How to Recover Photos on Samsung Galaxy Phone (S, Note, A, J, M Series) without Any Backups

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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.

root samsung phone

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

add photos to Samsung phone

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 November 06, 2020


[Summary]: Unexpectedly deleting videos from Samsung Galaxy S9 without any backup? This article helps you jump out of how to recover deleted videos from the Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ using Android Data Recovery software.

Accidentally removed videos from Samsung phone?

“When I deleted the images on my Samsung Galaxy S9+ to optimize the phone’s memory, I mistakenly removed some important videos about my son’s birth. They are so precious. Can I recover deleted videos from Samsung Galaxy S9+ which I did not back up in time?”

The outstanding features of the Samsung Galaxy S9 / S9 Plus have won the approval of users. Their dual cameras allowing capturing a sharp picture even in a low light environment. However, the higher quality of photos and videos, the more memory space you need. Sometimes you have to delete many files to release storage space on your Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+, but you may delete some videos by mistake. And it would be very upsetting when those deleted videos are meaningful for you.

Can I get deleted videos back on Galaxy S9/S9+ without backup?

Apple added a feature in the photo app called “Recently Deleted”, similar to the recycle bin on our windows PC or Trash on Mac. All deleted photos and videos are stored here for 30 days. If you don’t restore them to your Camera Roll over this period, your photos and videos will disappear from your device forever. Unfortunately, Android phones do not currently have this feature.

When Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ videos are deleted, their original spaces are marked as empty and are waiting to be replaced by any new data. Remember, once you find that the data has been lost, stop using your Samsung phone immediately, as long as the original data is not covered by new files, Samsung Video Recovery and Samsung Data Recovery are possible by using the professional Android data recovery program.

U.Fone Android Data Recovery – Perfectly Restore Files from Samsung Memory and SD Card

Apart from accidental deletion, there are also many cases of data loss on Samsung Galaxy S9 / S9 + smartphones, such as root failed, virus attack, Android OS crashed, factory restore, Android OS update failed, forgotten unlock pattern, etc. U.Fone Android Data Recovery is designed to recover deleted data from Android phone internal memory and SD card. Therefore, you can easily retrieve deleted videos on Galaxy S9/S9+ without losing any other contents. Besides, you can retrieve data from all of the above scenarios, including contacts, SMS, pictures, videos, call history, WhatsApp messages, music and documents.

This data recovery software can be used on Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP and supports Samsung Galaxy S9, S8, S7, S7 edge, S6 edge, S6, S5, S4, Note 9, Note 8, Note 5, A9, A7, J7, etc. Now get the free trial version by downloading on your computer.

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Easy Steps to Recover Deleted Video from Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+

Step 1. Launch U.Fone Android Data Recovery

Install and launch the U.Fone Android Data Recovery program on your computer after downloading. The main window will pop up as below, you need to enter the “Android Data Recovery” mode.

Run the samsung video recovery Software

Step 2. Connect Galaxy S9/S9+ to PC

Then you need to connect your Galaxy S9/S9+ to the computer via a USB cable. Make sure USB debugging is enabled on your Samsung phone.

Connect Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ to PC

Step 3. Select Data Types

Select what kind of files you want to scan for recovery, such as Contacts, Messages, Messages Attachments, Call Logs, WhatsApp, WhatsApp Attachments, Gallery, Pictures Library, Videos, Audio, Documents. In this case, choose “Videos” and click on “Next”.

Select Data Types

Step 4. Scan Galaxy S9 Videos

This may take a few minutes to thoroughly scan the selected files on the Samsung Galaxy S9 device. Later, tap “Allow” on your Galaxy S9 when the pop-up asks you to remember the request forever. If not, click “Retry” and try again in the lower right corner. The program will then automatically scan your Galaxy S9 or S9+.

Pass the Request

Step 5. (Optional) Deeply Scan Your Phone

To deep scan and find the deleted files, you need to root your Samsung Galaxy S9 or S9+ device before recovering. Please be free to do it as U.Fone Android Data Recovery can easily get your Samsung phone rooted without any data loss by clicking the “Advanced Root” button at the lower right corner of the window. All you have to do is following the prompts.

Root for deep scanning

Step 5. Preview and Recover Deleted Videos on Galaxy S9/S9+

When the scan is terminated, you can preview the files in the scan results. Preview and select the desired items you want to recover – “Videos” then simply click on “Recover” button to recover deleted Samsung Galaxy S9 videos on your computer.

recover deleted videos on galaxy s9/s9+

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Alternative: Restore Deleted Videos on Galaxy S9 without PC(Google Photos)

This solution will help you recover deleted videos from Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ without a computer. The condition for determining if it works is that you have enabled back up & sync ON before the video is deleted. Furthermore, Google Photos only keeps deleted videos for 60 days, and the videos are recoverable before they expire. The following is how to do:

Step 1. Find Deleted Videos on Google Photos App

Go to “Google Photos” app on your Samsung Galaxy S9, tap on “Menu” on the top left > “Trash“.

Step 2. Restore Deleted Videos

Select the videos that you want to recover and then hit “Restore” at the bottom. Now the deleted videos will be back. You can back to “Photos” app on your Samsung phone, go to “Albums” to check the deleted videos.

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Tip: How to Avoid Deleting Videos on Samsung Android

Tip 1. You need to develop a habit of regularly backing up your data. Backing up important videos to your PC, external SD card, hard drive or cloud backup, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. is the best way to prevent video loss.
Tip 2. When you delete any video on your device to clean your phone’s memory, please double check it.
Tip 3. Install a reliable anti-virus application on your Samsung device to avoid virus attacks that could damage your videos.

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