By Hally | Last Updated
“I accidentally deleted some of my contacts on my Samsung Galaxy android phone. Those contacts are important for me. How can I recover deleted contacted on my Android phone? Is it possible?”
If you find you deleting the contacts from Android phone by mistake, you should stop using the Android phone and find ways to recover the deleted contacts using other devices as soon as possible. Otherwise, your deleted contacts will be overwritten and you cannot retrieve them forever. Here we discuss two ways to restore the deleted contacts on Android phone.
You will be anxious if you fail to find the needed contacts. Sometimes, the contacts might be hidden if you do not conduct the deleting action before. Thus, before you restoring the deleted contacts on Android phone, it is necessary to check whether the contacts are in or not by the following steps:
After that, you can check whether the needed contacts are in here or not. If they are in the list, you can know that the contacts are just been hidden. If not, you can go ahead to restore the contacts from Android.
Most people prefer to sync Android phone with Google account so that they can restore the deleted Android contacts from Gmail undoubtedly. If you do not make a backup of your Android phone in Gmail, you can head to Way 2.
Step 1: Sign in Google Contacts with your account and password. Then, click More > Restore contacts….
Step 2: On the pop-up window, you can select a time to restore the contact to: 10 minutes ago, 1 hour ago, Yesterday, 1 week ago, Custom. Or you can customize the time. It depends on your situation. After finishing the selection, click the Restore button and wait for the process to end.
Step 3: If you successfully restore the deleted contacts in this way, you can re-sync google account on your Android.
There are plenty of Android contacts recovery tools on the market. iSunshare Android Data Genius is one of such tools that can help you simply recover deleted contacts from Android smartphones. Furthermore, this software allows you to preview all deleted contacts information before recovery. Also, you can save the contacts as files in the computer.
Download and install iSunshare Android Data Genius on your computer. After the installation, you should connect the Android phone to your computer via USB cable. At the same time, you need to make sure that:
After the software successfully detects your Android phone, it will scan the contacts and messages on Android phone. Wait for a few seconds; you can get all the contacts and messages displayed, including the deleted contacts and messages. Besides, you can click the Contacts in the left panel and have a preview of the contact details. Tips: the deleted item is masked with red color and recycle bin icon.
Now you can choose the contacts you want to recover, or keep the default selection to recover all, and then click the Recover button. The software enables you to choose a location to store the contact file. After the recovery, you can directly open the contact file in the computer.
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