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April 9

How to retrieve phone contacts from google drive or gmail. ?

Hello there, I had the motherboard of android phone (Huawei Y 5II) replaced by customer care technician. Before replacing, technician helped me to moved all files to google drive. I have recovered all files except contacts. I have tried to retrieve them from gmail and google drive with no results. The only thing I retrieved a excel file named, "contacts.csv". But when I opened the file there are no contacts except random words like, Name, Initials, name suffix and some other words. How can I get back contacts? Would you be open minded to help me out ? Thanks in advance. --103.231.162.134 (talk) 18:17, 9 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Did you import the csv into Excel? A csv file is just comma separated variables, so it should load into any text editor or word processor. If you cannot read it in a text editor then it is probably corrupt unless it was saved in some special format designed to load back into the phone. Your technician might know. Dbfirs 19:13, 9 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's a csv excel file. When I open it, it only shows headlines such as, name, title, family name etc. But no number at all. How can I get back my numbers ?--103.231.162.134 (talk) 12:30, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Try looking at it with a text editor,and if the numbers are not there, then they were not saved. Dbfirs 15:02, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

- No number at all. What to do?--103.231.162.134 (talk) 12:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]