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Help Help getting info off a damaged Samsung S4

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charles_ponzi

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I need help. I don't want to share to much in case the wrong person reads this. I had someone who scares me send me a lot of bad text messages that I need to have to help me be safe. When I told him it was over he took my phone, and after doing who knows what with it I got the phone back with the screen broke. Is there any way I can recover the messages sent that he probably erased? Since the phone is broken and has since been replaced I'm not worried about any warranty issues, I just really need help. Please!!!
 
Tbh I think you're at a lost cause but hopefully someone knows better.
Is there a chance the person (if he was 'clever") performed a factory reset on the phone before smashing it? If so there's realistically no way of recovering the data :(
Have you gone to the police?
 
Hello,
Ive never had a samsung s4 so im not 100% on this, but i do know most phones now dont actually delete text messages they just archive them, so if you have the number you can type it in and the message history should pop up, if that doesnt happen some phones sync & manage when connected to wifi, so if you're lucky you might beable to do restore from the last time the device was synced, otherwise i agree with funkylogik if he factory reset theres no chance. Unless the police can recover them, or maybe even your network carrier.
Sorry couldnt be more help!
 
The police and carrier are no help. I was told I would need the approval of myself, my carrier, his carrier and worst of all him. All I can see is times of messages sent for the last 90 days, not the content of the messages. How do I restore from the last time it was synced?
 
My Galaxy S4 does not sync sms messages. Pretty sure you can rule that out.
 
If a phone is smashed and dead, data recovery might still be doable
http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/ ... how much money have you got and what's the data worth?

What they do is pull the thing apart and read the flash-chips directly, which are very likely still functional. A factory reset and format doesn't erase the files stored in the chips, the actual bits, it only erases the filenames and directories, and makes the space available for writing new data.
 
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