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Recovery help Samsung S3 mini

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My phone has died and apparently is not repairable. Is there any way the contacts, messages, photos can be retrieved please? I am a non- technical senior and never did any back ups! Lesson learned the hard way
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  • are your contacts and photos not on google?
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  • HarryS
    HarryS Posts: 93 Forumite
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    Thanks for your reply

    I have never saved or backed up anything, so not sure how they could be on google? How can I find out? sorry, as you can tell I am really not technical
  • When you got the phone and if you have added apps to it from google play store you should have used a google sign on perhaps
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  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Phone dead ?? cannot connect via USB .
    Photos not on SD card then they are gone .
  • HarryS
    HarryS Posts: 93 Forumite
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    I have a gmail account I registered the phone to when I took out the contract?
    No connection via USB
  • HarryS wrote: »
    I have a gmail account I registered the phone to when I took out the contract?
    No connection via USB
    Log in to google using that the phone may have stored the contacts on there, nothing to lose(oops)
    4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy
  • HarryS
    HarryS Posts: 93 Forumite
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    Log in to google using that the phone may have stored the contacts on there, nothing to lose(oops)

    Haha, very funny. I have found that my phone is synced(sp?) on my account but I can't find anything related to a back up
  • Are your contacts on there then?
    4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy
  • HarryS
    HarryS Posts: 93 Forumite
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    Are your contacts on there then?

    No, sadly not
  • Nor photos ? have you looked at the 3x3 square at the top right of the google home page when logged in?
    4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy
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