Recover Deleted or Lost Text Messages on Android without/with Root

Gosh! I erroneously delete a pop-up text messages from my boss when I delete the unwanted text messages on my Samsung Galaxy S6. The most terrible is that I did not read the received message. How can I retrieve the deleted text messages from my phone?

Accidental text message deletion gets you into a great deal of trouble. However, still there are ways of helping you to retrieve the deleted text messages. In this post, we will show you two ways to recover the deleted text messages or lost SMS from your Android phone.

Retrieve Deleted Text Messages on Android

• Why deleted text messages can be retrieved?
• What app can be sued to recover deleted text messages on Android?
• How to retrieve deleted or lost text messages on Android?

Why deleted text messages can be retrieved?

Commonly, deleting data from phone will let the data disappear in your vision. Actually, the deleted data still exists on your phone's storage in some way. When you next time deleted data on your Phone, the new deleted data will overwrite the original deleted data. So for making sure you can recover the deleted text messages from your Android phone successfully, you had better make no operation after you deleted the text messages from your Android phone.

What app can be sued to recover deleted text messages on Android?

For retrieving the deleted text messages on Android, you need the SMS recovery tool to help you. FoneLab for Android is the recovery software that can assist you.

➤ It gets back the deleted text messages on Android phone (Root).

➤ It restores the lost text messages when your phone is water damaged, password-forgot, etc. (Without root).

➤ It allows you retrieve app messages like WhatsApp, and message attachments on Android phone.

➤ You can use it to find back the photos, videos, call log, contacts, etc. to your computer for backup.

How to retrieve deleted or lost text messages on Android?

Recover the deleted text messages from Android phone (Root)

Step 1Connect your Android phone to computer with USB cable, meanwhile, run this software on your PC. Select "Android Data Recovery" and it will detect your Android phone automatically.

Note: If this software fails to detect your phone, just enable USB debug mode on your phone.

Step 2Select "Messages" in the pop-up interface. If you also want to retrieve the deleted message attachments, then you could also checkmark "Message Attachments". Click "Next" to start to scan your Android phone text messages.

Note: During the scanning process, your phone will also be rooted automatically with this software. If you fail to root your Android phone, then you have to use "Advanced Root" or refer to this post to manually root Android phone by yourself.

Step 3After scanning is completed, you can click "Messages" to view the details in the right window. And select the text messages that you want to restore, click "Recover" to save the SMS as CSV and HTML to your computer.

Retrieve the lost text messages on Samsung phone (Without root)

As mentioned before, if your Android phone (Samsung Galaxy Note 3/4/5, S4/5/6, etc.) is screen broken or password-forgot to lose the text messages, then you could use this solution to extract the text messages from your phone.

Step 1Still run this software on your computer, and plug your phone to PC with USB cable. Select "Broken Android Phone Data Extraction" > "Start".

Step 2Select your phone name and model and "Confirm".

Step 3Follow the three steps told as the interface to enter the Download mode.

Step 4Click "Start" to start to the repairing process.

Step 5After finishing the repair process, it will scan your phone data. You can click "Messages" to view the details, and click "Recover" to save the text messages (Not include the deleted text messages) on your phone currently to computer.

Here, two ways are shared here to help you retrieve deleted or lost text messages on Android phone. You can choose what the better way to make it.

Extended reading: If you lost contacts on Android phone, just come here to get the way to recover deleted contacts on Android.