i have a android LGL 15G and I factory reset by mistake and it deleted my contacts. Can you help me retrieve them?
If you don't have a copy of them somewhere else, you will have to reenter them.
A "factory reset" does just that - it puts the device in the same condition it was when it left the factory, before it was taken out of the box and used. Everything you had added was erased, irretrievably erased.
A "factory reset" does just that - it puts the device in the same condition it was when it left the factory, before it was taken out of the box and used. Everything you had added was erased, irretrievably erased.
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Welcome to Android Central! Do you remember if those contacts were saved to your Google account or the local Phone account? Google account contacts get synced automatically to your Google Contacts in the cloud, which is why I always recommend doing it that way. On your computer, go to contacts.google.com--do you see your contacts there? If so, then as soon as you log the phone into your Google account, those contacts should sync back to the phone.
If you don't see the contacts there, then you had the contacts saved to the local Phone account, which doesn't automatically sync or backup anywhere. So a factory reset (which, as it clearly states, completely wipes the phone) would erase your contacts as well.
If you don't see the contacts there, then you had the contacts saved to the local Phone account, which doesn't automatically sync or backup anywhere. So a factory reset (which, as it clearly states, completely wipes the phone) would erase your contacts as well.
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