Recovering lost SMS for Android

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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?
 
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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.
 
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. :p

Ah well, I don't hold out much hope of retrieving them but it's worth a shot.
 
With SMS Backup and Restore if you provide it a CSV formatted in the right way it can restore all text messages.
 
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.
 
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
 
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