Samsung K Zoom

Hi all,

New to the forum and needing some advice.

I'm trying to recover some photos from my Samsung K Zoom phone.

I'm not sure if Recuva is the right program to use but please hear me out.

So basically I tried scanning the phone by selecting 'on media card' but that didn't work.

Then I tried to select the phone manually but it does not appear in the drop down list, only my laptop hdd appears.

The phone is connected and accessible by my laptop normally.

Please let me know if this is normal or if there is anything else I can do.

Thanks a lot for your time guys.

Is it seen if you plug your phone into a usb and then connect the usb to the computer?

Any android 4.x and higher cannot be mounted as a drive from what I've seen and read, I believe google removed this themselves and only allow devices to connect as either a media-transfer-device (MTD) or a Photo-transfer-device (PTD)

Thanks for the replies.

hazelnut : yes the phone is detected when plugged in and i can access it normally; it does not appear in Recuva though.

nergal : sorry i'm not too tech savvy but does that mean that Recuva will only be able to recover from drives and not MTDs or PTDs which newer android devices are now categorized as?

Thanks again for the help.

Yes, your read of my comment is correct. As far as I am aware, one needs specialized software to recover from Android and that none of the current free disc recovery softwares will do it. (If I'm wrong, someone should Private Message me here and let me know: