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[Q] how to recover deleted "hidden" pictures ?

Hello there
My device is GT-I9500 and i used to hide some personal pictures using gallery and no other application ..
the problem is that I didn't back up most of my marriage photos and just kept it hidden, and somehow I accidentally deleted all of it.
I tried a recovery app called diskdigger, it helped on recovering only 3 pictures that were hidden and the rest were old pictures.
Please help me recover my pictures they worth a lot to me :cyclops:

Help, anyone ?

Possible to recover deleted photos?

Hi all. I am wondering if it is possible to recover deleted photos from a non rooted S5? My co worker just came back from the Philipines and accidently deleted her photos before they had a chance to upload to Drop box over wifi. I have done a search on Google and most apps want you to pay to recover data. I know you can recover deleted data from a rooted phone. If I were to root her phone, would I lose all of her pictures that are already on there? Thanks to anyone who can give me any help or direction.

You need to root the phone, and just like any other activity that requires writes to the disk, it will utilize and write over empty space, which is where your deleted photos are part of now. But it shouldn't be too bad.
After trying many apps I really found Diskdigger undelete to be the most accurate and reliable app to recover deleted photos. It is free for .jpg but you will need to pay for other file types. Hope it helps

how to recover deleted photos after root

Is there anyway to recover deleted photos that I lost while rooting the phone? Unfortunately, I had not activated the google photos backup at the time of root so I do not have them in the cloud.
Thank you for any help

Krooked22 said:
Is there anyway to recover deleted photos that I lost while rooting the phone? Unfortunately, I had not activated the google photos backup at the time of root so I do not have them in the cloud.
Thank you for any help
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Try Dr.Fone or DiskDigger.

Recovering deleted photos on an unrooted 6P

While trying to free up some space on my phone by deleting photos that were backed up to the cloud using the Google Photos app, I somehow managed to delete my entire camera photos folder (DCIM). 95% of the photos are already in the cloud, but I lost about 400 photos from an 8 days trek in Perú since it happened on the way back to town after 8 days without any connection.
I was trying to use apps like DiskDigger to recover the photos but didn't have any luck - the problem is that I am not rooted of course - I'm running stock 7.1.2. And from what I've learned so far rooting wipes the entire phone.
Is there a way to extract an image file of the user data partition in order to recover the lost photos? I've read that PhotoRec can do that once you have the image file.
If anyone could shed some light on that process or suggest another solution I'll be forever grateful!

There are forensic programs that I've seen people use for that purpose. Because the data is still there but marked as free space until it's overwritten

I confirm that PhotoRec works great.
But if you left default settings that is encrypted, there's no easy known way to decipher them. Block is ciphered with a key derived from the master key in the unreachable hardware module.
And even unencrypted, you'd need root to pull raw partition which AFAIK requires unlocked BL which wipes data.

Help Needed to access/move/save pics on device saved by Google Photos App.

Is there a way to unlock the bootloader on the LG K20 Plus without wiping the device? Our brother passed away and he saved his final pics to his Google Pictures app. We don't have access to his Google account. We can access the pics on the device, but can't save them to the memory card or transfer to PC. Apparently, the folder Google stores to is protected. I thought of unlocking the bootloader and rooting, but from what I've read, this wipes the device and we will lose the pics.
We're just trying to get the last few pics of him for our own memories. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Yes unlocking bootloader requires a command which will erase all data. And assuming the device is unmodified with original stock ROM and not rooted, it's very likely encrypted so even if you managed to load up twrp via fastboot without running the boot unlock command (which erases all phone data) and create a backup of the phone's /data mount, you'd wouldn't be able to copy and paste on a similar bootloader unlocked phone.
As for Google Photos, you say you have access to the device and the pictures. Which means the account is still logged in on the phone and you can work within the Google Photos app to send or share any picture and album link o another contact, let's say you, which you can then access on your phone or PC and save. It may be arduous and require doing screenshots of each photo in full screen but given your circumstances it may be worth it. I wasn't aware of Google Photos encrypting the storage directory for pictures. If the pics are on the device they should be able to transfer easily if they're internal storage. Otherwise Google Photos likely has backed them so up to the cloud and deleted original copies off the phone. But still if you can access the phone and the Photos app without needing to sign in to Google, then just add all the pics to a new album and share the album link to any trusted contacts who can then go through the pics and save a copy.

Thank you
We've been hesitant to connect the phone to WiFi for fear of auto deletion, since we don't know what his settings are in the app. It's arduous, but screenshots it is. Once we get all of the screenshots saved, we'll connect to WiFi and see if the phone is still logged in. We might get luck and find more pics for our family.
Thank you again. My bro and I were at this for hours trying everything we could think of to transfer the thumbnails to SD as well as the PC for mom.