How to Retrieve Deleted Messages on Huawei

While deleting certain messages, chances are that users end up deleting some of their important messages as well. If you have also deleted ones that you cannot find on your phone anymore, you might need to retrieve deleted SMS from your Android device. If it is a Huawei phone, you are in luck as there are various ways to retrieve deleted messages.

Some of the options you can use to restore deleted messages include using your phone backup, your phone’s computer backup, or even without a backup. In this post, we will describe how you can use each of these methods to retrieve deleted messages and you can go for the one that is best for your situation.

The following are the methods and the detailed steps for each method.

Retrieve Deleted Messages on Huawei without Backup

One of the issues with the common methods is that you must back up your Huawei phone prior to deleting something if you want to restore your content. If you never made a backup of your phone before, you simply cannot use any of those methods no matter how easy they are.

Luckily, there is an app called PhoneRescue for Android that eliminates that part for you. What this app allows you to do is to restore your messages without having any phone backups. It scans your device for recoverable messages and lets you preview and recover them to your phone or computer.

Step 1. Download and install the app and open it on your computer > Launch the app and connect your phone to your computer using a USB cable.

Step 2. It will ask what content you would like to recover on your phone. Select Messages from the options available on your screen and click on Next to continue.

Step 3. On the following screen, choose the Only list deleted option so only your deleted messages are shown. Then, click on To Device to recover the messages to your phone.

Now, you have your deleted messages back to your Huawei phone with PhoneRescue for Android.

Deeply Retrieve Deleted Messages on Huawei without Backup

The official Huawei backup feature does not allow you to preview and select deleted messages to your Huawei phone. Besides, the “backup and restore” makes the whole process more complicated than directly retrieve deleted messages from the phone. If you want to preview deleted messages before retrieving and carry out a deeper recovery, you should take DroidKit – Android Data Recovery as a try. As one of the best alternatives for the Huawei in-built backup feature and the HiSuite app, DroidKit can help you recover messages from Huawei phones with/without root.

To better enjoy DroidKit’s impressive retrieving feature, free download the latest version of DroidKit and refer to the following detailed instructions.

Step 1. Open DroidKit on either your PC or Mac computer > Click Deep Recovery from Device on the middle panel.

Step 2. Select all types of data to recover or merely recover deleted SMS > Hit the Start button to continue.

Step 3. Follow the on-screen instructions to connect your Huawei phone to the computer > Hit the Start button to initiate the process.

Step 4. Automatically, the software will check the root status of your Android phone. You’ll be asked  to root the device by following the steps since once your device is rooted, the program can deeply scan and recover data from your phone.

Step 5. On this page, you can see deleted messages and select ones you’d like to retrieve To Device or To PC.

Retrieve Deleted Messages on Huawei with Computer

Most users who do not have enough storage to store backups on their phones use computer-based tools to create backups. Huawei also has such a tool to help you make your phone’s backups on your computer and it is called HiSuite. It is Huawei’s very own phone backup & restore app to help you create and restore backups on your phones.

If you created a phone backup with HiSuite before you deleted the messages, you can actually restore the backup and it will restore all of your messages on your phone. You are going to need to use a computer to do the task as the app only works on a computer.

The procedure is divided into two phases as shown below.

Phase 1. Enable HiSuite on Your Huawei Phone

Step 1. Open the Settings app and tap on Advanced settings.

Step 2. Tap on Security and then enable the option that says Allow HiSuite to use HDB.

Step 3. Head back to the main settings menu and tap on Apps. Select HiSuite from the list of apps on your screen.

Step 4. Tap on Permissions and enable all permissions for HiSuite on your phone.

Step 5. Head to Settings > Developer options and enable USB debugging.

Your phone is now ready to communicate with HiSuite on your computer.

Phase 2. Restore a Backup Using HiSuite

Step 1. Connect your phone to your computer using a USB cable and launch the HiSuite app.

Step 2. Click on Restore on the main interface in the app.

Step 3. Select your messages to be restored on the following screen and click on Restore.

Step 4. It will get your chosen items restored on your phone.

You will find your deleted messages are now available on your phone.

Retrieve Deleted Messages on Huawei without Computer

One of the many good things about owning a Huawei phone is that you get a really great backup system on your phone. Huawei has designed a built-in app called “Phone Backup” to let you easily and efficiently create your phone backups.

If you made a backup prior to deleting the messages, you can restore Huawei phone data and that will get back all of your deleted messages as well. Unlike iOS devices where you need to restore the full contents of your backups, you can selectively only restore messages on your phone with this app.

You do not need a computer to perform the restoring procedure and the following is how to make it.

Step 1. Launch the Backup app on your phone and select the Restore option.

Step 2. Select where your backup is located and tap on Next at the bottom.

Step 3. If your backup is password-protected, you will need to enter the password before you can proceed.

Step 4. On the following screen, it will let you select what you want to restore on your phone. Since you are looking to restore deleted messages, tap on the Messaging option and select Start restoration at the bottom.

Step 5. Wait for it to restore your contents.

Your messages are now restored and you can view them in the Messages app on your Huawei phone.

The Bottom Line

We hope our tutorial teaches you how to view deleted messages on a Huawei phone by recovering them either from your backups or internal system. It is actually easier to do with or PhoneRescue for Android or DroidKit than you think.