Easy Guide to SD Card Recovery for Android

MicroSD card has been a great companion for Android users for many years. It expands the memory storage of Android smartphones and allows users to store and access more files at their fingertips. However, as the computing performance of smartphones and cloud storage technology have been enhancing nowadays, more Android phone models will be ditching their SD card support in the external system in the future.

If you've experienced file lost issues on your Android's external SD card, it should be reassuring to know that it's possible to restore the lost files from the external storage on your Android. This guide will present you a quick look at what you need to know about SD card recovery for Android and how it'll work.

1. Why SD Card Data Loss Happens on Your Android

If you've still got a microSD equipped Android in your pocket (like the 4-year-old Samsung S8 one of our editors' using), you may have run into the Android SD card data loss situations a couple of time. The main causes of this issues can be:

• Accidentally deleted important photos

• SD card has been formatted

• Malware or virus infection

• Battery failure or random reboots

2. Is SD Card Recovery for Android Possible?

Yes, it is possible. When you delete files on Android device, it doesn’t mean the files have been erased from the phone forever. Not yet. The act of deleting a file simply sends a message to your Android "Ignore this file", which means Android will not allow you to access this specific data on it from this moment and its pointers allocating to the specific memory storage have been reassigned.

And now it's high time that you performed SD card recovery for your Android, and you need to act quick before the deleted files get overwritten by new data.

3. Recover Android SD Card with AnyRecover [Video Guide]

AnyRecover is a powerful tool when it comes to recovering data from all storage devices. And because this software is installed on your computer to which you'll connect the SD card, you can rest assured that the recovery process will be safe and the data on your Android's internal storage will NOT be overwritten.

Follow these 3 simple steps to recover deleted files from Android SD Card quick and easy:

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• Specially designed to recover over 1000 different file formats of photos, videos, documents and emails, etc.
• Blazing fast file scanning process with advanced data scanning algorithms.
• User-friendly software interface which is suitable for beginners. Help you recover deleted data easily.
• FREE Trial with 8 files for free recovery with no size limit. Preview your files before recovering them.
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Step 1 Remove the SD card from your Android smartphone and connect it to your computer using a SD card reader.

Then launch AnyRecover and select the SD card under "External Removable Devices" tab.

Step 2 After selecting the location, click the "Start" button to start scanning.

Step 3 Scan completed! All of the files found (deleted or available) from your SD card will be displayed. Preview these files and select the ones you would like to recover.

Click "Recover" to get your files back.

4. Remember This Before You Start SD Card Recovery

If the data you would like to recover from your SD card is already overwritten, there is no guarantee that you will be able to recover all of it. Data gets overwritten when you continue using your SD card after losing the data. Check out the tips below to increase the success rate of SD card recovery for Android.

Avoid Writing Any New Data on SD Card

When you store new data after losing data on an SD card, it will overwrite the lost data. This will make the lost data irrecoverable.

Do Not Format the SD Card

Formatting your SD card will destroy important information that a recovery tool will need when recovering your data. This will make your data hard to get back. The data may become irrecoverable.

When you use Apps in the Play Store, you will be reducing the chances of SD card recovery for Android. This is because using the apps will create new data on the SD card. This may cause an unwanted result of overwriting the deleted data.

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