How to Recover Samsung Galaxy A7 contacts with or without Backup

Contacts app in your Samsung Galaxy A7 has turned your static address book into a feature-full social network. Despite apparent reliability on it, you may still lose the crucial phone numbers under some conditions like clicking wrong buttons and unintentional erasing of numbers. It's terrible and what gets knottier is to recover lost Samsung Galaxy A7 contacts, which is indeed a real hard challenge.

But you don't need to freak out when you run into above scenario. There are many methods available to recover lost Samsung Galaxy A7 contacts. And this tutorial will hold a discussion on four useful and impactful way to fulfill the deleted Samsung Galaxy A7 recovery process. Go and take a fling at them!

Option 1: Restore Galaxy A7 contacts from Samsung Cloud

Samsung offers a dedicated and manageable service called Samsung Cloud for users to store their data from loss, including contacts. If you've use Samsung Cloud as the repository for backing up your precious call numbers, restoring lost contacts on Samsung Galaxy A7 can be done within seconds. Here's how:

• Go to Settings on your Samsung A7 device.
• Tap on Accounts and backup.
• Select Backup and restore.
• Tap on Restore data.
• Choose Contacts and tap Restore.

Option 2: Use Samsung Galaxy A7 contacts recovery software

If you're confronted with losing contacts all in a flash with no time to back up them before, a crying need for you is a data recovery software application. Among a plethora of applications, one goes further than others is called Android Data Recovery. It is comprehensively packed with a variety of essential features.

With its straightforward and simple interface, you won't ever get confused and will accomplish the lost Samsung Galaxy A7 contacts recovery process with just a few clicks. Going beyond the recovery of contacts, it is able to retrieve text messages, call logs, photos, audio files, documents, WhatsApp file, etc. For enhancing efficiency and reducing storage space wasted in the recovery process, it allows you to sift through and preview your files and select only the ones you want. 

Additionally, the software also performs well in routine data backups, having an optimum advantage in recovering your lost contacts in case they are disappeared again.

Detailed guidance for retrieving contacts from Samsung Galaxy A7 is pretty easy. Download and install this program on your computer before continuing the following steps.

Step 1: Run the program and connect your Samsung device to computer

First, launch the software on your computer and head to the "Android Data Recovery" mode on the left side, as the image shown below.

Then connect your Samsung Galaxy A7 device via a USB cable.

Step 2: Allow USB Debugging on your device

Next, you're required to enable USB debugging on your Samsung phone. Just follow the on-screen instruction to do that.

Here is a nice tutorial telling you How to Allow USB Debugging on Android.

Step 3: Choose contacts file types and scan the device

Once done, you're prompted to choose file types you want to recover. For recovering contacts from Samsung Galaxy A7 storage, tick Contacts box and hit Next button. Then it will begin to scan your device.

If your lost contacts still turn out to be undetectable, you need to get your device rooted to increase the possibility of searching out the disappeared phone numbers on Samsung Galaxy A7 internal memory. Click Rooting tools and download KingoRoot to root your Galaxy A7.

If you have problem on rooting your device, this article may help you: How to root and unroot an Android phone.

When you're rooted, the program will conduct an in-depth scanning on your Samsung phone.

Step 4: Preview and recover deleted Samsung Galaxy A7 contacts

Once scanning finished, you can preview the contact names and dial numbers on right part of the interface, as the window shown below.

Go ahead and tick the box of each phone numbers that you want to recover and click Recover button.

When comes to next window, select a location where the recovered contacts are to be stored. Then tap Recover button again and the software will get down to recover the lost contacts from Samsung Galaxy A7 and save to computer.

Tip: your contacts retrieved will be saved in HTML, CSV and VCF file.

Option 3: Get Samsung Galaxy A7 contacts from Gmail

In the fortuitous event that the Gmail may contain your device's most recent call numbers if you've synced them with Gmail routinely. It is still possible to get lost Samsung Galaxy A7 contacts back. Check it out!

All you need to do is:

• Log into your Gmail account via contacts.google.com.
• Click nine-dot icon in the top left corner.
• Hit Contacts.
• Click the Gear icon in the upper right corner.
• Choose Undo changes.
• Select a date from which to restore your contact list.
• Click Confirm.

Then your contact list will be back to your Samsung Galaxy A7 device, which may need to take some time to show up. Please be patient.

Option 4: Import contacts from SD card

If the solutions mentioned above fail to settle your problem, the last resort for you is the storage service provided from Samsung A7 built-in microSD card. If you've ever exported your contacts to there before deletion, restoring lost contacts on Samsung Galaxy A7 is a pushover. Follow this:

• Go to Contacts on your Samsung Galaxy A7 phone.
• Select Settings and tap Import under Import/Export option.
• Tap Import from SD card.

A7 models: SM-A710M, SM-A750G, SM-A710M, SM-A750F, SM-A720F, SM-A700F, SM-A705F, SM-A710F, etc.

Set up a regular backup schedule

If you've brought home the bacon via aforementioned methods, congratulations! And the smartest thing to do after getting back deleted contacts on Samsung Galaxy A7 is to schedule a sync or backup plan to ensure that you always have a copy on call numbers available just in case, whether the new call numbers or the old ones. With backups in place, you can text, email, and call everyone in your network as careless as you want!

More intuitive reference on backups please click here: How to back up Android Phone data