How to Recover M4A Files from Android Phone  

How to Recover M4A Files from Android Phone

Updated on Nov 11, 2023 | by Jeremy

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"I had some voice recording files on my Android phone. I do not know why they were lost. I haven't remembered I had deleted them at all. Please tell me is there any way to recover M4A files on Android phone?"

M4A is a kind of audio file encoded with AAC, Advanced Audio Coding. Currently, M4A is the file format for most audio files recorded on Android phones, tablets, and iPhones and it is the format for the ringtone. Compared with the most widely used file format MP3, M4A file size is smaller and the quality is better.

Is it possible to recover Deleted M4A files on Android Phone

Generally, M4A files are very important files, especially voice memos or voice recordings. You may lose them by accidental or intentional deletion, or lost from devices by setting the phone to factory settings or formatting the SD card. No matter how you lost the M4A files, once they were on your Android phone, you get the chance to recover them. Why you can recover M4A files on Android phone? All files deleted on storage devices do not disappear right away the moment you delete them. They are marked as some kind of useless files on the storage device, waiting to be overwritten by new data. In this case, if you know how to recover M4A files on Android phone, you can recover them in the first place. Here in the following, we're going to talk about how to perform M4A recovery on Android phone.

How to Recover Lost/Deleted M4A Files from Android Phone

I mentioned before, the lost or deleted M4A files were still somewhere on your Android phone. You need to perform the M4A file recovery the sooner the better. Otherwise, you will lose them permanently. To recover M4A files from Android phone, you need a professional data recovery software tool for help. Deep Data Recovery is one of the most powerful Android phone M4A file recovery tool you can try.

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Steps for How to Recover M4A Files from Android Phone

Download the M4A Recovery Software to Have a Try now! Here in the following, we're going to talk about how to use the M4A data recovery to recover deleted M4A voice recordings on Android phone.

Step 1. Install the M4A data recovery software. No matter you're using a Mac or Windows PC, click the download link to get the installation package of the software on your computer. There are separate versions for macOS and Windows OS. After then, please connect your Android phone with your computer, making sure it is detected as an external hard drive, appearing on your computer.

Step 2. Only keep "Audio" is selected to scan. Launch the phone memory recovery software. From the start window, you can see all supported file types are selected, including "Audio". You can either click "Next" to continue the Android phone M4A file recovery process or deselect unwanted files which will shorten the scanning process by only looking for audio files.

Step 3. In the next step, please select the Android phone as the external hard drive to scan in the drive list. By selecting it, it means the software will scan it for the M4A audio files on Android phone.

Step 4. Preview and recover M4A audio files from Android phone. Last, be patient and let the software finish the whole scanning process. After then, you can see all the found audio files. In the left panel, filter audio files with the file extension .m4a, then you can see all the found M4A files on the right side. Please select the wanted M4A files and click "Recover" to save them on your computer.

In the result window, you can also see the "Deep Scan" option. It is used for users to scan the device deeper for wanted files. You can try it to recover M4A files on an Android device. It may find more M4A files for you from an Android phones.

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