In general, Android is a very interesting operating system and one day you may find that all the photos in the phone have been deleted. Do not rush to rush into a panic, read the article and learn how to restore photos on Android if they were accidentally deleted.
How to be
Go to Google Play and download the Undeleter program. Please note that you need root access on your phone. If not, read on the site. If there is, we find and launch the application. We see 2 disks: internal memory and memory card, select the desired one.
That's it - the program began to scan the memory and look for photos that you deleted. Now it remains to wait for the scan to finish. It is best to connect the smartphone to the charger during this process, since the battery is consumed very much during scanning.
After the process is complete, you will see many files that have ever been deleted.
You can sort them by different parameters: progress, size or type. To restore a photo, you need to go to the “Images” tab and scroll to look for the pictures you need.
Hurrah! Photo found. Just click on the save icon in the upper right corner and find your recovered photos in the gallery. As you can see, everything is very simple.
A photo mistakenly deleted from a computer or flash drive is an annoying nuisance. Do not despair, because in most cases you can restore photos, only for this you have to use specialized programs.
What programs exist
There are a lot of software for recovery procedures and it differs in the percentage of the ability to return lost files. There are, for example, very powerful programs like or File Scavenger, which recover deleted photos even after repeatedly formatting the media.
It should be noted right away that the best photo recovery program is RS Photo Recovery, however it is paid, but if you want to save your time and nerves, we highly recommend it to you. In our memory, no one had problems with it. You can find how to purchase and use the program.
How to recover deleted photos using Recuva
The free version of Recuva is perhaps the most popular file recovery product, on the example of which we will analyze the whole process. Immediately, we note that all such software is “sharpened” not only for the jpg, raw and other graphic file formats, but is a comprehensive program for working with lost data. But since we are interested in the question of how to recover deleted photos, let us dwell on the most popular format - jpg.
Install Recuva on a computer
This free program has a user-friendly interface and is extremely easy to use.
Installation is standard:
Comment. In the “actions” tab, from the settings menu, you should choose recovery options from hidden folders, display securely deleted items, deep analysis, work with damaged media and restore folder structure.
Search
Comment. After formatting the external media in another file system, it will be impossible to restore deleted files.
Photo Recovery
At the end of the search, a list of found graphic files will be displayed. Recuva will show which options are suitable for recovery (green circle), with which problems may arise (yellow) and lost (red). In the checkboxes, check the boxes next to the necessary photos (their preview is available on the right) and click the “restore” button, after which we indicate the place for their placement.
Comment. To avoid errors, the location of the recovered files is best indicated on the hard disk of the computer, and not on external media.
Some features of Recuva software
The free version of the program, according to the developers, does not have the function of improved file recovery, but there are no special differences according to user reviews. After deep formatting with a change in the file system, both the paid and free versions are equally problematic to recover information, so you may not notice much difference.
How to restore photos to users of Mac OS or Linux platforms
Recuva, although it is most widely used on Windows, but the Mac OS version works just as well. Both options can be downloaded on the official website, but for Linux there are no problems at all - the Wine interface can easily cope with the latest “windowed" versions.
I will answer your questions: why the photos are not displayed in the Android gallery (the phone does not show the photo) or the photos open in low quality. What should I do if the images are not saved in the Gallery? Answers posted below.
3 programs that will restore photos from the Android Gallery
Among the programs for photo recovery, we note three free tools: DiskDigger, Recuva, PhotoRec.
These programs will be useful if photos from the Gallery were deleted, damaged or lost as a result of unsuccessful file copying:
- from the internal memory of the phone to the sd card;
- from phone to computer.
We recommend testing the above programs with the deep scan option. Programs are installed on a PC. Saving photos of the Gallery should be on the hard drive, not the sd-card, otherwise the deleted files will be overwritten and the chances of recovery will be significantly reduced.
Change the storage location for photos
Many Android users install a new memory card into their phones and are surprised to find that the photos and videos they have taken are still saved in the phone’s memory.
You can easily change the storage location of photos. For this:
- Go to Camera Settings
- Find the Storage Location option
- Change it to an SD card.
Free the memory card from unnecessary files
If the captured photos are not saved to the memory card, but to the phone (although the SD card is specified in the settings), most likely, the memory card simply does not have enough space and Android uses the phone's memory as a spare.
To fix the situation, check the free disk space: Settings - Optimization - Memory.
If necessary, delete unnecessary files on the phone. You can do this:
- through the Optimization section
- using utilities CCleaner, CleanMaster for Android
- manually, through any file manager.
Format the memory card and check for read errors
Another known problem - photos are displayed incorrectly / periodically disappear from the Gallery. The reason is reading errors on the memory card.
Solving the problem is quite simple:
- Format memory card
- Check the disk for errors using the chkdsk utility
Where are the photo galleries stored?
Remember the folder name - DCIM (Digital Camera IMages).
All photos taken with the camera are stored in the Camera directory on the memory card or in the phone. For the convenience of organization, you can create other folders inside DCIM.
Note. DCIM (and subfolders) should not have files named nomedia (this is a signal for the media scanner to ignore its contents).
If the Android Gallery does not display a photo, check the contents of the DCIM folder via the PC:
- by connecting the phone to the computer via usb cable
- by attaching an SD card through a card reader.
If photos are found, copy them to your PC; if not, use recovery programs.
Clear Gallery Cache
If the Gallery displays gray or black squares instead of thumbnails, clear the cache. Before performing this step, we recommend that you reserve files from DCIM on your hard drive.
The main reasons for removing photos from the Gallery
1. Formatting a memory card
Users often forget that formatting a memory card often deletes all files stored on the sd card, including write-protected photos and print orders. Such multimedia data can only be restored using special recovery software for deleted photos.
2. Overwrite and delete photos
A very common mistake is accidentally overwriting images, photos stored on the camera's memory card, and other data. In fact, rewriting a photo is very easy to do by mistake. Therefore, we advise you to verify the correctness of the action several times when you record photos on your computer or on the device’s memory card.
3. Damage or breakdown of the sd card of the camera
If the memory card, hard drive or flash drive, or any storage medium is unreliable, they are at great risk of physical damage if they are accidentally dropped or directly exposed to them. We strongly advise you to keep the cameras themselves, and sd cards, and flash drives wrapped in dense and soft material that will protect them - and, accordingly, your photos - from bumps under any conditions.
FAQ
Photos not showing up in Samsung Phone Gallery
This morning I did not find photos on the memory card of the Samsung phone. I go to the Gallery - no photo; in the folder where the photos used to be, there is only one file. I open it - and they write to me that there is no application to perform this operation.
Decision.
- Check the memory card for errors by connecting it to a PC through a card reader.
- Scan the sd card with any desktop recovery application, for example Photorec or Recuva.
- If photos synced online, check out Google Photos or Samsung Cloud, including the Trash.
Photos are not displayed in the gallery gallery of Huawei tablet
Missing photos from the gallery of the device Huawei. There are videos, but no photos. When I take a picture, it is saved, but the Gallery is empty. At the same time, all pictures are displayed on social networks. I can forward all photos - both new and old. And saved photos from the browser - exactly the same.
Decision.
- Clear the Android Gallery cache.
- Update the official firmware if there is an update.
- If the above methods did not help, do a factory reset.
- Scan the memory card for errors.
After updating the phone, photos were lost
I have an ASUS phone, I don’t have a flash drive ... An icon has appeared with a warning that the device’s memory is full. A notification has arrived to update the system, but because the memory is full, the update could not be downloaded. I deleted the photo, freeing up space on the phone. I set the phone to be updated and went to sleep. In the morning I wanted to review the photo, but there are no folders with photos in the Gallery, and I don’t find it through the PC either ...
Decision.
- Install the root application on the phone, check the phone's memory through DiskDigger.
- Look for photos in the Google Photos cloud, as well as in the Trash section of this service.
Gray squares instead of photos in the Android gallery (black pictures with an exclamation mark)
1. I go into the Android settings, a notification appears that the sd card is damaged. I rebooted the phone, open the gallery and there are some photos, but they are all gray. I did not pull out a memory card. Is it possible to return the missing photo?
2. I bought a 32GB sd card, connected it and moved the photos from the device to a new folder on the sd card. After moving, I went to the Gallery. Instead of thumbnails, a gray square and an exclamation mark.
Decision.
- Download the original photos from the service again.
- Photo thumbnails - thumbnails. You cannot restore the original with their help. A gray square means that the sketch cannot be created due to the lack of the original image.
- On the sd card, the original photos can be restored via Recuva or DiskDigger.
Photos on sd card do not open
I recently pulled out an sd card, put it back. I go to the Gallery, and in the photo section half is not displayed, I go to the “Albums” section - there are all the photos. What is the problem and how to fix it? Phone Honor 8 lite.
Decision.
- Delete the Gallery app cache.
- Check the Gallery settings, namely the storage location of the pictures.
- Check for albums in Google Photos and online sync settings.
Answers to readers' questions
Yesterday I wanted to delete the first photo from the Camera album, but accidentally deleted the entire album ... The photos were stored on the tablet’s internal memory. No backups. Device Lenovo Tab 2 A 7 30 HC. How to recover photos? I tried to do this through some applications from the play store, alas, the quality is terrible, the photos are simply not watchable ...
Answer. If the photo from the Android gallery is missing, then you need a special program to restore from the internal memory of the tablet. Alas, there are not many good programs, look. The first thing that comes to mind is the Undeleter program.
1. I go to the gallery - the photos do not open - they disappeared. Android writes - "failed to create a sketch." Also, Google does not open photos and videos. What ifAndroid lost photos from the gallery?
2. A new tablet, a new microsd, rearranged from the camera to the tablet. there’s a photo, as it were, but a torn picture instead of an image - the thumbnail of the photo is not displayed completely. When I insert a USB flash drive into the phone, all photos are displayed. Tell me what is the reason why photos are not displayed in the gallery and how to fix it, if possible!
3. I have all the photos saved to the memory card, as was set in the settings of the Android Camera. Recently I took a photo, it was saved on a memory card. I went to the Gallery, and instead of photos - a black screen. Changed the save to the phone’s memory - and a new photo opens. How to be Maybe it's a memory card?
4. Take a photo on vacation at sea. Everything opened, there were no problems. On the second day, the last 20 photographs in the Gallery were reflected as a gray square. A few minutes after viewing, they disappeared completely. Not the first time such a problem with Android.
Answer. Locate the Nomedia file in the image folder and delete it. Photos on Android are stored in the folder SDCARD / DCIM / CAMERA. I also advise you to check whether the phone is reading a memory card. Alternatively, you can remove the sd card from the phone and check through the card reader if there are any photos you are looking for with which you described the problem.
Hello, the software on Samsung Note 3 was covered. Accordingly, after reinstallation, everything flew,lost photo. I beg you to help restore the data, in particular the photo.
Answer. In the event that the photos disappeared from the Gallery after clearing the phone’s internal memory, they can only be restored using special Android applications. One of them is Undeleter, you can find and download the resuscitation utility from Google Play.
I pulled out a flash drive from the Mikromax phone, turned on the phone -lost photos from the android gallery. But they are in the File Manager, how can I get them back to the gallery?
Answer. Copy the photo to the SDCARD / DCIM / CAMERA folder on the USB flash drive or internal memory of the mobile device, after which they should be displayed in the Android Gallery.
Photos disappeared from the SD memory card from separate folders, and the folder itself was renamed to this: կ_ _ _ _ _ ~ 2. What to do?
Answer. Deletion and renaming could occur both as a result of the actions of the virus, and after an application error. Since the pictures were deleted, it would be nice to restore them. The CardRecovery program is suitable for this: the toolkit supports memory cards, you can specify photos and images as file types.
After restoration, you can rename the folder manually.
1. My Levovo phone started to fail - I rebooted it. When turned on, the Camera folder disappeared in the gallery, there are no files at all, the Gallery does not see the photo. Tell me, what can I do?
2. I went into the gallery to see the photo, everything was white and the photos did not open. That is, the Android gallery does not see the photo. I rebooted the phone. Everything on the memory card disappeared. Can they be restored? After all, there are a lot of memories?
3. Transferred photos and videos on the phone from the gallery to the sd card, but when I try to open the transferred files, I get a message: unknown format. Neither video nor photo open, disappeared. Tell me, is it possible to restore these files from the Android Gallery. New photos and videos are saved by default on the sd-card, viewed without problems.
4. Took a couple of pictures, then set the phone to lock. After 15 minutes, I went to the Gallery and there did not find a single file from previously taken.
Answer. If the photos were stored on a memory card, perhaps your phone simply does not see it, and therefore does not display it in the Android gallery. Check if the SD card is correctly located in the phone jack.
Perhaps the photos from the Gallery were damaged. You can get an SD card and connect it to a PC through a card reader. Then use the Recuva program to scan the memory card - perhaps the photos will be restored.
Restoring photos from the gallery stored in the internal memory of Android is much more difficult: you need a solid experience. How to do this, I described. If there are no necessary skills, it is better not to try.
1. In the gallery, all my photos for the whole year, became one date. This happened after I moved the photo to the SD card. Help restore the shooting date!
2. I lost all the photos taken through the phone. Restoring them is not a problem, the problem is to find out the date the photo was taken. After all, when I restored them, the date is in the properties when I reanimated them. How to find out the date of the photo that was originally?
Answer. The date the photo was taken is stored in the exif file properties. Install any image viewer (for example, XnView) and go to the image properties. In the EXIF \u200b\u200btab, you can easily find out the date of the photo, up to a second. Shooting information looks like this:
Date taken<Дата съемки>: 2011:08:01 06:37:17
Date digitized<Дата оцифровки>: 2011:08:01 06:37:17
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 i9500. The problem is this. I go to the Android Gallery, in a photo or picture, or in a folder with bluetooth, click on the photo - it opens, but I can’t enlarge it. And so with any file. Before, everything was fine. What to do? I mean with fingers I’ve increased or decreased.
Answer. You may have moved or deleted the photos. Instead, there were sketches. Perhaps there is a problem with the Android gallery or other applications. Updating the firmware may fix the problem.
Digma HIT 4G tablet erases photos from the gallery (the photo is in the tablet’s memory). Applications remain, but the Android gallery does not show photos. In the file manager, memory is not displayed. If I take new photos, then they do not appear in the gallery. As for screenshots, there is also a problem. The device says "it is not possible to take a screenshot of insufficient memory or there is no permission from the application or organization. It reset the settings. Everything starts to work, the photographed images are displayed again, but after a while they disappear from the Gallery again. Tell me what to do if the photos from the gallery disappear?
Answer. Photos are not saved in the internal memory because there is not enough memory on the phone. You need to delete unnecessary files, transfer applications to the memory card, if possible. For this reason, the pictures were deleted from the Gallery and are not saved in the internal memory.
1. I accidentally deleted the Camera folder from the Gallery instead of a bad photo. As a result, all files were deleted, the phone does not show a photo in the gallery. I can’t restore them, only those photos that were deleted one at a time are restored.
2. I have a Galaxy A3 2016 phone. Several times, the Camera folder has disappeared from the phone’s memory from the Gallery. I lost a lot of important photos: (I downloaded several programs for recovery, but the ones that were deleted do not appear. Please help me return the photos!
Answer. If you save files to their original location, thereby reducing the chances of recovery. Since all the photos were deleted at different times, each of them has its own storage conditions (perhaps the files were overwritten by others). If you used a memory card for storage, try restoring the photo from the Gallery via CardRecovery. If the files were stored in the phone’s internal memory, DiskDigger will help. You need to specify the DCIM folder for scanning.
1. After I take a picture or record a video on the phone, everything is saved on micro SD. I go to the Android Gallery - and there just black pictures are hanging. Because of what this is happening, can they be restored?
2. The problem is as follows. On different versions of Android (6 or 7), when I take pictures and set the path to the phone’s internal memory, the pictures remain without problems, but if the save path is changed to an SD card, after a day or two, if you go through the gallery, only empty icons are not visible supported format, there is no picture. If you look through the standard file, the photo manager in the DCIM folder is not there either. Where does the photo go?
Answer. It is necessary to free the internal memory of the device, since the system does not have enough space to record photos in the Gallery - accordingly, they are copied to the memory card. You can do this manually using the CCleaner utility for Android or, for example, the Storage Analyzer application.
Phone Samsung A3. Today I wanted to delete a video from the Gallery, selected the ones I needed, clicked the "Delete" button and the phone hung, then clicked on "Exit". As a result, photos in the gallery on Android are not displayed. I rebooted the phone, but nothing has changed, the photo is still gone. Is it possible to somehow restore the photos and videos that were in the Gallery ?!
Answer. If the files disappeared as a result of a system failure, it is worth checking the memory card for errors. If you synced the Gallery with Google Photo, look for a copy of the files there.
If the photo galleries were stored in the internal memory of Android, the task becomes more complicated. (Read our guide to recovering from internal memory.)
1. Almost all files disappeared from the gallery, there were about 20 thousand - about 400 remained. All files were on the memory card (except for these 400). I found advice that you need to delete files named "NOMEDIA". Performed. About 3000 appeared in the Gallery. R-Undelete was able to recover some more files - but only those that I deleted before.
Not all files in the folders and the folders themselves were restored. Please help, there were so many important things among these 20 thousand photographs / pictures.
2. SOS. About 5 days ago, I threw all the folders in the Gallery from the phone's memory to a USB flash drive to free up memory. Everything was fine, the photos spread. After a couple of days, I noticed that in one folder there were 295 photos (and there were 531). Now retrievedsd I put the card from the phone back and left 18 photos ...How to return them? Help.
Answer. From specialized programs we advise PhotoRec. The program recognizes many graphic formats (including png, jpg), can search by signatures. In this case, it is likely that PhotoRec will restore the photo as is - with damage, without a name or date. Also try restoring photos using DiskDigger (Windows version), some of the photos can be found thanks to the Dig Deeper function.
I entered all the photos in PERSONAL, then accidentally transferred some photos to the internal memory, and wanted to go back to the Gallery. I tried to transfer the photo from the internal memory to the Gallery, but failed. Questions appeared in the name of the photo, I click on them, and there a window pops up: in what form to open (video, image, audio, etc.). Please help me, these photos are very expensive (HUAWEI LYO-L21 phone).
Answer. Rename the files to jpg format. If Android still does not recognize images, transfer them to your computer and try opening it. Also, if the files are damaged, we recommend using special software to restore jpg files.
Samsung galaxy a5 2016. Transferred pictures and photos from internal memory to the card. Through the service - my files - memory card, all of them can be viewed, but only those that remain on the internal memory are displayed in the gallery. At the same time, the camera saves new photos to the map, and if you take something or take a screenshot, you can see them in the gallery. The problem is only with the files that were copied.
You wake up in the morning, and almost all the photos have disappeared from the gallery (why not all?). Immediately make a reservation, there is no memory card, no file operations were performed, they are not in the DCIM folder either. There are several files on Google Drive, but that’s not it. Phone Samsung A8 (2018), OS Android 8.0.
I accidentally deleted a photo from the Gallery on the Samsung phone. I tried to restore it using DiskDigger, but it recovered in poor quality, everything is blurry, only the general silhouette is visible. And it is written about the program that it allows you to restore the photo completely. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? How can I restore the original image quality?
About three days ago I bought a new redmi 5 plus phone and threw all the photos and videos onto it. And a day later I go to the gallery, and there only a couple of pieces of photographs remain and that's all. I rebooted the phone and went back in, I looked, there was nothing left at all. Writes that items are deleted or damaged and formats are not supported. Everything would be fine, but the photographs are very necessary, and I deleted everything from the old one.
All photos have been deleted on my phone, completely gallery. Now I don’t know what to do. I just connected the phone via USB I wanted to drop the music on the phone, as a result I threw everything, disconnect the wire, go to the gallery - and there is nothing there - it's just empty. Tell me, can I restore it somehow? Phone model Lenovo S90. Thanks in advance.
I have an Asus Zenfone 2 Android 5.0 phone. In the Android gallery, one of several albums has disappeared. I specifically did not delete. Important album, please help restore.
i moved the phone’s folder from dcim to the personal folder of the photo, at first they didn’t appear in the gallery, and it showed as if it hadn’t moved anything, but after a day or two disappeared altogether, I looked through the file managers, they weren’t in general. Android 8. But the root of the program is not a hunt to install ... at least the reason would be to understand, even half of the memory is not occupied ..
I decided to clean my mother's phone (Sumsung). I went to the gallery of sd cards. There were two of each photo. And the photos themselves, as it turned out, were only 350. I began to delete duplicates (highlighting all duplicates). But in the end, everyone left. I do not know what to do. It is very necessary to restore these photos since they are very dear to me and my mother.
Tell me, please, did a reset to the factory settings, after saving all the information. But there was a problem - now everything has become terribly inconvenient, starting from the keyboard and ending with the design of folders in the gallery. The reset was done due to the fact that the outgoing photo was not sent in the vibe and when the incoming did not open in the profile. The problem has not been resolved. The support service could not help. Can you help us somehow? How to return everything to its original place and solve the problem with the photo?
I wanted to transfer files from my phone to SD without using a PC, specifically selected a folder with photos and clicked to move to a memory card. In the process there was a move, the files saw everything. Then I went to the Gallery, "the files that I moved didn’t appear there. They disappeared from the device (phone), and they don’t exist on the memory card either. Where can I find them? PS I deleted the folders with music and video from SD, but after a reboot, they returned to the memory card. But there is no photo (
On a smartphone with Android 6.0, I restored the photos that were missing from the gallery ... but the image quality on them changed, it became blurry ... I found a program for Windows to restore the photo quality to its original ... but for Android there is one?
I transferred some audio recordings and photos from the internal memory to the card, after which I saw that the photos were missing in the gallery, sometimes it happened that the phone either hung up, or that the folders were simply not visible in the gallery, but after a couple of hours they appeared, but this time they didn’t appear even where the music writes: “there are no songs”, although in the folder where the files are, there are photos and all the music. What to do, how to make the Gallery see photos and video files?
I created a new album in the gallery, moved the photos there, literally ten minutes later, he disappeared with the photos. I sent them to ES Explorer in the library, when I transfer them to any album their quality is lost. What should I do?
The other day, I deleted unnecessary files through the X-plore file manager. Accidentally deleted the entire folder called Android in the device’s memory. As a result, all the photos in the Gallery disappeared, more precisely, they are not displayed. There are only photos in the Camera and Screenshots folders, but there are no folders like WhatsApp, Download. But all the photos are in storage. Can I somehow restore this?
Deleted files from a smartphone or tablet cannot be returned using the built-in functions of the gadget. For these purposes, there are special programs, but they do not guarantee 100% success, although the chances are quite high.
In the framework of this article, we will consider the question: how to restore a photo on an android after deletion and provide links to programs that will best cope with this task.
Why data is not deleted permanently?
All information storage devices work on a single principle. When you delete any information on the device, only the file entry from the file table disappears, and the file itself remains in the device’s memory. However, the Android OS defines the area in which "already deleted information" was stored as free.
It turns out that the saved files, applications, documents, photos, videos will be recorded in the freed memory sector. Accordingly, the information contained in this sector will be overwritten.
Therefore, if you want to restore a photo on an android or regular deletion, do not write anything else before you restore the data. Saving new data can aggravate the situation and significantly reduce the chances of resuscitating photos.
Recovery Software
All Android applications that recover files need Root rights. If your device is not rooted, use a computer to restore.
Advice! If you want to restore a photo on an android without a computer, the material in this article will help.
Android Data Recovery
The program allows you to recover photos, contacts, videos, SMS and other files that have been deleted from Android. It is possible to view deleted photos and contacts in the program before recovery. Supports almost all devices of the Android operating system. Works in all versions of Windows NT (10, 8, 7, Vista, XP) and Mac OS X (from version 10.4 and higher).
Tenorshare data recovery
It works through a computer running Windows. Allows you to restore photos, contacts, call history. Works with all well-known gadget models from LG, Samsung, HTC, Meizu, Xaomi. Before a full recovery, it is possible to view the photos found.
Cardrecovery
A very useful utility CardRecovery copes with the recovery of photos and other files on smartphones and tablets. The program has useful functions, such as selecting the area for reconstruction and selecting the type of files to restore from Android memory. Quite tolerably, the utility works with video recovery: it not only finds, but also restores in original quality.
DiskDigger photo recovery
The utility installs on Android. The free application allows you to return lost photos. If you want to return other data, use the paid Pro version.
An application can work without root privileges, but then its capabilities will be limited. All she can do is scan cached data and thumbnails from the .thumbnails folder. When granting superuser rights, DiskDigger will search and restore photos across the entire memory of your gadget.
