How likely is it to recover any photos from a factory reset Samsung Galaxy A42 5G?

[Android Central Question]

Hi there.

Have a Samsung Galaxy A42 5G that was dead here for some reason, and was sent in for service. No online backup of pictures was activated on the phone, and at the workshop they did a factory reset at the phone and upgraded to latest software.

Using any recovery tool at the phone now only tells me that root access is needed in order to have any possibility to recover pictures.

It seems for me that rooting this phone is a bit risky, and I don't know if it is possible to "un-root" it back to normal after.

If I can root this phone, how likely is it to find any pictures at the phone with some recovery tools? Possible that the upgrade of software have overwritten some old picture files?

Is it worth the risk, or better to forget the pictures and move on?

Regards, Nettulf

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! I'm afraid the photos are pretty much lost. If any of that data were even still there, rooting the phone would probably overwrite a lot of that data in the process.

Did you happen to have an SD card inserted? If so, check there to see if any photos are there.

Are you certain that they only did a factory reset? If they had to replace the whole motherboard, then the photo data would definitely be gone.

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