How to recover deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy S3

“Hello, i deleted all my photos on accident. I’ve been trying to get it into a usb mass storage but have been unsuccessful. i believe the photos i took went into my internal sd card memory. Does anyone know what i can do? help would be much appreciated. thank you”

Been the most popular Android phone, the 4.8-inch Samsung Galaxy S3 is good for taking pictures and shooting videos. However, sometimes you may delete some pictures you don’t like or deleted them by accident. Many people are worried about if they can recover deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy S3.

While, don’t worry, deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy S3 are not permanently erased on matter they are stored on the internal memory card. The deleting only removes the name of the photos from the internal memory or memory card and marks the space as available. Therefore, these photos can still be recovered if you didn’t take new photos or videos to overwrite the photos that you previous deleted.

Here, you can turn to Wondershare Dr. Fone for Android, a professional Samsung Data Recovery for you to fast and best recover deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy S3. Besides, it can also recover deleted videos, contacts, messages from Samsung Galaxy S3/S4/S2/S, Samsung Galaxy Note 1/2/3, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy tablet etc.

Step by step to recover deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy S3

Step 1: Connect Samsung Galaxy S3 to the computer

Download, install and run Dr. Fone for Android, and then connect your Samsung Galaxy S3 to the computer via USB.

Step 2: Enable USB debugging before scanning your phone

If your Samsung device isn’t detected by the program, you need to enable USB debugging (or enable USB Storage Mode) on your phone. Check what Android OS is your Samsung and then choose the right way to open USB debugging follow below steps:

1) For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter “Settings” < Click “Applications” <<strong> 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”trong> < 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. Scan your Samsung Galaxy S3 for deleted files

When your device is connected and detected by the program, click “Start”button in the screen below to start analyzing your Samsung Galaxy S3.

Note: Before doing this, make sure that your phone battery is more than 20% charged, so that you can get a smooth scan

If your device is not rooted before, the program will directly scan it after the analysis.

Note: For the device that Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android doesn’t support currently, it may lead you to set USB Mass Storage on your device to scan photos, videos, music and documents, or to root your device by yourself (if there is no USB Mass Storage option). All rooted Android devices are supported well. You can choose to do it or not by yourself.

If you rooted your device before, you need to allow the program Superuser authorization on the screen of your device. Just click “Allow” when the message pops out on your device’s home screen. Then back to your computer, and click “Start” on the program’s screen to scan your device.

Note: For some devices, they may ask you to click “Allow” more than one time on your device’s homescreen. It’s normal. Just do it if it askes. It doesn’t matter. Just click it until it doesn’t appear again or the program has begun its real scan.

Do not disconnect your device during the scan, or the scan will fail.

Step 4: Preview and recover photos from Samsung Galaxy S3

After finishing the scanning process, a list of recoverable files that have been found from your Samung will be shown. In addition, there will be a preview window of files where you can preview the contacts, SMS, photos and videos from Samsung device. Mark those you want and click “Recover“. You can selectively save them on your computer.

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