How to Recover Lost Data from an Rooted Android Phone

“I made some wrong operations that my contacts were deleted from my Android phone. My contacts are all gone and how can I get my files back? I have rooted my Android phone. Is it possible to recover lost data from an root Android phone?”

Benefits of Rooted Android Devices

To root an Android device is to get full access to it. Rooting bypasses carriers/limitations/restrictions set by manufacturers and gives you full access to Android devices. More and more Android users choose rooting to have more control over many settings, features and performance of their phones or tablets.

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Risks for Rooted Android Device

Though it enables you to make global changes, it makes your Android devices virus prone. As a result, your files would easily get corrupted or deleted. Wrong operations, like deleting system files, will brick your phone or cause boot loop.

As a result, you need to weigh the pros and cons of rooting. Once you find contacts, text messages, photos, music and other contents disappeared after rooting, the first thing you should do is to stop using your rooted Android phone to avoid the overwriting of data and increase the risk of recovering lost data. Then you should turn to Android Data Recovery for help, with which you can easily and directly recover lost contents from an rooted Android device, namely contacts, photos, messages, videos, call logs, WhatsApp chat history, etc. It supports most Android phones like Samsung Galaxy s8/s7/s6/s5/Note, HTC, LG, Motorola, Google Pixel, Huawei Ascend/Honor/Mate, etc. With it, you can easily restore your lost files no matter you have backed up or not.

Steps to Restore Lost Files from an Rooted Android Phone

Step 1.Download and Run Android Data Recovery

Firstly, you should launch Android Data Recovery on your computer, then you will find a lot of functions on the toolkits. You need to click on “Android Data Recovery” part of the program,and the “Broken Android Phone Data Recovery” function could extract files from broken Samsung phones.

Then connect your rooted Android phone to the computer.

Step 2.Set Up Your Rooted Android Version

If your Android OS version is 4.2.2 or above, you will get a pop-up message on your phone. Please tap on “OK” to allow USB debugging. Then the program will automatically recognize and connect your root Android phone.

Step 3.Choose the File Type You Required

After that, you can select the types of files that you want to get back from rooted Android phone and click the “Next” option to go to the next step.

After you clicking “Next”, check your root Android phone whether a request pops up. Just click “Allow”. Back to your computer and then check whether it gets into analyzing.

Now, the program begins analyzing your root Android device.

Step 4.Recover Files from An Rooted Android

If you just wanna recover all the files from the rooted Android, you can simply click the “Recover” button to get everything back.

These are all you need to restore lost contacts, text messages, pictures, call logs, WhatsApp chat history, etc from an rooted Android phone. In addition, Android Data Recovery software also supports data recovery from formatted Android SD card. E.g: How to Recover Data from Android SD Card.

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