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This video is about recovering deleted photos or videos from an Android device.
Nowadays most Android gadgets come equipped with cameras capable of taking quite good
pictures and filming videos.
The capacity of smartphone internal memory or memory cards used to extend it have long
exceeded the humble 16 GB.
Now, a gadget with such memory size can store quite a lot of important data...
In this video, we will have a look at how to recover lost or deleted photographs or
videos from an Android device.
There are many reasons why photos or videos can be lost from an Android device: deliberate
or accidental formatting the memory card, a virus attack, malfunctioning programs, system
failures, or hurried cleaning of the memory in the struggle for more free space.
By the way, we recommend watching a special video about cleaning the memory of your Android
smartphone or tablet PC from junk files and unnecessary programs in a correct way.
You will find the link in the description:
Here is the first and the simplest way of restoring photos and videos deleted from an
Android device - in case they were stored on a memory card.
If they disappeared: • Take the memory card out of your gadget
and connect it to a computer or a laptop using a Card Reader.
In some cases, you can use the smartphone or tablet connected with a cable as a device
to work with the memory card, but remember that data recovery software does not always
see a memory card connected to the computer in such a way.
And there are certain reasons why.
• As you can see, the memory card appeared in This PC folder.
• After that, download, install and launch Hetman Partition Recovery.
Find the download link in the description:
• Click on this memory card in the left pane of the program window.
• Select the analysis type.
If you have deleted the file recently, Fast scan will be enough.
If you do it after formatting or a system failure - Full analysis is much better.
• As you can see, the program has found the FAT partition of the card and all of the
files, both existing and deleted.
• Now let’s move to the folder from where the files were lost, and see that the program
has found them as well.
• If you can’t see your photos or videos here, you can find them in Content-Aware Analysis
folder.
They will be sorted into folders by extension.
• To recover your files, select them and click Recovery.
• Specify the directory and folder where to save the files and click Recovery button.
• The files have been recovered.
Recovering photos or videos from internal memory of an Android device is no easy task.
It’s because gadgets with Android versions earlier than 5 could be connected to the computer
as a USB drive.
In this case, recovering data from the device memory would be easy - just as shown before
with Hetman Partition Recovery.
Beginning with Android 5, devices are connected by default as a media player via MTP protocol.
And this is something you can’t change.
Now recovering photos or videos from internal memory of an Android device will require Android
superuser rights or ROOT rights, as well as active developer’s tools required to enable
USB debugging.
At the moment, I won’t stop to tell about rooting an Android device - this is a huge
topic for a special video.
So, if you need to recover photos or videos from the internal memory of your smartphone
or tablet PC, and this device is rooted, you can use such apps as Wondershare Dr.Fone for
Android, Android Data Recovery or iSkysoft Toolbox for Android.
It’s not advertising - in fact, there are lots of such programs.
So, let’s begin.
• Run one of the programs.
They are all based on similar principles.
• enable USB debugging on your Android device.
• Connect it to the computer • As you can see, the program recognized
it at once.
• Choose the data type to be recovered and click Next
• After scanning, the program will show photos or videos which it can recover.
Select the ones you need and click Recover.
If you don’t have the opportunity to connect the smartphone to a computer, you can also
restore your files using the smartphone itself.
There are plenty of apps to do it on PlayMarket.
However, all of them need root rights to work properly.
Some of them offer the chance to recover data from a device without superuser rights, but
the quality of their work will be much worse.
As an example, let’s have a look at an application called DiskDigger.
• After you start the program, there will be two ways of scanning the device: Basic
scan (without root), and Full scan (Root required).
• Choose the scan type and the app will run it.
• You will see all files detected by the program.
• You can sort them by clicking on the cogwheel symbol.
• View properties of any file.
• And recover the selected files, by marking them and tapping the Recover button.
• Select the recovery type and save the files.
As you can see, it is not easy to recover photos and videos from Android devices.
That is why it’s better to prevent them from being lost.
It can be done with special Android apps that work like recycle bins.
There are many such apps, and there’s little to show about them.
For example, let’s take Dumpster.
The principle of its work is very simple.
Just install it, and all the photos, videos and other files or apps deleted from the device
will be sent to the recycle bin of this application.
They can always be recovered from there.
Talking of safe storage for photos and videos in Android devices, we can’t miss such service
as Google Photos.
This app will help you to set up automatic or manual synchronization of photos and videos
from your smartphone or tablet PC with a cloud storage.
They will always be stored there, even after they are deleted from your device or memory
card, or even after you lose your device.
You can access your pictures from the computer as well.
When saving photos and videos in High Quality, the storage size is not limited.
If you save them in the original quality, the storage size will be limited to the size
of your Google Drive to which this app is connected.
Now the conclusions.
Recovering photos or videos from internal memory of an Android device is no easy task.
Android itself doesn’t have this function, and that’s why there are so many difficulties:
you need to root the device and enable USB debugging - which is carefully hidden by the
software developers.
Data recovery programs often fail to restore everything from the device’s inner memory.
Things are completely different with recovering data from memory cards.
For such tools as Hetman Partition Recovery, restoring data from any removable media is
the primary function.
That is all for now.
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