Data recovery - recommendations please?

[Filton-flyer]

Hi all,

I have inadvertantly deleted all my photos from my phone and was wondering if you could recommend a decent trustworthy company to get them all back.

It's a Huawei P10 running Android.

I've tried a few apps which supposedly can recover data but none of them have been any use.
I fear it's gone deeper than that!

I don't want to keep messing with it as I guess the memory will just get overwritten but any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Many thanks

PS I would ideally like to shop local so Bristol would be my ideal starting point, however a quick Google search throws up dozens of firms nationally all promising the earth and I can't help thinking they will fleece any unsuspecting luddites (like me! )

[rpguk]

Apologies if this is too obvious, but do you know if they were backed up to google photos?

If so https://photos.google.com/trash if logged into the same google account you run on your phone.

Edited by rpguk on Monday 25th February 19:01

[Filton-flyer]

rpguk said:

Apologies if this is too obvious, but do you know if they were backed up to google photos?

If so https://photos.google.com/trash if logged into the same google account you run on your phone.

Edited by rpguk on Monday 25th February 19:01

Thanks for the suggestion but I don't use that feature......... yes I know I should and obviously, I will in the future.....

It's all my own fault and I am prepared to pay good money to get them back, however I've read a few scare stories in the last hour regarding some companies that spin you a tale to try and get the maximum return, if you know what I mean.

It strikes me as a bit of a mine field TBH so any advice is much appreciated.

[mattley]

Filton-flyer said:

It's all my own fault and I am prepared to pay good money to get them back.

The only guys I know of who'll even look at something like this start by taking the RAM off the phones mainboard so by good money you'd be looking at £900 plus losing your current phone before any assessment of how much can be recovered :/

Multiple chips are a st place to have to your data with no backup 'cos recovery's a bh.

[deckster]

If you've been using the phone since you deleted the photos then there's a good chance they're gone forever anyway.

I don't know iCloud at all, but is there not a 'recently deleted' area that you can retrieve things from?

[The_Jackal]

So you had an android phone and purposely turned off Google photos from backing up your photos?
Is it worth giving your phone to someone who knows the ins and outs of android phones and have a look first?
So are you saying they were all stored manually on memory card?

[abzmike]

I don’t know Android but are they not maybe in some sort of recycle bin, or deleted items folder?

[IanJ9375]

In work I've used Recuva a few times with great success from recovering photos to full on .pst files.

I've managed to get what I need back just using the free version

https://recuva.en.softonic.com/?ex=DSK-1218.0

[ninepoint2]

Try these, when all the free stuff didnt work for me when an SD card got corrupted I bought this, cost me £35, just Google for discounts/best deals etc. It worked very well and at that price it was worth it for what I had lost.

Good luck

https://www.easeus.com/?ad&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0...

[hutchst]

Filton-flyer said:

It's a Huawei P10 running Android

No worries, theyre all safe and sound in Beijing. Just ask China to give you a copy

[Filton-flyer]

IanJ9375 said:

In work I've used Recuva a few times with great success from recovering photos to full on .pst files.

I've managed to get what I need back just using the free version

https://recuva.en.softonic.com/?ex=DSK-1218.0

Many thanks, I'll give it a go....

[Filton-flyer]

ninepoint2 said:

Try these, when all the free stuff didnt work for me when an SD card got corrupted I bought this, cost me £35, just Google for discounts/best deals etc. It worked very well and at that price it was worth it for what I had lost.

Good luck

https://www.easeus.com/?ad&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0...

Again, thank you, I'll try that too.......

[Filton-flyer]

hutchst said:

No worries, theyre all safe and sound in Beijing. Just ask China to give you a copy

The thought had crossed my mind

Maybe I could ring up GCHQ in Cheltenham too......