Smartphones are an integral part of our life now that it is more affordable and also comes with great camera. Human always make mistakes, so delete wrong pictures or wrong files, or press format button wrongly are the top 2 reasons for data loss on Android device. Besides that, people may reset cellphone to factory settings without data backup, or didn't know that photos, videos and music files are deleted when reset the andoid phones. There are also other reasons like memory card corrupted, virus attack, phone or memory card failure, for exmaple, mobile phone or SD card not recognized on computer, cell phone or memory card card asks for format when opened on computer.
But you might be already knowing that even if you delete files from your smartphone it is not actually deleted until something has been written over the top of it in memory. So in case you deleted something, it is always good to recover it immediately before it is over written and the index pointing to it is still available.There are many app to recover the data. But I have given one example for it.
Easy Steps to Recover Lost Photo/Video from Android
- Prevent Your Data from Being Overwritten
Losing the precious data of your Android? Don't be too flustered. Just keep your Android data from being overwritten any more. If, unfortunately, your Android data was overwritten, I will be sorry to tell you that the Android data was overwritten and what you just lost can't be retrieve back any longer.
- Connect your Android device to computer
After launching Android Data Recovery, connect Android devices to your Windows and Mac computer via usb cable.
- Enbale USB debugging for your Android phone
If you don't open the debugging on your phone, this program will prompt you to enbale USB debugging on your phone. Please check what's the version of your Android phone, then follow the right steps to do it.
- For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter "Settings" < Click "Applications" < Click "Development" < Check "USB debugging"
- For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging"
- For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter "Settings" < Click "About Phone" < Tap "Build number" for several times until getting a note "You are under developer mode" < Back to "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging"
- Analyze and scan your Android Phone
After the Android phone being detected by the program successfully, you will get the window below. Now please click on the green button "Start" to begin the data analysis.
In the latest version of Android Data Recovery, you are empowered to seletively choose which type of files to be scanned. Finish analyzing, you will get a picture as below, turn to your phone and click "Allow", so that you can go to the next step. At the same time, click on the "Start" button again
- Recover deleted videos and photos from Android phones
All scanned result will be organized by file types(including Messages, Contacts, Gallery, Videos). You can select photos and video files to preview in the right windows, and then click "Recover" to save them on your computer.
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- Back up Your Android Device Frequently
After those 5 steps mentioned above, you have get back your lost Android data on your computer. Here, by the way, I will prompt you to back up your Android frequently. Therefore, your Android backup is updated to the latest version. And you can restore the Android deleted photos, videos, music back from your Android backup.