Selfies suddenly turned to negatives - How do I recover these?

[AC Question]

While I was on vacation recently, my selfies went magically from normal one day to "negatives" and now back to normal. Why? Most importantly - How can I recover these selfies that went "negative" for a short while? They stayed as negatives even when I uploaded to my pc. Are there any fixes to get these photos back?

 

[belodion]

What phone?

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[Kmac1427]

Samsung 7Edge

 

[belodion]

Are they ordinary negatives, or dark....what some have described as X-Ray-like? The latter was a bug caused by an update if I recall right, the fix for which was to reboot the phone. I don't know whether that fixed it in arrears, or only for future shots. I'll ask around.

Also, welcome as a new member.

 

[Kmac1427]

Very very dark and almost look like X-Rays or Negatives. The phone works perfectly now, but I took a lot of selfies during that time that I would like to have if these are fixable. I uploaded them to my pc but they stayed bad. I am just trying to figure out if there is a fix for these bad photos. I still have them on the phone and also uploaded.

Thank you for your help on this matter.

 

[LeoRex]

I'm sorry to say that the photos are junk... The same thing happened on my wife's S7 and I poured over them to see if the information was still in tact, but the photos were totally compromised.

Near as I can tell, there is a bug in the processing software for the front facing camera on both S7 models... I know, it happened to my wife on a couple of occasions.

Good news is a reboot clears it, bad news is it might come back and any affected photos are lost.