How to Recover Lost or Deleted Text Messages from Samsung Phone

By Selena KomezUpdated on April 22, 2020

Accidentally deleted your messages from Samsung phones? Lost messages after factory reset Samsung phone? Your Samsung phone is broken screen and do you want to recover SMS from broken Samsung phone? Samsung Galaxy phone stuck on black screen of dead and how to restore text messages from Samsung with black screen? Actually, when the message is deleted, erased or lost, it doesn’t go to the trash or the recycle bin, because there isn’t a trash or a recycle bin on your Samsung as on the computer. And it’s only marked as useless data and can be overwritten by new data. Therefore, the deleted message only turns to be invisible, and disappear until being overwritten. Actually, you can recover deleted or lost text messages from Samsung phone, what you need is a professional Samsung SMS Recovery software.

No matter your lost text messages or deleted SMS on Samsung phones, like Galaxy S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9, S10, S20, Galaxy Note 10, Note 9, Note 8, Note 5, Note 4, Note 3, Samsung Ace, Samsung Wav,you still have chance to recover Samsung Galaxy lost messages directly,or restore Samsung lost data from the SD Card of your Samsung smart phone. This article teach you a easy use guide to recover text messages from Samsung Galaxy phone, you can follow the same steps to scan and recover deleted WhatsApp messages, contacts, photos and more from Galaxy S20/S10/S9/S8/S7/S6/S5/S4, Galaxy Note 10/9/8/4/5/3/2, Samsung Galaxy Ace, Galaxy A9/A8/A7/5/3,ect.

An Effective Samsung SMS Recovery

Android Data Recovery and Android Toolkit, both can directly recover deleted text messages from Samsung phone. After scanning your device, it can make you preview and select recover your deleted short messages. It’ completely safe and time-saving. No matter you lost them for what reason, you deserve trying this Android SMS Recovery app. Both two Android data recovery software also can recover photos, contacts, SMS, call logs, WhatsApp and more data from Android phone, such as Samsung, Huawei, Samsung, LG, Google, HTC, ZTE, Xiaomi, OnePlus, and more.

More Features of Android SMS Recovery

• Recover deleted messages from Android phone with full information such as name, message, phone number, attached images, email, data and more.
• Export the deleted messages as CSV, HTML for you using or printing.
• Directly recover lost or deleted photos, videos, music files, contacts, text messages, messages attachments, call history, WhatsApp messages, whatsApp attachments, documents from Android phone.
• Recover photos, videos, audios and documents from SD cards inside your Android device.
• Recover Android lost or deleted data on Windows or Mac computer.

Free download the Android Data Recovery software:

Part 1: How to Recover Lost SMS from Samsung Galaxy

Step 1： Run the Application and Connect Your Samsung Phone to PC
In order to scan your Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone, you need to first to download and install the program on your computer by following the default wizard, now the Windows and Mac version are all available, launch the software and then click “Android Data Recovery” function as below.

Then connect your Samsung device to PC with a USB cable, then double-click to run the application and next…

Step 2： Enable USB Debugging on Your Samsung Phone
Due to the messages are stored in SIM or internal storage system, so you need to enable the USB debugging for scanning. For different versions of Android OS, follow the detailed expression in the windows to enable it.

For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Go to Settings < Developer options < Check USB debugging
For Android 4.2 or newer: Go to Settings < About Phone < Tap Build number for several times until getting a note ‘You are under developer mod’ < Back to Settings < Developer options < Check USB debugging.
4)For Android 5.0 or newer: Tap “Settings” > “About Phone” to tap “Build number” seven times for “You are now a developer!” signal. Then, move to “Settings” > “Developer options” to turn on “USB debugging” (For Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 Edge/S7/S8/S9 users enable USB debugging guide)

Also check the article: How to Enable USB Debugging Mode on an Android device

Selete the Text Messages file type you want to get back

Tip: Try to be as accurate as possible to make the process faster. The more file types you choose, the longer scanning time will take. So, we recommend you just select “Text Messages” item that you want to get back in this case.

Step 3: Get root permission on Samsung phone and run a deep scan
In this step, the program will check your Samsung phone’s information and analyze it. For a more thorough search for the lost and deleted text messages, your phone will need to be rooted.

To do this, press the Advanced Root button and it will open a website where you can download and install this Android Root Tool(Free) program. Then go to your Samsung Galaxy phone and accept the root request when a notification pops up.

Note: The rooting process is safe and you can also use KingoRoot tool to remove the root access anytime. In additional, after recovering lost data back from Android devices, your devices will return to original unroot state.
For more details, turn to this guide about “How to safely root and unroot an Android Device” for full tutorial..

Step 4： Analyze and Scan Your Samsung Phone
Once your Samsung phone is detected, you need to click “Allow” when an app pops up on your device’s screen to give the program super user authorization for scanning your Samsung phone. Please ensure the device has enough power to complete the whole scanning.

Analyze data on Samsung Galaxy S9 device:

Step 5: Recover Deleted SMS from Samsung Phone
When the scanning is finished, all found file will be displayed in the corresponding category, click the Messaging option on the left menu bar, and then it unfolds all of the messages as well as the current list and deleted ones. You can preview and select the messages you need to recover. Click “Recover” and specify a location on your computer to save them. You can selectively get back whatever you want.

After that, please click the Recover button again and all deleted/lost text messages will be save onto the computer in CSV & HTML format and attached images for you view and use.

Free download the Android Text Messages Recovery:

Part 2: How to Recover Text Messages from Broken Samsung Phone

Below is the easy guide teach you how to recover deleted or lost SMS from normal Samsung phone, if Samsung data missing due to accidental deletion, factory reset, OS update, rooting, virus and other unknown causes. But, if your Samsung phone is broken with broken screen/black screen or bricked with stuck in startup screen(Samsung logo screen, blank screen), how you can directly extract data from a broken/dead Samsung phone?

Broken Android Data Recovery function is one part of Android Toolkit, which not only can help you fix cracked Samsung Phone (bricked, system-crash, virus-attack, etc.) to normal, but also support to recover data from broken/frozen Samsung Galaxy phone. If your Samsung phone stucks in broken screen, black screen, non-responsive screen, Android OS system is damaged, cannot enter password or connot touch the screen, stuck in Samsung logo screen, stuck in the download mode, please use this Broken Android Data Recovery to download recovery package to fix your bricked phone to normal, then extract all existing text messages, contacts, photos, WhpatsApp messages and more from broken Samsung phone.

Notes: Currently, this function only support some Samsung devices like Galaxy S6/S5/S4, Galaxy Note 5/4/3, Galaxy Tab.

Step 1.Run the Android Recovery and Start up Broken Android Data Extraction Funcion
First of all, please free download the Android data recovery for Windows version and launching it on computer, then choose “Broken Android Phone Data Extraction” mode.

Step 2.Connect Broken Samsung Galaxy Phone to PC
Then connect your broken Samsung Galaxy phone to computer, and waiting for the program to detect your phone automatically. If your phone is broken screen, black screen, or touch screen can’t be used, please click the left “Start” button to directly extract data from broken Samsung phone’s built-in storage; If your phone is bricked please click the right “Start” button to fix bricked Samsung phone to normal at first.

Step 3.Select Samsung Phone’s Name and Model
After tapping the “Start” button, the program will pop-up a new windows for you to select your phone name and model, make sure your broken Samsung phone can be supported by this program for extracting data, and then tap “Confirm” button to confirm the phone model.

Step 4.Enter the Phone In Download Mode
In this step, you need to put the broken Samsung phone into download mode for ready downloading the suitable recovery package, click “Start” button and follow the instructions of the program.

1).Power off the phone.
2).Press and hold Volume “-“, “Home” and “Power” button on the phone.
3).Press “Volume +” button to enter download mode

Step 5. Analyze the Phone and Download the Recovery Package
After put the broken/dead Samsung phone into download mode, the software will analyze it and download the recovery package.

After downloading the suitable recovery package for the device successfully, it will fix your broken Samsung phone to normal, and then scan your phone automatically.

Step 6.Scan All Existing Data from the Broken Samsung Phone
After you fixing it successfully, the program will scan your Samsung Galaxy phone automatically.

Step 7. Preview and Recover Text Messages from Broken Samsung Galaxy Phone
The scan result contains the recoverable data on your Samsung phone, including contacts, text messages, message attachments, call log, WhatsApp messages, picture library, videos, audios and documents. If you want to recover text messages from broken Samsung phone, please click “Text Messages” to view them in details one-by-one, finally, just select the Messages that you want and click “Recover” button to recover them from your broken Samsung phone to computer.

Note: In this method, it can help you recover all existing data from the broken Samsung Galaxy S6/S5/S4/Note 5/4/3, not including the deleted data. If you want to recover the lost/deleted/missing/formated data from Android phone, please follow the first part.

The results showed that the application can effectively detect the device that was damaged structurally, that means no matter whether your Samsung phone was rooted or unrooted, formatted, damaged. This Samsung SMS Recovery application can still be able to read the data from it, then automatically deeply scan and retrieve delete or lost text messages from Samsung galaxy S4 or S5 phone without the complex operation. It is recommended that you should backup your data regularly once your messages or other data is recovered completely.

You may be curious why the lost messages can still be recovered; In fact, the scientific principle is remarkably simple, it was like the data deleted on computer. The messages will still remain in the physical storage medium when was deleted consciously and unconsciously. When press the “deleted” button on your Samsung phone or other phone, they are technically hidden and marked for deletion. Once the marked data in the storage was detected, the possibility to recover messages is very high. In our full review, Samsung SMS Recovery application showed excellent scanning performance, it is capable of fully scanning the deleted or lost data in the storage system of Samsung phone (SIM card and internal memory), then recover the scanned messages or other data with easy. Now, you know how to recover lost messages on Samsung Galaxy phone with this professional Android data recovery software, if you have any question, please leave a message below.

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