive.. I already tried...
Firstly, it seems hopeless, honestly.
Secondly, we might discuss for the sake of knowledge only. I didn't mean to mount phone storage from windows.
What I meant so far was to access all phone data using "flashing mode" which is used to repaire bricked device. The dumped data should be in form of raw memory data (I used to mount the raw memory image of the phone to find the key to unlock bootloader). By using the similar approach as data recovery (linux based), we might be able to recover files data from the phone.
If you seriously need data you might talk to this group of people (https://hcu-client.com/) and see if they could dump all data from the phone using their repair kit.
PhoneTechShop said:
you won't be able to recover them as windows doesn't see the drive as normal mass storage from the phones .. so once u open some recovery software it won't see that drive.. I already tried...
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jskasia said:
Firstly, it seems hopeless, honestly.
Secondly, we might discuss for the sake of knowledge only. I didn't mean to mount phone storage from windows.
What I meant so far was to access all phone data using "flashing mode" which is used to repaire bricked device. The dumped data should be in form of raw memory data (I used to mount the raw memory image of the phone to find the key to unlock bootloader). By using the similar approach as data recovery (linux based), we might be able to recover files data from the phone.
If you seriously need data you might talk to this group of people (https://hcu-client.com/) and see if they could dump all data from the phone using their repair kit.
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But his phone is not bricked.. they just deleted photos.. and god knows when and they already been using phone for long time .. so it is already overwritten
PhoneTechShop said:
But his phone is not bricked.. they just deleted photos.. and god knows when and they already been using phone for long time .. so it is already overwritten
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Phone has been switched off that night immediately, after the test to recovery through standard software failed...
kidamnesiac said:
Hi Guys,
yesterday my wife was deleting a couple of pictures from the gallery, and suddently the phone started deleting all of them.
I trust her in saying she didn't select them all since she also told me that the screen was displaying "deleting 3 elements".
She was fast enough to power down the phone but nevertheless all pictures are gone.
I tried with some tool found on the web but said tools were not able to recover any deleted pictures.
It's a non rooted phone, everything stock, 6 months device.
It's just for the value of the pictures of our kid inside of the phone that I'm writing here and yes I know backup should have been made, but alas they were not made...
We recovered something through friends and whatsapp but most are gone.
If anyone has some idea please I'm all ears
Best regards and thanks to you all, it's a great community
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Hi, I thought that it happened to me only. The same thing happened to me 4 days ago, I tried to delete 1 photo and it has deleted the entire gallery
And in recently deleted trash there was nothing
I used DiskDigger from Play Store but I only recover deleted photos before the system deleted the entire gallery
This I suppose is a serious failure in rom 9.1.0.300
It also happened to another person who removed the entire gallery just by deleting Facebook photos from the gallery on Rom 9.1.0.310
Hopefully, huawei will solve that serious mistake soon.
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firu.26 said:
Hi, I thought that it happened to me only. The same thing happened to me 4 days ago, I tried to delete 1 photo and it has deleted the entire gallery
And in recently deleted trash there was nothing
I used DiskDigger from Play Store but I only recover deleted photos before the system deleted the entire gallery
This I suppose is a serious failure in rom 9.1.0.300
It also happened to another person who removed the entire gallery just by deleting Facebook photos from the gallery on Rom 9.1.0.310
Hopefully, huawei will solve that serious mistake soon.
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I wasn't even on the latest 9.1 but still on 9.0 Version, but I see I'm not the only one in this situation. I'm trying to get in touch with Huawei but no luck so far other than "sorry for what happened... "
I just want to inform you that while copying leftovers files in preparation for hard resetting the phone I stumbled upon a folder named "recycled" inside a folder named ".Gallery2" inside "Pictures". All our lost pictures and videos were there, just without extensions and with some weird random names.
It's time for me to write a script to rename the files but we're glad that we've got our memories back!
kidamnesiac said:
I just want to inform you that while copying leftovers files in preparation for hard resetting the phone I stumbled upon a folder named "recycled" inside a folder named ".Gallery2" inside "Pictures". All our lost pictures and videos were there, just without extensions and with some weird random names.
It's time for me to write a script to rename the files but we're glad that we've got our memories back!
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So how did you do it?
You might have some corrupted like you will see half of the picture
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firu.26 said:
Hi, I thought that it happened to me only. The same thing happened to me 4 days ago, I tried to delete 1 photo and it has deleted the entire gallery
And in recently deleted trash there was nothing
I used DiskDigger from Play Store but I only recover deleted photos before the system deleted the entire gallery
This I suppose is a serious failure in rom 9.1.0.300
It also happened to another person who removed the entire gallery just by deleting Facebook photos from the gallery on Rom 9.1.0.310
Hopefully, huawei will solve that serious mistake soon.
Google translator
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I hink guys when u thought u only deleting one u will hold finger on pic and it will mark it
And you marked all..
Still don't understand how some or how this happened when we have recycle bin.. Where you can restore files... ?
PhoneTechShop said:
So how did you do it?
You might have some corrupted like you will see half of the picture
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I hink guys when u thought u only deleting one u will hold finger on pic and it will mark it
And you marked all..
Still don't understand how some or how this happened when we have recycle bin.. Where you can restore files... ?
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honestly I did nothing special, once connected to the computer in MTP mode I started transferring the content of the memory just for the sake of what was left, but then to my shocking surprise I found that a folder named ".Gallery2" (thus hidden in android I guess) was inside the pictures folder with lots of content in it.
I then used bunch of powershell code found online to rename the files using the last modified time which was consistent to when the picture was created on the device.
I ended up having to guess based on the dimension if it was JPG or MP4, then manually changed the extension on the wrong ones.
The result is 2201 pictures recoverd and 218 videos recovered. A bunch of the files were corrupeted as you said, but overall I'm glad of the outcome. Phone has been factory reset and now it's serving again as primary driver. this time amazon photos is on by default just in case!
kidamnesiac said:
honestly I did nothing special, once connected to the computer in MTP mode I started transferring the content of the memory just for the sake of what was left, but then to my shocking surprise I found that a folder named ".Gallery2" (thus hidden in android I guess) was inside the pictures folder with lots of content in it.
I then used bunch of powershell code found online to rename the files using the last modified time which was consistent to when the picture was created on the device.
I ended up having to guess based on the dimension if it was JPG or MP4, then manually changed the extension on the wrong ones.
The result is 2201 pictures recoverd and 218 videos recovered. A bunch of the files were corrupeted as you said, but overall I'm glad of the outcome. Phone has been factory reset and now it's serving again as primary driver. this time amazon photos is on by default just in case!
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But how what software in Windows did you use.. It sounds weird..
Whatever you done u got it....
Congratulations.
Can you post detail (i.e., with picture), explain how to get them back so this will be useful for other people?
kidamnesiac said:
honestly I did nothing special, once connected to the computer in MTP mode I started transferring the content of the memory just for the sake of what was left, but then to my shocking surprise I found that a folder named ".Gallery2" (thus hidden in android I guess) was inside the pictures folder with lots of content in it.
I then used bunch of powershell code found online to rename the files using the last modified time which was consistent to when the picture was created on the device.
I ended up having to guess based on the dimension if it was JPG or MP4, then manually changed the extension on the wrong ones.
The result is 2201 pictures recoverd and 218 videos recovered. A bunch of the files were corrupeted as you said, but overall I'm glad of the outcome. Phone has been factory reset and now it's serving again as primary driver. this time amazon photos is on by default just in case!
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PhoneTechShop said:
But how what software in Windows did you use.. It sounds weird..
Whatever you done u got it....
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I did not use any recovery software, just plain Windows Explorer.
When I connected the phone for the last time before the factory reset, I selected MTP, then opened the android device folder with windows explorer and copied the content of the "Pictures" folder on the pc.
Once the folder was done copying, I noticed that a ".Gallery2" folder and inside that folder a "recycle" folder and inside the whole lot of files.
But really, I did nothing more than copying.
And I can confirm that the recycle bin on the device was empty (no file was present), and when using recovery software no file was detected on the device.
jskasia said:
Congratulations.
Can you post detail (i.e., with picture), explain how to get them back so this will be useful for other people?
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I'm afraid I read your post after deleting the folder from the pc (when I finished renaming all the files, I removed the original recovered folder)
I can try to reconstruct the process and post some screenshots asap
kidamnesiac said:
I did not use any recovery software, just plain Windows Explorer.
When I connected the phone for the last time before the factory reset, I selected MTP, then opened the android device folder with windows explorer and copied the content of the "Pictures" folder on the pc.
Once the folder was done copying, I noticed that a ".Gallery2" folder and inside that folder a "recycle" folder and inside the whole lot of files.
But really, I did nothing more than copying.
And I can confirm that the recycle bin on the device was empty (no file was present), and when using recovery software no file was detected on the device.
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So you said u didn't use recovery software and in last of your message u saying u been using recovery software???
I've a Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite, but all my music and pictures get randomly removed all the time and then I need to download them again.
I don't remove them myself for clarity.
I guess the cleaner app removes it but there is no option to add them to exceptions and there is also no option to turn off auto clean.
This is a very annoying problem and I'm tired to download all my music and pictures over and over again so how can I solve this?
Googole said:
I've a Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite, but all my music and pictures get randomly removed all the time and then I need to download them again.
I don't remove them myself for clarity.
I guess the cleaner app removes it but there is no option to add them to exceptions and there is also no option to turn off auto clean.
This is a very annoying problem and I'm tired to download all my music and pictures over and over again so how can I solve this?
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Maybe your device has something like "storage manager" active?
Go into settings and then storage, see if you find something suspicious.
Uninstall or disable cleaning app... you really need to play with your device more.
That cleaner app sounds more like malware
blackhawk said:
Uninstall or disable cleaning app... you really need to play with your device more.
That cleaner app sounds more like malware
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I've found out that Cleaner is useless and is just a waste of space so I removed it.
I hope my problem is solved.
User699 said:
Maybe your device has something like "storage manager" active?
Go into settings and then storage, see if you find something suspicious.
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I've made a screenshot of the Storage page.
Screenshot_2021-04-19-11-09-51-509_com.miui.securitycenter.jpg
drive.google.com
I don't know if it is suspicious but Other is 8,61GB
Removing Cleaner didn't solve my problem.
I download my music from Google Drive and all music downloaded from there is gone now.
The songs that I didn't download from Google Drive aren't removed.
The most of the pictures are removed too, but some didn't.
Googole said:
Removing Cleaner didn't solve my problem.
I download my music from Google Drive and all music downloaded from there is gone now.
The songs that I didn't download from Google Drive aren't removed.
The most of the pictures are removed too, but some didn't.
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Well If so, have a look at gdrives settings.
Also: Are gdrive files in another folder than those not being removed?
Could be malware... you know odd behavior.
The OS or an app may have been corrupted.
A factory reset be a good idea at this point.
Self destructing files aren't normal.
Is it just Google stuff that's vaporizing?
If so maybe deleting/recreating your Google account might solve it.
I'm leaning towards a full nuke of that OS though.
I don't trust Google with any of my data management other than Gmail. I backup and load everything from the SD card, flash stick and hdds.
blackhawk said:
Could be malware... you know odd behavior.
The OS or an app may have been corrupted.
A factory reset be a good idea at this point.
Self destructing files aren't normal.
Is it just Google stuff that's vaporizing?
If so maybe deleting/recreating your Google account might solve it.
I'm leaning towards a full nuke of that OS though.
I don't trust Google with any of my data management other than Gmail. I backup and load everything from the SD card, flash stick and hdds.
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True, could be malware.
A malware checking app would be a first step. If you can run adb on your computer you can check for modifications made on the file system (as you operate as "shell" instead of "root" (unless you are rooted) you won't be able to read everything. Actually you'll get "access denied" very often. But if you find system directories/files with another date then the 'standard recovery date' this could be a sign for malicous activity)
User699 said:
True, could be malware.
A malware checking app would be a first step. If you can run adb on your computer you can check for modifications made on the file system (as you operate as "shell" instead of "root" (unless you are rooted) you won't be able to read everything. Actually you'll get "access denied" very often. But if you find system directories/files with another date then the 'standard recovery date' this could be a sign for malicous activity)
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There's another possibility, a malware jpeg.
I ran into two in the last 15 years, one a year ago on my N10+. Downloaded from a site into the download folder it corrupted many files in that folder. Some only had damage to the file name and were easily repairable, some were not.
Deleted all I couldn't repair or was in doubt about especially the tainted jpeg.
If that jpeg would have been moved to another folder the same thing would have happened.
The only way to stop this type of malware is to find the infected jpeg. It may not show up on many or any virus/malware scans. I found this one because I noticed the damage immediately after viewing it in downloads. If one one these gets in your database they are little nightmare. One reason I keep downloads in the Download folder for examination, especially jpegs, are these little nasties.
Not real common but they're out there.
blackhawk said:
Could be malware... you know odd behavior.
The OS or an app may have been corrupted.
A factory reset be a good idea at this point.
Self destructing files aren't normal.
Is it just Google stuff that's vaporizing?
If so maybe deleting/recreating your Google account might solve it.
I'm leaning towards a full nuke of that OS though.
I don't trust Google with any of my data management other than Gmail. I backup and load everything from the SD card, flash stick and hdds.
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I've done a factory reset earlier but it didn't solve the issue.
All music and the most of the pictures downloaded from Google Drive are removed all the time.
User699 said:
True, could be malware.
A malware checking app would be a first step. If you can run adb on your computer you can check for modifications made on the file system (as you operate as "shell" instead of "root" (unless you are rooted) you won't be able to read everything. Actually you'll get "access denied" very often. But if you find system directories/files with another date then the 'standard recovery date' this could be a sign for malicous activity)
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I'll check for malware and I'll let you know what the results are.
blackhawk said:
There's another possibility, a malware jpeg.
I ran into two in the last 15 years, one a year ago on my N10+. Downloaded from a site into the download folder it corrupted many files in that folder. Some only had damage to the file name and were easily repairable, some were not.
Deleted all I couldn't repair or was in doubt about especially the tainted jpeg.
If that jpeg would have been moved to another folder the same thing would have happened.
The only way to stop this type of malware is to find the infected jpeg. It may not show up on many or any virus/malware scans. I found this one because I noticed the damage immediately after viewing it in downloads. If one one these gets in your database they are little nightmare. One reason I keep downloads in the Download folder for examination, especially jpegs, are these little nasties.
Not real common but they're out there.
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All my pictures are in the .jpg format
Create a folder in the root directory (not in any other folder) of your storage
In this folder create another two folders - one for music & one for pictures
Move all pictures & music to these folders
This will eliminate sync from apps deleting anything as they shouldn't have access to these folders
If they are still being deleted after this then the user is telling an app to delete them (intentionality or unintentionally)
TheFixItMan said:
Create a folder in the root directory (not in any other folder) of your storage
In this folder create another two folders - one for music & one for pictures
Move all pictures & music to these folders
This will eliminate sync from apps deleting anything as they shouldn't have access to these folders
If they are still being deleted after this then the user is telling an app to delete them (intentionality or unintentionally)
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Thanks for your suggestion, I'll try it and let you know what the result it.
I've downloaded MalwareBytes, scanned my phone but it didn't find any malware @blackhawk
Googole said:
I've downloaded MalwareBytes, scanned my phone but it didn't find any malware @blackhawk
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Since you said you did a factory data reset there must be an app somewhere which is responsible for that.
I would check Google Drive – I don't even have a google account so I can't check it, but maybe GDrive is deleting files automatically.
Is it ONLY GDrive files being deleted?
User699 said:
Well If so, have a look at gdrives settings.
Also: Are gdrive files in another folder than those not being removed?
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I've looked at the Gdrive settings, but I couldn't find anything related to the problem.
The Gdrive files are on Google Drive and those not being removed and removed are in my internal storage.
User699 said:
Since you said you did a factory data reset there must be an app somewhere which is responsible for that.
I would check Google Drive – I don't even have a google account so I can't check it, but maybe GDrive is deleting files automatically.
Is it ONLY GDrive files being deleted?
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I've checked the Google Drive settings but I couldn't find anything related to the problem.
Only files downloaded from Gdrive are deleted.
Files downloaded from other places aren't deleted.
Googole said:
I've checked the Google Drive settings but I couldn't find anything related to the problem.
Only files downloaded from Gdrive are deleted.
Files downloaded from other places aren't deleted.
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And GDrive downloads them into Downloads folder?
If not you could try to move these things into another folder and see whether they will be deleted again or not.