How to Backup Contacts and Messages on Android Smartphone

No matter how many songs or movies are stored on our smartphones, the most important data will always be “Contacts” and “Messages”. This is because, this is the main purpose of a smartphone. Once it happened that i lost all my contacts. This was the saddest moment of my life. It was like i lost everything and my smarphone was useless now. That is why i have decided that none of you will ever lose your precious data. In this post you will learn how to backup contacts and messages on android smartphone.


We will explain seprate methods to backup contacts and messages for better understanding.

Backup Contacts

To make a backup of your contacts and call logs, three methods are available. We will explain each of them one-by-one. We will also explain how you can import these contacts to your phone later.
1. Export Contacts to vCard:
This is one of the most reliable and oldest methods available to save your contacts. Follow these steps to backup your contacts:

• Open “Contacts” app

• Hit menu button and select “Export Contacts”

• Now select the storage type you want to use (Sd Card is preferrable)

• Later you can upload this file to an online storage like Dropbox, Drive or Skydrive for safekeeping
• Now click on “OK”

• Your contacts are now in a  backup file

This is how you backup your contacts to a vCard. The advantage of vCard is that you can send it to any other mobile any use it. You can make a new vCard file every week to store new contacts and delete old vCard files.

1.1 Import Contacts from vCard:

• Impoting contacts from a vCard is very simple
• You just need to hit the menu button in contacts app
• Select “Import Contacts”

• Select the file you want to restore