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Recover Lost Messages after Factory Reset on Android

“HELP! How can I recover text messages after factory reset Android phone? I backed up my information and did a factory reset, but when I restored it I found my messages hadn’t been backed up. Any help to recover lost messages from factory reset on Android would highly be appreciated. Thanks.”

In fact, the Factory Reset function will be useful in many cases. You can do it to fix some system bugs, speed up your phone or clean up privacy information when you want to give the phone away. However, when you do a factory reset on an Android phone, it will wipe all of the existing data from the device. If you want to restore text messages, photos, contacts, videos, calendars, call logs, WhatsApp messages from Android after factory reset, please don’t add any new files and data to your Android phone, or they might overwrite the metadata of all those files that got erased after factory reset Android phone, such as Samsung Galaxy, HTC, Sony, Motorola, Google Pixel or Pixel 2, OnePlus and more.

In this article, there are different solutions for different situations when you want to recover lost messages from Android after factory settings. See the following detailed introduction.

Solution 1: Extract SMS after Factory Reset Android by Restoring Backup

If you have a Google account and you have backed up your data and settings with Android Backup Service, absolutely you can restore all Android contents that you have synced to Google by doing the following:

Step 1. Setup again your Google account to your Android phone after the factory reset. This can be done by going to Settings > Accounts.

Step 2. Go to Settings > Backup and reset.

Step 3. Enable the Automatic restore from the Backup and reset page.

restore messages on factory reset android from backup

OK, you can use the account you set in Step 1 to recover lost messages you’ve sync to computer. Finally, you just need to verify all messages are now back on your Android phone.

Solution 2: Recover Lost Messages after Factory Reset on Android(No Backup)

If you haven’t backup your messages for Android phone after the factory reset, you can choose Android Data Recovery, which is a professional recovery tool for you to retrieve your missing files, especially after factory reset your phone. Along with recovering messages it also recovers contacts, call history, gallery & photos, videos, audio and music files, documents, etc. without any difficulties. What’s more, this data recovery software can retrieve reset Android phone data from both internal memory and SD card. And it supports Samsung, HTC, LG, Sony, Motorola, Nexus, OnePlus, Huawei and other mobile devices running on Android 2.1 to 8.0.

The complete but simple steps are as followed. Try to get back deleted messages after factory reset on Android phone.

Step 1.Connect Your Reset Android Phone to Computer

Launch this factory reset recovery tool – Android Data Recovery after install it to PC. Then this software will ask you to connect your Android phone to PC with a suitable USB cable.

connect reset android and run software

Step 2.Enable USB Debugging on Factory Reset Android

Follow the guide on software and to enable the USB debugging on your Android device so that the program can scan your factory reset Android phone.

For Android 6.0 Marshmallow or 7.0: Navigate to “Settings” > “About device”, and tap “Build number” for 7 times until you get the note “You are under developer mode”. Then go back to “Settings” > “Developer options”, and check “USB debugging”.

enable usb debugging on reset android

Step 3.Select the File Type

As you can see, select the types of file to recover: contacts, message, call history, WhatsApp messages & attachments, gallery, audio, videos or documents. To restore text messages from factory reset on Android, here choose “Messages” item only. And click “Next” to let the software scan for deleted messages on it.

select messages to scan

Note: Sometime a Superuser authorization confirmation message will appear on your Android phone during the scan process. If you receive this type of message then you should click “Allow” to continue the process.

allow superuser request

In this step, the software is scanning your factory reset Android for deleted messages. The progress bar is displayed at the top of the window. Wait for it to finish.

scan messages lost after factory reset android

Step 4.Preview and Recover Messages from Android after Factory Reset

Once the scanning is completed, you can preview and choose the files you want to restore. Check the wanted messages and click “Recover” at the bottom of the program. A pop-up window will appear; select the destination folder on your computer to save the recovered messages.

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