Android phones store their data in three places; the SIM card, the internal phone memory, and the SD card. I am going to be talking about how to recover deleted files from the internal phone memory.

One of the best-known tools that help with this kind of recovery is the FORecovery Android Data Recovery which helps to recover almost every kind of data you may have lost due to the rooting process or resetting the factory settings. Here’s a step by step guide to help you go about this process.

Step 1: Connect your Android phone to your PC

The first step is to launch the toolkit and connect your phone to the PC. Once you launch the Toolkit, select the option for Data Recovery. You can connect your smartphone to the PC using a USB cable. If you have a locked phone, unlock it before doing this as it might not work efficiently.

Make sure that the option of USB Debugging is enabled, please follow the instruction on screen to enable the USB debugging.

Step 2: Select the types of files you want to scan

Once you connect your Android device successfully, the next step involves the display of data types that the toolkit supports in recovering. Although it checks all the files by default, it also gives you an option to select the type of data that you might want to recover instead of recovering everything. If you recover everything, you need to be patient as it might take a while to do that. Once you select what you want to recover, click “Next”.

Step 3: Scanning the device

There are two modes of scanning using the above toolkit. Read through the descriptions provided and choose whether you want to run a standard scan mode or an advanced one, depending on the needs you have. If you want the scanning to get done fast, use standard, but if this scan is unsuccessful in finding the files you are looking for, then try the advanced one. After selecting the choice of scan mode, click on “Start”. This process might take some time so just hold on and sip your cup of coffee patiently.

Step 4: Preview the file and recover it!

Once the scan is completed, you are displayed with a preview of the data that was found, one by one. Look for the data that you had lost, and click recover to save it. Note that it will save on your PC so once saved; you can transfer it to your smartphone.

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