I’ve factory-reset my phone a couple of times in the past, and PhoneRescue didn’t manage to find anything from before those resets. After all that rooting and effort to get it working, does PhoneRescue do the job? The answer is yes, to an extent. The developers’ website has plenty of tips for using PhoneRescue, including guides on how to recover photos and how to recover messages, respectively. It does the job quickly, too, so you won’t be twiddling your thumbs for too long while waiting for it to complete its search. Once it’s made its findings, you can choose to recover files to your PC or directly to your phone, which is welcome. Once you make your selection, it’s just a case of clicking Next then waiting to see what it finds. The homescreen is very simple, with checkboxes letting you specify what kinds of files you want to recover. Plug your phone in via a USB cable to your PC, open the PC app, and it guides you through a step-by-step process on how to get your files back. Thankfully, once you get through all that, things do get simpler. You’ll also need to enable USB debugging and grant root access to PhoneRescue, adding a couple more hoops to the process before you’re ready. With that said, if you’re phone’s unrooted and you want a deep scan, be prepared to find your own rooting solutions if the built-in one here doesn’t work. My bootloader was already unlocked, and it was just a case of me flashing SuperSU to get root privileges, so getting root access wasn’t much of a problem for me. As there’s a separate Android app for each manufacturer (Samsung, HTC, Sony etc.), maybe it got confused because I have an unlocked HTC One M8 running LineageOS, rather than the default HTC UI. While a nice idea in principle, this option sadly didn’t work for me. It doesn’t say any of them are mandatory, but seeing as it’s worded like a bunch of instructions rather than tips, it’s probably best you do what it says.ĭuring setup the app tells you that you need to have a rooted device to access the “Deep Scan” functionality and even offers to do your rooting for you. There are quite a few things you need to do before your phone is ready for the data recovery, but at least the app is honest about them by giving you a list of “Quick Tips” to consider before doing your data recovery.
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