Recover deleted videos

Android Question · Jul 9, 2014

Hi, I would like to know if there is any way to recover a video that I deleted accidentally. I am using an HTC one (m7) and android 4.4. I deleted the videos accidentally this morning and have barely used the phone since (in case it were to jeopardize any recovery process). I have tried all the software I could find by googling my problem but have had no luck. I've also trawled through many forums for hours and have yet to find any definitive answer. Please please could someone help me with a straight answer, many thanks!

antelifeUK · Jul 9, 2014

as far as I know, there is no way to recover any kind of data of a flash memory (it's what most phones use nowadays).

don't you use a service like dropbox or google+ ? I do, and all my files get automatically backed up to cloud

Digital Controller · Jul 9, 2014

If you had Google backup on it should be in the Google Photos application.

If not your other only option is to check the cache for your gallery, but it really isn't looking good.

TimHaynes · Jul 9, 2014

antelifeUK said:
as far as I know, there is no way to recover any kind of data of a flash memory (it's what most phones use nowadays).

don't you use a service like dropbox or google+ ? I do, and all my files get automatically backed up to cloud

I'm not saying you're wrong but as far as I could read online, people were saying that once an image has been deleted it's still there really, it's only marked as space that can be overwritten.

Digital Controller said:
If you had Google backup on it should be in the Google Photos application.

If not your other only option is to check the cache for your gallery, but it really isn't looking good.

Unfortunately I don't use any backup service like these, the Google backup was disabled. It's entirely my own fault and I'm really mad at myself.

How would I go about checking the gallery cache?

Digital Controller · Jul 9, 2014

Your best bet would be to get a file explorer like ES File Explorer and search in the DCIM folder.

antelifeUK · Jul 9, 2014

TimHaynes said:
I'm not saying you're wrong but as far as I could read online, people were saying that once an image has been deleted it's still there really, it's only marked as space that can be overwritten.

I would certainly like to be wrong, for your own sake, this way you could get your files back, but the memory that phones use is called RAM (random access memory), not like the hard drives from computers, that you are right when you delete something it doesn't really get deleted until you force the system to right other data on top of it.

antelifeUK · Jul 10, 2014

just read an article in the daily mail, where Avast managed to recover deleted data of android phones by using a software called FTK Imager.

Hadron · Jul 10, 2014

It's certainly possible to recover data from flash memory - I've done it several times. And please don't confuse "flash RAM" with a computer's working RAM. The flash storage in the phone is effectively the same as a solid state drive or an SD card, though it will be using the ext4 filesystem (which a disk drive on a linux computer would naturally use too). So for this purpose it's exactly like a hard drive: the file pointers are removed from the catalogue, but the data are still there unless overwritten.

The problem is that you need direct access to the filesystem for the file recovery software to work. That was fine when Android supported USB Mass Storage, but they switched to using Media Transfer Protocol early in Android 4, and that doesn't let file recovery software have the required access. Unfortunately I don't myself know of a tool that can get around this.

Hadron · May 15, 2015

Edit: sorry for odd post. This was a response to a post which has since been deleted.

You "had a problem" which was resolved "through a nice firm". And you liked them enough to adopt their company name as your userid and give their website as your homepage? Really?

If you were honest enough to say "we offer professional data recovery services" that would be one thing, but pretending to be a customer giving a recommendation is simply dishonest, and that does not recommend your company to me.

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