Six things you should do before recovering deleted files from an Android smartphone

Abstract: We love Android smartphone, with big screen and high performance, used for taking pictures, chatting, watching movies, etc. It is so convenient and sometimes makes us in trouble, as we delete important messages and photos by mistake and have no idea about how to recover the deleted photos and files from an Android smartphone. The more we did, the less got back. And here are some tips for you to follow, about things should do before recovering deleted files from an Android smartphone and how to recover deleted files from an Android smartphone.

First, Six things you should do before recovering deleted files from an Android smartphone

If you have suffered from losing precious files in the phone, the first thing you should do is clam down, don’t panic, don't do anything stupid to your phone. Just following rules bellow, and you will get the whole lost files back.

1 Check out the battery in the phone

The primary thing you should do is check out how much energy has left in the phone’s battery before using data recovery software to restore data. If data recovery process is cutting off by a sudden shutdown, recovery quality will be seriously affected, what’s worse is, you may lost data permanently.

2 Confirm the format and quantity of deleted files

You should know well about the format and quantity of losing files before using a data recovery software for data restoration. And then you could identify the deleted files quickly and precisely after software scanning, keeping things like recovery errors or incomplete restoration avoidable.

3 Ascertain the storage path of lost data

We can never move next before finding out the exact location where lost data reside, internal storage or external storage, or we can say that, phone’s ROM or memory card.  

4 Do not write new data to the space occupied by deleted data

Pay attention, when files got deleted on the phone, they are not really completely erased, just got marked with no existence. The actual data of deleted files are still there till overwritten by new data, and then you may never recover them again. So never and ever save new data to the storage location deleted data.

5 The deleted files are saved on the memory card

If the deleted files are saved on the memory card, you should off the phone first, remove the memory card out of the phone, plug it to the card reader and link to the computer, and then use a data recovery software for restoring. Pay attention, use good-quality card readers, as poor one will lead to instability during data recovery process and recovery quality will be affected too.

6 The deleted files are saved on the phone

If the deleted files are saved on the phone, just link it to the computer via cable. Please note that you should choose “USB mass storage” or “USB storage” while selecting mode. And you could seek professional data recovery engineer for help if any issue exists during recovery procedure.  

Second, how to recover deleted files

After doing all these preparing things, data recovery software’s special show begin. Ordinary data recovery software could only fix data restoration from computer, phone is beyond their type. But that is just for mediocre one, not Hdata Recovery Software. With it’s pro-data scanning core, it could retrieve the whole files including the lost address list, photos, messages, videos, audio etc from most types of phone, and of course Android smartphone is included.

Special tips, don’t be lazy, make backup data regularly, it’s the best way to recovery deleted files.