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As text messages in your Samsung Galaxy S4 phone increase gradually, sometimes, it is inevitable for you to unintentionally delete some useful text messages with unnecessary one. Then, what can you do to retrieve them? This article will show you how to apply an android phone contact and text message recovery app to retrieve deleted text messages on Galaxy S4.
Step 1: Download an android phone contact and text message recovery app called iSunshare Android Data Genius and install it on your PC.
Step 2: Connect your Galaxy S4 phone to your computer.
Is it needless to say that you can connect them by USB data line?
Step 3: Turn on USB debugging mode in your phone.
As for how to turn on USB debugging in Samsung Galaxy S4 phone, you can refer to the following procedures.
1. Enter Settings on the phone.
2. Click the More option on the top right corner.
3. Select About Device.
4. Continuously click Build number until the phone system prompts that "Developer mode has been enabled".
5. Return to Settings, click More, tap Developer options and select USB debugging.
6. Click OK to turn on USB debugging when the prompt information of "Allow USB debugging?" pops up.
Step 4: Install a USB driver for your Galaxy S4.
If the USB driver of your Galaxy S4 android phone is not installed in your computer, you will find the computer cannot detect the phone when connecting these two devices. That is to say, you are unable to make any operation to your phone on your computer. Therefore, you'd better install a USB driver for the phone. Besides, if your phone is successfully detected by the computer, you can directly move on to the next step.
Step 5: Root your Galaxy S4 android phone.
Without rooting your Galaxy S4, you are not allowed to add advanced apps to your phone, change the phone system setting and so on. In order to use the app you download to retrieve deleted text messages from your Galaxy S4, you are suggested to root your phone beforehand. If you've already rooted it, you can skip this step.
Step 6: Run the app to load the text messages from your phone.
After its installation, the app will automatically open. So you can start it to scan and load the text messages from your phone, as shown by the screen shot below.
Step 7: Select text messages from the deleted and recover them in your computer.
More specifically speaking, uncheck the boxes before Contacts and Messages on the left so as to cancel the default choice of the app, check the boxes before the deleted text messages you want to retrieve in the middle and then tap Recover on the bottom right corner to save them in your PC. You can refer to the following print shot.
As a result, with the above seven steps, you can successfully retrieve deleted text messages on Samsung Galaxy S4 phone. Why don't you have a try now? Don't be hesitated.
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