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Thanks again for taking the time to share all this information - very much appreciated.

I'll ask my Daughter to make a trip to the people she bought it from. Hopefully they can tell her if the phone is set up to save photos to the SD card or not. Then she can decide if she wants to buy an SD to USB ...

Thank-you so much for the reply.

I had been reading about rooting and had the same nervous reaction as yourself. You say you DID do this, then PhotoRec recognised the phone, but STILL went the SD card route. Why was that? - would PhotoRec still not recover the files after the "root"?

We thought ...

Many thanks for the reply.

We had tried this before with no success. However, I did try again just in case.

Dragging down shows "Connected as a media device".

Tapping this shows 4 options:
Transferring media files
Transferring images
Connecting MIDI devices
Charging

None of these appear to ...

My apologies for troubling you.

I accidentally deleted some photos on a Samsung Galaxy S5, but have made sure not to use the phone since (to avoid overwriting the files).

When I connect the phone to my desktop via a USB, I can see all of the phone's folders/files using Windows explorer (obviously ...