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Help how can i recover deleted photos on kyocera event?

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dj4444

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None of my Google-related apps including gmail were running and I was getting this error:

Google play services error....insufficient storage when trying to update it. I have a nearly empty
phone with over 1GB of space. Only 4 apps, all caches cleared. All of the options to change, clear,
deactivate, etc,.....for play services are blacked out so I can't do that.

I tried to fix this problem for several weeks and then got fed up yesterday and now have another disaster to deal with - a much bigger disaster that I need help with.

Despite being shown massive empty space on the apps and total internal storage, I kept getting the lack of storage error. So one by one, I deleted all of the FOUR apps I had and that made no difference. This phone has never had an SD car inside and never needed one and I never had any plans on installing one. It is a Kyocera Event.

Anyway, yesterday I was playing around trying to find ways to clear more storage and one of the options was erase SD card. Well there is no SD card so I wasn't worried about losing my 100+/ year's worth of every photo I have ever taken which is the only really important and priceless thing I have the phone for. So I hit clear and all my photos were deleted from internal storage.

I have spent the last 24 hours trying to find out how I can get them back. So far, I have tried:

Dr. Fone - nothing.

I used Kingo Root because most of the instructions said the phone had to be rooted first to get the photos back.
Kingo root said it was done, but nothing acts like it is rooted or different from how it was before.

Diskdigger says no partition found - am I sure it is rooted?

Easeus Mobisaver says a superuser request should pop up and it never does .....just sits there.

MobiKin Doctor - nothing.

Mitusoft aidfile recovery - nothing.

Can someone please tell me if and how I can get all my photos back? Or am I just wasting my time and they are gone forever and no way to get them back?

Thanks for any help or advice.
 
Oh man, that stinks. :(

I don't think you are going to like my answer, either. You in fact do have an sd card ... sort of. You have an internal partition mounted at /sdcard, which Android believes is your sd card. When you selected format, it wiped out a folder /sdcard/DCIM which is where your photos were stored. Without a backup, i don't think you have much chance of getting them back.

You didn't happen to sync them to gmail?
 
i dont recall hitting format for anything.....

I desperately wanted to back up the photos to google, but no google apps - including photos or
anything would work because of the insufficient storage problem. And I was afraid if I
took the battery out to put in an Sd card, i would lose the photos.
 
So rooting the phone just a waste of time - and are all those apps on Google Play for recovering deleted photos also just a waste of time? I have read countless things over the last 24 hours saying that if you download this app or that app - you can recover the photos. I don't want to go to the hassle of rooting a phone I had kept only for the photos - just to try and get the photos back - if that is just a waste.

Anyone? Has anybody successfully recovered deleted photos using any of these methods or is it all just a load of BS?
 
I would say that some have had some success. First you have to understand that Android uses a file system just like a PC, although it's based on Linux so if you only have Windows experience it may look very foreign.

The file system, just like a disk-based computer file system, stores files in specific locations to your phone by saving those bits and bytes to free sectors of your device storage and then writing to the master record both what the bits and bytes are and that those sectors are now occupied. When you delete a file, all you really do is remove the data from the master record and the bits and bytes are still there. However, what happens is that those sectors are no longer marked as occupied so the next app that requires space to write something might use those sectors and overwrite the original bits. So, the more you use a device after you have deleted a file, the less likely you will be able to recover it.

The recovery apps work in a few different ways. Primarily by bypassing the master record and scanning the bits individually and seeing if it can reassemble complete files. If it finds enough to reconstruct the file it can then write that information back to the master record and your files reappear.

Why it works: writing to storage is not sequential. In other words, it doesn't look for the first free sector and start writing. What ti does is look for the first block of sectors that can hold the entire file and start writing from there, possibly bypassing the data you wish to recover.

Why it fails: The more you use a device, the more it will read and write to memory/storage and the more likely it will be that enough of the sectors are overwritten, rendering the file unrecoverable. You also must understand that these apps generally work with FAT32 formatting, so if you have storage that you can't mount as a FAT32 partition, they most likely won't work at all. In this case root has very little to do with it.

Really, these recovery apps are a last ditch effort to try and save something. Even if they work 25% of the time people sing their praises. That's why regular backups are so important.
 
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