Hopefully I just haven't made a big error...
The storage on my phone suddenly got really low so I looked at where it was all allocated and in Misc. there was almost 4GB taken up by semc-mtpbackuptransport, I ticked it to see if it was deletable and ended up deleting it by mistake. Is this an imperative file on my phone that I shouldn't have deleted? My phone was super slow for a while afterwards (may have just been due to deleting such a big file) but I just wanted to make sure my phone isn't going to die without it?
The storage warning which alerted me to this occurred when I was trying to do an Xperia Transfer from my IPhone via desktop. I don't know if it was coincidence and the file was already on my phone or if was created while I was attempting this transfer (which didn't work anyway).
Worried about doing anything with my phone as I don't know what that file I deleted was. Will I be ok without it?
It should be save to delete the file (or even the whole folder structure) as this indeed is/was written by the Xperia Transfer from your IPhone.
However, check whether all data has been restored to your new Xperia as desired (e.g. contacts, calendar entries, music, pictures... whatever else).
If so, go ahead. But even if not, you may start the transfer all over at any one point in time.
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Is it possible to recover your phone's data from a ClockWorkMod recovery file.. Without a phone?
My Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket finally borked on me a couple days ago, where the screen started to randomly turn blue in the corner, it looked like someone used an airbrush inside of the screen. Later on this started getting worse and it spread through out the whole screen. I made a backup immediately with ClockWorkMod's recovery and put it on my SD card, which I now have on my computer.
Is it possible to open it somehow and grab my pictures and other important notes and such from it without having a phone? As in, use some setup with VirtualBox or something along those lines, or even some way to open up the files themselves and pulling them.
So is this possible at all or am I just plain out of luck unless I want to accept the $200 insurance covered Skyrocket they're offering me?
Can anyone shed some light on this?
Unless you stored the pictures within the internal memory of your device (I don't know why you wouldn't), the files you mentioned should be stored on your SD card. When CWM makes it backup, it backups two folders, /data and /system. No other folders are backed up, as these are the only two folders you need to restore a device. If you really needed to retrieve something from the /data folder (SMS messages or contacts), you can use a YAFFS file system viewer to extract the files. If the data you seek is stored within an internal SD (SD0), as long as you can turn on your phone and connect to it via USB, the device should automatically allow you open the contents of the SD folder within the computer.
Hi,
my last phone was android 4.0.3. everything was perfect (and logical ). i had my internal space and my sd (wich was mounted to /sdcard). when i connected my phone to the pc i could acces my sdcard directly as it was... what a wonderful world
i know android changed the sd access because of security issues. i know the OPO got no sd.
but now i get crazy
OPO shows my something like "internal storage /storage/emulated/0" with an nice sd sign nearby. looked what was inside this, connected my phone as media device onto pc and found the same content. i thougt: well stange path but ok idc.
i placed my titaniumbackup and whatsapp folder there and placed a picture into pictures. then i installed whatsapp (it found my backup and restored it, but the backup folder was still in this place), changed background to the picture and set up everything else.
well, no it starts to get confusing after setting everything up i connected my phone onto pc a moment ago. and what did i saw then? the picture, movies, music,... folders all where gone. the only fodler left inside the whats app folder is media.
the picture i placed in pictures is still my background but cant find the filename with any (root) file brwoser. whatsapp still everything ok but where are the files and folder gone? how can i backup whatsapp in the future?
so im like:
- why are there at least 5 ways to go to the "internal storage" (/sdcard, /mnt/sdcard, /storage/emulated/0, /storage/emulated/legacy, /storage/sdcard0)? (only because diefferent devs using different pathes?)
- why, how and when got this place changed/folders deleted (from system?)?
am i maybe using something wrong? is there another way supposed to do it?
for me everything is really weird at the moment
Hi all
Today i took my Samsung 64GB SD card out of my Samsung Note Pro 12.2 (after unmounting the card first of course!) and put it in my Xperia Z3, but upon viewing the contents of the card I see that 99% of the photos, videos and music that was on there has been deleted. The card shows as having 59.9GB free space. The data that I have lost totals roughly 40GB.
Also, the folder names have been altered, for example "music" has become "music.7" and "photo" has become "photo.3".
Can anyone explain why this may have happened, and if there is a way of recovering the data?
Since the data loss i havent used the card, aside from putting it back in the Note Pro 12.2 in the hope that the data would show on this device. It didnt.
I would be gutted if there is no way of retrieving my family photos and videos.
And yes, i know I you'll all say i should have backed up, but funnily enough I took the card out of the Note Pro 12.2 to begin doing just that! how ironic.
If it didn't work in the z3 I'd have put it back in the note to retrace my steps. Files don't just disappear without cause. I always turn my device off when I pull the card. Plus being that it's "android", could there be a (godforbid) sync issue?
tweker said:
If it didn't work in the z3 I'd have put it back in the note to retrace my steps. Files don't just disappear without cause. I always turn my device off when I pull the card. Plus being that it's "android", could there be a (godforbid) sync issue?
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hmm, well as i said above I did just that. Saw that the z3 showed an almost blank card and put it back in the note.
Aside from the data loss I am also intrigued how the folder names became changed from the moment just before I unmounted the card to when i put it in the z3. What on earth would have caused that?!
Sorry to hear that really. Tbh, it has to be a note issue being that when you unmounted and removed it that is when it happened. I would go through all it's settings to see if it or an apk installed has some weird permissions. Don't you just love android? I find it fascinating if not quite the child-like OS. Not enough transparency or control whatsoever.
afaik android doesn't have many issues with viruses but it might have been one.
or
the files are stored to a cloud and aren't on your card but online somewhere (an app uploaded them for you)
or
the files have been compressed (unlikely since i don't believe you can compress 50gb to 10gb)
anyways, you can try several sd card recovery tools
https://www.google.de/search?q=sd+c...f-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=3r8mVazTCszcavmGgCA
I was just putting some more music on my OnePlus One (using MTP on my pc) when I got slightly irritated of all the junk folders on it. I decided I should clean some of them.
After I finished copying my music I noticed my phone couldn't access the internal SD anymore. I did a reboot, same thing. It kind of shows my SD now, but it's almost empty...
When I attach it to my pc, I see the same (almost none) files.
Anyone an idea what I did wrong, and how to fix?
Many thanks in advance.
Have you tried using fastboot to go back to stock? You will lose all of your data if you do this, so hopefully you have a backup on your pc. It seems like something happened with your partitions when you were deleting stuff.
Hey folks,
Bit of a long story, short version is "Phone seems wiped, did I mess up? If not how is it possible?"
I've been passed a device with a report that it had an important video file on it that was accidentally deleted, and tasked with seeing if the file was recoverable. I was also later passed the only SD card (2gb) in the owner's possession.
Phone first. I followed instructions to root the device and rip an image of the data partition. This did mean uploading the root zip to the phone, a risk I undertook before discovering you can get a temporary root. I don't think that act accounts for what I found.
I used these two [1] [2] links for guidance. Ripping the data took many attempts but I did eventually get a 32gb-ish image down the wire. The image seemed to mostly be zeroes viewed in hex editor. Video-wise, recovery software found only operating system background videos of clouds. There didn't seem to be any user data on there at all. Recovery seemed to run very quickly with image stored on an SSD. As I say, even if I'd overwritten the video file header with the root zip, there'd have been other data on there, seems to me. Other photos. Other videos. Perhaps I ripped it wrong. Ripped on a windows machine. Is ripped even the right word, I'm not very good at this and a bit stressed
Did I get the wrong partition? Wouldn't be 32gb then though, right? I ripped mmcblk0 and mmcblk0p37 or whatever seemed to be mounted as the data partition, various times, and got similar results regardless of the resultant file size (i.e. stop half way through, data is mostly zeroes, get the whole image, it's mostly zeroes, all ripped images contain the OS video files).
Did rooting / flashing recovery wipe the data? Seems unlikely. I did start the phone by accident at one point (reboot from recovery seemed not to acknowledge my holding down the volume / power combo to get back into recovery) and OS claimed to be "upgrading all the apps" so I powered it down straight away. This is the terrifying moment for me, did something I do kick off an OS process that wiped the phone?
Owner claims never to have done a factory reset, and in any case that doesn't wipe data anyway right? Only file table. So data would still be there. But like I say they don't claim to have wiped phone, only accidentally deleted files. Even automatic OS upgrade would leave data intact. Flashing a mod would do it I guess but that's not happened.
SD card next, it's labelled "BLACKBERRY" and owner did have a bb once. They say the card was in the phone, I figured maybe phone was using sdcard instead of internal memory for user data but the card is essentially blank, it's like it has never been used since it was formatted by the blackberry. No data on it, just 6 folders. Recovery software finds literally nothing. Seems like a dead end. Ripped on a mac using dd.
Possible that the owner had another sdcard at some point but they cannot recall having one.
Also possible I ripped the data wrong? I used sudo dd to get it, then ran Disk Drill on the mounted .dmg, which is 2gb, the size of the sd card.
dd would not substitute zeroes for unallocated filetable areas, right?
So this leaves me with so many questions about how we got to this point with no data, but mainly I want to sanity check what I've done here so I can be more confident I haven't wiped the data I'm trying to recover myself. Then it'll be a case of digging deeper into what happened to this phone between the video being taken, the video being deleted, and the phone arriving in my hands.
Thanks in advance to anyone for literally any input!!
I've asked the owner to trawl their cloud drives for HTC backups, hopefully they had daily backup linked to one of their clouds. Otherwise, I guess I'm at a loss...
If the lost data cannot be scanned by the recovery tool, they has been overwritten. But fortunately, the owner to cloud drives for HTC has backup file.
Thanks bobii. What's confusing is that the data I retrieved seems mostly to be zeroes, which wouldn't be the case if it had been overwritten. Unless it was overwritten with zeroes, which as far as I know would only happen if you flashed a brand new OS or intentionally wiped the data partition, both processes I think that the owner would remember doing.