I accidentally deleted the entire video folder from my Samsung galaxy s2, the videos are precious to me and my family, so I was wondering if there’s any video recovery/undelete utility I can use to bring my videos back, the software should be able to work on android, google gives me some suggestions but none of them have mentioned android. Please help, how can I recover deleted videos from my android phone?

There’s no fundamental difference between a sd card installed on your android and the computer’s hard drive, when files like videos or photos deleted, they are not erased from the sd card or built-in storage, it’s only the os making them invisible by removing the pointer to the photos or videos from the file allocation table, meanwhile, the actual data files stays safe and sound at somewhere on the storage, you just need to find them.

But there’s something at odds, if you haven’t use your android to shot videos or photos after the deletion, the deleted videos (3gp, mov, mp4, etc…) are perfectly recoverable with android video recovery software, after that point of time, since the os are now perfectly happy to overwrite the place where the deleted files are stored, every new files saved on the android pose a threat to the deleted videos, they might be overwritten by the new data.

The step by step guide about how to recover deleted videos from android

Download android video recovery software, the software supports to recover deleted mp4, mov, 3gp videos took with Samsung galaxy s2, Motorola atrix, htc evo, thunderbolt and any other android device.

Launch the software, then select drive. Both the internal storage and sd card should be allocated with a drive letter. If the drive letter doesn’t show up, go to settings on your phone, then application – development, tick the usb debugging mode, make your android is not on usb debugging mode, also set the usb setting as mass storage when connected with computer

click scan, the software may take a while to scan the storage.

After the scanning is over, the android video recovery software gives the result or scanned files that are available to be recovered. Locate the videos you want to have back and recover deleted videos from android.

Cheers.