Samsung Galaxy S10 and S10+ are the latest smartphones of the Samsung S-series. Since the release of the S10 series in the first quarter of this year. It has made a place in the heart of its users. Galaxy S10 and S10+ look impressive; it has a lovely feel when you hold them considering their size. It has a fantastic camera and perfect battery life. All and all, it has everything you can ask for. Personally, it stands with the best smartphones of this year. Considering its looks, specs, and everything. However, being a stock Android user, its operating system is the only thing that does not touch my heart. Well, in this guide. I will talk about a trick to help you recover data from Broken Galaxy S10.
Suppose you have broken your Galaxy S10 or S10+ and did not make a backup of your phone on the cloud or your PC. It might get hard to recover data from the broken Galaxy S10. First, if your phone is in working condition and only its screen is broken and not working. There are chances that you can unlock your phone using the on-screen fingerprint reader. Once opened, you can connect your phone to your computer using the data cable and retrieve the data if your cellphone restarted after it fell and got broken. You won’t be able to unlock it using face unlock or a fingerprint scanner. You are going to need this guide and trick for that.
Unlock and Recover data from Broken Galaxy S10 using Samsung Find my Mobile:
So, the trick is to unlock your Galaxy S10 or S10+ using a service Samsung that lets you access your Samsung phone remotely, and you can perform many operations on it. The service is known as Samsung Find my Mobile. Of course, you need access to your Samsung Account for this service to work.
Once you unlock your phone, you can connect it to the computer using a Data Cable and recover your pictures and videos. You can also recover Whatsapp pictures and videos by copying the Whatsapp folder from your phone’s internal storage to your computer.
Note that this guide will only work if your phone turns on. If your phone is dead and it won’t even startup. This guide won’t help you to recover data from broken S10. If the screen of your S10 has gone black, but you can hear it working on the backend. You can use this guide to unlock your phone and recover its data.
Now let us move on to the procedure on how to recover data from broken S10:
- First of all, Go to the website of Samsung Find My Mobile.
- Log in using your Samsung Account credentials. You can quickly recover your password using your associated email if you don’t remember it.
- Once logged in, you will see your phone’s current location on Google Maps.
- Apart from that, you will see multiple features that You can perform on your phone on the left side of the screen.
- Select Unlock.
- Once your phone is unlocked, you can retrieve all the data present by creating a connection between your phone and computer using a data cable.
You can also backup your phone on your computer using Smart Switch if your phone is unlocked. Just connect your phone to your computer, and download and install Smart switch. Then, open the Smart Switch, and you will see an option to backup your phone.
Note: Before sending it for repair or replacement or warranty claim. Make sure to delete all the data in your broken S10 after copying it to somewhere safe. So, when it is fixed, no one can access the data present in it. You can quickly delete all the current data on your Galaxy S10 using the “Erase Data” option on Samsung Find my Mobile.
How to Retrieve Pictures from your broken S10?
If you were using Google Photos instead of Samsung’s default Photo Gallery App, you could access all your pictures and videos on the Google Photos website.
Also, Check out: How to make Google Photos your Default App to manage pictures and videos.
How to Recover Contacts and Notes from your dead S10?
To recover your contacts. Log in using your email address on Google Contacts if you made the notes in the Google Keep app. It has a yellow icon. You can access your notes on its website. Just log in using your Gmail account. If you were using the Photos App from Google, you could access all your pictures on the web version of Google photos by going to its website.
Furthermore, make sure to use the same email address you used to Sign up on your phone the first time. You use the same email to download apps from the Google Play Store.
I hope this guide helped you to recover data from the broken Galaxy S10. If you have any questions or queries, you can drop a comment below if you can’t seem to make this guide work and retrieve data. Also, you can contact me on Facebook.
