3 tips to avoid losing phone contacts
Very often we hear that people around us complain about losing their contacts as their phones are damaged, repaired, lost, or stolen. As a result, they cannot make contact to them until they get them back, either by meeting the people in question immediately, asking their acquaintances for the numbers, or waiting for an opportunity to meet with them. So what if there is no possibility to meet them directly and immediately because of the long distance and the absence of contacts they can call to get them? Obviously, this will disrupt communication, especially when the missing contacts are important to them.
To avoid such an incident, there are, in fact, a few of things that we can do. So when we lose contacts, we do not need to panic and worry and can obtain the contacts as soon as possible.
The first thing we can take to prevent loss of contacts is to write our contacts on a phone book on a regular basis. This recording can be done every week, two weeks, once a month, or everytime we receive new contacts to the phone book. Although this may look old-fashioned, writing phone numbers manually seems to be more secure than storing them on electronic devices such as smartphones, notebooks, laptops, and computers which at any time can suffer damage to either the softwares or the hardwares, resulting in a contact deletion.
The second way to save phone contacts can be achieved with a telephone contact backup with the device itself. In this modern age, there are so many smartphones provided with the ability to back up data. In fact, the in-built feature can back up not only phone contacts, but calendar, photos, videos, documents, messages, and settings as well. Therefore, it helps us a lot to do a backup. After the backup is done, we make the backup copy and move it into an SD card, flash/thumb drive, external hard drive, computer, or other devices in order to be restored when it is needed.
Another option is to back up our contacts to a cloud storage. Cloud storage is a kind of online storage to back up data in real time. The photos we have taken, for instance, can be backed up or saved automatically and directly to the real-time storage. And the most commonly used cloud storages now are OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive, Box, and Amazon Cloud Drive. The storage capacity offered by each cloud storage service, as reported from http://cnet.com (February, 2016), varies, ranging from 2GB to 15GB for the free version and from 50GB to 1TB for the paid version.
OneDrive, made by Microsoft, for example, offers 5GB of free storage. In the paid version, users will be given 50GB for $2 per month. Unlike Microsoft’s OneDrive, Google with its Google Drive provides an even larger storage capacity of 15GB free of charge to every of its users or of 500GB and 1TB at a cost of an extra $2 and $10 per month. Meanwhile, DropBox and Box provide a free 2GB and 10GB as well as a premium 1TB and 100GB for $10 every month, whereas Amazon only offers a paid version of its $60/year Cloud Drive service for unlimited capacity. With the cloud storages above, we can upload our backup files to the servers easily and freely and can access them at will.
Therefore, back up our valuable phone contacts soon with one or all of the above steps before we regret losing them forever.
