restore contacts after factory data reset without backing it up to gmail

[Bupitz]

Hi all.

I found this thread and said I don't need to open a new one with the same topic.
Long story short:

Yesterday I did a factory reset on my father's Samsung S4. I bought it for him 2 years ago, configured it etc etc. Before the factory reset I backed up everything I said it is valuable, synchronized the contacts, backed up the Samsung Account to cloud and went for the factory reset.
Because I did the same on my S6 some time ago with the agenda backup on the SD card, computer, etc etc and was no need for that, I said to myself there's no need for my dad's neither.

After the reset, I logged in with the google accounts, everything was fine... WiFi passwords restored, apps, backgrounds ... BUT NO CONTACTS.
I looked in the settings, everything seemed OK, all checks were there. Restarted the phone, left it overnight online with WiFi on.... in the morning NO CONTACTS.
I logged into Gmail on my computer with his account ... NO CONTACTS ... WTF ?!?!?!?!?!?!? I also tried to load the contacts from yesterday, a week ago ... still no contacts :|

Is there a way to restore the contacts if they are not on google?!?

Thank you in advance!!!

 

[B. Diddy]

Before the factory reset I backed up everything I said it is valuable, synchronized the contacts, backed up the Samsung Account to cloud and went for the factory reset.

Were these contacts all saved to the Samsung account or a Google account? If they weren't associated with a Google account, then they won't get automatically synced there. If they were associated with a Samsung account, then they were presumably synced to the Samsung account in the cloud. Try going to Settings>Accounts, select Samsung, and make sure Contacts sync is turned on. Also, in the Contacts app, make sure it's set to show all accounts, and not just the Google account.

 

[B. Diddy]

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[saifi369]

Hello everyone!
I have Galaxy S6Edge

I needed to hardreset my device because of an Oculus update causing Battery Drain
But before doing so I have sync my contacts with samsung account
But when I restored all of my messages are here but some contacts are missing from both Gmail and samsung account.
I wonder why some of my contacts are missing.????

 

[BabbyBlue1956]

Had to do a recovery on my lgm322 lost all my contacts but one need to get it back