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How Do You Retrieve Deleted Contacts from SIM Card in Android Phone

By Michael | Last Updated

Contacts saved in SIM card should be significant for each Android phone user. However, when your Android phone is used by others or yourself and contacts are deleted by accident, how can you retrieve the deleted contacts from SIM card in your Android phone effectively?

With Android Data Genius, you won't need to worry about this problem, because it can powerfully scan deleted contacts in the Android phone and recover deleted contacts & messages from the Android phone with some simple steps.

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Steps to Retrieve Deleted Contacts from SIM Card in Android Phone

Download Android Data Genius trial version to have a try. Install and run it on Windows 8/7/vista/xp/2008/2003/2000 computer.

Step 1: Connect your Android phone to the computer with a USB cable.

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Step 2: Enable USB debugging of your Android phone.

If USB debugging has not been enabled on your Android phone, please open Android phone, go to Settings - Develop options and turn on USB debugging.

Step 3: Install drivers for your phone on the computer.

While the computer cannot detect your plugged Android phone successfully, probably there is no driver for your phone on the computer. Then you will need to download a driver for your Android phone and install it on the computer.

Step 4: Root your Android phone to get access privileges.

To make Android Data Genius scan the Android phone more smoothly, rooting Android phone should be done to get privileges to access the Android phone. Before rooting Android phone, you can check whether Android phone has been rooted.

Step 5: Scan deleted contacts from SIM card on your phone.

Now you can run Android Data Genius to scan your Android phone. Then the lost contacts and text messages will appear in Android Data Genius screen.

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Step 6: Recover deleted Android contacts from the SIM card.

Select contacts and tap Recover button to recover the deleted SIM card contacts. And then choose a folder to save them on the computer.

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