Other Photo Recovery on Android

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  1. lilgoth89

    lilgoth89 Captin Calliope

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    so my mother turned to be earlier on after accidentally deleting some of her old photos on her Galaxy S5 Mini and asked if i could recover them

    so i fired up Recuva from Priform and set to work as normal, only to be stopped instantly by Recuva, not being able to communicate with my mothers phone, so i went to manually set it to mass storage mode only to find the option has now been removed. The only options are PTP or MTP

    so basically i need a program that can recover her photos from the device either installed to the device or used from my PC

    any thoughts ?
     
  2. roundyz

    roundyz What's a Dremel?

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    could you flash it to a rom that supports mass storage mode and leave the user partition (SD) intact?
     
  3. Buzzons

    Buzzons Minimodder

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    Worth checking to see if they've automatically been backed up to google drive? (it's usually on by default)
     
  4. wolfticket

    wolfticket Downwind from the bloodhounds

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    I generally wouldn't advise writing to storage you wish to recover from, but a quick search of the Play Store suggests there are a few well reviewed recovery apps for Android that would run on the device.

    I think my go to recovery software PhotoRec might be able to do MTP too: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_FAQ
     
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  5. Rhydian

    Rhydian What's a Dremel?

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    Could be backed up on a few options on the phone she doesn't know about.

    Dropbox and Drive etc.
     
  6. Duncan7722

    Duncan7722 What's a Dremel?

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    I also need to recover my deleted photos from my Samsung S6, any help?
     
  7. afrasiab

    afrasiab What's a Dremel?

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    the photos can be recovered easily by using apps which are available on playstore. I have used an app which I find on playstore which have recovered my photos.
     

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