Salvaged SD card after a crash into a lake (hardware error)

Pipeliner_USA · Jul 7, 2017

After letting it dry I gave it a go and all 3 mp4 files came up. Watched the first two but the damm file that has the video at the time of the incident won't play!! What gives ??? And my cache was full so I couldn't recover it via the App/iTunes either. Any thoughts?

Meta4 · Jul 7, 2017

Pipeliner_USA said:
After letting it dry I gave it a go and all 3 mp4 files came up. Watched the first two but the damm file that has the video at the time of the incident won't play!! What gives ??? And my cache was full so I couldn't recover it via the App/iTunes either. Any thoughts?

It won't play because the file hasn't been ended correctly.
If the Phantom was intact, you could put it in and power cycle to get it to close the file.

hokeecoyote · Jul 10, 2017

Meta4 said:
It won't play because the file hasn't been ended correctly.
If the Phantom was intact, you could put it in and power cycle to get it to close the file.

Lost My P3P in lake Memorial Day, still haven't recovered. Prop flew off. Flying P4P now, Locking props yay. Do you think anything salvageable, if found?

Meta4 · Jul 10, 2017

hokeecoyote said:
Lost My P3P in lake Memorial Day, still haven't recovered. Prop flew off. Flying P4P now, Locking props yay. Do you think anything salvageable, if found?

After a month under water corrosion will have done too much damage.
Props and SD card might be all that's useable.

Linux&OS/2 · Jul 11, 2017

Pipeliner_USA said:
After letting it dry I gave it a go and all 3 mp4 files came up. Watched the first two but the damm file that has the video at the time of the incident won't play!! What gives ??? And my cache was full so I couldn't recover it via the App/iTunes either. Any thoughts?

I recovered several SD-cards by putting them in a Linux system. Try to mount them under Linux.
Success. You could use the Knoppix Live Linux cd to boot your system without loosing your other system from the hard-disk.