How to Recover Contacts SMS from Water Damaged Android Phone

“Yesterday, my son was almost drown in the swimming pool. As a father, I had to save him and did not realize that my Samsung Galaxy S6 was in my pocket. Is there anyway to service it or at least to save the data (such photo, notes, contact), especially contacts. I don’t care about the music and photos – I had a backup on my computer, but no contacts. They are very important that I need to get them back. How can I recover lost contacts from my water damaged Samsung, running on Android OS system. Thanks for the response.” Jessica.

Drop your Android phone into the swimming pool, toilet, glass, or even a washing machine? You are not alone. Many Android users have the similar experience. After dropping their mobile phone into water, undoubtedly it will stop working and maybe your data will be lost. It is a bad feeling to have your Android phone submerged in water. If you dropped your Samsung, HTC, LG phone in water or swimming pool by accident, immediately take your water damaged Android phone from the water. As soon as possible move parts of phone, wipe up any part including the phone body, back cover, battery, SIM card, and SD card, etc. with the soft paper. Dry out your Android phone for one to two hours with a hair dryer (cool wind mode) or for 24 hours with the fan. Then put them to a well ventilated and dry place for 24 hours.

Contacts and text messages are one of the basic constituents of an Android smartphone but sometimes due to some unreliable reasons, you may get your all-important contacts, sms lost by accidental deletion, factory restore, formatting, rooting, flashing ROM, or Android system crash, even the water damaged. However, it has to be notice that when water damage happens, you can restore lost files on water damaged Android phone from the following aspects. You still can directly scan your Android phone and recover data directly from it, as long as you can get into the device’s scanning mode.

Recover Text Messages and Contacts from Samsung Phones with Water-Damaged

This Android Damaged Data Recovery not only can help you recover recently deleted contacts and SMS from water-damaged Android phone directly, but also supports recover data from broken Android no matter your Android is stuck on black screen, broken screen, screen touch can’t be used or can not enter the system. It helps you recover deleted/lost photos, music, videos, whatsapp chat history, call logs, files and so on. In addition, it is also compatible with all kind of Android devices such as Samsung Galaxy S7/S6/S5/S4, Galaxy Note 5/4, Galaxy A7/A9, LG, Sony, Motorola, and so on.

Undelete SMS and Contacts from Water Damaged Android Phone

Step 1.Install and Run Android Data Recovery on Your PC

Firstly, you need to download and launch Android Data Recovery on your computer then you need to select the “Data Extraction(Damaged Device)” option. After that, you need to connect the water damaged Android phone to computer with an USB cable and click “scan it” button.

Step 2.Select the SMS and Contacts Types to Recover

Now you need to select the files you need to recover from water damaged Android. If you just want to restore contacts on your water damaged Android phone, you can tick “Contacts” “Messaging” and click “Next”.

Step 3.Select the Fault Type of Water Damaged Android Phone

Before recovering your water damaged Android phone, there are two options to choose from the system-“touch cannot to used or cannot enter the system”, another is “Black screen (or the screen is broken)”. You need to choose the appropriate one depends on your phone and then click on “NEXT”.

Step 4.Select the Model of Your Android Phone

In this step you have to select the proper version of the Android as well as the exact model you are using.

Step 5.Enter the Download Mode on Water Damaged Android Device

Now you can follow the guide here to get your Android device into Download mode:
1.Power off your device.
2.Press the Volume down button, Home and Power button at the same time.
3.Press the Volume up button to enter Download mode.

Step 6.Analysis of the Water Damaged Android Phone

In this step, the software will start downloading “recovery package”, it will take you a few minutes, please wait patiently.

When the downloading is finished, the selected data from water damaged Android will be list.

Step 7.Recover Contacts/SMS from Water Damaged Android Phone

Now you can preview and select the data you want to recover and tap on the “Recover” button at the bottom right of the interface to export them to computer.

Recover Deleted Text Messages from Water Damaged Android Phone

After scanning, you can click “Messages” item to preview the messages in detail, including the message content, sending and receiving times,please select the text messages you want to get back,and hit the “Recover” button at the lower-right corner to extract SMS from the water-damaged phone.

Extract Contacts from Water Damaged Android Phone

After the scan,please click “Contacts” item,you can see all existing and deleted contacts will be shown in the window as follow. If you only want to display deleted items, you can click the icon on the top. Before getting contacts back from the damaged phone,you can preview them one by one and mark which you want and click “Recover” button to restore them back,and save all contacts on your computer.

Free download the Android Toolkit:

If data lost was happened to you unfortunately, the Android Data Recovery software empowers you to recover your data in case your Android smartphone’s data gets deleted or formatted accidentally, or just because of virus attack, hardware or software failure, etc. Last but not least, may we suggest you back up your contacts, text messages, and photos on Android in case of data loss after the phone gets water damaged.

Four Don’t:

1. Don’t use the hot wind mode of your hair dryer. Or don’t expose the water damaged Android phone to the sunshine.
2. Don’t power off the Android phone by pressing the power button.
3. Don’t frequently restart and check the phone. Wait at least for 24 hours and then reboot it.
4. Don’t press any buttons on your Android phone before it gets dry.

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