Recovering lost pictures

[conSam]

I have a Galaxy S6 Edge with Verizon. My camera hasn't been working the last few days so I did a factory reset, stupidly without saving precious pictures of my family. I downloaded and paid for Fonelab to restore my lost files, which told me I needed to root my phone. I downloaded and tried with RootGenius and Kingo root. Both failed. I have no idea what I am doing but I am SO desperate to recover my pictures!! Can anyone tell me how to recover these files???

 

[N4Newbie]

Unfortunately, you most likely cannot do so.

Are you sure they are not backed up to the cloud? If you have a Gmail account, try going to https://photos.google.com/login on a PC and see if anything is there.

 

[conSam]

It looks like the last update was August of last year and none of the very important pictures are in there. I am so heart broken

 

[tyson0007]

Trying to recover lost pics