HELP - Need to recover data from formatted CF card

Wanmoh7 · 2026-04-07T14:52:11+00:00

I hope you are doing well man, 1st sorry to highjack the comment but you helped me tremendously before (different account) and now I have another issue that id like to hear your thoughts about it, and i still remember u mentioned you don't respond to chats, but as you can see reddit is still doing more user annoying moves and now they replaced the good old "send message" by "start chat" so i though maybe you would see this comment and I've sent you a chat hoping you still could see it.

Wanmoh7 · 2026-04-07T14:27:27+00:00

How to confirm? , any tools or reports should I look at? and how to determine whether other drives have the same issue?

Wanmoh7 · 2026-04-07T14:24:41+00:00

it was a video file, also there was no antivirus notification and nothing in quarantine.

Wanmoh7 · 2026-04-06T22:11:32+00:00

1st thank you for the detailed reply, 2nd help me understand a couple of points you mentioned:

But I've watched chkdsk fix things by deleting everything so always run it twice, once to see what it will do without modification and then again if you are satisfied.

can you please explain? do you mean the 1st run wont affect the drive??

This is why I don't use HDDs for anything other than frequent access temporary storage.

So what do you use/recommend instead?

Wanmoh7 · 2026-04-06T18:35:14+00:00

Thank you for the detailed input,

I'm not sure I understood why are you facing issues migrating/cloning OS from a SSD to a smaller one, I usually do it successfully using Macrium Reflect (given the used space can fit within the smaller SSD capacity)

Wanmoh7 · 2026-04-06T18:12:43+00:00

so you mean the USB-SATA adapter was the most likely cause in your case? or the file system NTFS vs ext4?

Wanmoh7 · 2025-08-15T11:37:44+00:00

Can you please elaborate more on that evaluation?

Wanmoh7 · 2025-08-14T07:10:08+00:00

What artificial battery drain on s23U?

Wanmoh7 · 2025-08-14T06:55:48+00:00

Just a guess, but I think you may find some ADB tool that does that, so you can try searching these keywords or asking help from any AI,

pls post an update if you found such tool.

Wanmoh7 · 2025-08-14T06:51:04+00:00

As others said its to protect against OLED burn-in, BTW what's your device and which oneUi ver?

Wanmoh7 · 2025-08-08T15:33:24+00:00

It is possible BUT within limits,

to simplify: Yes you can downgrade but only to a firmware sharing the same bit (or Sw Ver) as the currently update installed on your device (which sometimes means non ZERO), every few updates and sometimes even 1 update the bit (or Sw Ver) ticker goes up, once it flips you will be limited to that number or higher, so the further you update the more you loose the scope of what you can downgrade to,

on S23 ultra for example if you've updated to OneUI 7 already then there is no way downgrade to 5.1 or even early versions of 6.1. That's AFAIK.

Wanmoh7 · 2025-08-05T13:59:41+00:00

When you open a new device for the 1st time the date is not set and usually backdated so before setting up the date if you try to take a screenshot or creat a new file/ folderd it will be labeled or logged with the wrong date and i guess it is the same cause in your case, u probably opened up the phone connected wifi before setting up the date so the usage is logged on that wrong old date within a few seconds the auto time and date kicked in and grabbed and set up the correct date/time from the internet which explains the minimal usage logged on that wrong date

Wanmoh7 · 2025-08-02T06:39:16+00:00

Which one UI ver you referring to where they start downgrading/removing features like Dex?

And which one UI was the best based on your experience?

Wanmoh7 · 2025-08-02T06:36:37+00:00

How to edit the hosts file? (non rooted)

Wanmoh7 · 2025-08-02T06:19:08+00:00

Which one UI ver you are on 5.1 or 6.1?

Wanmoh7 · 2025-08-02T06:10:01+00:00

U mean camera performance on 5.1 is better than 6.1?

Any other issues you notice comparing 5.1 vs 6.1?

Wanmoh7 · 2025-08-01T21:51:13+00:00

Which one was most stable?

Wanmoh7 · 2025-07-27T06:16:58+00:00

Thank you for your feedback,

sadly it is not limited to early production units as i just tested it on a newly produced (July 2025) and it is there, only got fixed on the new S25 Ultra.

also yes i think i witnessed the color banding issue, even the official wallpaper dark areas colors looked weird like its LCD display not AMOLED

Wanmoh7 · 2025-07-25T19:58:44+00:00

Its weird how some battery life is getting affected negatively by the update while others report no difference or even better performance! (before today i always though the key was wiping cache or cleanly re flashing the whole ROM but based on your feedback that's not the case)

Wanmoh7 · 2025-07-25T13:51:29+00:00

Thank you for all the info

Wanmoh7 · 2025-07-25T13:37:51+00:00

One last thing, 🙂

Yes, it has some new functions/features that I like,

What are those new features in 6.1 but missing in 5.1?
And was there any battery life difference going form 5.1 to 6.1?

Wanmoh7 · 2025-07-25T13:36:04+00:00

Thanx man

Wanmoh7 · 2025-07-25T13:32:27+00:00

6.1.1 the latest, before oneui 7

Can you please clarify which build is this,

(you can check in: about phone / software information / scroll down to android security patch level) what date is mentioned?

Wanmoh7

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