If you are an Android user, you can choose to back up your data to your Google account. Then, do you know how to restore backup from Google Account on Android phone easily and effectively? In this atrticle, MiniTool Solution will show you how to do this job easily.
Today, smartphone becomes an integral part of your daily life. You use it to send messages, take photos & videos, save documents, and more. Obviously, your phone saves a lot of files which are crucial to you.
For Android users, you can choose to back up your Android to Google account to keep these files safe. Here comes a question: how to restore backup from Google account on Android phone if data loss issue happens?
If you are troubled by this problem, you can find the answer in this post. In addition, we also provide you with some useful Android data backup and restore solutions. Read the following parts to learn the details.
How to Restore Backup from Google Account on Android Phone
Generally speaking, you are able to back up the contents (photos & videos and files & folders), data and settings on your Android device to the Google account. Then, there are different ways to restore those different kinds of data to your Android device. Please see the following introduction.
How Do You Restore the Backed up Photos and Videos on Google
If you have backed up the photos and videos on Android phone to your Google account, it is easy to find them on your Android device.
To restore the backed up photos and videos:
Click on Google Photo APP > Sign in your Google Account > Tap Photos icon, and then you can restore these backed up photos.
To restore the backed up files and folders:
You just need to tap Google Drive APP to view and restore the backed up files and folders. Here the types of files include documents, images, audios, and videos.
How to Restore Android Data from Google Account
These Android data include contacts, calendar, wallpapers, and more. In fact, after you add your Google Account to your Android device, the previous backed up data will be restored to your Android device automatically.
How to Restore Android Contacts from Google Account
Some of you choose to sync your Android contacts to the Google account. Then, if you deleted some important contacts from your Android device in the last 30 day, you can undo this change to retrieve them:
Go to Google Contacts > Click More > Click Undo changes > Choose a time to go back to > Click Confirm.
After reading this part, you know how to restore backup from Google account on Android phone. However, if there is no available Google backup, you should search another way to get your deleted Android data back. Please keep on reading to get the answer.
Do Android Data Recovery without Google Backup
However, sometimes you forget to back up your Android data to Google account. In this situation, what should you do to recover deleted data on Android device?
In this part, we recommend you to use this professional third-party software – MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android. This software aims at recovering the lost and deleted Android data with its two powerful recovery modules: Recover from Phone and Recover from SD-Card.
With this software, you can recover all of your lost and deleted files, such as photos, contacts, messages, call logs, documents, and more from your Android phone & tablet and SD card.
Here, you can use the Free Edition of this software to recover 10 pieces of one type of data each time. So, if you are using Windows 10/8/7, you can download this freeware to your computer to have a try first.
MiniTool Android Recovery on WindowsClick to Download100%Clean & Safe
How to Recover Deleted Files from Android Phone Directly
With Recover from Phone module, you can recover deleted files from your Android internal storage directly. But, it is a general rule that, with a piece of third-party software, you are only allowed to recover the deleted data which are not overwritten by new data.
Thus, when you discover you deleted some important data from your Android phone by mistake, please stop using the Android device as soon as possible to prevent these deleted data from being overwritten.
However, before using this software, there are two things you need to pay attention to:
- No matter which Android data recovery software you are using, if you want to recover deleted files from your Android phone directly, you need to root your Android device in advance to enable this software to detect your Android data.
- During the operation of this software, you need to stop using any other Android management software. Otherwise, this software may not work properly.
Step 1: After downloading and installing this software to your computer, please open it to enter its main interface as follows. Then, you should click on Recover from Phone module to continue.
Step 2: This software will prompt you to connect your Android phone to the computer, just do it. After that, the software will detect your Android device voluntarily, and then enter Identify your Device interface.
If you haven’t enabled USB debugging on your Android phone, you can follow the guide in this software to do this job.
If you connect your Android phone to the computer for the first time, you will see the following interface. Here, if you are using your personal computer, we advise you to check Always allow from this computer option and then tap OK button on your Android phone.
Next time, you will be able to skip this step when you want to recover deleted data from the same Android phone on the same computer.
Step 3: Then, you will see this Device Ready to Scan interface. Here, you can see the types of files, as well as two scan methods: Quick Scan and Deep Scan.
If you choose to use Quick Scan method, Contacts, Messages, Call History and WhatsApp messages & attachments in the file type list bar will be checked by default. You can uncheck the unnecessary file types by yourself.
If you choose Deep Scan method, all the data type will be checked by default and you are unable to uncheck some of the data types.
Just choose a proper scan method according to your own needs, and click on Next to start the scanning process.
Step 4: After the scan process, you will enter the scan result interface as shown in the following. You can choose one data type from the left list and view its items in this interface. Then, you can select the files you want to recover and click on Recover button to continue.
Step 5: Then the software will show you a pop-out window with the software default storage path.
If you want to save these selected data to this default path, please just click on Recover button directly.
If you want to store them to a certain path, please click on Browse button to choose another path on the computer and then follow the rest wizard to finish the operation.
If you want to use this software to recover deleted Android data without limitations, you can choose to upgrade this Free Edition to an advanced version.
This section tells you how to recover deleted Android data from Android internal storage. However, you should know that your Android data can also be saved on Android SD card.
Then, the next section will show you how to retrieve deleted Android data from your Android SD card with this software.
How to Recover Deleted Data from Android SD Card
Likewise, don’t use your Android SD card after deleting some vital data from it by mistake. Because, if these deleted data are overwritten by new ones, they will become unrecoverable.
Android SD card can’t be connected to your computer directly. You need to insert it into an SD card reader and then connect the SD card reader to your computer.
Step 1: After entering the main interface of this software, you need to choose Recover from SD-Card module.
Step 2: You will enter this interface. Then you should select the target Android SD card and click on Next button to start the scan process.
Step 3: When the scan process is finished, you will enter the following scan result interface. Next, it’s time for you to select the data you want to recover and save them to a specified path on your computer.
These operations are the same as Recover from Phone module. So, we will not repeat them here.
After these three steps, you can find your deleted Android SD card data in your specified storage path.
Still, if you want to recover more data with this software, please use its advanced version. And you can get it from the MiniTool official site.
Actually, MiniTool offers you more than one tool to retrieve deleted data from Android SD card. In addition to MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android, you can also use MiniTool Power Data Recovery to do this work.
Besides, MiniTool Photo Recovery enables you to recover deleted photos and videos from Android SD card.
How to Backup Your Android Data to Google Account
It is a good idea to make a backup of your Android data, and there are two commonly-used ways to do this work.
1. You can choose to back up your Android data to Google account
Different Android phones have different ways of making Google backup. You can search a proper way according to your own Android phone brand and model.
Here, we recommend a related article to Samsung Galaxy users who want to back up data on your Android phone to your Google account: How do I back up data to my Google account from my Samsung Galaxy device?
2. You can choose to transfer your Android data to PC to keep them safe
Some of you would like to back up your Android phone data to PC. In this situation, we still suggest using MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android.
Bottom Line
In this post, we show you how to restore backup from Google account on Android phone if there is an available backup file.
However, if you are unable to do this job (for instance, there is no Google backup file, or you totally forget your Google account), you are still able to do this job with a piece of third-party software – MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android.
By contrast, you can discover that to recover Android data from Google account requires you to have an available Google backup file.
But, there is no such a requirement if you recover your deleted Android data with MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android. This software is really a good choice for you when you encounter Android data loss issue.
Should you have any doubts and questions when you are using MiniTool software, you can feel free to contact us by sending an email to [email protected].
At the same time, you can also leave a message in the following comment zone. Besides, you can share your solutions and useful ideas with us here. Thank you in advance!
How to Restore Backup from Google Account on Android Phone FAQ
- Download and install the Google Drive app on your device.
- Click the app to open it.
- Type your Google account and password to sign in.
Then, you can see the backed up files in Google Drive.
About The Author
Position: Columnist
Stella has been working in MiniTool Software as an English Editor for more than 7 years. Her articles mainly cover the fields of data recovery including storage media data recovery and phone data recovery, YouTube videos download, partition management, and video conversions.