3 Ways to Recover Deleted Contacts on Samsung Galaxy S7/S6/S5/Note

If you have backup contacts before,you can restore those backed up contacts back to your Samsung Galaxy S7/S6/S5/S4 via Google account or Bluetooth®.If your contacts are lost or deleted by accidentally,you must to use a third-party Samsung Contacts Recovery to recover Samsung deleted contacts without backup,please switch to Part 3 samsung data recovery tutorial.Let's teach you 3 ways to restore Samsung Galaxy S7/S6/S5/S4 contacts easily.

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Steps to recover your saved contacts

Note: You can recover your contacts only if you've previously backed them up.

Display options
Be sure all of your contacts are visible.

From the home screen, tap Contacts.
Tap MORE.
Tap Settings.
Tap Contacts to display.
Under Contacts to display, tap to select All contacts.
Tap the Back key two times.
Import contacts to your phone.

Pat 1: Restore Contacts back to Samsung Galaxy S6 via Google account


If you've saved your contacts to your Google account, you can restore them to your phone.

From the home screen, tap Apps.
Scroll to and tap Settings.
Scroll to and tap Accounts.
Tap Add account.
Tap Google.
Enter your Google account email and tap NEXT.
Enter your Google account password and tap NEXT.
Review the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, then tap ACCEPT.
Tap to check or uncheck your preferred Google services, then tap NEXT.
Set up a Google account.

Part 2: Restore Contacts back to Samsung Galaxy S6 via Bluetooth®


Some Bluetooth-enabled devices have Bluetooth file transfer capabilities. If you stored your contacts on another Bluetooth-enabled device, you can recover lost contacts from Samsung Galaxy.

Be sure you have Bluetooth enabled on the other device and it's ready to be paired.
From the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ home screen, tap Apps.
Scroll to and tap Settings.
Tap Bluetooth.
Tap the Bluetooth slider to ON if it isn't already.
Your phone searches for available Bluetooth devices within range. Tap the name of the other phone.
If a Bluetooth pairing request displays, verify the passkeys match and tap OK.
If prompted, enter the passkey and tap OK.
If you're unsure of the passkey, try entering 0000 or 1234 (the default for most Bluetooth phones).
After you've paired your phones, begin the transfer of contacts from the other device.
After the transfer is complete, open the file on your Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ and follow the prompts to load your contacts into your contact list.
Note: Sprint recommends you save your contacts to your Google account.

Part 3: Recover Deleted or Lost Contacts from Samsung Galaxy S6 by Android Data Recovery


The Samsung Contacts Recovery - Android Data Recovery is designed to recover deleted or lost contacts, text messages, call logs, whatsapp messages, audio, videos, photos and documents from any Samsung phones or tablets directly, the Samsung Data Recovery can directly scan phone's internal memory whether you accidentally deleted files or broken your phone.

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However,it also allows you recover contacts from broken Samsung phone directly,no matter your Samsung Galaxy phone is broken screen, damaged, black screen, stuck in android download mode, touch screen can't be used,you can use this powerful Broken Android Data Recovery to extract contacts,text messages, photos from your broken Samsung Galaxy S5/S4/S3/Note 5/Note 4.In additional,the Android Data Recovery works well with the newly-released Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, Galaxy S8. Samsung Galaxy Recovery supports recover Android data in almost all situations:

√ Accidentally deleted files – recover deleted data on Android device.
√ Broken screen – recover the data if Android phone screen broken.
√ Black screen – recover the data if Android phone screen black(can’t restart to normal).
√ Damaged Android devices – retrieve data if can’t access to Android device’s system.
√ microSD card data recovery – retrieve data stored on microSD card if Android device dead.

How to Retrieve Contacts from Broken Samsung Galaxy S4/S5/S6/S7


Step 1 Connect Your Samsung Phone to Computer Via USB Cable
Users need to download and install this application on their own computer by the default wizard, then connect your Samsung Galaxy phone with your computer via its USB cable. As you can see in the following graph.


Step 2 Enable USB Debugging on Your Samsung Phone
To ensure that your Samsung phone be recognized by the program, you need to enable the USB debugging on your phone. For different versions of Android OS, follow the detailed expression in the windows to enable it.
For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Go to Settings < Developer options < Check USB debugging.
For Android 4.2 or newer: Go to Settings < About Phone < Tap Build number for several times until getting a note 'You are under developer mod' < Back to Settings < Developer options < Check USB debugging.


Step 3 Select File Type You Want to Get Back - Contacts
Note: Make sure that your Samsung device is rooted. If it isn't, Dr.Fone would attempt to root your device, and unroot it back once the recovery process is completed.


Switch to your Samsung Galaxy S6 phone, when prompted, grant the Super User permissions for Dr.Fone.


Step 4.Begin analyzing and scanning your Samsung
Now you will see the icon of the step 3 light up, you can click the green button "Next" to begin to analyze the data on your Samsung device.


Please make sure that the battery on your device is more than 20%.


Step 5. Preview and Recover Lost Contacts from Samsung Device

After finishing above process, this program will successfully detect your phone immediately. Then you can preview all contacts on the main interface. As you can see, all your lost contacts are displayed with name, phone number and company, which helps you quickly find your needed ones. AIf you just need to recover lost contacts, just mark "Contacts" and then click "Recover" to save them to your computer.,you will achieve to recover deleted contacts from Samsung phone within a few minutes.


Free download the Android Data Recovery and try to scan,preview your lost contacts before purchase the product.

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Further Reading

Transfer Contacts from Old iPhone to Samsung Galaxy S7/S6: iOS to Android Transfer not only supports move Contacts between iPhone and Samsung phone,but also allows you transfer videos, photos, SMS and audios from iPhone to Galaxy S7/S6, Samsung to iPhone 7/6S/6/SE.
Transfer Data from Android to iPhone 6S: Want to transfer your contacts,sms,photos,videos, music and more from Android to iPhone 6S/6/SE? Try the excellent way by using an excellent Android to iPhone Transfer tool on your computer and move all contents you want.
Recover Files from Broken Screen Samsung: Wanna extract important data back from your broken Samsung Galaxy Note 3/4/5, Galaxy S5/S4/S3? You can read this use guide and use the Broken Android Data Recovery to extract and retrieve lost contacts,sms,photos,documents from Samsung phone with broken screen.
Recover Lost Contacts from iPhone after iOS 9,iOS 10 Update: Lost contacts,sms,photos and other data on your iPhone due to failing upgraded iOS 9 to iOS 10? You can use a third-party iPhone data recovering program to recover lost iPhone data after iOS 10 update failure,even jailbreaking failure.

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