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Feb 21, 2025 • Filed to: Data Recovery Solutions • Proven solutions
Losing your smartphone contacts can be a stressful ordeal. Even if you handle your phone with care and attention, there are a few main reasons why you might lose your contacts:
Thankfully, even if you have lost your contacts, you can recover contacts from a Samsung phone or tablet. Here are two great options that will help you with Samsung contacts recovery.
Dr.Fone - Data Recovery (Android) is a toolkit app that will help you to recover your Samsung contacts in no time at all. It is the best option for us when we lost a valuable contact and have no backup for it at all.
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Click Recover in the bottom-right corner of the window to recover the selected contacts, to move them to the default location on your PC.
Note: Optionally, you can also click the Browse button to select a different folder to locate your contacts.
Preconditions:
To use this method, you must have already backed up your contacts with your Google account. In case there is no backup, you are out of luck and this method won't work. If this is the case, you are much better off with the Dr.Fone option.
If you are sure that your Google account contains all of your contacts, you can follow the instructions below to recover your Samsung contacts:
While you might be worried that your contacts are gone forever, there are a few ways that they can be recovered.
If you have backed up your contacts to Google, a copy of your contacts can be found there. If you lose your data, this copy can be restored to your Samsung phone by removing and then re-adding your Google account.
If you have not backed up your contacts on Google, your contacts are only stored in the "˜contacts.db' files on your phone. Thankfully, when you use Wondershare Dr.Fone Data Recovery for Android, this program scans for the database file and then re-adds its entry back to your Android operating system. Recovering contacts from a Samsung enables you to view your contacts again.
Restoring your contacts from a Google account can be a long process that takes ages to complete. On the other hand, when you use an efficient tool like Wondershare Dr.Fone for Android, it ensures that your contacts can still be recovered and restored to your Samsung device.
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