It is a very common thing for us to lose photos (or other files) by carelessness. Hence, there are now several applications for making the famous “Recovery” (recovery in Portuguese).
Photo Recovery (Android only) is one of them. With over 1 Million download, the application promises to recover all the lost, deleted or hidden images of your phone. Something that draws attention to this application, is that 2 search algorithms to retrieve the photos. Without revealing great details about the algorithms (of course neh), they have different search logic, which allows to bring different results, thus giving greater possibility of recovering the images. The recovered data is stored in a folder created by the application itself named “ALL_RECOVERED".
Let's take a small step-by-step look at how the Photo Recovery:
1. Install the application
Photo Recovery is a free application that we can download in the Google Play, click here to download. After downloading, just install the application.
2. Using Photo Recovery
It would be interesting to give a presentation on how the application works, but the Photo Recovery creation team tried to include this in the application, so let's get down to business.
The user only needs to choose the method / algorithm he wants to use. As there are no details about them, we advise you to use the first one to check the result and if you cannot find the data try by method / algorithm 2. The results can be seen using the application itself or looking for the folder “ALL_RECOVERED”(Algorithm 1) or“ALL_RECOVERED2”(Algorithm 2).
Retrieve other file types
Certainly a question that arises after reading an article like this is “and for other types of data, does this app work?”. O Photo Recovery only serves to recover photos, but there are other applications to recover documents, videos and other types of data. The team that created Photo Recovery has created some that we can see here.
Pros
- Complies with 90% of what it promises
- Easy to use
- 2 Algorithms
Cons
- layout
- Does not restore to previous locations
- Translation
Conclusion: It is a simple application to use and that in most cases it fulfills what it promises. So the note a is positive, leaving only to be desired in some ways (see the Cons) which does not spoil the user experience. Note: 8/10.
