Recover Data from Android Phone

As is known to all that Android OS has been made cell phone become much smarter than before, thus has been many phone users’ NO1 choice. However things are android data loss seem also more common than before. The reasons cause such data loss vary a lot, from human mis-operations (press delete, format or factory reset option by accident) to technical errors such as the phone is water damaged or broken to pieces etc. These cases are really not rare as you might find nearby people suffer occasionally. Question is any possibility to recover those deleted files such as photos, video chips or music songs from an Android phone?

Well, different people may give different answer. Some say once you deleted the files or damage the phone, then everything including data will be gone for good. While some others may say it is quite possible as there are many data recovery agencies or specialists claim they can do Android data recovery. So which side is right or should be trust?

The real answer is YES or NO, surprising? Don’t have to. As a matter of fact, chances of Android file recovery depends on where those deleted photo, video or music files originally located.

If they were saved on the internal phone memory, then the answer is NO. There is nothing you can do to rescue items lost from there unless you have backups. If you don’t have, then chances of recovery is almost 0%.

If they were saved on the external memory (or mass memory) of the Android phone, then the answer is YES and chances of recovery can be 100% as long as the data contained in the files are not overwritten or damaged. Why? Because there are some Android data recovery programs special designed to deal with.

Android Data Recovery Software for Windows & Mac

For Windows users, Photo Recovery is such Android recovery tool that is capable of recovering those deleted, formatted or lost pictures, videos and music from your Android based phones such as HTC Android, Google Nexus Android, Samsung Android (Samsung Galaxy i5700, i9100 etc), Motorola Atrix 4G Android etc. So if your lost files are mostly photos, movies or audio files, taking a try of this photo recovery app is recommended. It is very fast, easy to use and time-saving.

Download to Recover Android Photos/Video/Music for Windows

For Mac OS X users, Photo Recovery Mac is a handy Mac file recovery program to help retrieve files (not only images, but movies, songs and some other types of media files) deleted, formatted or lost from an Android cell phone. Compatiable with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard and 10.4 Tiger. Strong data recovery ability, easy to use interface etc will let you get lost data from Android external memory on Mac machine without any hassles. 

Download to Recover Android Files for Macintosh

When you are taking either of the Android recovery programs to rescue data, here is a step by step guide that should do some help.

STEP 1: Connect your Android phone to a PC or Mac. Then download and install the recovery program. Note: you can either connect the phone to the computer via a USB cable, or take the mass memory card out of the phone and use a card reader load and insert to your computer USB port.

STEP 2: Start to scan your Android phone memory for lost files. The process may take some time.

STEP 3: Preview and recover found files easily.

Remember – before android data recovery, it is highly recommended not to save or edit data on your Android phone memory in case data overwritten may happen.