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Can anything be saved from a dead phone

Started Jul 23, 2020 | Questions thread
I2K4
I2K4 Senior Member • Posts: 1,441
Re: Can anything be saved from a dead phone

Assuming you activate the new phone with the same Google account used on the dead one, you might find much or all of what you did on Google services is there. Likely true for other services with cloud aspects to them. That said, it's a serious mistake to learn from, if you didn't take adequate precautions to back up important data or media kept on the old phone. Both online and offline storage are pretty cheap these days, so use them routinely.

By the way, your old phone (depending on cause of ...) may not be dead. If you haven't, it's worth checking to see if a hard reset could restore "out of box" condition:

https://www.androidcentral.com/how-factory-reset-android-phone

Most manufacturers provide help with this.  Especially important is the Recovery Mode button-press sequence that varies by manufacture and model, but can restart an apparently "dead" device. Has restored my "bricked" phones even after dropping and cracking them open with the battery bouncing out, although the accumulated apps, data and settings were all lost..

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