Recover Photos from Samsung Galaxy S4 SD Card

Here is a piece of good news for Samsung Galaxy S4 users: the photos deleted or formatted from Samsung Galaxy S4 SD card are recoverable. Like any other smart phones, Samsung Galaxy S4 also use micro SD card to store files such as music and photos. Samsung Galaxy S4 has a pretty good performance on shooting photos and videos and in that way it brings a lot of fun to us. But sometimes, these brilliant masterpieces made by our phone can be destroyed for some reasons. For example, we might have the photos deleted or formatted by accident or by mistake. This will throw us into endless regret if there is something extremely important to us in the micro SD card.

Fail to recover all my photos from Samsung Galaxy S4 SD card

Sometimes, you might found it impossible to recover all the files from a memory card. Actually, this could attribute to the data overwriting unintentionally done by you or by someone else who used the memory card. In order to make sure that all the files could be retrieved, you should prevent your memory card from being overwritten by anything else.

I had heard from my friends that pictures deleted or formatted from Samsung Galaxy S4 SD cards can be restored by data recovery software, so I excitedly downloaded a data recovery program from the internet and installed it to my laptop. And then I began to recover my photos deleted from my phone step by step. When everything was done, I found some of the pictures were not back to me as I wished. Are they just gone from me forever? I don't know why but one of my friends reminded me that the possible reason for this failure could be a matter of time. Because the photos I took and deleted one week ago were all retrieved, but the ones off my phone for months were not. Is that so?

Why can't the pictures lost from Samsung Galaxy S4 SD card all be restored?

According to what have mentioned above, it is most likely to be what we call "data overwriting" that lead to the failure of rescuing all the photos lost from Samsung Galaxy S4 SD card at the same time. After the data loss from your Samsung Galaxy S4 SD card, you did not stop using the SD card to store new photos, on the contrary, you continued using your smart phone to take more photos and stored them to the SD card. Thus, the place where used to keep the old pictures were overwritten by new photos, that is to say, the old images were replaced by new ones. In other words, those pictures covered by new ones do not exist there any more, and it's no wonder that you could not restore them.