If the phone in your hands is not new and it already has an account Google entry, then you first have to go to "Settings" and click on the "Add account" button. On old Android versions it may be under Accounts & sync, but since version 4.4 of KitKat it's under home page settings. After adding an account, click on it (it will be in the "Google" menu in the "Accounts" section) and select what exactly you want to sync with this device.
If you don't want your account to be subsequently linked to the phone you're using, you can unlink your account after you've copied your contacts to your phone (or even just to notebook). To do this, go to “Settings”, enter the “Google” menu, select an account, click on the “Menu” button (three vertical dots or a physical button on your smartphone) and click on “Delete account”.
Regardless of which of the two methods you used, wait a few minutes and enter the Contacts app - most likely, the contacts will already be downloaded to your phone. What to do next with them is up to you.
Now we will consider in what ways you can transfer contacts from one of your devices based on the Android OS to another. You will need to do this in any case if:
Precisely because over the past ten years Internet technologies have made a significant leap in their development (and also because of the last point), I will pay special attention to the methods associated with synchronization and backup. So let's start.
This is one of the most popular and convenient ways to move contacts from device to device. In fact, you can log into your account from any device in a few minutes. So let's get started.
2. In the "Accounts" section, click on "Add an account".
3. You need a google account.
5. Now mark what exactly you need to synchronize (it is better to check all the items) and click the corresponding icon.
That's it, now the contacts are not only on your phone, but also in the cloud.
If you don't have a Google account yet, but want to create one and be able to sync all the contacts you have on your phone to the cloud:
3. Enter your registration details and click "Next".
4. Now enter your future nickname. Click next.
5. Come up with strong password and duplicate it. Click next.
6. If you want, you can link your account to a phone number. This will help you to change your password if you forget it or if the password is not secure and is hacked. Enter the number and click "Next". If you do not want to do this, just click "Skip".
7. Agree to all the terms by clicking the "Accept" button.
9. Then select the newly created account and sync as described above.
Here you can see all your contacts or copy them in one file.
1. The first thing to do is go to the site and log in. If you are already in your mail, just switch as shown in the picture.
2. In order to perform the actions we are interested in, open the "More" drop-down list.
3. You can "Import", "Export", "Restore contacts". For the latter, click the appropriate item. And then in the pop-up window, select for what period and click "Restore". This is necessary if you deleted them, but you need one of them.
4. To save your contacts to your computer, click "Export". In the new window, select the list of contacts you need, as well as the file format (the default is the one that is needed for future import to your google account).
5. To import, select "Import", select the file and click "Open".
That's it, the study of the method of synchronization through a google account is completed.
System backup
Just by doing backup system, you can save contacts (as well as settings, messages, etc.). See exactly how to do this.
First, let's move on to ways to save contacts.
2. Now click on features and select "Settings".
3. Select Accounts & Contacts.
Now you can see the main ways to save contacts. Consider transmitting via bluetooth (in this case to a computer, but pairing with another phone is exactly the same).
2. Mark all contacts and select "Bluetooth" transmission method.
4. It will search for devices, select the one you need.
5. Then pair the devices (confirm that this is the device you need by checking the codes), by clicking "Yes".
Note: if you are interested in how to import contacts from the same PC, then everything is very simple. You:
The backup file is launched as follows (item "Import from a memory card").
Brief summary
Now you know the basic and most effective methods for transferring contacts from smartphone to smartphone (meaning that both devices run on the Android OS platform). There are, of course, other methods, but, to be honest, they are simply not needed, because the methods described above work in 100% of cases.
When to buy new phone on the Android OS, the first thing that comes to mind is: "How can I save phone numbers?" It turns out that this is not such a big problem, since moving phone numbers from one gadget to another is possible in several ways.
There are quite a few ways to transfer the phone book directly from an Android phone to another. All of them are simple and will take no more than 5 minutes.
The first thing that comes to mind is to transfer contacts from Android to Android using Bluetooth. This method has long been known to everyone, since it was very popular on push-button phones. However, with the advent of Android, almost nothing has changed in it.
The first step is to enable Bluetooth on both devices. Next, you need to enable the device discovery system. On some, it is always disabled to protect the user from transmission obscure files. Go to Settings/Bluetooth. We put a tick in front of "Visible to others" on both gadgets, after which we search for devices on one of them.
We find the right one (most likely, it will be the first in the list, but just in case we look at its name), and then click on it to connect. You may need to come up with a password for a more secure connection and enter it on another phone. Having connected, we start sending data.
We go to phone book. In the settings, click “Mark several” or “Mark all”, after which we click on “Send”, “By Bluetooth” in the same place. We accept on another gadget.
Few people know, but contacts can be saved on internal memory or microSD. To do this, go to the phone book, enter the options and click "Import / Export". Select "Export to SD card" from the list. It is important to remember the save path that will be specified (most likely, the file will be saved to the system folder). from the save directory can be via Bluetooth, e-mail, sending to the cloud. Having received a list of numbers on another gadget, go to contacts, open “Import / Export”, where we select “Import from SD card”.
This method can be used in a situation where other methods are physically impossible, for example, to transfer numbers from
This method requires that all phone numbers are on the SIM card. We insert a SIM card with a phone book into a smartphone and transfer data to any convenient way.
You can also transfer contacts from via PC. To do this, you need to install a special program for this on your PC, for example MOBILedit! Download, install.
Immediately after installation, the utility will prompt you to download the driver database. To save time, we ship them only for devices of the brands we need. Before transferring contacts to Android, you need to prepare the gadget. Go to "Settings / Features for Developers" and check the item Connect to PC via USB cable, run the program.
After launch, you will need to select the type and purpose of the connection. In our case, select Phone\Cable connection. Click "Next", after which the automatic connection scanning will begin. When the gadget is found, select it and click Finish. Next, in the left panel, click on the Phonebook section and click on Export in the toolbar at the top. Select the save location, name it and in the "File Type" column select CSV.
We connect the second smartphone to the computer via cable, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, before the connection procedure is exactly the same. Then click on the AImport button in the top toolbar and load the previously exported file. Next, go to the contacts of the phone, click "Import" and load the address book.
Another way to transfer contacts from Android to Android is via Google+. First you also need to save the phone book as a single file and transfer it in any convenient way (USB cable, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cloud, Email). Now let's go to Gmail. Each Android user should have it, because without it you can’t download any application from the market. Go to google.com and log into your account, after which we go to the profile. In the upper right corner, click on the nine squares and select "Mail" from the list. The easiest way to get here is at gmail.com or mail.google.com. Next, you need to click on the “Gmail” button and select “Contacts / Contacts” from the drop-down list.
In the page that opens, click on "More" - "Import".
Loading the phone book saved in or vCard.
To transfer data from Google to Android, you need to export it in the same CSV format to HDD, reset to the phone and import into the database of numbers. Why then such a cumbersome method? Its advantages are that data is stored in Google, they can be edited and new ones added.
In addition, in the future it will be possible to simply synchronize with mailbox Gmail, after which all contacts will be available on the phone after synchronization. If you synchronize with other applications (Facebook, VKontakte, Skype), you can see contacts from them in the list of phone numbers.
Taking care of conservation important information, most users of the Android system first of all pay attention to the contact book with phone numbers and personal data of friends, acquaintances and relatives. How to transfer contacts from Android to computer and vice versa? Now we will consider several ways to help solve the problem. Without talking about specialized applications, which today can be found quite a lot, let's first consider standard methods, involving the use of a smartphone paired with a computer or remote import / export.
In the simplest situation, you can only use a mobile device. Indeed, why create problems for yourself out of the blue, if you can do without own funds"Android"?
How to transfer contacts from Android to a computer without a Google account? As easy as pie. To do this, use the contact list, in which you need to click on the menu button and select the import / export item. When saving a list, you can specify its location as a VCF file on internal storage or in the SD card memory. Thus, the problem of how to transfer contacts from Android to a computer via a USB connection is solved quite simply. The created file can be simply transferred to the hard drive.
Another technique that makes it just as easy to solve the question of how to transfer contacts from Android to a computer is to initially set the visible contacts filter when you need to save not all information, but only part of the list.
These were the most simple methods, allowing within a couple of minutes to solve the question of how to transfer Android contacts through a computer to a hard drive. Now you need to open the vCard file already on the computer.
As a rule, the issue of opening a list from a file is solved quite simply, even using standard mail clients like Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, not to mention programs like The Bat and others like her. But if preference is given specifically to applications from Microsoft, the user may face one very unpleasant problem related to the fact that instead of normal characters, information will be shown in the form of awkward hieroglyphs. The reason is incorrect encoding.
To fix this unpleasant situation, you should use any program that allows you to change the encoding (Windows tries to open the text part with the conversion to Windows 1251 encoding, and Android saves information in UTF-8 by default).
You can also add special tags to the vCard file itself, but it is better to re-save the file in Windows encoding (this is easier and takes a minimum of time).
The most optimal solution for changing the encoding, most experts consider the use of a small application called Sublime Text.
The application can be presented as a portable version that does not require installation. After opening the desired file in VCF format, you just need to select its saving with conversion (menu item Save With Encoding), which specifies the Windows encoding 1251 Cyrillic. After that, it will be possible to open the contact list without any problems in any mail client, including standard tools of Windows systems.
An equally simple and universal solution for converting the encoding can be called the use of the Notedad ++ notepad program.
Actually, the solution for encoding conversion itself practically does not differ from the previous method. It is enough to open the desired file, set the Windows encoding to 1251 and save the document in the converted form.
Now let's look at another method that allows you to solve the question of how to transfer contacts from Android to a computer. A Google account and the corresponding interface allow you to do this remotely, and the use of a mobile device is not required at all.
But each user must understand that they should initially synchronize contacts with their account on their smartphone. To transfer contacts, it uses the contacts.google.com portal, and on the page in the “More” menu, you need to select the export function. Next, you will need to specify the "My Contacts" group and the format of the object to be saved (CSV for Google, CSV for import to Outlook, or vCard format). After that, it remains only to click the export button. What to use? It is better not to select only filtered information, but to specify vCard as the final format.
Another technique that allows you to solve the problem of how to transfer contacts from Android to a computer quickly and easily is to create a special archive, which can then be opened by any program designed for this.
You will need to enter the so-called "Google Archiver", then press the button for selecting services and go to contacts. You may need to re-enter your own password in the next step, and then customize the view of the archive using the button with the arrow below. Enter HTML as the format, and then click on the download button. After the archive with the name in the form of the current username is loaded, all that remains is to unpack it (then a file called "All addresses" will appear).
But that's not all. In principle, if you dig deep into the same repository Google Play, there you can find a huge number of applications and applets for transferring a contact list to a computer from any operating system. However, one of the universal methods can be called the installation and further use computer programs, which are intended exclusively for specific model lines.
For example, for Samsung products, you can use the Kies app to Sony Xperia- Sony PC Companion, etc. With their help, contacts can be exported in just a couple of clicks. The most important condition is to connect a mobile device to a computer via USB.
In general, if we draw conclusions, all the proposed methods are quite simple. But it seems that in the most elementary case it is better to use the export directly on the mobile gadget or remote export from the Google Internet resource when you log into your account. An equally simple and affordable solution can be the use of "native" utilities designed specifically for specific device, because the manufacturers of equipment and the developers of the corresponding software know their own products best of all. These applications are such that they can fully control all the functions of mobile devices and even restore the system to a clean factory state if it suddenly becomes completely inoperative.
Well, which method to prefer, everyone decides for himself. The only method that looks a little more complicated than all the others is creating an archive. But even here, if you show a little patience and figure out the settings, something will not be too complicated. However, all methods are good, but they need to be applied on the basis of each specific case (meaning the choice of a method using a mobile gadget or without it). In the rest, as it is already clear, there should not be any special problems (with the exception of the possible recoding of the saved contacts file), although such a flaw for Android and Windows compatibility is solved quite simply. A with Mac systems OS X is no problem at all. The encoding does not need to be changed, since they accept such files natively, without trying to apply their own reading methods. And for many, this is a paradox, because Android devices and Apple devices are the main competitors in the global market. However, the policy for both devices is now undergoing significant concessions due to increasing cross-support.
When buying a new phone, you will have to face the solution of the software problem in the new device.
There are several ways to quickly move numbers from Aandroid on Android.
To transfer them from Android to via a computer, you will need your old android, personal computer and USB cable. As well as the MOBILedit program.
After it is installed, copy everything contained in the folder called "Crack" and move it to the folder where the MOBILedit application is installed.
After launch, you will be prompted. To speed up the process, you should select your manufacturer and confirm the start of the installation.
When the process of installing the MOBILedit program is finally completed, go to the tab - "Phone - Cable connection".
When prompted for the type of connection, select PC Sync (there may be another name, it depends on the brand and model, but it must match the synchronization).
The next step is to disable the USB debugging feature.
You need to go:
On smartphones with Android version 4.2, go to the phone settings, then go to the "System" tab and turn on "Device Information".
Click on the Build Number tab and check USB debugging.
Select the Import position, where we find the file we have already saved.
In the case when there is access to a PC and the Internet, you can transfer using an account.
You can synchronize Google services with your phone book. This is very practical in that you can make changes even when the phone is not at hand.
And in order to send a number to an android, you need to activate your Google Drive account.
This feature also allows you to recover entries that have been deleted within the last 30 days. 
At the top left, select the item and go to the "Contacts" tab.
At the bottom there should be an item for importing contacts - select "phone book", set parameter necessarily vCard, as a last resort CSV.
Ready. The numbers have been transferred from your account to your Android.
There is another way to copy from the phone book using a PC and the Internet.
In order to transfer records from, you need to download and install your Yandex.Moving software on your previous android.
And it is installed. Directly into it you will save the necessary contacts for transfer.
After you have activated your Yandex disk account and copied your contacts from your old phone, you should:
When you can't connect to personal computer, you can consider other ways to copy the phone book, first of all, consider how to transfer them via bluetooth:
Connect both of your phone devices;
Activate Bluetooth on both devices, - Go to the "Settings" menu - then the Bluetooth item - and check the box next to the "Visible for other devices" item;
On the old one, go to the Bluetooth settings menu and find the new device;
Confirm the connection with the new phone, just enter the same passwords;
Go to the phone book and define the numbers you want to transfer via ;
You can also in the notebook itself, by clicking on the entry, select "Transfer" and then "via Bluetooth".
You can also copy your entries using SIM cards, if your mobile supports this function.
How to move contacts using SD card:
