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Restoring corrupted jpg and mp4 files

For some reason my camera phone has gone wrong and isn't saving pictures or videos correctly.

I can see the picture files exist - but they don't display. If I open the file in notepad I can see it does have data in it, and in terms of size they are no different to normal files.

Is there any way I can repair these corrupted pictures?

This is true of both jpg and mp4 files.
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Wow - thanks for all the comments - sorry I haven't been able to reply yesterday - this is a Samsung Mega, I'm keeping the pictures on an SD card, I could switch it back to storing the pictures on the phone memory, might be worth trying.

I did have a lot of pictures stored - all from the current year - I moved them out and saved them in the cloud, and tried some more pictures, some work some don't strangely.

One thing I think I observed - I'll have to check this - when the pictures first take they are ok, but later when I look they are corrupt. I'll have to confirm that, but I thought I noticed it.

If you don't mind I'll leave this open a day or so as I'd like to feedback on the photo recovery software, I'll give it a try later today if I can.

Thanks so much again for all the help!
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Keep up the feedback for further suggestions.

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Michael
I've switched to saving on my phone memory instead of the SD card. I took some pictures at lunchtime and they are all fine, no problems. So I think doing that has fixed the immediate problem.

The other suggestion was to make sure the contacts on the SD card were good, so I'll do that later perhaps and test it.

Thanks again for the comments, will try to close the question tomorrow.
Thanks Eirman that looks a very useful article.
Thanks for your help - I didn't get round to trying the recovery software last night so I'll just post here when I do to let you know the results. I'll close the question now.