Recuva and Galaxy Ace 2 GT-S7560M

Hello, I'm trying to recover some deleted text messages and photos from my phone. I copied the internal memory from the phone onto a micro sd card and ran Recuva. I just left it on the default option to recover everything. The scan found a lot of recoverable files so I recovered them to a folder on my PC hard drive. I was able to get all of my photos back but the problem I'm having is where do I find the text messages? Should I be looking for a certain file extension and if so what would that be?

Phone is a Galaxy Ace 2 X

P.S. So far I love Recuva! :D

You can't. Sorry text messages aren't stored on the user accessible part of the drive. The only way to do this would have been to have something such as Avast Backup or Titanium Backup backing them up on a daily basis

My wife accidentally deleted all the photos from her Galaxy Trend Plus, I was there and had her turn off the phone immediately in hopes of not overwriting anything. In any case I've copied everything from the 'My Files' app on the phone to an sd card and then copied that data to windows and ran Recuva on the full folder (with deep scan) and no files were found.

How did you copy your internal memory to the sd card that Recuva was able to recover your photos? Or is there something else I'm missing? Any help would be great. Recuva looks like really solid software after some of the others I've tried. I hope it can help with this.

Thanks a lot for any input!

datajoe

No you can't recover by first copying over ro sd card. Deleted files would not be also transfered.

I see, I had thought from the post above that it had worked for him to do that. Do you have a suggestion on restoring the photos from the phone?

I connected the phone by USB, but couldn't access it from Recuva even though I could in windows explorer.

Is there any hope for getting the photos back?

Thanks a million!

Datajoe

Not via recuva there isn't. Recuva requires a drive letter be assigned to a drive before recovery, and Google removed that capability from Android