Looking ahead, we’ll say that the data on mobile gadgets running the Android platform, video files in particular, can be saved in about half the cases. But there are a couple of nuances that directly affect these very cases.
Loss of information can occur in good and bad scenarios. In the first case, we are talking about third-party memory cards and other external storage devices. It will be possible to restore the video on Android relatively easily and even for free.
But the evolution of smartphones is taking leaps and bounds, and manufacturers are increasingly abandoning memory cards, preferring to increase, as well as speed up, the internal drives of their gadgets. In this case, recovering deleted videos on Android will be problematic, but still possible. Let's try to examine both situations in more detail so that the user can navigate the proposed options and tools for solving the problem.
So, we’ll figure out how to restore the video on Android after deletion, what it will take, what are the chances of success in a particular case, and how to avoid similar problems in the future.
SD drives
Here, as mentioned above, the problem is easily solved with the help of free utilities and a personal computer. You can restore photos and videos to Android with a guarantee close to 100% if the files were deleted recently. One of the most popular utilities of this kind is Recuva. It is understandable, perfectly localized and completely free.
Recuva
You can download the distribution package from the official resource of the developer. After installation and subsequent launch of the application, the wizard immediately opens. There you can select the necessary actions from the presented list. In our case, this is to restore the video.
On the android gadget, you must first safely remove the external SD drive (Settings -> Memory -> Remove SD card), then connect it to the computer. If the master settings did not appear at the first start or you accidentally closed it, then you can restore the video on Android from the memory card through the main interface.
Program features
Select the desired drive in the drop-down menu at the top and then in the "Analysis" field, click on "View Files". The program will begin scanning and upon completion will provide you with a report. In the resulting list, all video files will be divided in three colors. Green indicates the highest chance of data recovery, yellow about 50/50, well, red - without any guarantees.
If the memory card has not been actively used after deleting the information, but you can restore the video on Android without any problems. Otherwise, you can get clipping fragments or not working video sequence at all.
Phone internal memory
A good half of mobile devices, especially from the noble sector, connects to a personal computer by their protocols, that is, not like an ordinary memory card or flash drive. Therefore, the above utility will be useless.
In this case, to restore the video on the Android phone, special mobile software is needed. Almost all utilities of such a plan come with a trial period, but it differs from the same on personal computers. On your PC, you can usually use all available functionality for free, for example, for 30 days. After the expiration of this period, the possibilities are significantly reduced, or completely disappear.
Application Features
In the case of mobile recovery utilities, there is also a 30-, 20- or 10-day trial period. But the maximum that you can count on is a full scan and receiving a detailed report on the possibilities of restoring one or another video file. It will be possible to return them to their old place only after acquiring a license.
This approach, in principle, can be called honest. Those who want to restore their data do not take a pig in a poke, but receive a detailed report on what and how the utility is able to reanimate. If the user’s capabilities are satisfied, then you can spend money on a license.
On the other hand, it’s very difficult to pay a couple of thousand of your hard-earned money to a developer for software that you rarely use. But, whatever one may say, the loss of information and video as well is the user's fault, at least in most cases. A good financial shake is a very good motivator to keep all the important data somewhere in a safe place.
The best applications for video recovery on the Android platform:
- Tenorshare Android Data Recovery.
- GT Recovery.
- Wondershare Dr. Fone.
- Undeleter (root rights required).
- EaseUS MobiSaver.
All these utilities work on a similar principle. The client of any program needs to be installed on a personal computer, and then connect your mobile gadget to it via a USB interface. The application itself recognizes the internal protocols of the smartphone and will work with it by analogy with memory cards.
Utilities have their own list of supported phone models: for someone it is smaller, for someone more, but they all work quite well with well-known manufacturers, such as Samsung or Sony. If you are the owner of some kind of “exotic”, then you need to try by typing, that is, everything is in order, and hope for the best. Actually, for this, the developers just provide trial periods for their programs so that the user can try the connection and synchronization, and only then do the scanning of remote data.
Summarizing
There are many programs for recovering video files: paid and free, effective and not very. But all this is an extra headache, especially if you are not the first to step on the same rake. All the data that is in your smartphone, including video, can be safely secured against deletion using cloud storage.
The same "Google" with its "Disk" offers a completely free (with a limited volume), effective and not at all troubling option. All you need is millet to set up synchronization with cloud storage, and the service itself will backup not only your videos, but in general everything that you indicate to it.