Recover Lost Data from Samsung Galaxy Note 5 after Factory Reset

Recover Data from Galaxy Note 5 after Factory Reset

By Selena KomezUpdated on October 30, 2018

Summary: Android Data Recovery tool is capable of helping you effectively recover all personal data such as contacts, messages, photos, videos, documents from Samsung Galaxy Note 5 lost due to factory reset.

Data Got Lost after Factory Reset
“I used my Samsung phone for almost two years and it always works well. But recently it doesn’t work anymore. My wife advised me to restore it to factory reset to solve the problem. Having no better solutions, I did it last night. Performing the factory reset really help me fix my phone but at the same time, it erased all the data from it and I now feel extremely frustrated! I wish I knew of a way to recover some deleted photos and contacts from the emptied phone. Anyone knows?”

Doing Factory Reset Should be Used with Caution
Do you know what is factory reset? What happens when you do a factory reset on the Samsung phone? A factory reset is a full restore of an electronic device such as mobile phones to its factory settings. People usually do it when their phone stop working, many problems such as the frozen issues can be resolved by performing a factory reset. However, factory reset will erase all the data and settings on your phone, return it to the default factory settings. As factory reset will make you lose data stored on the device if you haven’t a backup, it should be used with caution.

Restore Samsung Data after Factory Reset

U.Fone Android Data Recovery is a nice choice. It can help you effectively recover all person data such as contacts, messages, photos, videos, music files, documents on the Android phone lost due to any causes. It offer a powerful and secure method for you, to restore lost data from Samsung Galaxy Note 5 after factory reset without any backups. Besides to factory reset, it help to restore Android data loss due to any cases, like accidental deletion, Android system updated, Android system rooted, etc,. This software is specially designed to retrieve lost or deleted data from Android phone and tablet. The supported devices are various of Android brands, for instance, Samsung(Note 3/4/5/8/9), Xiaomi, Huawei, HTC, Google, LG, Lenovo, Sony, Motorola, and more.

Part 1: Recover Lost Data from Galaxy Note 5 with Backups

If you have created backups with system backup feature or cloud service and prefer a free method to restore all lost data such as contacts, text messages, photos etc, on your Samsung run Android 7.0 or 6.0, you can try these ways to restore Android data after factory reset.

Way A. Recover lost Samsung data from Google account
If you have created backups to Google account on your phone which is running with Android 7.0 or 6.0, you can set up Google account again to restore backups from the Cloud service:

-Go to Settings > Under Backup & reset, tab Google > Sign in with your username and password;
-Tab Sync > Choose data that you have backed up into Goggle and check them > Click Restore all synced data.
Then all your data will be restored to your phone and you can reuse those data again.

Way B. Restore lost Samsung data from backup in phone
If you have created a backup in the phone with backup feature in your phone before performing the factory reset on it, you can follow the steps to restore the backups again:

Go to Settings > Tab Back up & restore > Choose the latest backup files and click Restore from Backup to get all lost data restored.

However, these ways not support to recover Samsung data selectively, and it not support to recover data from Android device run lower than Android 6.0. To perfectly recover lost data from Samsung after factory reset, just check the next section.

Part 2: Directly Recover Lost Data from Samsung Galaxy Note 5

Step 1. Download and Run the Program
To begin with, download and run the Android Data Recovery on the computer and click on “Android Data Recovery” in the home page. Connect the Galaxy Note 5 to the computer using a USB cable.

Android ToolKit home page

connect Samsung phone

Step 2.Allow Program Connect Galaxy Note 5
Please click “OK” on the Galaxy Note 5 to allow the program detect your device on the computer.

allow to detect Samsung phone

Step 3. Select the Files to Scan
When the connection is completed, the program will display all recoverable data types. Generally, you can choose the some type of data instead of all files you need. Then click “Next” to let it scan the data from your Galaxy Note 5.

select files to scan

Step 4. Allow Scanned and Analyzed Data on Samsung
After the program detects the device, you will see this interface. Click “Allow” on the phone to enable the program to scan your device for lost data.

allow to scan Samsung phone

Step 5.Scanning Samsung for Lost Data
Now the program will begin scanning the data on your Samsung Galaxy Note 5.

scan deleted Samsung data

Step 6. Recover Lost Data from Galaxy Note 5
Once the scan is finished, you are allowed to preview all the data find from your phone, including photos, contacts, text messages, etc,. Clicking the “Recover” button to save the selected data on the computer.

recover lost data from Galaxy Note 5