How to backup, restore and recover contacts from your mobile/ smart phone

How to backup, restore and recover contacts from your mobile/ smart phone

When a mobile phone is lost or gets spoilt beyond repair, the need of getting a new one arises. However, the new one comes with no contacts and needs to be updated. This brings out the reason why backing up of contacts and restoring of the same is very vital in our daily operation of the mobile phones. This article therefore outlines the ways of backing up contacts on a phone, restoring contacts after one has lost the phone or the contacts and discovering contacts that are hidden in the handset.

First, there is the issue of syncing with google. The cloud technology has always been the best way to backup any type of data as it makes the data accessible from any place and at any time. In this case, if the contacts were saved previously with google that is after oozing them be it through losing the handset or getting spoilt, after one logs in the google account on the new handset the contacts automatically show on the device eve without syncing. This is the reason why it is very important to backup contacts n google since restoring them becomes easy. Also discovering them is easy as the contacts saved on google will always be available on the google platform unless deleted by the account owner.

On the backing up of contacts on google, you have to ensure that you turn automatic backup on and off. This is done by the following procedure:

1. Open your device’s Settings app 
2. Type system then backup
3. Turn backup to google drive either on or off

Turn on ones in a while and at this time all the recently added contacts to the device will be backed up to the google drive in addition to those that were previously already backed up.

The other way of backing up and restoring contacts is by exporting them either from the phone to the sim card or vice versa. This is done by the following process:

1. Open the contacts app on the handset
2. Tap more than settings then export.
3. Choose one or more accounts to export the contacts from then tap export to VCF file.

These steps assist in exporting the contacts to VCF file that you can access at any time. Also after taping export, there are many options, Export them to different destination so that you can access them for instance to google, sim card, memory card and phone memory.

Also restoring contacts from backups is very important as it is vital when oe wants to get the contacts that they had backed up recently. The following steps assist in the restoring of the contacts that had previously been backed up on a smartphone:

1. Open the settings app on the device
2. Tap google
3. Under services, tap restore contacts.
4. Tap from account in case of multiple google accounts and select from which account you want to backup contacts.
5. Tap the device with the contact copy.
6. Turn off sim card/device storage if you do not want to copy contacts in the sim card and phone.
7. Tap restore
8. Wait for the device to restore the contacts.

The above procedure however does not work with window handset. In this case, if one upgraded to windows 10 and they are missing their contacts, calendar items or email, one has to make sure that the phone is up to date and re-add their Microsoft account. This is done by the following steps:

1. Swipe to the all apps list and then select settings then update & security and then phone update
2. Select check for updates and then follow the instructions.
3. Then go back to settings and select accounts then your email and accounts
4. Under email, calendar and contacts, select add an account and then add your main Microsoft account again.

These steps are very important as they will assist one backup, restore and find contacts in their accounts and device.

When a mobile phone is lost or gets spoilt beyond repair, the need of getting a new one arises. However, the new one comes with no contacts and needs to be updated. This brings out the reason why backing up of contacts and restoring of the same is very vital in our daily operation of the mobile phones. This article therefore outlines the ways of backing up contacts on a phone, restoring contacts after one has lost the phone or the contacts and discovering contacts that are hidden in the handset.

First, there is the issue of syncing with google. The cloud technology has always been the best way to backup any type of data as it makes the data accessible from any place and at any time. In this case, if the contacts were saved previously with google that is after oozing them be it through losing the handset or getting spoilt, after one logs in the google account on the new handset the contacts automatically show on the device eve without syncing. This is the reason why it is very important to backup contacts n google since restoring them becomes easy. Also discovering them is easy as the contacts saved on google will always be available on the google platform unless deleted by the account owner.

On the backing up of contacts on google, you have to ensure that you turn automatic backup on and off. This is done by the following procedure:

1. Open your device’s Settings app 
2. Type system then backup
3. Turn backup to google drive either on or off

Turn on ones in a while and at this time all the recently added contacts to the device will be backed up to the google drive in addition to those that were previously already backed up.

The other way of backing up and restoring contacts is by exporting them either from the phone to the sim card or vice versa. This is done by the following process: