How to Restore Lost/Deleted Contacts from Samsung Galaxy S4/S5

“After rooting my Samsung Galaxy S4,I found all contacts stored on the phone were lost,those contacts are very important for me,is there any way to recover lost contacts on Samsung Galaxy S4? Thank you!”--Ask by sunny

“My son deleted contacts on my Samsung Galaxy S5,how to restore deleted contacts from Galaxy S5? I want to get those deleted contacts back directly”--Ask by Chirstmar

Once you deleted contacts by accidentally,or lost contacts on your Android mobile phone due to all kinds of reason.When talking about Samsung phones, rooting or custom ROMs are the topics that can’t be avoid. Both rooting and custom ROMs make the android device more functional and accessible. However, there are hidden risks if you don’t operate it in a proper manner. The consequence is that all of your data will be erased once failed. So what’s gonna to do to restore the lost contacts on Samsung phone?

recover samsung galaxy lost contacts

If you have ever had to perform a factory reset, or root your Samsung Galaxy S4, you may run into such trouble of losing your phone numbers. If this is the case, don’t worry, you still have chance to restore contacts from Galaxy S5/S4 with the help of Samsung Contacts Recovery.

I have ever use this Samsung Galaxy Data Recovery, which can help me restore deleted contacts from Samsung Galaxy. It will extract lost contacts or deleted contacts directly from the Samsung smart phone and you don’t need to input your phone numbers one by one again. What’s more once you lost other data like text messages,it can help you recover Samsung messages, videos, music, and other file types directly only few steps.
Here, I want to introduce Samsung Data Recovery for you to restore lost contacts from Samsung Galaxy S4/S4,it also works well with Galaxy Note 4/3/2.

Here is a free trial version app for you. Be sure to choose the right one for your computer.

 

This android phone recovery program applies to all currently popular Samsung Galaxy smartphones:
Samsung Galaxy Note III, Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Samsung Galaxy S5, Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy S3, Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung Galaxy Note II, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini, Samsung Galaxy S2 Plus, Samsung Galaxy Ace, Samsung Galaxy Y, Samsung Epic, Samsung Galaxy Grand

How to Recover Lost Contacts on Samsung Galaxy S4/S5

Step 1：Free download and run the android recovery program
Download and install Android Data Recovery on the computer. There is an easy-to-follow installation wizard to help you complete the task in minutes. After installation, the software will be launched automatically. The main screen is shown as follows:

Step 2：Enable USB Debugging on Samsung Galaxy S4/S5
USB debugging is advanced feature provided by Android system. It allows third-party programs accessing the internal of a given device. To enable USB debugging on Galaxy S4, please follow the instructions as below:
1). Settings < More < About Device < Tap Build No. 7 times until a message that says “Developer mode has been enabled“.
2).    Tap the Back button < Developer options < USB Debugging

Step 3：Start to Scan and Analyze your Samsung Galaxy phone
Click Start button to let the program scan Galaxy S4 to detect previously detected contacts and other items. The scanning process will take 15-30 minutes, depending on how many files stored on your device. Please make sure the battery is more than 30%, or the task will be failed due to lack of power.

Step 4：Preview and Recover Lost Contacts from Samsung Galaxy S5/S4
After scanning, all of the contacts should be listed under Contact category. Select Contact options on the left menu bar, the contacts marked as red color are the ones you previously deleted, and now they are capable of being recovered by the software. Select the ones you want to recover, it takes less than 5 minutes to get back the deleted contacts.

This Samsung Contacts Recovery Software is the world's first android data recovery,which supports restore lost contacts from Samsung smart phone. All of my lost contacts are 100% restored, no single lost! What's, the Samsung Galaxy Data Recovery no only can help me restore contacts on my Samsung Galaxy S4,it also supports retrieve other lost/deleted files on Samsung mobile phone, such as text messages, WhatsApp messages, music, video, photos and documents. With this powerful data recovery for Samsung Galaxy, all of your data are kept in safe! Now,you can free download the android phone recovery software to have a try!

 

If you want to restore deleted sms on your Samsung phone,you can read more about how to recover deleted messages from Samsung Galaxy.

How to Transfer Contacts from Samsung Phone to Computer

Before root your Samsung mobile phone,you must to backup contacts to computer,after root the device,it may erase all contacts,including names, numbers, Email & addresses...To avoid data losing,you need to back samsung contacts to computer.

Transfer Contacts from Samsung Phone to Computer

Once lost contacts from your Samsung phone,as many users have complained that they lost contacts from their Samsung device, you may also get into this trouble future. As a matter of fact, we may lose contacts in many situations, which is totally a tragedy. So as to get rid of suffering from losing contacts, I suggest you to keep a backup data from Samsung to computer.
Once lost data on your Samsung,you can use a android phone data recovery to recover lost contacts from Samsung directly.

However, things are not always what you think they are going to be. In fact, you have no access to contacts on the internal memory of your phone, that is to say, you can't directly transfer contacts from Samsung Galaxy to computer. But there is always a way out. I'd like to recommend you this Android Data Manafer software, which can help you completely backup contacts from Samsung Galaxy to computer directly. Then you will be able to restore them to your Samsung device if you lose contacts someday, or you can also keep them for other usages as you need.

Android Data Transfer is compatible to almost every Android phones, Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony, LG, Google, and so forth, are included. The steps to import/export are quite simple that with several simple clicks, you can transfer contacts between Samsung and computer easily. There's also an easy way to transfer contacts to Samsung Galaxy, if you have a backup copy in your Gmail account or in vCard format.

There are two free trial version of Android Data Transfer (Windows & Mac version). Download one on your Windows or Mac computer, then operate it to backup contacts from Samsung Galaxy to computer:

 

How to Backup Contacts from Samsung Galaxy S2/S3/S4/S5/Note to PC

Step 1: Set Up your Samsung Phone
First of all,please free download Android Data Transfer on your computer. After the installation finished, launch it. Then connect your Galaxy Note 3 to your computer via USB cable. Then, the program will detect your device automatically. After detecting, your Note 3 will be displayed in the interface of Android Transfer.

Samsung Contacts Transfer software

Step 2: Transfer Contacts from Samsung to Computer

After your device detected and displayed, click "Contacts" on the left side of the interface, then select the contacts first and then click the "Import/Export" button on the top of the interface. When the drop-down list appears, choose "Export selected contacts to computer" or "Export all contacts to computer" according to your preference. In the drop-down list, you can export your Samsung contacts to vCard files, Outlook 2003/2007/2010, Outlook Express, Windows Address Book and Windows Live Mail, etc.

Transfer Contacts from Samsung to Computer

Android Import Contacts
You can export them to vCard file easily and use Android Transfer to import Android contacts if you have backup copy of all contacts in vCard format on your computer or if you have saved all your Note 3 contacts to your Gmail account with more convenience.

Follow step 1 above to set up your Android phone with this program. Once you have finished setting up your Samsung Galaxy Note 3, click "Contacts" to move on. Then click "Import/Export" button to import your contacts from vCard, Windows Address book, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, and so on. Also, you can directly sync contacts to your Note 3 as long as you have save them on your Gmail, Facebook or other account like that.

Copy Contacts from Samsung Galaxy to Computer

All the above are the instructions on how to import/export Samsung contacts. Moreover, you can install Android apps, import and convert any audio and video format to your Samsung phone.

   
Tips: The Android Data Manager for Mac tool is a simple yet powerful desktop tool designed for Android users. It can help you manage contacts, text messages, videos and music more efficient at a very easy manner. You can archive all the messages stored on your device by transferring text messages from Android to Mac. Sending or editing SMS via PC is also supported in default. With it, no matter how many messages your Samsung phone owns, you can handle it in a very simple way. 200 Samsung Devices are supported by the software, including Galaxy Note 1/2/3/4, Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab, GT serial and many other more.

Read more: Transfer data from old Samsung to new Samsung

Transfer text messages from Samsung Galaxy S2/S3/S4/S5/Galaxy Note to PC/Mac

"I want to root my Samsung Galaxy S4,however,I need to backup messages from Samsung Galaxy S4 to computer,because I know that when root the phone,it may erase all phone’s data permanently,I want to transfer text messages from Samsung to PC and keep them safe.But I found and ways to transfer text messages from Samsung phone to computer,I use Mac Pro,is there anyone help me backup SMS from Samsung to Mac computer? Thank you!"--Ask by Rula

Generally speaking, you can set up your android phone to save SMS on the SIM card. While, no matter which location you choose to store your SMS messages, they are invisible unless you try a third-party program. As many Samsung phone users may have the same trouble with you, here I'd like to recommend you this Android SMS Transfer tool-Andorid Manager program. With this Android transfer software, you can completely transfer Samsung messages to computer with every detail.

Transfer text messages from Samsung Galaxy to PC/Mac

In addition to helping transfer text messages from Samsung Galaxy to PC, this android data manager tool can help you to backup other files like contacts, music, photos, videos, etc from Samsung to computer. And whatever you transfer to PC by running this program, your files can be always saved on computer without losing any data, and this program will do no harm to your Samsung device as well. Now I'd like to say that this Android Data Manager is absolutely functional, effective and clean.

Get the Free Trial Version of Android Data Manager,then start to transfer sms from Samsung to PC:

 

Transfer Messages from Samsung Galaxy S/Note to Computer

Step 1: Run the Android Data Transfer on your computer

To begin with, download and install Android Manager on your PC. Launch the program.

Step 2: Connect your Samsung phone to computer

Connect your Android phone to the computer, and you can see your device showing up in the interface like below.

Note: Android Transfer supports almost all popular Android phones available in the market, such as HTC/Google/Motorola/Samsung/Sony Ericsson.

Step 3: Transfer text messages from Samsung to computer

You can see your device's name in the left. Expand it and go to "SMS". All detailed text messages will be shown on the right in the window. Selectively check the ones you want to copy to your computer, and then click "Import/Export" on the top option menu. Now, your messages are saved to your computer in .txt format.

Besides transferring Android text messages to PC, This Android Data Transfer tool also allows you to transfer SMS from Samsung to Samsung. What's more, you can delete send and receive messages directly on the computer with this android data manager tool. Also, you can manage messages with edit, view, export, print functions on your PC. For Mac users,to transfer SMS from Samsung to Mac,you can use this Android Data Manager for Mac,it can help you manage all samsung phone's contents on Mac.

   

Tips: Once lost or deleted messages on your Samsung phone,you can follow this use guide about how to recover deleted sms from Samsung Galaxy.

Transfer Contacts between Samsung Galaxy Note/S and iPhone 6 Plus

To transfer contacts from Samsung Galaxy to iPhone 6 Plus,or copy data from iPhone to Samsung Galaxy phone,you need to use a third-part phone transfer tool,because this Samsung phone and iPhone 6 running the different OS.However,what you need is just an excellent phone to phone transfer tool, which allows you to copy contacts not only between iPhone and Android, but also Symbian and Blackberry Windows Phone. The very program I want to recommend to you today is Phone Transfer.

Transfer Contacts between Samsung and iPhone 6 Plus

Phone Transfer-Samsung to iPhone Transfer can help you transfer your precious contacts between iPhone and Samsung phone directly.What’s more,it allows you transfer other data between two phones, including photos, videos text messages, music, call logs, apps, etc. are all transferrable. No matter you use which phone brand, Samsung, HTC, LG, Sony, Motorola, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Blackberry and even Symbian phone such as Nokia. The Phone to Phone Transfer allows you transfer data between two phones bace on different OS.

Now download Phone Transfer on your computer and keep reading.

 
Now, the passage will be divided into three steps.

How to transfer contacts from Samsung Galaxy to iPhone 6 Plus

Step 1. Run the Phone to Phone Transfer on your PC

After downloading and installing Phone Transfer, the interface will be shown as below.

Run the Phone to Phone Transfer on your PC

Note: To manage iPhone data, you are required to make sure that you have installed iTunes on your computer before. If you haven’t, the interface will remind you to install one before transferring the precious data between Android and iOS.

Step 2. Connect your Samsung Galaxy phone and iPhone 6 Plus to computer

After launching the program – Phone Transfer on your computer, you will see your Samsung and iPhone displayed as below, source device on the left and the destination one on the right. If you want to change the two ways, you can click "Flip" to easily set your Samsung as the source device.

Connect your Samsung Galaxy phone and iPhone 6 Plus to PC

Note: Ensure that both your USB cables are connected well during the whole process. If unfortunately, any of your USB cable is disconnected during the process, chances are your data will get lost because of the data transfer failure. If it accidentally happens, make sure you have done backup before and use Android Data Recovery or iPhone Data Recovery (It depends which device your data get lost.)

Step 3. Transfer Contacts between Samsung Galaxy S and iPhone 6 Plus

After both the phone connected well connected, all the transferrable data type will be listed between the two devices. You can tick the one you want to transfer and click "Start Copy".

Transfer Contacts between Samsung Galaxy and iPhone 6 Plus

After that, the contacts, videos, photos, music, messages, call logs and apps, etc. that you have chose just now will be transferred into your iPhone 6 Plus. What you need to do is to click "OK" to finish it.

As you can see, you can transfer your precious data with 3 simple ways. That is, download, connect and transfer. Clearly and easily operated, isn’t it? Why not have a try, you can easily move your Samsung Galaxy Note 3 to your iPhone 6. Download it and have it a try on your own.

   
More information:
Transfer Contacts from Android to iPhone
Transfer SMS from Samsung to iPhone 6

How to Restore Deleted or Lost Text Messages,SMS from Samsung phone

Tips: You still have chance to Recover Deleted Text Messages from Android Samsung phones,because those lost/deleted messages still stored on your android phone,you can use a professional android sms to get them back.

SMS messages, as a very important information, are stored in the memory card of our Samsung Mobile Phone. Almost everyday we will text some SMS messages. However, it is quite possible to delete these important SMS messages by accident. Thus you will lose many precious information. In case of their importance, you need to restore deleted SMS from your Samsung Galaxy phone as soon as possible.

recover text messages on samsung phone

How does Samsung Note/Galaxy android phone store text messages?
Other than multi-media files that are saved on SD card, text messages are stored in the internal flash memory of Samsung Note or Samsung Galaxy. Just like the storage principle of hard drive, when you delete text messages or clear your SMS inbox, these deleted text messages are not be erased actually, they are still here, in another form that is invisible and inaccessible. Therefore, if you delete some important messages from your Samsung phone by careless, no need to panic. It is still possible to recover deleted SMS from Samsung devices, as long as you haven’t taken in new messages to overwrite the deleted ones. One matter needs attention that you should stop using your phone to send or receive new text messages to avoid the deleted messages from being overwritten by the new data. Find a professional Samsung Galaxy SMS recovery tool as soon as possible.

Android Text Messages Recovery can save you time and energy from restore you lost text messages. Formatted, deleted or lost, whatever the reason is, Android Data Recovery deals with it all. Apart from lost text messages, it also helps you recover photos, videos and songs from your Android.
What’s more the Android SMS Recovery software can help you recover deleted SMS, pictures, videos and contacts from Samsung cell phones. As the world's first Android data recovery software,which supports recover deleted sms from Samsung phone, it's completely safe and reliable.

After downloading the undelete samsung messages recovery tool – SMS Recovery for Android, please install it on your computer and then launch it. Here I will show you how to handle the tool in steps. Just follow me now to have a try!

 

Recover deleted SMS from Samsung mobile phone step by step:

Step 1. Connect your Samsung device to the computer
Download, install and run the program. Then connect your Samsung phone to PC via USB.



Step 2 Enable USB debugging on your Samsung Galaxy
If you have not opened the USB debugging option yet, this program will ask you to do it. Follow the way below to do it now.
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"

Step 3. Analyze and scan your Samsung Galaxy for lost messages
Now the program needs to analyze your device before scanning it, you can click "Start" on the window below to begin it.

Then go to your device when you get the window below. Here you need to move to your phone and tap on "Allow" to enable the Superuser Request. And then click "Start" on the program's window to begin scanning your Samsung Galaxy.

Step 4: Preview and restore deleted messages from Samsung Galaxy

When the scan finishes, you can preview the whole message contents in the scan result as a list. You can preview them one by one and choose those you want to recover and click "Recover" button to save them as a HTML file on your computer.

Note: You can see that messages found here contains those you deleted recently (displayed in orange) and those existing on your Samsung (displayed in black). You can separate them by using the button above: Only display deleted items.
Moreover, you can preview and restore contacts, photos and videos (no preview), as well as you do with the messages. Contacts can be saved as CSV, VCF and HTML files on your computer.

Now, download this powerful program to have a try!

 

Great job, you have already recover deleted text messages from Samsung devices, such as Samsung Galaxy S4. In addition to undeleting SMS messages, it can also undelete lost contacts, photos, videos from your Samsung phone or tablets as well.

Tips: Android Mobile Recovery software works well as the best Android Message Recovery tool, have the ability to help Samsung users to deeply scan their mobile phone and display both deleted and existed data in the program. And then you can select files for restoring. The whole process can be finished as easy as 1-2-3. And you don't need to learn any technical skill about it.
If you want to back up messages from samsung phone to computer,you can use this android sms to computer transfer.

Samsung Contact Recovery: Recover Deleted Contacts from Samsung Galaxy/Note

As both series of smart phones like Samsung Galaxy S and Samsung Galaxy Note support various i-messengers, such as ChatOn, WeChat, and twitter, via which you’re used to communicating with others, contacts are intensely important. If you have erased your contacts by mistake, you may suffer a lot, as sometimes losing a contact equals losing a friend, business, or social connections. Unluckily, systematic reasons exist as well to cause the contacts to be wiped, as when the operating system is unstable and breaks down, the phone is formatted or gets attacked by viruses, the SIM card is destroyed, and ROM is installed. If you used to refuse to receive phone calls from strange numbers, you’ll be missing plenty of calls from acquaintances and important people afterwards. For the sake of preventing such circumstances from occurring, you need to recover your deleted contacts in order to save yourself trouble.
Where are my Samsung's contacts saved?

First and foremost, make it clear that where you have stored your contacts, the mobile phone or the SIM card. If it’s the SIM card, but you have set your phone to display only those on the phone before, then you won’t be able to see the ones on the SIM card. In this case, the contacts are merely hidden instead of being deleted. All you need to do is resetting your phone. In other cases where the contacts are deleted distinctly, the deleted ones have not been erased completely effectively. There’re remains left on your phone which are recoverable. Once the wiped data are given new indexes, they can be restored to the original ones.

This Samsung Data Recovery can help you restore deleted contacts from Samsung no matter you lose contacts because of mistaken deletion, resetting device back to the factory default settings or breaking your device suddenly. While, one thing to notice is that if you delete your contacts by mistake, you should stop adding or editing contacts then. That's because your lost contacts won't be totally wiped off from your phone data unless you add new data to overwrite them. So please keep your Samsung smart phone intact after deleting contacts, otherwise you may lose them without recovering.

What's more, this android phone data recovery not only can help you recover deleted contacts from Samsung mobile phone. In fact, this Android Phone Data Recovery can be compatible with all Android phones. So if you own a HTC, LG, Sony, Motorola or other Android smart phones, you can work the same program to help retrieve lost contacts completely.

Download the free trial of the software to have a try. Below is the step-by-step guide showing you how to get back your contacts deleted from the Samsung Galaxy S4/S3/S2/S or Samsung Galaxy Note 3/2/1 on Windows PC.

 

Recover Deleted Contacts from Samsung Galaxy/Note Step by Step:

Step 1.Launch Samsung Data Recovery and Connect S4 to PC
The first thing is to download this software and install it. Then, open it and the interface should pop up. This is where you plug the phone into the computer

Step 2.Enter USB Debugging for your Samsung Galaxy/Note

In this step, the application will prompt you to enable USB debugging. If you don't know what to do, follow this:

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'

As Galaxy S4 is base on Android 4.2, we should adopt the third method.

Step 3.Select the to-be-Scanned Data
You will see this which tells you to ensure that the phone is over 20% charged. Click "Start" to continue.

And then, you can check to choose the items that you need. ("Contacts" is our option here.) Press "Next".

Take one of the modes—"Scan for deleted files", "Scan for all files" or "Advanced Mode". The usual choice is the first one, which save you time.

Now, go to your S4 and tap "Allow" when the SuperUser requires authority. In case you don't know how, the window has shown the operation for you. And, if you don't want to press it for several times, just tick "Remember".

Step 4.Scan Lost Samsung Contacts and Recover Them
The software will automatically scan the phone for you. The length of time depends on how many file types you choose. When the result comes out, you can preview the details and check the one that is to be restored. All set, tap "Recover".

Note: Doing backup files of your Samsung frequently does benefit. Data that are covered can not be retrieved. So, when that happens, your backup files can help a lot.

Samsung Data Recovery can work with not only restore samsung lost contacts but also other things both in the internal memory and the SD card. Try it out! And feel free to leave us comments.

Tips: This samsung phone data recovery program applies to all currently popular Samsung Galaxy smartphones:
Samsung Galaxy S5, Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy S3, Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung Galaxy Note III, Samsung Galaxy Note II, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini, Samsung Galaxy S2 Plus, Samsung Galaxy Ace, Samsung Galaxy Y, Samsung Epic, Samsung Galaxy Grand