Can I extract contacts from twrp backup somehow?

andro1d_qt

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Greetings ,

Got my Samsung Galaxy J3 (SM-J320FN) like about 2 months ago and after all this time I decided to root it. Flashed twrp recovery using odin and before rooting I made a backup using the custom revovery in case of brick, loop etc. The only thing I forgot to do was to back up my conctacts on the microsd and therefore I'm in a kind of bad mess. So the question is whether I can extract the contacts from the backup or is there any other way getting to reach these contacts and transfer them to the current state of the phone.

P.S. : I thought of making a backup of the phone in this state , unroot it , flash the backup , pass my contacts to the external mem and then root and flash the rooted backup but i'm thinking of what could possibly go wrong.
 

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If you mean to restore contacts from Nandroid backup made with TWRP, you can use Nandroid Manager (need root).
 

andro1d_qt

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Backup was made from twrp recovery so I don't know if nandroid can help me or not. What I meant is unrooting and run the backup so I get back to the state of the phone before I wiped the cache/data and getting my conctacts back.

Edit:donwloaded nandroid manager and noticed that they're going to add a restore contacts option , but until then only thing I can do is add them manually which will probably be rough xD
So I'm still searching for any other way doing so without having to unroot.
 
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