Recover deleted Camera Roll photos?

I'm traveling on vacation, and during a sync, I inadvertently deleted about 20 photos. Of course they are photos I really want. I tried doing a restore from a backup, but that didn't work (I don't know if Camera Roll photos are even included in the backup/restore process for the iPhone). I've tried a couple of recovery programs - Klix and Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery - for Mac, and for Windows running Parallels. In all cases, the programs don't even see the iPhone. Does anyone have any suggestions for how recovery may be possible? I know retrieval of deleted items on a computer is far from perfect, but I've used the iPhone very little since I screwed up, and there is 17 GB available memory on my 32 GB phone, so I'm hopeful.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Only one normal iPhone backup is kept by iTunes. It's actually an incremental backup in that only data that has changed is actually backed up. While camera roll photos are included in the iPhone backup, deleting such photos on your phone & then syncing effectively removes these photos from your iPhone backup. The first thing done when you sync is an iPhone backup. Photos in your iPhone camera roll should always be imported to your computer & never stored in your camera roll.

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After uploading iOS5 to my iPhone 4 I decided to sync my photos to iTunes. After the sync, all of my Camera Roll photos were deleted off the phone and ones added from my pictures folder on the computer to the phone which I didn't want. To make matters worse, I've done several syncs after this. As I understand it, iTunes only holds data from the previous two backups. I have no idea where the original photos went after the first sync. Are these pics stored somewhere under an iTunes directory or are they now lost for good? I now sympathize with all others who have lost valuable pics...never make that mistake again! Backup regularly! Thx!

Sorry for the delay in replying. No, at the time of the iTunes sync it copied all the photos from my Windows picture folder to the phone and erased my camera roll at the same time. The photos were on the phone when it was backed up but several auto syncs had occurred afterwards when trying to find the pictures again and now even a restore won't put them back since I believe iTunes only stores two backup histories. I was looking to see if the computer had a file somewhere since they were backed up in the past.

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please i need help to how to recorver my cameral roll photos from my ipod in a easy FREE way as soon as possible

Restore from backup if they are in a backup. Otherweise I know of no free way. These are paid and no one has said that they worked.
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My friend recently moved in and she wanted to recover some deleted photos from her camera roll on an iPhone 4. She doesn't have a computer here and recently switched to a different device. I also don't want to sync all of the photos from my Mac to her phone. Is there anything I can do?

No.
They would have to be somewhere in order to recover them.
If she has not backed up to iCloud or a computer, and she has failed to import them to her computer as you should do regularly, then they are gone.
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Hi there,
I found that I can add photo's (without deleting my existing camera roll) to my Iphone 4 from my girlfriends mac to my iphone by syncing from iphoto and selecting the photo events or folder I want. Then pressing 'apply' adds a new photo library to my phone with these selected pics in them. In this cercumstance I can only delete these photos using the same process by de-selecting them in 'sync from iphoto' and again pressing 'apply' There is no function / icon in my actual iphone to delete this library or even individual photo.
However when I try this exact same process on my girlfriends Iphone 4 (same model) the 'apply' function threatens to delete all photos from her phone, leaving her with ONLY the ones selected / checked.
Just in case it is part of explaining this I have tried this logged in on my account and hers but both have the same results in every combination. There appear to be two different set of rules going on here within I-tunes I would prefer to be able to add photo's without deleting existing ones but I would also like to be able to selectively delete these photo's once on my phone without going back to connect to tha mac.
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Thanks Winston, you are correct "sync". In fact I found the answer in a slightly different way. There is a check-box in the photo's tab that provides for syncing photo's before any media. Therefore this will in fact create the necessary space on the ATV for the photo's by moving other media content from syncing to streaming.
Of course the alternative, as you point out is to limit what actually gets synced in custom sync.
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
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Tap Settings, and then tap iCloud.
Tap Storage & Backup.
Tap Manage Storage.
Tap your iOS device in the Backups area.
Under Backup Options, see if you turn the camera roll on. If not, then you doesn't have them backed up. And you can also see the file size of your documents here. Look around and find out whether your photos are saved in other part.
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little JOE Frost wrote:
So is there a more elegant way of getting them off my iOS device instead of manually deleting them?
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HT4847 if i delete camera roll from iCloud to free some space, did i loose my photos?

if i delete camera roll from iCloud to free some space, did i loose my photos?

What exactly have you deleted.
If you have deleted the photos from your camera roll on your device, then you may well have lost them, assuming that they are not also in photo stream.
Please tell is exactly what you deleted and from where.

On my Ipad 2, I deleted my photos from camera roll, photo stream and imported photos. I did not know that my photos were also being deleted from my albums. Is there anyway I can retrieve these photos from back up or from Icloud ? Pierre

On my Ipad 2, I deleted my photos from camera roll, photo stream and imported photos.
I did not know that my photos were also being deleted from my albums.
Is there anyway I can retrieve these photos from back up or from Icloud ? Pierre

If you have a current iCloud or iTunes backup you can restore to that.
See: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1766

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Can anyone help?
I have deleted the camera roll photos from the ipad by mistake.
I plugged the ipad into my computer and treated it as a camera device and selected copy all pitcures.
I could not backup to the icloud because the files were too big.
I then deleted the photo stream via my computer and deleted camera roll on the device itself before a realised that some of the pictures were missing. I believe the photos missing are in the camera roll.
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Tell Apple, not us.
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I found it a great chance for a clean out, given that I always back my photos up to iPhoto and therefore my System and Data backup for protection. Then I went to most recent and marked those I wished to keep on my phone as 'Favorites' and now have a nice clean folder of Favorites, which I will add to from 'Recently Added' and delete all the c*ap. Now I have a nice tidy phone, but still have all photos backed up on Mac. I don't use Photostream, as I would rather trust my own physical backup method. A great chance for a clean out. Thanks Apple!
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