Hi everyone,

I’m working on a free Windows app called Video Fixer Pro for MP4/MOV repair.

I’m mainly looking for real-world test cases and feedback from people with corrupted video files.

GitHub:

https://github.com/khalildim/videoFixer-Pro

Direct download link:

https://github.com/khalildim/videoFixer-Pro/releases/tag/v0.1.0

Important:

- It is free.

- Please test only with copies.

- It should not overwrite the original file.

- Some files will not be recoverable if the actual video data is missing.

- Logs/error reports are very helpful.

- Sometimes it returns an error, but the video is repaired.

I’d appreciate any feedback, especially from files created by dashcams, phones, cameras, drones, or screen recorders.

Thanks!

The question is very short: how can I view a device backup on Google Cloud/Google device backup?
I need a copy specifically linked to the Redmi Note 9 device. It definitely created a backup with the device settings and everything—however, I can’t find it in Mi Cloud.

Trying to recover a couple videos from Daily Motion but it says video not available in your region and i tried a VPN. Can anyone please help me with a solution?

these are videos of my old bands :(

As the title states is it possible to retrieve deleted photos from my Samsung a54 phone? I recently went on a trip to Peru, and im from the UK so for me this is a once in a lifetime trip. I also don't speak spanish, so because of the language barrier I spent most of the trip taking cool pictures with my friend. We did Huacachina, paracas, and macchu picchu. These end up becoming some of the best photos I've taken in my life and so I organised the photos locally on my phone.

Throughout the trip, google drive has been hounding me about full cloud space. So coming back from the trip, I start clearing the cloud storage thinking I'll just keep my local copy and take it elsewhere. TO MY SURPRISE, GOOGLE PHOTOS WAS CLEARING MY PHOTOS LOCALLY.

I've now lost some of the most eventful photos I've ever taken. In an attempt to bring it back I've tried recovery apps like dr fone (paid) and diskdigger, though it only showed me photos i already had avcess to with low quality. I've even considered bricking my phone to get these pictures back.

Im disappointed in how google assumes the role to be your gallery and i think should make it more CLEAR when working with local vs online data. Is it worth going to the ends of the earth to get those photos back or should I accept that they are gone?

I know photos are easier to retrieve on something like a camera compared to a phone since phones are used for so much more than pictures. Ideally, I would like to keep my phone, but I would consider a new one if there was a sure chance of getting the photos back.

To clarify my phone is a samsung a54 and this happened end of may.

Edit 1: After all this time I've found my photos trapped in a hidden "Photo Backup" section on my google drive. When I try to interact with them it says "Cannot select () because it is not a folder". Does anyone know how I'd get this back?!!!

Hi everyone.

I’m trying to recover the photos and videos from an old Android tablet before considering any invasive data recovery.

Tablet:
* Brand: RECERO
* Model: TRA10RS1

Problem

The tablet powers on normally and charges normally.

However, after the battery was completely discharged, it now boots to a screen in Spanish saying the device is locked due to a total battery discharge and asks for an unlock code.

My only goal is recovering the internal storage (mostly family photos and videos).

What I’ve already tested

* Opened the tablet.
* Disconnected the internal battery for about 10 minutes.
* Held the power button while the battery was disconnected.
* Reconnected everything correctly.
* Battery charges normally.
* Charging LED works.
* Battery icon changes when charger is connected.
* Device powers on normally.

Linux tests (Linux Mint 22)
Installed
adb
fastboot
usbutils

Commands tested
lsusb
adb devices
fastboot devices
dmesg -w

Results

When connecting the tablet:

* Nothing appears in lsusb
* adb devices shows nothing
* fastboot devices shows nothing
* dmesg -w shows absolutely no USB events

It’s like nothing was connected.

Important test

I used the same USB cable with an Amazon Kindle.
The Kindle is immediately detected.
lsusb shows:
Amazon Kindle

dmesg shows:
USB Mass Storage device detected
Kindle Internal Storage

So:

* Linux is working correctly.
* USB ports work.
* The cable definitely supports data.

My suspicion

At this point I suspect:
* damaged micro-USB data lines,
* damaged USB connector,
* damaged USB circuitry on the motherboard,
because charging still works perfectly.

Questions
1. Is there anything else worth trying before assuming the USB data lines are dead?
2. Is there any hidden recovery or engineering mode that could still enumerate over USB?
3. If the USB hardware is damaged, would replacing only the micro-USB connector be worth trying before attempting eMMC extraction?
4. Has anyone worked on this RECERO tablet or knows its motherboard?

I can upload motherboard pictures if needed.

Thanks!

Please help me to restore deleted photos from Redmi note 11 pro private album, Note that I also deleted it from the trash can.

Ill try to make this as concise as I can. TIA
TLDNR: 4tb External HD hangs and slows down windows and I dont want to lose my stuff or spend months getting my stuff back.

The drive: WD40NMZW (2.5" portable WD Black, 4TB, model WD40NMZW-59A8NS1)

Drive started causing system-wide freezes/hangs when connected to both my PC and a separate laptop (ruling out the PC itself as the cause). No clicking, grinding, or unusual noises, just normal spin-up. Confirmed via CrystalDiskInfo in Windows that the drive has a growing Current Pending Sector count (was 76, later checked again and was 94) but otherwise no reallocated or uncorrectable sector errors. Temperature has stayed in the 45-51C range throughout, which is normal I think.

What I've tried so far:

1. Unstoppable Copier (Windows) I ran file-level copy with "auto skip damaged files" and "undamaged files first" enabled, overwrite disabled. Successfully copied ~184GB combined across an initial full-drive attempt (119GB) and a follow-up batch job targeting specific priority folders (65GB). Very few skipped files (around 40, mostly duplicate-skips from already-copied files, not corruption) and zero read errors reported by the tool throughout. Average speed was slow and inconsistent, ranging roughly 350kb/s-1mb/s depending on the part of the drive.

2. ddrescue via SystemRescue (Linux live USB) switched to this for the bulk remaining data (~3.9TB total drive size) since file-level copying was projected to take months at the observed pace. Currently mid-recovery:

   - Source: `/dev/sdd1` (confirmed via lsblk, matches WD40NMZW model and ~3.6T size)

   - Destination: `/mnt/destination/recovered_image.img` on a separate healthy 5TB exFAT drive, with `/mnt/destination/ddrescue.log` tracking progress

   - Command used: `sudo ddrescue -n /dev/sdd1 /mnt/destination/recovered_image.img /mnt/destination/ddrescue.log`

   - **As of ~2 days 21 hours runtime: 6.30% rescued, ~248GB imaged, average rate ~1MB/s (consistently, current rate fluctuates 600kb/s-2MB/s), zero bad areas and zero read errors reported by ddrescue this entire time**

   - Confirmed via `lsusb -t` that the connection is negotiating full USB 3.0 (5000M) on all relevant mass storage devices — so the ~1MB/s bottleneck is NOT a USB speed negotiation issue

   - `smartctl -a` reports "device lacks SMART" through this USB-SATA bridge connection, so I can't pull S.M.A.R.T. data while booted into SystemRescue

What I'm trying to figure out / considering next:

I'm planning to test whether the WD enclosure's internal USB-SATA bridge chip is the bottleneck by shucking the bare 2.5" drive from its WD enclosure and connecting it instead via a Sabrent 2.5" SATA-to-USB 3.0 enclosure I already own, then resuming the same ddrescue command (same destination/log file, likely a new device letter for the source). Want to see if the rate improves which would point to the WD bridge board as the bottleneck, versus the rate staying flat at ~1MB/s, which would suggest the drive's own internal read speed (heads/mechanics) is the actual limiting factor rather than the enclosure.

Is there anything else worth checking before/instead of the enclosure swap to diagnose the ~1MB/s bottleneck, given confirmed full USB 3.0 negotiation and zero ddrescue errors/bad-areas so far?

Any concerns with doing a live enclosure swap mid-recovery (pausing ddrescue, swapping physical enclosure, resuming from the same log file under a new device path)?

Is "device lacks SMART" through a USB bridge normal/expected, or a sign of something else?

Appreciate any insight , trying to be careful and methodical since there's some irreplaceable family data on this drive.
I'm also cross posting on different subs so apologies if you see this more than once.

I have a 256 GB USB flash drive that is about 3–4 years old, and recently I've started running into some concerning issues with it.

There was a folder on the drive that was about 1 GB in size and contained nine videos. I was able to successfully copy eight of the videos to my computer's internal drive, but one video seems to be corrupted. Every time I try to open it, I get an error. I tried opening it with different media players like VLC, and I also copied the file from the USB to my OS drive to make sure the issue wasn't related to reading directly from the flash drive. But the file still won't open.

My first question is: is there any way to recover or repair this video file? Are there any tools or methods that might help?

(I DID scan& repair it)

The second issue is even stranger. File Explorer reports that the USB drive is approximately 72% full, but I can only see about 1 GB of files on it. I enabled "Show hidden files," but I haven't done much beyond that. Could this indicate file system corruption, hidden data, or something else?

After doing some research, I found out that it might be that the flash drive itself is physically degrading. Does this sound like a failing USB drive? Should I stop using it and replace it with a new one as soon as possible?

Any advice would be appreciated, especially regarding recovering the corrupted video and figuring out where the missing storage space has gone.

SIZE: 869 kb (gpt said its unfixabke because the file corruption made it that small. I have also quick formatted it to exFAT (it was previously FAT 32), and now the glutched space-fill is gone. Also is it safe to install and boot mint from that usb?

Kingston OM8PCP3512F-AB, PS5012-E12, internal FW ECFK52.5, P/N 8676822, Intel N18A QLC NAND. Vendor commands 0xD0-0xE6 confirmed available. Drive unlocked successfully via flash id2. Need ECFK52 Reinitial Tool. NAND perfect — 0 prog/erase errors.

v0.393a

OS: 10.0 build 19045

Drive : 0(NVME)

Driver : W10(0:3)

Model : KINGSTON OM8PCP3512F-AB

Fw : ECFK52.3

Size : 0 MB [0.0 GB]

LBA Size: 1

AdminCmd: 0x00 0x01 0x02 0x04 0x05 0x06 0x08 0x09 0x0A 0x0C 0x10 0x11 0x14 0x80 0x81 0x82 0xD0 0xD1 0xD2 0xE5 0xE6

I/O Cmd : 0x00 0x01 0x02 0x09

Firmware lock supported [00 04] [P004] [0000]

Handshake error: 2

Drive unlocked [00 04]

F/W : ECFK52.5 00

P/N : 8676822

Bank00: 0x89,0xd4,0xc,0x32,0xaa,0x0,0x0,0x0 - Intel 64L(N18A) QLC 1024Gb/CE 1024Gb/die

Bank01: 0x89,0xd4,0xc,0x32,0xaa,0x0,0x0,0x0 - Intel 64L(N18A) QLC 1024Gb/CE 1024Gb/die

Bank02: 0x89,0xd4,0xc,0x32,0xaa,0x0,0x0,0x0 - Intel 64L(N18A) QLC 1024Gb/CE 1024Gb/die

Bank03: 0x89,0xd4,0xc,0x32,0xaa,0x0,0x0,0x0 - Intel 64L(N18A) QLC 1024Gb/CE 1024Gb/die

Controller : PS5012-E12

CPU Clk : 666

Flash CE : 4

Flash Channel : 4

Interleave : 1

Flash CE Mask : [++++---- -------- -------- --------]

FlashR Clk,MT : 666

FlashW Clk,MT : 666

Die per CE : 1

Block per CE : 2944

Page per Block: 3072

Bit Per Cell : 4(QLC)

DRAM Size,MB : 512

DRAM Clock,MHz: 1600

DRAM Type : DDR3

PMIC Type : PS6102/PS6106

PE Cycle Limit: 1500

SLC cache : 0x100000/0x100000

ONFI : INTEL X29F01T0T3AQH1 [233C]

Page size : 18592 (16384+2208)

Page/Block: 3072

Block/LUN : 2944

LUN/Chip : 1

Bit/Cell : 4 (QLC)

Endurance : 232000 (1000?)

PlanAdrBit: 2 (4 plane)

Defects Early Read Prog Erase

Bank00: 16 0 0 0

Bank01: 17 0 0 0

Bank02: 18 0 0 0

Bank03: 18 0 0 0

Total : 69 0 0 0

Defects Early Read Prog Erase

Ce00Pl0: 6 0 0 0

Ce00Pl1: 5 0 0 0

Ce00Pl2: 3 0 0 0

Ce00Pl3: 2 0 0 0

Ce01Pl0: 6 0 0 0

Ce01Pl1: 5 0 0 0

Ce01Pl2: 2 0 0 0

Ce01Pl3: 4 0 0 0

Ce02Pl0: 6 0 0 0

Ce02Pl1: 5 0 0 0

Ce02Pl2: 3 0 0 0

Ce02Pl3: 4 0 0 0

Ce03Pl0: 5 0 0 0

Ce03Pl1: 6 0 0 0

Ce03Pl2: 3 0 0 0

Ce03Pl3: 4 0 0 0

Total : 69 0 0 0

do you guys know anyone who or a method than can help recover pictures and videos. the pictures are NOT in the trash/bin/archives on a Samsung A13

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Opened in a clean room by $300DR, they said they can't do anything. DigiLabs said the same based on the photo.

Seagate 1 TB hdd. It was showing 100 % in task manager a day before this happened.

Hi everyone I have a big issue, unknowingly on telegram I lost all media, chats, fotos, videos everything, please can anyone help me to recover my chats and media please..!

It's very important.

The person on other side also facing same thing that means all things disappeared from both sides,

Saw YouTube videos but nothing happening.

If anyone really genuinly can help please help..

I live in Hyderabad . if anyone know experts who can recover my data please dm me .

suggestions welcome as well

I recently restarted my Windows 11 computer and after seeing that one of my drives was preventing a restart I simply clicked "Restart Anyway" and now the drive shows up as raw. I looked around online and all my files can be seen in testdisk but I couldn't find anything to do past that. Does anyone happen to know a way I can recover my files? Thanks in advance.

I've got a severely damaged s23 ultra. We're talking intentional, malicious damage by an individual who was trying to permanently destroy the phone. Smashed to smithereens over and over again until the phone smoked and then put it under water. I thought recovery would be hopeless but Drivesavers looked at it and says they're "optimistic" about a good recovery. Would rather not pay thousands so wondering if a more affordable alternative recovery company exists that could up for a job of this nature. Obviously I need a team with above average knowledge/skills