I factory reset my samsung phone and everything got deleted. any way to restore it?
if it was my shop, i'd charge you... again... anyways, the short is yes and no... depends on if you were smart and backup up your information like a good little android/iphone/windows/blackberry smartphone user..... and if you didnt, your royally screwed... and lastly, a factory reset in Settings>privacy on any make/model phone since the dawn of human existence = complete data wipe. step 1) is to log back into the phone with the smae gmail account you use when you first got it. This will tell Google "hey, i got a new android phone, please re-sync my saved contacts, calendars, tasks, pissca.".. and google will do it. 2) Upon re-login after factory reset, go into Google Playstore. Auto sign-in with the gmail account on the phone. Any app downloads and purchases from this gmail account will re-sync, and re-downloand to the phone. If not, manually do it in Playstore>menu>my apps>download all............ that sad part is that Playstore, nor Google, doesn’t remember app data. So lets say you had Angry Birds on your phone and got all the 200 levels completed. Factory reset the phone. Playustore will remember you downloaded Angry in the past, but the memory of those completed 200 levels.. are.. POOF! GONE. Start back at level 1! Oh the joys of factory resets! Contacts / Pictures / Antivirus… I lumped this into 1 category…. You can restore these 3 if you backed them up. Again, I tell my customers… a mobile device is NEVER a permanent storage device. Back up your data. BE SMART! I use Lookout Mobile Security. Its free. And offers A LOT of other features too…… just tell the app to back up the above info…. But, again, if you failed to back up the data thje first time, you are 1000000000000% screwed. There is NO WAY in God’s universe to undelete on flash memory in any smartphone Text messages….. again, you can restore if you backuped them up via an app, like SMSbackup. Justs follow those instructions to restore. Again, if not, you are ………. Take a guess……. That’s right…. SCREWED! Texts, contacts, pics, antivirus, lost/stolen gps tracker, apps, playstore, calendar.. hmmm… what else… that’s about it… everything else is just gone … That will be $37.78, please… $4.99 for the walk in and $29.99/hr for the repair, plus 8% tax rate….
Its a big loss for anyone to lose their valuable contacts. However there are many applications available on playstore to recover from that kind of loss.One of them is very famous Restore Contacts :Restore Contacts - Android Apps on Google PlayOne thing to note here is that it will not work on phone format as it will erase all memory slots. It will work well on your scenario. It works very well when you have accidentally deleted your contacts or intentionally. You can get them back easily, on single tap.Below are the screenshots of this app, its just awesome :
Why Are Lost Contacts Recoverable from Galaxy Device?Actually the deleted data haven't been wipe out from the device. You can get back the deleted contacts only when the deleted contacts haven't over-written. Note that stop updating or using the phone to avoid over-written.With this feature, you can recover deleted contacts from Samsung with some recovery software, very easy and convenient to use.But if you have set up Samsung account and made a backup before deletion, the thing get easier, and you just need to handle the operation as below, then will have the data such as contacts, calendar etc.back.Go to Apps > Settings > Cloud > Restore.Your Samsung device will begin to restore backup.Tick the items that you want to restore. And tap "Restore Now".The contacts and other data will be downloaded from your Samsung account. Wait till you see "Data Restore".Hope that it will help you out of this issue. Have a nice day!More details about Recover You Lost Contacts files
I am seeing a lot of questions along this theme and I’m speculating they are asked by the same person.I can offer you some general advice:If you have factory-reset a phone, it is as if you have got a new phone. Realising then that you do not have data that is important to you, there are two possibilities that could help you to recover it:You have a backupThe data is stored in a cloud serviceIf neither of the above applies, and the information you are missing was stored only on internal storage, then I’m afraid you’re out of luck my friend. There is no way for you to retrieve data that has been erased from a phone’s internal memory by a factory reset.The answer is the same regardless of the type of data you’re talking about or how you rephrase the question! I really do hope you can recover the information you need and wish you the best of luck.
Recovering of phone now a days is very easy provided you install the [1] Pin App on your phone before it gets stolen or lost: Available Worldwide. You can also install it from the playstore.You will be able to track your phone and recover it back thesame day provide the App is downloaded on your phone before it got stolen.PINS App featuresWe Provide You Recovery InfoPin intruder:• Captures photo of an intruder holding your device when an incorrect PIN, password or pattern is entered and emails it to you.• Get an instant email notification showing you the time and address of where the lost or stolen phone isFind my phone• This feature shows you the exact location of lost or stolen mobile phone• Show you history location of the missing device• Real track live tracking of the missing device (you will see the phone move from one location to another and the dashboard)Read Details on the link below and install the App now.Footnotes[1] This Is How To Recover Your Lost Phone Easily: Download This App On Your Phone Now: You Might Be The Next Victim
Sometimes the settings on your Android device can go completely nuts, up until the point where you can’t even find your contacts and think you have lost them all. Before you start freaking out, there is a chance that all your contacts are still on your device, just hidden very carefully. To check if that’s the case, follow these simple steps:Open the “Contacts” appPress on the menu in the top-right corner (three vertical dots)“Contacts to display”Select “All contacts” if it isn’t alreadyIf “All contacts” hasn’t been selected, then this was probably the solution to your problem. However, if all contacts were already displayed, let’s try something else…Restoring Android contacts with GmailIf your Android device is synced with your Google account, the odds of recovering missing contacts are definitively in your favor. Gmail has a nifty feature, that allows you to restore a backup of all your contacts, which can date up to 30 days back. Once you have done this, you can re-sync your device with your Google account and get all your contacts back.Sidenote: if your contacts are appearing in Gmail but not on your phone, see the steps above and/or try re-syncing your Google accounts completely.To restore a backup of your Gmail contacts, go to your inbox and select “Contacts” from the dropdown menu on your left hand side.Once you see the list of your contacts (or not), click on “More” to get to the dropdown menu, where you need to select the option “Restore contacts…”.Now you should see this pop-up window, where you can select a backup, which can date back as far as 30 days. If this method worked for you, go ahead and re-sync your Google account on your Android device and you should be good to go. If it didn’t work..Check your Android device’s contacts database file (root required)If, you haven’t wiped your device completely, there is still a chance of recovering your lost or deleted contacts by checking if the old contacts database file is stored somewhere deep in your storage.Depending on your manufacturer and Android version, you will find your database in different locations in your storage. For stock Android devices like the Nexus 5, the database file should be located here:/data/data/android.providers.contacts/databasesThe key that your are looking for is providers.contacts/databases. If you can find this folder on your device and it’s empty, it means that your contacts are gone for good.Use the third-party software Free Android Data Recovery Software
Can you retrieve deleted texts from an Android?
just look the procedure......... 1. Download and install one of the programs above. Launch the program on your computer. 2. Connect your Android to your computer (with the recovery program installed and program running) with a USB cable. 3. Enable USB Debugging on your Android. To do this, you need to have access to the Developer Options in your main Settings menu. If you don't, just go to About Phone, scroll down to Build Number and start tapping repeatedly. You'll now get access to Developer Options in the main Settings menu (just above About Phone). Go into Developer Options, scroll down to USB Debugging (or Android Debugging, depending on your ROM) and check the box. 4. Follow the prompts in the recovery program to scan or analyze your Android's memory. 5. Once the process is complete you will have access to browse and preview the data stored on your Android device (whether it has been ''deleted'' or not. As long as the particular part of memory on which is was originally stored has not been saved over, you can still get the data back. This is why it's important to act quickly if you've lost data. 6. Simply locate your text message folder (or however the particular program presents your data), select the messages you wish to recover and either use the Recover action in the program to put them back on your device or save them to your computer for safe keeping. Note: if you want to complete this process without a PC, chances are you will need root access on your device and more than likely a paid recovery app. In any case, it's easier and free to use a computer.
I understand I’m presenting a controversial point here, but I’ve seen people trying to take this very serious scholarly approach, and loose steam very fast to the point of stopping going to museums after a few first tries, when they overextend and overwhelmed themselves.The learning is through the process, and the best thing to do is just get to any museum, and find something you genuinely respond to. I suggest, first see, then read about it. It does not have to be an important piece of art, it could be an iron handle from 11th century, or a decorative tile from a Dutch stove. After you went once, come again, and find something else. The idea is to repeat the experience, and not just do it once, consider it done, and forget about it.Tell yourself that you do not have to stop at every single art object or painting, and go through every room. This is the shortest road to being overwhelmed, walking out of the museum with a huge headache, and very little desire to ever come back, because “you’ve seen it all”. I would like to compare it with an all you can eat buffet, imagine if you have several rooms with rows of tables with different foods from meats to desserts. Would you go and taste every single dish, read the recipe and info about the chef? Probably not, so I’d suggest a “visual buffet” approach - taste selectively to avoid indigestion.You are absolutely allowed to skip or walk past the rooms or art objects you do not like, or not interested in looking at. You are absolutely allowed to not like, or not approve some themes/techniques. If you feel the need to learn more about a particular piece - there is always additional information right there in the museum or on the Internet at your you may go around a museum with a traditional classical art collections (up to the end of the 19th century), there are may be a few things to keep in mind:all artists were making their own paints, and paint combinations were very closely kept secrets.a lot of art you will see will be on religious topics or portraits, as the main customers of those times were the church, and sometimes noblemen who needed official portraits. One notable exception will be Netherlands where a class of wealthy merchants was commissioning art. There you may see more of the everyday life scenes.Gordon Adams gave great advice about modern art museums, I tend to use a similar approach - “at brisk walking pace”