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Free Video Recovery for Android Memory Card

How to recover data saved on android memory card, such as videos? This kind of problem really could be solved? How could you do then? If you ever lost data such as videos or are still in pain for the lost data on android memory card, you should read this article. You will know how to deal with restoring lost information. Data recovery software, which is the tool you need use.

Example of losing videos on android memory card

I deleted all videos by mistake saved on my android memory card, but I just intended to delete one of them then. I don't know what to do. Those videos record the friendship between my friends and I, so I don't want to lose any one of them. I don't know whether could I find them back, and if there is a way to retrieve them, what it is? Please help me with all your kindness. Thank you. – Pineapple from Colorado

Way to retrieve videos from android memory card

Generally speaking, videos will be lost from your memory card due to formattin, deleting, memory card error, etc. Data recovery software is available for memory card recovery when videos got lost due to all reasons mentioned above. You can recover files from SD card, XD card, CF card, etc. Here is the guidance to use data recovery software. If you don't know how to handle it, then follow the steps below:

Recover videos from Android memory card

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Connect the memory card to your computer via a USB cable or card reader. Then, run the software.

1Connect your android phone to the computer by USB cable.
2Download the data recovery software and launch it on the computer.
3Run on it and choose the android device to scan.
4Preview files recoverable after scanning and select files need to be restored to recover.

Data loss on android memory card

1. Accidental deletion and formatting.

2. Corruption in the operating system.

3. Memory card infected with virus and worms from some apps.

4. Switching off phone suddenly.

5. Memory card gets in contact with some external hard material.

6. Loss due to FAT, BOOT or Root damage.

7. Memory card has bad sectors and turns to RAW file system.

Please pay attention to that do not use your android phone until the lost videos and other information were found back. Refuse to perform any operation on it. That is to prevent the original data was overwritten. You may not be able to retrieve them forever once it was overwritten by other new files.

Brief introduction about android

Android is an operating system with open source based on Linux. It is mainly used to mobile devices, such as smart phone and tablet and leaded and developed by Google and the open handset alliance. It is very popular among people and most youngsters use smart phone with android operating system. There is much free software on it.

File format of videos

There are a lot of file formats of videos, such as wmv, asf, asx format for Microsoft videos, rm, rmvb for real player, mpg, mpeg, mpe for MPEG videos, 3gp for phone videos, mov for Apple, mp4 and m4v for Sony and other common videos like avi, dat, mkv, flv and vob. If you don't know whether your 3gp type videos could be retrieved by the data recovery software, you could back to its homepage to check file types it support to recover. You can find its introduction generally. If the data recovery tool you have download and installed can not restore your 3gp videos, then change another one.

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