How to Recover Contacts from Android Phone after Factory Reset

You may want to fix some system errors or clean up privacy information by factory resetting your Android phone. But you forgot backing up your contacts before factory reset. As a result, you lost all of your contacts, including the phone numbers, names, address etc. And now you must be wondering how to get back your lost contacts from your Android device.

In general, it’s hard to retrieve the contacts that you lost after factory reset, since you didn’t make a backup. But nothing is impossible. Some professional Android data recovery tools may help you recover data on your Android phone. In this post, we’ll show you how to use one of these tool – dr.fone to recover lost contacts on your Android device.

• With this software, you can preview lost contacts on your Android phone and choose the ones you want to recover.
• It supports recovering not only Contacts but also other data including WhatsApp, Messages, Photos, Videos, Audios, Documents, etc. So if you lost some other types of data after factory reset, this tool is also useful.
• It supports 6000+ Android device models, so no matter what brand you are using, you can restore lost contacts.

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How to Recover Contacts from Android Phone after Factory Reset with Dr.fone

Step 1. Launch dr.fone – Recover (Android) on your PC/Mac, choose “Recover” when you see the following interface. Then connect your Android phone to the computer via USB cable.

Click Recover to recover data on android

Step 2. Please make sure you have enabled USB debugging on your Android phone. You need to allow the program superuser authorization on the screen if your Android device is a rooted one. Simply follow the instructions, stated in the window of the software.

Allow the program superuser authorization on Android

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Step 3. You can choose Contacts to recover when you see the interface as follows. After the selection, click on Next.

Scan only contacts on your Android phone

Step 4. After clicking on “Next” button, dr.fone offers you two scanning modes: Standard and Advanced. It is highly recommended to go for “Scan for deleted files” in Standard Mode. After the selection, click on “Next” to go ahead with the scanning process.

Scan for deleted files only

Step 5. After the scan process, you can select the Contacts and choose the items you want to recover by clicking on the “Recover” button at the bottom.

Preview and recover deleted contacts

Conclusion

As you can see, Android data recovery software helps you get your lost contacts back from your Android phone after factory reset easily. If you want to recover data from Android devices after factory reset, you can get dr.fone – Recovery (Android) to have a try. Actually, to avoid future data loss, it is recommended to make a backup of your Android phone data before resetting.