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Android 7 how to copy contacts. How to download contacts to a memory card

Hello dear readers. How to transfer contacts from an old phone to a new one? How can I save my contacts from my phone so that I can later transfer them to a new one?
Similar questions come to mind for many phone users. Today I will try to give you a comprehensive answer to them.

The article contains many illustrations, so I warn those who do not have unlimited traffic

In the modern world, the mobile phone has greatly accelerated and simplified the lives of not only business people, but also ordinary residents of the earth. The phone, the contact directory, stores the numbers of our loved ones, relatives, friends and business partners. Sometimes, the loss of the mobile phone itself is not as expensive as irrevocable Losing a list of contacts with phone numbers in his directory.
Contacts can be lost, for example, when resetting the phone to factory settings, when flashing the phone, when the phone itself is lost, in case of a failure, children can accidentally delete it, etc. Therefore, sooner or later everyone begins to think about how to secure contacts on your phone from these misfortunes.

There are several ways transfer phone contacts for their preservation and subsequent restoration at the right time. But, after saving contacts, we also need to restore them at the right time. This is due to the fact that there are several different operating systems ( Android, WindowsPhone, iOS) poses a bit of a problem. The problem can be easily solved. We will save contacts in a format that is supported by all of the listed mobile operating systems, namely in the .vcf format - vCard.

Transfer contacts (export) from your phone in vCard format

vCard- This is a special format for exchanging business cards. Has the extension .vcf. This format is supported by major mobile operating systems. This Android, iOS, WindowsPhone, as well as other modern mobile phones on other platforms. This format allows you to transfer contacts without losing information . If we export contacts to a SIM card, and then import them to a mobile phone in a new phone, then often the full name of the contact is shortened to a certain number of characters. In addition, information about e-mail is lost, addresses are lost, etc.

Export (transfer) contacts from android.

To export contacts in .vcf format from the Android platform, go to the application " Contacts". Next, go to the context menu. This is done differently in different devices. But as a rule, the transition to the context menu is carried out by clicking on a button in the form of three dots or three stripes. In the context menu (again, it is different for different devices - options, additionally) follow the link "". The following window will open, where we select the location where you want to transfer the contacts, and in some devices you will be offered a choice of formats in which the contacts will be exported. After export you will receive a file with the extension .vcf

Export (transfer) contacts from Google.

IN Android if synchronization of contacts with profile is enabled Google, then they are stored on their servers in the user profile. To manage your contacts on Google go to service" Google Contacts" at contacts.google.com
Here on the left there will be a menu in which we press the button " More".The menu will open and then press the button " Export".If you are in the new service interface, you will be prompted to switch to the old version (at least at the time of writing this was the case).
You can also immediately go to the old version by clicking the link " Return to old version".
In the old version, check the boxes in front of those contacts that we want to transfer to another medium and then press the button " More" --> "Export". You can also select all contacts at once by checking the box in the top line. All this can be seen in the screenshot below.

Next, a window will open in which we just need to select the format of the exported contacts and click the button " Export".
Contacts will be downloaded by the browser in the format vCard to your computer.

Export (transfer) contacts from WindowsPhone.

U WindowsPhone contacts are synced to their cloud service live.com. To use this service you must have a registered profile on microsoft.com. To transfer contacts, we need to go to their service in our profile profile.live.com and by clicking on the menu button (see the picture below) select the service " People".

Next, click on the menu button " Control" --> "Export contacts". A window will open on the right where we select " All contacts" and format (unfortunately, there is only one option for the export format - "Microsoft Outlook CSV") and click on the button at the top " Export".

As for the upload format, contacts exported in this way can be imported into Google contacts and download from there in the format vCard, so that there are no problems with their further restoration directly on the phone.

Export (transfer) contacts from iOS.

For iPhone To transfer contacts from your phone, you first need to enable synchronization of contacts with the service iCloud. After synchronization, go to the page www.icloud.com and select the section " Contacts".
A page with a list of contacts will open. To upload contacts, click on the gear icon in the lower left corner. From the menu that opens, select " Export vCard". Next, click save and all contacts from iCloud in one file of .vcf format.

Restoring (importing) contacts on your phone

Above in the article, we learned how to transfer contacts from your phone to another medium to save them. Now we need to find out how to restore them if necessary. Restoring contacts I will also show using the example of the above listed OS and services. In principle, a more or less prepared user will be able to do this without any hints, but we may have completely unprepared people on our site, so let’s start.

Import (restore) contacts to android from vCard.

To restore contacts to Android we need to import them from vcard file with the extension .vcf To do this, go to " Contacts", click the context menu button and select the item " from the drop-down list Importing contacts".Next, select the location where you store your backup contacts. In my case it is an SD card. The system itself will find the file, if there is one (usually it is stored in the path SD card\System\PIM). Select it and click OK. (in the example Android version 5.1.1 on a Sony phone).

Import (restore) contacts to Android from Google.

There is nothing complicated here. You can simply enable synchronization with services Google and enable contact synchronization. To do this, go to " Settings" --> "Accounts"and there we choose Google(it is assumed that you have an account and have already added it to your accounts). Click on your account and select what should be synchronized on the phone. In our case it is " Contacts".We activate them, click the context menu button in the upper right corner and select the item " Sync now".

Import (restore) contacts into iOS.

On iOS Device contacts can be imported in several ways. Let's list them, and let's dwell in more detail on one of the easiest ones:

  • Import via iTunes
  • Import via iCloud
  • Import via CopyTrans Contacts(service for exporting/importing contacts to an iOS device)
  • Import using apps from AppStore(ExcelContacts, Contacts Backup - IS Contacts Kit, etc.)
  • Import from file vcard- .vcf

The easiest way is to email yourself the file vcard with contacts and open it in mail at iOS device. And be it iPhone or iPad They will offer you to add contacts to the directory.

P.S. About WindowsPhone restoration, I hope dear readers will add in the comments. There, to import contacts from other services, they need to be in .csv format, i.e. tables excel. Otherwise they will not be imported correctly. And there is no point in describing this whole matter. The article turned out to be very long. Perhaps I will write about importing contacts into WindowsPhone in a separate article.

When buying a new phone, you will have to deal with solving the problem with the new device.

There are several ways to quickly move numbers from Aandroid on Android.

Transfer contacts using PC

To transfer them from Android to a computer, you will need directly your old Android, a personal computer and a USB cable. And also the MOBILedit program.

After it is installed, copy everything contained in the folder called “Crack” and move it to the folder where the MOBILedit application is installed.

After launch you will be prompted. To speed up the process, you should select your manufacturer and confirm the installation will begin.

When the process of installing the MOBILedit program is finally completed, go to the tab - “Phone - Cable connection”.

When prompted for a connection type, select PC Sync (this may be called differently depending on the brand and model, but it should be the same as Sync).

The next step is to disable the USB debugging feature.

You need to go:

  • device setup
  • developer options
  • check the box next to “USB debugging”

On smartphones with Android version 4.2, go to the phone settings, then go to the “System” tab and turn on “Device Information”.

Click on the Build Number tab and check the USB Debugging box.

We select the Import position, where we find the file we have already saved.

Transfer contacts using a Google account


If you have access to a PC and the Internet, you can transfer using your account.

You can synchronize Google services with your phone book. This is very practical in that you can make changes even when your phone is not at hand.

And to send a number to Android, you need to activate your account on Google Drive.

This feature also allows you to recover entries that have been deleted within the last 30 days.

At the top left, select the item and go to the “Contacts” tab.

At the bottom there should be an item for importing contacts - select “phone book”, the specified parameter must be vCard, or at least CSV.

Ready. The numbers have been transferred from your account to your Android.

Transferring contacts using Yandex. Disk

There is another way to copy from the phone book using a PC and the Internet.

In order to transfer records from , you need to download and install Yandex.Moving software on your previous Android.

And it is installed. You will save the necessary contacts for transfer directly into it.

After you have activated your account on Yandex disk and copied your contacts from your old phone, you should:

  1. To launch the same program on a new phone and log in to the same account, you must enter exactly the same data, since all information with numbers is stored here.
  2. Menu - then go to the “settings” item - depending on the phone model, they will look different.
  3. In the settings, select the “Move from phone to phone” function.
  4. The program will ask for the PIN code that you received earlier, enter it and confirm the transfer.
  5. Once the contact transfer is complete, the program will notify you that the work is complete.

Transfer contacts without a PC

When it is not possible to connect to a personal computer, you can consider other ways to copy the phone book, first of all, let’s look at how to transfer them via Bluetooth:

Connect both your phone devices;
Activate Bluetooth on both devices, - Go to the “Settings” menu - then Bluetooth - and check the box next to “Visible to other devices”;
On the old one, go to the Bluetooth settings menu and find the new device;
Confirm the connection to the new phone, just enter the same passwords;
Go to the phone book and determine the numbers that you want to transfer via ;
You can also, in the address book itself, by clicking on the entry, select “Transfer” and then “via Bluetooth”.

Copy contacts using SD and SIM card

You can also copy your entries using SIM cards, if your mobile device supports such a function.

How to move contacts using SD card:

  • Insert the card into the old smartphone;

  • Save all recordings to the SD card;

  • Reinstall the card on a new android;

As you know, mobile devices are not perfect. They break down, fail, and data from them is sometimes lost. The loss of contacts from the phone book can be very painful and noticeable, because there are numbers of people who are important in our lives. Considering this, creating a backup database of phone numbers is a necessary step that can protect our data from loss. In this material I will tell you how to transfer contacts from your phone to your computer, what methods will help us with this, and how to use them.

How to create a copy of your phone contacts on your computer

There are at least several methods that can help us with the question of how to copy contacts from a phone to a PC. Below I will describe each of them, and explain in detail how to transfer contacts from a smartphone to a PC.

Method 1. Use the Contacts application

The easiest way to transfer contacts from your phone to your computer is to use the capabilities of the Contacts application on your mobile device. To do this, you need to go to this application, click on the settings button (usually the leftmost touch button), and select “Import/export” from the list of options.

We are interested in exporting data to various media. Depending on the OS version, you will see options there such as “Export to internal memory”, “Export to SD memory card”, “Export to storage” and so on. When you select one of these options, you will receive your contacts in the drive (or location) of your choice as a Contacts.vcf file that can be opened using Microsoft Outlook, TheBat!, Contacts Windows", "vCardOrganizer" and other computer programs on your PC.


I will also note that if the names in your phone book are written in Cyrillic, then instead of Cyrillic names when displaying contacts on your computer you will see a set of chaotic characters, which is due to the use of the Android OS UTF-8 encoding, while these programs use a different encoding by default - Windows 1251.

To convert one encoding to another, you can use a different set of tools. For example, the text editor Sublime Text allows you to quickly encode from UTF-8 in Windows 1251, for which you need to click on “File” – “Open File”, open our file with contacts, then select the “Save with Encoding” option and select “ Cyrillic Windows 1251". After this, the contacts file will be saved in a key suitable for displaying the Cyrillic alphabet in MS Outlook.

Method 2: Sync using Google Account

To copy contacts from a mobile phone to a computer, you need to have a Google account, which must be used on both your smartphone and PC.


Now you need to do the following:

Method 3. Specialized contacts software for smartphones

You can also transfer contacts from your phone to your computer using specialized programs that come with your phone. For Samsung smartphones this is the well-known Samsung Kies program, for Sony – Sony PC Companion, and to transfer data from iPhone, the easiest way is to use iCloud data storage (Settings – iCloud – Contacts synchronization – “Merge”). Now by going to the cloud website and entering your Apple ID and password, you can always access your contacts.

Conclusion

The answer to the question of how to transfer contacts from your phone to your computer is to use the various methods I described above. The simplest and most convenient of them is to export a list of your contacts through the Contacts application, which will allow you to receive contact data in the form of a small file with a vcf extension, which you can save to your computer. Try the tools I have listed, they are proven to be effective in transferring data from user smartphones to PC.

But sometimes it’s easier to transfer your contact book to your computer. Here it will definitely be safe and sound, and at some point you will copy it to a new device. However, a question arises. How to copy contacts from Android to computer? Is it possible?

The easiest way to use a computer is as backup storage. Many users regularly upload photos taken using the smartphone’s built-in camera. Music reserves are also stored here. So why not save your contacts to your PC from time to time? In the future, if your phone breaks or is stolen, all your contacts will not be lost.

It should also be remembered that sometimes transferring a phone book from one device to another over the air is impossible. For example, how do you do this if the screen is broken and the touchscreen does not respond to your touch? In this case, a computer comes to the rescue - you just need to connect your smartphone to it using a USB cable.

The easiest way

The easiest way to download contacts is to use the tools built into the Android operating system. To do this, do the following:

Step 1. Go to the smartphone menu and open the application " Contacts».

Step 2. Here you should click on the ellipsis located in the upper right corner, and then select “ Import Export».

Step 3. On smartphones and some others, an intermediate action will be required in the form of pressing the " Settings" This will take you to a separate menu, in which you can easily find the item you need, dedicated to importing and exporting numbers.

Step 4. By clicking on the corresponding item, you will see a pop-up menu. Here you should click " Export to VCF file" Depending on the phone model, this item may have a different name. For example, " Export to storage».

Step 5. Next, you should select the location where the contact file will be saved. It is possible that you will have a presence here in the form of Google Drive. You can save the file on it - then all you have to do is open your account on your computer. But we will create a file with contacts in the folder " Downloads».

Step 6. Give the file a name.

Step 7 Connect your smartphone to your computer using a working USB cable. You can find the created file in the folder Download. All you have to do is copy or cut it.

Step 8 When buying a new smartphone, you will have to perform all the steps in reverse order. That is, you will copy the file to the phone’s memory, then select “ Import from VCF file».

Saving contacts using a Google account

If you have synchronization of contacts with Google servers enabled in your device settings, then you can do it even easier. You can transfer contacts without using your smartphone. This is especially true when the device is broken.

Step 1. Go to the page contacts.google.com. Here you should click on the button " Export", if necessary, expanding the tab " More».

Step 2. In the new version of the service, exporting contacts is not supported (as of 2016). Google suggests switching to the previous version of this page.

Step 3. Here, select all contacts, then click the “ More" and select " Export».

Step 4. From the pop-up menu, select which contacts you want to save and what format you want to use. When you do this, click the blue button " Export».

Using third party programs

If necessary, you can use some third-party programs. For example, Airdroid performs well. He will help you send numbers over the air. In this case, the corresponding application is installed on the smartphone, and on the computer it is enough to use any Internet browser.

You can also save contacts from Android to your computer using MOBILedit. We have already talked about this computer program. It is used to copy the phone book, call log, SMS messages and much more.

We transfer contacts from Android to Android and other devices in 5 minutes using these instructions. Sometimes smartphone users need to transport contacts, but some people have difficulty with this. The Android operating system is not difficult to learn, but for beginners, some aspects of its operation may be confusing. This is especially true for those functions that are used very rarely, including transferring contacts. If you have several devices based on the Android operating system, then you can transport your contact list in several ways.

The easiest and most effective way to transfer a contact from one Android phone to another Android phone is to copy the address book to the SIM card. In this case, the SIM card will act as an intermediary storage between two gadgets. The algorithm of actions for current OS versions (5.1+) is approximately as follows:

  1. Insert the SIM card into the phone from which you want to copy contacts;
  2. Turn on;
  3. Enter the “Contacts” menu;
  4. Call up settings, item “Import/Export”;
  5. Select the SIM card to which the list should be exported;
  6. Insert the same SIM into another phone and use the same method to import bookmarks into the phone’s memory or onto the device’s FLASH drive.

In addition, you can easily transport your notebook if you use the same Google account on both gadgets. Using the same method, it is possible to copy contacts from Android to Android using a Flash memory card by selecting “Export/Import not a SIM card, but a drive, respectively” in the menu. After that, insert it into the second phone and transfer contacts to the phone.

Today, on thematic forums, there are quite often questions about how to transfer contacts from Android to iPhone. The most trivial and simplest method for solving a specific problem would be to use the Google Contacts service. When you add a Google account to your device, your smartphone automatically syncs your email, Google Fit data, apps, calendar and, of course, contacts. All you have to do is connect them on your iOS gadget. For this:

  1. Enter settings;
  2. Menu mail, addresses;
  3. Add an account by clicking on “Other”, “CardDAV”;
  4. Enter the google.com address in the “Server” field, and your account login and password in the rest.

After you press the Forward key, iOS syncs the contacts associated with this account. If you need to transfer not only contacts, but also other data, then simply add your Google account to your iOS device (not CardDAV) by clicking on the appropriate item in the settings menu.

If you don’t know how to transfer contacts to a PC, then don’t despair, it’s very easy to do. To complete this task as quickly as possible, log into any browser on your computer running Windows, Linux, Mac. In the address bar, enter the following value: “contacts.google.com” and press Enter. A page will open in front of you where you will be asked to log in; fill it in with your Google account information. After which you will be shown a small manual, you can read it in order to better understand the procedure.
On the left, click on the “More” item, which expands an extensive list of additional functions, including “Export”.


Next you will be taken to the old version of Google Contacts, where there will also be a “More” button at the top of the page, click on it and select “Export”. In this section, you can select the file format in which the notebook from your smartphone will be saved.

As you may have already noticed, cloud technologies have been tightly integrated into mobile devices, and therefore contacts from Windows Phone to Android are also transported through the connection of Microsoft and Google accounts. To transfer data from a WPhone notebook, do the following:

  1. Enter settings;
  2. Select “Mail + accounts”;
  3. "Add service";
  4. Sign in using your Google account credentials;
  5. Confirm all requested rights, and also check the box next to the “Contacts” option.

Synchronization will happen automatically, and after you sign in to your Google account on your Android device, all your contacts will be in your address book.

Applications for transferring contacts

— Android applications

Today there are several useful applications for Android OS that allow you to transport contacts. One of the most popular is Outlook, an email service from Microsoft. To use it, you will need an MC account, which you will use on all devices. You can download the application from the Play Market. No less effective programs include such programs as:

  • Phone Copier;
  • Copy My Data;
  • My Contacts;
  • CLONEit - Batch Copy All Data.

All of them are available for download completely free of charge from the Google store, moreover, some of them can transfer not only contacts, but also call logs, SMS and so on.

— iPhone applications

My Contacts Backup is deservedly considered one of the most famous applications for iOS, which copes with its assigned tasks perfectly. After downloading it from the AppStore, you can create a file containing all your contacts in a few clicks on the screen. After this, all that remains is to send it to the desired device via WI-FI, email or any other method, open it and the notebook will be exported. Good alternatives available in the AppStore include:

  • Contact Import and Export for Google Gmail Lite;
  • Synchronizing Gmail Contacts (Contacts Sync);
  • NQ Contacts Sync.

The easiest and most versatile way to transfer contacts

If the question of how to transfer contacts from Android to Android or another operating system remains unresolved for you, then it is recommended to choose transportation via a SIM card. This method of exporting a notebook between phones has been used since ancient times, when systems such as Java and SymbianOS were in use. The function of copying contacts between different storages (phone memory, Flash, SIM card memory) is present in every phone, so you won’t have any difficulties.

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