By Selena KomezUpdated on March 19, 2018
Summary:Contacts disappeared and missing from Samsung Galaxy phone?Recently deleted phone numbers on your Galaxy S7?In this article, you will learn how to recover your lost or deleted contacts from Galaxy S8/S7/S6/S6 Edge/Note 8/A9/A7 with easy steps,you can also restore contacts on Samsung Galaxy S9 with Android contact recovery.
As you know,people always make mistaken that delete contacts during the process of switch new mobile phone and copy the contacts from old one to the new one.Or,they may loss the important names besides phone numbers when people try to transfer the contact list between two mobile phones.That’s really a terrible stuff you can imagine.So,how to avoid kindred things happens like these?How to restore lost contacts on Galaxy S7?No one can predict that when and how this “disaster” happens, what we can do is only to find a way to retrieve the lost or deleted contacts and do backup works regularly.
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* How to Manage Samsung Galaxy S7 on Computer
It’s very easy for you to retrieve contacts with the help of Samsung Contacts Recovery. This risk-free yet reliable program gives users the ability to scan and recover deleted contacts from Samsung Galaxy S7 on Windows or Mac in a few simple clicks. You can be left no trouble with this program whenever you feel helpless about having no way to recover erased contacts from Samsung Galaxy S7. Samsung Contacts Recovery helps to restore deleted contacts from Samsung due to mistakenly deletion, virus attack, factory resetting, rooting failure,operating system issues,etc.All kinds of Samsung phones are supported,for instance,Galaxy S8/S7/S6/S5,Note 5/4/3,A9/A8/A7 ,Galaxy C7/C5 and more.
To be honest, the deleted Samsung data are not erased permanently after deleting. Why? No matter you stored contacts in the internal memory of Samsung or the removable disk of Samsung, the deleted content are still somewhere but invisible and inaccessible until new data are writing on your device.
So, it’s possible to restore your deleted contacts before the data being overwritten. The importantly, you must stop using your Samsung device to add new files after losing data, like taking photos, sending messages and more. And, try the following steps to get back the deleted contacts from your Galaxy phone right now.
Generally, if you have saved contacts to a memory card on either Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge or previous Samsung Android device, you can restore your contacts via the memory card.
From the home screen, click on the application.
Scroll to and tap Contacts.
Click More.
Click Settings.
Tap on Import / Export contacts.
Click Import.
Select SD card.
If prompted, click on the contact’s preferred target.
Afterwords, your Samsung Galaxy S7(Edge) will automatically search for contacts on the memory card (vCard) files. If the search returns multiple contact files, tap the preferred file and tap DONE.
After downloading and installing Android tool kit, run it on computer.Then you’ll get the main window as follows.To directly recover missing contacts and other files from Samsung phone,please select “Data Recovery” feature.
Step 1.Connect Samsung Galaxy S7 to Computer
Connect your Samsung S7 to computer with an USB cable.If your device can be directly detected by the program, you can move to the next step. If not, you’ll get a window below.
Step 2.Enable USB debugging
To let the program detect your Samsung device, you need to enable USB debugging on your device at first.There are three options. Choose the one depends on Android OS of your phone.
1) For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter “Settings” < Click “Applications” < Click “Development” < Check “USB debugging”
2) For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter “Settings” < Click “Developer options” < Check “USB debugging”
3) For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter “Settings” < Click “About Phone” < Tap “Build number” for several times until getting a note “You are under developer mode” < Back to “Settings” < Click “Developer options” < Check “USB debugging”
4) For Android 5.0 or newer: Tap “Settings” > “About Phone” to tap “Build number” seven times for “You are now a developer!” signal. Then, move to “Settings” > “Developer options” to turn on “USB debugging”
For Samsung Galaxy S7 and other Android devices base on Android 4.2.2 or above, your phone will appear a message, please just tap on “OK” to allow USB debugging.
Select what kinds of files you want to recover,to recover Samsung contacts,please select the “Contacts” item.
Step 3.Grant the Super User Permissions for Scanning Your Phone
Then,you need to switch to your phone’s homescreen to click “Allow” to let the program scan your phone for deleted data.When your phone asks you to click “Allow” for more than one time,just do it. It’s pretty common and doesn’t matter at all. Then back to the program and click “Start” to scan your device for deleted contacts.
Step 4.Analyze and Scan Samsung Galaxy S7 for Deleted Contacts
Before scanning your Samsung phone,you need to let the program analyze your phone first. Click “Start” button on the screen. Make sure that the battery is more than 20% before you start.
Step 5.Preivew and Retrieve Deleted Contacts from Samsung Galaxy S7/S7 Edge
When the scan finishes,you enable to preview all data found on your Samsung mobile phone,like messages, contacts and photos.You allow to selectively get back whatever you want. Mark the “Contacts” that you want and click “Recover” button to save them on your computer.
Samsung Contacts Recovery program enables to directly scan Samsung device and restore deleted contacts from Samsung phone easily and efficiently, as well as pictures, movie and text messages.call history,notes and more files.
Download the Android tool kit and try to recover Samsung Galaxy S7 lost data.
Read More:
How to Backup and Restore Data from Galaxy S7 on Computer
How to Recover Deleted Files on Samsung Galaxy S7
How to Recover Contacts on Samsung Galaxy S6
Extract and Recover Data from Damaged/Broken Samsung Galaxy
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