To make a short story even shorter, some browser deleted all of my files off my phone when I uninstalled it. The phone in question is a M153 "Fortune". I can't really find a reliable way to root it, so I was wondering if its possible to access the file logs. The files I really want back are my music and video files, so I'm hopping I can find the names of the files I lost so I can re-download them. Thanks in advance!
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Since I can't post in the q & a forum I am posting here but mods feel free to move it. So I have a wm6.1 device and a Mac computer and I regularly send files, like cab and music files with out an issue. However, today I noticed that I send a music file like usual and the file is no where to be found on the devices however space about the same size as the file is being taken up. So I send another two files(one music and one cab file) with out an issue at all. Then later on I send a cab file, but I don't see it on the device even though space is being take up. This may have happened prior to this, but I didn't realize it or something. So how can A) regain that space by deleting those files not showing up, or B) find the files that are not showing up and use them as I intended to. I am loosing space because of this. Option of last(and I mean last) resort is a hard rest which I don't like to do. Thank you....
yrsmart said:
Since I can't post in the q & a forum I am posting here but mods feel free to move it. So I have a wm6.1 device and a Mac computer and I regularly send files, like cab and music files with out an issue. However, today I noticed that I send a music file like usual and the file is no where to be found on the devices however space about the same size as the file is being taken up. So I send another two files(one music and one cab file) with out an issue at all. Then later on I send a cab file, but I don't see it on the device even though space is being take up. This may have happened prior to this, but I didn't realize it or something. So how can A) regain that space by deleting those files not showing up, or B) find the files that are not showing up and use them as I intended to. I am loosing space because of this. Option of last(and I mean last) resort is a hard rest which I don't like to do. Thank you....
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get a good file browser and search for the missing files. You may want to use a wild card search (*.cab,*.mp3)
if you still can not find them look in the folders in /Windows and /Temp or or equivalent on the device
well i am using total commader so I dunno how good that is or not. Not to mention I have done what you suggested and even searched for files added with in the last 3 days and nothing on all fronts but yet the sapce is being taken up by something that I can't seem to find on my device. Memory maid was no help either(granted I only did a clean up). But thank you.
have you tried using the default file explorer?
Does anyone get annoyed with this ics bug since they upgraded to ics?
My photo Gallery is now displaying all photos and images on my Xoom, even thumbnail images from all my app folders and music folders. All of sudden, my gallery now has over thousand of images instead only photos from DCIM folder.
Does anybody know any way to work around this? Is there a filtering option in the settings somewhere?
Btw, I'm still on official ics, unrooted.
Sent from my Xoom using xda premium
from what I understand
I think you need to make a file called (dot)nomedia or .nomedia and put it in any folder you don't want to show up in the gallery. I could be thinking of something else, but I'm pretty sure that's how you do it. That would require you to be rooted though I believe.
tnn306 said:
Does anyone get annoyed with this ics bug since they upgraded to ics?
My photo Gallery is now displaying all photos and images on my Xoom, even thumbnail images from all my app folders and music folders. All of sudden, my gallery now has over thousand of images instead only photos from DCIM folder.
Does anybody know any way to work around this? Is there a filtering option in the settings somewhere?
Btw, I'm still on official ics, unrooted.
Sent from my Xoom using xda premium
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it is why i use quickpic.
you can not use .nomedia in you music folder or u see no music.
liftman- said:
it is why i use quickpic.
you can not use .nomedia in you music folder or u see no music.
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Thanks for the tips guys
@liftman-, Will first try your method, seems to be easiest to way out for now for me
@dtrud0h, My Xoom is fairly new, not brave enough wipe it yet. Been reading up the Root procedures @XDA though, but I think you guys are doing a fabulous job. Will take the plunge once i'm sick of the stock ICS. Cheers!
Even with an unrooted Xoom, I believe that you can still add the .nomedia file to any accessible folders (not in the system area). Without root and an app to explore further (like Root Explorer), one should still be able to explore the user folders and create the file. Maybe the easiest way would be to connect to a PC or laptop, create the file on your PC then copy it to the needed folders that you can access. No doubt using quickpic is simpler but you should be able to drop some .nomedia files if needed without root.
Now is the best time to root anyway! Once you've had it for a while, got it all set up exactly the way you want, personalized just for you then you'll really hate to root and start all over from scratch. If you plan to root, just take the plunge! You'll be glad later when you don't have to redo every little setting PLUS Team EOS has done so much more for us that Google and Motorola ever have or ever will! Plenty of good folks here to help you out if you get into trouble but the process has been pretty easy and painless by our devs. Just my opinion anyway...whatever works for you!
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I think you need to make a file called (dot)nomedia or .nomedia and put it in any folder you don't want to show up in the gallery. I could be thinking of something else, but I'm pretty sure that's how you do it. That would require you to be rooted though I believe.
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I have the same problem on my Xoom running OTA ICS, but worse, my gallery app is ignoring .nomedia files and still displaying the media files.
I found a support ticket here that indicates the problem has been fixed with a patch --> AOS .nomedia patch
Wonder if this has been fixed in any of the custom ROMS?
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Even with an unrooted Xoom, I believe that you can still add the .nomedia file to any accessible folders (not in the system area). Without root and an app to explore further (like Root Explorer), one should still be able to explore the user folders and create the file. Maybe the easiest way would be to connect to a PC or laptop, create the file on your PC then copy it to the needed folders that you can access. No doubt using quickpic is simpler but you should be able to drop some .nomedia files if needed without root.
Now is the best time to root anyway! Once you've had it for a while, got it all set up exactly the way you want, personalized just for you then you'll really hate to root and start all over from scratch. If you plan to root, just take the plunge! You'll be glad later when you don't have to redo every little setting PLUS Team EOS has done so much more for us that Google and Motorola ever have or ever will! Plenty of good folks here to help you out if you get into trouble but the process has been pretty easy and painless by our devs. Just my opinion anyway...whatever works for you!
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Can you point to me where can i root 4.0.3 and install CWM. Been reading here but not clear at all. Thanks
Ok, so my buddy had an app downloaded from the google play store. back when the S4 Mini was newish. He had some kind of photo/file locker app which all i can tell you is it made a folder on the internal storage simply called "Locker" and all the encrypted files that were locked with that app were in there but of course un-readable because that are apparently actually encrypted to some extent. the phone went overboard in the salt water, couldnt be repaired but i managed to get it running enough to pull the "locker" folder with all the locked data off the storage. He doesnt remember the name of the app used and no longer has the google account to look at his download history to find it. but the icon was blue-ish and it created a folder called "locker" on the storage. he entered his passcode on a dialpad looking menu and boom, his locked files showed up. but thats all i know about it. hes trying to get that data readable again, and changing the extension to jpeg or jpg or png didnt work. just wondering if anyone here may have some sugguestions of apps to try to get these files readable again, if i could find the exact program used my plan was to install it on his new phone. set a password and lock a random picture so this way the program would created all the directories or whatever it needed, and i can copy the recovered files from the old phone and copy them into the new phone in the appropriate directory, and hopefully unlock those files. sorry if im jumping around alot. so im trying to find a way to make these files readable again is the end goal. ive tried for days to get them unlocked. and if anyone can help me they are on these forums. Any help ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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Ok, so my buddy had an app downloaded from the google play store. back when the S4 Mini was newish. He had some kind of photo/file locker app which all i can tell you is it made a folder on the internal storage simply called "Locker" and all the encrypted files that were locked with that app were in there but of course un-readable because that are apparently actually encrypted to some extent. the phone went overboard in the salt water, couldnt be repaired but i managed to get it running enough to pull the "locker" folder with all the locked data off the storage. He doesnt remember the name of the app used and no longer has the google account to look at his download history to find it. but the icon was blue-ish and it created a folder called "locker" on the storage. he entered his passcode on a dialpad looking menu and boom, his locked files showed up. but thats all i know about it. hes trying to get that data readable again, and changing the extension to jpeg or jpg or png didnt work. just wondering if anyone here may have some sugguestions of apps to try to get these files readable again, if i could find the exact program used my plan was to install it on his new phone. set a password and lock a random picture so this way the program would created all the directories or whatever it needed, and i can copy the recovered files from the old phone and copy them into the new phone in the appropriate directory, and hopefully unlock those files. sorry if im jumping around alot. so im trying to find a way to make these files readable again is the end goal. ive tried for days to get them unlocked. and if anyone can help me they are on these forums. Any help ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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Have you tried to open that images on Adobe Photoshop ?
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Have you tried to open that images on Adobe Photoshop ?
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I did not. I will definitely try that. ill have to guess which ones are pictures. i know there are videos in there too. Thank you for the suggestion.
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I did not. I will definitely try that. ill have to guess which ones are pictures. i know there are videos in there too. Thank you for the suggestion.
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Anytime with pleasure mate !! And for video file, You should try Xilisoft Video Editing software and convert video file to another format.
It should be also working fine.
saarav242 said:
Anytime with pleasure mate !! And for video file, You should try Xilisoft Video Editing software and convert video file to another format.
It should be also working fine.
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I'm not sure which one is the video because there is no file extension or anything. But I will try Photoshop here shortly and see if I can at least open the pictures. I'll post s snapshot of the files
Download
Es file explorer
And press on the picture and choose open as image
And it will work
This screen shot may help you
I have tried both photoshop and es file explorer. no luck with either. i tried every single file as image and even tried video on each. neither worked. any other ideas? i appreciate all the help so far :fingers-crossed:
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I have tried both photoshop and es file explorer. no luck with either. i tried every single file as image and even tried video on each. neither worked. any other ideas? i appreciate all the help so far :fingers-crossed:
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Okay, try to upload image and video on your Google Account and open. Let see what will you see.
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Okay, try to upload image and video on your Google Account and open. Let see what will you see.
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I uploaded one of the smaller files which should be the image and one of the larger ones which should be the video. both just say there are no previews available when i try and open either of them.
If the files were encrypted then no matter which app you use, you won't be able to open them. You need to decrypt them first. To decrypt them you need the password they were encrypted with and the encrypting/decrypting algorithm (provided by the locker app). I would try to find the app (and copy the files to its folder), or try to decrypt it using various decrypting algorithms, provided the app uses a standard well-known one.
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I uploaded one of the smaller files which should be the image and one of the larger ones which should be the video. both just say there are no previews available when i try and open either of them.
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We will not defeat
Try to fix image and video from below link :
https://online.officerecovery.com/pixrecovery/ and for video : https://online.officerecovery.com/
Hey, sometime ago I uninstalled a browser app from my phone out of paranoia that is was spying on me (it wasn't a mainstream browser) and the thing deleted all the files that I downloaded from the browser off my phone. Although I wish to retrieve all of my files, I kind of given up hope, so I come here wondering if that's possible. What I really want are my music and video files, so I don't mind rooting my phone or obtaining some kind of log files that has the names of the files in them. Which ever way you think is better, basically since I can't find much info on my phone. Anyway thanks in advance!
Hi Guys,
I'm hoping someone might be able to help.
I'll try to explain - I updated my phone last year and I used one of these apps to send all my files to my new phone etc etc.
And I noticed within the photo gallery I had two whatsapp image, and video folders. I didnt really think too much about it at the time.
But within the last few days I have now lost the old folder and within the gallery and everything that was in it.
I have tried to use es file explorer to find the other photos/videos but it would appear they have gone.
Something has obviously tidied/deleted them somehow, but I dont know what.
Any ideas how I might be able to get them back?
Thanks in advance