How to Recover Lost Data from Samsung Galaxy Phone

   

Method 1: How to Perform Samsung Data Recovery

Tips:
1. This method works for recovering deleted text messages (SMS), MMS, contacts, WhatsApp chat history, photos, videos, audios, documents and more from Samsung Galaxy smartphone directly.
2. Please make sure the battery life of your Samsung phone is higher than 20% to ensure a complete recovery.

Android Data Recovery is the world’s first android data recovery software that supports to recover text messages (SMS), MMS, contacts, whatsapp messages, call history photos, videos, audios, documents, WhatsApp messages and more from 2000+ Android phone and tablet models made by Samsung, HTC, LG, Google Pixel, SONY, Motorola, Nexus, Amazon, Asus, etc.

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Step 1.Connect Samsung Phone with Computer
Open Android Data Recovery, and then connect your Samsung Galaxy S6 to computer via USB.



Tips: If you Samsung phone was broken or dead,you can use another Android recovery to extract files on your broken phone,please learn more: How to recover data from broken Samsung

Step 2.Turn on USB Debugging on Samusng phone
The steps will be very easy. To enable USB debugging, you can find the suitable ones according to your Android OS.

1)For Android 5.0 or newer: Tap "Settings" > "About Phone" to tap "Build number" seven times for "You are now a developer!" signal. Then, move to "Settings" > "Developer options" to turn on "USB debugging"
2) For Android 4.2 to 4.4.4: Move to "Settings" > "About Phone" > Tap "Build number" for several times until "You are under developer mode" appears > "Settings" > "Developer options" > Check "USB debugging"
3) For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter "Settings" > "Developer options" > Tick "USB debugging"
4) For Android 2.3 or earlier: Go to "Settings" > "Applications" > "Development" > Tick "USB debugging"



Tips:If you have not enabled USB debugging, you will need to above steps. Otherwise, skip to "Step 3" and ready scan the device.

After this step is finished, turn to your phone screen,you need to allow USB debugging on the phone, click "OK" on your phone so as the program can detect it.



Step 3.Select File Types and Scan Samsung Phone
Select the type of files you want to get back,tick "Select All" if you want to recover all recoverable files,then click "Next" button,the program will start to analyze the Samsung phone.



Step 4.Authorization Prepare to Scan the Phone
You should go to your Galaxy phone and tap "Allow" on the pop-up box until it disappears and the scanning will start.



Step 5.Begin to Scan your Samsung for lost data
Start to scan lost data from your Galaxy S6 by click "Scan", then all the deleted files will be organized by Contacts, Text Messages, Gallery, Videos, Audio, Whatsapp and Documents.



Step 6.Preview the Result and Restore the Samsung Lost Data
Now, you can view the details and decide which file types you want to recover,then click "Recover" button to get back your Samsung lost photos, and store them on your computer.

Recover Samsung Photos and Save on computer



Click the "Contacts" items to recover contacts,phone numbers from Samsung Galaxy:



Click the "Messages" options to retrieve deleted text messages from Samsung:



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Note:
1. All the found messages, contacts, photos, videos, audios, documents and WhatsApp chat history on the Samsung Galaxy phone will be displayed, including the ones have never been deleted. The deleted messages, contacts and WhatsApp messages will be shown as red.

2.The contacts recovered will be saved as .csv, vCard (.vcf) and .html files, you can import the vCard files to your Galaxy S6/S7 with the help of this Android file transfer. The found messages will be saved as .html and .csv files.

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Key Features of Android Data Recovery:

• Retrieve deleted or lost data from Samsung devices such as smartphones, tablet pcs, etc;
• Get back lost data from broken Android devices,such as Samsung, Huawei, HTC, ZET, Motorola, etc;
• Works well for common Android OS versions,like Android 7.0/6.0, Android 5.3, 5.2, 5.0,4.2,4.3,4.4.4,ect;
• Recover Samsung deleted files directly without backup,including text messages, photos, contacts, WhatsApp history, videos, audio and Android documents
• Support restore data from rooted or no-rooted Samsung devices;
• Works well with all Android devices (You need to root your Android device before using this Android Data Recovery if the device is not rooted)
• Samsung Contacts Recovery:Information you have recorded in SIM card or internal memory - phone number, name, email, address, company, job title, website, etc. can all be recovered in VCF/CSV/HTML file;
• Samsung SMS Recovery:The whole message, including the contents, phone number, and the date when you sent or received them, can be exported as CSV/HTML format;
• Samsung Photo Recovery:All photos saved on your android devices, including photos you took and pictures you got from internet are all recoverable in .jpg, .png, .gif, .bmp, .webp, .tiff and more.;
• Support the latest Samsung mobile phones and tablets, Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge,Galaxy S6,S6 Edge, Samsung Galaxy S5, Galaxy S4/S3/S2, Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Samsung Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy Note 3/2/1, Samsung Galaxy A9, Galaxy A8/A7/A6/A5 and other Samsung phones or tablets,base on Android 4.0, Android 4.3, 4.2.2, 4.4.2, 4.4.4, 5, Android OS 6.0 or older versions!

Method 2: Recover Lost Files from Samsung SD Card with Data Recovery

This method only can help you recover deleted videos, audios, images, emails and archives from Galaxy S6's phone memory and microSD card. If you want to recover deleted text messages (SMS), MMS, contacts and WhatsApp chat history from Samsung Galaxy phone, please follow the Method 1 to restore data. To recover photos, videos and other media files from Samsung Galaxy S6 using Method 2, first download and install the powerful data recovery software on your PC or Mac.



The data recovery software can recover all kinds of lost, deleted, formatted or even damaged photos, videos, movies, music, documents, PDF ebooks and archives from the phone momeory and microSD card of your Galaxy S6/S7.

Memory Card Data Recovery - recover your photo,video,audio or other lost data from other storage media
Data Recovery pro can help you recover/restore deleted, formatted, lost and inaccessible data from PC, USB drive,Memory Card,Digital cameras,external hard drive, mobile phone, iPod, MP3/ MP4 player, CD Roms,Memory Sticks,and other storage media.

Follow the steps below to recover your files on Samsung Galaxy S6's phone memory and microSD card:

Step 1: Connect your Samsung Galaxy S6's SD card to the computer with the card reader.

Note: Please make sure that the USB divers for the Galaxy S6 are installed on your computer. If not, download it here first.

Step 2: Once connected, your device will display a notification that your SD card is connected as a media device.

If it's not connected as a media device, switch to it by following the steps:
1. Drag the notification bar down;
2. Tap “Connected as a media device”;
3. Tick the checkbox of “Media device (MTP)”.

Step 3: Open the Memory Card Data Recovery software, and by default, you'll enter the "Wizard Mode". Click "Next".

Step 4: Choose the file type that you want to recover from your SD card: select any one from the options: "Photo/Graphic", "MP3/Audio", "Video", "Office
Documents" and "Email". Or you can select "All File Types" to recover all the files from your Galaxy S6 SD card.



Step 5: Specify the location that you lost your files. You can specify the directory of your Galaxy S3's phone memory or memory card (microSD card) manually
or make the software to automatically detect your Galaxy S3 by selecting "External removable device".



Step 6: Click "Start" to scan your lost files. To recover formatted files, check the "Enable Deep Scan" option which will take you more time.



Step 7: After a short while, you can preview the files discovered by scanning and recover the files lost on your Galaxy S6 memory card.



IMPORTANT:
Do not save the scanned files to the phone memory or memory card of the Galaxy to avoid the deleted files being overwritten. It's recommended to backup samsung galaxy data to a location on your PC or Mac.

Download the data recovery for windows or data recovery for Mac to recover media files from the SD card inside of your Samsung phone:

   
Tips: Do backup on Samsung Galaxy to Prevent Data Loss
Be upset because of precious Android data lost? You can make a habit of back up Android data frequently. To back up Android data, an useful backup program will be recommended, Android Transfer. Just use it to do backup with your Android data to computer with this Android Data Transfer tool or Samsung Manager software with ease.
After two methods above, you will find back all your deleted photos and enjoy your favourite photos, videos again,you can also use this android data transfer to copy contacts, text messages back to your android phone directly.

Read More Tutorial for Samsung Data Recovery:

How to Recover Text Messages from Samsung Galaxy

How to Recover Contacts from Samsung Galaxy

How to Recover Deleted Photos from Samsung Galaxy