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Android data recovery — every brand, every model
Samsung, Pixel, OPPO, Motorola, Xiaomi, OnePlus, and every brand Australia has ever carried — plus the tablets. One bench, one set of rules, honest odds for all of them.
1300 806 557Free diagnostic · Fixed quote · Proof before payment
One operating system, a hundred kinds of hardware
Apple makes a handful of devices; Android is a zoo — different chipsets, different storage layouts, different security hardware from brand to brand and year to year. That variety cuts in your favour more often than not. Many Android boards keep engineering and service access paths that let the bench talk to the storage directly, so a phone that is smashed, drowned or stone dead is frequently still readable. It’s the single biggest practical difference from modern iPhone work.
What decides your odds is less the brand than the era. Androids from the first half of the 2010s mostly shipped unencrypted — direct reads recover them almost regardless of condition. From about 2015 encryption became standard, and from Android 10 (2019) it became mandatory and hardware-backed — on those devices the board must run and your PIN, pattern or password is the key. We’ll tell you which world your phone lives in within minutes of intake, and what that honestly means for the job.
Samsung is Australia’s biggest Android family by far and has its own complete index — every Galaxy ever made is here. Every other brand is below.
The full index
Every Android brand we recover
Every brand Australia has carried, with each brand’s lines covered first model to current. Series chips below are markers, not limits — every model in every listed line is covered.
Google Pixel & Nexus
2010 → today · completeGoogle’s own line, Nexus era included. Tensor-generation Pixels follow modern hardware-keyed rules; Nexus and early Pixels are far more forgiving.
Nexus line
2010–2015The developer-darling era — largely open-era devices that recover readily.
Pixel line
2016–2025Every Pixel, a-series and Fold included.
OPPO
Every AU modelOne of Australia’s best sellers. Every Find, Reno and A-series model is covered.
All lines
2014–2025Find X flagships, the Reno mid-range and the A-series carrier favourites.
Motorola
2011 → todayFrom the RAZR reboot to the budget G line that half the country’s teenagers carry.
All lines
2011–2025Every Moto G, E and Edge generation, plus the folding razr revival.
Xiaomi, Redmi & POCO
Every modelThe value giants. Grey imports and AU retail stock alike.
All lines
2014–2025Flagships through to the Redmi Note workhorses.
OnePlus & Nothing
2014 → todayThe enthusiast brands — OnePlus first phone to current, and everything Nothing has made.
All lines
2014–2025Including Nord and CMF sub-brands.
Huawei & HONOR
Every modelEnormous in Australia pre-2019, still everywhere in drawers — and drawer Huaweis hold a lot of family photos.
All lines
2012–2025Google-era and post-Google models both covered, tablets included.
vivo & realme
Every modelFast-growing AU arrivals — every line covered.
All lines
2018–2025From flagship X to the budget C and narzo lines.
The legacy shelf — Sony, LG, HTC, Nokia
Every generationBrands that left the market or the spotlight — their phones didn’t stop holding memories. Mostly open-era and transition-era hardware, which recovers well.
All lines
2008–2025LG left the phone business in 2021; we didn’t leave LG owners.
Everything else on the shelf
If it runs Android, it countsThe brands nobody writes headlines about — carried in Australia by the hundreds of thousands.
All of them
2010–2025Rebadged and carrier-branded models included — many are directly readable even dead.
Brand not listed? If it runs Android — including Telstra-branded prepaids, rugged tradie phones and supermarket specials — the bench takes it. Call 1300 806 557 and tell us what you’ve got.
Why the era matters
How your Android’s generation shapes the job
Same lab, same engineers, same proof-before-payment promise — different physics depending on when your device was built.
Direct storage reads
Most devices from this era shipped unencrypted with serviceable eMMC storage — dead boards are routinely read directly. Drawer phones from the early 2010s recover almost every time.
Encrypted, with hardware paths
Encryption becomes standard but hardware access paths persist on many chipsets — with your lock code, locked and dead devices from these years remain very recoverable.
Board runs, code unlocks
Mandatory per-file encryption backed by security hardware. The board must run and the owner’s code is the key — though Android’s variety still leaves more service-mode exceptions than Apple’s world.
Start with your problem
What happened to yours?
Fault-by-fault guides — the do-now steps, the bench process and the honest odds for each failure.
Broken screen
Smashed glass or dead touch on any brand — the data underneath survives.
Open the guideWater damage
Corrosion is on the clock — what to do right now, and what we do next.
Open the guideWon’t turn on
Dead phone, living data. Power faults are our bread and butter.
Open the guideLocked phone
Forgotten PINs and locked devices — what’s honestly possible, with proof of ownership.
Open the guideDeleted data
Deleted photos, messages and files — where copies survive and what’s truly gone.
Open the guideSamsung — full index
Every Galaxy ever made — S, Note, Z, A and every Tab, era by era.
Open the guideTransparent from the start
What it costs
Diagnosis first, fixed quote second, and you approve everything before recovery work starts. No data, no recovery fee.
Standard assessment
Full diagnostic on your device, a written report of what failed, and a fixed recovery quote. You decide from there — no obligation.
Critical priority
Your device goes to the front of the queue with an engineer assigned same-day. For work deadlines, legal matters and can’t-wait situations.
Emergency 24/7
We start immediately and work continuously until it is done — nights, weekends and public holidays included.
Priority fees cover the expedited service; the recovery quote itself depends on what your device needs and is fixed in writing before any work begins.
Straight answers
Android questions, answered straight
Which Android brands do you recover?
All of them. Samsung, Google Pixel (and the Nexus line before it), OPPO, Motorola, Xiaomi/Redmi/POCO, OnePlus, Nothing, Huawei, HONOR, vivo, realme, Sony, LG, HTC, Nokia, ZTE, TCL/Alcatel, ASUS, rugged brands like CAT, and the Telstra-branded prepaids. If it runs Android, the bench takes it.
My phone’s brand isn’t on the list. Can you still help?
Yes. Android hardware is more alike under the glass than the badges suggest — a handful of chipset families power nearly everything, and our access methods work at that level. Obscure or discontinued brands are a normal week here.
I found an old Android in a drawer. Worth recovering?
Very likely — and old ones are often the easiest. Androids from the early-to-mid 2010s mostly shipped unencrypted, so even a dead example can usually be read directly. A decade of photos has come off many a drawer phone on this bench.
The phone asks for a Google account I can’t access. Can you bypass it?
That’s Factory Reset Protection — anti-theft, and we treat it that way. We recover data for owners: with proof of ownership we’ll assess what’s honestly feasible for your device and era, but we don’t bypass other people’s phones, and we’d be wary of anyone who advertises that they will.
It’s a cheap prepaid — is recovery even worth it?
Sometimes profoundly. The phone’s price has nothing to do with the photos on it, and cheap phones are often older designs with directly readable storage — meaning recovery can be simpler than on a flagship. The assessment is free, the quote is fixed in writing, and you decide with real numbers in front of you.
Do Android tablets count too?
Yes — Galaxy Tabs (see the Samsung index), Lenovo Tabs, Huawei MediaPads and MatePads, Xiaomi Pads, OPPO Pads, and Amazon Fire tablets (which run Android underneath). Tablets mostly arrive with charging-port and bend damage, and follow the same era rules as the phones.
Whatever the badge on the back, bring it in
Free diagnostic, a fixed quote in writing, and proof of your recovered files before you pay a cent — for every Android ever sold in Australia.