How to Recover Deleted Text Messages from Samsung Galaxy S4

We always see that brand names scream from every corner of the road and corner because we're such a superficial society, feeling good only in brand-name jewelry, bags and mobile phones such as Samsung Galaxy s4. Adding accessories to cell phones is most widespread in the world, both hardware and software. Phone users like to add various apps on the phone in order to make their entertainment life more colorful. Such as game apps to play games in leisure time, reading apps to some radings, shopping apps to purchase your needed goods online, etc. But, have you ever thought to install an data recovery program on your Samsung Galaxy S4, in case that important files deleted or lost from your device?

Why it is necessary to install an SMS recovery tool on Samsung Galaxy S4?

After you upgrade your mobile phone to the latest version, you may find your important data, such as text messages, is lost from your phone. Also there are others situations that you just accidentally deleted crucial SMS from Galaxy S4, or virus infected on your phone that causes data loss, powerful failure and device formatting are also another two files losing factors. Things can be worse if you haven't backed up your text messages on other storage devices. Therefore, it is essential to download and install an effective SMS recovery tool on your mobile phone to help you recover deleted, formatted, corrupted or lost text messages, as well as other files from Samsung Galaxy S4.

Now, it is not a serious problem for above problems as long as you have the Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android (for all Windows versions) or Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android (Mac) (OS X 10.10 or later), which is a handy and powerful program to help you recover not only deleted text messages, but also lost, formatted and corrupted contacts from Samsung Galaxy S4/S5/S6 and other Android-based devices like HTC, LG, Motorola, ZTE and so on. This data recovery application is specially designed to recover SMS and contacts from Android device' internal memory and SIM card. Here I will show you how to recover deleted text messages from Galaxy S4 step by step.

At the very beginning, please click the buttons as below to download the free trial version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 SMS recovery software. Install it on your computer and follow the following steps. Before the SMS recovery, you need to root your Galaxy S4 at first.

How to Retrieve SMS Deleted from Samsung Galaxy S4 on PC Step by Step?

Step 1. Connect your S4 to computer

Firstly, connect your Samsung Galaxy S4 to the computer with a USB cable. Double-click on the desktop shortcut icon of the program to launch the installed Coolmuster Android recovery software. Once the connection is successful, the software will automatically detect your device and show it, along with its parameter information on the program interface.

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Tips: Not only Samsung Galaxy S4, the software also supports other Samsung devices like S3/S2/S, Note 3/2/1, as well as other Android devices, including Motorola, HTC, LG, Google and so on.

Step 2. Enable USB Debugging Mode on your Samsung phone

Next, we need to enable USB debugging on the connected phone. The activated USB debugging is used for synchronizing data between your device and computer. If you have already opened the USB debugging, you can move to the next step. If not, you need to follow the steps below to enable USB debugging mode on your Android phone.

For Android 2.3 or older, Go: "Settings" < Click "Applications" < Click "Development" < Check "USB debugging".
For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging".
For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter "Settings" < Click "About Phone" < Tap "Build number" for several times until getting a note "You are under developer mode" < Back to "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging"

Step 3. Scan for the lost text messages on your phone

Once the USB debugging mode has been enabled successfully on your S4, click "Allow" on your phone to allow the program super user authorization when an Superuser Request pops up. The launched program will automatically detect your connected Galaxy S4 and show all the contained files in your phone in clear categories on the left-size window, including your lost text messages.

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Step 4. Preview and recover the target SMS

Open the "SMS" folder and preview the contained text messages one by one on the right-side window. Check those you need to recover and then you can click on the big "Recover” button.

Follow on, there will be an output choosing dialog pops up, asking you to choose an output location for saving the recovered text messages. Just specify the destination and the SMS recovery process will begin at once.

By the way, Android SMS+Contacts Recovery is specially designed to recover lost or deleted contacts and text messages from Android phone.

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