Phone Wiped SD Card on Reboot

JohnnyOnTheSpot · #1 (**permalink**) 03-23-2012, 04:24 PM

So I have a fun problem. I rebooted my phone because my clock screwed up, turned it back on and all of my files were erased, including programs, music and all of my pictures. All of the folders were still there on the root, but it deleted everything, including my Titanium Backup backups, which is just great.

Does anyone know what caused this? Does anyone know a free program where I can access the deleted files and try to salvage my pictures? I'm really upset, and pretty furious. Thanks.

**Karl** · #2 (**permalink**) 03-23-2012, 04:51 PM

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dont have a epic so cant till you whats the cause or if these is a known issue

JohnnyOnTheSpot · #3 (**permalink**) 03-23-2012, 05:06 PM

Thanks, tried two of those, found everything BUT the pictures. Ridiculous. Appreciate the help though...super pissed about this.

**Karl** · #4 (**permalink**) 03-23-2012, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by JohnnyOnTheSpot

Thanks, tried two of those, found everything BUT the pictures. Ridiculous. Appreciate the help though...super pissed about this.

i would try them all

**gTen** · #5 (**permalink**) 03-23-2012, 06:45 PM

If you want a good one for pictures look for "convar smart recovery"

And no matter what do not write to the sd card.

Also can you clarify, did it stop seeing the card? oe jut the card turned blank? its the 16gb samsung card right?

WanderingMinstrel · #6 (**permalink**) 03-23-2012, 07:17 PM

It's a bummer. I don't have any suggestions for a fix but that used to happen to me fairly frequently on my Touch Pro. It has not happened on my Epic (knocking on wood).

What I've tried to do regularly is to copy my SD card to my PC's backup hard drive. I don't do it regularly enough (lol) but at least I'm always within a couple of months of full 32G SD recovery if I ever need it.

JohnnyOnTheSpot · #7 (**permalink**) 03-24-2012, 12:33 AM

Pandora seems to have found all of them, so weird that 3 others couldn't lol. gTen, it's plugged in my computer right now but I believe I was using a class 4 Sandisk 16GB, if I'm wrong I'll correct it later. The phone could read the card, it just wiped out the contents of every folder. Killed my apps, Titanium backups, pictures, and music. Not sure what other casualties I suffered as well. All of the folders remained, just not what was in them.

**gTen** · #8 (**permalink**) 03-24-2012, 12:59 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnnyOnTheSpot

Pandora seems to have found all of them, so weird that 3 others couldn't lol. gTen, it's plugged in my computer right now but I believe I was using a class 4 Sandisk 16GB, if I'm wrong I'll correct it later. The phone could read the card, it just wiped out the contents of every folder. Killed my apps, Titanium backups, pictures, and music. Not sure what other casualties I suffered as well. All of the folders remained, just not what was in them.

Where did you buy that sandisk card?

I know I had similar issues on my samsung 16gb card and my Droid Charge. But in my case it sometimes randomly just can't read the partition. I mean your case sounds like the index is getting corrupt though.

JohnnyOnTheSpot · #9 (**permalink**) 03-24-2012, 01:07 AM

I want to say Amazon buy I can't recall. I've had it for a few months.

Correction...Newegg. Just found the invoice, got it in August of last year, didn't use it until December.

Another weird aspect is that it reset the name of the drive as well. So weird.

Albert_Eines · #10 (**permalink**) 03-26-2012, 06:02 AM

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