How to Recover Deleted Photos and Videos from Internal Memory on Android?

Photos and videos are the media that records each precious moment in daily life, once they got lost due to some frustrating reasons, no one will not be freaking out. To Recover deleted photos on Android is not irreversible.

With a credible Android data recovery software, they can be recovered from the Internal Memory on Android phone. The chance of photos and videos recovery depends much on the situation of Android data loss and user’s reactions on it. Namely, if they were lost due to formatting or wiping, to get them back is getting closer to an impossibility; if lost because of accidental deletion or virus attack, it can be retrieved via third-party data recovery software like Gihosoft. Besides, some wrong operations on the phone after data got lost will lower the chance of restoring them to your phone. For example, continuing to use your phone will put the deleted photos and videos at risk of being overwritten. Pay attention here: when the files got overwritten, they will never ever be recovered.

Also Read: How to Recover Deleted WhatsApp Messages on Android

Based on the recoverable situation, it’s highly recommended to use Android data recovery software for the Android phone. Below is taking Gihosoft Android data recovery free software as an example to recover data. Given that this software is for free, it would be economical to download for photos and videos recovery.

Step 1: Download the recovery software on their official website and launch it.

After installation, launch the software and choose “photos” and “videos” to recover.

Step 2: Connect the Android phone to your PC

Open USB debugging on your Android devices. Below is several ways for your reference.

1) For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter "Settings" < Click "Applications" < Click "Development" < Check "USB debugging"

2) For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging"

3) 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". Then you may back to "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging".

Step 3: Start to scan “photos” and “videos” files

This step may need a few minutes which actually depends on the size of your files.

Step 4: Preview the files and recover them

Before you begin to recover photos and videos, you’re allowed to preview all of them.

Finally, your data will be saved in a folder on your PC. 

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