How to Recover deleted Photos from Samsung Galaxy S5/S6/S7

Delete Photos on My Galaxy S6

"Can I recover deleted pictures from Galaxy S6? I accidentally delete all the photos and videos in the gallery app, photos of my brother’s wedding for the last two weeks, they are very important to me,is it possible to retrieve deleted gallery from Galaxy S6?Thank you." -- By Kimi

Well we have all been there at some point, all it takes is one misplaced tap to erase all the beautiful memories archived with the Samsung Galaxy S6. Don't panic, there's still salvation, possibly.

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Note: before resort to recover local files, are you sure you don't have an online backup somewhere up in the cloud? With your software maker google's relentless effort in pushing its cloud service, it's more than likely that your photos and videos has been uploaded by the google+ app even without your noticing. But if there's really no online backup made in the past, check the article below to get your deleted files back with Samsung photos recovery from the local memory card.

Part I: Why we can recover deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy S6

If the deleted photos and videos were stored on the SD card (not internal memory), things will be easy, a delete command only removes the pointers to these files from the file system's allocation table, files get delisted, not destroyed. However, due to the deletion, the OS marks the memory space where the deleted files occupied as blank and available for use. So before the deleted files recovered, try not to use the Galaxy S6 for video recording, movies or games (things that produces considerable amount of data), because as the deleted files were marked as expandable, new data may overwrite their memory space thus render the photos and videos corrupted and irretrievable.

Part II: How to recover deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy S6

In fact, when a file deleted from your Samsung Galaxy S, it is not really deleted. The operating system only removed it from the file directory in the folder and flagged the storage of the deleted file as being available for overwritten. That is why you can not find them even it still exists on your phone. So, before you shooting some new photos and video to overwrite the memory.So,Photos deleted from Samsung Galaxy S5/S6/S7 can be recovered by Samsung Photos Recovery, If you are reading this on your Samsung phone, mark the page and go power on your computer, a PC or Mac is needed to pull this off.Here, you can choose Dr.Fone Android Data Recovery,which can help you you to recover deleted pictures from Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge/S6/S6 Edge/S5/S4/Note 4 with ease, also including other media files like photos, songs, movies, and more.

  

Steps to Recover Lost Photos from Samsung Galaxy S6/S7

Step 1. Run Android Data Recovery and connect Galaxy S6 to computer
Download, install and run Android Data Recovery on your computer. Connect your Samsung Galaxy phone to computer via USB cable.

Step 2. Enable USB debugging on Galaxy S6
The program will prompt you to "Enable USB debugging" according to three different situations:
1) For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter "Settings" < Click "Applications" < Click "Development" < Check "USB debugging"
2) For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging"
3) For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter "Settings" < Click "About Phone" < Tap "Build number" for several times until getting a note "You are under developer mode" < Back to "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging"

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 S6
When you see the below windows, your Galaxy S has been connected to the program successfully. Now, select the file type "Gallery" and "Videos" and click "Next" button to analyze your Galaxy S data.

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

Step 4. Preview and restore photos and videos from Samsung Galaxy S6
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.

Step 5 Do Backup Photos from Galaxy S7/S6 to PC
To prevent the photos stored in your Galaxy S7/S7 Edge/S6 from losing, you can try to back up data from Galaxy S7/S6 frequently so that you can prevent the photos, contacts, sms, videos from being erased forever.

  

After above five steps, all your deleted photos will be get back and save to your computer easily with the help of Android Photo Recovery. Just download it have a try with below buttons.

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