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How to Recover Deleted DCIM Folder from Android Phone

[Summary]: When you find DCIM folder is empty on your Android phone or tablet, you can utilize DCIM folder recovery software to get back DCIM folder from various Android phones and tablets’ internal memory or SD card.

The DCIM folder is probably the most important folder of all Android phones or tablets because it contains all your photo and video files. These photos consist of every picture you take from your phone, pictures saved on WhatsApp, WeChat, Snapchat or the web. They are likely to record the growth of your son, the good times of the family, testimonies about your important moments, or some things related to your work. There are a lot of valuable files in the DCIM folder of your Android device, and losing them is a disaster undoubtedly. Unfortunately, many users sometimes accidentally delete the camera folder and then complain that everything is gone.

“I don’t know how to describe my mood now, and I feel very sad since I mistakenly deleted the image folder named DCIM on my Android phone. I intended to clean up some unnecessary image folders to free up disk space and somehow an accident happened. Is there still a chance that the entire DCIM folder can be retrieved? You know I can’t lose it.” – Asked by Niki.

“Ask for your help. I thought data loss would never happen to me. But it really did! I accidentally delete the “Camera” folder on my Samsung Galaxy S8. All my photos and videos are lost. I want to get them back. Any ideas? ” – Asked by Josephine.

Accidentally deleted DCIM folder on Android phone, how to get back? Frankly speaking, the DICM folder you deleted will remain on the camera memory card or Android phone memory card, and you can use Android data recovery software to retrieve deleted or lost DCIM folders. This article provides the best DCIM folder recovery solution to recover DCIM folder as well as images, videos and other files on Android phone or memory card.

Part 1: Recover Deleted DCIM Folder from Android Internal Memory

When it comes to retrieve deleted DCIM folder from Android phone’s internal sotrage, Android Data Recovery is your best solution. Android Data Recovery is a professional Android data recovery tool. It can be used to recover photos and videos in the DCIM folder stored in the internal storage of your Android phone. Besides, it can restore deleted or lost contacts, text messages, call logs, WhatsApp messages, documents and so on. It is mainly aimed at recovering formatted and lost files from various Android devices, including Samsung Galaxy S/A/J/Note series, Huawei P/Mate/Honor, Sony, Google, OnePlus and more.

Key Features of Android Data Recovery

Directly recover deleted pictures and videos from DCIM folde;
Retrieve contacts, SMS, call logs, WhatsApp data, lost due to deleting, restoring factory settings, flashing ROM, rooting, etc., from Android phone;
Extract files from broken Samsung phones, such as broken screen, black / blue screen of death, unresponsive screen.
Support multiple Android phones and tablets, like Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola, Lenovo, Sony, OnePlus, Google, Huawei and so forth;
Only read and recover the data, no personal info leaking.

Steps to Recover Deleted DCIM Folder from Android without Backup

Step 1.Launch Android Data Recovery

Install and launch Android Data Recovery app on your computer. Select “Android Data Recovery” feaure if you want to retrieve deleted DCIM folder from Android internal memory. To restore lost data on broken screen Android phone, you can choose Broken Android Data Extraction option.

Android Data Recovery main page
Next, connect your Android device to the computer and enable USB debuging mode and click OK button so that your device can be detected by the computer.

enable USB debugging on galaxy phone

Step 2.Choose File Types to Scan

After connection, all file types on Android phone will be shown on the interface. Choose Gallery and Videos you want to retrieve in the DCIM folder of Android phone, then click on “Next” button to start scanning.

select photos to scan

Step 3.Scan for Lost Data

In order to gain access, you need to take root on your Android phone safely. Click the “Rooting Tools” button to download a tool called KingoRoot to root Android phone securely. You can also click on “Retry” button if you confirm your phone has beed rooted.

root samsung galaxy phone

This is about to start scanning. You need to wait for a while depending on how much data is stored on your Android device.

Step 4.Recover Photos from Samsung Phone Gallery and Picture Library

Once the scan is over, all recoverable contents will be listed in the left column, including pictures. You can check out gallery, pictures library,  WhatsApp pictures, and videos, then the ones you want to recover. Click on “Recover” to get them back on the computer.

recover pictures from samsung galaxy

Part 2: Recover Deleted DCIM Folder from Android SD Card

If the DCIM folder is saved on your Android memory card (SD card / external storage), you can easily recover deleted DCIM folder on Android’s SD card with reliable hard drive recovery software – Android SD Card Data Recovery. Android SD Card Data Recovery software helps to recover gallery, videos, audio, documents lost due to accidental deletion, SD card formatted / corrupted or inaccessible, flashing ROM, rooting or other reasons from Android memory card.

Steps to Get Back Deleted Files from Android Memory Card

Step 1.Launch Android SD Card Recovery

To perform SD card recovery for Android, launch the Android SD Card Data Recovery on your Mac or Windows PC. From all the provided options on its home, go to the “Data Recovery” module.

android sd card data recovery

Step 2.Connect Your SD Card to the Program

Connect your SD card to the computer. You can use a card reader or directly insert it to the card reader slot on your system. You can simply connect your Android device (with the SD card) to the computer as well. On the other hand, go to the “Recover from SD card” option and wait until the program detect your memory card. Click on Next.

connect sd card to pc

Step 3.Scan Your SD Card

In this step you can select a scanning mode: Standard mode and Advanced mode. Suggest you choose “Standard Mode” first, If you can’t find what you want, then you can try the “Advance Mode”. To save time, you can choose to scan for only deleted files. Click “Next” to begin scanning your SD card.

scan sd card

Step 4.Preview and Recover Photos from Android Memory Card

When the scanning process is completed, all results will be displayed in categories. Selectively check or un-check the files you want and then click “Recover” to start Android DCIM folder recovery process.

recover photos from android mempry card

The Bottom Line

In addition to accidentally deleting DCIM folder on Android phones or tablets, other issues related DCIM folder include “DCIM folder shows empty but not”, “DCIM folder missing”, and “delete DCIM folder on Samsug Galaxy”.Obviously, data loss in DCIM folder can happen suddenly. Whether it is a DCIM folder or other data loss events, this should be taken seriously, and regular backup of your Android phone data is necessary.

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