How to Recover Lost Photos, Videos from Samsung Galaxy

Photos and videos are the best way to cherish good old days. Many Samsung Galaxy users say they have taken a lot of photos and videos in their daily life and store them on the Samsung devices. If you accidentally deleted some pictures, videos or other media files from Samsung galaxy, or formatted the media storage, you don't have to panic, as the Android Photo Recovery software will help you bring the deleted files back.

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Note: Once you deleted photos and videos from your Galaxy, please don't take any new photo, videos or transfer new documents to it. 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 if you want to get deleted photos back on Samsung. In this way, you can prevent your data from being overwritten. Now, let's go through the step-by-step guide:

• Part 1. How to Recover Photos or Videos from Samsung Galaxy
• Part 2. Ways to Avoid Data Loss

Part 1: How to Recover Photos or Videos from Samsung Galaxy

In addition to recovering deleted Media files, Android Photo Recovery can also retrieve formatted or lost contacts, SMS files and more due to other reasons from various Samsung mobile phones, such as Samsung Galaxy S8/S7/S6/. It's really a nice recovery program for your data's rescue from Samsung Galaxy internal memory card/SD card. Please click the below buttons to free download Android Photo Recovery to preview and get you lost files back.



Step 1 Install and Run the Program
When you finish downloading the Samsung recovery tool, please install and run it on the computer.



Step 2 Connect Samsung to Computer and Enable USB Debugging
Now, please connect your smartphone to computer via USB cable to start to recover deleted pictures. Then the program will prompt you to "Enable USB debugging". You can just follow the guide on the program to turn it on easily.



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 Begin to Analyzing and Scan Your Galaxy S/Note
When you see the below picture on your computer, your Galaxy S has been connected to the program successfully. Go next step to analyze your phone data.



You are empowered to selectively choose which type of files to be scanned. You can try clicking the box next to Photos or Videos, it will save you time.



Turn to the screen of your Galaxy phone now, you will see a request pops up on it. Just click "Allow", which will allow the program to scan lost data from your device.



Step 4 Preview and Retrieve Pictures & Videos from Samsung Galaxy
At the last step, preview the recoverable file in the category of "Gallery" and "Videos" at the left side of the window, then check the files you want back and click "Recover" to save them on your computer. In this way, you can recover deleted photos from Samsung



After 4 steps above, you will find back all your deleted photos and enjoy your favorite videos again.

Part 2: Ways to Avoid Data Loss

Please do back up with Samsung device from time to time. Therefore, you don't need to worry about losing data and then have no way to recover them. Later that day, if your Android data get lost, you can restore your deleted Android data back from the previous backup.

1. Back Up with Official PC Suite

For the files including contacts, text messages, call logs and more, which are really important for you, you could save them to your computer via the official backup App for Samsung such as Smart Switch or Samsung Kies. The Smart Switch is free for you to back up the important content saved in your device to the external SD card. And Samsung Kies allows you to back up and restore files from your Samsung.

2. Back Up with Third-party Software

You can also choose the third –party software such as Phone Transfer, which allows you to back up your Android phone easily.



3. Back Up with Cloud Storage

However, the methods above need the program to be installed on computer. If you are outdoors and couldn’t get a PC, you are recommended to use Dropbox to back up and share photos, save photos/videos from Android to Google Drive or back up data to OneDrive.



Can the tips above help with your problem? If you come across any problem, or get any new ideas about this article, please simply drop us a comment below.