Can anyone tell me how to recover deleted camera roll. I did restore without saving my pictures. Those pictures are very important for me. Can any please help me in this. Thanks, Sunny..
I think we can get back the deleted data from flash drives, memory cards and even from PC hard drives by using some softwares (I did some data recover from PC hard drives). I want such kind of softwares to get back the data from iphone.
the camera roll is saved inside of iTunes iPhone Backups. try restoring from a backup. right click the iPhone under "Devices" in iTunes. click "Restore from Backup..." it will list the device backups in the box with a datestamp on the right side. Choose appropriately. also, you might only see 1 device backup. backup manually more often.
There's a great open source software called photorec but it would be hard to use with an iPhone that doesn't mount like a normal drive and more importantly, you could compromise the phone's drive and not be able to restore. If the pictures are more important than the phone then go for it lol
my turn to struggle Hi nscnpc, did you ever manage to get around this? I know for sure its possible but don't exactly understand how. Following steps what other websites / forums suggest doesn't seem to be working for me. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance,
Chetan, since that post is over six months old and the OP only has a total of 2 posts on this forum, I think it's safe to say that they won't be returning here. In regards to recovering deleted items such as this, you need to check your Recycle Bin on your PC or Trash or your Mac. It is for situations like these that you should NEVER setup these receptacles to delete immediately but leave them to be deleted at a later point manually which will give you some time to review the items and determine if you really mean for them to be eliminated from your computer. Also, it is good practice in general to backup all of the contents of your computer to an external harddrive monthly, if you can. I, for one, make sure I not only specifically make a back up of the Camera Roll (I just did it 2 days ago), I also make back ups of my iPhone Back Up files, iTunes Music Library, iTunes Library XML file, Microsoft Outlook Contacts (which I sync with the iPhone), and anything I create, edit or update as a file on my computer. In this way you will never be wonting when it comes to trying to find ways to rescue files that have been deleted for any reason. File recovery is expensive, time consuming and can be inaccurate at best, especially when a good percentage of the files you recover can be corrupted and unusable.
Hey watcha, thanks for tips. I kinda follow the same back up schedule for all my e-stuff (infact just done copyin today's roll). This was one funny situation where I acted pretty instantaneously and got rid of the pics. Again, many thanks!
This is great to know, unfortunately it doesn't work for my incident. I bought a new iPhone and met some old friends who were passing through town for dinner right after. We took photos since we hadn't seen each other in years. The next morning when I plugged in my phone to set it up with iTunes there was no initial backup before the syncing began. I'm not sure why that happened but all the photos were deleted without backing them up first. Maybe that only happens for a new device. Stupid though.
Sadly, this didn't work for me either. I just upgraded my iphone 3GS firmware to IOS 5, and ended up accidentally deleting pictures of one of my parents who recently passed away. I can't tell you how heartbroken I am over this , and although I followed mikeyisfresh's instructions and clicked Restore, it only restored my contacts & phone numbers, it did not give me a photo restore option. I am going to call my local AT&T sales office to see if there is anything they can do, but if anyone here can tell me how to restore my pics I would greatly appreciate it, as I can't find anything online that helps.
If you use iCloud, it's more likely that you have a recent backup. iCloud does backup your Camera Roll photos and videos. I wrote instructions on how to recover from backup using iCloud.
Thanks for the reply. It turns out I had these pics already saved as I just found them..thank goodness. But thanks again for responding!
On a Windows PC the iPhone mounts just like a hard drive when connected. I always copy any photos I want to keep to a folder on my computer. I don't trust iTunes and the sync process when it comes to handling photos. Sent from my iPhone using iCafe app
That's by far the best method. It's a good lesson for people to learn when they don't back their content up.
I forgot to backup and after i upgraded to iOS5, all my photos are gone! I tried what Locutus said using Phone Disk App but it didnt work as it only shows files that are currently in iOS5. There is no archive of files from previous OS. Is there anyway to retrieve the photos saved in previous OS before it was upgraded?
So last night I was looking through photos in iPhone 4 photo album, realized I hadn't yet uploaded all of them to iPhoto. Plugged in my phone, and it said there was only 1 photo to import, and it wasn't from the most recently taken. I hit "import all" anyways hoping it would pick up the rest. I chose the option "Keep Photos [on iPhone]" since I wasn't quite sure what it would import. No such luck, it only imported that 1 older picture.. Then I unplugged my phone and the screen changed to a wait/progress bar and said "updating photo library". Once it was done, all the pictures I had taken this weekend were simply gone. I hadn't clicked "share" or "delete" or anything within the photo album app. I'm really upset and hoping someone can tell me if it's possible to recover the pictures I took this weekend that got erased for seemingly no reason.
It's situations like yours why I don't trust applications that supposedly handle transferring photos for you. It's just too easy for something to go wrong and then you lose all your photos. I have iTunes configured to NOT automatically sync with my iPhone when I plug it in. I also have disabled photo syncing as I simply copy the photo manually into a separate folder. You don't need any special programs to copy your photos manually if you are using Windows 7. Windows 7 recognizes the iPhone like it would a USB drive. That way you can access your photos through Windows like you any USB drive you would connect to your PC and simply drag the files to the folder of your choice. Sent from my iPhone using iCafe app
