Smartphone is not merely a communication tool. It is the smaller form if a computer. All data stored on your smartphone matter and losing them can be a nightmare, especially if you use your smartphone for business. Even so, losing smartphone data is not doomsday. You can get them back with a data recovery tool.

PhoneRescue is a data recovery tool that is designed specifically for Android devices (also available for iPhone). You can use this tool to recover the lost data on your Android device whether due to accidental deletion, virus attack, app crash or any cause to make you lose your data.

How can the lost data be restored?

Well, this is probably the most basic thing you need to know before using a data recovery tool like PhoneRescue. When you deleted a file from your smartphone — whatever the form — the actual data of the file you deleted is not really gone right away. Instead, it still resides somewhere on your smartphone until it was overwritten by other data. A data recovery tool works by scanning your smartphone — along with the installed memory card — to figure out if the data you are looking for still around. Once found, you can restore it.

However, not all data can be restored, depending on how long it has been deleted. If you have deleted a file for a quite while and you have just realized it, you might won’t get it back since there is a big chance the actual data of your file has been overwritten by other data. PhoneRescue itself supports Deep Scan mode to perform a deeper scanning to recover longer file deletion. But again, this method won’t help much if your data has been overwritten.

In addition to recovering the lost data on Android Device, PhoneRescue also comes with a feature to remove Android screen lock in case you forgot your lock screen pin or pattern.

What kind of data can be restored by PhoneRescue?

First, you need to know that PhoneRescue is a paid tool (trial version is available) so you might want to know first what kind of data this tool can restore before you spend your money to buy its license. PhoneRescue has extensive data support. You can use this tool to recover nearly all data types. Here is the list of the data type you can restore with PhoneRescue.

Supported smartphones

One of the good things about PhoneRescue is that it has extensive smartphone supports. Tell us the smartphone brands you know. Chances are they will be supported by this app. You can even use PhoneRescue to restore the lost data on old smartphone models.

We have tested PhoneRescue to restore the lost data on a Samsung Galaxy J1 — which runs Android 4.4.4 — and the app did the job quite well. Recently, we also tried PhoneRescue to scan the lost data on an Android 8.1.0 based device and everything went well.

According to a description on its official itself, PhoneRescue supports a wide range of popular smartphone brands apart from Samsung. Including Huawei, LG, Vivo, Xiaomi, Google, ZTE, HTC, and so on. You can read the full list of the supported device types here.

How to use PhoneRescue

Data recovery is often associated with advanced doing. Actually, not exactly. Today, the vast majority of data recovery tools come with a graphical interface. You just need to perform some clicks to get your data back.

PhoneRescue comes with an intuitive enough interface that extremely easy to use. The hardest part of a data recovery process is basically waiting for the scanning process. We are pretty sure that everyone can use PhoneRescue since it is also equipped with a detailed step-by-step guide on its app window. For instance, PhoneRescue will tell you how to turn on the USB debugging option on your Android smartphone as shown below.

Before being able to work, PhoneRescue needs to install a companion app on your smartphone. You don’t need to install it yourself since PhoneRescue will automatically install the app when you first launch the PhoneRescue app on your PC.

By the way, as we have mentioned above, we have covered how to recover deleted text messages on Android using PhoneRescue in case you need a guide. You can also read the PhoneRescue’s official guides on how to recover photos and messages.

Root is not required if you just need to recover newly deleted data. You only need to root your Android device if you want to run a Deep Scan mode to restore older deletion. You will also need to root your Android device to remove lock screen. Again, you don’t need to root your Android device yourself. PhoneRescue will automatically root your device when you choose the Deep Scan mode.

You can read the PhoneRescue’s office guide page to learn more about how to use the tool.

The verdict

Everyone makes mistakes. You should not blame yourself too much if you accidentally deleted important data from your smartphone since you can get it back with PhoneRescue.

PhoneRescue is a data recovery software developed specifically for mobile devices. You can use this tool to recover the lost data on both Android and iPhone. The desktop app of PhoneRescue is available for Windows and Mac. In addition to recovering the lost data from the Android device, you can also use PhoneRescue to remove the Android lock screen in case you forgot the PIN, password on the pattern (root is required for this).

One of the most interesting things about PhoneRescue is that it is extremely easy to use. It has a graphical interface that is extremely easy to operate. You can use PhoneRescue to recover the following data types.

PhoneRescue supports a wide range of smartphone brands and models. It even supports old smartphone models like Samsung Galaxy J1 (SM-J100F). You can count on this tool if you need to recover the lost data on your Android device.