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theo1231231

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Hello, I dont usually post things to forums for help for my phone, because I can usually find the problem in a form that has usually been answered already. However, since this is quite a recent thing, I signed up to this just to post my problem.
Okay, so I finally got the jellybean update last night after 5 months of patiently waiting for it to be available in my country and carier, so I was really exited when it was updating, and when it was done I was loving it and all the awesome features it promised.
However, I didn't know that samsung had discontinued the smemo app in this update, in which I had kept all my college notes and doodles and pretty much all my important notes in my life.. I was quite shocked at this, but then it said that it was migrating all my smemo notes into snote, which i really liked, and began to understand why snote is way better in many ways, so i didnt really mind that.
However the program seems to crash after a few seconds of smemo migration, has anyone else experienced this? It imports a file or 2, then crashes and says 'smemo has stopped working'.
I have allot of notes, so the first thing I did was restart my phone, did not work.
I then connected my phone to my mac, and tried to copy and paste the files from smemo to snote, didnt work.
I then cleared the catche of snote, also didnt work.
I also tried to find an app that maybe I could open the notes on my mac, then import them to google notes, then into snote from my phone. I couldnt find one, at least not one that I could sync with google notes...
somebody please help me here.. I have over a years worth of college notes on that thing.. and lots and lots of doodles and drawings that I would like back on my phone..
 
Sounds like this is a common issue.

Using the app "android file manager" I found files in /storage/scard0/.SMemo_Migration that look like logs (the files are ResultIds.txt and SuccessIds.txt)

I guess the . makes the directory hidden to the standard "my files" app.

Success IDs contains a sequential list of numbers, comma delimited - I am assuming these were the IDs of the memos that successfully migrated.
Here's an example
2,3,4,5,7,42,43,50,57,63,64,65,62,67,71,72,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,75,88,89,90,91,87,95,98,101,100,104,

Result IDs contains a list of numbers each followed by the number 7 in square brackets
eg
11[7]17[7]18[7]21[7]22[7]25[7]29[7]30[7]31[7]37[7]102[7]140[7]149
As the numbers do not overlap the ones in success IDs I figure these are the memos that did not migrate (yes I forwarded the files to my PC and analysed the content). Possibly the 7 is an error code???:confused:

Anyone know where the s memo files are kept?
 
I'm in the same boat although I didn't really have anything really important. More sentimental stuff and things I've jotted down like band names, girls phone numbers, car reg numbers, you know, just general stuff and as a hoarder, I'd like to have over a years worth of memories back if possible :D
I know it's easy with hindsight to talk about back ups and the like but It wasn't exactly publicised very well was it.
I can't remember seeing anywhere that users would lose their S Memos if they upgraded to JB
 
I did a backup, and can cope with the lost memos.
My problem is that every time I go into S Note a popup appears saying S Memo migration is starting. If I accept, it runs for a while then says migration failed. I have given up accepting but I would like a way to stop it prompting to migrate.

Does anyone know where the S Memo files are kept? can I just delete them to stop the pesky prompt?
 
I backed up my files through Kies. One of the areas was the Smemo. Now when you upgrade and restore it says Smemo can not be restored. I guess it doesn't jive with the Snote. Why the %$#@! don't they tell you that in advance. I would have saved them on my computer. I guess all is lost now.
I wonder if I do the emergency firmware recovery back to old status if I would get my Smemos back?
 
Dog reeler, if you're still looking for your SMemos somebody has posted how they recovered theirs in the last coupl of days.
 
Doh! Just catching up after a couple of days away. Posted here and went to see who had posted the fix and it was......dogcreeker! As my son would say '"Fail!"
 
Go To App Manager > All > smemo
then clear data

This will stop any further Smemo migrations in snote.

The smemo data can be copied using google docs or evernote.
The smemo data folder will be in all files depending on the default data path.
 
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