Phone died during vacation and now all my gallery videos are corrupted. Any way
So I’m honestly stressed out right now. I was on a trip last week and my OnePlus 11 randomly froze while recording videos. Phone restarted itself and since then a bunch of my gallery videos either don’t play or show 0:00 duration. Photos are mostly okay but almost every important video from the trip is broken.
I copied everything to my laptop thinking maybe the phone was the issue, but VLC can’t play them either. Some files are MP4, sizes look normal like 300MB-700MB, but they just won’t open.
I didn’t have Google Photos backup on because hotel WiFi was terrible and I kept delaying it. Worst mistake ever.
Anybody dealt with something similar before? Is this corruption repairable or are these videos basically gone?
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Worst case, you could upload one sample corrupted clip somewhere and test different repair methods before touching the rest.
That actually gives me a bit of hope not gonna lie.
The fact the files still have full size is honestly the best sign here. Usually means the video data exists, just container got messed up.
I used an Android data recovery software once for corrupted WhatsApp videos and it also had a repair feature built in. Didn’t recover all but saved a few important clips.
There are GUI tools too. Easier than command line honestly.
I know basic coding but ffmpeg stuff always feels intimidating 😅
You can also try extracting streams with ffmpeg if you’re comfortable with command line stuff.
Honestly smart move. A lot of people keep using the device and overwrite recoverable stuff.
Good point. I actually stopped using the phone after this happened because I was scared something deeper was wrong.
Same here. If the corruption happened during recording interruption, repair tools sometimes rebuild the missing header info.
I recovered vacation videos once using a video repair software where you upload a healthy sample video from same phone/camera. Worked surprisingly well.
Yeah actually most were 4K60 HEVC.
Were these recorded in HEVC by any chance? Some players act weird with partially corrupted HEVC videos.
Don’t edit or re-save the original files btw. Keep untouched copies somewhere safe before trying repair tools.
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Yeah I’ll probably do that tonight. Appreciate all the replies honestly, thought I completely lost everything.