Recover Lost Data from Samsung Galaxy S5 after Rooting

Samsung Rooted Data Recovery

By Selena KomezUpdated on August 07, 2018

“Is there any way to recover lost data from Samsung phone after rooting? I forgot to backed up some important photos and contacts, how to restore the the lost data from this rooted device? My phone is Galaxy S5.”

Why Need to Root Samsung Phone
Rooting your phone brings a lot of benefits. A rooted Android device support for themes and allows everything to be changed visually like the color of the battery icon and the boot animation; also it provides you with full kernel and application control, etc,. That is, you gain more rights to your Samsung phone. But not all rooting gone smoothly. Some users have a feedback that they lost data on the device after rooting.

Generally, rooting does not delete anything on your Android device if you done properly. However, in many cases, you could lose data during some improper rooting operations (prompt you that you need to wipe your phone), or even after successful rooting on your Samsung Galaxy phone. If you are one of those who have lost photos, contacts, text messages, call history, videos or other data after rooting your phone, you can try this easy and secure method below to restore lost data from Galaxy S5 after rooting.

Restore Lost Data from Galaxy S5 after Rooting

Samsung Data Recovery – also called Android Data Recovery is the best data recovery tool for you, ensures you the best and fastest experiencing in recovering contacts, messages, photos, videos, audios, documents, WhatsApp messages and other files from Samsung Android phone. It can do you a favor to recover lost data from Samsung Galaxy S5 after rooting. Addition to rooting, it help to restore lost data from Android under any data loss cases, like accidental deletion, Android system updated, factory reset restoring, etc,. Moreover, it has extra features like broken Android data extraction, Android data backup & restore. Samsung Data Recovery works well for all Samsung models, such as, Galaxy S5/S6/S7/S8/S9, Note 3/4/5/8/9.

How to Restore Lost Data from Rooted Galaxy S5

Step 1.Install Program & Connect Rooted Samsung
First of all, download and install Samsung Data Recovery on computer, then connect your rooted Samsung phone to the computer via its USB cable.

connect Samsung Galaxy S5 with 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“.

allow to connect Samsung Galaxy S5

Step 3.Select Files to Recover from Rooted Samsung
Now, select the files contain the data you want to scan and recover. If you not only want to scan and recover the lost part of data from your phone, please tap “Select All” and tap “Next” to continue.(If you just want to recover the lost data from device, you should click “Only display the deleted items”.)

select files to recover from Galaxy S5

Step 4.Scan & Analyze files on Rooted Samsung
When you get the window as below, please turn to your phone and tap the “Allow” button.

allow scan the Samsung Galaxy S5

Begin to scan data stored on your rooted Samsung phone.

scan Galaxy S5 for lost data

Step 5.Preview and Selectively Recover Lost Data from Rooted Samsung
After scanning, you’re supposed to click the items in the left sidebar to show all data, you’re allowed to preview the data and decide to which one for recovery. Click “Recover” to restore all selected data on the computer.

recover lost data from rooted Galaxy S5

More about Rooting
Rooting is jailbreaking for Androids, allowing users to explore more on a phone’s sub-system. You can access the whole operating system and customize anything on your Android. So more apps can be run, firmware replacement is also available.

You need to note that some potential cons also come along. After many attempts of rooting, your phone software would be damaged in some way. Also unknowingly install malicious software on rooted device is risky.