Phone died suddenly while shooting video that I don’t wanna lose

[Rock Selta]

Recorded for 3 minutes.
At 2 percent battery it just suddenly showed the Samsung logo and died (Galaxy A80, unrooted, usb debugging active)

I care about this video of a scene that won’t repeat, so I haven’t turned on the phone again. I fear whatever form the unfinished file was taking, will be auto-erased by the Gallery app or whatever.

I already googled about mounting the (encrypted) drive via a PC (without booting into Android.) I found something but it was for a Fairphone in 2015.

I also thought maybe booting into Safe Mode could be something to try if I run out of better options and then try to use a recovery software.

My thoughts about this last paragraph were that I don’t know if safe mode will at all avoid the destruction of the video. As well the only recovery app I happen to have installed is, sadly, half-terrible. And since I know the drive won’t mount as a standard flash drive when I connect to a pc, I wondered if I would even get the level of file system access needed.

I forgot to say the same thing happened the other day and I lost the video in question. Couldn’t find anything inside the Camera folder, even with a different extension. Didn’t remember to check for hidden files, though.

Anyway, all this said, this is my first post here, a very hopeful one of course, so thanks for having me and for the attention.

-RS

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Charging the phone and turning it back on wouldn't change what happened to the video. Typically, when a video does not save correctly, whatever can be salvaged from that file gets placed in a directory called LOST.DIR, usually as some coded file. You could try looking for that directory and seeing if any of the files there would be about the right size for a video. Then change the file extension to .mp4 and see if it plays.

 

[mustang7757]

Hi, welcome to AC!
Shooting a video that low percentage not good , surprisingly you were able to .

 

[Rock Selta]

Success!

Thanks for giving me the confidence to boot the phone.

Didn't actually find LOST.DIR, but... The video has saved! It's all there.

Big thanks

 

[B. Diddy]

Well, that's a relief!