Hello all, I did a search for this but nothing really helpful came up so perhaps someone here can give me some direction.
Yesterday, I noticed a suspiscious individual taking photos of a friends car. I then quickly followed him and recorded him on my stratosphere, asking him why he was taking pictures. He then went to attack me and I also recorded this. I noticed he had a visible id of some sort so I attempted to record this as well. He was able to smack the phone out of my hand (which caused the phone to fall and the battery to come out) and run off.
The video itself is on my phone under the name temp_video but I am unable to load this in any media player. I want to give this video to the police, can anyone give me an guidance on how to recover this file?
Are you on Verizon Wireless?
Have a look at http//
If your smart phone is on Verizon, the spec states your phone should have a 4GB microSD card (second to last entry at foot of page) and it may be the video is recorded on it?
Yes I do. I found the "temp_video" file on the sd card, at /sdcard/DCIM/Camera.
Maybe a little more information. The cretin slapped the phone out of my hand before I was able to end the recording (hence it was cutoff when the battery fell out upon hitting the ground), so I am guessing it didn't properly add the headers or something like that.
OK, that is fine. Some suggestions.
Assuming the "temp_video" has a file size and not '0 bytes' then take your mobile and the microSD card to the police, get them to make a backup and working copy and let them see if they can get anything using e.g. FLV player ( http//
Does the temp_video have a recognisable signature? If not, can you say (in hex) what the first few bytes are? (even better would be a hex dump of first 0x100 bytes)
This is the first 300 bytes
0000001866747970336770340000030033677034336770360000000877696465000000006D64617400010EF165B8406C5FABDD2F76615E00758569CC000205F3
AABFA501995F6696B71468D6F6429760D9E5EF618CA93C3AC8E8DBF5AE4F06242AC82CCCB7B1AADF54BF41AE917DFFFCCB21400BD5510D143697C0AAE16B579C
32FEA2A75C28FD64B0F5B2B60D268A7A47577FB21518F92151FBFE7D8C98D0AEA18301904044E04000ACDFA9862DFAAAD239B07DD579F261FB77AE3E74CD81F8
00424817588590CA73224464BFF943E62B9AAFEE9EEEB79A745748AC7151FCC9003AEB4526337A096B9A55D1C51ECF3247BAA06B4C7ADAE8B5513634DC66C7C6
A95BA2FD2DFE4E84C6C2944D0CADAAA00B83912895B1A6095D13B72FB1BDD1806E3573D1D868BE275C346189
I cant really make anything from it, but then again I've never had to mess around with such things. I can provide the file if anyone is interested.
This looks like the start of a 'Quick Time' file, .3GP
Your dump has the 'ftyp' header and start of the mdat segment - but no segment length. This would be typical of a file before finalisation.
In order to read the file you would need a moov segment to be added, and I think these are probably stored in memory until required. ie, in your case it will have been lost.
I would be happy to try and reconstruct the file. I would require the temp_video file and also a small but complete video from the same camera. The later is required to pinch certain configuration details from the moov segment.
How big is the temp_video file?
The temp_video file is 5.0 mb.
temp_video http//
sample video http//
Fingers crossed, I will see what can be done within the next few days