If you are NOT ROOTED
If you don’t know what this means, you are most likely not rooted
The
first thing to do is to connect the phone memory (internal or external)
as a Mass Storage Device to your computer, ie, via USB. Although you
can connect your Android directly, you can also use a Micro SD Card
Adapter to attach your microSD via USB. If external memory is the issue,
I’d recommend an adapter because not all Android phones manage memory
in the same way and the cleaner the connection between your precious
data and the recovery, the better.
Then download Recuva (you
can use either the paid or free version), which is a program to recover
files. You can also use other programs, like Coolmuster or Wondershare
Dr. Fone (which requires root), but Recuva is a great free tool.
Note: Normally,
for most of these programs to work, your memory must be formatted as
FAT32, NTFS or similar. If your memory card format is not recognized for
some reason, you can just do a complete copy of its contents to your
computer, reformat the memory card as FAT32 and then dump the copied
files back on it and continue the process.
When you run Recuva, the first thing to do is select the type of file
you want to recover: Pictures, Videos, Music, Documents, etc. The
option to restore from a specific location is available and you can even
set a specific folder to attempt recovery from. Note that Recuva will
only display locations it can actually recover data from. Just follow
the prompts in the program.
Important: When
you finish recovering your deleted files try to save them on a
different device from the one on which they were originally lost: this
can sometimes cause conflicts and damage recovery. So if you are
recovering files from your smartphone, record them on the hard disk of
the PC and then transfer them over later, once they’re safe and sound.
If you have ROOT
1. Download UNDELETE
2.
The application is very simple. The first thing to do is to select the
storage device from which you want to retrieve your data (can be
internal or external memory).
3. Then you scan the selected device.
4. The process may take between 2 and 10 minutes, depending on your memory size and the amount of stored data.
5.
When finished you will be presented with retrievable data in several
tabs: Files, Pictures, Music, Videos, Documents and Files. Recovered
data returns to its place of origin, ie wherever it was saved before
they were lost.
6.
This option may only work partially (if there is a problem with your
memory). In that case, proceed to the Recuva steps above, or use
Wondershare or another root recovery program.
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