Hi,
I accidentally deleted the whole gallery of photos, probably located in DCIM inside the internal memory of my s5.
Right after that, I removed my sim card and use a backup phone I had. The only new things I added in is to root the phone and try to recover the photos. Tried using several recovery software from both my PC and my phone but they did not recover any of the deleted photos.
I then follow this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...de-internal-memory-data-recovery-yes-t1994705
which gave me the same results. All I recover were stuff used by other applications like watsapp etc.
Would like to know if there is any way that I can recover the photos?
Thank you
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Hi,
I have accidentally deleted few videos and photo from my Samsung Note-3. I have tried DiskDigger and before trying DiskDigger I have rooted the phone. But unfortunately I didn't get the desired data. It is actually returning me the videos or the picture which are still in my phone memory and i have moved them to some other directory. I have also tried the Wondershare Dr.fone but I am unable to see my desired data there, as I don't have the purchased version so unable to recover.
Does anyone has done similar kind of recovery please let me know and guide.
Thanks & Regards
Hello guys, I have a S8+ 955U version tmobile. I was on oreo beta and wanted to revert back to 7.0 latest which is G955USQS2BRB1. I odin the files but it caused me to format my internal memory. i lost all my photos of my newborn.
How can I get them back?
I've tried a few programs but I have to be rooted which I'm not.
I found a thread SAMPWNED to root device but I can't downfrade that far back.
Any help would be appreciated.
P.S. no i did not have an sd card in the phone, all files were saved on internal.
It's really difficult to recover photos from a formatted internal SD card. Best option, I think, would be try some other recovery apps, so see if they have access to your phone, though I don't think they will have that type of low-level access.
Another possibility might be to use ADB and if you can, pre-system/security startup, enable ADB within the phone, and then you might be able to do a recovery scan of the phone partitions.
There are a few (vague?) how to's on using ADB to enter the phone pre-system/security. Search 'sonnettie', the author of one method, and you will likely find other author off-shoots of the same type of method. If I don't stay current with a thing, I forget most of the details, but that was his original(?) method, which as I was told, came to be used by others to get into the phone pre-system startup/security. It might have been obviated by the Oreo update with a bug fix.
Did you have Samsung backup configured? If so it should have uploaded the photos and you would be able to restore them. If you don't make a backup your photos are already lost, you never know when your phone might die, be stolen or in this case get formatted. Google photos is a good alternative to keep your photos backing up.
Some people have incorrectly stated that it is possible to recover the photos after formatting internal storage. The data partition is encrypted by default and unless you are able to recover both, encryption key (it was most likely overwritten during first boot after factory reset) and the part of the partition containing the photos, you cannot get your photos back. Also, I have not seen any commercial data recovery software, which is capable of finding encryption keys and deciphering corrupted data partition.
Exactly, the phone is encrypted, not remotely possible to recover the photos scanning the memory
sergioslk said:
Exactly, the phone is encrypted, not remotely possible to recover the photos scanning the memory
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good to know.
Thanks everyone for your input. After spending countless hours trying to root phone so I could get a data recovery program on it, I gave up. Turns out I had google photos and Samsung cloud turned on and it synced all my media. I got all my media back on my phone.
Thanks guys
@OP
i want to remind you that if you are doing like updating, flashing, modifying, always make a back up thank god samsung cloud is doing that for you., but i always make a hard copy to my sd card always you newer know right. i am happy for you that you got your data back
I use a Mi 10 Ultra phone. I mistakenly deleted some photo and video files then upgraded my OS. Once I realised this, I immediately checked the phones trash bin, the Mi cloud, Google backup, the phone Backup, used several 3rd party apps from Wondershare Dr Fone to recuva etc to recover these specific files I mistakenly deleted. But I was still unable to recover these exact files.
I really dont think rooting my device or carrying out a factory reset on my device will solve this issue. I haf tried to.see if I coukd downgrade my OS bur discover its not possible on my phone. So I am willing to try proven methods that can ensure I get those deleted files back.
Please advice?
Many thanks in advance.
Sounds like they're gone permanently
You might try a data recovery specialist if the files are significantly valuable , like a Bitcoin wallet or something...
My father in law is in poor health and my wife fact reset her device...i told her we can get the pics she had on there but need to root it to gain super user to recover the photos...but I have never done that procedure. If there is an app or better way I am all for it. She pics were NOT on the SD card, saved to device directly.
Yes, you can recover your deleted pictures from internal memory of Samsung phone. And yes, you may require to root your phone to restore deleted photos. But before rooting your phone, I will suggest you can check your Google backup or local of your smartphone. These deleted pictures may available on your backup.
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My father in law is in poor health and my wife fact reset her device...i told her we can get the pics she had on there but need to root it to gain super user to recover the photos...but I have never done that procedure. If there is an app or better way I am all for it. She pics were NOT on the SD card, saved to device directly.
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You're absolutely right: When it comes to try to recover deleted data on an Android phone, phone's Android MUST be rooted, otherwise you can forget trying to recover deleted data.
More info here:
How Avast recovered 'erased' data from used Android phones
Avast bought 20 used phones from eBay and discovered that lots of personal data still remained on them.
blog.avast.com
How to root a Samsung S21 is described here:
How To Root Samsung Galaxy S21? ยป With & Without PC
Simplest guide to Root Samsung Galaxy S21 android device in just 10 minutes. You can follow with & without PC and method which you like.
safeboxguide.com
BTW:
User-data ( like pictures ) are stored in Android's /data/media directory what doesn't get affected when you root a phone.