Getting Contacts from an old, knackered Android smartphone

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Hi Folks

Apologies if this is in the wrong place... my Samsung Galaxy gave up the ghost last week and finally went kaput. It has a dim blue flashing light but will no power on.

I have a new phone now - also android - but I had not got my contacts backed up. Is there any way I can retrieve the Contacts from the old phone if it can't be powered on?

Cheers

RossieMan

No, afraid not. You might have them backed up on an SD card maybe?

vandriver

They weren't backed up to Google?

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vandriver wrote: »

They weren't backed up to Google?

They hadn't been backed up in two months, unfortunately

Suckit

When you connect it to a PC via USB, does anything happen to let you know it is connected?

Without any programs, you could extract contacts that way, or

You could try this, it probably will not work, but worth a shot
https://www.coolmuster.com/android/recover-data-from-broken-samsung-phone.html

There are a few programs that claim to recover/extract data from a dead phone:

http://www.video-converter-mac.org/solution-to-recover-files-from-a-dead-samsung-phone/

https://www.forecovery.com/samsung/recover-files-from-dead-samsung.html

Suckit

Video for coolmuster

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Thanks a lot, Suckit... will try it later when I'm home and report back...

vandriver

I thought Google did it automatically?

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vandriver wrote: »

I thought Google did it automatically?

So did I

Is it possible I'm just not "finding" them??

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vandriver wrote: »

I thought Google did it automatically?

I only seem to have a very small fraction of my contacts saved on my gmail. Not sure what way I had it sent up, but it doesn't have all of em anyway.

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Suckit wrote: »

Video for coolmuster

Hey Man - it worked, kinda!
Well, the method in the initial video didn't work, but the first 'suggested' video that came up afterwards had a load of things to try and I was able to eventually restore em. So, thanks a lot! Big headache solved 😊

The high horse brigade

Make sure they're saving to Google, saves lots of hassle later