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Full Guide to Restore Android Phone

James Davis

Mar 21, 2025 • Filed to: Backup & Restore Data • Proven solutions

Your phone has become essential for staying connected, capturing photos, storing files, and more. As an Android user, it's important to know how to restore your Android device to prevent losing valuable data like contacts, settings, and passwords. Whether you've lost your phone or need to restore it, understanding how to recover your important files ensures your data stays safe.

Today, you'll learn effective methods to restore your Android phone when needed. This guide is divided into three parts, each offering a clear, easy-to-follow method for restoring data on your Android device.

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Part 1: Restore Android Phone from Google Backup

In this section, we’ll show you how to restore your Android phone using Google Backup. Google Backup saves your important files to your Gmail account and Google Drive. To restore, ensure your files are backed up, then follow these simple steps to retrieve data from your Google Backup.

Step 1. Open Notification Panel

At the first step, you need to open Notification panel by touching and sliding down the top of the screen of your Android phone.

restore from google backup-Open Notification Panel

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Step 2. Tap on Setting

Now you have to tap on the Settings icon on the display in the step.

restore from google backup-Tap on Setting

Step 3. Scroll down

After tapping on Settings, you are going to scroll down in this step to find the ‘Backup and Reset’ button.

restore from google backup-Scroll down

Step 4. Tap on Backup and Reset

As find the ‘ Backup and Reset’ button, you have to click on it so that you can proceed ahead.

restore from google backup-Tap on Backup and Reset

Step 5. Check on the Boxes

Now you must see a new screen with some boxes on it as shown in the image below. You have to check on ‘Automatic Restore’ button. This click will make the data restore automatically on the phone. This way you can always restore your android phone from Google backup just in few steps.

restore from google backup-Check on the Boxes

Part 2: Restore Android Phone After Factory Reset

In this section, we’ll guide you on restoring your Android phone after a factory reset. A factory reset is often necessary when your phone is slow, malfunctioning, or infected with a virus. To restore your phone to its previous state, it’s crucial to back up your data first. We’ll show you how to back up and restore using Dr.Fone.

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Step 1. Launch Dr.Fone on your PC

First of all, you have to download the Dr.Fone application and launch it on your computer. Please note that there must be any other such backup application running at the moment.

restore android after factory reset-Launch Dr.Fone on your PC

Step 2. Connect your Phone to the PC

After selecting ‘Backup & Restore’ among all the functions, you need to connect your Android phone to the PC using a USB cable in this step. It will automatically detect your phone.

Step 3. Click on Backup and Select File Type

Once Dr.Fone detected your phone, you are needed to click on ‘Backup’ button and then select what data type you want to backup to your pc. Please note that your phone needed to be rooted for this method.

restore android after factory reset-Click on Backup and Select File Type

Step 4. Click on Backup Again

After you finish selecting the file type, you have to click on ‘Backup’ again so that the actual process starts. This time the Backup button is at bottom as you see in the given screenshot.

restore android after factory reset-Click on Backup Again

Step 5. Wait for Some Moment

You are instructed to wait for some time as the process is time taking depending on the file size.

restore android after factory reset-Wait for Some Moment

Step 6. View the backup

As the backup process is complete, you can view the backup files in this step. You have to click on ‘View the backup” to view them.

restore android after factory reset-View the backup

Step 7. View the content

Now you can view the content by clicking on ‘View’

restore android after factory reset-View the content

Now we are showing you how to Restore backup file.

Step 8. Click on Restore

To restore data from a backup file you already did, you need to click on ‘Restore’ and target the older backup file on your computer. You may have backed up the file either on this Android phone or else.

Step 9. Choose Data for Restore

In this step, you need to choose the data you want to restore. You can easily see the selection option on the left side. After selecting, you have to click on ‘Restore to Device’ to initiate the process.

restore android after factory reset-Choose Data for Restore

Step 10. Complete the process

It may take some time to restore the files. Once it is done, Dr.Fone will notify you.

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Part 3: Restore Android Phone to Previous State

In this section, we’ll explain how to restore your Android phone to its original state using a factory reset. However, it’s essential to back up your files beforehand for later restoration. Follow these simple steps to restore your Android phone.

Step 1. Go to Settings

The first step tells you to go to Settings on your phone and tap on it. Either you find the Settings on the screen of your phone, or you tap and scroll the top of the screen to open Notification panel to get the settings as in the image below.

restore android to previous state-Go to Settings

Step 2. Scroll down to Backup & Reset

After getting into Settings window, you have to scroll down and find the ‘Backup & Reset’ button. As you get it, just click on it.

restore android to previous state-Scroll down to Backup & Reset

Step 3. Tap on Factory Data Reset

Now you have to click on ‘Factory Data Reset’ on the window as shown in the screenshot.

restore android to previous state-Tap on Factory Data Reset

Step 4. Click on Reset Device

You need to click on ‘Reset Phone’ in this step after reading the information on the screen.

restore android to previous state-Click on Reset Device

Step 5. Tap on Erase Everything.

This is the final step, and you have to tap on the button’ Erase everything’. After that, the phone will be reset to its previous state. You can restore the backed up files now on it and enjoy.

restore android to previous state-Tap on Erase Everything

Conclusion

In conclusion, restoring your Android phone is essential to ensure that your important data, such as contacts, settings, and files, are not lost in case of device issues. By the three methods outlined in this article, you can easily restore your Android phone and regain access to your essential information.

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