Recent content by George Stein

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    OTA jellybean update ate my SDcard.

    I gave up, Jellybean from AT&T seems locked down pretty tight. The time spent trying to gain access isn't really worth it. Not sure why they would go to that effort to restrict access to internal storage since none of their bloatware necessarily uses it. Guess we can't be trusted with our own...
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    OTA jellybean update ate my SDcard.

    /sdcard (/sdcard0) doesn't appear to have been formatted when I did the factory reset on my wife's phone, so I may be wrong about my problem being the result of some sort of factory reset. My battery was at about 20% that night and was totally dead in the morning, so I suspect it ran out of...
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    OTA jellybean update ate my SDcard.

    The file transfer change is the problem. Previously, the phone appeared as a mounted FAT file system, it was possible to simply look at the mount table, then use the linux command "dd if="phone file system device" of="image file", mount the image file then run file recovery software. My...
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    OTA jellybean update ate my SDcard.

    Unfortunately, I hadn't plugged the phone in to make a backup yet. My wife's phone received the same JB update. It was stone dead for about a day afterward, then suddenly sprang to life but was really flaky, so I did a factory reset on it. The reset only took about 10 or 15 seconds to...
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    OTA jellybean update ate my SDcard.

    Wonder if maybe someone here has any ideas. The good folks at AT&T did an OTA update to my HTC One X to Jellybean (went to bed, it was ICS, woke up, it's JB), and wiped the SDcard in the process. It appears to have been factory reset. Thought I had OTA updates turned off, grrrr. Anyhow...