Recovering lost SMS for Android

Merlin5 · 8 May 2018 at 10:30

I hard reset my S7 Edge several months ago which deleted my text messages and I would like to recover text messages for one particular friend. I googled it and there's android data recovery software that apparently does this.

I read the steps which is downloading it to my pc and connecting my phone, going through some steps, choosing what I want to recover, scanning my phone and then it finds lost text messages. It doesn't appear to restore them to the phone but is saved as an html or csv file.

Has anyone ever tried this and is there a particular android recovery software you recommend that works well? The one I looked at is android-recovery-transfer.com. It says ' Regain lost data for android phone because of accidentally deleting, factory resetting, system crash, forgotten password, flashing ROM, rooting, ect.'

Anyone used it?

Orcvader · 8 May 2018 at 10:35

If you have the CSV file, have you tried using an app to restore it?

Examples:
SMS Backup+ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync&hl=en_GB
SMS Backup and Restore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore

Merlin5 · 8 May 2018 at 10:40

Orcvader said:
If you have the CSV file, have you tried using an app to restore it?

Examples:
SMS Backup+ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync&hl=en_GB
SMS Backup and Restore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore

No, I don't have any CSV/backup that I'm aware of. After the reset, all my contacts, call logs, apps, pretty much everything were automatically restored except text messages.

Orcvader · 8 May 2018 at 11:06

My bad, the first post made it sound like you already tried something that made a HTML/CSV backup.

Unfortunately SMS messages are one of the things not backed up so automatically so you have to use a 3rd party app to do that for you. Last time I looked as well, you have to be rooted to restore these lost messages.

Merlin5 · 8 May 2018 at 13:26

Orcvader said:
My bad, the first post made it sound like you already tried something that made a HTML/CSV backup.

Unfortunately SMS messages are one of the things not backed up so automatically so you have to use a 3rd party app to do that for you. Last time I looked as well, you have to be rooted to restore these lost messages.

No, it's my bad, I can see how my wording looks like I saved a backup.

Ah well, I don't hold out much hope of retrieving them but it's worth a shot.

Matteysan · 8 May 2018 at 13:31

Sadly you won't be able to retrieve them. But I recommend https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles.smssync I've used it for a few years, backs up to your Google account.

Merlin5 · 8 May 2018 at 18:39

Thanks, I'll use that.

muon · 8 May 2018 at 20:03

With SMS Backup and Restore if you provide it a CSV formatted in the right way it can restore all text messages.

Alibaba99 · 22 Jun 2018 at 18:21

Oreo automatically backs up text messages as well now.

Tuvoc · 24 Jun 2018 at 15:53

Alibaba99 said:
Oreo automatically backs up text messages as well now.

Good to hear for when I replace my failing 3 and a half year old Windows 10 phone soon for Android. I just took something like this for granted, Windows has done this for a long time already. I always get them back after a factory reset and restore.

haseasy · 28 Jun 2018 at 10:45

Merlin5 said:
I hard reset my S7 Edge several months ago which deleted my text messages and I would like to recover text messages for one particular friend. I googled it and there's android data recovery software that apparently does this.

I read the steps which is downloading it to my pc and connecting my phone, going through some steps, choosing what I want to recover, scanning my phone and then it finds lost text messages. It doesn't appear to restore them to the phone but is saved as an html or csv file.

Has anyone ever tried this and is there a particular android recovery software you recommend that works well? The one I looked at is android-recovery-transfer.com. It says ' Regain lost data for android phone because of accidentally deleting, factory resetting, system crash, forgotten password, flashing ROM, rooting, ect.'

Anyone used it?

After you click the "Recovery" button, you'll also see other options, "Restore data to your phone" or "Restore data to your computer" , this may be because you chose the default option ,
Click it :https://www.androidphonesoft.com/resources/recover-deleted-messages-from-samsung-galaxy-note.html