How to save contacts from Android

This article continues on the methods to save contacts from Android phone. How to backup contacts from Android phone to Gmail is given here: How to backup contacts from Android

Steps on how to backup data from Android phone have been given here: How to backup Android phone
In this post, how to save contacts from Android phone to SIM card and memory card will be discussed.

Save Android phone contacts to SIM card:

A SIM card (Subscriber Identity Module) can usually store up to 250 contact details. The details it stores include only the contact name and their number. It does not store the contact photo, email address etc.
So when transferring contacts to SIM, sometimes the message “some information will be lost” appears. This message implies this same thing that it will save only the contact name and number.Nothing more and nothing less.
To backup contacts from Android phone to the SIM card:
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Steps on how to perform a hard reset on Android phone is given here: Hard reset Android
How to save all the Android phone data into the memory card will be given in the later posts.
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How to backup contacts from Android

 

Before performing a hard rest on Android phone, steps to take backup of the data in the phone have been given in the previous post: How to backup Android phone.
Steps on how to perform hard rest of Android phone are given here: Hard reset Android
In this post, methods of saving contacts from the Android phone are discussed.

Backup of contacts from the Android phone to Gmail:

• In Android phones, it is an advantage to have the user’s Gmail account in sync with the phone so that it helps in saving contacts of the phone.

• On the Android phone, go to Settings->Accounts. Under Accounts, it will  show the list of accounts that have been sync to the device.

• In that list, look for the Gmail account that is used to sync to the phone.

 If the user has not added any Gmail account to the phone before, the following steps tell how to add Gmail account to an Android device:
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Saving Android phone contacts to the SIM card or to the memory card are given here: How to save Android contacts to SIM or SD card
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