How to Recover Deleted Contacts from Android Phones

Despite the ever-increasing sizes of mobile-device screens - many smartphones are now close to or even more than 5 inches -- it's still a pokey and fiddly affair to configure them - or even look at them, for that matter. Stabbing around your minuscule on-screen keyboard can be a tedious affair. What’s worse, you suddenly press the wrong button when making a call or sending a messages. Then you realize you have made a big mistake - an important contact is deleted! Lost time is gone for ever, it never comes back again. Are the contacts lost like time-consuming? The answer is No. 

Thanks to a marvelous software - Android Data Recovery, you have the chance to recover deleted contacts from Android phones without quality loss. 

First of all, you should download the free version for a trial.

Tutorial: How to Recover Deleted Contacts from Android Phones

Step 1. Connect your Android phone and enable USB debugging
Launch Android Data Recovery after you download and install it on your computer, and you'll get the main window below. 

 

Check whether you've enabled USB debugging on your Android device. If not, follow the ways below to set 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" 

 

Then reconnect your Android device to the computer and move to the next step. 

Step 2. Analyze and scan your Android device for deleted contacts
After your Android device is connected and detected, you'll get a window below. Click "Start" for the program to analyze your device before scanning it. 

 

The analysis will spend you a few seconds. After that, you'll get a window as follows. As the window shows, click "Allow" on your Android device's screen to permit the Superuser Request. Then click "Start" on the program's window to begin the scan. 

 

Step 3. Preview and recover deleted contacts from Android phones
The scan will take you quite a while, but it will remind you when all contacts have been scanned out. Then you can stop it and preview all your contacts. Choose what you want and click "Recover" to save them to your PC. 

Note: You must have noticed that contacts in the scan result are displayed in different colors. Actually, those in black are existing contacts on your Android, while the orange ones are those deleted recently. You can use the button above “Only display deleted items” to separate them, if you want.