Complete guide for recovering contacts files on Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016).

"Accidentally lost all my contacts on Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) after I updated my Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016), and forgot to back them up. What should I do to recover my lost contacts from my Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) without backup? Any advice will be appreciated."

Lots of reasons may cause contacts on Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) lost or deleted, like Android update, device damaged, accidental deletion, factory reset and so on. What a frustrated thing it is when you accidentally delete some important contacts especially when you realized that you didn't back up or synced your Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) data frequently.

The key is Android Data Recovery. This advanced program can help you restore your lost phone numbers which are stored in the SIM card with one click and no risks. You can recover missing contacts of your parents, children, school mates, old friends, business partner, and so forth. Moreover, you can preview them before recovery and then recover SIM card contacts from Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016).

• Part 1: Complete guide for recovering contacts files on Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016). (on Apple MacOSX/macOS Computer)
• Part 2: Complete guide for recovering contacts files on Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016). (on Microsoft Windows Computer)

Android Data Recovery (It is available for Mac and Windows, simply download the proper version depending on your computer's OS.)

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Part 1. Complete guide for recovering contacts files on Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016). (on Apple MacOSX/macOS Computer) Step 1:  Download and launch the Android Data Recovery on Mac Download and install the Android Data Recovery on your Mac computer, when you open it, a dialog box will pop up to remind you whether to register, purchase or free try.

Step 2: Connection Run this powerful Android data recovering software on your Mac computer, and then connect your Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) device to computer via the USB cable. The program will detect your device automatically.

Step 3: Enable USB debugging. Android Data Recovery will prompt you to enable USB debugging on your Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016), if you don't open the debugging mode. The program will detect the version of your Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) automatically and give you the instruction of opening the USB debugging mode on your Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016). After finishing the operations on your device, click "OK" button.

Step 4: Select the contacts you want to recover. After connection, all file types on your Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) will be showed in the interface. Choose the file types you want to recover, such as contacts, messages, messages attachments, call logs, photos, gallery, picture library, videos, audios and other documents. Check the file types you want to recover and click Next. The program will scan your device automatically.

Step 5: click "Recover" button to complete recovering Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016)'s contacts When the scanning is finished, all types of files will be listed in categories on the left control. You are allowed to check the detailed information of each data. Preview and select the data you want to recover, and then click "Recover" button to complete recovering process.

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Part 2. Complete guide for recovering contacts files on Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016). (on Microsoft Windows Computer) Step 1: Download and launch the Android Data Recovery Download and install the Android Data Recovery on your Windows computer.

Step 2: Connection Connect your Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) device to your Windows computer via the USB cable. Wait for seconds before the device is detected. Install the device driver on your computer if it hasn't been installed.

Step 3: Enable USB debugging. Allow USB debugging when your Android prompts you of USB debugging permission. After finishing the operations on your Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) device, click "OK" button.

Step 4: Preview and recover the Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016)'s lost contacts. Soon, all Android available files will be classified into category on the left. You can toggle the button of "Only display the deleted item(s)" to "On", so that you can quickly find the wanted Android file. Click "Recover" button and choose a destination folder to recover files. Within seconds, you can navigate to the file folder and check your deleted files from Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016).

To form a habit of back up Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) files from time to time is with no doubt a good thing. Once you deleted your Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) data accidentally, you can just use Android Data Recovery to retrieve deleted data from Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016). If you have any question, please feel free to drop us a comment below.