Thread: Lost Phone Contacts

I have an old Samsung S4 that has just been lying around for a few years. I am giving it to a young relative so deleted all the contacts I had in the phone - worked fine.

However in doing so it has also taken out my contacts in my current Google Pixel phone . How does this happen and how can I get my contacts back in my current phone.

Restore contacts does not work.

Thanks

Garry

Originally Posted by loanrangie

Are they on the sim card ?, I think you must have had your Google account on the S4 still.

I have no idea - I think some in the phone memory some on the sim card - I just find it amazing that you can wipe a phone that has not been used for 18 months and it takes out the contacts in my current phone.

Any way i deleted the google account - but then that causes other issues - not interested in google accounts - just want to use my phone as I want - I backup to my laptop so i dont need clouds and things and old phones killing information on new phones.

I was able to reconstruct my contacts from ISP emails and texts etc and form my laptop backups - but this time not linked to any google account.

In future if any app wants a google account it is not getting loaded.

Thanks for the input.

Garry