Samsung Galaxy S II photo recovery to retrieve deleted photo on Windows / Mac OS X

by Yang Lei SOFE

Do you like travelling and taking photos to record your happy moments? I think the answer is positive. However, due to a variety of reasons, photo loss is becoming more and more common. Luckily, you can restore your precious photos using the third party software like Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery, no matter the deleted photos by accident or format the storage media on purpose, or other reasons such as virus infection, unexpected power off, etc.

What to do if your Samsung S II photos are deleted or lost?

First, stop using your Galaxy S II immediately because any additional data written to the SD partition of your phone can overwrite the sectors where the image is stored (if it hasn’t happened already) and make the image unrecoverable.
Next, download Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery and install it on your PC.
Then, mount your Galaxy S II as storage (not mtp mode) by going to Settings -> Wireless&Wifi -> USB Tools -> Connect USB mass storage to PC and then plugging your phone into the PC.
Finally, run Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery, the internal and external storage volumes will appear as two separate removable drives on Windows computer.

Samsung Galaxy S II photo recovery to retrieve deleted photo on Windows/Mac OS X

Step by step tutorial to recover Samsung Galaxy S II photos

Step 1: Select the internal or external storage volume, and click “Start Scan” or “Advance Scan” to start scanning your Samsung Galaxy S II missing photos.
Note: If you are a Mac user, Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery will recognize your Galaxy S II as SAMSUNG File – Stor Gadget Media.

Samsung Galaxy S II photo recovery to retrieve deleted photo on Windows/Mac OS X

Step 2: All the scanned files will be displayed in the left categories: photos, video, and music. You can Stop the scanning process once find the deleted photos that need to be recovered.

Samsung Galaxy S II photo recovery to retrieve deleted photo on Windows/Mac OS X

Step 3: Choose the target photos that to be recovered, and then click the “Recover” button, it will fast recover your Samsung Galaxy S II deleted, lost, corrupted, or formatted photos.