Backup Contacts, Messages and Reinstall Third Party Applications On My SGH-i897 (Captivate) Phone

Backing Up and Restoring Your Information

If you own a Samsung Galaxy S3 and text a lot, you may want to transfer Samsung Galaxy S3 SMS to PC for backup. Here, Android SMS Transfer is strongly recommended to do this job. It is a powerful and simple-to-use Android app which enables you to copy and transfer SMS from Galaxy S III to PC with ease. Moreover, you are allowed to view, edit, and print out your Samsung Galaxy S3 SMS in amazing threading mode on computer.

Below you will find options to backup contacts, messages and help to reinstall third party applications.

Note:When you sync to your Google Gmail and Exchange Mail accounts, you are backing up your information. Google Gmail and Exchange Mail information on your device including contacts are stored remotely on the Google and Microsoft Exchange server.

Instructions are different depending upon your currently installed version of the Android operating system.

To check your version.

From the Home screen, touch Applications app > Settings > About phone.
Look for the Firmware version. This shows the current OS version on your mobile device.
To continue, select the Android OS that is installed on your phone.

Android 2.2 (Froyo)

Contacts

AT&T Address Book
From the Home screen, touch Applications  > Contacts > Menu
Touch More > Settings > AT&T Address Book.
Confirm by selecting OK.
Touch Accept to continue.
To learn more about AT&T Address Book click here.

Save Contacts to SD Card
Note: You must have a properly formatted microSD card installed to se see the Import/Export to SD option.

Export to SD Card

From the Home screen, touch Applications  > Contacts > Menu.
Touch Import/Export > Export to SD card.
Confirm export by selecting OK.
Import to SD Card

From the Home screen, touch Applications  > Contacts > Menu.
Touch Import/Export > Import from SD card.
Touch Phone to save the contacts to the phone memory.
Google Gmail
From the Home screen, press the Menu button > Settings > Accounts & Sync.
Touch your Google account to display the Data & synchronization screen.
To sync your Gmail, Calendar or Contacts, touch the setting to enable synchronization, a check mark appears in the check box.
Press the Menu button > Sync now.
Exchange Mail
From the Home screen, press the Menu button > Settings > Accounts & Sync.
Touch your Exchange Mail account to display the Data & synchronization screen.
To sync your Email, Calendar or Contacts, touch the setting to enable synchronization, a check mark appears in the check box.
Touch Menu > Sync now.
Text Messages

Text messages will be lost. To save an important text message, you can copy it to your SIM card and restore it after the Update.

Note: Your SIM card may not support this feature.

Copy messages to SIM
From the Home screen, touch Applications  > Messaging.
Select the text message that you want to save.
Press and hold the text message.  Touch Copy to SIM.
Restore Messages to the Phone
From the Home screen, touch Applications  > Messaging > Menu > Settings.
Touch Manage SIM card messages.
Select text message that you want to save.
Press and hold the text message.  Touch Copy to Phone memory..
Applications

Any installed applications downloaded from the Android market must be re-installed. To re-download Paid applications that you have purchased, follow the steps below.

From the Home screen, touch Applications  >Market > Menu > My Apps.
If prompted, sign in with your Google account credentials.
Paid applications will populate in the list shown.
To re-download Free applications you can visit www.market.android.com and log-in with your Google account information. All previously downloaded applications are listed in My Library.
Android 2.1 (Eclair)

Contacts

AT&T Address Book
From the Home screen, touch Applications  > Contacts > Menu
Touch More > Settings > AT&T Address Book.
Confirm by selecting OK.
Touch Accept to continue.
To learn more about AT&T Address Book click here.

Save Contacts to SD Card
Note: You must have a properly formatted microSD card installed to se see the Import/Export to SD option.

Export to SD Card

From the Home screen, touch Applications  > Contacts > Menu.
Touch More > Import/Export > Export to SD card.
Confirm export by selecting OK.
Import to SD Card

From the Home screen, touch Applications  > Contacts > Menu.
Touch More > Import/Export > Import from SD card.
Touch Phone to save the contacts to the phone memory.
Google Gmail
From the Home screen, press the Menu button > Settings > Accounts & Sync.
Touch your Google account to display the Data & synchronization screen.
To sync your Gmail, Calendar or Contacts, touch the setting to enable synchronization, a check mark appears in the check box.
Press the Menu button > Sync now.
Exchange Mail
From the Home screen, press the Menu button > Settings > Accounts & Sync.
Touch your Exchange Mail account to display the Data & synchronization screen.
To sync your Email, Calendar or Contacts, touch the setting to enable synchronization, a check mark appears in the check box.
Touch Menu > Sync now.
Text Messages

Text messages will be lost. To save an important text message, you can copy it to your SIM card and restore it after the Update.

Note: Your SIM card may not support this feature.

Copy messages to SIM
From the Home screen, touch Applications  > Messaging.
Select the text message that you want to save.
Press and hold the text message.  Touch Copy to SIM.
Restore Messages to the Phone
From the Home screen, touch Applications  > Messaging > Menu > Settings.
Touch Manage SIM card messages.
Select text message that you want to save.
Press and hold the text message.  Touch Copy to Phone memory..
Applications

Any installed applications downloaded from the Android market must be re-installed. To re-download Paid applications that you have purchased, follow the steps below.

From the Home screen, touch Applications  >Market > Menu > My Apps.
If prompted, sign in with your Google account credentials.
Paid applications will populate in the list shown.

How to Recover Deleted Contacts from Samsung Phones

Phone list loss can drive Android users mad. Unfortunately, it happens very frequently for Samsung phone users. Large touch screen makes it more easy to accidentally delete the contacts with screen unlocked. Did you just delete your phone numbers by accident? What should you do with your Samsung GalaxyS5/S4/S3/ Note 3/Note 2? Is it possible for you to get your phone list back? Of course you can, Samsung Data Recovery enables you to make it.

Samsung Contact Recovery

It's very easy for you to restore contacts on Samsung with the help of Android Data Recovery. This powerful tool will auto scan your Samsung after connecting to PC. By extracting data from your device, it can save your lost phone numbers, emails, addresses, names onto your computer within a few minutes. Other file types can also be restored.

There is a free download version of Samsung Data Recovery for your Win or Mac. Go and get it for you computer.

 
How to Restore Lost Phone Numbers on Samsung

Step 1. Connect your Galaxy to PC first

Download, install, and launch the program on the computer. Then connect your Samsung to your Win or Mac via USB cable.

Step 2. Enable USB Debugging on Samsung

Check whether you have enabled USB debugging on your mobile phone. If not, the app will prompt you to do it. Find different ways according to your Samsung device OS.
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 for Deleted Samsung Contacts

Click "Start" to make your Samsung analyzed. Just as the below picture.

Note: Be sure your phone battery is no less than 20% changed.

Now turn to your mobile and tick "Allow". Then pay attention to your computer again. Click "Start" on the window below.

Step 4. Check and Get Samsung Contacts Back

The scanning progress will cost you a few minutes. When all the scanned results are listed out, you will see deleted (orange ones) or undeleted (black ones) phone lists. Select what you want and tap "Recover" to save them.

Note: The recovered contacts are saved on you PC. If you want to transfer them back to your Samsung again. Please use Android Transfer.

 
Get it? You just read the detailed steps to do phone list recovery. The Samsung Data Recovery app also can undelete messages, music, videos and some other file types for you Samsung. Start to try it!

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Why We Can Restore Contacts from Samsung?

Phone contact is very important in our daily life. If you accidentally deleted your contacts from Samsung, here is a powerful recovery tool can solve your problem.
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Recover Contacts from Samsung Phones

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.

Samsung Galaxy Contacts Recovery Pro-Android Data Recovery is professional recovery software which is designed to recovering Samsung Galaxy series smart phones. With this tool, there is no need worrying about how to recover your Samsung Galaxy contacts. Samsung Galaxy Contacts Recovery Pro's Raw Recovery Process will scan your Samsung Galaxy and restore your deleted contacts automatically. It is a 100% safe phone recovery and it will scan your Samsung Galaxy phones automatically.

Android Data Recovery, which allows you to directly scan your Samsung device and recover deleted contacts from it, as well as messages, photos and video.
This program applies to all currently popular Samsung Galaxy smartphones:
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Nowadays, Samsung phones are widely used all over the world. Samsung Galaxy users may use their phone to take photos, make notes and even store important files. Just because the strong function of Samsung Galaxy, people would like to make full use of it. However, what if you formatted your phone?

Samsung Contacts Recovery Pro is developed to help people restore contacts from Samsung, as well as messages, photos and video. In order to get the greatest chance to find your lost contacts, you'd better not use your phone for anything since the data loss. All you need to do is to choose the most suitable software to retrieve your deleted contacts.

As an Android recovery tool, Samsung Contacts Recovery Pro presents distinguished features. Its Preview Recovery process provides Thumbnail display of recoverable photos or files. Batch Recovery Process is capable of recovering multiple files at one time. Safe Recovery Process proves that Samsung Galaxy Contacts Recovery Pro is safe and risk-free. At the same time, the software supports more than 100 different file types. Recover lost or deleted files on the basis of their file signatures with the advanced Raw Recovery feature included in the software.

All in all, Samsung Galaxy Contacts Recovery Pro is the ideal utility for recover contacts from Samsung Galaxy Phones.

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