The other day I need to restore some contacts on an Android phone, I had Titanium Backup files, though restoring the contacts through there didn’t seem to work.
I searched for a solution but there wasn’t really anything for Windows to restore the contacts so I developed my own VBA script.
I will assume you already have a backup contacts2.db file, it is found the zip file com.android.providers.contacts.
Firstly, download SQLite Manager add-on for Firefox, run it, Connect Database contacts2.db. Under Tables, right-click data table and chose Export Table click OK and save as data.csv.
Download convert-contacts2.db data-to-vcard-vcf.xlsm, open, and enable macros if necessary. Run the macro convertDatatoContacts and select the data.csv file.
You should now have a list of contacts, delete any contacts that you don’t want to import by deleting the whole row. When done run the macro and a vCard.vcf file will be created in the same folder as the Excel WorkBook.
Copy vCard.vcf to the root directory of your Android phone. On the phone enter Contacts, Settings, Import/Export and Import from storage. The contacts will be imported.
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