Recover Lost Data from Samsung Galaxy after Factory Reset

Samsung Data Recovery

By Selena KomezUpdated on October 30, 2018

“Last night I restored my phone to factory reset since I forgot the password of it, however it wipe all data and settings of my phone. How to recover the lost data from my phone without backup? Including the contacts, photos, and SMS.”

Normally, people will perform factory reset restoring on Samsung phone when it get something wrong, especially when they have no ideas to fix it. It is an effective method for most users to solve the software issues. Anyway, it’s highly recommended for you to backup data before doing the factory reset on your device. Performing factory reset will take away all the data even from the internal storage of your phone and get it back to the default factory settings. Seriously, it should be used cautiously! Backing up Samsung Galaxy before performing factory reset restoring on Samsung phone can prevent losing any important data.

Recover Lost Data from Samsung Galaxy after Factory Reset

Here we would like to share you this professional data recovery tool for Android – U.Fone Android Data Recovery to finish the job with no hassle. It is highly recommended by Android users for recover lost data from Android under any data loss cases. U.Fone Android Data Recovery works effectively in recovering lost data from Samsung Galaxy after factory reset. The types of recoverable Android files including contacts, SMS, gallery, videos, call logs, WhatsApp messages, apps, etc,. Besides to factory reset restoring, it supports to restore lost Android data due to accidental deletion, Android OS update, Android OS root, virus attack and so on. Compatible with all brands of Android models, such as, Samsung, Huawei, Google, LG, HTC, Lenovo, Motorola, OPPO, ZTE, Xiaomi and more.

Restore Lost Data from Samsung Galaxy after Factory Reset

Step 1.Run Program and Connect Samsung Galaxy to the Computer
To begin with, please install U.Fone Android Data Recovery on the computer, run it and connect Samsung phone to the computer. It will take seconds to detect your device by program automatically.

connect Samsung to the computer

Step 2.Enable USB Debugging on Samsung
Unlock your phone, go to Settings > Developer options > Allow USB debugging mode. If you have already allowed the USB debugging mode, you will see a pop-up window on the screen, mark “Always” from this computer and click “OK“.

usb debugging Samsung phone

Step 3.Select File to Recover from Samsung
In this step, different types of recoverable files can be chose to be scan, such as, gallery, contacts, messages. Select the files contain the data you want to restore and click “Next“.

select file to recover from Samsung

Step 4.Allow to Scan and Analyze Data on Samsung
You’ll get a window as follow on your device after your device is detected by the program. Tap “Allow” to enable the program to scan your phone for lost data.

allow to scan Samsung

Note:Please make sure that your phone battery is more than 20% charged.

Now the program will begin to scan data from your Samsung phone.

scan Samsung for lost data

Step 5.Preview and Recover Lost Data from Samsung
When the scanning process is end, a list of recoverable files that including the lost data have been found from your phone will be shown. Preview the data you want in the scan out list. Mark the data under the files, restore the selected data on your computer by clicking “Recover“.

recover lost data from Samsung