Though the numbers of Apple device users are growing, there are still a great part of users sticking to Android phone or tablets. And it is quite ordinary that we need to deal with all kinds of data everyday on our Android device, this is the reason why we may need to recover some deleted data on Android. Today, we are going to introduce 2 ways to recover deleted videos on Android device without root or without using a computer, as many Android users expect.
Many Android users doubt and wonder why it is possible to recover deleted videos on Android devices. We need to understand the principle of deleting files on a device. When deleting a file on any device, be it internal storage space or external storage space, the device only allows users to delete the portal or access to the file, you cannot find the files on your device anymore, but they will stay invisibly on your device until there is new data added to the device to replace them, or your device is damaged for some reason.
For the sake that there will be new data sent or saved on your Android device at any time, it becomes not that easy to recover all deleted android videos successfully. Anyway, if you try to avoid adding new data to your device after the deleting, it is still much likely to get your deleted videos back.
Yes, we understand why there are so many Android users feel reluctant to root their phones or tables for video recovery, such a Root process is troublesome and will bring potential security risk to our device. For this reason, we will begin with the solution to recover deleted videos on Android without Root, i.e. using a computer to do the recovery, so a Root process is not required to install a 3rd party data recovery software. In consideration of the fact that we either use Mac or Windows PC, here we will introduce the steps for different users.
To recover deleted videos on Android without Root on a Mac, you will need the help of Mac data recovery software. As you may have studied and learnt that, there is no way to recover a deleted Android video without using a data recovery program, unless you have backups for the deleted vidoes.
Cisdem Data Recovery is a mac program helping users to recover deleted and lost files from both internal or external storage devices. That’s to say, you can use this program to recover deleted videos, photos or other from a Mac, Android phone or tablet, cameras, music player, video player, etc. Also, it can repair corrupted videos with ease.
To recover deleted videos from Android on Windows PC, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is a good choice. It supports to recover various types of files from both internal and external hard drive.
Though most of our users are recommended to do the Android video recovery on a computer due to high success rate and convenience, a part of users are still looking for a solution to recover the deleted Android videos without using computer. In this case, you will have to install a 3rd party Android data recovery app on your phone or tablet, or you are using Cloud service from an Android device supplier.
To recover deleted Android videos without computer, here we recommend DiskDigger Pro, it is a Android app to recover videos, photos and other files easily. It offers 2 scan modes, the Basic Scan and Full Scan, but the Full scan is only available on rooted devices. Also, if you device is rooted, the app allows you to select memory partition to scan. For your information, the internal memory of your Android device is showed as “/data”, while the SD card is displayed as “/mnt/sdcard” or others similar in the app.
If you are using the Cloud services from an Android device supplier, there is an alternative to recover deleted videos on Android without computer. For Samsung users, you can try following steps, while for users of other cloud services, you can refer to the individual website to find the tutorials.
Is there any useful tip to avoid data loss on an Android phone or tablet? Yes. You can refer to the following.
1. Back up
Always back up files, especially those important ones to your hard drive or cloud storage services. In case of any device damage, data corruption or loss, you can always to turn to your backup files.
2. Find a tool to manage your files
There are tools available to backup and recover your files on Android, such as Dumpster. It helps to backup all your Android data, keep deleted files in Trash bin and retrieve instantly if you want to.
No matter you want to recover deleted videos from Android without Root or without computer, as long as you find the appropriate tool, such an Android video recovery task can be extremely easy. Now have a try and share with us your favorite way to do the data recovery.
Connie Yu has been a columnist in the field of data recovery since 2011. She studied a lot of data loss situations and tested repeatedly to find a feasible solution tailored for each case. And her solutions are always updated to fix problems from the newest systems, devices and apps.