Android Data Recovery is designed to help Android device users to restore lost or missing files including photos, text messages, contacts, call history and more. With this powerful and easy-to-use data recovery tool, you will no longer worry about losing data from Android phone or tablet after reboot, factory settings reset, Android update, error deletion, etc.
Tips: You’d better root your Android devices before using Android Data Recovery. Or you’ll only be able to recover videos and photos. For rooted devices, you can recover contacts, SMS and call history as well.
Overall Steps:
Step 1: Download and install Android Recovery on your computer. Then attach your Android phone or tablet to the computer via USB cable and launch the software on your computer.
Step 2: Enable USB debugging on your Android devices. Only after USB debugging can the software scan out contents like contacts, text messages and call history. If the USB debugging has already been enabled, you can skip this step.
The steps for USB debugging varies for different Android OS, choose the right one for your Android device.
Step 3: Turn on USB storage on Android device. For different Android versions, steps for turning on USB storage differ a little.
If you still can’t find USB storage mode on your Android device, you should check for the following aspects:
1. Your device is not well connected to PC with the USB cable.
2. Your device is shown as "Connected as a media device (MTP)" or "Connected as camera (PTP)". For some devices running Android OS 4.X, the USB PC connection is MTP or PTP and the USB storage mode can’t be set.
When your Android device is detected by computer, click "Next" in the software’s interface. Then on your Android device, click "Allow" to allow the program super user authorization when an app. Superuser Request pops up. Click "Start" to allow the program to scan your Android device.
To make sure the scanning goes on smoothly, you need to:
Wait until the software completes the scanning process, and all recoverable files will be displayed on the interface of Android Data Recovery. On the left of the interface are categories. Select one category and on the right are previews of files in this category. Preview and select the desired ones you want to restore.
Browse for the destination location after you click "Recover". At last choose a path to save the rescued data.
Contacts, text messages, call history can be saved in a TXT, XML, or Excel file.
Photos can be saved in JPG, TIFF/TIF, PNG, BMP and GIF files.
Videos in MP4, 3GP, AVI, WMV, ASF, FLV, RM/RMVB, M4V, MOV, 3G2, SWF and MPG files.