How to Backup Android Contacts to Gmail Account
Sync
Contacts to Gmail on Android
You can directly save contacts to
Gmail on your Android phone.
1) Press the menu button > "Settings"
> "Accounts and sync" > "Add account"
> "Google" > "Next" > "Sign
in".
2) Enter your Gmail login
information. If you don't already have a Gmail account, tap the "Create"
button instead and fill in the form provided.
3) Tap the "Sign in"
> "Sync Contacts" > "Finish". You can
then transfer your contacts to Gmail.
4) If you lose and mistakenly delete
contacts later, you can then restore lost contacts on Gmail by Restore
Contacts feature.
5) If you don't want to add Gmail
account on your phone, you can back up Android contacts to Google Gmail on your
computer.
Back
up Android Contacts to Gmail on PC
Before importing contacts to Gmail
on your computer, you need to transfer the contacts from the Android to PC.
To export contacts from
Android to PC: on your Android phone, enter "Contacts" >
menu button > "Import/Export" > "Export to USIM
Card/ storage" > "OK".
Step 1. Log into Gmail
Sign in to Gmail with your account
and the password. After that, click on the triangle icon and expand the list.
Choose "Contacts > More > Import". Then choose "GO
TO OLD CONTACTS > Import Contacts". Contacts will be imported as
VCF format.
Step 2. Select and Import Contacts
to Gmail
Select contacts in VCF/VCard format
in your computer. Then click "Open". When the pop up as below
occurs, select "Import".
Check the Gmail, you can see all the
imported contacts displayed in the list.
Tip: to retrieve Google backup contacts,
you can export the contacts from Gmail to PC, then import the contacts to your
Android phone.
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