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Recover Lost Contacts on Huawei Phone

By Selena KomezUpdated on August 15, 2019


Summary: If you want to recover deleted contacts from Huawei Android phone, this post recommend you some useful Huawei contact recovery solutions to recover lost or deleted contacts from Huawei Mate/P/G/Y/Honor/Ascend/Nova at ease.

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Most of people like to record the phone numbers and personal information on contacts list of mobile phone, like the home address, E-mail address, birthday date. Keeping the contacts allows you to save the data on the mobile phone that you don’t have to being strange with anyone you don’t often meet. Without contacts, you may be need to spend a lot of time searching for the information of someone. Which is a trouble thing. It is, therefore, it is important that you backup Huawei phone on computer frequently. When you lost contacts (phone numbers) due to accidental deletion, Android OS updated, virus attacked, factory reset restoring, or other curse. Don’t wory, this page offer a reliable solution to recover deleted and lost contacts from Huawei like P30/P20/10, Mate 20/10/9, Honor 10/9/8, Huawei Y/G series and Huawei Nova series.

Part 1: How to Display Hidden Contacts on Huawei Phone

Some Huawei users say that all contacts on their Huawei phone are lost, it is a common thing that Contacts disappear on Android phones for unknown reason. Actually, maybe your contacts are just hidden on Huawei Android phone, just follow the below simple steps to get them shown up again.

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Step 1. Open Contacts app on Huawei phone, all of your contacts list will displayed
Step 2. Tap the menu (three dots) on upper right corner.
Step 3. Tap Settings and then tap Contacts.
Step 3. Open Contacts to display dialog. Make sure that “all contacts” is selected to see if all your contacts are hidden by careless.

If you still can’t find your contacts, please use a thrid-party Android contacts recovery software to scan and recover lost contacts on Huawei Android phone.

Part 2: Recover Lost Contacts from Huawei Phone Internal Memory

Android Data Recovery is a professional Huawei Contacts Recovery, which can help you recover lost contacts from Huawei Android phone. The software allows you to recover Android data in the easiest and the fastest way as it is done within a few clicks. It not just recover the contact phone numbers, but also restore job title, company name, fax numbers, email address and other more contact information. You are also to recover multiple types of Android files, including contacts, photos, text messages, call logs, notes, WhatsApp messages, documents, among others. In addition, this Android ToolKit is an all-in-one data manager tool for Android device, features with Android data recovery, Android data backup & restore and broken Android data extraction.

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Recover Deleted and Lost Contacts from Huawei Mate/P/Honor/Y/Nova/G

Step 1.Run Program and Connect Huawei to the Computer
Clicking “Android Data Recovery” mode in the home page of program after running the Android Toolkit on the computer.

Huawei Contact Recovery

Then connecting your Huawei phone to the computer via an USB cable.

connect Huawei phone

Step 2.Enable USB debugging on Huawei Phone
If you turn on usb debugging before, you can skip this step, else the software will require you to enable USB debugging on your Huawei Android phone, just follow the instruction. After finishing the operations, click “OK” button to go on.
1. For Android 2.3 or earlier: Enter “Settings” < Click "Applications" < Click "Development" < Check "USB debugging" 2. For Android 3.0 to 4.1: Enter "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging" 3. For Android 4.2 or newer: Enter "Settings" < Click "About Phone" < Tap "Build number" for several times until getting a note "You are under developer mode" < Back to "Settings" < Click "Developer options" < Check "USB debugging" You can also read our article about how to enable USB bugging mode on Android

Enable USB debugging

Step 3.Select Contacts to Scan
After allowing program detect your device on computer, you’ll see this window,different types of files can be chose to be scan by program. In this case,select the “Contacts” file from Huawei that to be scanned and then click “Next” to go on. (You can click “Select all” to have all your Android data scanned).

select gallery files to scan

Step 4.Allow Analyzing Your Huawei Phone
Tapping “Allow” on your device to enable the program to scan your device for deleted data.

allow scan Huawei phone

Notes: Please make sure that your phone battery is more than 20% charged and keep the connection between your phone and the computer in the whole process.

Step 5.Root to Get Full Access to the Phone Internal Memory
Before scanning the Huawei phone, if your device is not rooted, you should see this screen below, it means the program asks whether you need to root the device for deep scanning the device.

To root the device for deep scanning, please click the Rooting Tools button, then it will pop up an external website, please download, install this professional Android root tool — KingoRoot, which is safe and performs rooting task well.

root Huawei phone to deep scan

Tips: To get full access to the phone internal memory, you’ll have to root the device. Don’t worry, the KingoRoot tool can help you safely root the device, and you can get it back to it’s original state after data recovery complete.
Check out the article on How to Safely Root and Unroot an Android Device with KingoRoot.

Step 7.Start to Scan Deleted or Lost Data from Huawei Phone
Once rooted successfully, this Android data recovery software will start scanning your phone completely for deleted files. Be patient. It will takes around 5-20 minutes.

scan data from Huawei

Step 7.Recover Lost Contacts from Huawei Phone
When the scan is completed, you can preview all data found on your Huawei phone, list as contacts, gallery, SMS, and others. Preview then recovering the selected data under “Contacts” file by clicking “Recover” on the computer.

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The lost or deleted contacts will be scaned and saved as CSV, HTML, VCF format, we recommend you as the contact files as .CSV format, then you can use this Android Transfer to transfer the restored contacts from computer to Huawei phone or more Android/iOS devices.
Related guide: How to Import Contacts to Android

Android Data Recovery Supports Huawei and 6000+ Android Phones

Huawei Mate: Huawei Mate 20/ Mate 20 Pro, Huawei Mate 20 X(5G), HUAWEI Mate 20 RS Porsche Design, HUAWEI Mate RS Porsche Design, Huawei Mate 10/10 Pro, Huawei Mate 10 Porsche Design, Mate 10 lite, Huawei Mate 9, Huawei Mate 9 Pro, Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design, Huawei Mate 8, Huawei Mate 7, Huawei Mate S and Huawei Mate RS Porsche Design.

Huawei P: Huawei P30/ P30 Pro, Huawei P20, Huawei P20 Pro, Huawei P10, Huawei P10 Plus, Huawei P9, Huawei P9 Plus, Huawei P8, Huawei P8max, Huawei P8 Lite, HUAWEI P smart+ 2019, HUAWEI P smart 2019, HUAWEI P smart

Huawei Honor: Huawei Honor V9, Huawei Honor 8,Honor 8 Pro, Huawei Magic,Huawei Honor 7/6, Huawei Honor 6, Honor 6X , Huawei Honor 5X,Huawei Honor 4c/3c, Huawei Honor 4x

Huawei Nova:HUAWEI nova 5 Pro, HUAWEI nova 5, HUAWEI nova 5i Pro, HUAWEI nova 4/nova 4e, nova 3/nova 3i, nova 2s, Huawei Nova 3e, Huawei Nova, Huawei Nova Plus

Huwei G: Huawei G9, Huawei G9 Plus, Huawei G9 Lite, Huawei G8, Huawei G7 Plus, Huawei GR5 2017, Huawei GT3, Huawei GR5, Huawei GR3, Huawei Ascend G7

Huawei Y: HUAWEI Y9 Prime 2019, HUAWEI Y7 2019, HUAWEI Y9 2019, HUAWEI Y6 2019, HUAWEI Y5 2019, HUAWEI Y6 Prime 2018, HUAWEI Y6 2018, HUAWEI Y9 2018, HUAWEI Y5 Prime 2018, Huawei Y5 2017, Huawei Y6II, Huawei Y5II, Huawei Y3II, Huawei Y6 PRO

Ascend:Huawei Ascend P8, Huawei Ascend G7, Huawei Ascend Mate 7, Huawei Ascend Mate 6

Other Android phones, such as Samsung Galaxy, LG, HTC, Sony, Google Pixel, Nexus, OnePlus, Motorola, Xiaomi, Redmi, Oppo, Meitu, Windows Phone, Sharp phones and more.

Part 3: Huawei Contacts Disappeared? More Ways to Restore Them

If you can find the contacts disappear from your Android phones, the part will teach you some few methods to get missing contacts backup on Huawei phone, you may be able to restore the lost contacts if you are lucky.

1st Free Way: Restart your Huawei phone. Sometimes, all contacts will be show up after a simple restart.

2nd Free Way: Restore Contacts from Huawei Backup
If you have synced the contacts to Huawei Backup app, you can easily restore contacts from Huawei Backup:
1.Open Backup app on Huawei phone and tap Restore, then select what source you have stored the contacts before.
1)Restore from SD card; 2) Restore from internal storage; 3) Restore from external USB storage

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2. Enter password and select the Contacts to restore them by tapping “Start restoration”.

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All your backed up contacts will restore to Huawei phone again.

3rd Free Way: If you have transferred the contacts to Outlook, Google, Huawei Cloud or other account. Please don’t sync it and then restart your Huawei phone.

4th Free Way: In you have synced the contacts to Outlook, Gmail or other email app, please update the email app. Or remove the account and re-add it.

5th Free Way: Try to Export Contacts
Go to Settings and select Export/Import Contacts. The phone will then find out all existing and lost contacts, you can also use this Android Contacts Transfer to backup all contacts to the computer, then find them on the computer.

Tips: To avoiding contacts lost or deleted again, we recommend should backup Android contacts to computer regularly. Here, we recommend you this Android Data Backup & Restore tool, it can help you backup calendar, call history, gallery, video, messages, contacts, audio, applications and even application data(rooted device) from Android to computer, you can also restore the data to any Android/iOS devices whenever you want.

More HUAWEI Data Recovery & Transfer Guide

How to Recover Data from Huawei Phone

How to Recover Photos from Huawei Phone

How to Backup and Restore Huawei Phone

How to Recover SMS from Huawei Phone

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