Samsung Galaxy Recovery: How to Backup and Recover Your Galaxy Note 7 for Return

Samsung said it has a partial fix for its dangerously hot Galaxy Note 7 smartphone batteries and will soon be downloading it to users' phones — even as it has told people to stop using the phones altogether. OMG, the highly-expected Galaxy Note7 is too hot to handle, coming with a few reports of Note 7s' catching fire or even exploding. Are your getting a recalled Note7? If you are, please power off the mobile phone right away. Before you return the phone to Samsung, if you want to recover data from the Samsung device easily, you can use credible software to restore files to your computer.

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As Note7 now is a fire hazard. We’d recommend doing it at home first and saving your backup to a computer or the cloud. However, proceed with caution and at your own risk. Putting a heavy load on the Note 7 could cause it to explode. Most likely it won’t, but it’s better to be safe than sorry.

Gihosoft Samsung data recovery software is recommended for you, it’s for free to recover some files like the word document and audio, yet also text messages, contacts, photos, videos as well as WhatsApp/Viber files. Except for Samsung, it’s also compatible with other Android devices like Sony, Google Nexus, LG, Motorola, HTC and Huawei. Plus, only can the recovery program restore files from Android devices as a daily backup, but also retrieve data from the below situations:

A full guide on How to Recover Deleted Data from Samsung Galaxy Note 9/S9/S8+

1. Accidentally deleted files when you’re using the Samsung Galaxy Note7. When you are confronted with such a situation, should you stop using your phone or set the phone into Airplane mode to avoid the deleted files being overwritten.

2. Mistakenly formatted the Samsung Note7 SD card which will wipe the data stored in the device.

3. Virus invasion that happens everywhere and every time, you can’t tell when it attacks your phone even with security software.

If you are using Mac other than Windows PC, you are still allowed to recover data from Samsung Galaxy Note7 via Android data recovery software for Mac.

You might want to check out the tutorial for more details:

Step1: Tick on the files that you want to restore from the Note7 phone. 

Step2: Enable debugging mode on your phone and connect your Android device to the computer.

1) For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter "Settings" < Click "Applications" < Click "Development" < Check "USB debugging"

2) For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging"

3) For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter "Settings" < Click "About Phone" < Tap "Build number" for several times until getting a note "You are under developer mode". Then you may back to "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging".

Step3: Scan the selected files, the duration of which depends on the size of the files.

Step4: Preview the files in details and recover them from your Samsung Galaxy Note7

Finally, the data will be restored in a folder on your PC.

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