How to Retrieve Deleted Data From Android Phone

Methods to Recover Deleted Data on Your Android Phone

Using an Android phone? Accidentally deleted important photo or video? But here's a look at the different methods available to easily recover it.

Check the recycle bin

Recently, Samsung and some other smartphones have introduced the Recycle Bin option in the built-in gallery application. When photos and videos are deleted, they go into the recycle bin without being permanently deleted. So before you try other data recovery methods, you can check if the deleted files appear in the Recycle Bin and retrieve them. However there is nothing you can do if you disable the recycle bin.

Cloud backup

If an application like Google Photos is installed on your phone, in some cases important photos and videos will be automatically backed up, so fortunately they can be recovered if they are there. But there is nothing you can do if you have already deleted them.

In the case of WhatsApp photos

If your friends accidentally delete an important WhatsApp photo or video sent by someone a few days ago, it is possible to recover it with a little technique. If WhatsApp backup is happening every day locally on your phone or in Google Drive, you can recover an important photo or video that was previously lost by deleting the WhatsApp application on your phone and restoring chat backup during reinstallation. However here in some cases this attempt may fail due to damage to the backup integrity.

Android Data Recovery Apps

The most effective technique is to install various data recovery applications available for Windows computers on the respective computer, connect your phone to that PC via a data cable and try data recovery. However such data recovery applications are mainly able to effectively recover data on the memory card. Data in internal storage cannot be recovered unless the phone is rooted. However, sometimes the data does not come back. If there is important data it is to try all sorts. Tools like Recuva, Android Data Recocvery can be used for this.

Although there are some data recovery tools that can be installed directly on the phone in the Google Play Store, they do not give much result.