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Hi guys,
anyone's who's read my posts would know my phone died recently due to zero battery and going through the boot loop cycle continuously. After leaving it overnight for 2 days on a iPad charger, it came back on again. My phone's done a hard reset, and I was wondering if there are any softwares available to retrieve the information in it. I know there're tools to retrieve information from hard drives that have been formatted, and would appreciate if any of you know of a tool that can get my photos out of my phone. Thanks in advance.
MCChang said:
Hi guys,
anyone's who's read my posts would know my phone died recently due to zero battery and going through the boot loop cycle continuously. After leaving it overnight for 2 days on a iPad charger, it came back on again. My phone's done a hard reset, and I was wondering if there are any softwares available to retrieve the information in it. I know there're tools to retrieve information from hard drives that have been formatted, and would appreciate if any of you know of a tool that can get my photos out of my phone. Thanks in advance.
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Well, that greatly depends on how thorough you're hoping this will be. Anything synced through Zune should be available, anything replicated to the cloud should be available (Windows Live ID, if you have an exchange server, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, etc.) - but any game data is pretty much lost. In general, any applications that store info locally is pretty much lost AFAIK.
There's an application in Marketplace called Reinstaller that identifies apps you've already installed and helps you loop through them to, well, surprise surprise, re-install them. It's quite useful, here's the link in the Marketplace: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/search?q=Reinstaller
What other things were you looking for?
eknutson said:
Well, that greatly depends on how thorough you're hoping this will be. Anything synced through Zune should be available, anything replicated to the cloud should be available (Windows Live ID, if you have an exchange server, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, etc.) - but any game data is pretty much lost. In general, any applications that store info locally is pretty much lost AFAIK.
There's an application in Marketplace called Reinstaller that identifies apps you've already installed and helps you loop through them to, well, surprise surprise, re-install them. It's quite useful, here's the link in the Marketplace: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/search?q=Reinstaller
What other things were you looking for?
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Thanks for the reply. My phone ran out of juice pretty much right after my trip to Taiwan, where I took quite a few photos. I didn't have time to sync it with my computer before it died. It's those photos I wish to retrieve. Any other suggestions?
My buddy who has an iPhone told me that in order to retrieve information from the iPhone, it needs to first be jailbreaked. That way we can bypass the phone's OS and connect to the hard drive directly. Obviously it's a long shot as any software would still need to retrieve what's been formatted over, but I wonder if it holds true in our case as well. Will I need to 'jailbreak' my phone first?
MCChang said:
My buddy who has an iPhone told me that in order to retrieve information from the iPhone, it needs to first be jailbreaked. That way we can bypass the phone's OS and connect to the hard drive directly. Obviously it's a long shot as any software would still need to retrieve what's been formatted over, but I wonder if it holds true in our case as well. Will I need to 'jailbreak' my phone first?
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Dude you are in the wrong place, as this forum, thread is not for iPhone.....
truffle1234 said:
Dude you are in the wrong place, as this forum, thread is not for iPhone.....
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He's in the right place, just because this is a Lumia 900 forum doesn't mean he can't use the i-word He has specified that it is possible on the iPhone, and is curious if it can be done on the Lumia. Seems like the perfect place for him to me...
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He's in the right place, just because this is a Lumia 900 forum doesn't mean he can't use the i-word He has specified that it is possible on the iPhone, and is curious if it can be done on the Lumia. Seems like the perfect place for him to me...
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Thanks again, eknuston.
I did a search online, and came across 2 photo recovery tools, which spelt out were meant for the Lumia 900.
The Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery
http://android-photo-recovery.com/tutorials/recover-deleted-photos-videos-from-nokia-lumia-900.html
Photo Recovery Pro
http://android-photo-recovery.com/tutorials/recover-deleted-photos-videos-from-nokia-lumia-900.html
Unfortunately, both tools could not recognize our phones in the drive directory. That's when I realized that Windows 7 does not allow our phones to be used as removable drives.
I've since cracked the registry (using this tutorial)
http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2010/11/18/use-your-windows-phone-7-device-as-a-portable-usb-drive/
My computer could recognize the phone, but the directories were empty. So I installed this:
http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2010/11/18/use-your-windows-phone-7-device-as-a-portable-usb-drive/
and I can now access the current files in my phone.
HOWEVER, I STILL AM UNABLE TO RETRIEVE THE ERASED FILES, as the 2 softwares are still unable to recognize the phone as a drive, despite the fact that the file explorer can.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I should do next (other than forget about the files, get a new phone, etc.). Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I forgot to mention that 'Computer Management' under Window's Administrative Tools, can't find the phone too. I suspect they're linked..
4th link?
Did you mean for the 4th link to be the same as the 3rd? I am trying to follow your steps to see if I can access my files but I am not sure what did you install in order to see your current files after the registry change. Thanks.
Formatted data recovery
Hi
You can recover formatted data using best media recovery software. Using this software I was able to restore digital data from formatted usb flash drive. So, you can download demo version of this software and check it.
For more details visit the website - unformatdata.com
Hey guys, just stop posting BS about "flash drive recovery"...
Lumia 900 isn't a flash drive and can't be restored this way (it works via Zune drivers, and shows not an actual "drive" but just some "virtual folders").
Finalizing: MCChang, you can't recover lost pics or any other info. And I can give the only one suggestion: next time if you want to keep your pics/info, use clouds (WP7 have ability to automatically upload pictures to the SkyDrive).
sensboston said:
Hey guys, just stop posting BS about "flash drive recovery"...
Lumia 900 isn't a flash drive and can't be restored this way (it works via Zune drivers, and shows not an actual "drive" but just some "virtual folders").
Finalizing: MCChang, you can't recover lost pics or any other info. And I can give the only one suggestion: next time if you want to keep your pics/info, use clouds (WP7 have ability to automatically upload pictures to the SkyDrive).
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thanks sensboston. I've pretty much resigned myself to it haha
You can recover deleted or formatted files from android phone with this data recovery solution: android phone data recovery
helped me before.
Rooted my Galaxy Nexus - Sprint today.
Not a stranger to rooting, had a nexus s and evo before that... but am having something odd going on.
Transfered pics from previous phone along with music and ringtones. They show up when I first bring a rom up (have tried 3-4 today and only installed basic stuff). Literally, you can go into the gallery app and watch the photos be found, and then start to be removed.
After a few minutes of running - none of the pics or music are visable in the gallery or google play. If I grab a file explorer program - they are all there. Also QuickPic shows the pictures.
What the heck is going on here? It's like a process is scanning the folders, seeing them and then deciding to discard the files from view.
Strange stuff.
Is it possible something on the storage card got hosed? I'd wipe it but the recovery files, backup etc are on there. I've seen some reports of this happening to others - but most say to clear data or use SDRescan - and that's not worked for me.
Was hoping I would wake up this morning and this would all have sorted itself out but no luck - anyone have any ideas?
I am also dealing with this issue.
Just uploaded a rom and kernal for the first time and copied my old Music folder and pasted it onto the phone. The File Manager sees it but when I go to the music player there's nothing there.
Its an issue with ROM manager
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It works! Thanks HashTagHell
I'll edit my comment below to address the problems I had
HashTagHell said:
clear media storage data
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Could you elaborate? Delete the media file?
ANSWER: media storage data is in the apps list under all.
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remove ROM manager
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Rom manager wasn't there to begin with
Answer: Didn't matter/didn't come up
So - not knowing the answer yet - I was removing the .nomedia file and trying everything but couldn't get the new roms to see my pics and music. Highly frustrating and messed around for a day clearing cache, clearing program data. Still nothing. Ran SDRescan and similar programs - nothing.
By chance installed PowerAMP media player to see if it would see the music. After it did it's own scan - suddenly - everything started showing up in the play music player, apollo and gallery. Something about what it does kick started Android into seeing things. Odd.
So, What you are saying is this is caused by ROM manager? Are they aware of the issue and fixing? Would be a pain updating existing ROM's if you had to uninstall, install, uninstall, install etc....
Yeah, he released an update lastnight. The new update doesn't place the .nomedia file on the sdcard.
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So - not knowing the answer yet - I was removing the .nomedia file and trying everything but couldn't get the new roms to see my pics and music. Highly frustrating and messed around for a day clearing cache, clearing program data. Still nothing. Ran SDRescan and similar programs - nothing.
By chance installed PowerAMP media player to see if it would see the music. After it did it's own scan - suddenly - everything started showing up in the play music player, apollo and gallery. Something about what it does kick started Android into seeing things. Odd.
So, What you are saying is this is caused by ROM manager? Are they aware of the issue and fixing? Would be a pain updating existing ROM's if you had to uninstall, install, uninstall, install etc....
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Did the same thing as you, I had no ROM manager on mine either. Installed PowerAMP and mine is working now also.
rweddy1 said:
Did the same thing as you, I had no ROM manager on mine either. Installed PowerAMP and mine is working now also.
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Sweet - nice to see two days of my life lost at least helped someone! LOL. :silly:
levelbest said:
Sweet - nice to see two days of my life lost at least helped someone! LOL. :silly:
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What I did was remove the .nomedia file from the root of the SD card then copied the media files in question to my laptop. I then deleted thos folders from the SD card and copied everything back in and it started working again.
Hi
i recenty got my sister evo i was originally an blackberry user im loving the android world right now but i have few problems one i cant get registered to intantgram due to it keep telling me to many users on this device also my biggest issue is my sd card the pictures i had on it just some of them are coming up on the phone and the last 6 pictures i took only one is still in the phone none of them are saving to my sd card or to my pictures how do i get this fixed Thanks
montycash said:
Hi
i recenty got my sister evo i was originally an blackberry user im loving the android world right now but i have few problems one i cant get registered to intantgram due to it keep telling me to many users on this device also my biggest issue is my sd card the pictures i had on it just some of them are coming up on the phone and the last 6 pictures i took only one is still in the phone none of them are saving to my sd card or to my pictures how do i get this fixed Thanks
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I'd love to help you. But without any punctuation, its hard to decipher what you are trying to say. What ROM are you using?
Riding the Uni on the GSIII
the phone is completely stock. I got it from my sister who is currently using a galaxy 3s. She said she had to much datta that why she went to get the 3s . Since i have had the phone some times it lags to comeback to home screen also the phone is not saving the pictures to the sd card or the phone. If i take out the sd card the phone will not take picture unless have the card installed . I really want to fix the picture issue and wonder why its lagging
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I'd love to help you. But without any punctuation, its hard to decipher what you are trying to say. What ROM are you using?
Riding the Uni on the GSIII
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Lol great reply! @op try to wipe all user data from the phone. This will not erase anything on your card. On your SD card you will look for a file using astro, es file explorer, or whatever file explorer you wish, called dcim. That is where your pictures should be stored. If you find them in a different directory, move them to dcim and they will show in gallery. But do a factory data reset, that should help with your lagging and also help you get signed into instagram.
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Is it possible to disable this mode? It looks like the stupid CD thing Verizon puts on there, anyone know offhand which files/folders to remove to get rid of this?
I'd rather it go directly to MTP.
Quantumrabbit said:
Is it possible to disable this mode? It looks like the stupid CD thing Verizon puts on there, anyone know offhand which files/folders to remove to get rid of this?
I'd rather it go directly to MTP.
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You could just freeze all of the Verizon bloat and I'm sure that will solve this.
Pilz said:
You could just freeze all of the Verizon bloat and I'm sure that will solve this.
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I tried freezing all apps with vzw and verizon in them... didn't seem to solve this. Even after reboot.
Quantumrabbit said:
I tried freezing all apps with vzw and verizon in them... didn't seem to solve this. Even after reboot.
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It could be a system default then in the system files, but I 'm not too sure. I haven't had Verizon since I had my GS3 a few years ago, but that phone did the same thing.
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It could be a system default then in the system files, but I 'm not too sure. I haven't had Verizon since I had my GS3 a few years ago, but that phone did the same thing.
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My incredible and rezound there was just one file to remove. The SGS3 didn't do it as I recall at all... or I inadvertently disabled it super early.
Quantumrabbit said:
My incredible and rezound there was just one file to remove. The SGS3 didn't do it as I recall at all... or I inadvertently disabled it super early.
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Mine did it, but then again it wasn't rooted (this was before I knew the dark magic). I'll see if I can find an answer for you from my friend with a Verizon G3.
works like a charm
just jump into the system folder and rename the autorunusb.iso file to .bak. make sure you go into settings>storage>setting USB PC Connection and select media device. Should be the default going forward.:good:
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just jump into the system folder and rename the autorunusb.iso file to .bak. make sure you go into settings>storage>setting USB PC Connection and select media device. Should be the default going forward.:good:
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unfortunately, this does not work, especially on a Mac.
After renaming the file, and confirming that teh storage settings were correct, it still launches into the installer mode, even if it doesnt auto-mount the folder. This takes up a whole minute while it works itself out.
Other online searches haven't shown anything else to help either.
I still can't get the ADB drivers to work on this mac either... I'm rather upset that LG would release a device that isnt compatible with machines for development the way almost all flagships are.
fixed!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55725408&postcount=1
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fixed!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55725408&postcount=1
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Is this the only way? When I try entering ##3328873 it rings and then a lady comes on and says welcome to verizon wireless your call cannot be completed as dialed
Hi XDA,
First time posting so sorry if I'm missing anything.
I have had my OP 9PRO since this summer and have absolutely loved it so far however some time ago I had some problems with updating the phone as it appeared that update would never download. But after that, recently my phone just informed me that the phone is basically full which I'm suprised by as i do have a lot of photos on there, but no movies or anything anymore.
Is it possible that the updates actually HAVE downloaded and are chilling somewhere taking up space in a folder I cant easily see?
My phone is rooted so if i downloaded that update 10X, its about 30GB extra of storage probably.
Attached are 2 screenshots, 1 of the storage overview and 1 of the app storage overview as it says there's about 55 Gigs in there.
Thank you guys in advance!
I'm attempting to bump this topic, maybe someone can help me with this
1. Screenshot, shows how much a app (cache and data) use.
2. Screenshot, how much space is occupied.
I cant see any bug. 119 of 128GB is correct. If i calculate right, u are using 118.66GB
The app is old, but it works without any problem: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/ivan-volosyuk/diskusage/diskusage-4-0-2-release/
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1. Screenshot, shows how much a app (cache and data) use.
2. Screenshot, how much space is occupied.
I cant see any bug. 119 of 128GB is correct. If i calculate right, u are using 118.66GB
The app is old, but it works without any problem: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/ivan-volosyuk/diskusage/diskusage-4-0-2-release/
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Hi Rhein,
Thanks for your reply. this is the result from that app. As you can see, its simply the "media storage "app"" using all the 30GB of space that I am "missing". Would you know what could be causing it?
Thanks so much
I quote Joeeye from the Samsung forum, where someone else had the same question about "media storage"
03-04-2021 02:49 PM - last edited 03-04-2021 02:55 PM ) in
Galaxy S21 Series
Media storage will just be a system app which monitors and reports all media data on your phone, ie camera video and photos, music, movies etc. You can't wipe it as it's an in built system app which isn't really taking much space. The 70GB I assume is an amalgamation of all your media files on the device.
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Media Storage consumes a lot of data
Hi, I realized that a Media Storage app consumes a lot of data - almost 70GB! I have no idea, what exactly it is. I googled and it should be some new system how to work with storage for applications but... which is inside, which application uses it so much and how can I reduce the amount of...
eu.community.samsung.com
or here
OnePlus Community
Introducing our new OnePlus Community experience, with a completely revamped structure, built from the ground-up.
forums.oneplus.com
I also found this:
The OnePlus Media Storage app is taking up too much damn storage, and no one knows why
Gobbling up over 100 GB on some people's phones
www.androidpolice.com
OnePlus 9 Pro 128GB, also storage problems.
I've read multiple topics about this issue and the only thing that works temporarily is to completely reset the phone to factory settings (wipe all data).
Tried the following things:
- Clear recently deleted files from gallery (not much there since update)
- Wipe Cache
- Wipe Data (full reset)
See attached screen shot of my system storage taking up too much space. I'm not feeling like wiping my phone every couple of months...
Any ideas to solve this bug?
Florissilfhout said:
OnePlus 9 Pro 128GB, also storage problems.
I've read multiple topics about this issue and the only thing that works temporarily is to completely reset the phone to factory settings (wipe all data).
Tried the following things:
- Clear recently deleted files from gallery (not much there since update)
- Wipe Cache
- Wipe Data (full reset)
See attached screen shot of my system storage taking up too much space. I'm not feeling like wiping my phone every couple of months...
Any ideas to solve this bug?
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Other people had this happen a long time ago they fixed it by using the msm tool
It will wipe your data you have so backup first
I used the MSM Tool and went completely back to stock. System storage (after restoring backup) is now on 8,8 GB. I will have to see if it stays there... Thanks for the suggestion.
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Addition, I went to 11.2.4.4 from MSM, to 11.2.10.10 through OTA.
Is there any other solution except of using MSM Tool ? I just did factory reset recently, I'm not willing to do that again...
Thank you.
BTw, not good...
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/...f-storage-how-do-i-solve-these-issue.1518111/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/system-storage-issue.1533556/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/system-storage-issue.1509797/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/...how-188gb-any-solution-to-restore-it.1482320/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/storage-capacity-easily-getting-full.1474036/
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/system-using-31-gb-space.1534439/
Yeah I found those topics as well.
In the meantime, my system storage has increased to 11GB (which would be within normal operating limits).
May I ask you how you have performed backup and restore? I don't believe there is some hassle free solotion...
I went old school:
Hooked my phone up to my computer with USB cable and file transfer; copied the folders Downloads, DCIM, and some other folder I thought important (Telegram for instance). For WhatsApp I created a backup from within the app to Google Drive. For phone settings I used the Backup&Restore function from Settings - System - Backup.
Oh and maybe make screenshots of your Home Screen pages, so you know which app (shortcut) you had where.
So no hassle free solution unfortunately.
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I went old school:
Hooked my phone up to my computer with USB cable and file transfer; copied the folders Downloads, DCIM, and some other folder I thought important (Telegram for instance). For WhatsApp I created a backup from within the app to Google Drive. For phone settings I used the Backup&Restore function from Settings - System - Backup.
Oh and maybe make screenshots of your Home Screen pages, so you know which app (shortcut) you had where.
So no hassle free solution unfortunately.
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Is it fixed after the reset? Currently i have 60GB++ system
I did the same thing and it did fix it, i can recommend doing it.
I feel as if it's still increasing slightly, but less after the last update. I think 17GB for system is quite a lot, especially when there's also 17GB for 'other'?
I was just thinking the other day that I should perform the reset once more on this firmware version but you know... it takes time and effort.
You could try running SDMaid with root permissions and see if that clears things up.
I don't have it rooted anymore, just in case that was the issue. So that won't work for me unfortunately.
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I feel as if it's still increasing slightly, but less after the last update. I think 17GB for system is quite a lot, especially when there's also 17GB for 'other'?
I was just thinking the other day that I should perform the reset once more on this firmware version but you know... it takes time and effort.
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So this is weird... Just checked the size again and it has dropped down to 1,61GB!
Haven't done anything special. Rebooted the phone approximately 38 hours ago, nothing else.
linus tech tips uploaded a video about it.