Thread: Recovering images from SD card

Originally Posted by p38arover

That didn't work as it asked for the passkey and I couldn't remember what it was. We haven't connected the phone to the laptop via Bluetooth since January.

Ron

The passkey is usually a new passkey created each time you wish to pair two devices.
When you initiate the bluetooth and one device will ask for a passkey, just enter a four digit number (any number) and it will then send this to the second device as a security code. Enter the same four digit number into the second device and the two should then pair up.
This is just to stop anyone in bluetooth range from accessing a device without authority.

As for the main problem of lost photo's, i'm sorry I can't offer any help unless the phone has its own memory as well as the SD card and the files are stored there.

Snap.

If the card had been for the PC (Or in a format the PC can read) I'd have suggested a few programs. However, as that seems to have been the cause of your problems, it seems the phone and PC use different filing systems for the cards.

I'd get the phone talking ot the PC first, then use Windows explorer or the phone software to explore the phone and see if the photo's are someone esle.

With bluetooth, the key you get asked for is either one you entered on the other device, or the default is nearly always 0000.

What phone is it, and do you have it's software on the PC?

I cannot get the Nokia 6280 phone to talk to the PC. I've given up after having spent hours on it.

They see each other and they pair but the phone never connects even though the PC says it's connected.

I much prefer cable connections!

RE puttng the card into the PC, maybe that was the problem. My daughter put the XD card from my camera into her Mac and after that I couldn't access the card from the camera. I had to reformat the card to make it usable.

The other SD card from the phone reads OK in the PC but she didn't take it to Vietnam.

Ron

Hi Ron, I assume you have loaded the soft ware for the phone onto your pc?

Sounds like you should find a mac to try the card in.

Cheers
Simon

there Are SD (and all the other type/breeds) card data recovery softwares out there but I hate to say it, I think your screwed....

the software is written to work on the IMB/MAC which assumes that your card was in an appropriate IBM/MAC format to start with. If its not it cant make any sense of it and Its bye bye data if you try to force a recovery.

the nokias have a couple of hidden "connectivity" menus that need to be set correctly for data transfer to take place over the bluetooth (files as opposed to those in ear and in car doodads).

Try using a PDA, I managed to drag the vids and pics off of an SD memory card using my old miodigi walker PDA/GPS for a bloke when neither his phone nor computer would acknowoldge the card.

I'll check with the Mac when my daughter comes home. Both her Macs are here (she bought a new one two weeks ago). I tried the card in my Ipaq - maybe that's what screwed it.

I've previously downloaded pics from this phone using this Bluetooth setup and laptop - in January.

It's a shame as my wife took hundreds of pics. My daughter took very few.

Software for the phone is installed on the PC.

Gawd, I hate mobile phones and computers.

Ron

if all else fails, i have a computer/phone here that i have had some success with in the past...