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Updated on May 13, 2026
Kevin
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May 13, 2026 at 6:28 am
Q:

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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Kevin
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May 13, 2026 at 6:35 am

Tried that sadly. VLC just errors out after a few seconds.

Silas Vane
Participant
May 13, 2026 at 6:34 am

Try copying one file and opening it in VLC with “repair AVI/MP4” enabled. Sometimes VLC fixes small corruption automatically.

Nina Calder
Participant
May 13, 2026 at 6:33 am

Sounds like the phone crashed while writing the video index/metadata. I had something similar after my Samsung overheated once.

Kevin
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May 13, 2026 at 6:32 am

Yeah none of them are 0KB thankfully. They all have normal sizes which is why this is confusing me.

Jace Elric
Participant
May 13, 2026 at 6:30 am

If file sizes still look normal then there’s still hope. Usually dead 0KB videos are harder to fix than videos with actual size.

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