Undeleting photo on mobile phone

peter999

KxMx wrote: »

Have you searched the files coming up on PC from card thoroughly?

Alternatively you need to find out your default storage for photos.

If it's the phone then they won't be on the card, if it is the card they should show on a PC.

The card readers have 4 slots for different types of cards, they show as Removable Disks.

With micro SDHC card in SD adapter plugged in, no photos show on card reader Removable Disks locations.

KxMx

Ok if it is not on the card then either it's been deleted off there as well or your phone is the default storage for photos.

The only reason I asked about a through search is sometimes everything is not neatly stored in the correct labelled folders.

Not sure I have anything else to offer apart from a good luck

debitcardmayhem

Did you not try this ?

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

I used this http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download (the photorec part) for a friend , recovered all the files from his trip to the far east when his phone borked his camera card.

peter999

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

I used this http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download (the photorec part) for a friend , recovered all the files from his trip to the far east when his phone borked his camera card.

I'll try it.

Is it another recovery tool ?

As problem I have is the micro SDHC card when in my phone connected to Pc is not seen as removable disk, so you can't use software photo recovery applications, as they cannot see storage location on phone to search.

So I'm trying to connect card via a general purpose multi card reader.

debitcardmayhem

peter999 wrote: »

I'll try it.

Is it another recovery tool ?

As problem I have is the micro SDHC card when in my phone connected to Pc is not seen as removable disk, so you can't use software photo recovery applications, as they cannot see storage location on phone to search.

So I'm trying to connect card via a general purpose multi card reader.

That's what I did, and yes it's a recovery tool (free)

debitcardmayhem

Mind you if you have used the card in the phone in the last 3 weeks it's anyone's guess whether it has been overwirtten irretrieveably

Quiet_Spark

peter999 wrote: »

With micro SDHC card in SD adapter plugged in, no photos show on card reader Removable Disks locations.

Can you see a folder called "DCIM" in the root of the card?

If not, then the camera was using the default location for storage which is the phone itself (also located in a folder called DCIM).

peter999

Quiet_Spark wrote: »

Can you see a folder called "DCIM" in the root of the card?

If not, then the camera was using the default location for storage which is the phone itself (also located in a folder called DCIM).

Yes, I can see.

Phone was set to store on card.

When I plug card back into phone.

All my photos are in:
/sdcard/external_sd/DCIM/Camera

No photos in:
/sdcard/DCIM/Camera

Quiet_Spark

peter999 wrote: »

No photos in:
/sdcard/DCIM/Camera

Have you run the recovery software?

If so and it hasn't found anything, then try some better recovery software. If that doesn't work, then they have probably been overwritten.

peter999

Quiet_Spark wrote: »

Have you run the recovery software?

If so and it hasn't found anything, then try some better recovery software. If that doesn't work, then they have probably been overwritten.

Can't run recovery software as phone storage areas are not seen as removable disks, as you said in post #2 due to it working on MTP.

Unfortunarely you can't enable USB storage mode, that feature seems to have been removed from newer phones, did google checked on internet.

I removed the card immediately after I realised I deleted wrong photo, so it should still be there.