How do I restore a contact I deleted on my Android phone, but not in GMail contacts?

Question

The contact in question had the wrong phone number in Viber, so I deleted it from Viber. I later found out that Viber had deleted it from my contacts, so I had lost all of the other correct information.

Logging in to GMail contacts on the desktop showed that the contact still existed. I proceeded to correct the faulty phone number and tried to sync my contacts from my phone, but this particular contact never shows up.

Is there any way around this?

Answer 1

Method 1 Stop syncing with Google account, check that all Google contacts are gone, set up sync again.

Method 2 Remove the Google account, add it again.

(You can do both in Accounts & Sync from phone Settings.)

Answer 2

Try deleting and clearing your Contacts Storage (SETTINGS > APPLICATIONS > MANAGE APPLICATIONS - SHOW ALL) and re-syncing. One good thing about Google's Gmail Contacts - it retains backup sets, so you can restore previously modified / deleted contacts from within the Gmail web interface.

Or you can try creating a fresh contact with the same info and slightly changed details, like adding a comma within the postal address or adding a prefix like Mr. / Ms. etc.

Answer 3

Try recreating it on the phone instead, maybe just enough to make a valid entry, say name and phone # (bogus # if need be), then sync. If it takes, then fix it on Gmail from your computer.

Answer 4

You can restore contacts deleted on Android phones. To do this, connect your Android phone to your laptop and use a Android Contact Recovery program to be able to view the deleted files in the task window. After this, click on the ones that you want to recover.