Sony Xperia Recovery, recover deleted/lost photos, video from Sony Xperia Ion/TL/P/S/Sola

Sony Xperia is the family of Sony smartphones and tablets. The line has been manufactured since 2008 and currently accounts for more than half of the company’s mobile phone sales.

Best Sony Xperia 2012 smartphone models: Sony Xperia TL, Sony Xperia S, Sony Xperia SL, Sony Xperia P, Sony Xperia ION, Sony Xperia Sola

If you own one of the above mentioned Sony Xperia smartphones and unfortunately lose some of your important files such as photos, video or audio files from the phone internal memory or external microSD card. You are fortunately enough to recover the lost files with Photo Retrieval, a qualified recovery application specially designed for dealing with Mobility file lost problems.

The program will treat your phone’s storage device as a mounted drive, dig deep and unearth deleted/formatted/damaged photos, video and audio files from both Sony Xperia internal flash memory and external memory card.

Steps to recover deleted/lost photos, videos and audio from Sony Xperia TL/P/S/Sola

1.Launch Photo Retrieval with the recovery wizard interface, hit “Next” to start the recovering process.

2. Specify the storage device to scan.
Enable USB Mass Storage connection mode on your Sony Xperia smartphones, so that both the internal memory and external microSD card of your phone can be mounted as a drive to allow the Recovery tool to scan for lost files.
When the program detects your phone’s storage device, it will display it on the main panel of the program as a “Removable Media”, select it and then hit “Next” to proceed.

3.Specify image file types to recover.
Specify and check the image file types such as “.bmp”, “.gif”, “.jpg, .jpeg”, “.png” as the file types to recover for Sony Xperia., and then hit “Next” to start the recovery process.

4.Recover deleted/lost photos from Sony Xperia.
During the recovering process, thumbnails of the recoverable files will be listed on the program main panel, double click the thumbnails to view the files in large size.
When the scan is complete, check the image files you wish to recover, then hit right-bottom “Next” button to begin the recovering process.

How to recover deleted/lost files from Samsung Galaxy S3 internal flash memory or microSD card?

Samsung Galaxy S3, the third phone of the Galaxy series, packs in a plethora of new features on top of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Unfortunately, this time, Samsung has decided to strip out support for USB Mass Storage mode in favor of MTP (Media Transfer Protocal) for some unknown reasons. The fact that MTP allows simultaneous use of data on the phone and PC could be a possible reason.

For Samsung Galaxy S3 users, you may accidentally deleted some needed photos, videos or other media files from your Galaxy S3 internal flash memory or external microSD card. When you try to recover the deleted files from your phones internal flash memory or external SD card with Data Recovery tool, you may disappointed to find that the recover program can not detect your phone storage device.

The issue is that Data Recovery tools need an actual mounted drive in order to dig deep and unearth your deleted media files by accident. Since the internal flash memory and external microSD card of your Samsung Galaxy S3 mounts as MTP/PTP which is not treated as a mounted drive and therefore can not be scanned by the Data Recovery tools.

To let your Data Recovery tool successfully detect your Galaxy S3 internal memory and microSD card, you can refer to the following solution.

How to scan and recover Galaxy S3 internal flash memory?
1.Backup the entire internal memory partion to your computer as a single, massive .RAW file.
2.Convert the .RAW file output to a VHD
3.Mount the VHD as a disk in Disk Manager.
4.Scan the attached VHD volume for files that have been deleted and recovery them.

For further detailed recover steps please visit: Internal Memory Data Recovery

How to scan and recover Samsung Galaxy S3 external microSD card?
Take the microSD card out from your Samsung Galaxy S3 and connect it to your computer via a card reader, and then the recovery program will mount your external card as a storage device.

Then your can utilize Photo Recovery program to recover deleted photos, video or audio files from Samsung Galaxy S3 external microSD card on both Windows 8/7/Vista/XP and Mac OS X Mountain Lion/Lion/Snow Leopard/Leopard.

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How to recover deleted/lost photos, video from Nokia/HTC/Samsung/Huawei Windows Phone 8?

Windows Phone 8 is the second generation of the Windows Phone mobile operating system from Microsoft. It was released on October 29, 2012, and like its predecessor, it features the interface known as Metro (or Modern UI). And Windows Phone 8 devices are manufactured by Nokia, HTC, Samsung and Huawei.

List of Windows Phone 8 devices:
Nokia: Nokia Lumia 920, Nokia Lumia 925, Nokia Lumia 928, Nokia Lumia 520/521, Nokia Lumia 620, Nokia Lumia 720, Nokia Lumia 810, Nokia Lumia 820, Nokia Lumia 822
HTC: HTC Windows Phone 8S, HTC Windows Phone 8X
Samsung: Samsung ATIV S, Samsung ATIV Odyssey
Huawei: Huawei Ascend W1

To use data recovery software to scan lost files from your Windows Phone 8, the internal memory or external memory of the phone should mount as a drive, which can be achieved by enabling USB Mass Storage Mode on your Phone. Fortunately, Windows Phone 8 support USB Mass Storage Mode, which means your phone can now be recognized as a mass storage drive when connected to the computer. Therefore, you can perform the file recovery process on your Windows Phone 8 with Photo Recovery program with no problem.

Just launch the recovery program on your computer, and connect your Windows Phone 8 device to the computer with the USB data sync cable included with your Windows Phone. And when the program detects your Windows Phone 8 storage device, it will list them on the main pane. Select the storage device you wish to scan and recover, and specify the file type you wish to recover, then you can start the scanning process. When the scanning process is over, the scanning results will be displayed by category in the left pane, you can preview the files details in the right pane. Check the files you wish to recover, then click the “Recovery” button to recover Windows Phone 8 deleted/lost files.

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Samsung Galaxy Recovery, deleted/lost photos, video from Samsung Galaxy S4/S3/S2/Note/Note II

Samsung Galaxy is a series of mobile computer devices produced by Samsung Electronics, all of which use the Android operating system.

Popular Samsung Galaxy devices list:
Smartphones: Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy S3, Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini, Samsung Galaxy S2 Plus, Samsung Galaxy Grand
Phablets: Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Samsung Galaxy Mega
Tablets: Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0), Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1)
Camera: Samsung Galaxy Camera

The Samsung Galaxy Devices often store data on its internal memory or microSD card. Sometimes, due to some known or unknown reasons such as accidental or intentional deletion, storage device formatting or corruption, virus attack, your precious files may lose even without your consciousness.

Generally speaking, the files lose from Galaxy device are not permanently erased, instead, your phone has removed the file from the disk drive and listed the space as available and re-usable space. Therefore, if you manage to initiate a recovery process before your phone use that part of space to create any new files, you can still retrieve back your lost data files.

Samsung Galaxy Recovery will be the powerful recovery tool specially designed to recover deleted/formatted/damaged photos, video and audio files from Samsung Galaxy Devices including Samsung Galaxy S4/S3/S2/S3 Mini/S2 Plus/Nexus/Grand/Note/Note 2/Mega/Note 8.0/Note 10.1/Tab 2 7.0/Tab 7.0 Plus/Tab 2 10.1 on both Windows and Mac.

How to recover deleted/lost photos, videos from Samsung Galaxy?

If your Samsung Galaxy device runs OS version below Android 4.0 like Android 2.3 Gingerbread, you are fortunately enough to recover deleted/lost photos from both its internal memory and external memory with Photo Recovery software.

If you own a Galaxy device that has just upgraded from Android 2.3 to Android 4.0, like Samsung Galaxy S2, you still has the opportunity to recover lost by files by enabling USB Mass Storage Mode on your Phone with the following steps:
1.Go into “Settings>More>USB utilities” and then click “Connect Storage to PC”.
2. Plug one port of your USB cable into your Galaxy S2 and connect the other port to the computer.
3. The “USB connected” screen with a large green Android icon will appear, hit “Turn on USB storage”.
4. A confirmation dialog box will appear. Tap “OK”. Then the green Android icon will turn orange, indicating that the phone is now in USB Mass Storage mode. And your phone will appear as USB disk drives in “Devices with Removable Storage” and be assigned drive letters.

If your Samsung Galaxy device runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or 4.1 Jelly Bean like Samsung Galaxy S3/S4/Note 2, when you try to connect your device directly to the computer, neither the internal memory nor the external memory of the device will mount as drive letter and therefore can not be detected by the recovery software. If you are wise enough to have stored the lost files on the external microSD card, you can still recover them by taking the card out to insert it into a card reader and then connecting the card reader to the computer. And almost all card readers will appear as a drive letter in "My Computer" of Windows when connected. You can also insert your external microSD card into a device that runs Android 4.0 or below and connect the device to computer directly to scan for lost files. However, if all your lost files are stored in your devices' internal memory, you can have a reference at this risk and complicated solution: Recover lost files from Internal Memory.

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How to recover deleted/lost photos videos from Motorola Droid/Photon/Atrix Android Phone?

Popular Motorola Android phones:
Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD, Motorola Droid Razr HD, Motorola Razr M, Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE, Motorola Razr Maxx, Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, Motorola Droid 4, Motorola Droid Razr, Motorola Razr, Motorola Atrix HD, Motorola Electrify M, Motorola Atrix 2, Motorola Droid Bionic, Motorola Droid 3, Motorola Photon 4G, Motorola Droid PRO, Motorola Atrix 4G, Motorola Milestone 2, Motorola Droid 2 Global, Motorola Droid 2, Motorola Droid X

Like any other smartphones in the market, the photos, videos or other media files stored on your Motorola Android smartphones can always lose due to accidentally deletion, internal storage memory card or expandable microSD card formatting or corruption.

Motorola Android Phone Photo Video Recovery is the high efficiency and high performance application recommended to recover deleted/formatted/damaged photos, videos or audio files from Motorola Droid/Photon/Atrix smartphones.

Supported photo, video and audio file formats by the program
Photo formats: bmp, gif, jpg, jpeg, pcx, scr, png, psd, tga, tif, tiff
Video formats: 3gp, 3g2, avi, m4v, mov, mp4
Audio formats: mid, mp3, wav

The program will perform a full scan of your storage device, find, list and recover all your desirable photos, video and audio files from Motorola Android phones.

Step by step to recover Motorola Android phone deleted/lost photos videos?

1.Run Photo Recovery, start with the “Recovery Wizard”.

2.Select the storage device to be scanned.
Plug your Motorola Phone into the computer, and your phone will appear as a “Removable Disk Drives” in the list. Select the storage device and click “Next” to continue.

3.Specify file types you need to recover.
Check “JPG/JPEG(.jpg, .jpeg)” under “Common Picture” menu and “MPEG4 Video File(.mp4)” under “Multimedia” menu as the file type to scan and recover.

4.Recover Motorola Android Phone lost photos video.
During the scanning process, the program will generate thumbnails of the recoverable files. Double click the files to have a large preview of them.
When scan complete, select files that you want to recover, then click “Next”.

How to recover Canon/Nikon/Sony/Olympus/Fuji/Kodak/Pentax/Simga/Leica deleted/lost raw image files?

Raw file format is an image file format used by many high-end and professional digital cameras. Raw files are considered to be the best form of an image file, since it does not process the picture, leaving total control of the editing to the user. RAW file size is much larger than that of .JPEG files but slightly smaller than .TIF files. RAW image files can be edited by Adobe Photoshop and Corel Paintshop Pro. RAW image files can be converted to .JPEG or .TIF by using ReaConverter.

Some RAW files have the RAW file extension, most often a camera will give their RAW files different extensions and usually their own specific format. For example, Canon uses either .CRW or .CR2, Nikon use .NEF, Sony uses .ARW, Olympus uses .ORF, Fuji uses .RAF, Kodak uses .KDC, Pentax uses .PEF, Sigma uses .X3F and Leica uses .DNG.

The RAW image file are pretty precious for photographer users since the they may have a wide range or color gamut than the eventually final image format and preserves most of the information of the captured image. Therefore, you will be very frustrated if some of them inadvertently lose from your camera.

The great news is that you can still recover the lost raw image files with Photo Recovery application. But remember do not use your camera to take any photos to prevent the lost raw files from overwritten by the new created image files. Then you can utilize this Camera Raw Photo Recovery to perform a full scan of your camera storage card to find, list and recover deleted/formatted/damaged raw image files from Canon/Nikon/Sony/Olympus/Fuji/Kodak/Pentax/Sigma/Leica, etc on both Windows and Mac computer.

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How to recover deleted/lost photos, videos from HTC One X/One S/One V?

Popular HTC phones:
HTC One, HTC Droid DNA, HTC One X, HTC One S, HTC One V, HTC Windows Phone 8S, HTC Windows Phone 8X, HTC Desire X, HTC Desire C, HTC EVO 4G LTE, HTC Rezound, HTC Inspire 4G, HTC ThunderBolt, HTC EVO 3D, HTC EVO Design 4G, HTC Amaze 4G, HTC Sensation XE, HTC Sensation 4G, HTC EVO View 4G, HTC Flyer, HTC Desire S, HTC Arrive, etc.

If you are HTC phone users with one of the above mentioned shiny phones or other HTC phone models, you will often encounter data loss problems. You may accidentally delete your favorite photos or pictures taken with the phone camera, or lost your important videos or music from the phone due to phone formatting or corruption.

Don’t be panic. The first important thing you have to do is stop using your Phone immediately to prevent the lost files being overwritten by the new created files. Then you will have the chance to recover lost files from HTC phones with Photo Recovery software.

Main functions of Photo Recovery
Recover photos, video and audio files lost due to accidental deletion, card formatting or corruption.
Have full support for all popular HTC phones that runs Android OS 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich or Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread including HTC One X/S/V, HTC Droid DNA, HTC Desire X/C/S/4G, HTC EVO 3D/Design 4G/View 4G/4G LTE, HTC Inspire 4G, HTC ThunderBolt, HTC Amaze 4G, HTC Sensation XE/4G, HTC Arrive, HTC Flyer
Preview scanned files in thumbnails, list or cover flow before recovery
Compatible with Windows 8/7/Vista/XP and Mac OS X Mountain Lion/Lion/Snow Leopard/Leopard

Step by step guides to recover deleted photos from HTC phones on Windows and Mac

1.Get started Photo Recovery on your computer.
Click “Recover Photo, Audio & Video” icon on the program.

2.Select media for recovery.
Connect HTC phones to the computer through a USB cable, when the program detects your phone, it will display it on the main panel as a removable disk. Select the phone drive, and click right-bottom “Advanced Scan” button.

3.Specify file types to recover.
In the opened “Select File Type” window, click “Photo” button in the right panel to stretch the recoverable image format list by the program, check the image formats such as “JPEG Images”, “BMP Images”, “GIF Images”, “PNG Images”, etc as your desired image format to scan and recovery, then hit right-bottom “Proceed” button to start the scanning process.

4.Recover HTC phones deleted/lost photos videos.
When the scanning process is over, lists of folders indicating each file formats will be displayed in the left panel.
You can view them by thumbnails, list or cover flow, and then select the specified photos or videos that you wish to recover and hit right bottom “Recovery” button.