Recover Photos in Android
If your Android device has a microSD card slot, and you save your photos and videos to the memory card, you can use recovery software like the aforementioned PhotoRec to locate your missing images.
Otherwise, try a desktop software app like Kvisoft Data Recovery, which is available for Windows and Mac. The app will scan your Android device for deleted files for free, but in order to recover them, you have to upgrade to the paid version, which costs $70. Another option, though it’s Windows only, is Wondershare’s Dr. Fone for Android.
Here’s how to use the app:
Step 1: On your Android smartphone, make sure the USB debugging feature is enabled. To do this on an Android 5.0 device, go to Settings > About phone > Build number, and then tap a few times until you get a messaging saying, “You are now a developer!” Return to the Settings menu, select Developer Options and turn on USB debugging. You can find directions on how to do this on older Android devices here.
Step 2: After launching the app, connect your smartphone to your computer via USB cable, and select Multimedia/Mobile Device from the main menu.
Step 3: On the next screen, select your device to scan files (again, if your phone doesn’t show up under a familiar name, look for similar capacity size as a clue) and then press Start.
Step 4: Once the scan is complete, you can preview and select which files you want to recover using the menu on the left side. After that, click the Recovery button and select where you would like the files to be stored.
Hopefully, one of these solutions will help you recover your photos. If not, you still have other options, like professional data-recovery services. Our videographer at Re/code recently used one and, while expensive, they were able to recover some important work files.
And if that doesn’t work, you have my full permission to have that aforementioned freak-out, before you start snapping new photos and gathering new memories.
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