Luckily i made a raw backup of the phone bit over a month a ago with adb, and luckily the images and videos was included in that file. So, my real frustration is how badly the encrypted SD-card thing is implemented in Android, and the fact that is it near to impossible to recover it. Might be this way because they expand the internal storage instead of format it as a separate encrypted partition. Should have read more about the subject before i tried it out.
Strange observation was that the camera-app was not allowing me to store more data, even though I had more space left on deviceā¦ I could still use signal to take pictures and videos. Why this limitation?
Anyway 15 years since I last time lost some data, due to erroneous ārm -rfā command as root. Guess that karma finally caught up with me againā¦
āTheyā didnāt do anything, itās a user selection when inserting the SD. It just so happens that a) the Internal option is the top|default option b) for those that donāt want to think about it.
For those more people with more simple and common use, then their personal videos etc. are encrypted, which makes sense. For those who are more able to manage day to day security of data they can choose the unencrypted option to format as external.
Iām trying to estimate. Out of the hundreds of thousands of FP2/3/4 users I may have seen 100 people who have a problem with an SD card formatted as internal, how many people format as internal is obscure.
I had this frustration some time ago when my phone died due to a factory defect. The data on the card wasnāt recoverable. Luckily, I only lost a month of data as well since I also had a backup. Itās rare to see people who do it regularly, many think of doing it only afte having lost one year of dataā¦
Indeed you are right. If you havenāt stumbled on it yet, please have a look at the sdcardguide.
Wellā¦ I canāt tell, I would believe itās due to a bug which blocks the whole internal storage from working properly, more or less severly, and depending on the apps.
Hi, I have had a similar issue - phone ran out of storage, so I added an SD card and chose the option to move the data to the SD card. Now all my photos are gone, I canāt take new pictures and I canāt download any pictures. Plus some of my apps are buggy. We tried photo recovery apps, a computer shop and I emailed Fairphone but they just pointed me here and advised backing up and a factory reset. I assume the photos are lost, has anyone got any advice? THanks, R
Can you now not move them back as in. Removing the SD via the inbuilt option?
or
With the phone off
Remove the SD card and insert in a PC
Read the SD card memory
If you can read it then is there a difference between the recorded size, not the advertised and the free memory: Indicating that the images or something has taken up space
If the usage is unreadable then you did format it as internal
You may notice that Android created a lot of folders on the SD card, check them individually.
if you can copy the whole saved files, readable or not then do that as a backup.
Once you have a backup try to restore via any inbuilt SD options, even if that means reformatting, it may provide an option to move the images.
Before you try moving them back, you will need space on the internal memory, so check how much you have.
Clear the storage and cache of every app ~ time consuming ~ well ten minutes.
Hi thank you, the SD card is not readable by external devices, does this mean I have formatted it as internal? Thank you for your suggestions, we will try them and see if we can recover anything this way.
Hi, thank you again. The SD card is readable and has visible folders (most of which are empty) and there are some photos on there but a fraction of what I had. It doesnāt have an eject option though.
B is trying to help me, but doesnāt understand what you mean when you say about backing up and reformatting the SD card - how would you do this? The SD card isnāt visible when plugged into a computer.
We have contacted a data recovery service to try and get some of the photos back R
Itās functioning as an SD card (I think) but my phone is still not able to take photos or send and receive them in WhatsApp. I will reformat it but I first want to try and get the photos off it, via a data recovery service (if at all possible)
Also here the same annoying thing:
More space needed for holiday pictures. Inserted a brand new samsung 32GB sd-card. Hit the default āincrease internal storageā. All photos, videos, docs etc disappeared. Camera wasnāt able to store its freshly made picures too. Most of the apps ran into trouble too.
Some people might be happy I lost some very usefull future wedding-party-material thoā¦
To make the phone work again I had to do a full reset.
Reading the above made me curious if anyone had ever been able to recover the lost data?
My recommendation-slider for Fairphone goes a couple of clicks to the ānotā-direction. Again.
The human default is to consume without considering the consequnces, hopefully you will be more careful about the consequences of your actions.
As the eco freaks say, thereās only one planet, screw it and you screw yourself, thereās no way back so donāt worry and just start a again with more wisdom.
Hope you cope with the what you have unintentionally
Lots of lots, best wishes and remember the sun will shine tomorrow.
R