For those of you with ADHD here is my ultimate question: Is there ANY way for me to recover the rest of the information that I thought was gone forever?
I've been a quiet observer for some time now. Whenever I have a problem or question I come here and check, and someone has already had the problem and y'all (what do you expect? I live South of the Mason Dixon line) have already answered their question and fixed their problem. I've been looking for a fix to this one for a week and come up empty...
I have an unrooted Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 2 that I had been having power issues with for a couple of weeks. Using Waze and nothing else but the Bluetooth turned on to receive calls, driving to an important meeting with the phone plugged in and charging, phone goes black, pull over to the side of the road and power on 2% charge??? And a couple of other similar episodes.
Last week get home from work plug in the phone and it reboots itself, well not quite it, it hangs on the Samsung screen, so I left it alone for about 2 hours plugged in. Come back to it STILL on the Samsung screen. At this point I'm ready to throw it out the highest window. I pick it up and try to turn it on, I start mashing on buttons... One at a time, two at a time, all three at the same time. FINALLY after long last I see SOMETHING other than the Samsung screen so I set it down and walk away. The next time I pick it up, I am setting my language and signing into my google account (FML). Okay, I deserve it, I was pissed off and acting irresponsibly, so I suck it up and begin to accept that everything in the internal storage is GONE (saved text messages, 2 years of fuel logs, pictures hidden inside an application) so I go to the Google Play Store to start putting (my life back together) my apps back. After, I don't know maybe 10 applications update, I start getting errors that the applications can't be installed because there is no "space" available. So I check, and sure enough, Storage settings says:
Device Memory
Total device capacity: 16.00 GB
System memory: 4.87 GB
Used space: 1.63 GB
Cached data: 157 MB
Miscellaneous files: 9.00 GB
Available Space: 361 MB
SD card
Total space: 29.81 GB
Available space: 26.98 GB
Wait a minute 9.00 GB?!?!?! That is almost TWICE the size of System memory!!! WTH is all that? So I immediately stopped all the apps that were trying to install/update and haven't let them do it since. THEN I REALIZED, my custom wallpaper is still set. It doesn't exist on the SD card, and isn't in the "Gallery" or "Wallpapers", so if I change it to something else I won't be able to simply change it back, I'll have to go download it again and re-crop it, so that tells me that EVERYTHING isn't gone, a lot of it is in that 9.00 GB. Since the phone decided to hang on to the wallpaper. Is there ANY way for me to recover the rest of the information that I thought was gone forever?
I've been a quiet observer for some time now. Whenever I have a problem or question I come here and check, and someone has already had the problem and y'all (what do you expect? I live South of the Mason Dixon line) have already answered their question and fixed their problem. I've been looking for a fix to this one for a week and come up empty...
I have an unrooted Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 2 that I had been having power issues with for a couple of weeks. Using Waze and nothing else but the Bluetooth turned on to receive calls, driving to an important meeting with the phone plugged in and charging, phone goes black, pull over to the side of the road and power on 2% charge??? And a couple of other similar episodes.
Last week get home from work plug in the phone and it reboots itself, well not quite it, it hangs on the Samsung screen, so I left it alone for about 2 hours plugged in. Come back to it STILL on the Samsung screen. At this point I'm ready to throw it out the highest window. I pick it up and try to turn it on, I start mashing on buttons... One at a time, two at a time, all three at the same time. FINALLY after long last I see SOMETHING other than the Samsung screen so I set it down and walk away. The next time I pick it up, I am setting my language and signing into my google account (FML). Okay, I deserve it, I was pissed off and acting irresponsibly, so I suck it up and begin to accept that everything in the internal storage is GONE (saved text messages, 2 years of fuel logs, pictures hidden inside an application) so I go to the Google Play Store to start putting (my life back together) my apps back. After, I don't know maybe 10 applications update, I start getting errors that the applications can't be installed because there is no "space" available. So I check, and sure enough, Storage settings says:
Device Memory
Total device capacity: 16.00 GB
System memory: 4.87 GB
Used space: 1.63 GB
Cached data: 157 MB
Miscellaneous files: 9.00 GB
Available Space: 361 MB
SD card
Total space: 29.81 GB
Available space: 26.98 GB
Wait a minute 9.00 GB?!?!?! That is almost TWICE the size of System memory!!! WTH is all that? So I immediately stopped all the apps that were trying to install/update and haven't let them do it since. THEN I REALIZED, my custom wallpaper is still set. It doesn't exist on the SD card, and isn't in the "Gallery" or "Wallpapers", so if I change it to something else I won't be able to simply change it back, I'll have to go download it again and re-crop it, so that tells me that EVERYTHING isn't gone, a lot of it is in that 9.00 GB. Since the phone decided to hang on to the wallpaper. Is there ANY way for me to recover the rest of the information that I thought was gone forever?
