We’d like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum.

This is to keep it a safe and useful space for MoneySaving discussions. Threads that are – or become – political in nature may be removed in line with the Forum’s rules. Thank you for your understanding.

📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!
The Forum now has a brand new text editor, adding a bunch of handy features to use when creating posts. Read more in our how-to guide

Recover photos/data on Android mobile

peter999
peter999 Posts: 7,102 Forumite
Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
Some photos have disappeared off my Samsung mobile.

Phone is Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 GT-I8160.


When I connect mobile to my Pc via USB, the mobile is shown in Windows Explorer as GT-8160 device.

But my Undelete programs don't see the mobile phone storage areas to search for deleted files, I assume because phone is not seen as Local Disk and they don't see Android storage areas.


I have done google search found a few recovery programs:

https://www.androidpit.com/how-to-recover-lost-data
https://www.recovery-android.com/recover-data-from-android.html
http://www.android-recovery-transfer.com/recover-data-from-android.html


Not sure if these are any good or dodgy software.


Can anyone recommend Android mobile recovery software ?

Thanks

Comments

  • Bath_cube
    Bath_cube Posts: 188 Forumite
    Try disk digger. It's free and it worked for me last year when I accidently deleted an important pic.
  • DoaM
    DoaM Posts: 11,863 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Fifth Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    Check your Google account? (I'm presuming that you have the phone syncing to a Google account).
  • ARandomMiser
    ARandomMiser Posts: 1,756 Forumite
    I know it is a bit like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted but why not look at one of the cloud storage offerings that automatically copies photos to the cloud when it can. At the minute my personal favourite is pCloud
    IITYYHTBMAD
  • peter999
    peter999 Posts: 7,102 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    DoaM wrote: »
    Check your Google account? (I'm presuming that you have the phone syncing to a Google account).
    I know it is a bit like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted but why not look at one of the cloud storage offerings that automatically copies photos to the cloud when it can. At the minute my personal favourite is pCloud
    It's quite an old phone, I don't connect to the cloud or sync to google account.
  • Browntoa
    Browntoa Posts: 49,619 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


    post 6 is spam
    Ex forum ambassador

    Long term forum member
  • DoaM
    DoaM Posts: 11,863 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Fifth Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    Once it is deleted you'll be referring to your own post. ;)
  • DoaM
    DoaM Posts: 11,863 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Fifth Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    sichougzou wrote: »
    :spam:

    Another Spammy McSpammer.
This discussion has been closed.
Meet your Ambassadors

🚀 Getting Started

Hi new member!

Our Getting Started Guide will help you get the most out of the Forum

Categories

  • All Categories
  • 353.7K Banking & Borrowing
  • 254.2K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
  • 455.1K Spending & Discounts
  • 246.8K Work, Benefits & Business
  • 603.3K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
  • 178.2K Life & Family
  • 260.9K Travel & Transport
  • 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
  • 16K Discuss & Feedback
  • 37.7K Read-Only Boards

Is this how you want to be seen?

We see you are using a default avatar. It takes only a few seconds to pick a picture.