How to backup contacts in Android mobile phone ?

Learn How you can take backup of your contacts in your Android mobile ?

It is always a smart idea to take backup of every important thing you have. Whether it is important files in your hard drive or whether it is contact details present in your mobile phone, you should always take backup of them so that you can possibly recover your data in extreme situations.

In this article I will teach you How to take backup of contacts in an Android mobile phone, if this is what you are interested in, keep reading.

No matter how much cheap or how much expensive your mobile phone is, from decades, the primary use of a mobile phone has always been to make a phone call. And to make a phone call you should have contact details of the person whom you want to call. If you lose these contacts stored in your mobile phone, then you lose the primary use of a mobile phone. Losing contacts from mobile phone and then recovering is very tiresome and difficult, and for a newbie it will like almost impossible.

Now, enough philosophy.

Follow the given steps to take backup of contacts stored in mobile phone into SD Card attached to the mobile phone :

1. Open Contacts
2. Now open Menu, from Contacts
3. Now navigate to More > Import / Export

Once you select Import / Export option, a popup box will appear with options Import from SD card and Export to SD card. Since we want to take backup of contacts, select Export to SD card option from the popup menu. Once you will select Export to SD card option, aVCF file will be created in the SD Card attached to your mobile phone and location of VCF file will displayed in the dialog box.

That’s it, you have now exported contacts stored in mobile phone into SD Card. The next section will teach you how to restore the contacts which you have just taken backup of.

How to restore contacts from SD Card in Android mobile phone ?

To restore contacts from SD Card, follow same steps till Import / Export menu. Now from Import / Export menu, select Importand then select the account into which you want to add contacts, you can also select Phone if you want to save contact itself locally in phone.

That’s it, you have just learned how to export and import contacts in an Android mobile phone. Don’t forget to share your experience with us.