How to Recover Files on Broken Screen Samsung Galaxy Phone

[Summary]: When your Samsung Galaxy phone screen is broken,the first thing you need to do is recover data back from mobile phone,and save them on your computer.After you bought a new mobile phone,then transfer those restored data to the new phone directly.

“I have a samsung galaxy s5 with a broken screen Crying.I need to recover text messages, contacts, photos and videos from the broken samsung galaxy s5.My USB port is not working properly as well as the phone never gets detected.I dont have an insurance and cannot buy another screen as its very costly.I have tried all possible ways to recover the data when I try to connect through Kies it says Phone is locked.And the Samsung Galaxy S5 device is getting detected as Samsung Mobile USB Modem.Please guys help me out to restore data from broken samsung galaxy s5.”--Ask by Christina

Retrieve Data from Broken Screen Samsung phone

First, let's find out what reason may cause lost data on Samsung Galaxy.
There are tons of reasons leads to your Samsung Galaxy data loss; here I pick out some main reasons to see if you have ever met them before.
* The USB disconnected accidentally when you are transferring data from your Samsung Galaxy to PC.
* The sudden power off of the machines when you are using them. This may lead to data loss, too.
* The virus infection. If your PC is infected by virus, you may lose your data, when you connect your Samsung Galaxy to it, you may also lose the data because of the virus.

Is it Any Way to Recover Data from Samsung With Broken Screen?

To recover lost data from samsung galaxy when the phone screen is broken,you need to use a professional Broken Android Data Recovery,which allows you scan and restore lost data from samsung galaxy,no matter your samsung device is broken or lost data due to restoring factory settings, flashing ROM, rooting, etc.Let’s teach you how to recover data from broken Samsung Galaxy phone with the help of samsung galaxy data recovery program.

Samsung Galaxy Recovery - recover lost data  from broken/dead samsung galaxy phone
You samsung galaxy mobile phoen is broken or dead?Don't worry,the data recovery for samsung galaxy can help you scan and restore data back from broken samsung devices directly,it works well with samsung phones or tablets.

According to the second reason above, we can learn why break Samsung screen will result in data loss. Next, we need to recover samsung galaxy lost data. When a file is deleted, the reference to where the data is located is removed, but the data is still written on the disk. A data recovery service/software can examine the whole disk and identify all data on the disk to include that which has no reference in allocation tables. I had tested several softwares, and found the Dr.fone Android Data Recovery is the best data recovery for samsung galaxy phone,which is the world’s first android data recovery supports recover contacts, text messages from android mobile phone directly. Here I will show how to use a android data recovery software to recover data on Samsung Galaxy broken screen with 4 steps,you can use this Android Data Recovery to recover data from broken Samsung Galaxy S7/S6/S5/S4/A9/Note 7, Galaxy Note 4,Note 5, Note 3 and other Samsung phones/tablets.

 

Broken Android Data Recovery allows your recover android lost data in almost all situations:
-Delete files on Android devices– recover deleted data on Android phones or tablets directly.
-Samsung phone's touch screen is Broken or can't be used – retrieve Sasung data if Samsung phone screen broken.
-Black screen – Extract and get data back if Android phone screen black(can’t restart or can't enter the phone system).
-Damaged Android devices – retrieve data from Android phone if your phone is damaged or water-damaged.
- Android microSD card file recovery – restore photos,videos,documents stored on microSD card if Android device broken.

If your phone is damaged,for example,black screen,unable to enter the system or the touch screen can not be used,you can follow the use guide to get lost data back from your broken android devices,you do not need to enable the usb debugging on the phone.

Watch the Video Tutorial:



Now, follow us and learn the detailed steps to recover contacts,sms,photos and other data from Samsung mobile phone when the screen broken,you can also follow the same steps to recover data from a dead Samsung phone.

How to Retrieve Data from Samsung Phone with Broken Screen

Note: In order to scan and extract data from your broken or dead Samsung phone successfully, you need to stop using the Samsung for the sake of the old data,because the old contents may overwrite and covered by new data.

Step 1 Run the Android Data Recovery and connect broken Samsung phone to PC/Mac
First of all,please free download and install the android recovery program on your computer,you can see "Android Data Extraction(Damaged Device)" option in the software's main interface, then hit the "scan it" button.

connect broken phone to PC

Step 2 Select what kinds of contents you want to get back
Then the program will pop-up another interface,here you select all files you're ready to restore them back,like contacts, SMS messages, photos, videos, whatsapp messages, call logs, music,ect. All of those contents are to be scanned. If you only want to get contacts back from a broken Screen Samsung phone,then select the "Contacts" item to save time.Then, hit the "Next" button to continue.

select file type you wish to extract from broken phone

Step 3 Choose your phone's fault type
If you phone screen is broken and can't be used or can not enter the system, please click the left option. If the phone is running, but your phone is black/white screen,please hit the right button.

choose the phone fault type

Then,please select your broken phone model. If you have no idea what model your phone is, just click "How to confirm the device model" like to get some help.

select and confirm phone model

Step 4 Get your Broken Samsung Phone into Download Mode
If your phone does not work, or black screen/white screen situation, please follow the guide to enter the "Download Mode".
1. Power off your Samsung device
2. Press and hold Volume down, Power and Home button.
3. Press the volume up to enter download mode

Enter Download Mode

For the black screen situation, after hitting the "Start" button, there will be countdown appear in the phone screen in the below interface. When the countdown complete, hit the "Start" again and you can move to the next step.

Note: When the phone is in the "Download mode", connect the broken Samsung phone to the computer via USB cable.

Step 5 Begin analyzing and downloading recovery package to your broken phone
Once you successfully get your phone into the "Download mode", the software will start analyzing and downloading recovery package.

 downloading recovery package

When the package downloading complete, the software will scan all the data stored in your phone,including contacts, sms, photos, videos and more.

Step 6 Start Scanning and Recover/Extract Files from broken/dead Samsung Galaxy phone

It takes a few minutes to scan your phone,when the scan process is complete,you can preview all the data stored on your broken devices. Here,we take restore contacts on broken Samsung phone for example,to get contacts back,just tick the "Contacts" item in the left column to check the contacts list saved in the device,just click the "Recover" button to restore contacts from your broken phone.

recover data from broken Samsung phone

Scan, Extract and Recover Photos, videos,music and other media files from Samsung when phone screen is broken or can not be touch.

recover/extract photos,gallery from broken Samsung

In addition to recover deleted photos from samsung galaxy, this data recovery software also can recover files formatted or lost due to other reasons from various mobile phones, USB drives, external hard drives, iPhone, personal computers and more. It's really a wonderful recovery software for your data's retrieval.

  

Recover Photos,Videos,Music from SD Card of Damaged Samsung Galaxy

If your Samsung Galaxy S7/S6/S5,Note 7/5/4/3,Galaxy A9/A8/A7,Galaxy J7/J5/J3/J2 is damaged,you can extract/recover all media files from the Samsung SD card directly,including pictures, videos, songs and other documents.If your Samsung memory card is formatted and cause data loss,the Android SD Card Data Recovery can help you recover formatted/lost files from Samsung SD card directly.Here's how to use Android Samsung SD Card Data Recovery to recover data from SD card.

Step 1: Connect Samsung SD Card to PC/Mac
Install and Run Android Data Recovery on your computer,choose the recovery mode "Android SD Card Data Recovery", then connect your Samsung micro SD card to computer with a card reader.

Plug SD Card Reader in the Computer

Step 2: Select a SD Card to Scan
When your SD card is detected by Android SD Card Data Recovery, select your SD card and click "Next" to continue.

Step 3: Select the Scanning Mode and Ready to Scaning the SD Card for lost Data
Before scanning, select the modes to scan,one is "Standard Mode",the other is "Advanced Mode".Suggest you choose "Standard Mode" first, If you can't find what you want, then you can try the "Advance Mode". To save time, you can choose to scan for only deleted files.

sd card scan mode

Step 4: Begin to Scanning Samsung SD Card for Lost/Deleted/Formatted File
After choosing the scan mode, click "Next" to begin scanning your Samsung SD card.

Scan Samsung SD Card for Lost Data

Step 5: Preview,Select and Recover Data from Samsung SD Card
When the scanning process is completed, all results will be displayed in categories.You can go to "Photos", "Audios", "Videos" and other data files to preview the lost data files having been found out. Select the files you want get back and then click "Recover" to start the SD card data recovery process.

recover files from broken samsung SD card

What’s more about Android Data Recovery:

Android Data Recovery is a secure and powerful tool that can be used to restore your lost photos, videos, contacts and messages from all kinds of Samsung device, including Samsung phones and tablets,Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung Captivate, Samsung Galaxy Ace, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Infuse, Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Epic 4G Touch, and more.Now,you can free download this android data recovery to restore any data from your Samsung devices.

 

If you know your the data is stored in the memory card, and your memory card is still not damaged,you may want to know how to restore data from Samsung SD card, go to Android SD Card Recovery, you will get more solution.If you think our resources articles can help you solve the problem,please share this page in your Facebook or Google+.Have a good life.

Backup Your Samsung to Computer

In order to avoid data losing or your phone broken,we recommend you should backup your Samsung data to computer,regulary.

Here,we recommend you use this Samsung Desktop Manager tool to backup everything from Samsung Galaxy S7/S6/S5/S4/Note 5/Note 4/Note 3,etc. to PC or Mac,including photos, videos, music, contacts, messages and more.What's more this program also can help you sync music from iTunes to Samsung phone, transfer music, videos, photos, contacts and SMS from old iPhone, Android phone to Samsung Galaxy driectly.

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