How to Recover Deleted Photos Albums on Note 4

[Kyril Cullen]

I just deleted accidently an entire album of photos from my note 4. After wasting time downloading what I expected to be free photo recovery packages or at the least fully functional trial versions, I gave up.

I happened upon the Google Photos App and turned on the backup for all my albums and photos and then told it to back everything up. Low and behold my erased photo album was retrieved and backed up as well even though it was not avail to be selected as a back up item.

Not sure if selecting all photos had something to do with it or not, but I am relieved. Sooooooooo..... If you ever delete photos on this baby and want to get them back try using Google Photos app and tell it to back up everything(photo related) from your phone and you might find yourself surprised to get this deleted photos back.

The attached screen shows the icon for Google Photos app.

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[Rukbat]

Better (and easier) "trick" - make sure that any file you don't want to lose is backed up to at least 2 different destinations. (There are tons of free cloud accounts.) If the reason you can't get your pictures is that a truck ran over your phone, or someone "found" it, your method won't work. And backing up works with all phones and all versions of Android, now and forever into the future (well, until the sun expands and everything on this planet dies, anyway).

 

[brothamoveson]

I don't use cloud services but I do have an app called dumpster installed that works like a recycle bin on your pc.

Diggin this Note 4

 

[ZombieDust]

Hi! I accidentally deleted the entire 'Camera' folder this morning on my Galaxy S4 running 4.4.4, I cannot find this photo app in the Play Store or otherwise in a browser searching! Can you help me? Thanks in advance!

 

[z06mike]

I've been using Google+ to backup my photos. It has been in a lifesaver a few times with my wife and couple other family members. The important thing to remember is to do it FIRST, before losing your photos.

 

[z06mike]

Hi! I accidentally deleted the entire 'Camera' folder this morning on my Galaxy S4 running 4.4.4, I cannot find this photo app in the Play Store or otherwise in a browser searching! Can you help me? Thanks in advance!

You can try a program like Recuva and see if it can find the deleted photos, but if not you may be SOL.

 

[lterry913]

We have been talking about this in another thread...back up to google plus found found pictures that got moved to .nomedia file and it is a hidden file. You can install es file explorer and go to its settings and tell it to show hidden files and they may show back up in gallery.
This happened to me when I got a small update and after I uninstalled an app that had a warning before I deleted it. The warning was to check a box if I wanted to save .nomedia files. I didn't check it and photos disappeared.
No matter one of the 2 fixes above should help...the file explorer was not my idea but I came upon the google plus like above poster...happy accident. Now I just leave auto backup on.

 

[ZombieDust]

I've had zero luck with ES File Explorer though it is set to show hidden files. The 'Camera' folder didn't reappear in Gallery. Will I need to power cycle?

Lastly, If I go back up to Google+, will my content be visible to others?

Thanks!

 

[ZombieDust]

z06mike - I attempted Recuva, though it never saw my device (even when entered into USB debugging mode as developer).

 

[lterry913]

I've had zero luck with ES File Explorer though it is set to show hidden files. The 'Camera' folder didn't reappear in Gallery. Will I need to power cycle?

Lastly, If I go back up to Google+, will my content be visible to others?

Thanks!

I just set my privacy settings to just me to avoid others from seeing. Not sure if that will work but my profile page seemed to show no pics. I also set up my settings to avoid circles etc. to avoid G+ being used as anything but a photo backup.
If your photos still are not there your card could be corrupted. It did take a fe times for me to find all the hidden files selection and there were 2, but i finally found it and it found my photos in es file explorer app...not the file explorer already on the phone...it didn't work.

 

[ZombieDust]

Thank you for the additional tips! I'm liking the ES viewer.

The lost folder is the 'Camera' folder on the phone memory, not a memory card, if it matters?

 

[z06mike]

z06mike - I attempted Recuva, though it never saw my device (even when entered into USB debugging mode as developer).

You tried from a computer and you couldn't see the drive (your phone)??

 

[ZombieDust]

In Windows Explorer I can see the device as a Camera or a drive - but Recuva would only see my C drive & the shadow copies for backup. I couldnt even get the existing photos off the phone using my work PC. I'm pretty tech-savvy, too. This is my stupid tax I suppose.

 

[lterry913]

In es file explorer the folder you are looking for is .nomedia it may add you to do a deeper search if so just hit that button. And yes this is on your phone storage not external sd. Most of my issues and some others were that the camera folder photos got moved to this file after update or app deletion.

 

[tper]

Which exact app name and developer? I don't see Google photo name.

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[Rukbat]

Which exact app name and developer?

You want the link to the site that 3 of my antivirus programs barfed on? That's where this non-free program is supposedly located. (I didn't think so.)

If the pictures were in internal storage, the phone has to be rooted and an app like DiskDigger will recover pictures. (The paid version recovers more, but the free version recovers picture files.) Some phones will back up even deleted files, most won't.

If the pictures were on the external SD card, just use PhotoRec on a PC (Linux, Mac and Windows versions ar there for the download). It's free and it recovers everything on a storage medium, even if the file structure is destroyed. Instructions are at PhotoRec Step By Step. Post here if you need more than the instructions give you. (And plan to be doing something else while the program is recovering from anything larger than an 8GB card - it takes more than just a while.)

 

[milad hobbollahi]

hi i just delete my camera videos accidently on my note edge yesterday and i dont know how to get them back.

 

[lterry913]

Were they backed up to a cloud server...most will give you 30 days to recover the deleted items from trash.

 

[natehoy]

If you told Google to back up your photos, they will be found on the photos app on your phone (icon pictured below) or at the web site https://photos.google.com/ - you just need to log on using your Google account.



If you are not backing your photos up today, Google is as good a service as any, though many good ones exist. If you want to use Google, go into the photos app, press the "hamburger menu" (the three horizontal lines upper-left), select "Settings", then "Back up & sync".

 

[StL Stranger]

I accidently deleted my "camera" album from my gallery app that comes with the phone (2,000 photos gone). (Galaxy note 4) I never used google photos, but once i installed the app under the tab "assistant" it showed backing up cloud of 2.000 photos, it took a full day to back up. Once it was completed i cant find the photos anywhere. I tried google drive...photos....plugged my phone to desktop...searched all files...cant find them anywhere. But in google photos under "assistant" it shows back up complete.

I found an app to recover deleted photos and i see them all on the app but the app wants $178 to recover them which is insane. I got another app and got 100 back, but still missing 1.900 photos that i took in london and paris.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE IF SOMEONE KNOWS HOW TO GET THEM BACK HELPPPPPP