Are you a constant Android mobile phone user? Do you keep in contact with your friends and families by making phone calls, sending text messages, or chatting on WeChat on a regular basis? If you do, I believe you must have plenty of text messages on your phone, which are terribly important for saving the content you chat with other people. Do you have such experience that you once lost these important data and were driven crazy for having no idea how to recover SMS from a SIM card? Take it easy; this post will help you.
(For iPhone users, you can go here to find a solution to solve your problem of restoring contacts or text messages from your iPhone SIM card.)
First of all, we need to understand a basic question: can text messages be recovered from a SIM card? The answer is yes. A SIM card can store a certain number of text messages. If you delete these messages, they are potentially recoverable as long as they have not been overwritten by new data. However, due to the limited storage capacity of SIM cards, most modern phones store text messages in phone memory or cloud backups. Therefore, in actual operation, other tools and methods may need to be combined.
If you have the habit of regularly backing up SMS, then restoring SMS from the backup will be the easiest and fastest way. Here are the steps to restore SMS through Google Drive backup:
Step 1. Access the Google Drive website on your phone.
Step 2. Log in to your backup account and locate the SMS backup file.
Step 3. Select the most recent backup, and click "Download" to download it to your phone.
Without backup, the difficulty of recovering SMS will be greatly increased. But the following two SIM card message recovery apps may help you.
Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android is a powerful data recovery tool that supports the restoration of text messages from SIM cards. It is suitable for various types and brands of Android mobile phones. It only takes a short time to recover data and is super easy to operate. It also can recover deleted videos, photos, and more from SD cards. In addition, it can also back up deleted and existing data to the computer.
More features of Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android:
Get the free trial version of the data recovery software for your Android SIM card to have a try. Windows and Mac versions are both available, so you should choose the right version according to your own situation. Please note the following steps are based on the Windows version. Mac users can refer to this guide as well.
How to retrieve deleted text messages from SIM cards with Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android?
01Connect the Android phone to the computer and run the software
Use a USB cable to connect your Android phone from which you lost the text messages to the computer directly. Once the connection is successful, you can launch the software on your computer and get its main interface, like the one below. Check "Messages" and click the "Next" button.
02Scan for the lost SMS on your Android phone
Now, choose "Deep Scan" or "Quick Scan" to scan your phone.
03Preview and recover the target files selectively
When the scan finishes, you can preview the scanned-out text messages one by one and check those you need to recover. Then, you can click on the "Recover" button, customize an output location, and save the recovered SMS here.
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Another Coolmuster software called Android SMS + Contacts Recovery can also be used to recover Android text messages. As its name implies, it is specially designed to recover lost or deleted contacts and text messages from an Android phone's internal memory and SIM card. It is 100% secure to use and hassle-free to rescue the deleted contacts and messages on your computer and save them in HTML format without any quality loss. It also provides a free trial version for you to have a look at the deleted contacts and text messages on your Android SIM card.
How to restore deleted messages from SIM cards?
01Launch the installed Android SMS + Contacts Recovery on your computer after you download it.
02Connect your Android phone to the same computer. The recovery tool detects the connected Android phone and clicks the "Messages" category on its screen.
03Now, you can preview all existing and lost messages. Tick off the text messages you want back and click the "Recover" button.
How to recover SMS from SIM card Android? If none of the above methods succeed in restoring the text messages, you can also try contacting your mobile service provider. Some service providers keep records of users' text messages. You may need to provide the necessary information, such as your mobile phone number and identification with the service provider. The service provider may send a copy of your text message records to your email. However, don't hold too much hope for this method.
1. How long does a SIM card store text messages?
The duration for which SMS messages are stored on a SIM card depends on the number of messages and the capacity of the SIM card. Generally speaking, a SIM card can store 20-50 messages, but the exact duration varies according to usage.
2. How to avoid losing text messages?
Regularly backing up your Android phone data to the cloud or an external storage device is the best way to prevent data loss. We recommend using Coolmuster Android Backup Manager, a professional Android backup software. Additionally, carefully confirm before deleting text messages to avoid accidental operations.
Recovering text messages from a SIM card is not a daunting task, and there are corresponding methods you can try, whether you have a backup or not. With the help of professional data recovery software like Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android and Coolmuster Android SMS + Contacts Recovery, or by contacting your service provider, there is a chance to retrieve important text messages. I hope the introduction in this article can provide you with assistance and resolve your concerns.
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