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Recovering and repairing MP4 files from a Samsung Galaxy Tab

So the mother-in-law somehow deletes a bunch of MP4 files off her tablet.  It's a Samsung Galaxy something-or-other.  I don't care about it so I don't know. I tried three recovery programs: -  Recuva -  Undelete360 -  Wise Data Recovery All of them pulled about the same reports and same files.   I only attempted JPG recovery with Recuva, though both of the others offered.  I also tried Pandora , but it did not appear to support MP4 files. Of the three, Undelete360 appeared to pull 1 or 2 more workable MP4 files.  The rest were identified MP4s, but were corrupt, and not playable on VLC or Media Player. I then tried the File Repair utility, which claimed there was nothing to repair.  Low marks here since it did not repair a single MP4 out of 20 attempts. After some research I tried the Grau GmbH Video Repair Utility .  It worked and repaired all of the MP4 files.  Unfortunately the demo only repairs half the file and 99 ...