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If you act quickly, you may be able to save that important message you tossed in the virtual trash.Accidents happenIn a moment of panic, you realize you’ve done the unthinkable. You’ve deleted all the text messages on your phone. Or at least, the ones you cared the most about. Some texts should be deleted immediately. But these weren’t those. So what do you do? How do you fix this? And is your Android even capable of helping you to retrieve them? Read on to find out. Act fast“If you’ve accidentally deleted text messages by mistake, fret not!” says Kenny Trinh, managing editor of Netbooknews. “You can get lost SMS (short message service) back with a 99 percent chance of success, but there’s one ingredient that is most important: time!” If you’ve deleted text messages on your Android, Trinh says you have to act quickly to retrieve them. “The messages are only recoverable until the portion of memory on which they are saved is rewritten. So the longer you wait, the higher the likelihood of getting new text messages, app updates, or who-knows-what saved to the same location, obliterating them forever.” Find out 11 things highly organized people do on their smartphones. Stop textingIt’s important to stop sending text messages as soon as you realize you’ve deleted some from your Android phone—at least if you have any hope at all of recovering those messages, says Ada Scott, who works for EaseUS Software, a company that offers data recovery software for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. “When the messages are deleted, they are not really erased at once, but the space where they are stored is marked as free to restore new data,” Scott explains. “Messages can be recovered as long as they are not overwritten.” Note that receiving new messages may also force the deletion of the text messages you’re trying to save, so turn your phone on Airplane mode immediately after you realized that important messages were deleted. Find out the hidden smartphone codes you should be using. Start simple“Like every tech-related thing, it sometimes can be a little difficult to restore all of the data deleted due to the fact that data can be permanently erased,” Jennifer Willy, editor at Etia.com. That’s why she suggests starting with the lowest effort method possible: Reaching out to the person whose text messages you lost to see if they can re-send them to you. Of course, this only works if you’ve just lost one or two text chains—and if you’re not embarrassed to admit you have a reason for wanting to hold on to those texts, or worse, you did one of the things you should never do over text. Google backupData recovery softwareIf you don’t have a backup, your next step is to give data recovery a try. “There are a couple of different data recovery tools to help you through this part of the process,” Trinh says. Data recovery can especially come in handy if you factory reset an Android. When retrieving deleted text messages from an Android he says the steps may be slightly different based on which product you use, but the general steps (and those required for using EaseUS recovery software) are as follows:
Try the free version, firstYou may get lucky and retrieve what you need with the small amount of free recovery provided. If not, you’ll have to purchase the full software program. It’s always worth a try, Scott says, as you may potentially save money. But Scott reminds users it’s incredibly important to avoid installing the app or software on the same storage disk where your lost files were stored previously. “There’s a risk that the lost data will be overwritten by the installation, then nothing can be saved back.” Make sure you read up on the best Android cloud storage available. Programs to helpIn addition to EaseUS, Sarah, Petrova, software engineer at Intel and co-founder of Techtestreport suggests trying:
“Which of the three programs you use is up to you,” Petrova says. “Unfortunately, the trial version of all three only shows you which data (including SMS & Whatsapp messages) can be recovered, but for the actual recovery, you need the full version.” Of course, those full versions do cost money. Find out 13 Android hacks you never knew about. Don’t let it happen again“To avoid making a habit of restoring, I recommend that you regularly backups your SMS messages,” Petrova says. “The easiest way to do this is with the free Android app G Cloud Backup. This app has a regular automatic backup that does the manual work for you, so you only need to open it yourself when you want to access an older version of your stored text messages. Next, read how to retrieve deleted text messages on an iPhone. How can I retrieve text messages from my lost phone?Follow these steps to recover text messages from a lost phone. Open Decipher TextMessage on any computer.. Browse backups that might contain text messages from a lost or stolen phone.. Select a backup.. Choose a contact that has lost text messages that you want to recover.. Select Export as PDF.. Can I retrieve text messages from a lost Samsung phone?Restore From Samsung Cloud or Google Drive
In most cases, it'll be Samsung Cloud or Google Drive, or both. Now, simply tap on Restore Data, and your phone will ask you to select the backup you want to restore. Tap on the most recent backup, and your phone will automatically restore all lost messages.
How do I retrieve text messages from my old Android phone?Here's how to use these three options to back up your old text messages and get them back safe and sound on a new Android phone.. Use Android Settings to backup your texts to Google Drive. ... . Use SMS Backup & Restore App to move texts to a new phone. ... . Use SMS Organizer to move texts to a new phone.. Can I recover lost text messages on Android?Go to Settings > Accounts and backup > Backup and restore. Under your Google account, tap Google Account to check if there is a Google Drive backup created before the messages were deleted. If there is an available backup, you may restore the backup and get the deleted messages back.
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