Wednesday, July 16, 2014

How to Recover Deleted Contacts from Samsung Galaxy S5/S4/S3/S2/S

“I deleted my Samsung Galaxy S4 contacts by mistake. I want to get them back, as the contacts are very important to me. Can anyone suggest me some advice to recover Samsung contacts?”
– From Androidforums.com

“There were too much data on my Galaxy Note 3. I just want to clean it up, but accidentally deleted the whole contact list. How can I get them back? Is there any way to recover deleted contacts from Samsung Galaxy?”
– From Androidcentral.com

It is really frustrated of losing your important contact list. However, phone contact list loss happens frequently for mobile users, Samsung is no exception. The large touch screen makes it easier to accidentally delete contacts with screen unlocked. Are you going through contact loss on your Samsung phone and looking for effective way to get your phone list back? Here you will get the best answer.
Samsung Galaxy Recovery
Important Note: When contacts are deleted, they are still in the memory of the phone but they are just invisible, and are to be overwritten by new data. Please stop using your Samsung to avoid data overwriting until contacts recovery is done.

Solution One: Restore Samsung Contacts from Google Account
You’re luckily if you have synced your Samsung smart phone to your Gmail account before the lost of contacts has happened. In such case, it is quite easy to restore contacts from your Gmail account.

1.From the Samsung phone Home screen, tap the Menu key.
2.Choose Settings.
3.Tap Google.
4.Tap your Google email address.
5.Now tap Sync Contacts to check the box. If it’s already checked, tap Sync Now.
Samsung will start the syncing and all your backed up contacts will start appearing on your phone right after the sync is complete.

Solution Two: Retrieve Contacts from Samsung Galaxy with Samsung Data Recovery
If there is no backup, you can still turn to a third-party tool to help you recover contacts from Samsung phoneSamsung Contacts Recovery is a powerful tool that will auto scans your Samsung after connecting to computer. By extracting data from your device, it can save your lost phone contacts onto your computer.

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This program supports contacts recovery from all popular Samsung smartphones, including: Galaxy S5, Galaxy S4, Galaxy S3, Galaxy S2, Galaxy S, Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy Note, Galaxy S3 Mini, Galaxy S2 Plus, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Core, Galaxy Exhibit, Galaxy Fit, Galaxy Y, Galaxy Grand, Galaxy Tab, Infuse 4G, Samsung Epic, etc.

1.Install and run Samsung Contacts Recovery on you computer.
2.Connect your Samsung device to computer via a USB cable. (Please enable USB debugging on the phone first.)
3.Click “Start” button to analyze the data on your Samsung device.
4.After that, turn to your device and click “Allow” on the screen to allow the Superuser Request.
5.Back to the program, click “Start” to scan your device for lost contacts.
6.After scanning, choose “Contacts” on the left menu, and preview the detail.
7.Mark the contacts you want and click “Recover” to save them onto your computer.

restore contacts from samsung galaxy
Note: The recovered contacts are saved on your computer. If you want to transfer them back to your Samsung phone again, please use Android Transfer.

4 comments:

  1. I restored factory setting by mistake and all contacts have been gone. Can I use the follow same steps in my case?

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  2. Do you want to recover formatted Android phone contacts? order to recover you lost contacts you can take the help of valid backup file if available. In case if there is no backup available then in such critical circumstances users will have no other option but to take the help of a reliable third party utility in order to recover formatted Android phone contacts

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  3. To Recover Deleted Contacts from Samsung Galaxy S5/S4/S3/S2/S, the first thing we need do is keeping the from being overwritten by new data. Then find a pro Samsung contacts recovery tool to get them back. It' s not difficult.

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