Android smartphone: Inexplicably lost a huge Browser session while going through my screenshots! Any way to restore it?

So here's the chronology of what happened:

-I'm using Browser - have a 16 tab session, several of those tabs with a back/forward history.

So far whenever I've turned off the Browser or the phone, it managed to restore the entire session - complete with the back/fowards information on those several tabs.

-Power runs out, phone's shutting down in 50sec - don't manage to plug it in in time, so it turns off.

-Turn it on when the power's back at 100%, turn on the Browser - restores the session just as usual.

-I delete the History as usual - my history's filled up atm, and I don't want to lose the earliest entries. End up losing several of those earliest entries due to too many recent entries and the session tabs being restored.

-Without turning off the Browser, I open up the Photos and then the Gallery folders (from the notifications menu) to go through my screenshots - to find the screenshot that I took of the earliest History entries, so I could see what I'd lost.

Process ends up taking about15 hours with long breaks inbetween (other things to do etc.).

-Find the screenshot, everything's great: turns out I only lost 1 page of history entries, and that page is captured in the screenshot!

I take a screenshot of that screenshot, so I can access it faster (without renaming, changing folders etc.);

click on the "back" arrow to return to the Browser...

-WHOLE ENTIRE BROWSER SESSION'S GONE! Instead of the 16 YT tabs, I suddenly only get 1 YT tab, and it's of a video that I'm pretty sure I'd already closed a week ago.

Already deleted the History (see above), only 5 entries left in "Today" - one of them I'm not even sure was one of those 16 tabs, also looks like an older one I'd already closed weeks ago.

And even if the history had been there, it only would've captured the current videos in those tabs - the ones I'd get from clicking on Back or Forward, still wouldn't have been capured in the history. And those are the ones I remember the least...

-Restarted the phone in hopes it would restore the Browser session (i.e. the one it had restored the previous time I turned on the phone) - obviously doesn't work, it still opens this new 1 tab session; the one that somehow ended up replacing the old 16 tabs session while I was going through my screenshot gallery??

So this is a bit of a problem here - forgot half the videos that were open (or esp. hidden behind Back or Forward), mentally restoring them all seems a bit... difficult right now.

Restoring the previous session would be absolutely great! Is there any way to do that? For what it's worth, it's still less than 24 hours since the last time I'd opened that session - and, possibly more relevant, all the cookies and other internet data (except the history) are still there.

Submitted March 17, 2018 at 05:24PM by GaymasterNacelle http://ift.tt/2FYSsun