How to Recover Lost Data Files from Samsung Galaxy S7 (Edge, Active)

The article collects together the solutions for the common topic "How can I recover deleted files on Samsung S7 (Edge & Active) internal memory". If your S7 device is stuck in blank screen, broken screen, black screen or has other issues, there's option to extract the data.

Samsung Galaxy S7 (Edge) gives you 32GB internal storage to store data files, but that can quickly get tight if you're not interest in popping in an expandable SD card. That's why you need to clean up the device more often; but then the unexpected thing happens: some of critical data appear to be deleted from S7 including photos, contacts, documents, messages and attached media files, call logs, etc. Take it easy, here's how to quickly recover deleted or lost data from Samsung Galaxy S7.

Option 1: Samsung S7 Data Recovery Free via Samsung Cloud

Before moving onto the 3rd-party tool route of retrieving lost files on Samsung Galaxy S7 (Edge), there's something simple you could try that might solve everything - check if you've ever forced a Samsung Cloud backup to save most of stuff: contacts on SIM card and phone, phone, messages, clock, Home screen, music, voice recorder, documents, apps, calendar, settings.

• On Home screen, tap Apps icon to open Apps drawer.
• Head over to Settings > Cloud and accounts > Backup and restore > Restore data.
• From the list, tap on the data you'd like to retrieve.
• Tap Restore at the bottom to restore data and content to Samsung S7 (Edge).

Option 2: Apply Samsung Galaxy S7 Data Recovery Software

In an effort to simplify things with the fact that not everyone has the backup in place, and avoid any missteps, try Android Data Recovery: it can gain access to the internal storage and recover data files from Galaxy S7 with no extra fuss.

Over the years, Android Data Recovery has earned the reputation of being the "recover almost everything" recovery program. It's capable of recovering Samsung S7 phone data and exporting to the computer: gallery pictures, videos, contacts, call logs, messages & attachments, WhatsApp messages & attachments, documents and more. Files in SD card can also be recovered hassel-free.

The utility caters to all level of users, and everyone will soon get used to the way the interface is set out. There's even a filtering feature embedded, namely "Only display deleted items", that grants users to locate the missing files quickly.

The following attempts at retrieving data files on Galaxy S7 phone memory will eventually return you to the normal phone life. You could root the device first so the software does a deep scan around the file system for more data you've lost before recovery. [Instructions: How to root and unroot an Android phone]

To achieve this:

• Launch the software, select "Android Data Recovery" mode. If you tend to recover data from Samsung S7 with blank screen, broken screen, black screen, or non-responsive screen, turn to the "Broken Android Data Extraction" mode instead.



• Hook up S7 device to be viewable on the computer with a USB cable.
• Enable USB debugging mode in Settings app on the phone. [Check the guide here]



• On the next window, choose certain types of files to tell the program what you want to scan. Or you can check "Select All" option if you want to get back all Samsung Galaxy S7 deleted data.



• Click Next button to begin the scanning process. This may take 15 minutes or more.
• When the scan is done, highlight the categories on the left pane to select all files; Or, head to each category and select certain items you wish to retrieve.
• Click Recover button to proceed.



• Once the popup brings up, designate a location to save the recovered files.
• Click Recover button, and the tool will now start extracting and recovering files from Samsung S7 internal memory and SD card (if there's one attached to the phone).
• Upon success, you will be directed to the success panel. Close it and unplug S7 phone.

Option 3: Recover Lost Data from SD Card on Samsung S7

SD card is used to store photos, videos, documents and some other types of data that's on phone. If the memory card gets corrrupted, or the files on it are deleted, it could be a nuisance. But don't let this bother you too much, as there're tools designed to recover lost or deleted data from SD card attached on the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. Data Recovery would be a nice option for that.

The process:

• Download the tool on any computer, and install it. Launch it.
• Connect SD card to computer via a card reader.
• Choose the files to scan: Image, Audio, Video, Email, Document, Other.
• Select the drive of your attached SD card where you want to recover files from.
• Click Scan button.
• Choose certain files you want to recover.
• Press Recover button to recover data lost from Samsung Galaxy S7 (Edge).

S7 models: SM-G930U, SM-G935A, SM-G930V, SM-G930T, SM-G930A, SM-G930P, SM-G930F, SM-G930W, etc.