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Where are the contact images kept?
I have a contact image that is no longer in my gallery but it is one of my contact's avatar. I remember taking the photo and making it the avatar. I've went into my Google Contacts via the web but it is not there. The contact does not have a facebook or any other type of account. So it must be somewhere on the phone.

I have a Droid X with Gingerbread.

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The contacts is actually an app, hence as other Android apps store it's data, this app also stores in a SQLite database. Images are part of contact data and are spotted in database. It is stored in /data/data/com.Android.providers/contacta/databases/contracts.db

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  • Unfortunately, Astro sees the /data folder as empty. I am guessing these folders are not visible to the user. – dev4life Aug 10 '12 at 16:48
  • At first I too was stumbled as my file explorer too didn't show, but I was pretty sure about what I was looking for. in my file explorer, I enabled to show hidden files and then I was able to see the database file. By the way, I use ES file explorer. – Narayanan Aug 10 '12 at 17:22
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    And you are probably rooted -- as a normal user should not be able to dive below the /data directory (except, as with Skype, the developer was stupid enough to fiddle with the folder permissions, making them read-write for everybody). – Izzy♦ Aug 10 '12 at 17:40
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I found an idea. You should download program from Google Play called "Save Contact photo" then you will see all your contacts there and you can share those contact photos via Bluetooth(should have another phone for that!). And then you can see that photo in another phone's gallery, so you can easily transfer it via Facebook or Whatsapp.

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    A link for the app or at least the developer's name would help. I don't see any app named "Save Contact photo" in Play Store. – Firelord♦ Oct 17 '15 at 12:10
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    And even if there were an app extracting contact photos, all it would get were thumbnails (which are stored along with the records). The original photo won't be there. – Izzy♦ Nov 2 '15 at 16:21

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