Backing up contacts in advance spares you the trouble of losing contacts one day. But if you lost your contacts before you backed them up, you can still restore them easily as this document teaches you.

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Android Contacts Backup and Restore
Phone number is the link for us to keep in contact with others. But there are
high risk of losing of our phone numbers for various unexpected reasons like
phone broken and change of new phone, phone rooting, system update, phone
stolen or lost, etc. When these occasions happen, you won’t fall into panic at
all as long as you have backed up your contacts somehow in advance.
Backup Android Contacts with the Android Built-in Backup
Function
1. Tap Contacts icon on your Android device to enter the Contact list.
2. Then press Menu button and select Import/Export option.
3. Here you are provided with more options to either to import/export them
to SD card or SIM card. Choose one desired option to make a backup for your
contacts.

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4. Optionally you can copy your backup to computer or upload it online.
Note: Please remember to update your backup regularly.
Sync Android Contacts with the Gmail Account
First of all, you should have one Gmail account. If you haven’t one, feel free to
apply for one from Google official website.
1. Tap Settings icon to enter Settings on your Android device and locate to
Account and Sync area.

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2. Click on Add account option.
3. Select Google.
4. Click on Existing button to login if you have a Gmail account already. And
click on New button to create a new Gmail account if you don’t have one.

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5. Input your Gmail account and its corresponding password to sign in.
Now you can see your Gmail account has been added to your Android device.
6. Click on Sync option and click on Accounts to select your Gmail account.
8. Click on your Gmail account and touch Contacts to sync now.

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Now you have successfully backed up your Android contacts and can check
your backed-up contacts by login Gmail account on Google official website.
Though your phone lost, your contacts are safe and sound there.
Restore and Backup Android Contacts with Android Phone Geeker
If you lost or deleted your contacts before you backed up them, you cannot
find them back with the above two methods but professional Android phone
data recovery tool.
First of all, connect your Android device to your computer and enable its USB
debugging easily.
Download and install Android Phone Geeker on your computer. You can
search it at Google, enter its official website or click the following button to
download it directly.
Launch the software, and it will scan out all contacts on your Android device
all automatically.

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Click Contacts on the left, and you can see all your lost or existing contacts
on your Android device. Select those lost ones you want to restore or select all
to restore all lost contacts and backup all the existing ones. Click Recover
button to transfer all of them to your computer first.