How to Backup Contacts on Android Phone

As a link of getting in touch with friends and family, the importance of contacts on the Android phone is self-evident. However many operations such as accidental deletion, device rooting, factory settings restoration, software crash, virus attack etc may lead to contacts lost. Thus it is essential to back up your contacts before occurring in these cases. Then have you ever thought of how to back up your contacts on Android?

Also Read: How to Recover Deleted Contacts from Android Phone

In the following contents, I will share with you how to back up your contacts on Android via three efficient solutions.

Method 1: Backup Android Contacts with Gmail
Android phones allow you backup Android contacts to Google by syncing, so it’s easy for you to backup Android contacts with Gmail via the following ways.

Step 1. Turn on your Android phone and tap Setting. Scroll down the screen to find Account and sync.
Step 2. Log into your Google account and tap Sync Contacts. Wait until the sync process is complete.
Step 3. If you saved all your contacts to your Google account, you can skip the first two steps, and directly log in to your Google account and land the Gmail page on the PC.
Step 4. Choose contacts you want to backup and click More > Export. Select vCard format and save contacts to your PC. You can open and view them with Address Book.

Note: Gmail account can only backup contacts and calender for you.

Method 2: Backup Contacts to USB Storage.
Phones are expensive, but contacts are invaluable. Apart from backup contacts with Gmail, you can also sync contacts to USB Storage.

Step 1. Open Contact list on your Android phone.
Step 2. Go to your contacts menu and select “Import/Export Contacts”.
Step 3. Hit on “Export to storage”. Your Android contacts will be saved as a vCard file.
Step 4. Connect your Android phone to PC via a USB cable and drag-drop the vCard file to PC.

Note: It can allow you to backup your contacts, music, photos and videos only, if you want to backup more data such as SMS, calender, call logs etc please refer to the 3rd method.

Method 3: Backup Contacts with Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer 
Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer is a professional data backup & restore as well as phone to phone transfer software. It allows you to backup your important data including but not limited to contacts on your Android phone to PC and then restore them from local backup effortless. Meanwhile, it supports almost all Android version from Android 4.0 or later as well as Android devices such as Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+/S7/S6, HTC, LG, Motorola, Sony, ZTE, Huawei, Lenovo and more. Here is the detailed steps of Android contacts backup.

Step 1. Start Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer
First, please download and install the Gihosoft Mobile Transfer on your PC. After finishing the installation, you ought to run it. Afterwards, you can see the user-friendly main interface and multi-functional channels. Please clik “Backup Your Phone”.

Step 2. Connect your Android phone to PC
Next, turn on the USB debugging of your Android phone, then connect it to PC via a USB cable. This program will automatically detect your device and shows it in the primary window.

Step 3. Backup contacts on Android phone
After that, please mark “Contacts” then click “Start Copy” button to copy data from Android to PC. A pop-up window will appear to remind you of selecting a folder, please tap “Desktop”. When completed, you will be informed by a pop-up message. Finally, all of your contacts will be saved on your PC in “HTML” format.

In addition to backing up Android contacts on PC, Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer also can restore backed up files to your phone without any loss. Besides if wonder to know how to back up Android SMS, you may refer to SMS/MMS Backup and Restore on Android.

How to Transfer Data from Android to Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+

March 29, 2017-Samsung Electronics officially released the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ to Global Markets. With the introduction of a variety of services and applications, as well as the stunning Infinity display immersive viewing experience, Galaxy S8, and S8 + brought new features and convenience, opened a series of possibilities, also attracted numerous consumers. If you're usually a common Android user and now attracted by its groundbreaking features, then the first thing occurs in your mind maybe change your old phone to Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+. In this case, have you ever thought of how to transfer your previous data from Android to Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+?

Tip: Gihosoft Free Android Data Recovery is a professional Android file recovery software that enables you to recover accidentally deleted or lost photos, music, videos, messages, contacts, call logs, WhatsApp messages, Viber chat history and so forth from Android phone memory or SD card directly.

Never mind! Here in this guide, I will share you how to transfer your important data, such as contacts, SMS, call history, calendar, photos, music, videos, etc from Android to Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ via two methods.

Part 1. Switching from Android to Samsung S8 via Samsung Smart Switch
Smart Switch is a mobile phone data transfer tool developed by Samsung, which can seamlessly transfer contacts, photos, music, videos, messages, notes, calendars and more files from an Android device to virtually any Samsung Galaxy device such as Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+. Here I am going to share how to transfer data from Android to Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ using Smart Switch Mobile.

1. Download and install Smart Switch Mobile app on both your Android devices.
2. After successfully installation, please run Smart Switch Mobile in both of devices.
3. Select the “Android to Galaxy”option on both of devices.
4. On the old Android device, check the items you want to move and tap “Transfer”.
5. Wait for the two devices being connected. After that, tap “OK”on the Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+.
6. When moving contents is completed. Tap “Done”to finish the process.

Part 2. Switching from Android to Samsung S8 via Mobile Phone Transfer
Gihosoft Mobile Phone transfer is a professional phone to phone transfer and data backup as well as restore software. Developed by Gihosoft Studio, it is powerful and user-friendly. It allows you to transfer most commonly used data, such as contacts, photos, music, videos, SMS, calendar, call logs etc from Android to Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ just with one click. Meanwhile, it supports multiple and latest Android devices running on Android 2.1 to 7.0, such as HTC, LG, Nexus, Motorola, Huawei, OnePlus, Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ and more. Here are the detailed steps about switching from Android to Samsung S8.

Before you begin, please note the following instructions:

• Make sure your USB Ports are in well condition.
• Make sure the two devices are powered on.
• Make sure USB debugging is enabled on your Android phones.
• Make sure the latest USB driver is installed on computer.

Step 1 Start Gihosoft Mobile Transfer
Please download the latest version of Gihosoft Mobile Transfer from our website and install it on your computer, then run it. Hereafter, you can see the user-friendly main interface and choose "Phone to Phone".

Step 2. Connect the Android Phones to PC
Next, turn on the USB debugging of your old Android phone and new Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+, then connect them to computer separately via USB cables.
After that, a message will appear on your Android phone screen to ask you for authorizing this computer, please tap “OK”. Once the two devices have been connected to computer successfully, the phone model name will be shown on software interface. You can click “Flip” button to make sure your old Android Phone connected as a source phone and Samsung S8/s8+ connected as a destination phone.

Step 3. Transfer Data from Android to Samsung S8/S8+
After the two devices have been detected by our software, please mark the file types that you want to transfer then click “Start Copy” button to copy data from Android to Samsung S8. When the data transferring process is completed, you will be informed by a pop-up message. Now you can check the data list on your Samsung S8/S8+.

Apart from transferring data from Android to Samsung S8/S8+, Gihosoft Mobile Phone Transfer also enables you to transfer data from iPhone to Samsung S8/S8+.
As for iPhone to Samsung S8/S8+ transfer, you might refer to How to Transfer Data from iPhone to Android Like Samsung Galaxy S7/S8.