Has anyone experienced missing files on their sdcard or internal? I'm going through my gallery (Quickpic) and noticed an entire folder I had is gone, along with a few others. I also used ES File Explorer to see if they were there, and tried connecting it to my computer via USB, and nothing. Got a few backup apks missing too...
Is there anyway to get these files back?
Vvh said:
Has anyone experienced missing files on their sdcard or internal? I'm going through my gallery (Quickpic) and noticed an entire folder I had is gone, along with a few others. I also used ES File Explorer to see if they were there, and tried connecting it to my computer via USB, and nothing. Got a few backup apks missing too...
Is there anyway to get these files back?
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I've experienced some of my apps just randomly disappearing when I take out my SD card and put it back in then I have to reinstall them. The icons still remain on my home screen but the apps won't run. As far as pictures go, no I've never had anything of the sort happen, not even things such as .txt files.
S1L3nTShaDoWz said:
I've experienced some of my apps just randomly disappearing when I take out my SD card and put it back in then I have to reinstall them. The icons still remain on my home screen but the apps won't run. As far as pictures go, no I've never had anything of the sort happen, not even things such as .txt files.
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Before my pictures went missing, an entire folder full of fdroid apps disappeared, I thought I had deleted them by mistake, however, now that an entire folder of pictures is missing, I'm sure my phone is deleting things off of it somehow... Suppose I'll format it all and flash a new rom.
Vvh said:
Before my pictures went missing, an entire folder full of fdroid apps disappeared, I thought I had deleted them by mistake, however, now that an entire folder of pictures is missing, I'm sure my phone is deleting things off of it somehow... Suppose I'll format it all and flash a new rom.
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Before you format you could always try one of the numerous sd card file recovery tools out there.
Something like this.
jayjam99 said:
Before you format you could always try one of the numerous sd card file recovery tools out there.
Something like this.
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I tried a few from the playstore to no avail. Though they did work, they didn't pull any of the recently missing files, just incredibly old and mostly corrupt files. I'll save this one for next time though (because with computers, there's always a next time x_x ), thank you though.
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My problem is that I got the application Lock 2.0 and it downloaded some files, the thing is, it didn't download to my sd card, it all went to my internal memory, so i went from around 17mb up to 67mb now.
I got the app from a theme on xda just yesterday, i don't remember which theme though. I didn't flash the theme onto my phone, I just pulled the application from it, so that might have been my mistake there.
I've uninstalled Lock 2.0 but the downloaded files remain on my phone, so is there a way I can get rid of them by deleting them using Astro? If so, can someone tell me the directory it's in?
I've tried looking through the folders in my phone already, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to be looking for. All I could think of was a folder named Lock 2.0 or something similar to that.
Anartic said:
My problem is that I got the application Lock 2.0 and it downloaded some files, the thing is, it didn't download to my sd card, it all went to my internal memory, so i went from around 17mb up to 67mb now.
I got the app from a theme on xda just yesterday, i don't remember which theme though. I didn't flash the theme onto my phone, I just pulled the application from it, so that might have been my mistake there.
I've uninstalled Lock 2.0 but the downloaded files remain on my phone, so is there a way I can get rid of them by deleting them using Astro? If so, can someone tell me the directory it's in?
I've tried looking through the folders in my phone already, but I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to be looking for. All I could think of was a folder named Lock 2.0 or something similar to that.
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If you don't know where the files are, how do you know for sure it was the app that put them there? Just asking. And if some files got put on your internal how did it go up and not down.
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If you don't know where the files are, how do you know for sure it was the app that put them there? Just asking. And if some files got put on your internal how did it go up and not down.
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I meant that my phone only had around 17mb of memory used up and after Lock 2.0 downloaded its files, I had 67mb used up.
I know this because I have the internal memory widget on my homescreen and I checked the used up memory after I flashed cyanogen's new rom, that was right before I installed Lock 2.0.
Have you cleared your cache and data to see if that will go up? Alot is stored in your browser.
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Have you cleared your cache and data to see if that will go up? Alot is stored in your browser.
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Okay, I just did it, but it was under 3mb of cache, so that didn't really help.
I've had Lock 2.0 do something similar. It was downloading the default skin while I was driving, and I went from a 3g to a Edge area.
I'm not sure if the coverage switch caused it, but the download took forever.
By the time noticed that something might be wrong and killed the DL, it was too late and I started getting the "your internal memory is getting low!" notification.
I'm pretty sure it installed the 50MB skin to my internal memory and made my phone unusable. I eventually had to do a factory data reset and start over.
ryan75 said:
I've had Lock 2.0 do something similar. It was downloading the default skin while I was driving, and I went from a 3g to a Edge area.
I'm not sure if the coverage switch caused it, but the download took forever.
By the time noticed that something might be wrong and killed the DL, it was too late and I started getting the "your internal memory is getting low!" notification.
I'm pretty sure it installed the 50MB skin to my internal memory and made my phone unusable. I eventually had to do a factory data reset and start over.
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Okay, thanks for the suggestion, I also thought about a factory reset, but I'm not sure if my apps will still function properly after, since I'm running Apps2SD.
I assume my apps will be safe from the factory reset, but I've never actually done a factory reset, after I got the Apps2SD. Can someone tell me what will happen to my apps on my sd card if I do a reset though?
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Okay, thanks for the suggestion, I also thought about a factory reset, but I'm not sure if my apps will still function properly after, since I'm running Apps2SD.
I assume my apps will be safe from the factory reset, but I've never actually done a factory reset, after I got the Apps2SD. Can someone tell me what will happen to my apps on my sd card if I do a reset though?
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your apps will be fine after a wipe.. btw lock 2.0 does install the skin to your internal memory, it give you a warning when downloading to only download the one you want because it goes to internal memory.. you should have deleted it before uninstalling to see if it would work.
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your apps will be fine after a wipe.. btw lock 2.0 does install the skin to your internal memory, it give you a warning when downloading to only download the one you want because it goes to internal memory.. you should have deleted it before uninstalling to see if it would work.
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I don't remember it asking about downloading some files, I just remembered clicking on the app and just throwing it on my bed, from then on it just downloaded the files on its own.
Okay, just did the reset and it did wonders for my phone, only a few apps are screwed but a reinstall should fix them.
Thanks for the help guys.
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I plugged my note into my pc using usb cable to transfer games I had downloaded. After unplugging I discovered that all video files and all picture files have disappeared from both the internal sd and my sd card. This is really confusing. I've no idea how this has happened and what I can do to restore it all. This is really upsetting as we had a new baby recently and all my photos of her and my other kids have disappeared. :crying:
Any advice will be gratefully received.
Many thanks in advance.
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Just reboot your device and check again
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Tried reboot. Still nothing. File manager shows folders as being there, but contents are missing.
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Tried reboot. Still nothing. File manager shows folders as being there, but contents are missing.
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If they are really deleted try something like "DiskDigger" and check if it finds your pictures.
I used it on the JB leak which doesn't show all files and folders when connected to the PC. I didn't think of this and deleted an "old and empty" folder. I lost about 200 pictures of my baby.
With this tool I got back all of them.
That sounds fantastic, I'll give it a go. Many thanks!
Before I upgraded from a 4.1 to a 4.2 based rom, I copied all my files from my sd card and then flashed the Rom. Then I formatted my phone's storage so I wouldn't have that weird 2 sd card file system going and so that I could see all my old files which I pasted back onto my phone. When I boot into cwm, and want to install a .zip, I see a couple folders such as the cwm folder and venom folder and legacy folder, and I find that my sd cards files are not under root and I have to go to /0. If I go into a file explorer such as we file explorer, I can't see any files under the the place where those several folders are. Any ideas?
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Noticing same thing...
I've just been searching these threads for the exact same issue. Wondering if it would be possible to take a nandroid, erase system and everything and either restore or reload my room from scratch to fix this? My phone says it's running low on memory while it still shows almost 10gb free when attached to my computer. I assume this is the problem...
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I've just been searching these threads for the exact same issue. Wondering if it would be possible to take a nandroid, erase system and everything and either restore or reload my room from scratch to fix this? My phone says it's running low on memory while it still shows almost 10gb free when attached to my computer. I assume this is the problem...
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Yeah, ive tried to format my phones internal storage but the problem is still there. Though it does free up a lot of space when I do it. I think it says it is low memory because there are duplicate files of everything on your sd card
Hello!
For a few days now I've noticed that my device has been creating some weird files on my SD card. I have tried formatting the SD a few times but it still happens. If I do not delete these files more and more keep being created until there are hundreds of them in my SD. They seem to not take up any space at all, but it bothers me having to browse for files in the card. I have attached a screenshot from the root of my SD card with the suspicious files highlighted. If they are completely normal for an android device, I would like to know if there is a way to stop them, hide them or maybe have them appear inside a separate folder so I can keep my card organized.
Also, it may or may not be related, but whenever I'm listening to music (whether it'd be Play Music or another app) sometimes the phone stops playing it, as if I closed the app. I had Clean Master installed and it happened frequently until I figured out it was the source of the problem and uninstalled. It worked fine for a while but it started again. I believe it could be related, since I keep all of my music on the SD card.
Thank you in advance for any assistance provided!
Do you see these files only when phone is plugged to PC via USB or can you see them with ES-Explorer or similar Filemanger on the phone also?
I have a few of these files but they are only present when I check the SDcard on a Windows- PC, in ES or Rootexplorer they aren´t visible.So my opinion is that these files are created temporary for connecting.
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Do you see these files only when phone is plugged to PC via USB or can you see them with ES-Explorer or similar Filemanger on the phone also?
I have a few of these files but they are only present when I check the SDcard on a Windows- PC, in ES or Rootexplorer they aren´t visible.So my opinion is that these files are created temporary for connecting.
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The files also appear with file managing apps on the device as well. As you can see, the files have "reproduced" since I started this thread.
Inquisitor956 said:
The files also appear with file managing apps on the device as well. As you can see, the files have "reproduced" since I started this thread.
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I also have the same. Just deleted 400 0byte files on my motog 2ndgen sd card (kitkat 4.4.4). I see them with es and when connected to PC.
I can't believe this.
The same crap happened to me on a second XT890. I'm lost for words.
here is what happened.:
Got a phonecall, when I wanted to pick it up the phone would turn off saying not enough power, at 30 % !!???
Ok, so no big deal I thought,...turned it back on, had the same person calling me, everything was fine. Then i noticed the stored mms images would not load inside the conversations. Si turned the phone off and on again, mms images are loading again.
Got another phone call and my personal ringtone, gone, no longer there. Couldn't even switch it back even though the file, supposedly was there. Then I tried to play the file, google play music would not.
Next, all my images are gone, no longer folders of the camera and images and videos. Using quickoffice , that app says, no files on the internal sd card! WTF!?
Turning the phone off an on again, let me see the files on the card again, even let me play an audio file, going in and out of the folder, the files disappeared again.
So long story short. Everything seems to work except my files are gone and quickoffice and fileviewers won't find the files. When i put in an external sd card that works fine on other devices, it won't load the files, images, videos, only maybe 3 of 100!? What the hell.
This is the second time on a different phone but same model this has happened.
I can't afford to loose the images and recordings. are they gone? what has happened? I ran DR Fone recovery, and even that won't find the images i need,
Phone is rooted. And it's driving me nuts. Battery was replaced 6 months ago, everything was fine. Now that.
Please help, need my files, desperately.
What could have caused this? ? What is not working properly? Indexing? Gallery? Quickoffice?
Could be a corruption in the data
" corruption on your internal memory
" corruption on the system partition or dalvik
See if adb can find the files on your internal sdcard. With the command: adb shell ls /storage/sdcard0/[path to video/photo]
Thanks will try.!
In the meantime Root Browser shows the sd card as empty, and last time changed as 8/5/12 which was the build date of the phone.... :-/
Funky, When hooking up for adb and running a command the files and sd card became visible. So while visible I was able to safe all the files to external card. When restarting the phone the internal sd and files disappeared again. I cleared cache and dalvik and media storage, no effect. files remain hidden. Running sd maid it says system files are hidden. using es file explorer running showing hidden files i get a no permission response. same for sd card, says no permission. so something is blocking me. virus? i don't really use wlan or internet, wondering how to get everything working again. files and everything is there, but i have no access.
Still looks like a corruption somewhere. I should just safe all files that u need, backup data and do a full system restore and start over. With full I mean also a internal memory wipe.
Maybe there is a much better option, but I don't know any atm.
Still fiddling with it. Thought I just do a factory reset. Well didn't work.
Somehow before I did the reset the media store app was moved to sd card and a different apk was placed in system / app folder.
After the restart you guessed it, all data was gone as expected. Gallery and ringtones and video, and so on won't show. The media storage apk is in system/app folder, but it won't show under settings/apps/all.....
Not being an expert I think I messed this up by switching out the apks,.../
The one now in the system folder is: version 4.04-1351904261 but I need version 4.04-1344118159
Who can tell me where i can find one?