Root Samsung SM-T211

Jan Novak · Oct 11, 2015

I have just deleted almost 1,000 photos from my tablet.
I used USB to rerganizated my folders, but i did not made a backup copy of this folder.
I have Windows 7 and Android version 4.4.2.
I rooted my device, and by DiskDigger app tried to found it, but there were just 2 of this photos and almost 4,000 others pictures.
Is there any different way how to get this photos? Or it is a different situations, when I deleted tham from my PC?
Thank you

The_Chief · Oct 11, 2015

Hi and welcome to Android Forums!

If the file location on the SD card where each photo was stored has been overwritten, that photo is pretty much gone. Same principle applies to a PC's hard drive: when you "delete" a file on your computer, the file itself isn't erased: the computer just knows that the space once reserved for that file is available again. As long as nothing new gets written over that space, a recovery program SHOULD be able to read it off the hard disk or SD card.

It's regrettable that you didn't have a backup, and you can always remove the card, insert it into a PC slot and run a PC-based recovery program that MAY find a few more. Under no circumstances would I use that card for anything else until I did that, though: every time any app writes to the card, those are likely more photos being overwritten. Hope this helps.

Jan Novak · Oct 11, 2015

The_Chief said:
Hi and welcome to Android Forums!

If the file location on the SD card where each photo was stored has been overwritten, that photo is pretty much gone. Same principle applies to a PC's hard drive: when you "delete" a file on your computer, the file itself isn't erased: the computer just knows that the space once reserved for that file is available again. As long as nothing new gets written over that space, a recovery program SHOULD be able to read it off the hard disk or SD card.

It's regrettable that you didn't have a backup, and you can always remove the card, insert it into a PC slot and run a PC-based recovery program that MAY find a few more. Under no circumstances would I use that card for anything else until I did that, though: every time any app writes to the card, those are likely more photos being overwritten. Hope this helps.

Thank you for your answer the problem is that photos were not in SD card but in the memory in my tablet.
So do yo think that there is any way or not?

The_Chief · Oct 11, 2015

In the case of the photos having been on the tablet itself, the odds of recovering the photos are remote. You can try 2 or three recovery apps, but you run the risk of overwriting more photos by installing them.

I know that's not the answer you want to hear, but that's all I have for you. I can only hope that, going forward, backing up vital files and photos becomes a habit (I'm a big backup fanatic).

Jan Novak · Oct 12, 2015

The_Chief said:
In the case of the photos having been on the tablet itself, the odds of recovering the photos are remote. You can try 2 or three recovery apps, but you run the risk of overwriting more photos by installing them.

I know that's not the answer you want to hear, but that's all I have for you. I can only hope that, going forward, backing up vital files and photos becomes a habit (I'm a big backup fanatic).

So do you know some of them whitch I can use?
I know that there is just a small probability but I would like to try it.
Thank you for yours ideas

The_Chief · Oct 12, 2015

Maybe somebody else can chime in. I am not familiar enough with the various recovery apps to speak to the issue further. Good luck!

James L · Oct 13, 2015

This is what a ton of my customers use usually with a positive result.
I have never used it personally but the people who have reported back to me they were able to recover a large majority of the pictures etc. Mind you that this also depends on how much you have overwritten by using the tablet.

Here's a link.

http://www.wondershare.net/data-recovery/android-data-recovery.html?icn=nav

Root Samsung SM-T211

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