seems like i get tech problems one after the other…
ok so how do i enable mass storage on my samsung s4 (android version 4.2.2)?
when connected to windows (for some reason mac wont show up the device) it only shows up as a portable device (has no drive letter assigned to it).
i have enabled usb debugging on phone but no luck.
my phone only supports mtp and ptp…but no mass storage.
i read that mass storage has been stopped thats why it cant be seen.
after some research i found there are ways but for that phone needs to be rooted (risk of phone not working so i did not root my phone).
reason for all this is cause i accidentally deleted pictures on phone (internal storage)…now to recover those i installed some apps and they need to see the drive letter for the device to access it on the app.
No, there is no way to mount the internal storage on non-rooted android phone if the manufacture doesnt supports it. Even if you could mount, there isnt much chance to recover those photos as they might have already overwritten with new data. Setup automatic back on DropBox or Google+/GDrive and move on. If you really want to try, you need to make an image of the SdCard partition and mount it on your computer and run recovery on that, but for that you need to have rooted phone with third party recovery an all. Yes the internal user data is mounted as SdCard and your actual SD Card is mounted as ExtSDCard or External SD Card. On a computer (your smartphone is a real computer) the files are never actually deleted when you press those delete buttons, only that area of memory marked as free space and the file allocation table entries are deleted. But when you create new files (take new photo, or open apps that caches files) those spaces are overwritten with new data.
No, there is no way to mount the internal storage on non-rooted android phone if the manufacture doesnt supports it. Even if you could mount, there isnt much chance to recover those photos as they might have already overwritten with new data. Setup automatic back on DropBox or Google+/GDrive and move on. If you really want to try, you need to make an image of the SdCard partition and mount it on your computer and run recovery on that, but for that you need to have rooted phone with third party recovery an all. Yes the internal user data is mounted as SdCard and your actual SD Card is mounted as ExtSDCard or External SD Card. On a computer (your smartphone is a real computer) the files are never actually deleted when you press those delete buttons, only that area of memory marked as free space and the file allocation table entries are deleted. But when you create new files (take new photo, or open apps that caches files) those spaces are overwritten with new data.
Oh ok :(.....i thought photo data is over written with when u take new photos only...and for that reason when i accidently deleted my photo folder i only took few new photos thinking that i might over write them. I wish i had an sd card in my phone. :(
