Basically I just accidently wiped the sd card partition....Pissed me off, alot.
So what do you use to automatically back this up. I know TI can off load it to the cloud but what are some other options that can offload to the cloud or like a drop box account.
zikronix said:
Basically I just accidently wiped the sd card partition....Pissed me off, alot.
So what do you use to automatically back this up.
I know TI can off load it to the cloud but what are some other options.
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um....your computer?!! just copy all the contents of your SDCard to a miscellaneous folder on your desktop..and you should be good to go.
rubbamade said:
um....your computer?!! just copy all the contents of your SDCard to a miscellaneous folder on your desktop..and you should be good to go.
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im not going to do that every day, thats why im asking what app people use to automatically move pictures, videos, and other data or folders they see fit up to the cloud, or some other place. There used to be dashwire on the windows phones...but im looking for something on the droid and I just want to get some ideas of what people are using.
You can use cobian backup (you can get it from majorgeeks.com). You can schedule a task to backup your sd-card at a certain time each night. Of course you'll have to make sure that
A) Your phone is plugged into your computer and the SD card is mounted
B) The drive letter of your SD card remains the same
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You can use cobian backup (you can get it from majorgeeks.com). You can schedule a task to backup your sd-card at a certain time each night. Of course you'll have to make sure that
A) Your phone is plugged into your computer and the SD card is mounted
B) The drive letter of your SD card remains the same
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He wants an automated cloud backup.
Oops must have missed the cloud part
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strange name but title but heres the scoop. i have a samsung sch-1760 with a 2gb micro sd card. i have most of it filled up with music. well just today i'm messing around with syncing it to my computer and i try to play some music and stuff but i don't have my playlist. i then check my sd card and when i do it's empty except for a " wmdrm" folder. well i check my phone memorie and the card is saying that it has only has 277mb free. so now i'm getting agitated i put the card directly into my computer and can't find anything but a file named "EncFiltLog.menc"... my question is what happened to my files and why can't i see them
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strange name but title but heres the scoop. i have a samsung sch-1760 with a 2gb micro sd card. i have most of it filled up with music. well just today i'm messing around with syncing it to my computer and i try to play some music and stuff but i don't have my playlist. i then check my sd card and when i do it's empty except for a " wmdrm" folder. well i check my phone memorie and the card is saying that it has only has 277mb free. so now i'm getting agitated i put the card directly into my computer and can't find anything but a file named "EncFiltLog.menc"... my question is what happened to my files and why can't i see them
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The .menc file is the contents/files that are encrypted. It is a feature that secures the files and makes them only visible on your device, which is why you can't see them on your PC. You must have encrypted them by choosing the feature to secure data on the card. By removing the card, you may have prevented all devices from reading the files. With the card in the slot, see if you can change the encryption settings.
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The .menc file is the contents/files that are encrypted. It is a feature that secures the files and makes them only visible on your device, which is why you can't see them on your PC. You must have encrypted them by choosing the feature to secure data on the card. By removing the card, you may have prevented all devices from reading the files. With the card in the slot, see if you can change the encryption settings.
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the only problem i can't even see the files on my phone... so what can i do to get to see those files so i can back them up whipe out my card or get the files back unencrypted
I've had a similar problem with a 4Gb card and my Tytn II - there are some files that have disappeared, but are still taking up space. Unfortunately when I try to format the card it says it's write protected, on my PC or my phone. I didn't know you could write protect them, and I don't know how to un protect it
ok so how do i get to the "pin" or w/e to access the encrypted files my phone has not been hard reset so i don't understand why my stuff has gone missing
There's a encryption config under Settings in win mobile... i think that's what he's suggesting to check.
Otherwise there's a media player issue where you might have to delete the MSMETADATA folder and then run media player to rescan your SD card and it should find the files again.
And if that don't work... good luck searching the forums. It could be a registry issue also.
I recently lost a lot of the data on my external SD card after restoring a CWM 6 backup from the external card. Several folders have had the first letter of their name replaced with μ (mu), the rest capitalized, and contents emptied, others are simply missing. For example "μOWNLOAD." Sadly my clockworkmod folder has become an empty "µLOCKW~1," and I had 3 backups included, most importantly my stock root backup.
I noticed that my LOST.DIR folder had 259 new random number files and is nearly 4 GB, suggesting that the files are stuck in there, but I have no idea how to figure out what is what or even if it is possible to save any of them. I tried the suggestion posted here, but nothing in the clockwork folder was found. I can pick out what I think are the 3 pairs of "system.ext4.tar.a" and "data.ext4.tar.a" files based on them being several megabytes larger than everything else, but I have no idea how to separate them or how to pick out the right "boot.img", "recovery.img", and "cache.ext4.tar.a." I'm assuming that I don't need "cache.ext4.tar,"data.ext4.tar," and "system.ext4.tar," because they all show 0 bytes in the new backup that I made on the internal card.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I might be able to save the backup?
EDIT: Also is it "safer" to keep important things on my internal or external card? I kept all of my backups on the external card specifically to avoid something like this happening during a flash or at some other time, but googling tell me that several people have had seemingly random issues with SD cards and the S3.
From my experience everything in the lost. Dir gets its file extension stripped. I had this happen to my music folder and I had to change all the files to mp3. It may be more of a pain than its worth to change every file back. And because there not all the same type who knows what file is suppose to be what
I would move any data off and reformat the card
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I had everything of import other than nandroids backed up offsite so the remaining data doesn't matter, and I expect that everything is gone, but no harm in trying.
Also, if you ever need to rename a lot of files at once again, you might want to try File Renamer Basic, it is extremely useful for batch operations like that.
Yea I just used the command line built into windows. I was surprised it had the option to do it. Ever since they stopped basing windows off Dos they got rid of some commands. I thought I was gonna have to get a live version of linux. But if there isn't anything wrong with the current rom I would just make a new backup. Format the card first before you move anything back on it
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I was having terrible battery drain when first got the phone, took out my SD-Card and now get nearly 5-6 hours screen on time!
I don't know if it was the SD-Card or the new modem/rpm (I'm still on the OTA ICS one)
but for me I use google play and I keep a copy of all my nandroids on my computer for safe keeping. and keep only the ones I need recently on the internal, and I have plenty of space left, so for me it was better to just keep the SD-Card out, it was making it hard to choose to put on sd-card or internal LOL
Maybe I've been lucky, but coming from the Droid 2 the battery life on this seems amazing (CleanROM), I have had the external card in since I bought it however.
I was mainly worried about stability issues, mainly I was always worried that a factory reset or changing roms would affect the internal card, so it would be safer to keep things on the external card.
I'm sorry if i have mistakes in this text . i'm persian . i don't know english well/
I have a solution for this problem:
I've lost my data twice. first time i thought that it is virus so i format my SD card .
this time I LOST some important data therefore i tried to get them back.
I noticed that LOST.DIR is included my data.
I connect my phone to PC (galaxy s4) then i copied all LOST.DIR files in to my PC.
then i opened one of them with windows photo viewer. ( right click -> open -> choose windows photo viwer) then i saw one of me missing photos (luckly).
however it will take a long time to take back all of your missing photos but still you will get it.
(sorry for mistakes)
Howdie,
I was wondering if Someone would and could tell me a couple of things about my phone. Or at least point me in the right direction..
- I need to find a way to move or copy the texts from my phone to my computer and have access to the texts, say, as pictures. In the past I have taken screenshots of each person's texts, well, let me tell you, there was a whole heck of a lot of screenshots. I need to find a way to keep them and be able to access them from my computer, in some way. I downloaded the backup and restore, but I do not know how to actually get them onto my computer.
- I was wondering also, if someone could and would tell me how to figure out if and what is on the internal memory of the phone and what is on the SD card. I have no idea how to figure that out.
Thank you ahead of time for taking time to read this and hopefully getting back to me. Thank you again for any and all the assistance you can and will give. K
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Howdie,
Or at least point me in the right direction..
K
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Sir,
Please wait until mods will move this thread to the device specific forum.
Stand by
Good luck
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As to the first question, there should be some apps to do that, I'll let someone who knows more on that chime in.
As to the 2nd, the Nexus 5 does not have an SD card. Everything is on the internal memory of the phone.
For your text message backup issue, I've used this app in the past with very good results in the past. It backs up your messages to a seperate GMail folder and is also able to restore them. You should be able to see the messages on your PC in GMail.
For your second question, being that the Nexus 5 does not have an SD card slot all of your data is in the internal memory. Now, there is a folder within the memory that acts as an SD card, usually the path for this is /sdcard, and then inside this folder you have all of your other folders with your data.
Another way to look at it is that in the memory inside your phone there are a lot of folders such as data, system, root, config, sdcard, etc. When you plug your phone into your computer, what you see are the contents of the folder 'sdcard'. So if you plug your phone in and you can see whatever it is you're looking for there while your phone is connected, then it's on your "SD card". If you do not, then it's on the "Internal Memory". Things that'll be on your /sdcard folder will be things such as pictures, downloads, music, etc. Things that will be in the other folders that are not directly shown to you would be the OS, apk files, config files, etc.
Let me know if you have any more questions.
does this feature work better than having the SD card as an external device?
my concern is if you change the card or have to change the card..
surely everything will go to crap if its integrated and you change or upgrade the card.
I won't integrate it, if something goes wrong you have to reformat entire SD card to make it work as normal.
I will just save everything on SD card while internal memory is used for apps/chat storage
The disadvantage is as you have stated. But the advantages are 1) it will become part of your phone storage. You can store app or any other type of date there. 2) It's encrypted and only work while it's in your phone. You won't be able to read it once it's removed but you don't have to worry about loosing sensitive data if someone got your phone. If you need to change the card (replace with a bigger card), just connect to your computer, copy the data to your computer, switch the card, copy date back to new card.
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The disadvantage is as you have stated. But the advantages are 1) it will become part of your phone storage. You can store app or any other type of date there. 2) It's encrypted and only work while it's in your phone. You won't be able to read it once it's removed but you don't have to worry about loosing sensitive data if someone got your phone. If you need to change the card (replace with a bigger card), just connect to your computer, copy the data to your computer, switch the card, copy date back to new card.
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Hi, total n00b here, but is this true? I thought the data stores were completely scattered once an SD card is integrated, so a simple copy of the data (after porting it onto a computer/other storage) to a new SD card would not guarantee reintegration, as you'd have to reintegrate/mount the new SD card.
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Hi, total n00b here, but is this true? I thought the data stores were completely scattered once an SD card is integrated, so a simple copy of the data (after porting it onto a computer/other storage) to a new SD card would not guarantee reintegration, as you'd have to reintegrate/mount the new SD card.
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When you setup initially, you have option for what folders, app you want to store in the SD card. I choose to keep all the app I use often in the phone (faster) and folders like media (video, pictures, music) in SD since they're the reason I need SD card. I currently have 64GB SD card. I plan to upgrade to 128GB when they have it available in UHS-3. At that time, I'll need to migrate from the 64GB to the 128GB. Here is my plan: Under Settings -> Storage & USB, it shows Phone Storage and SD Card. Under SD Card, it show the Apps folder with my few app in it, my music folder, my picture folder, and my video folder. There, I can move the pictures, Video, music folders to the computer. I then move the app back to phone storage (there is option for that). Then I can eject the SD card. Insert the new one and format as internal storage. Copy the folders back from the computer. In addition, I probably don't need to copy my picture files since they're backed up to Google Pictures.
It's not very convenience but the price I pay for encryption. Don't have to do that often anyway.
So i lost my device first, thought i wouldn't get it back, so out of frustration i used find my device and locked first, then erased the data.
Now i have the device with me, and i am too nervous for giving it access to wifi. What should i do? i don't have energy to backup photos, progress of the read books/watched movies. etc..
Is there a way to reverse or cancel this? i have tried to remove the google account from the device and sign out, but still nervous to start wifi and see what will happen
please help ?
What were you thinking? No data backup?
When you lock or encrypt a device you are the one most likely to be locked out!!!
Try taking it to a Samsung Experience center at Best Buy or a data recovery specialist.
i have access to the tablet, i just don't know how to do the best backup with less steps, i will look into it, but for now, i don't want to lose any data, is there a way? i have access to the tablet as long as i am not using internet/wifi
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i have access to the tablet, i just don't know how to do the best backup with less steps, i will look into it, but for now, i don't want to lose any data, is there a way? i have access to the tablet as long as i am not using internet/wifi
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App settings are lost unless they provide the ability to create a exportable backup copy like Poweramp does. Copy all critical data, folder by folder by copy/paste to the PC. Verify the data size and that files are readable.
Make sure you know the Google account password and any other critical ones. Backup contacts and messages. Bookmarks.
Make at least 2 copies of this data to 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC. You can never have too much backup... time staggered backups to multiple hdds are a good strategy. Keep backup hdds isolated from each other and the PC so one event can't take them all out. Store in separate locations preferably in an earth grounded metal box or safe. Keep clear on all magnets.
NEVER trust SmartSwitch to backup critical data.
Develope a plan now... put some thought into it.
If the device has a SD card slot use the SD card as your data drive. All critical data goes here. Then simply backup the SD card regularly. Do Not encrypt the SD card or any backup hdds!!! On the internal memory only apps, and the download and dcim folders go on it. Manually backup the two latter folders regularly to the SD card. There can only be one folder with the name "dcim" in it on the device! Rename backup folders something else ie Pic Master, etc.