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[Q] Help with sd files

Hi, i modified the partition sd size and my sd was formated. Some one knows how to recover those files?
Tried with recuva but not works. i lost my vcf backup, documents and my personal data, the music is not problem.
Cheers

purrungo said:
Hi, i modified the partition sd size and my sd was formated. Some one knows how to recover those files?
Tried with recuva but not works. i lost my vcf backup, documents and my personal data, the music is not problem.
Cheers
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you cant recover formated sdcard

fotak-x said:
you cant recover formated sdcard
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Certainly He can recover them!
Use a cardreader and an app like data recovery professional
then select "formatted recovery " type and it'll bring them back (don't use sdcard till recovery finishes,using it will wipe old files)
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hey op .
try stellar pheonix windows data recovery.
it will surely recover the formatted sd card.
it helped me too many times ..

purrungo said:
Hi, i modified the partition sd size and my sd was formated. Some one knows how to recover those files?
Tried with recuva but not works. i lost my vcf backup, documents and my personal data, the music is not problem.
Cheers
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RecoveryFix for Windows Data Recovery Software has been developed to fullfill the needs of recovering the database from hard drive. Its easy to use for users who lose their valuable data to any system error like unexpected system shutdown, software malfunction, file or directory deletion.

u can try Get data back ..click here
I just formatted my Seagate 500 GB full of software and i can get all my data back completely

Guys, keep in mind that he did not only format the card, but repartition it with new sizes. Not only that, the partitioning involved two different file systems: fat32 and ext3/4.
And he hasn't responded back...

Thank you everybody, I sent my phone, i recovered any of my data. THX

[Q] Recover photos from internal storage

so yes... I know its impossible but I have lost lots and lots of family photos within the internal storage for my XZ. It was just yesterday when I wanted to give custom roms a try and I totally forgot about backing them up... ive been searching 13hrs so far on google trying to recover those files. The closest topic I found was this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705 i am stuck on adb (google usb driver) installation part, which I get an error "The folder item you specified doesn't contain a compatable driver for your device. If the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with Windows for 32-bit
systems." can anyone help?
or please let me know if there is a way to mount xperia z internal storage to UMS mode? I mean I would like to connect my phone to pc then scan phone with software like Recuva.

unloadefy said:
so yes... I know its impossible but I have lost lots and lots of family photos within the internal storage for my XZ. It was just yesterday when I wanted to give custom roms a try and I totally forgot about backing them up... ive been searching 13hrs so far on google trying to recover those files. The closest topic I found was this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705 i am stuck on adb (google usb driver) installation part, which I get an error "The folder item you specified doesn't contain a compatable driver for your device. If the folder contains a driver, make sure it is designed to work with Windows for 32-bit
systems." can anyone help?
or please let me know if there is a way to mount xperia z internal storage to UMS mode? I mean I would like to connect my phone to pc then scan phone with software like Recuva.
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that guide is for galaxy nexus. Not sure if you can do that, what you can do is contact Sony, tell them your situation and see if they can do some forensic stuff on the phone, sometime they can recover it...

G1_enthusiast said:
that guide is for galaxy nexus. Not sure if you can do that, what you can do is contact Sony, tell them your situation and see if they can do some forensic stuff on the phone, sometime they can recover it...
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that method applies for all phones , I have used it to recover my note 2 , Xperia Z and even the Note 1 so its same for all androids

I was having the same problem last time, accidentally deleted some photos on internal storage from my Son Xperia phone, then I did some research and found this solution: Sony Xperia data recovery
the Sony xperial file recovery guide helped me get back lost photos from internal memory of my Sony Xperia phone. hope that it helps you too.

Use a file explorer and navigate to /data/media and data/media/0 under /DCIM/100ANDRO and see if pictures are there.
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Mount the XPERIA Z as an external hard drive and then use a program to recover the files (I'm on mac and I'm using Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery... There's a windows version too).
Literally doing this to my sisters' XPERIA S as I type.
One drawback is that it takes forever.
EDIT: Sorry I just realised this is what you were trying to do all along. To get XPERIA Z mounted as an external drive go to settings>xperia connectivity>USB connectivity and select MSC. I know you requested UMS but these programs should still be able to recognise and recover data from these drives

[Q] Z Lost my video files... need to assign drive letter??

Hi Guys,
Am pretty annoyed right now. At a wedding last night I recorded a number of videos on my XZ. First recording of the night numbered *003.MP4 and last one was *021.MP4.
Looked at my gallery earlier to discover that files 03 - 010.mp4 are missing, and I have older videos 001 and 002.MP4 followed by 011 to 021.MP4. Couldn't figure out why the other 8 videos are missing as they were recorded in exactly the same was at the later videos (stored on internal storage), so decided to try data recovery.
Minefield. I installed MyJad Data Recovery For Android which it turns out is shareware. Installed for free and it thankfully shows the missing files, along with their respective filesizes. Promising start, but unable to restore through the app without purchase. Since this didn't happen through user error and I already have [email protected] installed I'm reluctant to spend money on this...
In order to use [email protected] or any other free software I've found (Stellar Phoenix Recovery looks good) I need to have a drive letter assigned to perform the recovery. Unable to do so as I have trawled the internet for hours and it seems there is no way to assign a drive letter to the internal storage of the phone (Portable device only, does not show in disk management)
I decided to go down the route of imaging the internal storage in order to mount it as a drive using daemon tools and try to recover it from there but am also having no luck being able to make a full image.
My Z is rooted and running original firmware with locked bootloader. Does anyone know of any free software I can use to either mount the internal with a drive letter, image it, or of data recovery software (Windows 7 or android based) that can scan a portable media device?
I know I can switch from MTP to MSC but Sony have tied access to the external SD only so the internal storage cannot be accessed in this way. Also the filesystem is NTFS so Undelete for Root doesn't work as it supports FAT only
K

kao_u20i said:
Hi Guys,
Am pretty annoyed right now. At a wedding last night I recorded a number of videos on my XZ. First recording of the night numbered *003.MP4 and last one was *021.MP4.
Looked at my gallery earlier to discover that files 03 - 010.mp4 are missing, and I have older videos 001 and 002.MP4 followed by 011 to 021.MP4. Couldn't figure out why the other 8 videos are missing as they were recorded in exactly the same was at the later videos (stored on internal storage), so decided to try data recovery.
Minefield. I installed MyJad Data Recovery For Android which it turns out is shareware. Installed for free and it thankfully shows the missing files, along with their respective filesizes. Promising start, but unable to restore through the app without purchase. Since this didn't happen through user error and I already have [email protected] installed I'm reluctant to spend money on this...
In order to use [email protected] or any other free software I've found (Stellar Phoenix Recovery looks good) I need to have a drive letter assigned to perform the recovery. Unable to do so as I have trawled the internet for hours and it seems there is no way to assign a drive letter to the internal storage of the phone (Portable device only, does not show in disk management)
I decided to go down the route of imaging the internal storage in order to mount it as a drive using daemon tools and try to recover it from there but am also having no luck being able to make a full image.
My Z is rooted and running original firmware with locked bootloader. Does anyone know of any free software I can use to either mount the internal with a drive letter, image it, or of data recovery software (Windows 7 or android based) that can scan a portable media device?
I know I can switch from MTP to MSC but Sony have tied access to the external SD only so the internal storage cannot be accessed in this way. Also the filesystem is NTFS so Undelete for Root doesn't work as it supports FAT only
K
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Even if you do mount internal storage in MSC, it's still going to be an ext3 partition.
I would recommend you try hexamob recovery to recover the lost files.
This free version is capable of recovering files.
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Also if connected to pc can scan with recuva free tool.
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xchasa said:
Also if connected to pc can scan with recuva free tool.
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There is no recovery software that can work over MTP without direct access to the filesystem.
However, here is a method to extract the internal memory to a file and use data recovery software on that:
http://www.alliance-rom.com/community/wiki/recover-deleted-files/ (It's at the end)

Strange. I lost my whole Downloads folder on phone, plugged in to pc after changing file transfer setting in Xperia settings, and recovered 95% of my stuff using recuva.
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xchasa said:
Strange. I lost my whole Downloads folder on phone, plugged in to pc after changing file transfer setting in Xperia settings, and recovered 95% of my stuff using recuva.
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That's probably because it was your external memory card mounted in MSC mode and not the internal one.

kgs1992 said:
That's probably because it was your external memory card mounted in MSC mode and not the internal one.
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Thought Downloads was on internal mate? I remember it not working first time, then changed a setting and it restored.
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xchasa said:
Thought Downloads was on internal mate? I remember it not working first time, then changed a setting and it restored.
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I've set my downloads to external
If you did do it, what would be more helpful is how you did it, not what you did.

kgs1992 said:
I've set my downloads to external
If you did do it, what would be more helpful is how you did it, not what you did.
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Used this.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Had Usb debugging on.
Played with the settings in Xperia/Usb connection.
Searched for lost file by name (Downloads)with recuva on internal sd and restored to c drive. Went through and deleted any corrupted files and copied back to phone.
Can't remember if I was rooted or exactly what setting I chose though.
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[Hi all, thank you for your suggestions. Tried Hexamob but not possible. Recuva seems to be the way forward for most but I had no luck with it. I'd already installed it and uninstalled it prior to posting about the problem, but reinstalled to give it another chance. I used the wizard (you have to specify a drive with an assigned letter in standard/advanced) and in the wizard I chose to search portable media but I get the following error;
"No drives were scanned, because none matches with the filter"
Couldn't 'search a specific location' as due to no drive letter it didn't show...
Found the following which has been invaluable so far.... I have created an image and assigned it a drive letter - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
Initial recovery using Recuva has been patchy - the file sizes are small and there's not much content for each video.... but my quest continues. At the very least I now have a full internal memory dump, that's a huge leap in progress I can stop falling asleep on my laptop now and relax a bit!

kao_u20i said:
[Hi all, thank you for your suggestions. Tried Hexamob but not possible. Recuva seems to be the way forward for most but I had no luck with it. I'd already installed it and uninstalled it prior to posting about the problem, but reinstalled to give it another chance. I used the wizard (you have to specify a drive with an assigned letter in standard/advanced) and in the wizard I chose to search portable media but I get the following error;
"No drives were scanned, because none matches with the filter"
Couldn't 'search a specific location' as due to no drive letter it didn't show...
Found the following which has been invaluable so far.... I have created an image and assigned it a drive letter - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
Initial recovery using Recuva has been patchy - the file sizes are small and there's not much content for each video.... but my quest continues. At the very least I now have a full internal memory dump, that's a huge leap in progress I can stop falling asleep on my laptop now and relax a bit!
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Good to hear. Thanks for the link. Hope you were able to recover most of your data.

[Q] Problem with Folder Mount - how to use it and fix it?

Hello
I have rooted Z1 with 4.3 android. I installed Folder Mount because i want use my obb files from micro sd card. I done everything in correct sentence but it dont work.
1) I am installing game ABC
2) Downloading OBB files and copy to INTERNAL MEMORY/ANDROID/OBB/ABC GAME
3) Open Folder Mount and done 3 steps to move my OBB files
4) When files finish copying it Folder Mount open in main menu, stic is white, files are moved
5) Now i am clicking on white stick to become green, when i do it i see information thet everything is done
6) When i open ABC Game it will start.
7) Exit the game , checing files and nom i have two copies of OBB files , one on micro sd and second on my phone
8) When i click on green stick to become white, one copy of the file dissapear, when i try deleted it form my phone , stick is still green but game dont work
What i do wrong or what i need to do to use Folder Mount correct?

That is why I don't like 3td parts app to use data on sd.

Rynkov said:
Hello
I have rooted Z1 with 4.3 android. I installed Folder Mount because i want use my obb files from micro sd card. I done everything in correct sentence but it dont work.
1) I am installing game ABC
2) Downloading OBB files and copy to INTERNAL MEMORY/ANDROID/OBB/ABC GAME
3) Open Folder Mount and done 3 steps to move my OBB files
4) When files finish copying it Folder Mount open in main menu, stic is white, files are moved
5) Now i am clicking on white stick to become green, when i do it i see information thet everything is done
6) When i open ABC Game it will start.
7) Exit the game , checing files and nom i have two copies of OBB files , one on micro sd and second on my phone8) When i click on green stick to become white, one copy of the file dissapear, when i try deleted it form my phone , stick is still green but game dont work
What i do wrong or what i need to do to use Folder Mount correct?
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thats normal, two copies are supposed to be there.
leave it auto mounted.
also if you check your storage in settings you'll see that it is the SD card storage that has decreased most, whilst the Internal Storage decreased very little.
regards

Can You show me the difference because this is silly. I do it for free space and now i have two copies of the obb file with the same size. I thought that when i do it it's move all files on sd card.
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You should have free space,
I have over 10 GB of games stored on my SD and almost 9gb free internal storage
Refer to this page for further details
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&so...w4DACg&usg=AFQjCNGlgYy6SoUBIysJUNAnFPWo8jy8dg

I still dont understand why i nie to have two copies of one obb file :/
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Rynkov said:
I dont understand why i have two copies of one obb file :/
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Maybe you don't have to copy the files to sd via Folder Mount, because you will copied them, but you have to put them to SD card first and then Mount the folder to system with Mount Folder. That is how it should work.

I firstly copy obb to internal memory then use Folder Mount. Is this correct?
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Rynkov said:
I firstly copy obb to internal memory then use Folder Mount. Is this correct?
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I never used Folder Mount but actually this application do his job to mount the folder to system, so the application will go read to SD instead of internal memory, so to me do not make sense put the OBB to internal memory and then copy the file to External. The name speak by it self, Mount Folder, that mean you have to copy the folder to SD and then Mount the folder to system. I just saying, to me this is the logical way but I never used that app so try to do it like I said, maybe this is the solution.

Ok. Very nice conclusion. First install the app, then copy file on external memory ( micro sd card) then Mount it, use it like a source. I will try it and give you a raport, what heppend
I tried this method but it doesnt work :/
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One is a ghost copy. The space is usable. Otherwise there would be no point. It has to remain on the internal otherwise the game would continue to redownload the files. You've done everything right.
I wrote a tutorial on how to use folder mount properly but so far as I can tell youve done it right.
As a rule of thumb, always check your internal memory in settings / storage before and after installation of the game / app.
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dladz said:
One is a ghost copy. The space is usable. Otherwise there would be no point. It has to remain on the internal otherwise the game would continue to redownload the files. You've done everything right.
I wrote a tutorial on how to use folder mount properly but so far as I can tell youve done it right.
As a rule of thumb, always check your internal memory in settings / storage before and after installation of the game / app.
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Ok, following your instrukction i check my connections in Folder Mount. My game Deus Ex :
1) Internal memory ( checikng file size in Es Explorer ) - size 687,10 MB obb files + data 2,17 MB
2) External memory - size 687,10 MB obb files + data 2,17 MB
In Folder Mount my pushpin is green. I done everything correct follow instruktions found in the internet. Game is working but still dont understand WHERE IS THAT FREE SPACE ? Sorry maybe i am not to smart for that or it is to big work for my little brain :|
What type of partition i need to do on my microsd card?

Rynkov said:
Ok, following your instrukction i check my connections in Folder Mount. My game Deus Ex :
1) Internal memory ( checikng file size in Es Explorer ) - size 687,10 MB obb files + data 2,17 MB
2) External memory - size 687,10 MB obb files + data 2,17 MB
In Folder Mount my pushpin is green. I done everything correct follow instruktions found in the internet. Game is working but still dont understand WHERE IS THAT FREE SPACE ? Sorry maybe i am not to smart for that or it is to big work for my little brain :|
What type of partition i need to do on my microsd card?
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You do not need to partition anything m8.
So long as you've followed the instructions and it's saying that you've not used any memory then youre good to go.
following exactly the same instructions i've installed several games and my internal memory has gone down by 0% which means that I have that space to use elsewhere, if i had not mounted them games to the SD card then I would have easily consumed my internal memory, as it stands I currently have around 9GB.
So as a rule of thumb, so long as your internal memory hasn't gone down after mounting compared to how it was before you installed the game, the mount has been a success.
Don't use the file explorer to check for size, you'll get a negative result from it and it's not accurate, afaik it has to report that the files are still there otherwise the game would reinstall itself.
Use the systems memory checker to see how much space is left.

[Q] How to recovery deleted photo from internal storage

I have accidentally deleted my photo which has not been backup into SD card yet.
So could you please help me how to recovery it? It's a very important for my memory.

la0sik said:
I have accidentally deleted my photo which has not been backup into SD card yet.
So could you please help me how to recovery it? It's a very important for my memory.
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Use any data recovery tool for windows and then recover files from the SD card using it..

la0sik said:
I have accidentally deleted my photo which has not been backup into SD card yet.
So could you please help me how to recovery it? It's a very important for my memory.
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use an app called diskdigger !! its work for me but you must scan the whole sd card!
but its really work!! i promise!! [NEED ROOT]
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if the photo was on the internal storage
then i am sorry bro, it cannot be recovered
same thing happen to me at the start of the year
lost some very valuable memory...
tried everything my self, all the data recovery software avaliable
i even send the phone to 3 different specialist data recovery place
none of them was able to even extra an image file of the phone to work with...
(because Sony use a different file system ect then other android device, which, atm, has no interface for)
ever since then i got into the habit of backing up photos everyday onto a sky drive of some sort
so yah...
i am sorry
PS: data recovery place in your country might have better resource / system then mine (australia)
so if you want, give them a try...
i really hope you are more lucky then me bro

if it's external sd card, CardRecovery is best software. but it is paid software

Hi!
NO PC WAY!!
NEED ROOTED Z!!
DISKDIGGER FROM PLAY STORE!!!
SELECT THE PLACE AND FILES TYPE AND BOO!!! They back!
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