Accidentally deleting photos on a smartphone or tablet is a rather unpleasant situation. If the deleted music and movies can still be re-downloaded from the network, then you will not be able to return personal photos in this way. However, you should not be upset, as there are several effective methods that allow you to reanimate missing files without outside help. Consider how to recover deleted photos on Android.
Ways to recover deleted photos on Android
Regardless of which OS is installed on a mobile device, when certain data is deleted from its memory, they do not disappear without a trace. Their fingerprints will be stored on the media until the space is written to. new information. It is these "casts" that are used by most recovery programs to search for lost files. The main condition for the successful return of erased photos is the exclusion of writing new content to the same memory card.
Recovering missing photos on Android can be done in the following ways:
- By using cloud storage(sync with Google+);
- Via computer and 7-Data app Android Recovery;
- Through the program Undelete.
Recovering deleted photos via Google service
Most effective method recovering lost photos is android sync With virtual disk Google+. When pairing your phone with this service, all images recorded on the gadget will be automatically copied to the cloud storage. This will not only protect important files from inadvertent deletion, but also enhance the ability to manage personal data, since viewing content google drive You can use any device, be it a computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet.
Synchronizing Android with Google+ is done as follows:
Now, in case of accidental deletion of photos from the phone’s memory, it will be enough to go to Google+ and transfer the missing files to the card of the mobile device or the PC desktop.
Resuscitation of photos through 7-Data Android Recovery
This application designed specifically for mobile devices running on the Android OS. They can recover not only deleted images, but also other types of files. At the same time, it is possible to revive both external card micro sd, and the built-in memory of the phone. Another advantage of this utility is that it does not require Root access to function.
To recover deleted photos through 7-Data Android Recovery, you need to:
The selected media will be scanned. After finishing this process all deleted folders and files will be highlighted. You will only have to select the required object (for example, the DCIM directory) and transfer it to the PC desktop or to any other location. If necessary, the recovered photos can be transferred to a phone or tablet. 
Restoring images via Undelete
If for some reason you are unable to connect your computer to your smartphone, you can restore photos directly through your mobile device. Several effective applications have been developed for this purpose. They all work in much the same way, so let's take the Undelete utility as an example.
Before starting resuscitation, you need to unlock Root rights on your phone. This can be done using the Framaroot program:
Having gained Root access, you can start restoring lost photos. To do this, do the following:
The saved images will be in the Undeleter directory. From there, they can be transferred to a memory card or computer. It should be noted that when deleting photos, you may also lose the screen saver on your desktop. If this happens, after resuscitation you will need to reinstall it.
I will answer your questions: why photos are not displayed in the Android gallery (the phone does not show photos) or photos open in low quality. What should I do if the images are not saved in the Gallery? The answers are posted below.
3 Apps to Restore Photos from Android Gallery
Among the programs for photo recovery, we note three free tools: DiskDigger , Recuva , PhotoRec .
These programs will be useful if photos from the Gallery have been deleted, damaged or lost as a result of unsuccessful file copying:
- from the internal memory of the phone to the sd card;
- from phone to computer.
We advise you to test the above programs with the option of deep checking. The programs are installed on the PC. Gallery photos should be saved to HDD, not the sd card, otherwise deleted files will be overwritten and the chances of recovery will be significantly reduced.
Change where photos are stored
Many Android users install a new memory card in their phone and are surprised to find that the photos and videos they take are still saved to the phone's memory.
You can easily change the storage location for your photos. For this:
- Go to Camera Settings
- Locate the Storage Location option
- Change it to SD card.
Free your memory card from unnecessary files
If the captured photos are not saved to the memory card, but to the phone (although the SD card is indicated in the settings), most likely there is simply not enough space on the memory card and Android uses the phone's memory as a spare.
To correct the situation, check free place on disk: Settings - Optimization - Memory.
Remove if necessary Not necessary files on the phone. You can do this:
- through the Optimization section
- using utilities CCleaner, CleanMaster for Android
- manually, through any file manager.
Format the memory card and check it for read errors
Another one known issue- photos are displayed incorrectly / periodically disappear from the Gallery. The reason is reading errors on the memory card.
Solving the problem is quite simple:
- Format your memory card
- You can check the disk for errors using the chkdsk utility.
Where are Gallery photos stored?
Remember the name of the folder - DCIM (Digital Camera IMages).
All photos taken with the camera are stored in the Camera directory on the memory card or phone. For organizational convenience, you can create other folders inside DCIM.
Note. The DCIM (and subfolders) must not contain files named nomedia (this is a signal for the media scanner to ignore its contents).
If the Android Gallery does not display a photo, check the contents of the DCIM folder via PC:
- connecting phone to computer via usb cable
- by connecting the sd card through the card reader.
If photos are found, copy them to a PC, if not, use recovery programs.
Clear Gallery Cache
If Gallery displays gray or black squares instead of thumbnails, clear the cache. Before performing this action, we recommend that you back up the files from DCIM to your hard drive.
The main reasons for deleting photos from the Gallery
1. Format the memory card
Users often forget that formatting a memory card will often delete all files stored on the sd card, including write-protected photos and print orders. Such multimedia data can only be restored using a special software to recover deleted photos.
2. Overwrite and delete photos
Very common mistake– accidental overwriting of images, photos stored on the camera's memory card with other data. In fact, overwriting a photo is very easy to do by mistake. Therefore, we advise you to check the correctness of the steps several times when you write photos to your computer or to the device's memory card.
3. Damage or breakage of the sd card of the camera
If the memory card is not securely stored, hard drive or flash drives, any storage media, they are at great risk physical damage by accidental dropping or direct impact on them. We strongly advise you to keep your cameras, sd cards, and flash drives wrapped in thick and soft material that will protect them - and, accordingly, your photos - from shock under any conditions.
FAQ
Photos not showing up in Samsung phone gallery
This morning I did not find any photos on the memory card of my Samsung phone. I go to the Gallery - there is no photo; in the folder where the photos used to be, there is only one file. I open it - and they write to me that there is no application to perform this operation.
Solution.
- Check the memory card for errors by connecting it to a PC via a card reader.
- Scan the sd card with any desktop recovery application like Photorec or Recuva.
- If the photos were synced online, check Google Photos or the Samsung cloud, including the Trash.
Photos are not displayed in the gallery of the Huawei tablet
Missing photos from gallery Huawei devices. There is a video, but no photos. When I take a picture, it is saved, but the Gallery is empty. At the same time, all the pictures are displayed in social networks. I can send all the photos - both new and old. And the saved photos from the browser are exactly the same.
Solution.
- Clear the Android Gallery Cache.
- Refresh official firmware if there is an update.
- If the above methods did not help, do a factory reset.
- Scan the memory card for errors.
Photos disappeared after phone update
I have an ASUS phone, no flash drive ... An icon appeared with a warning that the device's memory is full. A notification came to update the system, but because The memory is full, the update was not downloaded. I deleted the photo to free up space on my phone. I put my phone back on and went to bed. In the morning I wanted to review the photo, but there is no folder with photos in the Gallery, and I can’t find it through the PC either ...
Solution.
- Install a root app on your phone, check your phone's memory via DiskDigger.
- Look for photos in the Google Photos cloud, as well as in the Trash section of this service.
Gray squares instead of photos in Android gallery (black pictures with an exclamation point)
1. I go to Android settings, a notification appears that the sd card is damaged. I rebooted the phone, open the gallery and there seem to be photos, but they are all gray. I did not take out the memory card. Can lost photos be returned?
2. I bought a 32GB sd card, connected it and moved photos from the device to new folder to the sd card. After moving, I went to the Gallery. Instead of photo thumbnails, there is a gray square and an exclamation point.
Solution.
- Download the original photos from the service again.
- Photo thumbnails are thumbnail images. It will not be possible to restore the original with their help. A gray square means that the thumbnail cannot be created because the original image is missing.
- On the SD card, original photos can be restored using Recuva or DiskDigger.
Photos not opening on sd card
I recently took out the sd card and put it back in. I go to the Gallery, and half of the photos are not displayed in the photo section, I go to the “Albums” section - all the photos are there. What is the problem and how to fix it? Honor Phone 8 lite.
Solution.
- Delete the cache of the Gallery app.
- Check the Gallery settings, namely the location where the pictures are stored.
- Check for albums in Google Photos, as well as online sync settings.
Answers to questions from readers
Yesterday I wanted to delete the first photo from the "Camera" album, but accidentally deleted the entire album ... The photos were stored on the internal memory of the tablet. There are no backups. Device Lenovo Tab 2 A 7 30 H.C. How to recover photos? I tried to do this through some applications from the play market, alas, the quality is terrible, the photos are simply not watchable ...
Answer. If photos from the Android gallery have disappeared, then you need a special program to restore them from the internal memory of the tablet. Alas, there are not so many good programs, take a look. The first thing that comes to mind is the Undeleter program.
1. I go to the gallery - photos do not open - they are gone. Android writes - "failed to create thumbnail". Also, photos and videos do not open on Google. What to do if on Android photos disappeared from the gallery?
2. New tablet, new microsd, rearranged from the camera to the tablet. the photo seems to be there, but instead of the image there is a torn picture - the thumbnail of the photo is not displayed completely. When I insert a flash drive into the phone, all the photos are displayed. Tell me what is the reason why the photos in the gallery are not displayed and how to fix it, if possible!
3. All my photos were saved to the memory card, as was set in the Android Camera settings. I recently took a photo, it was saved on a memory card. I went to the Gallery, and instead of photos - a black screen. Changed saving to phone memory - and new photo opens. How to be? Maybe it's the memory card?
4. We took photos on vacation at sea. Everything opened, there were no problems. On the second day, the last 20 photos in the Gallery were reflected as a gray square. A few minutes later they disappeared completely. This is not the first time such a problem with Android.
Answer. Find the Nomedia file in your images folder and delete it. Photos on Android are stored in the SDCARD/DCIM/CAMERA folder. I also advise you to check if the phone reads the memory card. Alternatively, you can remove the sd card from the phone and check through the card reader if there are the desired photos with which the problem you described is observed.
Hello, the software is covered on Samsung Note 3. Accordingly, after the reinstallation, everything flew, photos are gone. I beg you to help me recover the data, in particular the photo.
Answer. In the event that photos have disappeared from the Gallery after clearing the internal memory of the phone, they can only be restored using special applications for Android. One of these is Undeleter, you can find and download the resuscitator utility from Google Play.
I pulled out the flash drive from the Micromax phone, turned on the phone - missing photos from android gallery. But they are in the File Manager, how can I return them back to the gallery?
Answer. Copy photos to SDCARD/DCIM/CAMERA folder on flash drive or internal memory mobile device, after that they should be displayed in the Android Gallery.
From SD memory card, from individual folders, the photos disappeared, and the folder itself was renamed to this: կ_ _ _ _ _~2. What to do?
Answer. Deletion and renaming could occur both as a result of the actions of a virus, and after an application error. Since the pictures were deleted, it would be nice to restore them. The CardRecovery program is suitable for this: the toolkit supports memory cards, as file types you can specify photos, images.
After restoring the folder, you can rename it manually.
1. My Levovo phone started to fail - I rebooted it. When I turned it on, the Camera folder disappeared in the gallery, there are no files at all, the Gallery does not see the photo. Tell me what can be done?
2. I went to the gallery to look at the photo, everything was white and the pictures did not open. That is, the Android gallery does not see the photo. I rebooted my phone. Everything on the memory card is gone. Can they be restored? Is there a lot of memories there?
3. I transferred photos and videos on my phone from the gallery to the sd card, but when I try to open the transferred files, I get a message: unknown format. Neither the video nor the photo opens, they are gone. Tell me if it is possible to recover these files from the Android Gallery. New photos and videos are saved by default on the SD card, viewed without problems.
4. Took a couple of photos, then put the phone on lock. After 15 minutes I went to the Gallery and there I did not find a single file from the previously taken ones.
Answer. If the photos were stored on a memory card, it is possible that your phone simply does not see it, and therefore does not display it in the Android gallery. Check if the SD card is correctly positioned in the phone slot.
The photos in the Gallery may have been corrupted. You can take out the sd card and connect it to the PC through the card reader. Then, using the Recuva program, scan the memory card - perhaps the photos will be restored.
Restoring photos from the gallery stored in the internal memory of Android is much more difficult: you need a solid experience. How to do this, I described. If you don't have the skills you need, don't try.
1. In the gallery, all my photos for the whole year have become one date. This happened after I moved the photo to the SD card. Help restore the date of the shooting!
2. I lost all the photos I took with my phone. Restoring them is not a problem, the problem is to find out the date the photo was taken. After all, when I restored them, the properties contain the date when I reanimated them. How to find out the date of the photo, which was originally?
Answer. The date the photo was taken is stored in the exif properties of the file. Install any image viewer (for example, XnView) and go to the image properties. In the EXIF tab, you can easily find out the date of the photo, down to the second. Shooting information looks like this:
date taken<Дата съемки>: 2011:08:01 06:37:17
date digitized<Дата оцифровки>: 2011:08:01 06:37:17
I have a samsung galaxy s4 i9500. The problem is this. I go to the Android Gallery, in a photo or picture or in a folder with bluetooth, I click on the photo - it opens, but I can’t enlarge it. And so with any file. Everything was fine before. What to do? I mean using my fingers to zoom in or out.
Answer. You may have moved the photos to another location or deleted them. Instead, they were sketches. There may be a problem with the Android gallery or other applications. Updating the firmware may solve the problem.
The Digma HIT 4G tablet erases the photo from the gallery (the photo is in the tablet's memory). Applications remain, but the Android gallery does not show photos. The file manager does not show the memory. If I take new photos, they do not appear in the gallery. And about the screenshots, too, the problem. The device writes "I can't take a screenshot, insufficient memory or permission from the application or organization is missing. I reset the settings. Everything starts working, the photographed images are displayed again, but after a while they disappear from the Gallery again. Tell me what to do if the photos from the gallery are gone?
Answer. The photos are not saved in the internal memory because there is not enough memory on the phone. You need to delete unnecessary files, transfer applications to a memory card, if possible. It is for this reason that the pictures have been removed from the Gallery and are not saved to the internal memory.
1. Accidentally deleted the "Camera" folder from the Gallery instead of a bad photo. As a result, all files were deleted, the phone does not show photos in the gallery. It is impossible to restore them, only those photos that were deleted one by one are restored.
2. I have a Galaxy A3 2016 phone. Several times the "Camera" folder has disappeared from the phone's memory from the Gallery. I lost a lot of important photos: (I downloaded several programs for recovery, but the ones that deleted themselves do not appear. Please help me get the pictures back!
Answer. If you save files to their original location, you reduce the chances of recovery. Since all the photos were deleted at different times, each of them has its own storage conditions (the files may have been overwritten by others). If you used a memory card for storage, try recovering photos from the Gallery using CardRecovery. If the files were stored in the internal memory of the phone, DiskDigger will help. You need to specify the DCIM folder to scan.
1. After I take a picture or record a video on my phone, everything is saved to micro SD. I go to Android gallery- and there are just black pictures hanging. Why is this happening, can they be restored?
2. The problem is of the following nature. On different Android versions(6 or 7), when I take pictures and set the path to the internal memory of the phone, the pictures remain without problems, but if the saving path is changed to SD card, then after a day or two, going through the gallery, the pictures are not visible, only empty icons of an unsupported format, the very there is no picture. If viewed through standard file there is no photo manager in the DCIM folder either. Where does the photo go?
Answer. You need to free up the internal memory of the device, because the system does not have enough space to write photos to the Gallery - accordingly, they are copied to the memory card. You can do this manually using the CCleaner utility for Android or, for example, the Storage Analyzer application.
Samsung phone A3. Today I wanted to delete a video from the Gallery, selected the ones I needed, pressed the "Delete" button and the phone hung, then clicked on "Exit". As a result, photos are not displayed in the gallery on Android. I rebooted the phone, but nothing has changed, there is still no photo. Is it possible to somehow restore the photos and videos that were in the Gallery ?!
Answer. If the files have disappeared as a result of a system failure, it is worth checking the memory card for errors. If you have synced Gallery with Google service Photo, look for a copy of the files there.
If the Gallery photos were stored in the internal android memory, the task becomes more difficult. (Read our guide on recovering from internal memory.)
1. Almost all files disappeared from the gallery, there were about 20 thousand - about 400 remained. All files were on the memory card (except these 400). Found advice that you need to delete files with the name "NOMEDIA". Performed. About 3000 appeared in the Gallery. R-Undelete was able to restore some more files - but only those that I deleted before.
Not all files in folders and the folders themselves have been restored. Please help, there were a lot of important things among these 20 thousand photos / pictures.
2.SOS. About 5 days ago, I transferred all the folders in the Gallery from the phone's memory to a USB flash drive to free up memory. Everything was fine, the photos spread. After a couple of days, I noticed that there were 295 photos left in one folder (and there were 531). Now extractedsdcard from the phone and put it back, there are 18 photos left in general ...How to return them? Help.
Answer. Of the specialized programs, we recommend PhotoRec. The program recognizes many graphic formats (including png, jpg), can search by signatures. At the same time, there is a high probability that PhotoRec will restore the photo as is - damaged, without a name or date. Also try to recover photos using DiskDigger (Windows version), some of the photos can be found thanks to the Dig Deeper function.
I put all the photos in PERSONAL, then I accidentally transferred some photos to the internal memory, but I wanted to go back to the Gallery. I tried to transfer a photo from the internal memory to the Gallery, but it did not work out. Questions appeared in the title of the photo, I click on them, and a window pops up: in what form to open (video, image, audio, etc.). Please help me, these photos are very dear to me ( huawei phone LYO-L21).
Answer. Rename the files to jpg format. If Android still does not recognize the images, transfer them to your computer and try to open them. Also, if the files are damaged, to restore jpg files we recommend using special software.
samsung galaxy a5 2016. Transferred pictures and photos from internal memory to the card. Through the service - my files - a memory card, all of them can be viewed, but only those that remain on the internal memory are displayed in the gallery. At the same time, the camera saves new photos to the card, and if you take a picture or take a screenshot, you can see them in the gallery. The problem is only with the files that were copied.
You wake up in the morning, and almost all the photos have disappeared from the gallery (why not all of them?). I’ll make a reservation right away, there is no memory card, no file operations were carried out, they are not in the DCIM folder either. There are several files on Google Drive, but this is not the same. Samsung A8 (2018) phone, Android 8.0 operating system.
I accidentally deleted a photo from Gallery on my Samsung phone. I tried to restore it using the DiskDigger program, but it recovered in poor quality, everything is blurry, only the general silhouette is visible. And about the program it is written that it allows you to restore the photo completely. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? How can I restore the original image quality?
Bought three days ago new phone redmi 5 plus and transferred all the photos and videos to it. And a day later I go to the gallery, and there are only a couple of photos left and that's it. I rebooted the phone and went back, I look at all there was nothing left. Writes that the elements are deleted or damaged and the formats are not supported. Everything would be fine, only the photos are very necessary, and I deleted everything from the old one.
I deleted all the photos on my phone, the entire gallery. Now I don't know what to do. I just connected the phone via USB, I wanted to transfer the music to the phone, in the end I threw everything, disconnect the wire, go to the gallery - and there is nothing there - it's just empty. Can you tell me how to restore it somehow? Phone model Lenovo S90. Thank you in advance.
I have a phone Asus Zenfone 2 Android 5.0 In the Android gallery, one of several albums was missing. I didn't delete it on purpose. Important album, please help restore.
from the dcim folder of the phone I moved the photos to my personal folder, at first they were not displayed in the gallery, and they showed as if nothing had been moved, but after a day or two they disappeared altogether, looked through file managers, they are not in general. android 8. and I don’t want to install the root of the program ... at least I would understand the reason, even half of the memory is not occupied ..
I decided to clean my mother's phone (Sumsung). I went to the sd card gallery. There were two of each photo. And the photos themselves, as it turned out, were only 350. I began to remove duplicates (highlighting all the duplicates). But in the end they all left. I do not know what to do. It is very necessary to restore these photos. they are very dear to me and my mother.
Tell me, please, did a factory reset, after saving all the information. But there was a problem - now everything has become terribly inconvenient, starting from the keyboard and ending with the design of folders in the gallery. The reset was done due to the fact that the outgoing photo was not sent in viber and did not open in the profile when incoming. The problem hasn't been resolved yet. Support was unable to help. Can you help us somehow? How to return everything to its original place and solve the problem with the photo?
I wanted to transfer files from my phone to SD without using a PC, I specifically highlighted the folder with the photo and clicked move to the memory card. In the process, there was a move, the files saw everything. Then I went to the Gallery", the files that I moved were not displayed there. They disappeared from the device (phone) itself, and they are not on the memory card either. Where can I find them? P.S. I deleted folders with music and videos from SD, and they returned to the memory card after the reboot.But there is no photo(
On a smartphone with Android 6.0, I restored the photos that disappeared from the gallery ... but the image quality on them changed, became blurry ... I found a program for Windows to restore photo quality to the original ... is there such a thing for Android?
I transferred some audio recordings and photos from the internal memory to the card, after which I saw that the photos were gone in the gallery, sometimes it happened that the phone either hung, or that the folders were simply not visible in the gallery, but after a couple of hours they appeared, but this time they did not appear and where the music writes: “no songs”, although in the folder where the files are, there are photos and all the music. What to do, how to make the Gallery see photo and video files?
I created a new album in the gallery, moved the photos there, literally ten minutes later it disappeared along with the photos. I found them in the ES explorer in the library, when I move them to any album, their quality is lost. What should I do?
The other day I deleted unnecessary files through the X-plore file manager. Accidentally deleted the entire folder called Android in the device's memory. As a result, all the photos in the Gallery disappeared, or rather, they are not displayed. There are only photos in the Camera and Screenshots folders, but there are no such folders as WhatsApp, Download. But all the photos are in the vault. Can I somehow restore it?
Remember, a dozen years ago we kept photographs in paper albums? Today, almost no one does this, because each of us has a smartphone in our pocket, which replaces a whole stack of photo albums. Only electronic photos, unlike paper ones, tend to disappear. Very often - due to accidental deletion.
It is easy to delete a photo from the device memory, but it is incommensurably more difficult to get it back, even if the deletion happened recently and the memory was definitely not overwritten. Why is this happening and how can I still recover deleted photos from my phone, if possible?
Why important photos should not be stored on the device
Surely you have already had a computer. And I'm sure in most cases you succeeded. If the disk is healthy and the file has not been overwritten, the probability of successful recovery approaches 95-100%. This circumstance slightly dampens and lulls the vigilance of users - many are beginning to think that recovering deleted data on a mobile device is as easy as on a PC. But it was not there.The flash memory of a modern smartphone functions differently than a hard drive. When a user deletes files, the drive marks their storage location as unused and considers that data erased. When accessing this block of memory, the drive controller returns zeros, even if the data physically still exists. At this stage, recovery is possible.
However, if a file is marked as deleted, the controller can physically erase it at any time. For this, the operating room Android system, starting from version 4.3, the FSTRIM function is built in - an analogue of TRIM, which is used to clean SSD drives. The function is activated automatically about 1 time per day, and when this time comes, it is not known. After FSTRIM, data recovery is not possible.
What follows from this:
- The chances of successfully recovering data from the memory of a mobile device on Android are lower than from a hard drive.
- The less time has passed since the file was deleted, the more likely it is to recover.
- A day after deletion, it is extremely rare to restore a file. And if it succeeds, then, as a rule, only from a cached copy or thumbnail, that is, in a lower quality than the source.
And yet, you should not give up in advance if the necessary photos were deleted a long time ago. Below we will look at a few free apps from google play to restore graphic files who have helped so many.
Apps to recover deleted photos on Android
DiskDigger photo recovery
DiskDiggerphotorecovery- one of the utilities that can extract data from all types of media that are used on mobile Android devices without requiring root rights. Of course, without rooting, she will not get access to the entire memory of the device, but often she manages to find the necessary files in the application cache.
Using the program is easy. After installation, we press the search button, to access the system directories, we provide DiskDigger with elevated privileges (if you have root), mark among the found photos that we want to restore, and specify the save location. It can be a memory card, local user folder or Dropbox cloud storage and Google Drive. You can also email the recovered photos to yourself.
DigDeep
DigDeep works in much the same way as DiskDigger. Does not require mandatory root, shows a good detection result. After launching the application, scanning starts immediately, the found photos are displayed on the screen in groups by location.
To restore one or more photos, you need to select them in the program window and click " restore". The data is stored in the /RestoredPictures/ folder in the device's memory.
Photo Recovery
Utility Photo Recovery uses 2 algorithms for searching and restoring graphic data: " Method 1" is quick but superficial, and " Method 2- slow and deep. After scanning, displays a list of folders that contain photos.
In terms of feature set and detection quality, the application is more advanced than the previous ones, but it only restores what is deleted in shopping cart- another utility from the same developer, which must be installed on the device in advance.
To use Photo Recovery root permissions also not needed.
Restore Image
Possibilities restoreImage not much different from the considered analogues. The functions are the same as those of DiskDigger and DigDeep, but the quality of the search, in my opinion, is not too high. By the way, in addition to the main functionality, it has something else: a button for the final erasure of deleted files. So that they cannot be restored either in this or in other programs.
RecovMy
Utility RecovMy no more laborious to use than its competitors. To start scanning, press the " StartphotoScan". After the search is completed, mark the necessary pictures on the screen and press the update button. The recovered files are saved in the same folders where they were before. Root rights are not needed.
Which of these applications is better for restoring photos? Unknown. In each case, they give different results, and if one does not help you, use others - both included and not included in today's review. Fortunately, there are a lot of such applications on Google Play.
How to reduce the risk of permanent loss of photos
- Install the cloud storage client and configure it to automatic download graphic files to the cloud. For example, Yandex Disk. By the way, it has a recycle bin where deleted files go and where it is very easy to recover them.
- If there is no possibility or desire to use the cloud, store pictures on a removable memory card. The tentacles of FSTRIM do not reach her, so the chance of saving the remote one is slightly higher.
- Install a separate Basket application (I don’t provide a link, because there are a lot of them). It will work like a similar windows tool, and all deleted files will fall into it first.
Good luck with your recovery and take care of your photos!
Hello dear friends! Today we will talk about whether it is possible to recover deleted photos. I will say right away that this can be done, but I must warn you:Attention: after accidental deletion of a photo, IMMEDIATELY stop all work on this device!
I write on the device because it doesn’t matter what you work on: on a computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone.
The thing is that after deletion, the data remains in the same place, in the same memory cells. Only now, in the data markup table, the record is deleted that a photograph is stored in these memory cells. If you continue to work on the device, download some data, save something, new data may be written to the memory addresses where the photo is stored.
In case of overwriting, you can say goodbye to your photos, so be careful and after accidental deletion, stop all work immediately.
If the conditions are met, I hasten to please you: restore deleted photos Can. How to do this I will show with examples various programs further in the article.
How to recover deleted photos
To facilitate the restoration of photos, many programs have long been written:
- PC Inspector File Recovery
- R.saver
- RS Photo Recovery
- Recuva Free
- Tenorshare iPhone Data Recovery
- PhotoRec
- DMDE
- GetDataBack
It is important to understand that the program cannot be installed on a disk on which you will have to recover deleted photos. Install on a different hard drive or use Portable version, launched, for example, from a flash drive.
I propose to dwell briefly on each of these programs.
PC Inspector File Recovery
Excellent program. Can work with different file systems (FAT 16, FAT 32, NTFS). Can recover various types of files, as well as remote drives. Works even with network drives!
You can specify the time and date of the recovered files. It is very comfortable.
Choose the type of data to be recovered, the media, click restore and the program does everything by itself and even shows the probability of recovery.
R. Saver
The program recovers data even if the file system is damaged. It has a friendly interface, has the ability to restore photos even after formatting the disk.
Recuva Free
A very popular program. I use it often at work, so I can safely recommend it. The program is free, recovers various data (photos, videos, music, texts, archives) from various types devices. Including from phones, and from music players.
DMDE
Same good program(actually, they are all good). The advantages of DMDE is that it is Portable (which means that the program can be uploaded to a USB flash drive and used without installing it on a computer). In the article we will consider how to use this program.
GetDataBack
Enough powerful program. Therefore, it is somewhat more difficult to work with it: there is different versions for file systems (for FAT and for NTFS).
The program recovers deleted files even after reinstalling the operating system (again, if they were not overwritten with new files)
Recovery in practice
I propose to move from simple to complex. And for starters, the easiest option is to check the cart. If you applied the delete procedure with the Delete key or right-clicked -> Delete, your photos ended up in the trash (and this is very good).
To get photos from the basket, you need to right-click on the "Basket" label and select "Open"
We will see the basket contents window:
In the list of files we see deleted photos. It remains only to select the ones you need, right-click -> "Restore". The photo will be restored to the folder from which it was deleted.
How to recover photos deleted by the trash
In this case, you just have to use special programs. Let's look at the ones that I myself use.
Get back deleted photos with GetDataBack
Use the DMDE program
First of all, download the program. To do this, click on the button below:
We need to select a console for Windows:
After starting, select the Russian language, click "OK" 
Next, we accept the license agreement (put a cross and click the "Accept" button) 
The next step is to decide where we will look for deleted photos from. If everything is in order with the disk, we know where the folder was, then we select " Logical drives”, and in the right column the drive letter on which the folder was located.
Click "Scan" and wait for a while (not very long) 
As a result, we get a list with the number of files different type. Our task is to click "Save" 
In the next window, in the left column, select the "Graphics" item. These are all images from the disk, and in the right one - jpeg (I have photos saved in this extension) 
The list opens jpeg files. Somewhere among them are our photos. The problem is that the names are indicated by numbers. Therefore, you will have to save all the images found, and then select the necessary ones from them. 
To select files, press the insert (ins) key. You can hold and wait until all files are selected. Press Ctrl+U to save. Pay attention to the way our photos are saved. It is listed on the bottom line and is located in the program folder by default. 
This completes the work with DMDE, go to the folder and look at the saved images. Among them we find deleted photos and copy them to where we need.
Recuva for recovery
Of course, first of all, we download the distribution kit of the program:Click the button "Download free version"
Then we learn how to use the program: select the “picture” file type, click “Next”, and specify the folder in which to look for accidentally deleted photos:
Click "Start" and see that the search process is in progress:
For better work, we need to switch to advanced mode, then select the file type (graphics) and click the "Analyze" button. A table will appear with a list of pictures, from which we can only select the ones necessary for recovery.
The table is quite informative, if you drag the slider to the right, you can see the date of modification, size and other useful data that will allow you to correctly identify deleted photos.
On this work with Recuva program ends, the photos are restored (usually :)).
Photo recovery in Android
How to return a photo to the camera
Here you need to understand the meaning. A camera is just like a computer. It has a storage facility. Usually it's a flash drive.Our task is only to get access to the flash drive of the camera through a computer.
For this you can use special devices called Card Reader
It is also worth noting that modern laptops have a built-in Card Reader, through which you can access the camera's flash drive (sometimes an adapter is needed for this).
Accidentally deleted photos from your phone or tablet?
Again, there are no problems. The main thing is not to forget that you need to respond quickly and you should not save new data to your devices, as well as update them.
In this case, our task is to connect the phone or tablet to the computer via USB cable, which will allow you to see the device's memory in the My Computer window. Further we work by analogy with the camera.
Photos accidentally deleted from iPhone
Finally, we got to a special case: the photos were deleted from the iPhone. Here the algorithm of actions is slightly different:
- Try to retrieve photos from the trash;
- Use iPhone Recovery;
- Use sync.
Let's go in order. In operating version iOS systems 8, you can quickly and easily recover deleted photos.
To do this, go to the "Photos" application and find the "Deleted Photos" album. All removed from iPhone photo fall into this album and are stored in it for some time. This is very handy just in case of accidental deletions.
We just need to mark those photos that should be restored, then click the "Restore" button!
We will use point two in the case when the time was lost, the photos were deleted from the basket, but there is still a need to restore. Also, this item will help to restore photos from older devices (IOS 7 and earlier) or, for example, in case of problems with the device.
The task is this:
- We launch the program, connect the iPhone to the computer;
- Press the "Start Scan" button;
- Select "Camera Roll" in the left column;
- Select deleted photos, click "Recover".
Synchronization using iTunes
Of course, any self-respecting user of Apple technology should have in their arsenal iTunes. One of useful properties This program is the ability to create backups. In case of accidental deletion of photos, you can get them from backup(The main thing is that these copies are).
- connect iPhone to computer
- We find it in iTunes, right-click and select "Restore from backup"
- Choose a copy and agree to restore
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In general, Android is a very interesting operating system and one day you may find that all the photos in the phone have been deleted. Do not rush to panic, read the article and learn how to recover photos on Android if they were accidentally deleted.
How to be?
Let's go to PlayGoogle and download the Undeleter program. Please note that you need root access in phone. If not, read the website. If there is, find and run the application. We see 2 disks: inner memory and a memory card, select the one you need.
That's it - the program began to scan the memory and look for the photos that you deleted. Now it remains to wait for the end of the scan. It is best to connect the smartphone to the charger, since scanning consumes a lot of battery.
Once the process is complete, you will see many of the files that have ever been deleted.
You can sort them by different parameters: progress, size or type. To restore a photo, you need to go to the “Images” tab and scroll to find the pictures you need.
Hooray! Photo found. Just click on the save icon in the top right corner and find your recovered photos in the gallery. As you can see, everything is very simple.
