Saving Mobile Phone Contacts
 

I have a Samsung Galaxy S21+ 256GB which is a great phone but what it lacks is a memory card slot.

What I wish to do is backup all my contacts onto my handset and then transfer that file onto a Pen drive just in-case. Usually like on my old Galaxy S10 I would just backup to memory card and be done with it.

What's the best way of doing this, is there an easy program as since my 2 strokes if its anything complicated I just fall to bits as I get stressed very quickly.

Thanks Guys.

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Just plug your charging lead (it's also a data lead) into a PC, select your phone and save whichever files you wish.
If you have a pen drive connected to the PC you can save the backuo directly to that.

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If you have a Google account then your contacts can be saved to that which is cloud based. This means you don't need to take action to save them separately and you can also access them from any device at https://contacts.google.com/

If you prefer not to use Google then you can backup phone contacts using Samsung Cloud backup

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I have a Samsung Galaxy A12 and the SIM card carrier also doubles up as a micro SD memory card carrier. Have you checked yours may be similar?

You can also save your contacts to the SIM card as well as internally.

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S21 definitely doesn't support SD cards.

Also I personally wouldn't recommend using SIM contacts theses days.

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This is what I have and it has never been a problem when changing phones, everything gets auto updated.

That said I also have a backup of my phone data on my PC which I think is what alan wants to do though to a pen drive. Dead easy to do, have the phone and pen drive in the PC, open the phone, select all files/copy/paste to pen drive. Job done.

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Mine backup to my Google account so are available pretty much anywhere.

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Contacts don't appear in the folders though when it's connected via USB

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All my contacts are saved on Google and sync to phone and tablet.


I also have a duo drive that has a USB A and USB C slot just plug and play

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As others have said Contacts should be synced to the Google account where you can add address information too unless you purposely chose to save them on the SIM Card, which in my opinion is a pretty outdated thing to do on modern phones.

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I exported to a .vcf file and saved to internal memory on the phone and then emailed that to my PC where I have backed up to a pen drive. I didn't realise I had so many numbers, I've been through my phone twice deleting numbers no longer in use and still have 221 numbers.

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Why don't you do it the modern way and save the contacts as Google contacts which also gives you multiple numbers and the ability to add addresses, never any faffing around then?

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cos I'm unsure on how to do this.

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I hope this is up to date.

https://support.google.com/contacts/...rom-a-sim-card

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I have used Google and Samsung accounts to back up all my contacts and phone settings so that when upgrading or changing phones it's as easy as logging in to the account on new device and everything is then loaded from backup on the cloud. So simple and easy once enabled you need never think about it.

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Will have a go Thanks

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Another way to give your contact list away,there again I don't trust Google with any information if I can avoid it I will . :D

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What mobile device do you have? and do you use a VPN? do you think goggle or apple do not already know your contacts anyway? or do you keep your phone offline?

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Yes I use VPN, duck duck go ,and phone uses color Google had been removed before it was connected to the network , have different email for every site I use . All things provided by meta are avoided. Pc and tablet are not in anyway connected to each other. If you have any suggestions open to them:p: never been near apple

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I need to connect my phone and tablet as it is needed to sync Samsung Notes

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That's a bit extreme surely.

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I guess being paranoid does not mean they are not after ya

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Do you feel you're important enough for Google etc to care about your online life or who you know?

If your friends use mobile phones that sync to the cloud then the tech giants almost certainly know your connection to them anyway and will have a pretty good idea of your network of friends.

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But that won't get them any information that can be used to pester me,

---------- Post added at 10:27 ---------- Previous post was at 10:23 ----------

So very true :D do not see the point is giving information away , if they want it boy they have to work for it. Now. I am not in charge of our business not so concerned but old habits die hard :)

---------- Post added at 10:32 ---------- Previous post was at 10:27 ----------

Forgot to say get to duckduckgo via Firefox.
It's not great problem to do so why not? Easy to set up one-time email addresses , park out Aldi ( other shops are available) VPN to gmx set up address ( want mobile but most trucks have a number on them) and you are away. :shocked:

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I'm fine using my phone the way it was intended. Same single email for almost everything. Just different passwords for many sites and samsung pass to save all my logins so when changing phone I don't have to remember all the passwords. Cloud backed up photos and contacts too.

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Great what ever works for you. Had many issues when working , but that was handled by company tecs , something I no longer can access :sleep: