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Help Recover deleted contacts android
- Thread starter Wise11
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No backups = no contacts
No backup unfortunately
svim
Extreme Android User
Since you chose to not sync your phone's contacts with your Google account, unless you yourself exported your contacts and saved that file as a backup, those contact entries only existed on your phone. Once you inadvertently deleted them from your phone, the odds you'll be able to restore them are not good.
Wgat are another odds rather than sync Google contacts and backup in phone
Odds of what?
If you had synced your contacts to your Gmail account you'd never lose them on any device. If you you didn't save them to your phone they will be gone forever, unless you recreate them all
If you had synced your contacts to your Gmail account you'd never lose them on any device. If you you didn't save them to your phone they will be gone forever, unless you recreate them all
No such animal...
svim
Extreme Android User
So you don't lose your Contacts in the future, you need to set up some kind of backup solution now. There are plenty of options, some do it automatically on a scheduled basis or you have to do it manually (which requires you to be disciplined enough for it to be effective in any way).
-- Enable syncing with your Google account. This way the backup process is automatically done in the background.
-- If you for whatever reason don't want to have your phone Contacts integrated into your online Google account, you can manually use the Export function in the Contacts app to save your contacts entries to a file. This is a manual process and you need to do this regularly to maintain a current back up of your contacts. Each time you do this save the file in the safe place by copying so it's not stored anywhere on your phone, and/or save the file as an attachment in an email to yourself.
-- There are contacts backup apps available in the Play Store that you can install and configure as an alternative to the Google auto-backup/sync service.
-- Enable syncing with your Google account. This way the backup process is automatically done in the background.
-- If you for whatever reason don't want to have your phone Contacts integrated into your online Google account, you can manually use the Export function in the Contacts app to save your contacts entries to a file. This is a manual process and you need to do this regularly to maintain a current back up of your contacts. Each time you do this save the file in the safe place by copying so it's not stored anywhere on your phone, and/or save the file as an attachment in an email to yourself.
-- There are contacts backup apps available in the Play Store that you can install and configure as an alternative to the Google auto-backup/sync service.
An app without root privileges will not be able to do this. That's not saying that it's possible if you do have root, but there's no way an app will be able to do it without.
I don't know of any app that can do this myself. Though this thread will probably attract shills for junk "data recovery" apps soon.
I don't know of any app that can do this myself. Though this thread will probably attract shills for junk "data recovery" apps soon.
just be careful i think most of those are scams and will ask for a lot of money to do nothing. those services are not free.