6 Best Ways to Recover Data/Contacts/Messages/Photos/Videos/Call Logs/Audio from Samsung Galaxy M21

Summary: Can the deleted and lost data from Samsung Galaxy M21 restored? What is the best and safest way to recover data on Samsung Galaxy M21? If you have similar questions, after reading this article, you will get a clear and satisfactory answer.

In terms of core configuration, Samsung Galaxy M21 is equipped with a 6.4-inch Super AMOLED water drop screen, equipped with an Exynos 9611 processor, a front 20 million pixel camera, and a combination of 3 rear cameras, which are 48 million pixels, 8 million pixels and 5 million pixels, respectively. It is equipped with a 6000mAh large-capacity battery, supports 15W charging, provides two storage specifications of 4+64GB and 6+128GB, and is available in blue and black colors.

Although Samsung Galaxy M21 is only an entry-level mobile phone, the market has responded very enthusiastically, which is why so many users demand data recovery methods. Therefore, next we will introduce several common and efficient methods to help you recover lost and accidentally deleted data from Samsung Galaxy M21, regardless of whether there is a backup file.

  1. Part 1 Restore Data from Samsung Cloud to Samsung Galaxy M21
  2. Part 2 Restore Data from Samsung Kies Backup to Samsung Galaxy M21
  3. Part 3 Recover Data from Samsung Galaxy M21 without Backup (Recommend)
  4. Part 4 Extract Data from Backup to Samsung Galaxy M21

Part 1 Restore Data from Samsung Cloud to Samsung Galaxy M21

With the continuous maturity of cloud technology, cloud storage has become the most common method for users to save data. If you have also synced your phone data to Samsung Cloud, then you can follow the below steps to easily restore data from Samsung Cloud to your Samsung Galaxy M21.

Tips: Before using this method, please ensure that you’ve logged in to the Samsung account that being used to back up your phone data, and please don’t forget to plug your device into its charger and connect your phone to a stable WI-FI network.

Step 1. Unlock your phone and go to “Settings”, then tap on “Cloud and accounts” > “Samsung Cloud” > “Restore”.

Step 2. After searching for the data in your Samsung account, all the backed up devices and backed up data will be listed, please select the device (backup file) as you like to load the corresponding restoreable file types.

Step 3. Now, please mark the items that you wanting to restore, and tap on “Restore Now”.

Tips: As you can see, there is a pop up and ask you whether to install apps. To restore your data, Samsung Cloud needs to install apps from your backup data. If you don’t install these apps, then your apps and Home screen won’t be restored. Please press “Install” or “Don’t Install” according to your need.

Step 4. After that, the program will begin restoring the selected data to your Samsung Galaxy M21 automatically, please wait patiently, you can press the “Stop Restoration” button to stop recovery process as your need.

Part 2 Restore Data from Samsung Kies Backup to Samsung Galaxy M21

Samsung Kies is an important mobile phone synchronization software that provides convenience for users who use Samsung devices. Through it, you can conveniently use multimedia content such as photos, music or movies. Easily synchronize multimedia content between the Kies media library and connected devices. You can also use the backup/restore function of Samsung Kies to manage the data in your device. So, if you have ever synced your phone data to Samsung Kies, then you can follow the below steps to restore data from Kies backup file to Samsung Galaxy M21.

Step 1. Run Samsung Kies on your computer, and connect your Samsung Galaxy M21 to your computer via its USB cable.

Step 2. Wait for your device to recognized, click on “Back up/Restore” option in the top menu bar of the software’s homepage. Then scroll until you find the “Restore” button, and click on it.

Step 3. Select the backup file to restore as you like from the list, then tap on “Next”.

Step 4. Select the file types, account information and settings according to your need, after confirming, tap on “Next” to begin restoring the selected content to your Samsung Galaxy M21.

Part 3 Recover Data from Samsung Galaxy M21 without Backup

In the process of daily use, there are too many situations that cause data loss, but no matter what reason you lost your precious data, you basically don’t have any backup files to use. So you urgently need some safe and effective data recovery methods, even in the absence of any backup files available. In fact, what you have been looking forward to is a 3rd party data recovery software, just like Samsung Data Recovery and Best Data Recovery.

Recover Samsung Galaxy M21 Lost Data via Samsung Data Recovery

As the name suggested, Samsung Data Recovery is a targeted and professional data recovery tool, which can directly recover deleted and lost data including contacts, call history, SMS, message attachments, photos, videos, audio, WhatsApp chats, WhatsApp attachments and more from any Samsung Galaxy devices, of course include your Samsung Galaxy M21.

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Step 1. Download, install and run the software on your computer, then tap on “Android Data Recovery” option among all the items.

Step 2. Connect your Samsung Galaxy M21 to computer by using its USB cable, then enable the USB debugging mode on its screen, and tap on “OK”.

Step 3. Wait for the connection to establish, you should select the file types that you want to scan and restore, and click on “Next” to begin scanning your phone data under the standard scan mode.

Tips: You can find more data by using the deep scanning mode, if you don’t want to use the default scan mode, please click the “Deep Scan” button to switch it.

Step 4. After scanning, all the found data that can be restored will be diaplayed by categories, just select those whatever you needed, then click on “Recover” to save them all back.

Recover Samsung Galaxy M21 Lost Data via Best Data Recovery

Best Data Recovery is another well-known and highly acclaimed data recovery software that can directly recover deleted and lost data including photos, videos, email, audio, documents and more from any mobile phone, computer, SD cards, hard disks and so on.

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Step 1. Download, install and run the software on your computer, then connect your Samsung Galaxy M21 to computer via its USB cable.

Step 2. Once your device is recognized, you will be asked to select the file types that you want to scan and recover, and choose the disk name of your phone. Then click on “Scan” to begin to scan your phone for the lost content.

Step 3. Once the scan is completed, all the scan results will be displayed on the page, you can preview them one by one, or you can directly find the data you need by using the “Filter” function.

After confirming the data you want to recover, click on “Recover” to save the selected files back to your computer.

Tips: If you can not find the data you need, please don’t worry, you can click the “Deep Scan” button to try it again.

Part 4 Extract Data from Backup to Samsung Galaxy M21

No matter what the situation is, it is most reassuring to be prepared. So if you have some data backup files, then you are not afraid of any data loss incidents. Next, we will introduce two very simple and commonly used backup file restored methods for you.

Restore Backup to Samsung Galaxy M21 with Android Data Backup & Restore

Android Data Backup & Restore is a side function of the Samsung Data Recovery software, however, users really like to use it to back up mobile phone data and restore data from these backup files to any supported devices. Next, let’s show you how to restore data from a backup file to your Samsung Galaxy M21 by using this tool.

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Step 1. Run Samsung Data Recovery, then tap on “Android Data Backup & Restore” on its primary interface.

Step 2. Connect your Samsung Galaxy M21 to computer, and choose a restore mode on the page, either “Device Data Restore” or “One-click Restore”. Here we just take choosing the “Device Data Restore” mode as an example.

Step 3. Choose a backup file from the list, and tap on “Start” to begin to extract all the restoreable files from the selected backup file.

Wait for the extraction to finish, choose the files you need, then click on “Restore to Device” or “Restore to PC” to get back the selected contents.

Restore Backup to Samsung Galaxy M21 with Mobile Transfer

Mobile Transfer is a well-known data management software whose main function is data transfer, data backup and backup recovery. So, if you’ve ever backed up your phone data by using this software, then you can easily restore data from backup to any supported device by using this software. What’s more, you are allowed to restore data from iTunes/iCloud backup file to an Android device via this software.

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Step 1. Download, install and run Mobile Transfer on your computer, then click on “Restore from Backups” and choose “MobileTrans” to go on.

Step 2. Connect your Samsung Galaxy M21 to computer and choose a backup file from the left panel of the page.

Step 3. Select the file types as you need, then click on “Start Transfer” to sync the selected files to your Samsung Galaxy M21.

Tips: You can mark the “Clear data before copy” option to wipe all data on your Samsung Galaxy M21 before transferring data.