Where are my contacts?

[mkdon]

where are my contacts

hi

my samsung s3 screen broke recently so i transferred all my phones contents onto my laptop via usb, when i know open the folder i cant find my contacts, what folder will it be under? it shows me all my pictures and stuff iv sent and received through viber and whatsapp etc.

any ideas?

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: where are my contacts

Welcome to Android Central! If your contacts were only saved to the local Phone account, then they're in a SQLite database that is not easily accessible to the user. This is why you should always strongly consider saving your contacts to your Google Contacts, so that they sync immediately to your Google account in the cloud.

 

[mkdon]

Re: where are my contacts

thanks for that, any idea how i can access sqlite?

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: where are my contacts

I really have no experience with that. Here's an old thread on XDA that might be a good start: Extract Android SQLite Databases For Contact… | Android Development and Hacking | XDA Forums. But I think you'd need to be rooted in order to get to the database file, and you can't root the phone if you can't use it.