Sometimes situations arise when, due to carelessness or a system failure, important files for the user are deleted from the mobile device. And if you can re-download the erased music from the Internet, and try to find photos from friends, then things are a little different with video content. Usually, the video taken on the phone, which occupies more than 50 MB, is stored in one copy, since it is rarely possible to backup it. Let's figure out how to recover a deleted video on Android.

Ways to revive an erased video

Before proceeding with resuscitation, you need to understand that in order to successfully restore erased information of any format from a phone or tablet, two conditions must be fully met:

• files disappeared recently;
• after deletion, no new data was written to the device.

The fact is that erasing any content from a mobile device or PC does not lead to its complete destruction. The "casts" of the lost files will be on the internal or external media until other information is written in their place. Therefore, if you notice the loss of important video files on your smartphone, do not run the copy / paste procedure in any case, as this can lead to their irretrievable loss.

There are two ways to recover videos on Android:

• using mobile recovery programs (Google cloud service, Undelete);
• through software installed on a PC (7-Data Android Recovery, Recuva, etc.).

Let's consider each of the proposed options in more detail.

Recovering Deleted Video Through Google Virtual Storage

The most efficient and easiest way to recover deleted video files is to use Google Cloud Drive. Every device running Android OS can be synchronized with this service. When such a pairing is performed, all photo and video content will be automatically saved to virtual storage. This will allow not only to return accidentally deleted data, but also to access them from any device, be it a mobile phone or a PC.

To sync Android with Google, do the following:

Now, when erasing an important file from your device, you will need to open Google Photos, find the desired object there and copy it to your smartphone or tablet. The only condition is that for the video to be restored, the Internet must be connected to the phone.

Retrieving a Lost Video with Undelete

If your device has not been synchronized with the Google cloud drive, then the Google Photo service will not help you recover the erased data. In this case, the free Undelete utility comes to the rescue, which does not need previously created copies of files, but works on the principle of searching for "fingerprints" of the missing information with its subsequent resuscitation.

The only drawback of Undelete is that for it to work properly, root rights must be opened on the smartphone. Therefore, before recovering a deleted video on Android, you will need to activate the superuser profile. For this you need:

With extended rights, you can start resuscitation measures:

After the search is over, all content that can be restored will be displayed on the mobile screen. You just have to mark the required objects and click Recover. The recovered files will be written to the Undeleter folder. From there, you can copy them anywhere.

Recover deleted video via computer

If mobile recovery applications did not help recover lost files or you are simply afraid to install them so as not to overwrite the “fingerprints” of deleted information, you can try to restore the video through a personal computer and special software. The principle of its operation is not much different from the Undelete program, except that the resuscitation process itself will be carried out through a PC.

As an example, let's look at how to recover an erased video through the Recuva wizard:

After the diagnostics is completed, all found video files will be displayed in front of you. Select one or more items and save them to your computer's hard drive.