Windows Phone (WP) is a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone features a new user interface derived from Metro design language. Unlike Windows Mobile, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market. It was first launched in October 2010 with Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 8.1 was the last public release of the operating system, released to manufacturing on April 14, 2014. Windows Phone has been succeeded by Windows 10 Mobile, with the Windows Phone name being phased out in favor of branding the platform as an edition of Windows 10.
The Windows 10, Windows phone 8.1/8 and Windows phone 7 (as well as Windows mobile phone) are good data phone which stores photos, videos, SMS, contacts whatsapp, music, and other files. However, mistakes like accident delete, or format of Windows phone may causes files to be lost.
So, is it possible to recover deleted photos, videos, SMS, contacts whatsapp, music, documents, and files from Windows phone 10/8.1/8/7? How to restore Windows phone deleted photos, videos, SMS, contacts whatsapp, music, documents, etc? Read more to find the answer.
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When Windows phone 10/8.1/8/7 photos, videos, SMS, contacts whatsapp, music, documents, etc files are deleted, or when you fromat the windows phone, the raw data of those deleted files are not wiped on Windows phone. Instead, Windows phone will only mark those space as free so it can be used for new files. This makes it possible to recover deleted photos, videos, SMS, contacts whatsapp, music, or other document files on Windows phone. Because a good Windows phone 10/8.1/8/7 data recovery software like Jihosoft Data Recovery or Data Recovery for Mac can scan all the space of Windows phone and collect all pieces of data, and then follow some rules to form the files. This way we can undelete pictures jpg gif jpeg png bmp tif tiff raw image data, videos RMVB AVI MOV WMV FLV 3GP ASF MKV MPEG mpeg4 mp4 H.264 HD videos files, music files aac wma mp3 wav, contacts, SMS, whatsapp and document data Microsoft office Word 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013 doc docx files, Excel files, pdf files, Powerpoint presentation PPT files from Windows phones, such as Microsoft Zune 30, Zune 4, 8, 16, Zune 80, 120, Zune HD, HTC Accord, HTC Rio, HTC Radar, HTC Eternity, HTC Gold, Nokia Lumia 830, Microsoft Lumia 640 XL, Nokia Lumia 530, Lumia 520, Lumia 620, Lumia 925, Lumia 625, Lumia 635, Lumia 630, Lumia 1320, Lumia 1020, Lumia 830, Lumia 535, Lumia 640, Lumia 435, Lumia 1520, Lumia 735, Lumia 930, Lumia 920, Lumia 928, Lumia 1520, Nokia Lumia Icon, Samsung ATIV Odyssey, Samsung Ativ S Neo.
Here’s some reasons which may cause files deleted from Microsoft Windows phone 10/8.1/8/7:
– If you forget to save backup of necessary photos before formatting Windows phone, no doubt you will lose all photos and other files from it
– Resetting the Windows phone to the factory settings will also erase entire data from phone memory
– In hurry or mistakenly, user may tap on “Delete” option after selecting particular photo/video on the Lumia phone and experience accidental deletion of files
– Erroneous or interrupted compilation of OS upgrade in Microsoft phone could also cause data loss
– Viruses can also put you in an unexpected situation by hiding or deleting files
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Part I: How to Recover photos, videos, SMS, contacts whatsapp, music, documents, etc from Windows Phone 10/8.1/8/7?
Step 1: Select Windows Phone 10/8.1/8/7
After launch this Windows Phone 10/8.1/8/7 Data Recovery, your mobile phone will be displayed in the drive list. Select it and choose the file type, for example, “Photos”, and then click “Scan”.
Step 2: Preview and Select Files from Windows Phone
For a while, all the recoverable photos are listed. Preview them to check if they are indeed you need to recover. Select them by ticking the boxes next to the file names.
Step 3: Save the Recovered Windows Phone 10/8.1/8/7 Data
A window pops up to remind you specify a folder to save the recovered files. Here you need to notice: never save them to your Windows Phone or Phone’s memory card.
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Part II: How to Recover Files from Windows Phone on Mac?
Actually, how to recover Windows Phone data on Mac is quite similar to the above steps. Following is a short tutorial about it by using Windows Phone Data Recovery on Mac.
Step 1: Select Windows Phone as the target drive, and select file types and hit “Scan”.
Step 2: Choose the files you need to recover after previewing.
Step 3: Save the recovered files on your computer instead of your Windows Phone or memory card.
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This software is useless with Microsoft lumia 640 and Nokia Lumia 1320. There is no windows phone listed. Just local drives.