SmartSwitch Backup Analyzer

Recover your data from a Samsung Smart Switch PC backup — even from a phone you can no longer use (broken screen, dead device, etc.) — as long as you still have the backup folder Smart Switch created on your PC.

What you get back

Data	Recovered as
Contacts	contacts.vcf — import into Google Contacts, iCloud, Outlook or any phone
SMS and call log	sms.xml, calls.xml — restore on Android with SMS Backup & Restore
Samsung Notes	one .txt per note, attachments (PDF, images...) side by side, folders as on the phone, deleted notes in Trash/
Photos, videos, documents, music	the phone's folder tree (DCIM/Camera, Download...) with original dates, or left in their backup folders
Wi-Fi networks	wifi.html — QR codes to connect a new phone, passwords shown only on click
Browser, clipboard, clock	Samsung Internet bookmarks and history, keyboard clipboard (texts and images), alarms, timers and world clock
Blocked numbers, installed apps	blocked-numbers.txt, apps.html with Play Store links

Windows: download and run

1. Download SmartSwitch-Backup-Analyzer-<version>-windows.zip from Releases and extract it (right click → Extract all).
2. Open SmartSwitch Backup Analyzer.exe. It finds your Smart Switch backups by itself, decrypts the one you pick and lets you choose what to recover.
3. By default the recovered data is saved next to the program, in a folder named after the phone model and backup date. You can pick any other folder.

The wizard is in English and Italian (button at the bottom). Nothing is sent anywhere: everything happens on your PC.

1. Pick the backup	2. Choose what to recover
3. Recovery in progress	4. Summary, with a button to open each result

Screenshots from a demo backup; the numbers are invented.

Command line

The same folder also contains ssba.exe; from source, pip install -e . (Python 3.10+) gives the ssba command.

ssba backups                                   # list the backups on this PC
ssba scan "<backup folder>" --out ./recovered  # decrypt every category
ssba export all ./recovered --out ./export     # every readable export
ssba export all ./recovered --out ./export --files copy   # also merge photos and files

Single exports: ssba export contacts|messages|calls|wifi|blocked-numbers|browser|clipboard|clock|notes|apps|files — see ssba export <kind> --help. The engine is importable too (ssba.core), so every step can be scripted without the interface.

The graphical interface from source: pip install -e ".[gui]", then ssba-gui. To build the Windows package: .\packaging\build.ps1 (see packaging/README.md).

Only "basic" Smart Switch backups (no backup password) are supported. Password/PIN-protected backups are not supported yet.

How it works

Smart Switch encrypts most of a basic backup with a per-backup key that is not published but can be recovered from backupHistoryInfo.xml inside the backup. The tool derives that key, decrypts every category, then turns each one into standard formats you can open or import elsewhere.

Your data, your responsibility

This tool exists to recover your own personal data. Never commit a real backup, or anything recovered from one, to a public Git repository. The recovered wifi.html contains your Wi-Fi passwords: keep it private. .gitignore already excludes backups/, out/ and output/.

License

AGPL-3.0 (see LICENSE). If you want to use this project commercially without the obligations of the AGPL, open a GitHub issue or contact the maintainer to discuss a commercial license.