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Karl Rodeck

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Hi, I'm now desperate! Yesterday I deleted the miscellaneous storage file on my Samsung S3 and afterwards discovered that the entire content of my Fast notepad was gone!
I've tried several recovery apps (recuva, diskdigger) but none helped cause they say I need to root my phone. But the rooting apps like Towelroot dont work for the S3.

Does anyone know how I can recover my Fastnotepad content. Please.
 
"General purpose" rooting apps still only work on certain phones. Visit our S3 forum's root section and you'll find advice on how to root an S3.

However, rooting itself often wipes the phone, so rooting after data have been deleted can be counter-productive. So do read the procedure carefully to see whether that happens with the S3.

Also don't get your hopes up - if the data were in the /data/data area you are unlikely to be able to recover them even with root. What _exactly_ is this "miscellaneous storage file" you deleted?
 
I have exactly the same issue with my Sony Xperia E3. The internal memory reaches capacity on a daily basis, so I have to delete cache daily. Yesterday I think I accidentally deleted 'misc data' and now every picture and video I've received since I began using the phone has disappeared. Oddly, though, not photos I've taken with the phone's camera.
 
That's because the pictures you take are stored in one place, stuff you received in another (possibly even as app data rather than in a folder in the emulated "sdcard", depending on the app). So there's no reason why deleting one would delete the other.

So you used the Settings > Storage > Make more space option and just deleted the whole of "miscellaneous" without checking what that contained? That menu is a way of choosing stuff to delete if you need to make space, but it has no idea what is important.
 
Yes, I did. However, I didn't think anything important was stored, as the entire file was only a couple of MBs in size. Thus, I'm surprised that approximately one hundred photos were stored there.
 
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