I just "upgraded" my Samsung S7 edge to the Idol 4s running windows, mainly did this educational purposes and perhaps boredom.
Now my question is, before I sent back my S7 I did backup to SD card via smartswitch and I also used carbonite to backup my call logs and SMS to SD card. I tried these two methods as I had originally attempted to use "Switch to windows phone" app from the Google play store on the S7, which failed to backup to my MS onedrive account, it would come with an error message about about unable to sync or something.
Now my question is , is there an app or something that can read my samsung smartswitch backup on the SD card to restore it to current windows 10 phone or not?
Boxed back and taken back to store. First and last straw that broke the camel's back, capacitive buttons sometimes not responding. Old saying " ain't got no time for that " comes to mind.
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Hi,
I'm new to Android and SGS is my first android phone. I got it a week ago and love it, not just the phone but also the OS compare to what iphone offers. so please excuse if I ask something silly.
Poping in a 8GB sdcard for and for the first time I see that Android / SGS does media scanning on the internal SD and external card (which I've never seen with Iphone). SGS informed me to format the external SD and I did, but for the next couple boots, it asked me the same thing again. However to me 16GB is more than what I need so I decided to remove the external to save some boot time and not to see the annoying formatting notification.
Kies lets me update to JM3, and then I found XDA and this forum custom roms. Tempting and immediately go straight from JM3 to JM5 using ODIN and Hackalair (update.zip), apply 1clicklagfix by Ryanz.
My first experience with the custom room was fast, very impressive but I figure out there's no Google voice search with Hackalair as he's removed most of the bloatwares from the origin package. Trying the external SD again to see if it's any better. It's sorta worse, the phone seem not to recognize the external SD card anymore, and then luckier after couple boots, the phone notifies me to format the card and never be able to complete the task.
I found Samset 1.9f, download it and update.zip from Hackalair to Samset, I got 2082 quadrant score, not sure if it's fast but compare to the chart it shows me, this is twice faster than the original SGS score. Bad thing, still no luck with the external SD card and no Samsung AP app (not sure if samset removed it)
So my question is this the phone hardware problem? Knowing that I have no problem using this card on my Blackberry. I've got the phone and have no issue to format & reinstall the ROM, is there anyway to do a proper format on the internal SD card and install the custom rom with google voice + Samsung AP app (i need these 2) and wonder if doing so will help me fix the thing.
This is off topic a little but I get used to Iphone's app that vibrate the phone when the outgoing call picked up. Can we have something similar with SGS? I also want to find an app that allow me to map a hotkey to compose SMS (i can press volume up on iphone to have a new sms compose screeen). Beside this, I found Android is more like a PC to me than iphone in many ways.
Thanks for the help guys.
I bought two of these through T-Mobile. My wife's is still working, but mine is bricked. It happened the first week of August 2011 during trip in the Philippines. I maxed out my internal drive with videos, and was in the process of moving them to the SD Chip, but before I had a chance it bricked on me and is now in a continuous loop at the logo screen. Anyhow, I need newbie help, because I have never dealt with Android issues like this. Is there anyway, I can get my photos without formatting? Is there an update?
I did manage to free up 1.5 gigs internal before it bricked on me. But my videos of the country and my family are what have been lost.
I tried to Factory Reset the (option #1, user data only), but afterword still loops. I really had some nice videos that I do not want to lose in my gallery. I was hoping I could upgrade to a new version in order to save the data. Is there any hope?
I have read other forums, and seems you must format.
This really bites!
To add to the confusion, after we got back to my wife's parents house I put the SD Card in my wife's laptop to see if any videos or photos were moved over. After shutting down her computer to eat with her family, my wife's computer began doing the same thing my tablet was doing with Windows XP Media Edition. I was lost at this point, because I became suspicious of a virus or trojan. Could this have been a virus? Because now her computer loops into the blue screen of death screen and never boots up. I know this may have nothing to do with or maybe it has everything to do with it, because her laptop is a dell, too! LMAO!
It was a hell of a trip. Experienced an Earthquake and two Typhoons there to add to it! LOL! But I had great time!
You can use nvflash method to restore your ds7. Look through this section for thread "Restoring the Streak 7 using NVFlash".
To keep the content of your internal sd card from being over written, follow the instruction here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1104093&page=4
It will tell you to do not use p22.img.
Dellstreak7sux said:
I bought two of these through T-Mobile. My wife's is still working, but mine is bricked. It happened the first week of August 2011 during trip in the Philippines. I maxed out my internal drive with videos, and was in the process of moving them to the SD Chip, but before I had a chance it bricked on me and is now in a continuous loop at the logo screen. Anyhow, I need newbie help, because I have never dealt with Android issues like this. Is there anyway, I can get my photos without formatting? Is there an update?
I did manage to free up 1.5 gigs internal before it bricked on me. But my videos of the country and my family are what have been lost.
I tried to Factory Reset the (option #1, user data only), but afterword still loops. I really had some nice videos that I do not want to lose in my gallery. I was hoping I could upgrade to a new version in order to save the data. Is there any hope?
I have read other forums, and seems you must format.
This really bites!
To add to the confusion, after we got back to my wife's parents house I put the SD Card in my wife's laptop to see if any videos or photos were moved over. After shutting down her computer to eat with her family, my wife's computer began doing the same thing my tablet was doing with Windows XP Media Edition. I was lost at this point, because I became suspicious of a virus or trojan. Could this have been a virus? Because now her computer loops into the blue screen of death screen and never boots up. I know this may have nothing to do with or maybe it has everything to do with it, because her laptop is a dell, too! LMAO!
It was a hell of a trip. Experienced an Earthquake and two Typhoons there to add to it! LOL! But I had great time!
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Fastboot into clockwork recovery from your computer ( open command prompt to your tools directory after copying the clockwork recovery image in the android sdk directory and type : fastboot boot streak7cwm.img ,then Mount storage and copy them off
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Streak7cwm.img is what I named the clockwork recovery image as I work with several devices on my computer. If you download the image here it will have a different name. I fastboot all my devices externally into cwm without issues. Hopefully you can still get into fastboot. If so, your data should be recoverable.
Hello there,
me again, i fear i do not have much luck with my note....
this happened to me with 2 different 32 GB sd cards (same type though) now. First time i thought the card itself was the problem, but now i doubt it.
When i first inserted the card, everything was fine, i copied several gb of music on it without problem, could access al files from phone and via Windows.
Played some files with MortPlayer the other day, and after the next restart of the device (had to shutdown for flight) it suddenly complained that i had removed the card while the system was running.
This does not happen at all with my old 8 GB sd, though, it's running fine whatever i do.
Cannot access the card anymore from phone, camera or PC (Win7 x64).
Runnning german stock rom ICS 4.0.3 rooted on the phone.
Did this ever happen to anyone else and/or is there i way to get that card running again? It does not show up under Windows at all anymore, not even as unformatted or so.
Any help or hints appreciated, thanks in advance.
Try paragon partition manager to format the sd card then see if it works if it does reformat on the phone. I read somewhere that you could format to ntfs and back to fat 32 to get it recognised
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thanks for the quick answer.
the problem is (don't have paragon where i am atm, but tried with Acronis Disk Director & HP USB Repair Tool and i guess it would be the same with paragon?) that i simply cannot see the device anymore via such tools, same is for the windows disk/storage management.
So reformatting it seems not to be an option here, was more or less hoping that someone knows another "trick" how to get the thing back to life - and of course a reason why my Note might have "destroyed" the 2 cards.
did you buy these SD cards new ? if so was the seller a reputable one ? there are a lot of fake / dodgy Sd cards on the market nowadays
Do you use a card reader via a usb port ? if so try a different port, like one on the back, direct to the PC's motherboard, finally if that fails, try someone else's PC.
If all the above fail I guess the SD is completely dead. I dont know how the Note could have caused this unless the card was a fake, People are using 64GB SD's with no issues at all.
both were brand new cards, bought directly from Amazon.
Could of course be possible that they both were from a bad batch... Gonna ask amazon if there have been any issues with that product so far, could not find bad ratings for it though when i checked.
I'll try to get hands hands on another cardreader, left for vacations yesterday and just have my Netbook with internal USB based card reader, the Galaxy Note and a Nikon D7000 with me, which all do not recognize it, but the backup 8 gb sd card .
thanks for your time
S.
Amazon are friendly, If you havent had the cards long just explain to them the situation and im sure they will refund / replace.
You could be right about a 'bad batch' unfortunately with all the technology we have, it still happens
Hope you get it sorted :good: keep us posted !!!
Samsung NOTE - dead 32gb SD card
first - apologies - I am not an XDA developer (I am a retired architect... and a noob)
This thread came up when I searched "Samsung note destroys SD card". I will simply report my experience in the hope that others may find it useful.
I get a Samsung NOTE G-N7000 in late August & buy a 32Gb SD card from amazon (specifically getting a Samsung one to avoid any incompatibility)
I load about 7gb of music tracks onto it from my PC; it works perfectly& gives me good quality music playback until a week ago; then all playback form the card becomes impossible with an "unrecognised file type" message. I format the card in the phone. I dismount it. I slot itn to my PC, where "my computer" says that it has zero gb capacity, & will not format it. I mount it in my old Blackberry Curve which says it has 29.2 gb capacity - I format it - & the curve says it now has 1.2 gb capacity. The PC still says it has no capacity.
The only possible cause I cant hink of it is that I seem to remember there had just been an Android software uprgrade (to 4..0.3.?)
I find Samsung phone help, ring them, and get very badly run around - several times I am given a phone number for "Samsung SD cards" which is actually the UK "Orange" help number. I have rung three or four numbers at least threet imes each before I get through to Samsung SD cards help. They ask for photos of both sides of the micro SD card - having (I presume) established that it is a genuine Samsung product they e-mail me a product return form & code.
I have sent the card off to Florijn in the Netherlands.... I am not holding my breath.
It has not been a good week for memory...
- Outlook Express started to compact messages as the computer was closing down (so I have no e-mails before 15th Nov 2012)
- this SD card died on me
- & I forgot to go to a folk music dinner &music session that I had booked a week previously
I begin th think alzheimers might be a welcome release....
Your "watch this noob" video... perhaps one of the funniest videos I have seen for a while ... and certainly the most annoying... andyou expect "thanks"?
Well thats something really unusual. Because i am using my note for a year now and bought a 16 gb card with it. I onky encountered 3 errors where my n7000 stopped Reading the memory saying bad memory and what i did was to take it out of the slot and then reinsert it again and It worked fine.
The only advice i give to everyone. Dont plug ur phone to the pc or any other device always keep ur phone wireless with other devices so thst the malware cant replicate to ur storage. I use kies air or bluetooth exchange in cases there is large data i cooy it to the usb and then plug that usb to my phone and it works ok.
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Hi,
My phone just received from 2 weeks has initiated the reset being locked in my pocket.
I had few pictures with my child captured with this phone and not uploaded on the Skydrive.
I don't have in Zune an update for the OS applied to the phone to make a simple recovery.
I wanted to use an application to try to recover the photos from the internal drive of the phone. Applications from the Internet for photo recovery does not see the phone as an USB drive as they said. I see my phone in Windows Phone as a Phone on a Windows 8 desktop and I can browse to copy file to and from the phone but I cannot allocate a letter drive or make a photo recovery application to see the phone as a drive to try a recovery. All applications below I used but no success they don't see the phone as a drive (ByClouder, Tenorsoft, Wondershare, Odosoft..etc)
[Do you know how to try to restore the photos?
Thank you,
Ovidiu
How to recover deleted files windows phone
A good way to recover deleted files from Windows phone is to use data recovery program, take a look at this one: Windows phone data recovery
hope this helps.
For a 920? Yeah, no go, sorry man (or lady). For phones which use a removable microSD card, you could try using data recovery tools off of that. The 920 doesn't offer any way (that I know of) to have direct access to the block storage driver, though, and that'll make it nigh-impossible.
It's vaguely possible that you could recover from whatever caused the unexpected reset by doing something like hard-rebooting the phone (harder of phones without removable batteries, but I think you can do it by holding Power for like 10 seconds) without going through with the first-time setup stuff, but it's a long shot and if you're already past there, no dice.
For the future, if you don't want to upload your photos (which I totally understand, I don't do it either) you really want to make sure you copy the off to your PC/tablet, whatever is handy ASAP.
Everything is perfectly fine with the phone, it isn't malfunctioning, no water damage, no issues turning on or anything, I'm just lazy I guess you could say. Basically, I just got a new phone (Samsung Galaxy Note - original) and I knew the day would come, that when I updated the phone, nothing would transfer because I would have to get a new sim card (the HTC HD7 takes a regular while the Galaxy Note takes a mini or w/e) and the HTC HD7 has like 0 backup functioning except the online cloud (which is next to nothing). I understand that the HTC HD7 has a removable SD card that holds all its internal data (I actually had to restore once on my husband's because his phone kept freezing, it took actually removing it to fix).
I am hoping that maybe I can remove it and either transfer all the data (contacts, picures, sms, etc) to a computer by putting it directly in the computer (rather than using zune or some other backup software) so I can then use the samsung program to transfer it onto my new phone or otherwise put the SD directly into the new phone and access the files that way so I can access and save the information I need directly from the card. Is this at all possible with a healthy card? I have a feeling its asking a lot (I'm thinking its encrypted) but I have 3 years worth of phone usage, there is A LOT of data I have to transfer, and the zune may backup pictures, but not those I haven't removed from texts; backup software usually compresses and will only transfer back to the same device; and the online cloud wont transfer (like the address book I'm pretty sure can't be transferred to any phone except the one it was set up with, but even if it could, I think its specific to windows phone, windows phone is like the least cross-platform compatible, even compared to blackberry surprisingly).
I have my phone developer unlocked (and have the interop available although not active because it was making some apps act up. I basically got my phone to a point where I could sideload a few apps and upgrade to windows 7.8 but that is about it. My husband's phone isn't however, and he is still at windows 7.5), not sure if that makes a difference/helps/hurts.
Any help is appreciated, or additionally suggestions on how to transfer multiple items from the HTC HD7 to the Samsung Galaxy Note.
superbeastarina said:
Everything is perfectly fine with the phone, it isn't malfunctioning, no water damage, no issues turning on or anything, I'm just lazy I guess you could say. Basically, I just got a new phone (Samsung Galaxy Note - original) and I knew the day would come, that when I updated the phone, nothing would transfer because I would have to get a new sim card (the HTC HD7 takes a regular while the Galaxy Note takes a mini or w/e) and the HTC HD7 has like 0 backup functioning except the online cloud (which is next to nothing). I understand that the HTC HD7 has a removable SD card that holds all its internal data (I actually had to restore once on my husband's because his phone kept freezing, it took actually removing it to fix).
I am hoping that maybe I can remove it and either transfer all the data (contacts, picures, sms, etc) to a computer by putting it directly in the computer (rather than using zune or some other backup software) so I can then use the samsung program to transfer it onto my new phone or otherwise put the SD directly into the new phone and access the files that way so I can access and save the information I need directly from the card. Is this at all possible with a healthy card? I have a feeling its asking a lot (I'm thinking its encrypted) but I have 3 years worth of phone usage, there is A LOT of data I have to transfer, and the zune may backup pictures, but not those I haven't removed from texts; backup software usually compresses and will only transfer back to the same device; and the online cloud wont transfer (like the address book I'm pretty sure can't be transferred to any phone except the one it was set up with, but even if it could, I think its specific to windows phone, windows phone is like the least cross-platform compatible, even compared to blackberry surprisingly).
I have my phone developer unlocked (and have the interop available although not active because it was making some apps act up. I basically got my phone to a point where I could sideload a few apps and upgrade to windows 7.8 but that is about it. My husband's phone isn't however, and he is still at windows 7.5), not sure if that makes a difference/helps/hurts.
Any help is appreciated, or additionally suggestions on how to transfer multiple items from the HTC HD7 to the Samsung Galaxy Note.
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The SD-card is formatted in such a way that you can't access on Windows or Mac. What you can do on the other hand is to go to your local phone store and let them resize your SIM-card.
Best regards,
Thomas