Hello, I have a problem with my dad`s Xperia SP with 12.1.A.1.201 firmware. He accidently delete some important photos and ask me for help. I`ve googled whole internet and couldn`t find any solution. So here is my question, is there any way to get back this photos? (Of course pictures are on internal SD)
Best regards,
Kamil
Edit: Sorry overlooked that part
Tried any of these: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=photo recovery&hl=nl ??
yep, all of this are useless for me..
You could give a go to Recuva: http://www.piriform.com/recuva
But I dont know if it will work..
I also try this one, but it isn't working on MTP devices and if I change to USB Mass Storage I've only access to external SD instead of internal...
I honeslty dont get it why Android has implemented MTP and remove the option to acces the internal storage as a USB drive..
Damn
I cant help futher I guess.
I feel same as You... anyway, thanks for trying help
Sorry flash memory is much more difficult to recover deleted data from compared to magnetic hard drives if he deleted them the possibility is that they are gone
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Hello there
As this is my first post here, allow me to thank you all for a great forum, with loads of help and interesting applications. You've certanly made my life better
I've searched for this but had no luck in finding anything similar, so please excuse me if there is an old thread outthere, and help me find it.
My problem is that I've primarily used Active sync to connect to my PC and have transferred much music, programs and other stuff through this channel.
Now I have become interested in using my Diamond as a usb pen drive for my car radio etc. and also want to use it to move files from place to place.
I change the usb connection type to Disk Drive, and connect the wire to the PC, and let it install drivers so that I can access the disk drive it detects.
But then I loose access to the 4 GB memory, and can only access the internal memory of the device. Neither from the phone itself, or from the PC.
I know it have worked previously, because I have tried it some time ago. But now it seems like it's broken down.
When I look at fileexplorer on the phone, the name of the folder just disappears as soon as the cable is attached!
What is wrong, and how do I fix it?
Needless to say the phone freaks out after this, since all my applications are installed on the extended memory, so nothing works anymore, but a soft reset and it's all back to normal. Untill I try the connection again :-/
As mentioned, there is no problem with Active sync connections.
I really hope you can help me with this, because it would make the phone even more useful to me.
That being said I DO love the phone, it really has the ability to do almost anything I'd like it to. Incredible!
Thank you in advance for your help, and for at great source of knowledge.
Best regards
Thomas Hansen
It's normal, the phones switchs the memory readable directly from PC, as a pen drive to gain more speed.
If u are using the USB Disk function, u can't read the memory in the phone, bcuz u don't have "inserted" into it...
Bye!
Driskol said:
It's normal, the phones switchs the memory readable directly from PC, as a pen drive to gain more speed.
If u are using the USB Disk function, u can't read the memory in the phone, bcuz u don't have "inserted" into it...
Bye!
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Thank you for you answer, but I probably wasn't clear enough about the problem:
The 4 GB flash memory is inaccessable from both PC and phone after I plug in the usb cable (it disappears), but I CAN access the "system memory" (where windows is installed) from both ends.
So no, I dont think that is what I am experiencing. I hope this made it more clear.
How do I fix my problem?
Thank you for your help though.
Best regards
Thomas Hansen
sounds like the 1st free drive letter on your system is reserved for a network path.
try to disconnect the network drive or map the USB Drive manually.
regards
Draque
ps: Try it on a complete different system if this doesnt work.
I had tried it on 4 different PCs, all running XP.
Have no network drives on this one.
But, I'm confused now...
Because now it works correctly...
It opens the correct folder, for the 4 GB storage card...
And the phone doesnt crash afterwards...
I suspect an "Insufficient User IQ" kind of error... I just don't know what I did wrong?
If I learn more about this wierd issue I will post it here, and if you have any info, please post it, because I dont know what went wrong...
But right now my problem is solved! Hope it stays like this!
Well, Thank you for your advise everybody.
Best regards
Thomas Hansen
Long story short does anyone know how to tell what size the internal SD card is inside of the phone other than having to rely on the android system/kies to tell me?
I received my i9000 back from the repair center today (after successfully hard bricking it ). They said that all they'd done was re-flash the firmware which is fine & what I expected them to do. The thing which is now confusing me is that my phone & kies now report 13.43gb of internal storage. When I know for a fact that I have an 8gb i9000 (used to report ~6.xxgb). I just wanted to check if I do actually have what I assume is a 16gb internal sd card or is there some software issue going on here?
Many Thanks for any help
Higadeb
Edit: Sorry I forgot to put [Q] in title. My bad
Maybe you had a generous serviceman that hooked you up with a 16gb job
Maybe they found a defect in the card and replaced it.
Have you mounted the phone as mass storage, and checked the size from within Windows?
Windows sees it as 13.4GB too.
Maybe I did just get a nice serviceman...
Well there you go!
Some good things do come from a brick
More music storage for you!
So I take it Windows would give a definitive result and not rely on any info from the phone when it's in Mass Storage?
Yes more music storage indeed. Kinda wish I'd bricked it before I replaced my 16GB external with a 32GB one... still, you can never have too much space
Haha yeah, now you're moving into music and 3gb mpeg4 movie territory
I don't think Android, Kies, and then Windows would all give you a misreading.
Take it for what it is... Lucky you.
Sweet, thanks for you help!
Hey, you're welcome. Anytime
Is there any way to recover photos after factory reset?
Phone is not rooted and no backup was taken before the factory reset.
Thanks.
Sorry to not be helpful, but I hope not!
Tough luck if that's an accident though....
Maybe someone can help you better lol.
Write a nice thank you note to Scamsung for removing the SD card, one would normally save the pics and data that shouldn't be wiped out on external storage.
I personally have not come across a user friendly solution to recover the data after a partition format...there are forensic methods to do it, but... $$$
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Write a nice thank you note to Scamsung for removing the SD card, one would normally save the pics and data that shouldn't be wiped out on external storage.
I personally have not come across a user friendly solution to recover the data after a partition format...there are forensic methods to do it, but... $$$
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What a BS, if you do a factory reset you should backup your important stuff. That's not Samsungs fault. (childish to say Scamsung for that). Use google photes, a USB stick, a NAS, copy to PC , Use DEX etc etc..
gohan040 said:
What a BS, if you do a factory reset you should backup your important stuff. That's not Samsungs fault. (childish to say Scamsung for that). Use google photes, a USB stick, a NAS, copy to PC , Use DEX etc etc..
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Correct, it's not Samsung's fault however if the user had the MicroSD it's much more likely the problem didn't arise. Not having MicroSD on a huge, expensive device is a sin, they're getting blow back everywhere you look.
gohan040 said:
What a BS, if you do a factory reset you should backup your important stuff. That's not Samsungs fault. (childish to say Scamsung for that). Use google photes, a USB stick, a NAS, copy to PC , Use DEX etc etc..
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I mean, I sorta agree with the OP here because Samsung has had their game backwards at one point with this issue. Or, perhaps it's just my particular phone? Anyway, I literally made the same "mistake" a few months ago (as I knew that Google Photos was still backing up my photos - so I'd be all good anyway). But after the full wipe and re-flash, somehow all of my photo files were still there... So at the time (I doubt this is still happening now), the S21U's factory reset along with the choice to delete files didn't touch the phone's DCIM-->Camera folder, lol.
So if anything, perhaps the OP was using Odin...? But if that was the case, I suppose they would've known to backup their photo files first...
As I know, we can recover photos after fatory reset before they are overwritten by pro data recovery software without backup. So first we need to stop using your Samsung phone. About the data recovery software, you can search online. Good luck to you.
Hi All, long time user of XDA forums but havent had to root a phone in a while.
I deleted some pictures in error from my phone yesterday and am desperately trying to figure out a way to get them back. They dont appear in the recycle bin and they dont appear with a standard file search app, thousands of pictures do but not the ones I deleted.
Apparantly I need to root the phone to get better access rights to do this, but am I right in believing that rooting the phone will delete everything anyway?
Any way to do this please? I really need some help with these important images.
Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (UK) 5G SM-G998B/DS
Regards Tony
Don't try to use trashware like DrFone.
The internal memory is encrypted by default so if you lose that encryption key for any reason you are boned.
If you can use adb to access the unused portion of the drive, that may work.
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Hello, here's my problem: I accidentally put a schematic as a code on my phone that I immediately forgot. Now that I only have access to the lock screen, I can't put my phone in file transfer mode because I'd like to retrieve it before resetting...
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If you are successful know that the folder structure has been lost. The jpegs will be disassociated from their exif data, time stamps, image numbers, etc have been lost forever.
Using that phone at all may overwrite the data as it's now free space for the system to use; power down the device until ready to attempt recover.
Backup all data before you begin whatever you attempt!
Personally at this point I would have written them off. If you do recover data, you'll understand why. In the future use a gallery that has a trash bin if possible.
Redundantly backup critical data to at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC. A OTG flashstick can be used for quick "dirty" backups. Don't use as a primary backup.
If you can mount your phone on a PC using a USB cable, you could try a PC based file recovery program. (I honestly don't know if it would work over a USB cable, but no harm if it doesn't.)
Be careful where you get the recovery software. There are lots of people willing to promise the world, take your money, and blame the file recovery ghods when they can't recover squat.
The one I'd try first has the worst user interface, but it's free and has saved my butt more than once. It's called PhotoRec. (It's packaged in with a drive recovery program called TestDisk.) PhotoRec supports a bunch of Linux/Android disk formats (many only handle FAT and NTFS variants, which won't help you). Just be sure you read the instructions and be sure to direct the output to a dedicated folder on a drive different than your phone.
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Download TestDisk & PhotoRec. TestDisk is a free and open source data recovery software tool designed to recover lost partition and unerase deleted files. PhotoRec is a file carver data recovery software tool.
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I just noticed that PhotoRec finally has a Windows based GUI implementation called QPhotoRec. Same download location as I mentioned in the previous message. But should be a fair bit easier to use.
Note: If QPhotoRec can't see your phone on the USB cable, you might still want to give PhotoRec a try.
One last note... As long as you continue to use your phone, it is still writing things to the drive that holds the pictures you want to recover. If the phone happens to overwrite the place the photos sat on, they're gone forever. So it's best if that you power off your phone until you can make an attempt to recover the photos and you move quickly to make the attempt... Good luck.
After the recent dumping of Samsung Cloud and the forced migration to a Microsoft cloud drive,I lost a bunch of photos from my alternative device (I had 2 phones and 2 Samsung Cloud accounts- but the changeover couldn't handle the 2 account bit, both phones ended up with the exact same data) and I tried several methods to recover the lost data and eventually had to give up. Good luck.
Relying on cloud to backup files is crazy. Keep a couple hard drives/usb drives for that.
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Relying on cloud to backup files is crazy. Keep a couple hard drives/usb drives for that.
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Cloud backup is safer than keeping a couple of hard drives and usb drives. By design cloud storage is replicated a minimum of 3 times across 3 regional data centres, each having multiple copies on distributed storage with multiple backup services and UPS.
Your data is not safer on two USB drives vs a Google data centre. Do you keep them in fireproof and electronic magnetic proof safe? If not then your backups are not protected at the first step, physical protection. Do you cycle the hard you use, change the drives regularly so that there is no chance of hardware failure, do you consider MTBF rates of the devices you use? USB drives have a limited number of writes so using them too much may risk the data on them. Do you use multiple off-site safes? If both are in one place and there is some disaster (building collapse, or fire for example) then you've lost your backups. Each site needs a fireproof/EM proof safe which adds a huge extra cost.
did you check the trash folders?? usually deleted files stay on for 30 days unless physical deleted from the trash like windows
ScalesOnline said:
Hi All, long time user of XDA forums but havent had to root a phone in a while.
I deleted some pictures in error from my phone yesterday and am desperately trying to figure out a way to get them back. They dont appear in the recycle bin and they dont appear with a standard file search app, thousands of pictures do but not the ones I deleted.
Apparantly I need to root the phone to get better access rights to do this, but am I right in believing that rooting the phone will delete everything anyway?
Any way to do this please? I really need some help with these important images.
Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (UK) 5G SM-G998B/DS
Regards Tony
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What app did you delete the photos in?
Each app will have its own "delete/recycle" solution. For example, if you delete photos in Google Photos they are kept in the "Bin" for 30 days. If you used a file manager it may have a recycle bin or may have permanently deleted using write over to provide a true delete function.
Rooting like years agao
I am cool with what i have now
Yes you do for acces to internal memory
had to root my phone after finding out the new policy on external sdcards: "You don't get to use it"
7k photos lost after moving from internal memory. no recovery app will work, of course, and USB mass storage is no longer available because... because... ya got me, idk why it doesnt work maybe it was just too damn simple efficient and reliable
if anyone knows a way i might recover even some of those files please tell me
if anyone knows an alternative os that lets me use the god damn external card without this permission bull**** please tell me
if anyone knows someone who works at google's android division, please tell me.. where they live
rant over i'm gonna take a nap
Welcome to XDA.
Obviously you should have had those images redundantly backup to at least 2 hdds that are physically and electronically isolated from each other and the PC.
If the SD card is encrypted you're fighting a lost cause if the phone can't access them ie lost the encryption key.
Did they transfer? Use the copy/paste option always when transferring critical data. Verify size and for readability before deleting the original. Using cut/paste will get you burned eventually.