Data recovery for Android. How to recover deleted data on Android
This instruction will show you how to recover data on Android in cases where you accidentally formatted a memory card, deleted photos or other files from the internal memory, did a Hard Reset (resetting the phone to factory settings) or something else happened, because Why do you have to look for ways to get back lost files?
DiskDigger is a free application in Russian that allows you to find and recover deleted photos on Android without root access (but the result may be better with it). Suitable for simple cases and when you need to find photos (there is also a paid version of the program that allows you to recover other types of files).
GT Recovery for Android
The next, this time a free program that can be effective for modern Android devices is the GT Recovery application, which is installed on the phone itself and scans the internal memory of the phone or tablet.
I have not tested the application (due to difficulties in obtaining Root rights on the device), but reviews on the Play Market indicate that, when possible, GT Recovery for Android copes quite successfully with the recovery of photos, videos and other data, allowing you to return at least some of them.
An important condition for using the application (so that it can scan the internal memory for recovery) is the presence of Root access, which you can get by finding the appropriate instructions for your Android device model or using a simple free program, see.
You can download GT Recovery for Android from the official page on Google Play.
EASEUS Mobisaver for Android Free
EASEUS Mobisaver for Android Free is a free program for data recovery on Android phones and tablets, very similar to the first of the utilities discussed, but it allows you not only to look at what is available for recovery, but also to save these files.
However, unlike Dr.Fone, Mobisaver for Android requires that you first obtain Root access on your device yourself (I indicated above how to do this). And only after this the program will be able to search for deleted files on your Android.
Details about using the program and downloading it: .
If you are unable to recover data from Android
As noted above, the likelihood of successfully recovering data and files on an Android device from internal memory is lower than the same procedure for memory cards, flash drives and other drives (which are defined specifically as drives in Windows and other operating systems).
Therefore, it is quite possible that none of the proposed methods will help you. In this case, I recommend, if you have not already done so, to try the following:
- Go to the address photos.google.com using your account credentials on your Android device to log in. It may turn out that the photos you want to recover are synced with the account and you will find them safe and sound.
- If you need to restore your contacts, go to contacts.google.com- there is a chance that there you will find all your contacts from your phone (albeit mixed with those with whom you corresponded by e-mail).
I hope some of this is useful to you. Well, for the future, try to synchronize important data with Google storage or other cloud services, for example, OneDrive.
Note: Below we describe another program (formerly free), which, however, recovers files from Android only when they are connected as USB Mass Storage, which is no longer relevant for most modern devices.
Data recovery software 7-Data Android Recovery
When I last wrote about another program from the developer 7-Data, which allows you to recover files from a flash drive or hard drive, I noticed that on their website they have a version of the program designed to recover data from Android internal memory or inserted into phone (tablet) micro SD memory card. I immediately thought that this would be a good topic for one of the following articles.
You can download Android Recovery from the official website http://7datarecovery.com/android-data-recovery/. At the same time, at the moment the program is completely free. Update: in the comments they said that it is no longer.
You can download Android Recovery on the official website
The installation does not take much time - just click “Next” and agree with everything, the program does not install anything extraneous, so in this regard you can be calm. Russian language is supported.
Connecting an Android phone or tablet for the recovery procedure
After starting the program, you will see its main window, which schematically displays the necessary actions to get started:
- Enable USB debugging on the device
- Connect Android to computer using USB cable
To enable USB debugging on Android 4.2 and 4.3, go to “Options” - “About phone” (or “About tablet”), then click on the “Build number” field several times until you see the message “You have become developer." After that, return to the main settings page, go to the “For Developers” option and enable USB debugging.
In order to enable USB debugging on Android 4.0 - 4.1, go to the settings of your Android device, where at the end of the list of settings you will find the “Developer Options” item. Go to this item and check “USB Debugging”.
For Android 2.3 and earlier, go to Settings - Applications - Development and enable the desired option there.
After that, connect your Android device to the computer running Android Recovery. For some devices, you will need to click the "Enable USB Storage" button on the screen.
Data recovery with 7-Data Android Recovery
After connecting, in the main window of the Android Recovery program, click the “Next” button and you will see a list of drives in your Android device - this can be only internal memory or internal memory and a memory card. Select the required storage and click Next.
Selecting Android internal memory or memory card
By default, a full scan of the drive will begin - it will look for deleted, formatted and otherwise lost data. We can only wait.
At the end of the file search process, the folder structure with what was found will be displayed. You can see what's in them, and in the case of photos, music and documents, use the preview function.
After you have selected the files you want to recover, click the “Save” button and save them to your computer. Important note: do not save files to the same media from which the data was restored.
It’s strange, but nothing was restored for me: the program wrote Beta Version Expired (I installed it today), although the official website says that there are no restrictions. There is a suspicion that this is due to the fact that today is the morning of October 1, and the version is apparently updated once a month and they have not yet managed to update it on the site. So I think by the time you read this, everything will be working in the best possible way. As I said above, data recovery in this program is completely free.
How many times have they told the world,
That there should be a backup; but everything is not for the future...
Data loss on Android can happen in both good and bad scenarios. A good scenario is when the files were stored on the mobile device's memory card. In this case, you can return them easily and even free of charge. Unfortunately, memory cards are becoming less and less common in smartphones, and restoring data from internal memory is a completely different story. Let's consider both situations.
How to recover data on an SD card
Everything is simple here. First, download and install a normal free data recovery utility on your computer. This could be the mega-popular Recuva, open source TestDisk or its offshoot PhotoRec, as well as any other similar program.
Then connect the SD card to your computer like a regular flash drive and run a scan on it using the installed utility. Save the saved data and finally back it up and other valuable files to the cloud.
How to recover data from the internal memory of a mobile device
Unfortunately, the vast majority of modern smartphones connect to the computer using a special protocol, that is, not like a regular flash drive. Accordingly, all the utilities listed above are useless.
There are special programs for data recovery on Android, and most of them are shareware. This means that you can, without paying a penny, install the utility, scan your mobile device and see what was lost and recovered. But in order to extract and save the restored one, you will have to buy a license.
On the one hand, this approach can be called honest. The user does not buy a pig in a poke, but gives money only after he is convinced that the utility is working. On the other hand, it is still difficult to part with several thousand rubles. In any case, the loss of information is usually the user’s fault, and a powerful blow to the wallet is an excellent motivator to start backing up important data.
Utilities for recovering data from Android internal memory:
- iCare Recovery (free!!!).
- Undeleter (if you have superuser rights).
These programs work approximately the same. First, the client is installed on the computer, then the smartphone or tablet is connected to the computer via USB. All you have to do is follow the instructions exactly, and you will probably succeed.
The only difficulty may be the utility’s lack of support for a specific mobile device model. That is why you first need to test the program in free mode, and only then buy a license.
What to do to prevent data loss
Backup, backup and again. Almost all the data that is on your mobile device can and should be copied to cloud storage. It's almost always free, safe and automatic. For example:
- Google Mail backs up your emails.
- Google Contacts backs up contacts.
- Google Photos backs up photos, videos and screenshots.
- Google Music backs up music.
- Google Office Suite backs up documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
- Universal storages like Google Drive, Dropbox and others backup everything.
Take any type of data - there is probably a simple and convenient way to store it securely. Take advantage of this and take care of valuable information.
Loss of information on your favorite gadget... This cup has probably not passed over anyone. And the point is not why this happened - personal carelessness, a virus attack or a software failure, but what to do next to fix it. There is no need to despair; it is difficult to recover deleted files on Android, but it is possible, despite the fact that there is no recycle bin on Android.
There are two not very different methods for recovering deleted data - using a PC and without it. They are based on the use of special resuscitation programs that find deleted information on media. There are a great many such programs, but the principle of their operation is approximately the same, so we will consider only the most common and proven ones.
To do this we need:
Laptop or personal computer with Windows OS installed;
USB cable for connecting your tablet or phone;
software to recover deleted files. There shouldn’t be any problems with this - there are a huge number of them on the Internet and they are distributed mostly free of charge.
Let's look at two of the most popular applications: 7-Data Android Recovery (Download from the developer's website) and Dr.Fone (Download).
7-Data Android Recovery
This program has gained its popularity because it can be used to recover any type of information, be it texts, photos, audio, or video files. Also, unlike many similar utilities, it allows you to work not only with the memory card, but also with the system partition of the device itself.
So, we connect to the PC in USB debugging mode and launch the installed application. The next step is to select the partition where the files that need to be recovered were located.
7-Data Android Recovery itself will start scanning the partition for search, as a result of which a sign will appear containing the deleted information. Let me make a reservation that this procedure can take considerable time, since it directly depends on the size of the memory occupied by the folder.
Select the desired file and click Save.
Simple, fast, not complicated, works with system partitions.
Dr.Fone
For this utility to work, you need to do a little configuration of the gadget itself, namely, enable root rights (rights that allow you to change system settings and work with system program settings) and connect in USB debugging mode.
After launching the program, it immediately begins searching for deleted files on Android. Let me remind you again - this may take some time. As a result, we get a table of files available for recovery.
Select the deleted file and click the Recover button. We indicate the path to the folder where it can be restored.
As a result of the above steps, the information received is saved to the computer’s hard drive.
Restore directly to an Android device
Unfortunately, a computer may not always be at hand, but this is absolutely no obstacle to recovering deleted files on Android. You can get by with one device by downloading the utility directly to it. The Dumpster program (download) copes well with this task. It is installed in the same way as all other applications for Android and plays the role of a kind of recycle bin for storing deleted files. By the way, in the settings you can specify which types of data are preferably stored and which can be deleted immediately.
It will not be difficult for the user to recover deleted data, since after launching the application will independently scan the internal memory of the device and provide a list of all deleted data. After which you can select a file that will be restored to the folder where it was located before deletion.
As you can see, deleting information is not always irreversible. But it still happens that despite all efforts, lost information cannot be saved.
If you couldn't restore it?
If all of the above methods are unsuccessful, you will most likely not be able to recover your data.
But, you can still try logging into photos.google.com using your account. This record is requested from the user when the device is first turned on and can subsequently be used to store and retrieve information from various resources. So there is always a chance that your photos are synchronized and will be found on this resource.
In the same way, you can try to restore contacts using the link contacts.google.com. But what may come as a surprise here is a list of contacts collected from all devices and applications mixed together.
In conclusion, I would like to remind you that no matter what miracles modern applications for data recovery work, the most reliable and reliable option is to synchronize all data with your account, or create archival copies on other storage media.
It often happens that you regret deleting data and files from your smartphone or tablet running Android, or have you lost them? Then today's instructions are especially for you!
There is no need to be upset, since they can be restored, but to do this you will have to install and work with some additional Android applications, and in some cases connect a PC.
An excellent program for recovering lost data on Android is 7-Data Android Recovery. You will find detailed operating instructions in the article:.
To prevent data loss next time, check out the following articles:
Now let's get back to data recovery. Thanks to the Undelete for Root Users program, Android device users will be able to recover data on their smartphones and tablets. A guarantee of successful file recovery is the prevention of further data being written to the media after its previous deletion.
After installation Undelete for Root Users for Android will scan the memory card and display a list of all deleted files. After clicking the “Restore” button, the necessary data will be restored. From the name it is clear that the application only works on rooted smartphones and tablets. Read about receiving them in the posts: and.
If you are a prudent user, then take care in advance about the safety of your personal data. Therefore, especially for you, there is an excellent shopping cart application on Android - Dumpster: Recycle Bin (link to the article at the beginning of the post), which performs functions identical to the Recycle Bin on a PC. That is, after deletion, the file is not completely erased, but ends up in the trash, from where it can be easily restored.
If the data was on a memory card, then you can return deleted files using wonderful PC utilities, of which there are a lot. Among the best I can highlight Restoration or UnDelete Plus. After installing one of the programs, you need to insert the SD card into the card reader slot and press the button to start scanning. After this, the found files can be restored and used again.
Who among us has not deleted photos or videos without fully realizing what we had done? Yes, it is very unpleasant to realize the loss. But there is no reason to panic: there are many ways to get your data back. In this article, I will show you how to recover deleted files on android without root access and without a computer.
Advice. Time after deletion plays a significant role: do not copy new files to the device until you have started recovering deleted files. Disable Wi-Fi and 3G/4G connections. While automatic updating is running, your data may be overwritten without your knowledge. And, if you had any chance to get your hands on the lost files, it's lost.
Recover Deleted Android Files Without Root
By default, root access is disabled on your phone. Accordingly, your rights on Android are very limited, so you will not be able to use most recovery programs. But there is a way out, and this method will allow you to return data from your phone’s SD card. At the same time, it is not suitable for resuscitating internal memory.
1. Connect the memory card to the PC
The first thing you need to do is connect your phone's memory card as a storage device to your computer. Although you can connect your Android via USB, I would recommend a card reader: not all Android phones allow you to mount the SD card drive as a separate volume.
2. Download the Recuva program
The first thing you need to do when you run Undelete is to select the storage device where you want to find the lost data (this can be internal or external storage).
2. Scan the phone memory
Scan the selected device. This process may take from 2 to 10 minutes, depending on the amount of memory and the amount of data stored.
3. Recovering data from internal memory
Upon completion, you will be presented with the found data, distributed in several tabs: files, images, music, videos, documents and other files. Recovered Android data is returned to its original location - where it was stored before it was deleted. This option may only work partially (if there is a problem with your Android phone's memory). In this case, turn to Recuva (see above), Wondershare or other root recovery programs.
Question answer
Tell me how to recover deleted files on Android without programs? Is it possible?
Answer. No. However, if you store backups of your files in the Google Drive or Dropbox cloud, you can copy the files from there back to your phone.
How to recover photos on Android without using a PC? The programs you listed above do not help!
Answer. What about the Wondershare Dr. apps? Fone and DiskDigger? We can also recommend Mobisaver. However, the effectiveness of such utilities is not very high - it is better to use other programs and methods to restore internal memory.
Is it possible to download Recuva for Android? Does this program have a convenient mobile version?
Answer. Alas, there is no mobile version and it is unlikely that it will appear. Moreover, without root access it will be ineffective.