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URGENT Contact Deletion Help Needed

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Leevis

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Hi
I have an S6 and my daughter wanted my old S4. To cut a long story short I purchased a pay as you go SIM and put this in the S4 and she was happily using it but she had all my old contacts on the phone.
I bulk deleted these thinking this would remove them from her phone but unfortunately it has deleted these from the S6 as well so i have hardly any contacts now.
Is there any way to get these back??
Really need help urgently
Lee
 
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What i did on this was
1. Factory Reset the S4
2. Installed updates
3. Bulk deleted all contacts using the select ALL option
4. Worked on S4 but now no contacts on S6

This must be due to a sync issue somewhere but i have tried to restore on Google but doesnt work :(

Grr

Anyone got any bright ideas? Desperate here
 
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Go to:
https://contacts.google.com
and in the left panel click on 'More' and select 'Restore contacts'. A contextual box will pop up with options to go back days to a week or more. Hopefully if you haven't altered your contacts too much in the past few days it will be able to restore at least most of your previous ones.
And for future reference, if you're in a situation where you do need to delete all contacts of some other device, be sure to disable the 'Sync contacts' option on that device first so it doesn't pair up with your online Google account.
 
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