How to Recover Lost Data from an Rooted Android Phone

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March 10,2015

"After rooting my Samsung Galaxy S10,it cause erase all data that stored my my Galaxy S10 before. My contacts and Text messages and photos are all lost. How can I Recover Lost Data from an Rooted Android Phone? All of those contents are very important for me. Please help!"--Ask by Luly in developer samsung forum

Nowadays, more and more Android users choose rooting to have more control over many settings, features and performance of their phones or tablets. Though it enables you to make global changes, it makes your Android devices virus prone. As a result, your files would easily get corrupted or deleted. Then what should you do to recover android lost data after rooting.

Lost Data on Android devices after Rooting the device

Have you ever faced this problem that you lost data in your rooted Android phone? Don't worry,you still have chance to restore data form a rooted android devices. To restore lost data from a rooted android samsung device,the first thing you should do is not importing any data into your phone such as taking photos or storing Contacts. Otherwise your missed data will be overwritten by these new folders and you will lose deleted data forever. Now, we will show you how to restore all lost contents from Android phone with a third party program called Android Data Recovery.

Recover Lost Android Contacts/Messages/Photos after Rooting

To recover android lost data after rooted the device,we recommend you use this Android Data Recovery for Windows or Android Data Recovery for Mac for help, with both data recovery version, you can easily retrieve lost contacts, photos, messages and other 8 types of Android files on Android 9.0 or earlier.

The Android Data Recovery (Windows&Mac) is specially designed for Android smartphones to achieve deleted files back, such as Contacts, SMS, Text messages, photos, music and more. It supports recover data from most rooted Android phones like Samsung, Huawei, Google Pixel, HTC, LG, Sony, Motorola, etc. With it, you can easily restore your rooted android devices.Let’s we take recover lost data from a rooted Samsung Galaxy smart phone for example.

Free Trial the Android Data Recovery Pro Software to restore lost data from a rooted android:

How to Recover Lost Contacts on Rooted Android Phone

1 Download & Install FoneLab

Go to FoneLab Official Website, select the windows or Mac versions through clicking Download for PC or Download for Mac.

2 Run FoneLab on Computer

Launch FoneLab Android Data Recovery on your computer, choose Android Data Recovery and then connect your device to the computer with USB cable.

There are other two options including Broken Android Data Extraction and Android Data Backup & Restore to fix Android OS problems or backup & restore Android data.

3 Enable USB debugging

You can follow the on-screen or below instruction to enable USB debugging.

Android 2.0-2.3.x: Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging

Android 3.0-4.1.x: Settings > Developer Options > USB Debugging

Android 4.2.x-Android 5.0 Lollipop: Go to Settings > About phone or About tablet, tap Build Number a few times till you see You are now a developer!, and then back to Developer Options under Settings app, to tick the box next to USB debugging.

4 Choose Scanning File Type

Tick the boxes of the file types you want to recover, click the green Next button in the bottom right corner. If you want to recover all Android data on the device, you can check the box next to Select All.

5 Get Privilege

The program will need the privilege to read your device data so you should follow the on-screen instruction root your device.

The program will ask you to install the root app to your device and then tap Allow/Authorize/Grant on the pop-up window on your device once the app is installed successfully. Then it will begin to root and scan your data.

6 Select Recoverable Files

So, you can see all recoverable data after the scanning is done. Click the file type from the left column, and then tick the items you want to get back. Click Recover.

If you want to find the items you want effectively, you can turn on the button on the top of the window to display the deleted items only.

7 Choose Folder & Recover

You can get a pop-up window to show you the path that to save the recovered data and you can change the path as you like, click Recover again.

Now, download the free trial version of Android recovery tool to recover lost data on a android device:

Tips: The Samsung Data Recovery software - Android Data Recovery is a secure and powerful tool that can be used to restore your lost photos, videos, contacts and messages from all kinds of Samsung device, including Samsung phones and tablets, Samsung Captivate, Samsung Galaxy Ace, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Infuse, Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Epic 4G Touch, and other Android devices.

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