Contacts Backup [Simple and Easy Method]

Hey, in this article, I’m going to talk about backup of your contacts, and I’m damn sure many of you are facing this problem. Backing up your contact from phone to another phone is a very important thing because if you forget to take backup while hard reset or factory reset your phone then you may lose your all contacts. So, it’s a very important thing and you might have this problem so stick with this article till the end.

In this article, I’m going to back up the contacts from Android Phone to Windows Phone vice versa. For that, you need a Google account & Outlook account. Open Contacts on your Android phone and click on the button which is next to + button at the upper right corner. Now, select Import/Export Contacts, Export to Storage & hit OK. Contacts.vcf file will save on your SD Card.

Now, login to your Gmail account on your PC. Click on Gmail drop-down button and select Contacts. Now, on the left sidebar, select More and choose Import. Once a new window is open, choose last option CSV or Vcard file & Go to Old Version. Now, select the contacts which you want to Export, click on More and Export. The most important thing is exported file format. You should select Outlook CSV Format. Once you were done, hit Export.

Now, login to your Outlook account. Click on the upper left corner which is before Outlook Email & chooses People. Now, click on Manage and select Import Contacts. Select Gmail & browse the exported file from Gmail. It takes the time to complete the importing procedure. Once it’s done & reboots your Windows Phone and open People on it. You will see all of the contacts are saved on your Windows Phone.
So, in this way, you can copy all contacts from one phone to another phone. You can also follow this same procedure while transferring the contacts from Windows Phone to Android Phone.

Resource: http://www.lokesharyan.com/contacts-backup/