Anyway to recover deleted photos on S7/Android?

[Hero_X]

Hey guys,

I had a family member accidentally delete all photos in the gallery rather than just select few.

Is there any way to recover them?

They were on the internal storage. I've been checking google and there are a lot of sites that offer "android recovery" software for purchase, but I'm not sure which is trust worthy, if any.

Please help!

[roopi]

Did they check the trash folder?

https://support.google.com/photos/an...DAndroid&hl=en

[Hero_X]

Yah already checked that. Unfortunately google photos wasn't used, only the Samsung gallery.

[firebane]

You might be able to use something as Recuva but it will really depend on the phone. Unless you can mount it so the system partition is available to an OS like Windows there won't be much you can do.

Plug your phone in with a USB cable and see if you get a mount point for your phone. If so use the software above to scan what it shows and see what happens.

[Seth1968]

Don't use the phone, or use it as little as possible. If they must, don't download anything and turn off auto updates. This will help ensure that pictures aren't partially or wholly overwritten.

Also, have a look here:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/28736...-or-phone.html

[Xtrema]

I believe S7 is encrypted, as with most phones these days. I'm pretty sure they are gone if they are not backed up to the cloud or off the phone.

I don't think Google make Android that stupid to have encrypted file system readable off a mount from PC.

[ayaoho]

First stop using it, then you can use Android data recovery program to recover deleted photos on S7/Android easily if they were not overwritten. It helps you scan out all deleted photos and mark them in red on program, then you can easily choose them to recover.