Recovering CAMERA Photos From android?

[tomkat2010]

Ive come to this forum as you guys as Gurus when it comes to things like this! I recently (without knowing) had my android samsung phone synced with google photos. I had a message from google saying storage was low on my gdrive so was surprised to see it has uploaded all my photos there (I didnt ask it to). I deleted them all thinking they'd still be on the camera... they were deleted from that too.
Ive tried recovery software but it only appears to find whatsapp/facebook etc photos, and nothing from the actual camera on the phone DCIM folders.

Can anyone recommend a good app/software that will recover these please? Thanks

[october262]

Ive come to this forum as you guys as Gurus when it comes to things like this! I recently (without knowing) had my android samsung phone synced with google photos. I had a message from google saying storage was low on my gdrive so was surprised to see it has uploaded all my photos there (I didnt ask it to). I deleted them all thinking they'd still be on the camera... they were deleted from that too.
Ive tried recovery software but it only appears to find whatsapp/facebook etc photos, and nothing from the actual camera on the phone DCIM folders.

Can anyone recommend a good app/software that will recover these please? Thanks

have you tried checking the trash folder on your phone ??

[KarMa]

Photorec https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

Firstly stop using your phone for anything. Plug it into a computer that can treat it like a USB thumb drive. Download the Photorec zip file and extract everything to a folder on the computer. Run the program qphotorec_win.exe which should bring up the Photorec GUI. Find the phone drive on the list of disk drives, tell it to search free space on the drive and send the files to your computer HDD.

In situations like this nothing is 100% and you are lucky to get anything, as SSDs have a tendency to quickly wipe data due to TRIM.

[Alwyn]

A possibility?

https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6128858?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid

[johns0]

If your phone is up to date such as android 11 and are using google documents for viewing the photos they wont be deleted,it takes 30 days now for the files to delete,you need to go into your google documents and look in the local files,they should be there unless you went in and deleted them permanently.

[tomkat2010]

Thanks for the replies but not luck, theres nothing in the phone photos account, and when I run testdisk the phone isnt found (despite it being available on windows).

[El Heggunte]

When one buys an Android smartphone, the first thing one must do is disable /uninstall every crapware, including most Google products or services.
NOBODY needs Google's Play Store nor Samsung's Galaxy Store to begin with, one can always search +find +download +install the .APK files manually.

[Alwyn]

NOBODY needs Google's Play Store nor Samsung's Galaxy Store to begin with, one can always search +find +download +install the .APK files manually.

What a load of rubbish. Quickest way to catch something if you don't know what you are doing.