Sorry if this is the wrong forum. I'm guessing there's no hope, but if there is, the geniuses here on XDA will certainly know the way. My TF101 almost got bricked late last week (e.g., recovery bootloop and ADB and most APX methods did nothing) and I was miraculously able to get it booting up again normally, but in doing that my internal SD card was totally formatted. As a result, I lost all my backups from CWM. :crying:
The question is there a way to recover the backups from the internal SD card? I know there are programs that can help get deleted files off a hard drive or SD card, but not an internal SD card that I was able to find.
If it helps, I'm using Megatron and THIS CWM (which is why I can't access my backups since it saves to the internal SD card). I can however access my old backups pre-touch CWM, but I unfortunately flashed Megatron for the first time after I flashed the touch CWM.
Thank you!
jjdavola said:
Sorry if this is the wrong forum. I'm guessing there's no hope, but if there is, the geniuses here on XDA will certainly know the way. My TF101 almost got bricked late last week (e.g., recovery bootloop and ADB and most APX methods did nothing) and I was miraculously able to get it booting up again normally, but in doing that my internal SD card was totally formatted. As a result, I lost all my backups from CWM. :crying:
The question is there a way to recover the backups from the internal SD card? I know there are programs that can help get deleted files off a hard drive or SD card, but not an internal SD card that I was able to find.
If it helps, I'm using Megatron and THIS CWM (which is why I can't access my backups since it saves to the internal SD card). I can however access my old backups pre-touch CWM, but I unfortunately flashed Megatron for the first time after I flashed the touch CWM.
Thank you!
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I don't know about any way to get back deleted backups from an sdcard, but why don't you flash Rogue XM Touch Recovery? It works very well and will use either internal sdcard or external microSD card. I think it can even use USB drives.
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I have loaded up Vegan TAb on my Viewsonic G tablet with no major issues. However, after a file copy it is giving me a "Damaged SD Card" and asking if I want to reformat. I'm taking this to mean it will reformat the internal SD card. Is there anyway to recover without reformatting or should I do a Factory Restore with Clockworks or recover from my initial backup?
Tablet is working fine even with the error message. Any tips or ideas on this issue?
Thanks!
Well to impatient I guess. I went into Clockwork and did a factory restore, but that didn't work. Then I went back into Clockwork into system and mounts and formatted the SD area. Now can boot into Vegan Tab and mount via USB. The drive is wiped clean. I take it that the 13GB's you see is just for data storage and that APP and OS is on a separate partition?
After booting into CWM recovery, I tried to flash a rom but it was deleted off of my externel SD drive (Because I didn't know format /system includes it). Anyway, what's weird is that I was still able to boot to recovery because my CWM files were on the Externel SD card along with my backups. I confirmed this by trying to boot into CWM Recovery after taking out the Ext. SD card; did not work. Then I put my SD card into my computer via an SD card adapter and it said my Externel SD card had 7,789MB/7,789 MB free. Can someone explain this phenomenon? Thank you!~
P.S. The Rom is good to go now, I'm just curious as to where the hell my CWM files went.
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After booting into CWM recovery, I tried to flash a rom but it was deleted off of my externel SD drive (Because I didn't know format /system includes it). Anyway, what's weird is that I was still able to boot to recovery because my CWM files were on the Externel SD card along with my backups. I confirmed this by trying to boot into CWM Recovery after taking out the Ext. SD card; did not work. Then I put my SD card into my computer via an SD card adapter and it said my Externel SD card had 7,789MB/7,789 MB free. Can someone explain this phenomenon? Thank you!~
P.S. The Rom is good to go now, I'm just curious as to where the hell my CWM files went.
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How did you flash it? What were the steps you made?
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I used the NVflash volume down and power. I formated and wiped everything possible. When I took the Ext. SD card out and put the EB froyo rom on it via my computer. Tried to boot into recovery to no avail; phone was bricked. put the ext sd card back in, was able to boot into recovery with cwm and the EB rom was there and so I installed it.
Which recovery image did you originally flash and what method did you use to flash it?
the one everyone's been telling me to. oneclickrecovery or something nvflash cwm i dunno. the image was after I rooted and after I removed Nova. The next time I flashed an image was after flashing EBFroyo.
el buho said:
the one everyone's been telling me to. oneclickrecovery or something nvflash cwm i dunno. the image was after I rooted and after I removed Nova. The next time I flashed an image was after flashing EBFroyo.
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I think their point is that you probably flashed CWM to your external card, which is an option in the flasher.
Hey, this is my first tablet. The only other android device I own is a Nexus One (and I've done a LOT of stuff with it, so please don't assume I'm a complete noob!)
I realize that my transformer has 16GB of internal storage... is there a way I can backup my data so a partition or something so when I do a factory reset I don't lose all my /sdcard data? Similar to how I do stuff on my nexus one? My buddy with the nexus s doesn't have to pop in an SD card or anything (not that he even can) and he can still flash roms and his user data is still safe. How are people doing this on the transformer?
As of right now CWM recovry only work with an external micro sd card.
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The problem with the TF is that /data and /sdcard (internal) are part of the same partition, so I suppose if you wipe /data, you will be wiping also /sdcard. Thats the maily reason of using an external SD card.
Aside from that, Root Toolkit can save a complete image of your tablet via APX into your PC (if you don't want to use CWM).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419894
^^^ how to use external sd card as main sd card, am not sure how this works with CWM
bob dylan said:
am not sure how this works with CWM
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CWM should behave equal since you're linking your external sd card to /sdcard. If CWM uses /Removable/MicroSD to mount the external sd card, you won't notice any difference.
In the process of upgrading ICS ROM's I think I messed up my CWM recovery (3.2.0.1)
I mistakenly formatted staging and pretty much everything else that can be formatted within the mounts and storage part of CWM.
Now recovery cannot see my Micro SDCard, it can't mount it either. Nor can I mount USB storage.
I tried installing the nvflash version of the rogue recovery, then reflashed the older 3.2.0.1 recovery from Roach to see if that would reset things, but I'm still having the same issues with not being able to access my MicroSD card.
I want to stick with this recovery as I don't like having all the various ROM files on the internal card (which is why I bought a 32GB external that I can keep all of the stuff I download from XDA).
So my current attempt is to go back to HC by using the revolver NVFlash, which I am hoping fixes my recovery also.
EDIT: this didn't resolve things for me either!! Argh! Still can't mount the MicroSD card.
If it doesn't, can anyone offer suggestions?
Thanks!
The Team Rouge recovery read from external micro sd card as well.
baseballfanz said:
The Team Rouge recovery read from external micro sd card as well.
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Thanks...but for some reason my TF can't mount the MicroSD (external) anymore, whether it's Roach 3.2.0.1 or Team Rogue.
I've nvflashed back to revolver 3.11 HC, and the SD card shows up fine in the ROM, but not in recovery.
Something has gone wrong and I am not sure how to resolve.
I wonder if putting the device completely back to stock (unrooted also) would help?
I would try and format your sd card again on a PC, try sd formatter
https://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/SDFormatterv3.0.zip
Just copy the content of the micro sd card to a pc, format and copy it back.
Hi guys. It's me, the stupid guy who formated his SD on Marshmallow with the "Internal Storage option" and then changed the rom . I didn't know all the encrypted stuff!... Well, the problem now is that i have a SD card formated with internal sotage option but i haven't the exactly rom with i did the formatting, only an old backup (before SD formatting). When i put on the SD card in the old backup, it says that cant use it, must format all the stuff. So...
Is there any way to access all my SD data? i tried with the old backup, doing a wipe data... nothing works.
PD: Sorry for my ****ty english
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Any ideas?
You tried putting your SD card into a PC? it might read it though but if it doesnt you have to do the formating. All will be wiped but you can still afterwards try Recuva (program for restoring data) and when downloaded put your SD into your PC and then start it. that would be your best bet.