Urgently! Lost Android Contacts!

[Guest Sofeirlee]

I was composing a message and the phone got stuck when I was about to select the recipients. (Wanted to group send message so that’s why I was not answering directly.) After waiting for a while the phone was still not responding then I forced to shut down and turned it on again. Okay I again edited the same text and tap to choose receivers. Good grief! NO CONTACTS! EMPTY! Why? What happened?

 

I first tried to sync Gmail contacts back to my Sony Xperia, however when I logged in to Gmail and it was the same! NO CONTACTS!

 

Long story short, I finally found Myjad Android Contact Recovery which seems to be useful because I want simply the contacts. So is there anyone tried successfully restoring lost contacts with this program? Any advice? Many thanks!

[Guest TinaAbbot]

did you go to a desktop computer and log into your gmail account? That is, IF you had your contacts in the Gmail account and not the phone address book...Maybe you can restore your android contact on Recovery-Tool.

Edited April 22, 2016 by TinaAbbot

[Guest howardgavin]

It is possible to directly recover lost Android contacts, but you should make sure you have backup files somewhere. 

1. Google account, if you have a google account for your android phone and open the automatically sync, you can try to recover from google account.

2. Offical PC software, generally speaking, an android phone need to upgrade in computer via a official PC software, such as Samsung PC studio, and this applicaiton have a automatically backup function, when you connect the phone to computer and launch the application, it will make a backup for your phone data, thus you can try to find the backup from PC studio.

3. 3rd-party android assistant, which is similar with PC studio, and it is more convenient, and the backup is more obvious.

 

Edited May 31, 2014 by howardgavin

[Guest JamesEdwards]

As far as I know, there are two ways to solve this problem:

1. If you have Google Account, the contacts are probably synced with your Google Account. You can log in GMail and visit Google Contacts to find them out.

2. If the methods above cannot help you work it out. You may have to try to use some third-party recovery tool like Android Data Recovery, which may help you get your deleted contacts back. You can visit the following tutorial for more details:
How to Restore Lost Contacts from Android SIM Card

Hope this helps :D

[Guest siciliswood]

I happen to know a great tool which is specially designed to recover Android phone or tablet data. It is called Android Data Recovery. You can follow the steps below to restore the lost contacts on Android phone:
1. Connect your Android phone with PC via USB or WiFi
2. Start scanning and select the file which you want to restore
3. Click "Recover" to save the recovered contacts
It seems very easy and it is!

Edited September 30, 2015 by siciliswood
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[Guest OliverMa]

There is a way out to recover lost contacts from Android Phones. All you need is to find a professional recovery app to help you out.

Here, we strongly recommend FonePaw Android Data Recovery, which empowers you to retrieve your deleted contacts, videos, photos, text messages, music within simple steps. 

Step 1. Connect Android Phone to PC

Step 2. Enable Android USB Debugging

Step 3. Choose Contacts to Scan

Step 4. Authorize the Program

Step 5. Preview and Restore Contacts from Android Phone

[Guest Voxpop2011]

I have exported my contacts to .vcf and was able to bring them back using a file explorer why my address book went AWOL.

[Guest katherinemiller905]

Well, since it doesn't work to recover from google, you can try some app like Data Recovery for Android to recover contacts from your device. I used this app to recover data successfully. Have a try. May it help you.

[Guest EdwardSmith36]

Try using Recuva app, available in play store. It will surely help you to get back your all lost data. 

[Guest Ibnnjya]

Coolmuster Samsung Data Recovery will assist you to restore files from Android devices. With the powerful tool, you can get your lost photos, videos music ,files and so on from Android SD Card,recover contacts ,messages from android SIM Card. 

How to resotre contacts on android

[Guest cfsdf]

Android data recovery app is a sort of special designed app to recover lost data from android device. it could recover kinds of lost data, like text messages, contacts, photos and so on.

how to recover contacts android

Edited March 22, 2017 by cfsdf

[Guest Xkoiul]

Whether you have contact backup or not, you can use MobiKin Doctor for Android to get them back. For internal memory data, you need root your device first, then it is able to deep scan your phone memory and find the deleted SMS and contacts. Just need to connect your phone to computer via  a USB cable. How to find deleted contacts on Android

You can also use it to recover lost data from your SD card. And remember that you need root your device first to recover deleted SMS and contacts.

 

Edited November 28, 2017 by Xkoiul

[Guest TiancaiSmith]

Lost Contacts? Don't worry! FoneDog Toolkit - Android Data Recovery can help you get back your lost contacts. 

Losing an important contact is a hectic thing. In some cases we tend to lose some if not all of our contacts, not because of our fault but by accident. Well, this isn't the worst case scenario. Imagine losing all your vital contacts and having no way to retrieve them, that's when the real trouble kicks in and this is a major and catastrophic incident.

However, in recent times ways have been formulated to counter such occurrences. There are various, simple, easy, and quick ways to do this, all that is required is your Android device and a working network connection and you are good to go.

When a contact is deleted from your Android phone, the contact is not totally gone from your phone memory. It jusy disppears from the People/Contacts app but continues to exist in your phone memory as unreadable data until it is overwritten by new data. If you can find out the data and recover it to readable text before it is overwritten, the contact is recovered.

However, there is no way that you can do it manually. You need a data recovery tool to restore the deleted contact for you. You can use FoneDog – Android Data Recovery. These are the steps to use the software.

Step1.Launch the application and connect your Android.

Step2.Select file type to scan and Click the 'Next' button for the next step.

Step3.Preview recoverable files and choose the ones you want to recover.

More info: How to recover deleted contacts from Android