How to Recover File from Android SD Card

You can easily spot SD card usage in almost all the cool gadgets, such as the android king – Samsung galaxy s3, all the camcorder goes either full memory card storage or hybrid – with built-in hard drive, the Nikon d90, canon EOS 5d mark ii and all the DSLRs alike. But you must be very pained when you lose data from those SD card in following situations:
• Accidentally deleted files from SD card
• Formatted SD card
• SD card got corrupted or inaccessible
• Virus inflection
• Power failure
• Others
Thanks to the Android Data Recovery, which can recover photos and videos from SD cards on Android devices, as well as contacts and messages on SIM cards.
First of all, you need to download the program to your computer. Choose the right version for your computer.



Then turn to the step-by-step guide on how to get back deleted data from Android SD card.

How to Recover Lost Files from Android SD Card

Step 1 Prevent Your Files from Being Overwritten
You will be required not to Update your Android any more once you found your Android data lost. No matter how they get lost, broken, crack, fails to upgrade, dead, and so on, you should stop updating anything to your Android and download Android Data Recovery on your computer to get the deleted data back.

Step 2 Connect Android to the computer
Install and run the program on your comouter, and connect your Android phone with computer, too. 



Step 3 Enable USB debugging on your Android device
In order to connect your phone with the program, you may need to enable USB debugging on your Android phone. There are three different ways to finish this job for different Android system:
1) For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter "Settings" < Click "Applications" < Click "Development" < Check "USB debugging"
2) For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging"
3) For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter "Settings" < Click "About Phone" < Tap "Build number" for several times until getting a note "You are under developer mode" < Back to "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging"



Step 4 Analyze and scan your Android SD card
Once you enable USB debugging, the Android recovery software will detect your phone, the next step you can tap on the "Start" button to analyze the data on your SD card.



You are empowered to seletively choose which type of Android files to be scanned by Android Data Recovery. 



Besides, you are also required to choose a storage scanning mode as follow:



When the window pops up following picture, please click "Allow" on the homescreen, then click "Start" again to begin scan the SD card. 



Tips: The scan process will take you a few minutes, please wait patiently.

Step 5 Preview and recover data from Android SD cards
After finish scanning the SD card, you will be able to preview found files such as Messages, contacts, photos and videos, so as to check whether your lost files are found or not. Then select files you want to recover from SD card, then left click on "Recover" button.



Step 6 Frequently Back up Your Android Device to Protect the Files
Keep a habit of back up your Android frequently. Thus, you can easily recover your Android data and don't need to worry about losing data on your Android. 

Besides photos and video from the SD card, Android Data Recovery also lets you recover contacts and messages from SIM card on your Andorid device.