[Q] Help! I accidentally erased everything on my Xoom - General Questions and Answers

I plugged my Xoom to my computer and was about to back up my files and saw that I still had an old document folder titled 'se' on the the Xoom. I thought I was deleting it and got up away from the computer. When I returned it seemed like the screen was frozen and I could see that the folder that was selected was 'sd card'. I went up one folder and saw that the Xoom was now saying 28 GB free space. I checked my Recycle Bin and nothing was there. I was in doubt and unplugged the Xoom from the computer and my wallpaper and widgets are all there but if I try to launch anything it isn't working. Is there anyway to retrieve the data ? It figures that the day after I finish every level of all the Angry Birds game and Asphalt 6, this happens. Do I basically have to factory reset my Xoom? I just plugged it back in and I can now see the folders which is weird because it still says 28 GB free space and no app will launch.

Update- I can no longer see the folders. I'm guessing there is no fix for this and I really just lost everything but I will give it a day and hope for a response on here. Now I remember why I should have rooted my Xoom. I could have backed up my apps and app data.

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ok well i successfully installed my root on my new samsung captivate and decided to go all out and do a lagfix... this to installed correctly. While running MCR scripts it had an issue while uploading and rebooted my phone... after the phone started to reboot it stayed on the galaxy "S" screen and continued to glow. after a min the screen went black and the lower key stayed lite up.
After numorious trys i finally got the phone to return to the home page after i deleted cache and deleted all user data in the reboot menu of the phone. once the home screen came up i got a bunch of SORRY, force close... continually, after a hard fight i was able to get the phone to connect to my pc and manually reformatted the G drive. i lost all my downloaded apps and now i cant access any apps at all.. ex google maps, web browser or even the Market store.
so now my G drive is empty... can anyone give me a link to the factory folders and drives and all the good stuff? Or maybe the correct way i should had went about doing this lol thanks
also, one more bit on new info, the internal sd card on the phone is showing unavailable
sorry thats not true, i had it mounted to my pc lol, once unplugged to shows a full 13.4g
BUMP? any way to install a custom ROM instead, i have full access to the internal sd card via my pc but i just need to know what and maybe how to put the ROM data back in

[Q] 'The Android Moron' asking for idea why this happened.

Could someone give me a theory as to what happened?
I had screwed up my Huawei again.
I had sorted out a problem I had with an app after changing primary storage from internal to sd when I was installing any new apps.
After it got done, I noticed a little box kept coming up saying I only had 1.88g left.
Like 1.88gigs is a miniscule amount.
Well the system reports the internal 16g had 5+g open, the sd 32g had 27g or so open and my 128g usb thumb drive had the 1.88g.
I don't understand why it seems to be thinking it's putting installs on the usb because it's set for the 32g sdcard to be the primary storage.
So I went through my apps and started using the ICS settings to move apps to the sd.
I must have moved some that don't like the sd. One that doesn't (I know now) is google play services.
I went round and round trying to fix that and finally did by restoring a backup from 3-4 weeks ago but it didn't fix everything.
The services worked again along with the play store....... well the play store works when I DON'T have the usb drive mounted.
When it's mounted the play store app opens but won't connect.
Oh. And it also restarts over and over.
When the usb's mounted it restart after about 30 seconds. When it's not it restarts after about 2-2.5 minutes.
After almost a day trying to fix this, I got irritated with it so I decided I was going to try to use the automatic recovery.
I grabbed the firmware from Huawei's website on my PC and took out my SD card.
I did not see a 'dload' folder so I put it in the 'Download' folder. Put the card back in the tablet and tried to start the recovery.
I had the unlmt.cfg in there too but it did not automatically start so I tried again while keeping the volume pressed and it started.
But after about 3-5 seconds it came up with the FAIL message.
So I figure that maybe it DOES need to be 'dload'. So when it finishes rebooting I make a 'dload' folder and copy those files in there before it rebooted again.
Which while I'm doing I also notice that under 'mnt' the files are in the 'sdcard' folder and not the 'sdcard2' folder which is where I thought it was mounted before.
I guess when I switched primary storage to the sdcard it made the card mount under sd instead of sd2?
So I had pulled the card out and was going to investigate that, but before I did, I decided to put it back in.
When it rebooted this time while I was starting the file manager when I noticed it was connecting and download app updates which it was doing before but when it tried to install them
before it kept failing but this time it was successful.
So I kept watching it and everything seems to be corrected now.
It's not rebooting by itself. It connects everytime. Installs are all successful.
What the hell happened?
Did the few seconds that recovery mode was active maybe fix some kind of file system problem?
Does Android have some sort of 'healing' code built in that makes it eventually repair itself if it finds problems?
Is the Android system alive and had seen that I was going to redo the system and got scared so it started behaving? (Joke of course)
I don't get it.
Can anyone give me some kind of theory as to what might have happened? Please?
Because I'm afraid to reboot it again for fear of it being some sort of fluke.
ANY ideas will be greatly appreciated.
Stephen

[Q] Need help recovering deleted files

I was managing my files in my phone on my PC when my storage suddenly went from 11 GB to 3 GB. I noticed that something was wrong when I tried to transfer all my photos to my PC and an error kept showing up. I was able to transfer the smaller folders of photos I have but the error showed up after i tried transferring a folder with about 800 pictures or so. At first I thought that it might just be a glitch or something, but when I checked my phone all my photos would not show up. They showed up as grey boxes and showed "Media file not found". All my photos, videos and songs got deleted but my game data stayed. I tried using Yodot Recovery but it would not identify my phone for some reason even though the USB cable is connected. Also tried using Android Data Recovery but it asks me to root my phone and I am not sure if I should because it might just completely delete everything. Right now all the grey boxes that replaced the photos are gone and I am only left with the pictures that I took this morning. Is there a way to get my files back?

Music and Pictures are there but Play Music and Pictures can't find them.

I have a stock Nexus 5 running OS 6.0.1. Yesterday I decided to use DS Cloud to backup my documents to my Synology Disk Station (NAS). For simplicity I just told it to sync the entire internal storage folder. This appears to have been a BAD mistake.
Everything looked like it was going well I saw the files from my phone appearing in the backup folder on my NAS. IT was almost done when suddenly my Blue tooth music stopped streaming. I looked and Google Play Music says there are no files on my device. Browsing from a USB connection all of the files are in my Music folder, the app just can't seem to find them.
I uninstalled DS Cloud, rebooted the phone, etc. but it's still broke. Basically all of the files appear to be intact but Google Play Music, and Photos can not find anything. I used VLC to browse and play the files so they really are there and undamaged.
I suspect that some "virtual" folders or symbolic links may have been corrupted. The reason I think this is because when I open VLC it shows 4 paths "Internal Memory", "Emulated", "Emulated", "Emulated". I seem to recall that since the N5 does not actually have a SD card slot, it had a fake SD Card folder, and I do seem to remember vaguely there were some emulated or legacy folders, I assume for backwards compatibility with older apps.
In any event I don't remember exactly what those "special" folders were or how to recreate them.
I suspect that if I can recreate them then Music and Picture will start working again.
If I do a factory reset on the phone will that recreate the proper folders and links?
Any ideas?
More research/info.
OK doing more research, now I am fairly certain that the issue is the missing folders. Apparently there's a symbolic link to /data/user/0/com.google.android.music/files/music that is needed for Play Music. Using adb shell I can see that there is a sdcard folder and it is linked to /storage/self/primary.
I think I am on the right track but can anyone tell me what links/folders I need to create? Can I even create them without root? Is there a utility that will fix it? Will a factory reset/wipe fix it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Don't know how to recreate the missing folders, but I'm fairly sure a complete factory reset will fix this. Unfortunately, you will lose your data if you go this route.
RESOLVED - The Hard Way
Last night I tried Settings > Backup & Restore > Factory Reset. It said it was doing it for several minutes. I read that it could take a long time, so I left it in the office and watched a TV show. Came back an ouur later and it was rebooted but 100% intact??? Even though it said "Erasing..." for at least 30 minutes, nothing was gone.
I used the phone all day and except for the original problem it worked fine.
Tonight I tried again. Same process. This time after the wipe it came up like a new phone. Strange.
Anyhow it looks like everything is working. Copied a few songs and pictures and they worked.
I am in the process of restoring everything else which is probably going to take some time...

[Resolved] Tablet rebooting randomly + file changes are reverted

Hi,
I've got an nVidia Shield Tablet (not rooted) with a 64GB card formatted as internal storage.
In the past two days or so I have noticed that the battery drains surprisingly fast, and have noticed that it is rebooting by itself, particularly when I'm trying to copy files over.
I'm leaving tonight for a couple of months so I was loading some useful documents and files but then realized that not only was it rebooting often, but none of the files were retained after the tablet reboots itself. I tried to delete some files and when it rebooted those files reappeared too. In file manager the storage space is now at a constant 38.08GB, if I add anything or delete anything when it reboots it just goes back to that 38.08GB mark and all the other file changes would have been lost. However, all the videos / documents / pictures / apps that I had on there still all work with no problems.
Oh and as I was playing with it just now Google Play Services just crashed, which was something that I had seen once before in the last couple of days as well.
Are there any diagnostics tests I can run? I tried mounting the SD card on my PC but since it's formatted as internal storage it could not be recognized by Windows so chkdsk does not work.
Any help would be appreciated! I really hope I can get this sorted out before I have to leave, since I was really counting on being able to use it to do some work. Thanks!
Edit: It seems to have fixed itself somehow... how odd.

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