Good afternoon!
I have entered into a strange predicament regarding my Galaxy S3. Over the weekend, the phone took a nasty fall and the LCD was shattered on the phone, rendering it technically working internally as it will boot up, take battery charge, and allow me to access files via USB. The only problem here is that I cannot see ALL files visible within the phone.
A month or two back, I installed an app called Hide It Pro that hides photos and files of your choosing from general browsing in the phone. The only issue here is that I cannot seem to locate these files anywhere within the visible files of the drive. As such, I was looking at the file size of the the "Phone" as listed under My Computer, which lists the Galaxy's drive as 1.5 gigs in size, but I am only viewing 750 megs of files when I actually browse the phone. I can only assume the firmware and other files are hiding somewhere within the phone and along with them, the files I need.
Is there any way for me to view everything on the phone including the firmware files? You guys are the super pros at this and I know you all might be able to help me out. Any help is appreciated!
-Arcko
Using adb, you can see all the files on the phone, all the way down to the "/" root. If they're hidden, you can see them using
Code:
ls -a
once you're in the directory they're in...I don't know that you can do it visually (windows explorer).
They are located in programdata/android/.fr/
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Thanks for tips, guys.
I'll mess around with ADB and some of these other explorers. Hopefully I can find something.
As for the post about them being in Program Data/Android/.fr, there is my problem. I did not have an SD card in the device when I installed the app. So that directory technically does not exist and I cannot find the files. And no one seems to know where I might be able to find the Hide It Pro directory without an SD Card. I'm convinced it hid the files somewhere near the root or at least beyond what is visible when hooking up the phone via USB.
-Arcko
Arcko said:
Thanks for tips, guys.
I'll mess around with ADB and some of these other explorers. Hopefully I can find something.
As for the post about them being in Program Data/Android/.fr, there is my problem. I did not have an SD card in the device when I installed the app. So that directory technically does not exist and I cannot find the files. And no one seems to know where I might be able to find the Hide It Pro directory without an SD Card. I'm convinced it hid the files somewhere near the root or at least beyond what is visible when hooking up the phone via USB.
-Arcko
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Actually it is the same as internal, thing is tho the .fr folder is hidden and the only way to access it is through a file explorer to see all the data on your internal memory and search for all pictures and then it will find it the directory will look actually like this
Data/Android/Language/.fr
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Hello,
Some of you may be familiar with a tool known as APK Multi-Tool. I sure am by now. I have recently used this program to edit an apk on my desktop, and when whatever it was doing finished, my entire desktop and it's various sub-folders were erased. I looked through my recycling bin to find nothing, and have done many searches of the exact file-names of a few of my lost files to find nothing. There was an unfathomable amount of important data there, which was deleted in one click. Help, naturally, would be appreciated.
I believe there is no possible way to cure this, seeing that my computer has been restarted various times over the past few days, (this happened about 10-20 days ago) and I would consider a system restore, where the computer restores itself to a point in time, but if the documents are not in the recycling bin, I don't believe they will come back. Is there any possible way to restore my data? Please help ASAP.
Okayyyyyy never used the tool (probably only would in a sandboxed VM after seeing this though)
Know any g forensix people?
Have you tried using a linux live stick to have a proper look at the hard drive?
Ouch, dude. Good luck.
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If you use a file recovery tool you should be able to restore some of them, but the more you use your harddrive the greater the chances of them being overwritten.
You'll definitely want to check ASAP though.
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Maybe your desktop files weren't actually deleted, just hidden? If you're using Windows 7, navigate to you desktop folder:
C:\Users\%username%\desktop
Right-click on the desktop folder and choose properties. Look at the Attributes section on the general tab and make sure that "hidden" is not checked. If it is, uncheck it.
I have a lot of old redundant data on my SD card. If I have an app installed to SD, when uninstalling it sometimes it leaves the SD data behind. Also, everything on my SD card is as it was on my old desire, I simply put it into my sensation when I upgraded. And I've now rooted and tried various ROMs over the past half a year. So safe to say there's a lot of redundant data on it taking up room.
The thing is, it's not straight forward knowing what's actually used or not, so is there a trick or an app that can help identify which files or data haven't been accessed in ages, suggesting it's redundant?
I use es file explorer, its great because you can look into the folders and see what is actually there . I just cleaned mine out yesterday and found most folders are clearly marked so its not to much of an issue. If there was a folder I did not recognise I looked into contents if I still did not recognise I left it alone. Most folders were easily recognized. Hope this helps
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That's just it, I have plenty that I don't recognise, so I'm not sure if they're still needed or not.
Yes I understand you don't want to delete a needed file. For me when I actually opened the folders I was able to see what was inside then took it from there. Hard part for you is finding the old phone files from the new ones. I wish I could be of more help but if your not recognizing the files when opened it makes it really hard. My old application files were clearly labeled so it made my clean out really easy. Perhaps you can find a clue inside to let you know if it was from the old phone or not. Mine was pretty straight forward, I see where yours is much more difficult. Hopefully someone has a better solution for you. I do wish you the best. Sorry I don't have a better answer than looking into the files themself . It worked for me because I was able to recognize my folders. Good luck, I'm sure someone will have a solution.
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No problem, thanks anyway.
Most of the folders in the root of the SD card are fairly obvious in most cases. For the ones I'm not sure about I try and Google 'What is (insert folder name)' Android.
The ones in the root will usually be named by the app or publisher name so that helps give a clue.
In the Android/Data folder there will likely be some rubbish. Best thing to do with the folders there is Google them if unsure as they'll usually be named after the APK that they came from.
My SD is fairly clean so I don't have many examples to give unfortunately.
I installed the Samsung drivers and all and the pc is recognizing the phone but it will only give me options to go into windows media player to transfer music or access it as a camera...the phone won't show up as a drive with all my Sd card files and I can't move anything to it...I used my old card from may fassy so I thought I wouldn't have too reload all my music and ringtones which all shores up on the phone as extsd...and anything now ids saving to Sd...
Is the phone supposed to show up as a drive on the computer? Would formatting my Sd card fix this or is this how it's supposed to be? I want to root and whatnot but can't find a way to view the full Sd card content only music and pictures...do I need an external reader to do this? Is it normal? I have a class 4 16gb card...I can't even view the pics on the pc just icons and numbers and although the pictures I take show up on the Sd in the phone they're not pin the computer
Any advice would be much appreciated...I just got this phone from having a fassy and am quite confused...
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If it's not rooted there isn't many options other than cheetah sync. You can use Kies which let's u sync media files easily. To root these phones its extremely easy now. There is a program u put on your computer and it does everything for you. After its rooted do a search on the forum for ums and it should pull up the guide that people have used to get it working. From rooting to running a script to let u enable ums mode its really easy thanks to the people who take the time to come up with the work arounds. I have done it and it was simple to do. I would estimate it taking 30 min to root and setup the script using pre made scripts from the guide and the program available free from the play store.
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I'm surprised out doesn't let you do mass storage...the pc program in the routing guide...I'm assuming that works for the newest phone radio, or is it modem maybe on the phone? I know I saw root66 its for the older one....
Sorry for all the questions...just trying to make sure of everything so I don't end up with a very expensive paperweight and making sure its all working as it should be...Verizon's user manual is useless for this phone
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Rooting using the program gs3debugfsroot doesn't matter which radio u have. From my understanding it just enables su in the stock roms. It doesn't reset any of your data and doesn't require you to flash anything. The programs connects to your phone and then probably uses an exploit to push the su files enabling more system control.
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view pics and other files
quick 2 questions on this as well. So I can see "Some" of my files but not all for ex.... the files with . (dot) "file name" or .. (dot dot) "file name" will not show up nor will .jpg thumbnails show up. I can take the files such as pictures .jpg and move them to my pictures folder and they will show thumbnails, just cannot view thumbnail pics while connected via usb to pc. Hope that makes since. any ideas
I had the same problem at first...i think i reinstalled the drivers with my phone plugged in switched to camera mode and it worked...either that or rooting it made it work...i almost find it easier to just get a 2 dollar micro sd usb reader off amazon just stick the card in there plug it into the pc and then you have full access...this phone is a real pain with sd card access...you can always use dropbox or kies (although it didn't work on my old pc)
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I'm having a problem I think is due to MTP.
I have an app I am trying to backup the data for, stored in /sdcard0/ProgramData/Android/Language/.fr
Problem is, on the S3 all these files seem to be hidden.
In my older HTC phones I could still mount in Windows and view all my files, nothing was hidden.
But now nearly everything is hidden. I was able to find the files via ES File Explorer, and I copied the folder I wanted over the my sd card, still was hidden in windows. Seems like the "."prefix was why it was hidden, so I renamed it withou it.
Now the folder shows up in windows but all the subfolders (they don't have a "." prefix) and all the contents are still hidden.
Is there anyway to get around this behavior? Is there any way I can change the properties of the entire folder and subfolders via a file viewer or the like to not be hidden?
I know I can unhide everything from inside the app first, but that takes a ton of time to unhide just to backup and rehide it all.
Eh, nevermind.
A bit more time searching yielded:
http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...and-media-transfer-protocol-xda-developer-tv/
While doesn't fix the issue it explained it. Working on trying Easy UMS, just doing the backup the hard way for the moment though.
OK. So far I am aware of 2 download locations.
The first is the SD card, which I have transferred all files to my computer to make space on the card. I did that easily through windows explorer when my phone was connected to the PC. The path is Computer\Xperia Z3\Internal storage\Download. Or sdcard1/ I believe on my phone.
Next is the INTERNAL storage download location. For the life of me I cannot find this ANYWHERE. It doesn't show up on my PC file explorer, because I guess it's in the root of the phone, and I can't find it with root file explorer either. There's absolutely no indication as to where it is actually located on my phone. I have 5GB+ of apps and pics I want to transfer to my PC, but I can't do that until I know the path!
Here's a photo of the app that brings me to that location (bottom of the screen, "downloads")
And this is what it looks like when I open the app, and pull the menu over. As you can see, download...
This has been racking my brain for almost 4 hours now. Please please help me out.
I am using an Xperia Z3 with KitKat
As you can see, this is my downloads that I want to transfer, as seen from the "downloads" app in my...
And THIS is the new Asus file manager I am trying out, and I HAVE THE EXACT SAME ISSUE (The download...
Please tell me what I am doing wrong?
I just tried another app. SAME PROBLEM AGAIN.
Left is my downloads folder (it doesn't tell me what the path is and that's what I NEED) And on the right is the app, Solid Explorer. WHY IS IT EMPTY WHEN THE LEFT PICTURE CLEARLY SHOWS I HAVE FILES????