For most Android users, the contact list must be the most significant content in the phone, for calling is still an essential way to get connected with families, friends, colleagues and business partners. However, unexpected contacts loss always happens. It is really depressed when all of your contacts lost due to accidental deletion, formatting, software crash, OS update failure, rooting, factory reset, virus attack, etc. Is there any way to restore lost Android contacts back?
Luckily, in most cases, your Android contacts are not deleted or lost forever. In this blog, I will walk you through the steps to recover deleted contacts from Android devices easily.
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Option 1. Restore Contacts from Android with Gmail
If your Android phone is synced with your Google account, it is definitely easy to recover deleted contacts from Android. You can re-sync your Android device with your Google account and get all your contacts back.- Login into your Gmail account and select "Contacts" from the drop-down menu on your left hand side.
- Once you see the list of your contacts, click "More" to get to the drop-down menu, then select the option "Restore contacts…".
- In the popup window, select a time and then click "Restore" to restore your contact list to the state at that time.
Option 2. Retrieve Contacts from Android with Android Recovery Software
If the above method doesn't work for you, you can restore deleted contacts from your Android phone with third-party tools like FoneGeek Android Data Recovery. It is a powerful data recovery software for Android users to recover deleted contacts directly from phone's internal memory and SD card. Just download the software onto your computer and follow the steps below:
- To start with, install and run the FoneGeek Android Recovery software on your computer. In the primary window, click on "Data Recovery" and connect Android phone to PC via USB cable.
- Once the device is detected successfully, select the files and click "Next". Then choose "Standard Mode" or "Advanced Mode" and click "Start" to begin scanning and analyzing the data on your Android.
- When the scan is complete, all recoverable files are well displayed in the scan result. You can click "Contacts" to preview them one by one and select those you want to get back, then click "Recover" to save them on your computer.
Import Notes:
- Once your Android contacts get lost, you'd better stop to add any new data to your Android phone. Or your lost contacts will be overwritten and you can never get them back.
- FoneGeek Android Recovery can not only recover deleted contacts, but also text messages, call logs, WhatsApp, Viber, photos, videos, music, and more data from Android devices.
- If you are using a Mac computer, please get FoneGeek Android Recovery for Mac; if you are an iPhone users, to restore deleted contacts, you can use FoneGeek iPhone Data Recovery.
