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After the last update my phone (Samsung S5) was barely trudging along, and I was lucky to open up any apps. I decided I was going to do a factory reset. I made sure to back up my photos and all my apps, however I did not think about my Contacts. After the reset everything came back just fine, including the bulk of my contacts, and I did not think anything of it until I got a text message from someone who was not in my contact list which I added in the last year. I went through my contacts as saw all my contacts that had saved over were the same batch when I originally got my cell phone.

I lost a lot of important contacts that I acquired in the last year (With a new job) and I was wondering if there was any way I could get those contacts back? I do not know if it autobackups my contacts and I just did not hit the right setting to restore them, or if there is a secret save somewhere. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
 
After the last update my phone (Samsung S5) was barely trudging along, and I was lucky to open up any apps. I decided I was going to do a factory reset. I made sure to back up my photos and all my apps, however I did not think about my Contacts. After the reset everything came back just fine, including the bulk of my contacts, and I did not think anything of it until I got a text message from someone who was not in my contact list which I added in the last year. I went through my contacts as saw all my contacts that had saved over were the same batch when I originally got my cell phone.

I lost a lot of important contacts that I acquired in the last year (With a new job) and I was wondering if there was any way I could get those contacts back? I do not know if it autobackups my contacts and I just did not hit the right setting to restore them, or if there is a secret save somewhere. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
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Sadly, if you did not backup your data from your phone to your google account I am not sure if you are going to be able to get your contacts back.

Try resyncing your google acount in setting->account->google and see if that helps at all.
 
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