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By Selena KomezUpdated on January 13, 2020


[Summary]: Looking for a way to recover your lost or deleted pictures from Samsung Galaxy phone? The tutorial will teach how to recover lost or deleted photos, videos from Android Samsung Galaxy phone and tablet with Android Data Recovery, even if you haven’t create any backups.

You may stored photos, pictures, images, videos and movies in Gallery, DCIM folder, Micro SD card or internal storage of your Samsung phone. Have you ever accidentally deleted your photos, videos and other media files from Samsung Galaxy S10, S9, S8, S7, S6, S5, Note 10, Note 9, Note 8, J7 or formatted the media storage? It can be an unexpected SD card corrupt and format the photo folder, It could even be a Android OS upgrade failure without a backup, or reset phone to factory setting and lost all data. Don’t panic! Android Data Recovery offers the best, simple and secure way to recover deleted and lost photos, videos from Samsung Galaxy phone, even you haven’t backup before.

Samsung Galaxy phone has built-in Samsung Cloud and Google Photos option for users to back up, sync, and restore photos & videos, if you haven’t backup Samsung photos via Samsung Cloud and Google Photos, you can’t get back the deleted photos; If you have deleted photos on Samsung Galaxy phone recently, you can view and restore the deleted pictures from Samsung phone’s Trash (or Recycle bin) within 15 days, but if it has been more than 15 days, these files stored in the recycle bin will be emptied automatically; If you save pictures to SD card on the Samsung phone, when you accidentally deleted photos from the camera gallery, or formatting the Samsung SD card, you can recover lost/deleted/formatted photos from Android SD card via Data Recovery(Windows/Mac), as well as recover deleted files from computer, camera, memory card, flash drive and more. But, if you haven’t backup the Samsung device, how to recover deleted photos from Samsung internal memory?

Please keep reading the following guide, you will learn how to recover lost or deleted photos, videos from Samsung Galaxy phone directly with the help of Android Photo Recovery.

The Android Data Recovery and Android Toolkit – Data Recovery, both not only can help you recover media files: photos, videos, audios, App photos and App videos, but also recover lost contacts and SMS from various Android mobile phones.

More information about Android Data Recovery:

  • 1. Directly recover lost or deleted pictures, photos library, gallery, videos, audio files, contacts, messages, messages Attachments, call history, WhatsApp messages, documents from samsung phone and other android smartphone or SD cards inside your Android device.
  • 2. Restore lost data for android phone or SD card, no matter they are lost because of accidentally deleting, factory resetting, system crash, forgotten password, flashing ROM, rooting, ect.
  • 3. Preview and selectively check to get back lost or deleted pictures, videos, messages, contacts etc from android smartphone.
  • 4. Recover data from dead/broken Samsung phone internal storage, fix samsung phone system problem such as frozen, crashed, black-screen, virus-attack, screen-locked and get it back to normal.
  • 5. Almost all Android smartphones and tablets are supported, such as Samsung, HTC, LG, Huawei, Sony, Sharp, Windows phone, etc.
  • 6. Read and save the data with 100% safety and quality.
  • 7. Backup and restore Android data easily.

Download Android Data Recovery and have a try to recover your lost data.

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Tutorial: How to Recover deleted Photos from Samsung Phone (without backup)

Step 1: Run Android Data Recovery on PC/Mac
We provides Windows version and Mac version, so you can recover Samsung deleted photos on Windows or Mac computer. In order to recover photos from Samsung phone, please download, install and launch the Android Toolkit program. Then go with the “Android Data Recovery” mode on the interface.

Samsung Photo Recovery

Step 2. Connect Samsung Phone to Computer and Enable USB debugging
Then, connect the Samsung Galaxy phone to computer through a USB cable. Once connected, a wizard that appears on screen will walk you through the steps on setting the device to USB Debugging mode. Do it as required.
Related Article: How to enable USB Debugging on Android device.

The program will prompt you to “Enable USB debugging” according to three different situations:
1) For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter “Settings” < Click “Applications” < Click “Development” < Check “USB debugging”
2) For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter “Settings” < Click “Developer options” < Check “USB debugging”
3) For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter “Settings” < Click “About Phone” < Tap “Build number” for several times until getting a note “You are under developer mode” < Back to “Settings” < Click “Developer options” < Check “USB debugging”

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Note: If you still get this window and the USB debugging has been enabled, please try to disable it and reset it again.

Step 3. Select Photos to Scan
Next, you’ll get a screen to ask you to choose the type of data you’re looking to recover. In this example, check “Gallery”, “Picture Library” and “Videos” and click Next button.

choose data types to recover

Step 4. Root for Deep Scanning
In order to deep scan the Samsung phone, you have to root the Samsung phone so that the software can go deeper into the memory and scan the all lost and deleted photos. Please click Rooting Tools button to download a rooting tool named KingoRoot, please download it to your computer, it will helps you root your Samsung phone safely.

For more information, please consult the article: how to safely root and unroot an Android device. You can get you phone return to original unrooted status after recovering data complete.

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After the Samsung device has been rooted, please click “Retry” button start to deep scanning the Samsung phone, the scanning process will start immediately and last for 15-20 minutes approximately. Please be patient.

Step 5. Preview and Recover Photos from Samsung Galaxy
After the scan, all found pictures appear on the window. You can preview the recoverable file in the category of “Gallery” and “Videos” at the left side of the window, then check the photo files you want back and click “Recover” to save them on your computer.

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Step 6. Transfer the Recovered Photos, Video to Samsung Phone for Using or Viewing(Optional)
Follow the above simple steps, you have recovered and save the deleted photos on the computer, if you want to import them to your Samsung phone or other Android/iOS devices for viewing, using or sharing, please connect your phone to computer via USB cable, then use this Android & iOS Transfer to add photos and videos to mobile phone from computer.
Also read: Transfer Music, Photos, Videos to Samsung Galaxy

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Free download the Android Data Recovery and try to scan your deleted Samsung files.

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The Bottom Line

In order to avoiding your important files lost or deleted again, we recommend you should back up your Samsung data to computer regularly. You can choose to sync the Gallery to Samsung Cloud, or save the copy of the photo onto computer hard drive regularly. Here, we introduce this Android Data Backup & Restore tool, it can help users backup Everything from Android to computer, after creating the backups file, you also can restore these backed up Android files to the phone for further use.

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By Selena KomezUpdated on March 21, 2019


Videos and photos are recorded moment in the life of the good things,many Samsung Galaxy user said they have taken a lot of photos and videos in their daily life and store them on the Samsung devices. If you accidentally lost or deleted video, photos on your Samsung Galxy phone,how to do? do not worry, this will recommend a Samsung data recovery software to solve your problem.

Part 1:Restore Lost Photos and Videos from Samsung

Samsung Data Recovery deals with most Samsung devices, including Galaxy S9/S8/S7/S6/S5/S4/S3/Note 9/Note 8/Note 5/Note 4/Note 3/Note 2.Even rooting phones are supported. With this software you can recover deleted photos , video and other things like contacts.

Scan and Get Lost Video, Photos, Media Files from Samsung

Samsung Data Recovery is a reliable as well as professional recovery software, which is designed to retrieve all lost or deleted photos, videos and audio files on Samsung. It is completely compatible with your Samsung Galaxy S/Note. Besides, HTC, Motorola, Sony, LG and more other popular Android devices are also supported to recover lost data. Follow the easy guide below and read the simple four steps carefully. Figure out how to regain your deleted/lost videos on Samsung Galaxy now.

Download the free trial version of the software below to have a try now:

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Two versions of Android Data Recovery are offered here: Android Data Recovery for Windows and Android Data Recovery for Mac. Download and install the right version for yourself and begin the recovery process below.

Step 1. Stop Your Samsung Data from Being Overwritten If Lost Data
Before you find an easy approach to recover your deleted Android videos or photos from your Android, be sure that you didn’t do any update once you find that your Android data is lost. In this way, you can prevent your data from being overwritten. After making sure that your Android backup is well protected, you can download Android Data Recovery on your computer and try restore data with it.

Step 2. Connect your Samsung Phone to the PC and Launch the Program
Please using a USB cable to connect your Samsung phone with the computer at first.

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Use a USB cable to connect your device to the computer. Then open the recovery software so you can get the main interface as follow.

Step 3. Begin to Enable USB Debugging on your Samsung Galaxy
When it comes to the window below, you are asked to enable USB Debugging cable on your phone, please go as the right steps according to your Android OS version:
1) For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter “Settings” < Click “Applications” < Click “Development” < Check “USB debugging”
2) For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter “Settings” < Click “Developer options” < Check “USB debugging”
3) For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter “Settings” < Click “About Phone” < Tap “Build number” for several times until getting a note “You are under developer mode” < Back to “Settings” < Click “Developer options” < Check “USB debugging”

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Note: If your phone has enabled USB debugging, just skip this step.

Step 4. Start Scan and Check Deleted Samsung Videos
Here, you need to finish two operation before you can recover those deleted videos on your phone. Firstly, please click “Start” button to let the program analyze your Galaxy.

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Selecet Video from the below interface. It will save more time than you choosing “Select All”.
Then, go back to your phone screen, cause you need to click “Allow” on it to go ahead

After the program finishes analyzing process, it will prompt you turn back to your device again to accept and tap on the “Allow” button to let the program scan your phone for lost messages, contacts, photos and video on your Samsung phone.

restore lost photo videos from samsung

Step 5. Restore Samsung Deleted Videos on your Computer
When the scanning finish, choose “Videos” on the list, you will see all videos show on the right window. Select those you want to recover, then wait for the recovery process. When it comes to an end, your precious videos come back to your life successfully.

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Note: You can choose to save the scan results in need next time.

Click here to read more information about Samsung Files Recovery. Related articles are also available below. Check them to learn more.

Part 2:Recover Lost Photos and Videos from Broken Samsung

Do you suffering the problem that lost photos and video from broken Samsung?Have no idea about how to get back all your media files from broken Samsung?Please take it easy,it is totally possible to use a data recovery to help your restored the lost photos and videos on broken Samsung.Here comes Android Data RecoveryAndroid Broken Data Recovery,a powerful program helping you to recover lost photos and videos from broken Samsung,it also enable to recover photos and video from Android SD card or memory card.Besides photos and videos,contacts, messages,notes,call logs and more data are all supported to be recovered by the perfect program.Android Broken Data Recovery allow to restore lost from broken Samsung under several broken situations,like Samsung with broken screen,Samsung with black/white screen,water damaged Samsung,etc,.

Tips:How to restore lost data from Samsung SD card
How to restore lost data from broken Samsung

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Part 3: Retrieve Lost Pictures and Videos from Samsung SD Card

Samsung SD and microSD cards bring safe expandable storage to your mobile phone, camera and other digital devices. But unfortunately, various reasons like accidental formatting, deletion, virus attack, SD card corruption, etc. often occur unexpectedly and cause data loss disasters. Have you ever mistakenly deleted photos or videos from your Android SD micro card, or got your SD card formatted?

U.Fone Data Recovery is a reliable SD card recovery tool that gives you a full chance of getting your deleted/lost files back. You can use it to recover all types of data, If you want to recover deleted photos from Android SD card free or other files types including music, PDF files, video, audio, emails, etc, you can gain support from this free SD card recovery software as well. The sources of recoverable data are extensive, such as recovering data from recycle bins, hard drives, memory cards, flash drives, digital cameras and camcorders. On the other hand, it supports recovering data for sudden deletions, formatting, lost partitions, virus attacks, and system crashes or other situations.

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How to Recover Data from Samsung SD card with U.Fone Data Recovery

Avoid data overwriting on Samsung SD card:

You should stop using your Samsung Android phone immediately when you want to retrieve lost data from it. The Android phone SD card data recovery solution we introduce here can help you scan your SD card to find recently deleted images and other deleted data that has not been overwritten by new data yet. Thus you should avoid any possible data overwriting for higher data recovery success rate.

Step 1. Open U.Fone Data Recovery on Your Computer

Launch U.Fone Data Recovery, select a data recovery mode. You can select “External Devices Recovery” mode to start.

Select Samsung SD Card Data Recovery Mode

Step 2. Connect Your SD Card to the Computer

You need to make sure your SD card have connected to the computer, click “Next” button to process. And select your SD card where your data loss. Click “Start” button to finding data.

Connect Samsung SD Card

Step 3. Scan for SD Card

U.Fone Data Recovery will start a quick scan to search your lost data, including photos. You can preview some recoverable files after the first scan. If you cannot find your lost data, please go to scan agian with “All-Around Recovery” mode.

Scan SD Card

Once you selected “All-around Recovery” mode, it will start a deep scan to search your data from SD card. While it will take more time to scan and search your lost data.

Step 4. Recover Deleted Photos from Samsung SD Card

After the scan completed, you can check all recoverable files on the list. You can preview some specific photos and click “Recover” button to get them aback.

Scan SD Card

Please do not save any recovered data on your damaged or corrupted SD card, because it will overwrite data and cause data loss again.

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