How to Recover Deleted Contacts, SMS from HUAWEI P40/P40 Pro

By Selena KomezUpdated on April 13, 2020

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[Summary]: Deleted contacts and messages on HUAWEI P40? This article provides an efficient and effective way for you to recover contacts, messages and WhatsApp messages from HUAWEI P40/P40 Pro/P40 Pro+ with Android Data Recovery.

How Can I Recover Lost Contacts and Messages on HUAWEI P40 series?

“My contacts and messages lost!!! I don’t know why this is happening after factory reset my HUAWEI P40, when I restart the phone again, all contacts, messages and WhatsApp chat history were disappear. Both work and personal were gone, is it possible to recover lost contacts, messages and WhatsApp conversation after factory reset HUAWEI P40? Thanks a lot!”

“I send messages with my new HUAWEI P40 Pro when taking bus. But unfortunately, I deleted a important text messages on my phone by accident due to the shaking, how to recover deleted messages on Huawei P40 Pro?”

“After perform factory reset in HUAWEI P40 Pro+, all contacts were erased, then I check my Google account and I find that I haven’t backup before, how can I restore lost contacts on HUAWEI P40 Pro+ without any backups?”

Many Android users may ask similar questions like above, you may wonder whether there is any chance for you to recover lost or deleted contacts, text messages and WhatsApp messages on Huawei Android phone. Good news for you! With the help of Android Data Recovery, which is a professional Huawei data recovery tool, you can recover text contents: contacts, SMS, WhatsApp messages, call logs, notes; media files: photos, videos, audio and documents from Huawei P40/P30/P20/P10/P9/P8/Mate 30/Mate 20/Mate 10/Mate 9, etc. Only few clicks, you can recover your lost data from Huawei Android phones.

A Professional Android File Recovery Software to Use

• 1.It can recover deleted contacts with full information such as contacts name, phone number, email, job title, address, companies and more which you fill on your Huawei phone. And saving the deleted contacts as VCF, CSV or HTML to your computer for your use.
• 2. It can directly recover deleted messages from Huawei phone with full information such as name, phone number, attached images, email, message, data and more. And saving the deleted messages as CSV, HTML for your use.
• 3. Recover data from Huawei phone or SD card inside Android devices due to mistaken deletion, factory reset, system crash, forgotten password, flashing ROM, rooting, ect.
• 4.Extract data from dead/broken Samsung S6/S5/S4/Note 5/Note 4/Note 3, fix Android phone problem such as frozen, crashed, black-screen, virus-attack, screen-locked and restore Android OS back to normal.
  4. Preview and selectively recover the contacts, messages and WhatsApp messages you need before recovery.
• 5.Support recover data from Samsung, HTC, LG, Sony, Google Nexus, Motorola, Huawei, Sony, Sharp, OnePlus, Xiaomi, Google Pixel and and other brands with Android OS.

Firstly, download the free trial of Huawei Data Recovery program below and try to recover your lost data.

Recover Deleted Contacts and Messages from HUAWEI P40 in 4 Steps

Step 1: Run the software and plug HUAWEI P40 into the computer
The first thing needed is to install this software on your computer before you begin to retrieve lost contacts on HUAWEI P40 phone. After that, open it, an interface will pop up asking you what kinds of task you want to perform. In this case, we select “Android Data Recovery” to proceed. Then, connect your HUAWEI P40 to the computer with USB cable.

Step 2: Turn on USB debugging on HUAWEI P40
In this step, you’ll see a message flashing on the screen prompting you to enable USB debugging on the device. Just follow the instructions displayed to accomplish the job.

Besides, you have a guide for reference: How to enable USB debugging on Android.

Step 3: Choose “Contacts” and “Messages” option to scan
Next, it’s time to select the to-be-scanned file type. With regard to recovering HUAWEI P40 contacts, click the checkbox next to the “Contacts” and “Messages” option, followed by Next button.

By default, the program will try to analyze the device and perform a quick scan on its file system to search for deleted contacts. If the attempt doesn’t return the contacts that you need, you can perform a more deeper scan.

To do so, click Rooting Tools button at the bottom and get KingoRoot to get the device rooted. For more info, learn from: How to Root and Unroot an Android Device.

Once rooted, just click “Retry” button, the program continues scanning the deleted contacts and messages from HUAWEI P40. This will take some minutes.

Step 4: Recover Contacts and SMS from HUAWEI P40
After completing a deep search, all found contacts will display on the interface. You can click the specific one to preview its detail, such as name, phone number, email, etc.

Recover deleted contacts from HUAWEI P40/P40 Pro(+)

Recover deleted SMS from HUAWEI P40/P40 Pro(+)

You can now select the contacts you wish to get back, and click the Recover button at the bottom right side of the program’s window.

#1 You can see the program will save the deleted messages as CSV, HTML

#2View the restored text messages(.HTML) on computer

#3And saving the restored deleted contacts as VCF, CSV or HTML to your computer for your use.

#4View the restored contacts(.VCF) on computer

Now you have your lost messages and contacts back! We highly suggest you to do frequent backup your important Android data to computer in case of some unexpected data loss. This Android toolkit not only can help you recover lost or deleted data from Android, but also can help you backup and restore Android data, please free download and have a try!

Since those restored contacts and messages saved on the computer, you can use this Android Transfer to import the contacts .VCF files to your Android phone for using.

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