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Hey guys,
Gonna try explain this best I can. If I need to be corrected or any blanks filled in then please let me know
Basically, I had around 25 images that were taken a few weeks ago when my family visited from New Zealand on my SD. I thought to be safe, I'll move them to a folder on the root drive so popped onto root explorer, made the folder on root and copied the pictures over (well moved them actually).
Now, issue is I stupidly named the folder (in my wisdom god knows why I chose this) 'PICREC130910'. I do understand the name of the folder is fairly irrelevant but thought since I'm asking for a hand, best explain myself best I can.
Now, again in my wisdom, I was browsing about using root explorer and somehow managed to delete that folder (let's blame working 14 hour shifts for that wonderful mishap).
I tried a recovery using various deleted file recovery softwares on my SD using the computer, but to no avail. It finds the image names but when I recover them it only recovers a non readable file that every viewer I've tried can't see. this might be because I had just before deleting root folders, put about 6gb of music on the SD so probably overwritten the pictures.
Anyway, because the root is generally less written to than the SD I'm hoping they're still in a recoverable state so to put my question out there... is there a software that can do a similar recovery search but on the root drive? Would really appreciate any help cause I only get to see my family from nz about once every 5 years.
Thanks for reading guys,
Pete
What recovery software have you used?
One I have tried with great success is Recuva.
I used that and another one, can't remember the name just now but my issue is how do I search the root drive?
What I'm looking to do is somehow mount the root drive to allow a windows based piece of software search it or alternatively find another way to do so using a terminal to show all deleted files so I can find these pictures somewhere.
Hopefully (and I'm asuming..) the internal is a similar structure to the flash-based memory system in the SD card and therefore as long as it hasn't been overwritten, should be recoverable.
Would I be right in this assumption?
Nobody help here?
Sorry dude, but i am pretty certain there is no software available that would allow you to recover deleted files from a Mobile Phone internal memory. I can only suggest that you remove your SD card and connect that to you PC and see if you can recover any pics direct from the SD. You will have to use an SD Card reader as it will not work if you connect the phone to the pc.
I personally use Recover My Files. It always works for me.
Have a look with THIS, worth a shot.
First off can I offer my greatest thank you to all those that have replied so far. I'm avoiding installing or deleting a thing until I know what I can do with this.
Isn't mounting the phone to the computer (Ie mount SD card) the same as putting it into an SD card reader? Higher chance of it working with a reader?
As said, it can find the image names, just not the images (ie recovers a non readable file!)
Good morning everyone.
I have been surfing this site for quite some time, but have just received my Vibrant S and am now in a position to post a question.
I am coming from the WinMo 5.0 world and android is very new to me, but I am enjoying the new phone.
I do not yet have the phone rooted and am hesitating ... mainly because I don't know all the features it has yet but also because I don't want to get into anything I don't know yet how to get out of. Having spent enough on this phone, I don't want to break anything just yet. This forum seems to have some very helpful people though, so I hope I can trust you all when you finally talk me into rooting. I barely got on the Market yesterday and found a tool 'SGS Tools' which has some info in the description which I think I can really use, but I need to root. So go ahead and start talking me into rooting.
Anyway, to my question:
The movie 'Avatar' comes on a 2Gig micro SD card and I have an 8Gig HCSD card. So I copied the directory 'Movie' and its contents to my C: drive, unmounted the 2Gig, removed it, and put in the 8Gig. The phone recognized it and everything went fine when I turned the phone on. So I moved the directory 'Movie' and its contents to the 8Gig card and after all was said and done, when I try to open the movie file 'Avatar.dcf' using either the shortcut or the media player, I get the error: This video can not be played.
Is there a hidden file I may have missed? Can you not create a copy? Would the DRM get involved at this point?
I am concerned if I move the file from the 2Gig card to the 8Gig card, and I get the same error, then I've also lost the movie.
Your suggestions would be most helpful. Thanks.
Here's another take on it.
I powered my phone on this morning just before posting, and found the phone was not recognizing the SDHC card. It was in effect, unmounted. I pulled it out and back in and it then asked if I wanted to format the disk, so I did. I need to pull the original dcf file off the 2gig disk and try this move again, but in the mean time I've found this among a lot of complaints regarding android recognizing SDHC cards.
[edit] Seems I can't post outside links yet. Here's an address you'll have to manually put in your address bar if you wish to read this article.
< ... ://humanslate.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=14 >
In there it mentions, "SDHC cards will not work in devices designed to the older SD 1.x specification".
So, another question at the moment is this:
Has android (I'm running JI6, eclair 2.1) been developed for the original 1.x cards? Has anyone bought a new android phone and had an SDHC card in it? My 2gig card is of the old 1.x specification.
Perhaps I need to repost on the developer page? I figured the movie was part of an app, so it would only seem reasonable to post here.
Hangman_ said:
Good morning everyone.
I have been surfing this site for quite some time, but have just received my Vibrant S and am now in a position to post a question.
I am coming from the WinMo 5.0 world and android is very new to me, but I am enjoying the new phone.
I do not yet have the phone rooted and am hesitating ... mainly because I don't know all the features it has yet but also because I don't want to get into anything I don't know yet how to get out of. Having spent enough on this phone, I don't want to break anything just yet. This forum seems to have some very helpful people though, so I hope I can trust you all when you finally talk me into rooting. I barely got on the Market yesterday and found a tool 'SGS Tools' which has some info in the description which I think I can really use, but I need to root. So go ahead and start talking me into rooting.
Anyway, to my question:
The movie 'Avatar' comes on a 2Gig micro SD card and I have an 8Gig HCSD card. So I copied the directory 'Movie' and its contents to my C: drive, unmounted the 2Gig, removed it, and put in the 8Gig. The phone recognized it and everything went fine when I turned the phone on. So I moved the directory 'Movie' and its contents to the 8Gig card and after all was said and done, when I try to open the movie file 'Avatar.dcf' using either the shortcut or the media player, I get the error: This video can not be played.
Is there a hidden file I may have missed? Can you not create a copy? Would the DRM get involved at this point?
I am concerned if I move the file from the 2Gig card to the 8Gig card, and I get the same error, then I've also lost the movie.
Your suggestions would be most helpful. Thanks.
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That should be all you have to do to get the movie to play. I would only recommend that you double check to make sure you copied the Movie folder to your external SD card and not the internal card.
The Vibrant can use SDHC cards (use 8gb class 6 here) and I know many others use 16 and 32 gb ones.
Convert the file to simple mp3 universal coding that any video app including the stock can read. Should be 720p. Create a video folder if one does not exist. You know all this sounds like. Should play fine. Too bad you can't use the lame short cut this way. Then again I never used it anyway.
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I replaced avatar this way. Since have now for the extended version instead.
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Thank you for the quick reply.
Flak_Munky said:
That should be all you have to do to get the movie to play ...
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What do you mean by 'That'? Do you mean to move or does a copy suffice?
A little earlier after posting here, I put the 2gig back in and copied the DCF file to the C: drive again. Then after replacing the 2gig with the 8gig in the phone, I moved the 'Movie' directory and files into it. Now the media player doesn't even recognize the file. Although when I went to the SD card and looked at the details of the DCF file, it said the rights were expired. Can I assume it is because I copied it?
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Convert the file to simple mp3 universal coding that any video app including the stock can read. Should be 720p.
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What program did you use to make the conversion? I have two converters on my laptop I really like, but I don't know that they will even recognize a DCF file.
Thank you for your assistance.
And thank you Mr Moderator for moving this to its correct forum location.
Hangman_ said:
What do you mean by 'That'? Do you mean to move or does a copy suffice?
A little earlier after posting here, I put the 2gig back in and copied the DCF file to the C: drive again. Then after replacing the 2gig with the 8gig in the phone, I moved the 'Movie' directory and files into it. Now the media player doesn't even recognize the file. Although when I went to the SD card and looked at the details of the DCF file, it said the rights were expired. Can I assume it is because I copied it?
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I was referring to either a move or copy. Both should work without a problem. I've done both and it played each time.
Never seen the rights were expired before. Not sure atm.
Thanks Flak for the clarification.
I am thinking I have larger issues here now (hence the edit to the title).
Over the New year, I have been working on word documents and PDFs and saving them to the external SD card on the phone. I have Windows 7_64. I was synced in with my phone using 'media' to transfer files as Kies doesn't work. After disconnecting the phone and verifying I can read both the word docs and the PDF's, I turned the phone off for the night. The next morning when I turned the phone on, I recieved a message that the external SD card was corrupted. I had to do a format to get the card back. After copying the docs and PDF's to the SDHC again, making a few phone calls, and installing a couple apps from the market to the internal memory, I rebooted the phone (turned off then back on), I received an error message saying the external SD card had been damaged. I had to do a format on the card again to get it back.
All I can say at the moment is I'm glad I didn't move the Avatar.dcf file to the SDHC card, but I don't understand what is happening with the SD functionality. This is becoming completely untrustworthy as I can't use the SD card for anything in fear of it getting corrupted or damaged. Which means I can't backup anything to the SD card either.
[Q] I have read mention of drivers for Windows 7_64, but have not yet searched them out. Could the default connection drivers that Windows 7 loads when you first connect your phone be an issue?
[Q] I have also read in several places now that the USB debugging should be checked. Now most all of these posts are for rooting and reinstalling ROM's and such, but my question is this; Should I have the USB debugging on when I am simply connecting to the PC to transfer files? It seems I am losing my SDHC card only after I have connected to the PC using the USB cable.
Do you have any thoughts or suggestions I can try? I'm too new to android to think of possible solutions to these little quirks, or where to look or what to ask.
Thanks.
One reason I am hesitant to put any Windows 7_64 bit drivers is because of the following comments:
"cant get my cpu to recognize my phone after installing drivers... im on windows 7 64 bit any ideas??"
"have the same problem. i'm on 7, 32bit"
"did you enable USB debugging?"
"yes of course. first thing I did after I rooted"
These are from <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929>
Now again, my phone is not yet rooted. For the purpose at hand, I can't see the need to root. If my SDHC card is getting corrupted during connection, then rooting the phone is not going to solve the problem.
So my question above still stands; should the USB debugging be on (checked) when I simply connect to the PC to transfer files?
But I don't know where to look now or what to do. I have spent an entire day looking over the posts and have found virtually nothing to assist me with this little quirk.
Any suggestion would be helpful at this point.
Thanks.
So, I've learned something new today and would like your confirmation if I am correct in my assessment or not.
When you plug the phone into the Windows desktop machine, you get a prompt on the phone asking if you want to connect to Kies, Media Player, or Mass Storage.
When I select Media player, I have immediate access to the phone and SD card. There is nothing more to do with either the phone or the PC is this correct ?
The reason I ask is that if I connect to Mass Storage, I then have to go to the pulldown whatchamacallit on the phone and select USB connect. It then prompts me to "Mount" the phone (SD card) so I can access it.
I think this is why my SD card became corrupted and damaged. I didn't know I had to go and "Mount" the thing before I could use it.
BUT, why doesn't it ask me to "Mount" it when I select Media Player for my connection?
Thank you for your assistance and expertise.
Still waiting for confirmation
I'm still waiting for some definitive answer(s) and confirmations to these questions of mine if anyone has the knowledge.
Thank you.
So as I've read, usbStorage isn't really a folder. The weird thing is, I copied some files to the usbStorage folder 'successfully' at work. Well, it didn't give me any errors while copying the files anyway.
Before copying I checked if I had enough storage space because I had to copy a couple hundred MB's worth of wav files. When I got home there was nothing there which, as I know now, was to be expected.
The problem is I DID lose the storage space... How am I ever getting that free space back!? Can't very well delete non-existent files.. Confused :S
Some extra info: Running WanamLite 10, custom rom, rooted ICS.
Thanks for reading,
Rajiv
What are you expecting to happen? The usbStorage folder is for USB OTG (i.e. something plugged into the micro USB port, like a memory stick or hard drive), nothing else.
Uhm, yeah. I've read that.. After encountering this problem, obviously.
So what was I expecting? Regular folder behavior of course..
What I would have expected to happen, knowing what I do now, is an error message along the lines of not being able to write to that particular folder.
Neither happened though and now I'm missing a couple hundred MB of storage space... Any ideas on that?
Not having had this problem before, I would copy all folders on to a PC, format the SD card then copy the folders back in.
Might want to copy the folders over one by one.
Edit: have you checked to see how large you 'lost.dir' folder is? Long pressing on any folder then selecting details will show you the size of that folder.
I regularly delete the entire folder. I deleted it for a friend last week. His was 2.4gb worth.
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I'm using a GS3 w/ a Sandisk 64GB microSDXC card formatted as exFAT. I'm hoping someone here with knowledge of exFAT can help me troubleshoot an issue I've seen. This is probably going to end up fairly detailed, so bear with me.
I recently copied ~40GB of data to my new 64GB card in Windows using the card reader in my laptop. It appeared to go off without a hitch. Today, however, I noticed an issue with my music files (mostly .mp3 and .wma). I had transferred a new song to the card and it seemed to go through. However, on the device, the file didn't appear. So I did it again, transferred the file, and it seemed to go through. It didn't tell me there was a duplicate file on the device either, so I played it on the card through Windows to test it. No issues. Unplug my device and the file disappeared again.
So I go into ES File Explorer (and later I used the My Files application that Samsung loads, with the same results) and go into my music folder to see what's going on. It appeared that at some point, the file name got corrupted and concatenated with part of another file name; instead of being "artist - song.wma", it was "artist - song.wmas Track).wma". So I think that the OS doesn't like the .wma in there, and try to rename it to what it should've been. The system says that that the file system already exists. I tried to delete the file, and it won't let me. The file explorer is also reporting that the file is 0kb in size. At this point, I open up a terminal emulator and try to delete the offending file through the command line, but I cannot delete/rename the here either, despite being listed (I'm told the file does not exist). Finally, I plugged in back into my Windows box but the bad files will not even show. The file on my computer is good and plays fine.
So I scratched my head for a little while. Then tonight at the gym I wasn't able to find the song I wanted. Sure enough, it was tied to this issue. I went back into the file explorer and found ~50 files (of ~4200) that had corrupted file extensions. These differed from the original in that only the file extension had been altered (ie .mp3p3 or .wmaa). However, I am unable to delete/rename any of the files. Also worth nothing is that some of these files had sizes. It's possible that other files exist like the original where the file extension is valid, but the original file extension is within the file name.
I have not confirmed this yet, but it is also possible that the issue is not limited to music files. I was looking through my pictures the other day and noticed that some images weren't loading; I deleted these files at the time and didn't think anything of it because a few weeks back my epic 4g corrupted my microSD and I had used some file carving tools to recover some images (obviously, not a perfect fix).
So the problem is beyond my expertise at this point. I'm not sure how to handle these damaged file remnants. I'd like to get rid of them because they prevent the existence of the good file in that particular folder in addition to taking up space. As a short-term solution I re-copied the files I wanted to a temporary folder on the card and they are working without issue.
Right now I'm leaning towards wiping the card, reformatting it, and transferring again. However, before I do that, does anyone have any ideas? Is there any chance this could be an issue with the card itself? Or a GS3 issue? The files on the computer are still good and the problem seems to manifest itself regardless of the method used to transfer to the card as the original files were transferred using an SD adapter and card reader, and the file that triggered this issue was transferred using the usb cable.
I appreciate any insight or opinions.
Tim
it's caused by long/speciafic filename of the file.
just put the sdcard into your cardreader and then connect to your pc, delete/rename the file which caused the issue.
The files don't appear for me to be able to delete them. The file explorers won't allow me to delete them. A terminal lists the file but tells me it doesn't exist when I try to delete it.
UPDATE: I formatted my memory card using the device itself and transferred the files again. This did not resolve the issue. Interestingly, the SAME files that were corrupted last time were corrupted this time. I can still transfer the same files from my computer to a separate folder and they work. The file remnants cannot be deleted or altered. What could be causing this issue?
Is this a genuine card? I once bought a 16 GB memory card that was actually just 2 GB but reported the full 16 GB to Windows. I found out I had been scammed when I started getting errors similar to yours when I copied more than 2 GB of data.
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Yeah, it's a genuine SanDisk 64GB SDXC card.
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http://mympx.org/Downloads/p13_sectionid/2/p13_fileid/13
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I'll give it a shot when I have more time, but I'm leaning towards a software issue. It's either an issue with the file system itself, or with the SGS3 software. The same files are corrupted in the same way each time (in the same folder). However, in the new folder where I moved the copies of the problem files, there were also some corruption, but different from the original folder. Moved new copies to a third folder, some files were good, a few more remained corrupted. By the time I moved copies into a fourth folder, there were no more issues. The problem is now I probably have an extra 500MB+ worth of garbage that I can't do anything with. The search for the underlying issue continues...
FailDeadly said:
I'll give it a shot when I have more time, but I'm leaning towards a software issue. It's either an issue with the file system itself, or with the SGS3 software. The same files are corrupted in the same way each time (in the same folder). However, in the new folder where I moved the copies of the problem files, there were also some corruption, but different from the original folder. Moved new copies to a third folder, some files were good, a few more remained corrupted. By the time I moved copies into a fourth folder, there were no more issues. The problem is now I probably have an extra 500MB+ worth of garbage that I can't do anything with. The search for the underlying issue continues...
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try formatting in the device, then transfer over one of the files and see if it has a problem....I would guess the file name of the problem file is too long. if the file transfers and is still a problem try renaming it to like test.mp3 and see if it transfers ok.
tillithz said:
try formatting in the device, then transfer over one of the files and see if it has a problem....I would guess the file name of the problem file is too long. if the file transfers and is still a problem try renaming it to like test.mp3 and see if it transfers ok.
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I thought exFat had really large limits on filenames? That, along with the greater than 2gb file limit removal, are some of the pluses of this over regular Fat. I could be way outta line here, but that's what I remember about it. ExFat should rock! FWIW, I've had a Kingston hyperX flash drive formatted with ExFat and have never had a filename issue copying 10's of thousands of .mp3's, .jpg's, etc...
The files in question don't have particularly long names though. I'm guessing that there's a small handful of files elsewhere on the folder with a name that's causing the file system to freak out. I'm curious if tag info or metadata could cause an issue as well. This last time I transferred via sub directly to the device instead of taking the card out and using a card reader. My next move might be to transfer via the reader and see if there are any issues BEFORE putting the card in the device; it might still be a sgs3 issue...
Not sure if you have tried this yet but since it seems to be repeatable by way of the same files, have you tried copying the offending files to internal storage to see if the same problem occurs?
This would definitely rule out the MicroSD card and lend itself towards being a software issue.
SOLUTION: Format the microSDXC card as FAT32. All my files transfer, show up, and work just fine. Either the exFAT file system is broken, or (more likely) Samsung broke the exFAT support somehow. I might experiment with exFAT on an 32GB card to see if I can find the root of the issue, but for now I've lost my patience.
FailDeadly said:
SOLUTION: Format the microSDXC card as FAT32. All my files transfer, show up, and work just fine. Either the exFAT file system is broken, or (more likely) Samsung broke the exFAT support somehow. I might experiment with exFAT on an 32GB card to see if I can find the root of the issue, but for now I've lost my patience.
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My Sandisk MicroSDXC 64GB card should be arriving today. I was hoping to use exFAT so will try it out tonight and report back. I have lots of HD TV shows to transfer so it will be full straight away.
Hi there
I also got the SanDisk 64GB SDXC card in my SGS3 and it is formatted as exFat. I think this exFat does not run correctly on the Galaxy.
I also encountered some corrupt file names on the SDcard and even some of my music folders do not show up as folders but as an unknown file that cannot be accessed.
Furthermore I copied some .flac files to my phone. The files work without a problem when being put on the internal storage. As soon as I put them on the SDCard the stock-music player does not recognize the .flac format anymore and thus the music cannot be played.
I guess I will re-format the SDcard to FAT and hope that Samsung (or maybe even a DEV) will come up with a solution to this problem. Another positiv aspect of having the card formatted as FAT is that I probably can apply some custom kernels and they will mount my FAT-64GB card (currently the custom kernels cannot mount or detect exFat formatted drives).
Hope this info helps a bit.
Working perfectly for a couple of week now in my S3, formatted exFAT.
I tried my Sandisk 64GB exFAT card last night and all seems to be working perfectly, I have filled it and can see all the files on the S3. Very happy with it.
Not Stable exFAT
Looks like exFAT is not yet fully finished in SGS3, thats why Samsung didn't include information about exFAT on their manual / user info.
When i use exFAT format, the problem is almost non existent in few file, but when i filled the SD card with many data and lot of small files (ex. HD Game data), the card says corrupted in my SGS3.
Screenshot is in here : LINK
The problem is only exist when the sdcard is start to filled with many files.
But when i filled it with few file but large size (ex. 4 files of *.mkv, that totals to 42GB), the card runs fine.
So the problem is only exist if the sdcard is filled with many data.
Please all of you try this, if my problem can be repeated in every SGS3, then it is definetely bug from the exFAT support on SGS3.
*also has tried it with siyahkernel that listed have exFAT support, but the problem is still the same in that kernel, maybe the support/patch/mod of exFAT that gokhanmoral use is the same that come with our stock SGS3.
Mine if near full, lots of app and game installs and small files and no problems here.
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Mine if near full, lots of app and game installs and small files and no problems here.
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hmm.. maybe its different firmware that causes it ?, mine on XXALE8-DXLE8
My SDcard is filled with Tintin HD game data, and that makes my exFAT SD card to show corrupted on SGS3, but normal on everything else (computer, laptop).
I've got a few films on my phone which play fine. But some won't show up on the pc as being on my phones sd card when I look at the folder. From what I can see the file types are the same as the ones that do show up.
I also have the problem that when I go to delete some files (some. Video some apk) they don't delete. It doesn't say there was a problem deleting them and the file size is 0 but the file name still shows. So they do not show up on pc do I delete them in the phone but they still show.
Hope this makes sense
Anyone?
Double post.
Don't know this could help
I have ever got this experience. I accidentally renamed some file(data) in phone Sd like original file name is "xxxx" to " .xxxx" after renamed I couldn't see that file from phone Sd even via PC(when usb connected) but I knew it still in Sd because it took lot of my internal Sd Space. I tried install root explorer app(your phone need rooted) and got into sd again now I could see that file then I could delete it successfully.
ive just tried to put a music track in a folder thats in my music folder in ext sd but its only showing a handfull of the folders.
so say i try to make a new folder and name it the same as the one im trying to put it in e.g "live" the folder wont rename . but i can rename it with a new name.
this is really winding me up
just noticed none of the things show up if i look vie kies either
a workable solution.....connect your SD to your PC via USB or SD slot....copy all SD content onto the PC....format the SD.....move it back to the phone....connect the phone to the PC via USB......move back the content to the SD
unmounted my sd , put it in my card reader , but my card reader must be faulty . put the sd back in the phone and all the files are showing up again lol
thanks for your help, i should have thought of that really