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 How to Recover Photos from Cell Phone - Tutorial |
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Recover Lost Photos From Cell Phone |
| Lost Photos from Your Cell Phone? You may still have change to get them back. |
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Cell phone is also called mobile phone, cellular phone in some regions. More and more phones in the market are now equipped with digital camera (camera phone). Just as digital camera users, cell phone or mobile phone users may delete their valuable pictures they taken, format the phone memory card by mistake, or damage the memory card in the phone and lost the photos on the memory card for some reasons. |
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There are several memory card types used in cell phones, e.g. Memory Stick Micro (M2), it is widely used by Sony-Ericsson phones. MicroSD, MiniSD, MicroSDHC, TransFlash card, RS-MMC are other popular phone memory card types used in Nokia, Motorola, and other phone brands.
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Usually, there are two ways for phone to save the pictures it takes - internal phone memory and external phone memory (memory card).
If the lost photos were saved in phone external memory (memory card), it has a better chance to be recovered. You may take the memory card out from phone, then find a card reader to connect it to your computer's USB port. Almost all card reader will appear as a drive letter in "My Computer" of Windows when connected. You may use CardRecovery software to scan the drive letter and rescue the lost photos.
If your phone memory card is a MicroSD, you need a MircroSD card reader, OR a "MicroSD to SD Adapter", with a SD card reader. A MemoryStick Micro (M2) needs a Memory Stick Micro reader and so on. Card readers can be found from local computer shops or online shops like Amazon, Buy.com. They are cheap and useful. If you connect your phone directly to your computer, the phone memory card can appear as a drive letter, the card reader is not required.
If the lost photos were saved in the phone internal memory, you may try to connect your phone to your computer (mostly USB connection, or blue-tooth in some cases). If a new drive letter appear in "My Computer", it is great if the drive is just your phone internal memory! You may use CardRecovery to scan the drive letter and try to locate and restore the lost pictures. Otherwise, if the internal memory (phone) cannot appear as a drive letter, since internal memory cannot be taken out separately, it is not possible to recover the lost photos using software tools.
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CardRecovery is easy to use. It has a step-by-step wizard to guide you through the whole recovery process. You may download CardRecovery from
http://www.cardrecovery.com/download.asp
Please note, CardRecovery works with Windows platform only. It does not run under Mac OS X. If you only have a Mac, you need to find a Windows PC to run CardRecovery and recover your lost photos (JPG, JPEG). CardRecovery can also recover lost video and movie files (e.g. AVI, MOV).
CardRecovery can recover photos from phone that lost due to "delete", "format", or memory card damage. If you takes the memory card out when you turn on or off your phone, the memory card may get corrupted. Also, battery shortage on reading/writing the phone memory, or other issue could also cause data loss on the memory card. Besides recovering photos shot using phone camera, Cardrecovery also recovers the pictures, photos, images that stored in phone, saved from MMS, or copied from computer. It is important that do not write or take new pictures on the same memory card before you recover them, because the newly added data may overwrite the deleted files and make them unrecoverable.
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