recover contacts from the hidden Backup Folder of the Windows Phones - recover contacts from damaged phones
Recover from backup Windows Phone 7 Recover from backup Windows Phone 8 From what I've seen, sometimes, there are (hidden) "Backup" (the name is backup) folders on the SD of the windows Phones. It could happen when you do an update of the system (that's what I've read in a forum). Inside the folder there's a file with "arc" extension and it could be opened with NbuExplorer with dbshell. Download nbuexplorer - http://sourceforge.net/projects/nbuexplorer/ dbshell - https://sites.google.com/site/garawaa/ extract the nbuexplorer and then extract dbshell (inside the nbuexplorer's folder). The contacts and messages, as other stuff, will be available