Photo recovery after restore

[Android Central Question]

While on a holiday I experienced the moisture detection issue on my s10+ that would not go away. Through trouble shooting my problems I eventually resorted to a factory reset. While I thought that I had everything backed up to my SD card, i was not aware that files I had moved from my camera reel to personal folders were relocated to the internal memory.

I have tried several android apps for recovery to constantly find the same deleted photos that mean nothing to me and not the ones from my holiday, without having to root the phone. The problems/questions I have are as follows.

-research tells me that rooting the device will void my warranty, and the moisture detection issue is under warranty.

- the lady at Samsung told me that the phone should still plug into a PC, but it cannot without encountering the moisture problem. So I am unable to use any PC programs which are more effective at recovery.

Questions
1. Can you clone the internal memory to a SD card and then recover that way?

2. If the firmware is flashed when it goes to Samsung, will there be any chance that the data is still recoverable?

Thank you for your time.

 

[belodion]

I think that the answer to both questions is No, but I'll move this to S10 for comments from Samsung experts.
https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=409154

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Did you by any chance have Google Photos auto-backup turned on? Go to photos.google.com on your computer browser and see if any of the photos are there.

 

[Rukbat]

After a factory reset, even rooting the phone probably won't recover the pictures you used to have in the phone but no longer do. (If Christophe would write an Android version of PhotoRec, you could, but he doesn't seem to want to. [He does forensic software - which isn't normally done on cellphones. At best, you could image the userdata partition, copy that image file to a PC and use PhotoRec on the image file. It's explained at the site under https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Recover_data_from_an_iPhone - I don't know if you can find a version of dd that would run on an unrooted Android, though.] And the more you write to storage, the more chance there is of overwriting one or more of the pictures.)

 

[mustang7757]

If you had Samsung cloud back up on it will restore , also if you had Google photos sync it will do same

 

[Mooncatt]

If you didn't have things backed up, I'm thinking you're out of luck. For the past several years, Android phones are encrypted by default to prevent data recovery after a factory reset. I doubt even forensics level software could recover anything, and that's assuming that data isn't already overwritten by the reset and subsequent use already.