Modern Android-based smartphones have so extensive functionality that they can be safely called mini computers. However, their paramount task was and there are calls. Therefore, when numbers (especially important) are unexpectedly disappeared from the notebook, the useful device is actually turning into a bauble. What happens to this malfunction is related, and how to fix it, read in our new article.

Possible causes of the problem

If you have not deleted the rooms from the phone, but contacts from the phone book still disappeared, the reasons for this may be different. Most frequent among them:

• System failure.
• Problems when synchronizing with Google Account.
• Gadget infection with virus.
• Translation of contacts in hidden mode.
• Crowded SIM card memory.
• Reset device settings to factory settings.

What to do in this case? The main thing is not to panic, because there are many ways to correct the situation, and they are all accessible even to "teapots". First of all, we'll figure it out, from where it was precipitated.

If the contacts stored on the SIM card disappeared

If you often change the "SIM cards", recently dropped the phone or simply use it for quite a long time, the loss of all or parts of the contacts is quite possible. In this case, you need to do the following:

• Pull out the SIM card from the device and carefully inspect it for damage. If it is spoiled, solve the problem without the help of third-party programs (which also do not guarantee 100% result) will not succeed.
• If no external damage is detected, insert it back to the phone and wait a few minutes (the initialization is complete). Check, contacts must return.
• The cause of the malfunction can be wounded in the gadget itself. If the externally "SIM" looks the whole, but the numbers in the phone book are not displayed, try to install it in another smartphone. If everything is in order on another device, it's time to visit the service center.

Additional programs and applications that can help in restoring numbers have their own nuances, so we will consider them below, separate item.

If the numbers are disappeared from the device's memory

Today, in the age of sync and multiplatform in the memory of the Gadget itself, contacts almost no one stores. Those who did not have time (or not wanted) export them to other storage locations, the following tips will be useful:

If the numbers disappeared after an unsuccessful attempt to update Android to the current version, alternately go to "Settings" and "Restore and Reset", after which you select the location where you store backups of phone data.

If the problem is associated with a virus, rollback to the factory settings or for another reason, and you do not have a backup:

• Connect your phone to a computer or laptop using a USB cable.
• Install the program that comes with the device.
• On the smartphone, select the "USB debug" mode.
• Run the application on the PC, find the "Contacts" section and restore the missing position by following the instructions of the program.

If the application from the manufacturer does not have the necessary functional, select its analogue on the Internet. For example, Android Data Recovery (root-right is needed for correct operation).

If you are missing from Google account

Everyone who uses applications from Play Market must be your Google Account. If you have it, you can restore lost numbers from the cloud storage. To do this:

• Alternately go into the "Contacts" and "Contact Setup" sections.
• In the list that appears, we find our google account and click on the "Next" button.
• Specify the place where the data from the cloud will be copied, click "Next".
• We note the positions of interest to us and produce recovery.

The disappearance can contact not only in the phone book, but also those that are stored in your Google Account. For their recovery:

This solution is suitable only for changes produced no later than 30 days ago.

It also happens that it is the incorrect work of synchronization that causes the disappearance of the numbers. In this case:

As a rule, these simple manipulations help solve the problem without service intervention.

If contacts from applications

Most messengers today have synchronization with a smartphone phone book. However, it happens that the numbers added through the app are no longer displayed in the contact list (or, on the contrary, the messenger does not see the individual position of the phone book). In this case:

• If the numbers from "contacts" are disappeared, check the filter settings (where they are located in detail in the next item) and manually export data from the application base.
• If you cannot find the desired numbers in the messenger menu, first of all, make sure your interlocutor has not deleted the application. Then try updating the application. If it does not help, delete it and reinstall through Google Play.

Never install applications from unverified sources. They can not only infect your mobile device with a virus, but also to fully clear the phone book without the possibility of subsequent recovery.

If the numbers are not deleted, and not displayed

If you disappear numbers on your smartphone, do not rush to panic, it is quite possible, the data have been preserved, just because of the failure in the system has become hidden. To return them to the original state:

• Open the "Contacts" section.
• Go to the settings page (as a rule, the icon for the transition is made in the form of a gear or three points / strips).
• Consistently click on "Contact Settings" and "Contact Filter" (depending on the model of the smartphone and the installed Android version, the path can be somewhat different).
• In the above tab of the filters, we first choose to display contacts only from a single partition (for example, only from Viber), save, and then set the display for all contacts.

We save the changes and return to the phone book. If the numbers were hidden, they will appear again. Here (in "Settings") you can combine the duplicate positions and select only those positions that are currently needed.

Restoring contacts using Play Market applications

Not all users are ready to deal with the settings of their phones. Many prefer to install an application with a suitable functionality and entrust him to solve the problem. But does this option come true? Check.

Drive in the play line Play Market Request "Restoration of contacts" (or anyone close in meaning). Most results in the search for extradition do not reach even 4 stars (which clearly talks about the quality). So, they can be safely discarded. However, there are also such options, where score 4.3 of the score, 4.6 points. However, do not rush to install these applications for the phone. Previously read the reviews so as not to run into something like that:

How to avoid loss of accounts

From system failures, damage to the smartphone and other troubles are not insured by any of us. In order not to lose important numbers and then do not spend hours (or even days) for fruitless attempts to restore them, make a backup of the books of contacts at least once every 4-6 weeks. For this:

• We go to the "Contacts" section.
• First, choose the place from where we want to copy (import) data, and then - where exactly (on the SIM card, in the phone's memory in the google account or some application) need to be saved.

If you are collected in time to create a backup contact, their recovery will occur by a similar scheme:

• We go to the "Contacts" section.
• Open the phone book settings.
• We choose the "Import / Export Contacts" subsection.
• We find in the proposed export list the previously selected location and, following the instructions of the system, for a pair of touches we restore the missing numbers.

As you can see, everything is quite simple. Therefore, completing the topic, would like to know whether you helped some of the Soviets described in the article. Have there been difficulties when returning contacts? And if so, what. Share your experience in the comments, and perhaps it is your advice that your advice will help someone solve a similar problem.

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By adding contacts to your phone book, we form a connection with your surroundings, your friends, colleagues and business partners. Telephone numbers accumulate for a long time, for several years. And the simultaneous loss of all contacts leads to a sense of confusion and confusion. How to restore contacts on android and what is needed for this? Let's talk about it in our review. To restore contacts, we can use the following tools:

• Google account;
• Third-party data recovery programs;
• Basic import / export functions;
• Basic function of working with contact lists.

Consider these tools in more detail.

Smartphones and Tablet PCs operating on the basis of the Android operating system can save some data on Google servers - the user is enough to have an account there. And since the accounts in Google have almost all users, there is nothing complicated in the restoration of contacts. If they have been deleted for some reason, enable synchronization and make sure the contacts from Google servers.

If for some reason the contacts are not loaded, try to go to the Gmail service site from the computer and find the section "Contacts". In this section, all the telephone records saved from the smartphone are stored. Making sure the presence of contacts, you must complete one of the following:

• Restart the phone and try to run forced synchronization;
• Try to install another application with contacts;
• Reset the phone to the factory settings, specify the account data and wait for data synchronization to an empty device.

The last way, if contacts on Google servers still have, helps in 100% of cases.

If you still do not have an account in Google, and you store all contacts on the SIM card or in the phone's memory, urgently create an account, copy contacts and configure synchronization into it. All these steps will help you quickly restore contacts from Google on Android in case of their local loss.

Recovery with third-party programs

Delian contacts on Android - how to restore them with third-party programs? To do this, find a suitable software in PlayMarket application directory. There are a lot of applications here - this is MobileDev360, Restore Contacts, Deleted Contacts and many others.

note that some of these applications are focused on finding remote and damaged contacts., And the other part performs the function of pre-storing contacts in the backup with their subsequent restoration.

In our case, since contacts disappeared due to unidentified reasons, we need applications to restore remote contacts, as we do not have any backup. By the way, the idea with the storage of the backup is quite good - pay special attention to it.

Contact Recovery Import / Export

Please note that in almost all applications focused on working with contacts, there are functions to import / export a phone book entry. If you are valid worthwhile with your contacts, make periodic copies and save them on a memory card or in the integrated memory.. Also, in almost all applications, it is implemented a function of sending contacts by email.

If you suddenly want to restore contacts on android in case of damage or accidentally delete, you will have to import saved files. By the way, if you saved contacts in the form of VCard, you can use applications for their mass import.

Restore the correct display of lists

We already know how to restore remote contacts on android - using third-party applications and backups. But sometimes there are situations when contacts in the phone remain, and we simply cannot see them. This happens in failures in the settings of the phone book, as a result of which it tries to show us contacts from the SIM card or from the internal memory of the phone. And if the phone's memory and SIM card are empty, we will not see anything.

In order to restore the display of the phone book and return access to phone records, you need to go to the settings of the application to work with the contacts. Here we need to find the item "show contacts", "View", "Contact Source", etc. (item name is different depending on the program being used).

Having visited this item, you must select the location of your current phone book - if it is stored in Google Account, choose the display of contacts from your account.. Here is also available selection of data display from the following sources:

• SIM card (sometimes not alone);
• Phone memory;
• Contacts in applications (Skype, Viber, etc.);
• Contacts in email;
• Contacts in social networks.

If you select an empty source, the contact list will be empty. Thus, the absence of the displayed contacts often cause malfunctions in applications - you just need to figure it out in their settings.

Every year, smartphones and tablets operating on the Android platform become increasingly becoming more popular. For many years, we accumulate numbers in your phone, forming a circle of our communication. But any system gives a failure. Often, users face a situation where the contacts saved in the phone's memory or on the SIM card disappear.

But it is impossible to panic in this situation, because if you intentionally did not remove the rooms, they did not disappear without a trace. So, why the contacts are disappeared on the phone on android and how to fix it.

When contacts disappeared on Android, it is important to know why it happened. The restoration method directly depends on the cause of the failure, each case is individual. But more often the reasons are the following.

1. Mechanical damage, blow. It happens if the phone recently fell. Only a few numbers can disappear, but everything is often disappeared.
2. Connect to the network. It happens that when the Internet is enabled, the system removes some information.
3. Problem in memory. Removing information may occur if the memory is filled with or began to appear failed blocks in "electronic brains".
4. Synchronization. The loss of numbers occurred while trying to synchronize with its account @ Gmail.com.
5. All for any reason passed to the category of "hidden".
6. The system of the device is reset to the factory settings.

Sometimes the reason to find out is difficult. For example, the phone during the multi-year service simply does not display some information. Therefore, it is better to take care of the data in advance and rewrite in a notebook or transfer to the PC number. Consider how this problem can be solved by several most efficient ways.

Backup copy

To protect yourself from losing information, you need to regularly copy it to external media.

1. Go to the notebook.
2. Click on IMPORT / Export.
3. The copy source will be the memory of the phone, and the target place the memory card.

As a result, a file with all copied numbers from the notebook will automatically appear on the memory card. If you have previously made backups to Micro SD memory card, you may already be saved.

The document, with all copied data it is better to store additionally in the PC cloud storage. But many do not create such copies, how then to do?

Restoring using Google Account

Be sure to start the account on Google Play, even if you do not use them. When authorized in the phone, the system will propose to create an account. It automatically applies to store great information, here also includes files on android, including rooms.

If you created an account when registering, the device system each time it is connected to the network to the cloud storage of new data. That is why it is very simple to restore the information. Go to your Google account, then in the notebook. Now spend the same actions as in the first method.

Restore using programs

Many large organizations for optimal work of their devices produce branded software. For example, until recently, Samsung had a program that allowed to exchange data with a PC or tablet. The list of programs intended for data recovery is too large and constantly growing.

In such applications, the backup function is enabled, and the data saving starts automatically immediately when connected. Therefore, check this program may have managed to save contacts.

Help specialists

If computers and laptops do not help, refer to the specialists. Check if the data filtering function did not apply. This feature could transfer the necessary information to another folder, and where you are used to see it, it will not be displayed. You could also accidentally switch to the display of contacts only with the SIM card. There are also groups of contacts. Check if the filter does not display only a specific group that is empty. After a thorough check when all the tried options for solving the problem have not been successful, take the device to those skilled in the art. Professionals will fully diagnose the device and help return lost data.

Conclusion

Often, trying to solve the problem yourself, the chances of a prosperous exodus only decrease. Therefore, it is better to carry out a return procedure using special utilities. They do not require specialists skills.

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Tablets and smartphones on the Android operating system are becoming more popular every year. And many today are already actively using them, keeping a lot of personal data and hoping that they will be kept reliably in these devices for a long time. But sometimes the technique brings. What if you have a big base of contacts, and suddenly all of them or their part simply disappeared? This article gives several recommendations, how to restore and reinsured from their disappear in the future.

Method 1. Regular backup

The easiest way to protect yourself from losing all contacts is to do regularly backups to external media. If the memory card is installed in the smartphone, then it is enough to go to the phone book, select "Import / Export" item, after which you can specify the memory of the device, and the target place is a memory card. After that, it will create a file in which all books will be contained.

In order to re-safe, it is certainly to store this file best in several places, including a home computer and reliably protected cloud storage. Regularly updating it, you will always have a fresh version of the contact database. If necessary, it will be enough to produce the same actions as when copying, only the source select a memory card, and the target purpose is the phone's memory. All your contacts will be in place.

Now you know how to restore on android from the backup database. But what to do if there was no such backup?

Method 2. Synchronization through Google Account

Even if you do not use the Google Play service for installing applications, it would be nice to make an account. It is used not only to authorize the user, but also for storing a large amount of data, among which telephone numbers from the telephone book of the device. If you configured automatic synchronization in advance, each time you connect to the network, your smartphone itself will send new phone numbers to the cloud server, where they will be stored before the onset of the right moment.

If you suddenly need to restore contacts after resetting the settings, you can make it quite simple. Even on a new or fully cleaned phone, you should log in to your Google account, after which go to the phonebook, select the "Import / Export" item, and produce the same actions as in the first method, only as a data source specify your account . If there is a stable high-speed connection to the Internet, the operation will take no more than a minute.

Method 3. Synchronization with branded software from the manufacturer

Some large corporations produce branded software to work with their devices. For example, Samsung until recently was actively developed by the KIES program, installed on the home computer. It was intended to exchange data between PC and smartphone or tablet. The list of these data includes contacts.

Saving backups by default in applications of this kind is often enabled, and starts immediately after connecting the smartphone using a USB cable. Therefore, if your contacts disappeared, but you previously used a similar program, it would be nice to check it. It is possible that it saved your data, and through its menu it will be possible to restore them.

Method 4. Filter Setup

Sometimes it happens that the user beats alarm ahead of time. In the phone book of any smartphone there is a contact data filtering function. It is designed to temporarily or constantly hide certain groups of contacts, which seem to be needed, but they use them quite rarely. Sometimes it is possible to accidentally set filtering in such a way that all contacts from the phone book will simply be displayed, although they will remain in the device's memory. It will look like this as if the phone book simply empty.

To check if it really is just enough to go into the corresponding menu of your phone book. Sometimes it was time to turn on the display of contacts only from the SIM card, so first check which source parameter is specified. It is advisable to make sure for sure to turn on the display of all sources.

Inadvertent user actions, a system failure, a viral attack, as well as a number of other reasons can lead to loss of important information posted on the phone. And if music or video can be reloaded to the device, then remote numbers from the phone book in this way can not be returned. Fortunately, Android OS developers took care of the preservation of our data with you and provided several effective ways to renovation. Consider how to restore contacts on android at accidental distance.

Phone Book Recovery Ways

To return to Android randomly erased contacts, you can use one of the following methods:

1. Google cloud service;
2. Built-in features of the android system;
3. Additional software

Each device on android can be tied to Google services. It is not necessary to do this, however, without such a binding, you will not be able to download applications from the playmark player, store information on the cloud storage, work with Google Play and much more.

The GMail postal service is synchronized with the phone book and copies its contents to the cloud storage. And even if you accidentally managed to delete the phone number, it can be returned for 30 days. It is so much the information in Google is stored.

To restore remote contacts on Android using Google, you must:

After performing these actions and the next synchronization, deleted numbers must appear on the phone.

If the contacts disappeared after the gadget and then it was not yet synchronized with Google, it will be necessary to make the following to renew the numbers:

Restoring contacts by this method is possible only if synchronization was activated on the mobile device. It turns on as follows:

Now after certain intervals, the phone will be synchronized with Google and record the required user information in the virtual storage. If necessary, it can be restored at any time.

Using the built-in Android capabilities to restore lost contacts

If, because of the lack of synchronization, you cannot recover a phone book through Google services, try to do this using the standard import / export function:

This method allows you to reanimate not the entire list of contacts for Android, but only those that were recorded on the SIM card. To be able to return all the numbers, do not be lazy to periodically save the phone book in the.vcf file. This can be done using the same function "Import / Export".

Restoring numbers from a phone book using additional software

Considering how to restore remote contacts, no attention should be ignored by third-party software designed specifically to renovate user data. Such applications do not need to be synchronized with Google and previously saved copy of the phone book. However, they show high efficiency only in cases where the rooms have recently disappeared, and new information was not recorded on the phone from the moment of disappearance.