Hey guys please help I accidentally deleted all my photos which I saved into my internal memory. I have tried all sorts of recovery methods, but to no avail. However I found this one suspicious file called .thumbdata3-176350812 in my thumbnails folder. The directory to it is Internal Memory, DCIM, Thumbnails. It has a pretty big file size of 54.5MB. May I know what it is? With a little glimmer of hope, could it be a backup of my photos? If not, what is it? Is there any other way to recover my photos? They are very precious memories and I really feel like killing myself for being so clumsy and deleting them all. I am on Resurrection remix JB 3.0.6 and using a Samsung Galaxy SII i9100.
The file is thumbnail of you images they are tiny images of original images...
Try to open it it might help
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hello2ew said:
Hey guys please help I accidentally deleted all my photos which I saved into my internal memory. I have tried all sorts of recovery methods, but to no avail. However I found this one suspicious file called .thumbdata3-176350812 in my thumbnails folder. The directory to it is Internal Memory, DCIM, Thumbnails. It has a pretty big file size of 54.5MB. May I know what it is? With a little glimmer of hope, could it be a backup of my photos? If not, what is it? Is there any other way to recover my photos? They are very precious memories and I really feel like killing myself for being so clumsy and deleting them all. I am on Resurrection remix JB 3.0.6 and using a Samsung Galaxy SII i9100.
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You could try apps like Undelete or Hexamob recovery. The file, as mentioned, is the thumbnail data of your images. That size actually isn't big compared to what it sometimes gets to (3gb+).
shivam1688 said:
The file is thumbnail of you images they are tiny images of original images...
Try to open it it might help
we all should be polite enough to press thanks for anyone who helped US.
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Thanks, but how do I open it? I tried opening it with all sorts of apps but to no avail. Doesnt open on my computer as well. What type of file is this??
Theonew said:
You could try apps like Undelete or Hexamob recovery. The file, as mentioned, is the thumbnail data of your images. That size actually isn't big compared to what it sometimes gets to (3gb+).
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Thanks, I tried, but both apps dont work :/ Nevertheless, theres one thank for you
hello2ew said:
Thanks, I tried, but both apps dont work :/ Nevertheless, theres one thank for you
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Not even the Total Recovery option (in Hexamob)?
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Has anyone backed up the stock applications? I accidentally deleted audiotuning.apk and want to put it back, even though I haven't determined what it's for. If anyone has backed these up to their desktop, I would greatly appreciate it if someone could send it to me so I don't have to reinstall.
Coming from a lifetime use of Blackberry, it seems we can't fix our mistakes as easily on Android
dmasjz45 said:
Has anyone backed up the stock applications? I accidentally deleted audiotuning.apk and want to put it back, even though I haven't determined what it's for. If anyone has backed these up to their desktop, I would greatly appreciate it if someone could send it to me so I don't have to reinstall.
Coming from a lifetime use of Blackberry, it seems we can't fix our mistakes as easily on Android
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Attached.
I use the Sdx Stock App to backup and delete system apps. If you're rooted it's invaluable.
apogee82 said:
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I use the Sdx Stock App to backup and delete system apps. If you're rooted it's invaluable.
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Thank you!!!!
It seems I can't copy this over to system\apps. Looks like the .odex was deleted also. Could you please attach this for me too? Hoping that will do it. I'm rooted so I don't know why it's not showing up (using root explorer)
Or do I have to do this using adb ?
I am going to zip all these up and post them on here for other morons like me after
dmasjz45 said:
Looks like the .odex was deleted also. Could you please attach this for me too?
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Rename it to .odex it's not really a zip file. I had to name it that to get around the forum limitations.
I'm pretty sure you have to do it using ADB and mount the system/app directory as writable. If you install the Sdx tool you can backup a few apps, then navigate to the sdx directory on the sdcard that gets created and manually add the audioTuining files in there and then restore them using the Sdx app.
That's a long way around ADB but it should work.
Thanks again!!!
Jeeze what a hell of a job it is to push a few files to /system folder
Anyway, got them over there...Unavailable to actually install it (no idea why) but at least it's sitting back in there
That takes care of my OCD until I notice what it affected
where can i find that sdx tool? are there any other free apps out there that I can back up my phone with?
I'd be most grateful if someone could attach VoiceSearch.apk, and VoiceSearch.odex.
Accidentally deleted.
infamousjax said:
I'd be most grateful if someone could attach VoiceSearch.apk, and VoiceSearch.odex.
Accidentally deleted.
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do you mean voicedialer.apk and .odex? I don't see VoiceSearch
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the .odex file is in the rar
DevilDogVIKING said:
where can i find that sdx tool? are there any other free apps out there that I can back up my phone with?
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Attached to second post.
apogee82 said:
Attached to second post.
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I can't believe I missed that, thanks
can someone upload the Sprint_App_Updater.apk?
You can get them all here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773142
Hi
Does anyone know where the files starting "thumbnail_photo" are stored.
I have tried deleting the thumbnail cache via Astro but there are still loads there when I do a Clockwork backup, which means it takes AGES!!
I know they are not a problem but they are a frustration!!
Cheers
iftikar666 said:
Hi
Does anyone know where the files starting "thumbnail_photo" are stored.
I have tried deleting the thumbnail cache via Astro but there are still loads there when I do a Clockwork backup, which means it takes AGES!!
I know they are not a problem but they are a frustration!!
Cheers
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If anyone cares - managed to find these files they are in:
/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/files/
I had nearly 10k files in here!!!
I have an Samsung Galaxy S2 running Android 2.33. I put on Google+ app and that was a mistake. It created a folder in my gallery called Instant Upload [with 70 pictures]. I would really like to delete the folder but I am not able and I don't know where the folder is kept. I tried searching with windows explorer and couldn't find the pictures or where the folder is on my phone. I went to Google+ site on my pc and erased the pictures there but still can't erase on my phone. Please help.
Even i also have the same problem, i am not able to delete instant upload folder as well as profile photos folder too from my SGS2 mobile. I tried to delete all the apps and cleared all the memory from my SD card. The problem is i can delete both the folders but again when i open my gallery it ll show the deleted files again. So please help.
Builder2 said:
I have an Samsung Galaxy S2 running Android 2.33. I put on Google+ app and that was a mistake. It created a folder in my gallery called Instant Upload [with 70 pictures]. I would really like to delete the folder but I am not able and I don't know where the folder is kept. I tried searching with windows explorer and couldn't find the pictures or where the folder is on my phone. I went to Google+ site on my pc and erased the pictures there but still can't erase on my phone. Please help.
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hi builder,
finally i found the solution for this, it sounds wired but it ll work 100%.
just follow the following steps, and before doing this i recommend u to take backup of all the data from your phone.
settings>privacy>factory data reset>check (format usb storage)>reset phone.
hope this will help you.
-Arun
Thanks. It worked but it was a major pain. Google should have made it easier to get rid of. It is like using a bomb to get rid of a fly.
I flashed my nexus s to 4.1 today. then I took a picture but then I found that..
the picture saved to "/storage/sdcard0/DCIM/Camera/"automatically
what the fresh hell is "/storage/sdcard0/DCIM/Camera/" ? And I am pretty sure I didn't change any setting
Yeah, I haven't checked that in my phone but none of my media files are showing up in stock apps including gallery. There has been lots of threads in forums for the solution and I'm trying those one by one. There are many thread to link. Just google for "media in sd card not showing up in gallery jelly bean" I'm trying a few things. I 'll let you know if it worked.
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Yeah, I haven't checked that in my phone but none of my media files are showing up in stock apps including gallery. There has been lots of threads in forums for the solution and I'm trying those one by one. There are many thread to link. Just google for "media in sd card not showing up in gallery jelly bean" I'm trying a few things. I 'll let you know if it worked.
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That will be very helpful ^)^ thanks a lot :good::good:
Are you guys using a custom kernel?
Just snapped a pic and it saved to where it normally does. All my saved pictures are where they should be as well.
It looks like after 4.1 all camera files are being saved in /sdcard0. It shouldn't be a problem if all the files show up in the gallery. If there is a problem, there is a rogue file which is making the media server restart which is causing files to disappear. I did a format on SD and found the file by copying one folder at a time. If none of your files are showing in the gallery, I suggest you put a .nomedia file in all your folders, delete it one by one to find out the rogue file. Hope I had helped.
Hi,
I am not sure if this is in line with what you are saying but during the initial startup after flashing the update the phone finished updating applications then contacts database update and after that went to "media database" update!
I guess there might be some changes in the configuration and the structure of the new release!!
FloHimself said:
Are you guys using a custom kernel?
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Nop , just the original kernel 0_0
nitrix said:
It looks like after 4.1 all camera files are being saved in /sdcard0. It shouldn't be a problem if all the files show up in the gallery. If there is a problem, there is a rogue file which is making the media server restart which is causing files to disappear. I did a format on SD and found the file by copying one folder at a time. If none of your files are showing in the gallery, I suggest you put a .nomedia file in all your folders, delete it one by one to find out the rogue file. Hope I had helped.
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thank you for help ^_^
Newbie here. I found the complete manual online, but my phone does not have the delete icon shown on page 62. Have fiddled this thing every which way, but cannot delete. Thanks!
billy backstay said:
Newbie here. I found the complete manual online, but my phone does not have the delete icon shown on page 62. Have fiddled this thing every which way, but cannot delete. Thanks!
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Have you tried deleting the images with a file explorer?
Usually you have to long press on the image in the gallery in order to see the delete icon...
Thanks for your reply! Not sure how to use file explorer, but willing to learn. I have tried holding down for long time, no delete icon?
EDIT: I went into file manager and found on screen shot that I was able to delete, but can't locate the other pics?
billy backstay said:
Thanks for your reply! Not sure how to use file explorer, but willing to learn. I have tried holding down for long time, no delete icon?
EDIT: I went into file manager and found on screen shot that I was able to delete, but can't locate the other pics?
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Camera photos are in a folder named "DCIM" in your SD or the internal memory...
GreatApo said:
Camera photos are in a folder named "DCIM" in your SD or the internal memory...
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Thanks!! I have deleted all, except one that appears to be in picasa, which I must have accidentally created somehow...
billy backstay said:
Thanks!! I have deleted all, except one that appears to be in picasa, which I must have accidentally created somehow...
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Just spend a little time in your gallery, i am sure there will be a delete icon somewhere