Linux – How to extract phonebook out from an android device

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A friend has a Samsung android phone with broken display and he wants to extract all contacts saved on the device.

I'm trying to help, but I have a Linux OS on my PC, not windows or mac.
I also have my android Motorola Moto-G phone to try with.

  1. I have an USB cable to connect the phone.

  2. I also have a wifi router which my PC is connected to by a LAN eth cable and I usually connect also the phone to the router wireless network so that it can be routed to internet.

    |---- ethernet Modem ---> Internet
    |
    Router |---- LAN eth ----------| PC
    |
    -))) WiFi network ((((( Android_Phone

  3. I think possible to connect my phone through a bluetooth dongle I used years ago with an old non-android cell. I've never tried it with my android phone.

My PC doesn't have any WiFi adapter so I can't create any "ad hoc" wireless connection between PC and phone.

Is there any way to extract my android Moto-G phonebook working from my Linux system?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Best Answer

The best method for this is to collect all of your contacts into a vcf file, and then copy it between the phones

  1. Go to contacts
  2. Click on the triple dot in the top left hand corner
  3. Click on Import/Export
  4. Export to .vcf file
  5. Save it somewhere you can get at it from your linux computer
  6. Copy it across

To import them, you just follow the same steps, but you choose import instead.

I have a Moto-G, and this works for me!

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