[Q] I lost all my internal storage data?

[LoizosAristides]

Hello,

Yesterday I was trying to install a custom rom on my Xperia SP. Long story short the ROMS I tried were working fine but the screen was flickering cause of the kernel. So I tried switching back to the stock ftf and kernel (12.1.A.1.207). It all worked fine, until I realised that every picture/music/app data and in general, every single file I had on the internal storage was gone! It's as if I had just bought the phone, with only a few folders on the internal storage as it showed on ES File Explorer...

What's weird is that the external sd card is fine. Everything I had from the previous phone is still there.

I have installed a ton of ROMS on my previous phone, but nothing like this had happened. So I thought I didn't have to do a backup... Any thoughts what could've gone wrong? Was the internal storage formatted somehow? Please... I lost all my pictures with my friends/family

Thanks in advance...

 

[noahvt]

Hello,

Yesterday I was trying to install a custom rom on my Xperia SP. Long story short the ROMS I tried were working fine but the screen was flickering cause of the kernel. So I tried switching back to the stock ftf and kernel (12.1.A.1.207). It all worked fine, until I realised that every picture/music/app data and in general, every single file I had on the internal storage was gone! It's as if I had just bought the phone, with only a few folders on the internal storage as it showed on ES File Explorer...

What's weird is that the external sd card is fine. Everything I had from the previous phone is still there.

I have installed a ton of ROMS on my previous phone, but nothing like this had happened. So I thought I didn't have to do a backup... Any thoughts what could've gone wrong? Was the internal storage formatted somehow? Please... I lost all my pictures with my friends/family

Thanks in advance...

You flashed the ftf in flashtool? There's an option in flashtool to skip data wipe, if you don't check it it will format the internal storage

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[LoizosAristides]

You flashed the ftf in flashtool? There's an option in flashtool to skip data wipe, if you don't check it it will format the internal storage

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Wow really? I've flashed an ftf yeah, but I wanted to switch from the flickering screen of cyanogenmod to a stock ftf file.

Anyway, I flashed a lot of ftfs on my old Xperia Tipo in the past, and I was always ticking "wipe data". But all it was doing was a factory reset...not formatting my storage...

Do you know a possible recovery program? Because I'm trying to find one right now

 

[Gamm86]

Do you know a possible recovery program? Because I'm trying to find one right now

Won't work, you lost all of your data.

 

[KubixSVK]

U will backup with PC

 

[Gamm86]

U will backup with PC

Your post doesn't make any sense...

 

[LoizosAristides]

Your post doesn't make any sense...

Well yeah

Anyway...I decided to move on. After searching for a while, I discovered that you can retrieve lost files, but only those which were on the external sd card, which was fine for me. SO IF ANYONE ELSE LOST HIS/HER DATA ON THE INTERNAL STORAGE, DON'T EVEN BOTHER WITH RECOVERY PROGRAMS, THEY ONLY WORK FOR THE SD CARD. TRUST ME, I TRIED ALMOST EACH ONE OF THEM.

I downloaded all the songs/games I had before.., but I cared about my pictures videos much more than my game's progress
I flashed the good old 12.1.A.1.205 ftf and it works just fine...

It's a shame you can't install custom roms in this phone without having the screen flickering all the time when u flash a custom kernel...

Thanks for the help guys