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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.
Tried that sadly. VLC just errors out after a few seconds.
Try copying one file and opening it in VLC with “repair AVI/MP4” enabled. Sometimes VLC fixes small corruption automatically.
Sounds like the phone crashed while writing the video index/metadata. I had something similar after my Samsung overheated once.
Yeah none of them are 0KB thankfully. They all have normal sizes which is why this is confusing me.
If file sizes still look normal then there’s still hope. Usually dead 0KB videos are harder to fix than videos with actual size.
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?
And honestly, if these are super important client photos, make backups of the recovered files first before experimenting. Some repair attempts can make things worse if you overwrite anything accidentally.
Another thing worth trying: use a healthy CR2 shot from the same camera as a reference file. Sometimes repair tools work better when the file structure matches.
I’ve repaired partially corrupted CR2s before using photo repair software. Didn’t recover every file, but enough to save the important shots. Worth trying before giving up.
Also check file sizes. If some CR2 files are unusually tiny compared to the others, those are usually harder to save because the image data itself is incomplete.
Biggest mistake people make here is continuing to use the same SD card. Hope you already stopped using it completely. Every overwrite lowers the chances of recovering intact RAWs.
I recovered vacation videos once using a video repair software where you upload a healthy sample video from same phone/camera. Worked surprisingly well.