What's gone is gone, but...

**tedbeari39** · 03-09-2012, 01:03 AM

I had an issue with my Rezound a few weeks ago. After changing the battery out (back to the stock battery, I had been using one I ordered online as a "spare" while charging the other), my phone acted like a windows-gone-bad item and kept rebooting over and over.
It would hesitate if I quickly tried to "do" something (anything!) before shutting down again and after about 8 reboots it finally stopped rebooting.
However, I had no network. (No phone service, no data service, though everything else about the phone seemed normal) I called Verizon and after getting to second level tech support, she finally had me do a factory reset. I didn't use an app or menu for this, I had to do some contortionist moves for button sequence pressing to get it done.
This did ultimately fix the phone (and it hasn't happened again), but after the phone was up and running, I discovered about 900 pictures were missing from my SD card!

Has anyone every heard of a reset doing this or know why it may have done this?? I was able to replace a lot of them via my computer, but I know I lost quite a few too. The pictures I had taken with the rezound camera were still there, but any I had taken previously on different phone(s) and transferred to this one were gone.
(Hey, I'm an otr truck driver, I get to see lots of kewl places! I like to take pictures!)

PS: I read a post on here by someone saying they had ordered spare batteries and a charger online, and that someone told her the batteries were not exactly the same and deleted the contents of her SD card. It seemed like hogwash to me, but hmmmmm... could it be?? Why would a battery have anything to do with an SD card? (Yet everything on these batteries ARE the same and I've never had a problem since)

**MrSmith317** · 03-09-2012, 05:00 AM

It could very well have been the rebooting that gnashed up your memory. The bootlooping issue has been well covered on the forums here as well as XDA. I'm curious though, when you had no signal, was the back cover to your phone on or off? The antennas are in the back cover, so you typically get no signal with the back off.

**Dovahkiin** · 03-09-2012, 06:37 AM

I was in a situation where a factory reset annihilated all of my pictures. I did some research (heavy Googling) and came across this;

It helped me get back about 90% of what I was missing. You seemed to have gotten most of them back, but this might help you get the others.

**rootbrain** · 03-09-2012, 11:35 AM

I use Undelete, seems to work better for me.

**mtech#WN** · 04-29-2012, 11:23 AM

I'm not rooted and don't want to go that route...is there an app to recover lost photos from my SD card without being rooted? I think when I was syncing my phonebook to my new free BMW, the car ate about half of my pictures.

**idiotekniques** · 04-29-2012, 10:46 PM

my phone did that a few weeks ago. the endless reboot thing. it was not the usual going into WCDMA mode as that has happened before and can be fixed by taking off the back panel and selecting CDMA again. i had to factory reset. since then the phone has been running faster than ever before but, it's definitely not a good thing.

**humpagardengnome** · 04-29-2012, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by idiotekniques

my phone did that a few weeks ago. the endless reboot thing. it was not the usual going into WCDMA mode as that has happened before and can be fixed by taking off the back panel and selecting CDMA again. i had to factory reset. since then the phone has been running faster than ever before but, it's definitely not a good thing.

Stock or rooted?

**kennyidaho** · 04-30-2012, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by michelletech

I'm not rooted and don't want to go that route...is there an app to recover lost photos from my SD card without being rooted? I think when I was syncing my phonebook to my new free BMW, the car ate about half of my pictures.

Try something like ? Best bet will be to remove the card from your phone and connect it to your computer.