Recover Deleted Photos, Videos and Files from Samsung Galaxy Phone or Tablet

Top 2 Ways to Recover Deleted Files from Samsung Device

Sept. 18, 2013 3:55 pm / Posted by Bobby Hills to Mobile Phone Tips
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Accidental deletion of photos, contacts, videos from Samsung Phone or tablet is not an uncommon mistake that we make. I believe some of the people who have done this, have certainly looked for solutions to this kind of problem. Yes, there are ways to accomplish data recovery for Samsung phone or tablet, but to recover the data, you need to do, or "not to do" something first.

If you wish a full recovery of all your files, first thing before the data recovery process, do not use your phone or tablet until you get the data back. Then, find a data recovery program that will help you go through the process and get your files back intact.

I recommend Android Data Recovery, a powerful yet user-friendly program that will recover your photos, contacts, videos, SMS messages and call history from your Samsung phone or tablet. Here will be a simple guide on using the software, please follow:

Part 1: Recover Deleted Photos and Files from Samsung Phone or Tablet on Windows

First we will download Android Data Recovery to complete the file recovery for Samsung, though for unrooted device, only photos and videos can be recovered:

Free Download Android Data Recovery:

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1. Connect your Galaxy phone or tablet to the computer. Then run the software. Please note that USB driver for your device will be needed, if you haven't installed, a wizard will pop up to guide you through.
2. Then enable USB debugging and turn on USB storage, as the picture demonstrates. Then click "Next".
3. Click "Allow" on your phone or tablet and click "Start" to allow the program scan your phone or tablet, and select the file types you need to recover.
4. Select any files to preview and check before recovery, and then choose the wanted one or all to recover lost files from Samsung device, and choose a path to store the files.

There you have it, your files are back, now keep them in a safe place, or back them up, just in case anything happen again.

Part 2: Samsung Data Recovery for Mac OS X

For Mac users, we have to use another program called Card Data Recovery for mac, which will scan the files including photos, music, videos you deleted from your memory card and help you recover them.

Free Download Card Data Recovery for Mac:

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1. Connect your memory card to your Mac, then select a recovery mode. (There are two to choose, Quick Recovery is a normal one, while RAW Recovery could find the files that cannot be scanned or recovered by normal recovery).
2. Select your card as the target partition and choose the file type you wish to recover.
3. When the scanning is over, you will see a list of scanning result, click on the file to preview and select the ones you need, and click "Recover" to recover.
4. Then save the files to your Mac, and your data will be recovered.