4 Easy Ways to Recover Data after Factory Reset Android

Method 1. Recover Data after Factory Reset Android Free from Local Backup

How to recover data after factory reset android free without computer? If you have backup your phone before factory reset with the built-in backup and restore feature in Settings menu, now you can easily get your lost restore from your previous backup to get lost data back to your Android phone.

• Head to Settings > General > Backup > Backup & Restore > Restore.
• Choose the backup you want to restore on your phone.

• Choose the file types and restore all data on your Android phone.

  

Method 2. Recover Android Data after Factory Reset from Google Drive

If you have enabled backup to Google Drive; after factory resetting your phone, it will ask that you have a Google backup available and if you would like to restore it when you setting you device. You can choose the option that restores the backup to get all backup data back to your phone.

If you don’t need to restore all data from Google Drive, you can also extract your wanted data such as contacts, messages from Google Drive backup. To do this, we’d recommend using a software solution called Tenorshare UltData for Android.

• Download and install UltData for Android on your computer.

• Run the software and select Recover Data from Google Drive.

  

• Sign in with the Google account your backup is stored on.

  

• Once you successfully sign in to your account, select any data types to recover, then click Start.

  

• After scanning, all your Google backup data will be listed by categories. Preview and select your wanted data to recover.

  

Method 3. Recover Photos after Factory Reset Android from Google Photos

If you use Google Photos, you can easily recover photos after factory reset Android from Google photos. you can follow the steps given below to download photos from Google Drive to your Android phone or tablet.

• Open Google Photos app on your Android phone or tablet, launch the.

• Select the photo that you wish to download and then select “Download”.

  

Method 4. Recover Data after Factory Reset Android without Backup

How to recover data from Android phone after factory reset without backup? Since your lost data are not overwritten by new data, you still have a chance to recover them. All you need is a reliable and powerful data recovery tool to recover your data after factory reset Android. Here we recommend Tenorshare UltData for Android, which is capable of recovering all types of files from Android phones and tablets.

• Attach your Android device to computer via a USB cable. Run the software and select "Recover Lost Data".

  

• Follow the onscreen commands to enable USB debugging and turn on USB storage on your Android phone or tablet.

  

• Select the file types you want to recover and the software will display all the recoverable files after scanning.

  

• Finally, preview recoverable files and select desired ones to restore.

  

Just like I said earlier, it's quite easy to recover data from android after resetting android to factory settings, if you have the right way to do it.

Background information: What happens when you factory reset your phone?

A factory reset (or hard reset) is the ultimate cleansing of your Android device. When you perform a factory reset, you're essentially wiping out everything you've ever done to the phone or tablet and restoring it back to the basic manufacturer software. Or put it another way, factory reset your phone to the state when you bought it.