lucasbroderick Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 So I followed the guide on an android forum for using Recuva to recover lost data from the internal memory of my Samsung Galaxy S3. Everything worked out great, and I now have a load of recovered data in a folder on my desktop.My goal here is to recover some text messages from August of 2013. Some of the pictures that I saw on there are from before then, so I'm hoping there's a chance it's not overwritten.My problem:I have a ton of files on here that have weird extensions, I can't open them, and I'm not really even sure what to look for to get to these text messages, or get them into a readable format. Any help here is appreciated! I sifted through, deleted all the old picture files. I'm left with some extensions like this: [see attachment 1] Inside of the .zip files is this: [see attachment 2] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted January 26, 2014 Moderators Share Posted January 26, 2014 I looks like you wholesale recovered everything which would include everything besides storage/emulated (the non-rooted user accessible "phone" drive These contents seem to include a number of file and file-fragments from an android system (typified by the file acebook as a pop file likely to be part of the facebook account sync) ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucasbroderick Posted January 26, 2014 Author Share Posted January 26, 2014 I looks like you wholesale recovered everything which would include everything besides storage/emulated (the non-rooted user accessible "phone" drive These contents seem to include a number of file and file-fragments from an android system (typified by the file acebook as a pop file likely to be part of the facebook account sync) Any idea or clues on if these files are accessible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted January 26, 2014 Moderators Share Posted January 26, 2014 Those aren't the files you were looking for but the ones you want should be in there somewhere. Can you link us to the XDA thread so I can look into it a little more. ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucasbroderick Posted January 27, 2014 Author Share Posted January 27, 2014 Those aren't the files you were looking for but the ones you want should be in there somewhere. Can you link us to the XDA thread so I can look into it a little more. Sure. This is the thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705 Modified slightly to work with the Samsung Galaxy S3 as per this video: Some of the modifications, which from what you're saying might be the issue, was that they recovered data from mmcblk0p12. That only works for the Nexus. For my Galaxy S3, it's mmcblk0p15. I saw some people posting errors and that recovering from mmcblk0 works. So I recovered from mmcblk0. Maybe I should try again from mmcblk0p15? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceGarden Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I have the same problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ritamargaetcampbell Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 We often meet these awkward accidents in our daily lives. Mistakenly deleted important text messages that including meeting spot, dating time, etc. or sometime, Phone dropped down with all contact numbers missing. If you have saved the information on your mobile phone SD card, you are lucky, you can get them back for SD card doesn’t erase a file immediately once you deleted it. It just make vacant for subsequent file. Unless the space is overwritten by new data, your old deleted files like text message, contact number, etc. are still there and can be retrieved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Nergal Posted October 13, 2015 Moderators Share Posted October 13, 2015 Threadcromancy ended ADVICE FOR USING CCleaner'S REGISTRY INTEGRITY SECTION DON'T JUST CLEAN EVERYTHING THAT'S CHECKED OFF. Do your Registry Cleaning in small bits (at the very least Check-mark by Check-mark) ALWAYS BACKUP THE ENTRY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL BREAK IF YOU DON'T. Support at https://support.ccleaner.com/s/?language=en_US Pro users file a PRIORITY SUPPORT via email support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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