I am trying to recover deleted photos and videos on my Moto G.
I have enabled USB Debugging, and have connected as "a media device"
When I plug it in (Windows 7) Autoplay pops up with the options: -Sync Digital Media Files To This Device
-Open Device To View Files
-Import Pictures and Videos
I have tried several different data recovery programs, and none of them recognize the phone in any way. (Android Data Recovery, Potatoshare Data Recovery, EasyRecovery Portable, Recuva, a few others)
But if I go into Computer > Portable Devices > etc. I can access all files currently on the phone no problem.
Does anybody know what's going on here?? I'm totally confused. I just want to get in there like it's a hard drive and try to recover these lost photos/videos before it's too late!
Thank you!
borriffick said:
I am trying to recover deleted photos and videos on my Moto G.
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you have to mount your /sdcard virtual partition from recovery (you must have for this a custom recovery)
My phone is not rooted. Am I still able to do this? (If I can, can you link me to a thread dealing with how to do this?)
Thanks so much.
I still don't have any idea what's going on here.
I went into the recovery mode but I didn't see the option to "mount your /sdcard virtual partition from recovery"
I'm afraid my photos and videos are long gone now, but maybe an answer will help the next person.
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I forgot that after oem unlock all data + sdcard is wiped out. So i had some photos that i need to recover from that device. Is there any thing that i can do to recover them. Any good software alternatives?. I tried testdisk but it couldn't do much , since it couldn't detect partition table type. Currently i am using PC Inspector File Recovery, but lets c what happens. Meanwhile I need some recommendation from the forum?
I don't know if it can help you but take a look at Recuva from Piriform (less than 10 posts, cannot paste a link :'( )
Don't transfer data to the sdcard. Use cwm to mount the sdcard to a computer. Then use a couple of different recovery apps to try and piece your drive back together through the comp.
Its not a thorough wipe so as long as you don't write to the sdcard you should get a decent amount back. This is the most important step. Even booting into android could force writes you don't want.
I am in through CWM
Yeah I am mounting USB via CWM, actually i wanted to copy all the data to the pc and then install CM9 but i saw that there was nothing else remaining
Let see what happens I will be using some recovery software. I will be reporting back if I find something that works better than others
I had connected my OnePlus One to the PC and was cleaning the Internal SD when I noticed this
/storage/emulated/0 folder.
It had just 1 file in it and I didn't know what it was and accidentally deleted it.
Now every media file and other documents which were stored on my phone got completely wiped. I cannot even recover it since the phone has only MTP or PTP mode and I don't know how to recover it from these modes as standard recovery softwares dont recognise it...
Is there any way I can get back my files and images as they were really important since they were pictures of my late friend! :/
Thanks
You have just wiped your Internal SDCard Partition. There is extremely remote and painful possibility of recovering it. You are better off flashing Stock Firmware to the Phone.
Please Review [GUIDES][Q&A]How-To Guides For Beginners + Q&A Particularly Section 9. Post on that thread if you still can not resolve your issue.
So, here's the problem - I was just using my phone normally, when it froze - no big deal, recently it has been getting slower and I was just planning on factory resetting it after I back up everything. But, when it booted and went on the start screen, it says "Scanning USB storage for problems" or something like that and it says then "Damaged USB Storage -You may have to reformat it" and unmounts my SD card, so, I have no storage altogether. When I click on the notification it asks if I want to format USB storage. I just want to know if there's a way of retrieving some files, because in my phone FIle Manager there's nothing, and when I connect it to the PC (Windows XP), it doesn't dettect any stotage, if I do it through "USB Utilities" on my phone it shows two Removable Disks on my computer, which are empty, when I click on them it just says "insert disk into drive", and if I click "Turn on USB Storage" on my phone it just keeps on trying to connect, but can't.
I tried restarting it, taking the battery out, booting without an SD card, booting into safe mode, using adb to pull some files, searched the internet for a few hours but to no avail, found this "Tenoshare Android Data Recovery" but it needs root, which I'm not, so I tried rooting it with SuperOneClick - doesn't work, tried installing super user from the recovery menu from SD card, but it can't install it - I'm wondering if it's wortht it. So, now I don't know what to do - do I root my phone using the methods here (with odin and etc) and use that utility, do I just factory reset it (maybe try recovering files after I've reset it?), or is there any other available option to somehow recover the files? I'm on Android 4.0.4 unrooted with Baseband version I9103XXLQ3 - I had installed it a few years ago (my phone came with 2.3.6 and I just followed the instructions here on updating my firmware).
I'll be very grateful with any help, I just had a few more important files and the last time I backed up was in December, so any help is appreciated
Hello Everyone,
I've been trying for more than a week now to recover data (photos, contacts, messages) from my HTC One M7 after I accidentally hit the factory reset button (was in a hurry to play squash and was fumbling around till the disaster happened!) :crying: Worse of all, I have no backups :crying::crying: My phone has no SD card, only the internal memory. It runs on Android 5.0.2 and has been rooted. I have busybox and TWRP installed on the phone. I have Android SDK and cygwin on my PC.
Initially, I tried to mount the phone's internal memory as a drive on Windows so I can do a scan of it using a data recovery tool. But I wasn't successful as MTP seems like the only option and there's no way to diable it. Even the disable MTP option inside TWRP doesn't make the drive accessible via USB! I have tried various recovery software available online but none of them can see my phone thanks to the stupid MTP!
Finally, I tried the steps on this thread precisely
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...de-internal-memory-data-recovery-yes-t1994705
Have managed to copy the whole memory block of the phone using
/system/xbin/busybox nc -l -p 5555 -e /system/xbin/busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0
and created a mmcblk0.raw file which I can open using Disk Internals (Linux Reader). I found only the data that currently exists on the drive after the factory reset. Tried to access the image with TestDisk (as shown here - http://www.df.lth.se/~jokke/androidfilerecovery/) and I cannot see any of my old files there too! (I'm trying the Deeper Search Option now)
I'm not sure if 'dd' command copies the disk sector-by-sector. I think any data recovery software can scan the disk image and find the old files as long as I can create a sector-by-sector image of the phone's internal drive. If not, any way to mount the internal drive as a USB drive on Windows could work too! Can anyone please help me with this?
Many thanks in advance!!!!
Hi everyone, I was trying to return my moto g7+ to stock. I had wiped all partitions except internal, ext sd, and otg. I already had motorola_moto_g7_plus_xt1965-2_lake_retail_br_9.0_ppw29.98-66.zip on my sd card, but when I tried to install it it gave me an error message. I then downloaded it from motostockrom.com to my desktop. Then I copied it to a usb thumb drive and connected it to my phone via an otg cable. When I looked for it in TWRP, it wasn't listed. I removed the thumb drive and deleted everything but the .zip file and it still listed all of the files that I had deleted and not the .zip. I rebooted the phone and when it rebooted, I went into TWRP but my touch screen didn't work so I couldn't do anything. I tried to connect to phone via ADB but it wasn't being recognized. Strange thing, when TWRP starts, I can access the internal storage and the micro SD card folders on my computer. I've read other's posts with the same problems but I haven't seen any solutions. I'm using TWRP 3.5.2 _9-0. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Can you enter fone gui? You need to revoke adb keys in dev options in fone in order to regrant them, then reboot back into twrp, and twrp adb should work, but if you can get in fone gui, and load adb, use Vysor, google it, Vysor gives your pc mouse control of your fone in your pc as if you were at the phone screen. Google Vysor.
An awfy long way to say screen dont work lol, Prob solved in 1 word.
If you cant enter gui, get back to me
Pachacouti said:
Can you enter fone gui? You need to revoke adb keys in dev options in fone in order to regrant them, then reboot back into twrp, and twrp adb should work, but if you can get in fone gui, and load adb, use Vysor, google it, Vysor gives your pc mouse control of your fone in your pc as if you were at the phone screen. Google Vysor.
An awfy long way to say screen dont work lol, Prob solved in 1 word.
If you cant enter gui, get back to me
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I came across a post that mentioned using a mouse with the otg cable so I tried that. I was able to access the controls in TWRP. I was still getting the error message "invalid zip file format! Error installing zip file '/external_sd/Motorola_Moto_G7_Plus_XT1965-2_LAKE_RETAIL_BR_9.0_PPW29.98-111_(by_motostockrom.com) (1).zip".
Is there a spelling error, re: (by_motostockrom.com)? I tried to restore to a point that I had saved from 2020 which said that it had completed sucessfully but resulted in a boot loop. I tried to restore to the other save from 2021, but it gave an error "Cannot restore firmware -- mounted read only." In recovery, if I go to file manager, all of the entries are 20+ character alphanumeric, which I had experienced before when I tried to do a restore but my phone was encrypted.