Life and daily activities of a modern person are strongly associated with mobile assistants - smartphones. The phone has long outgrown its original purpose, and from a simple "dialer" has become a device in which we store all important information. This is especially true for contacts, both personal and work. At the same time, all devices equipped with a touch screen have one drawback in common - their durability. A convenient, functional and powerful smartphone will not always be able to withstand a fall on asphalt or other hard surfaces.

Today we will not talk about how to increase the level of protection of the phone from mechanical damage. We will focus on how to extract contacts from a broken phone. Since it is contacts that are the most valuable and important thing that is stored in the memory of your mobile gadget. But first, a short review of an extremely interesting smartphone model from the promising British brand Wileyfox.

Wileyfox smartphones

This British company introduced its first smartphone model to the market in October 2015. To make themselves known in a highly competitive environment, brand models had to have undeniable advantages. And they received such benefits. All models of Wileyfox smartphones:

• Work with two SIM cards;
• Support fourth generation 4G LTE data networks;
• They have a stylish modern design;
• Received powerful hardware;
• Made from high quality components and elements;
• Differ in reliability and high productivity;
• They are quite inexpensive.

Thanks to this, the brand quickly found supporters among users, it was noticed and appreciated by market experts. So, already in December 2015, the Wileyfox Swift model becomes the smartphone of the year according to Forbes magazine. In February 2016, the company becomes the winner of the prestigious British Mobile News Awards-2016 in the manufacturer of the year nomination. And in October 2016, the authoritative Internet resource Hi-Tech Mail.ru gives the victory to the Wileyfox Spark + model in the nomination "Best Smartphone under 10 thousand rubles".

Wileyfox Swift 2

This model will not go unnoticed. You will definitely pay attention to the stylish original design. And after you get acquainted with the characteristics, you will immediately understand - this is exactly what you need. Smartphone Wileyfox Swift 2 got everything you need for a modern model: a fingerprint scanner, an NFC module, Glonass, GPS and Assisted GPS navigation modules, a 16-megapixel main and 8-megapixel front camera.

The performance and high speed of command processing is provided by a powerful 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 MSM8937 processor with an operating frequency of 1.4 GHz. The smartphone also received 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal memory. If necessary, the internal memory of the device can be increased using a microSDXC card (working with cards up to 64 GB is supported).

You can get more detailed information about the model and order it for 9,990 rubles on the official website.

If the smartphone is completely broken and cannot be turned on (not only the screen is damaged), then data recovery will be quite problematic. This will require the availability of specialized equipment and relevant skills. But today, the user has various cloud services at his disposal, to which you can upload information from a still working phone.

Users of Android devices from the first turn on get access to such a service from Google - they are prompted to create a new one or log into their account. But so that you always have the opportunity to restore up-to-date data, do not disable the background synchronization option in the smartphone settings. In this case, you will not have a problem how to extract contacts from a broken Android phone. All you have to do is sign in to your Google account on your computer or another smartphone.

Imagine a situation where your smartphone is broken, but you are not ready to buy a new one yet. Surely, when you first turned it on, you used the system prompts and created your Google account. Thanks to this, all your contacts remain safe, even if the phone is broken, lost or stolen.

If you have an android smartphone at your disposal, albeit not a new one, you can use it to get the information we need. To do this, in the settings, go to the "Add account" tab and synchronize data with this device. After that, in the contact list you can find all the information from your account.

After you save them in a way convenient for you (transfer to another phone via a memory card or just in a notebook), simply delete your account from this device. After that, your data will disappear from it.

Recovering contacts using a computer

This method is also based on the fact that you originally created your Google account. Thanks to this, if you cannot turn on the phone, you have a way to find the desired entry in the contact list. So, how to extract contacts from a broken phone using Google services.

If you do not want to use Google's cloud services or other applications with similar functionality, we recommend that you enable this option in order to be able to restore information from the address book in case of mechanical damage to the device. To work with the ADB protocol, most likely, you will need the help of a specialist. But if you wish, you can deal with this option on your own by reading the relevant sections of the forums dedicated to your smartphone model.

To do this, you will also need a computer with Windows 7 (the protocol is not stable on newer operating systems) and the device itself, connected to the PC using a MicroUSB cable. You will need to install the appropriate set of drivers for the smartphone model on the computer and unpack the PC archive with the ADB terminal.

After connecting the machine to the computer, run “cmd.exe” in the command line, after which a terminal window will open. After that, you need to combine this terminal with the ADB terminal and run the "adb pull" command, after which you will receive a file containing your contacts database on the phone. This file, with the *.db extension, can be opened with a standard Windows notepad.

Conclusion

In order not to have problems with restoring your contact list if your phone is lost or broken, you should take care of backup in advance. And binding to cloud services will greatly facilitate the transition to a new smartphone model. You just need to log into your account from the new device and synchronize the data.