[Q] contacts emergency

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The screen on my Samsung Focus no longer works however the rest of the phone works as I am able to place calls using the bluetooth in my car. However I have since picked up an HTC One X but I am at a loss on how to get to my contacts. I do not see any of my contacts on the windows live ID I used to set up the phone nothing seems to have backed up anywhere but they are on my phone somewhere since I can place a call using name recognition in my car.

so I guess I have 2 questions.

Is there something i'm missing within the Zune software to backup the entire phone like Itunes has?

Is there a way I can access the internal storage via my computer to fish out the contacts in my phonebook?

If anyone is able to help you'd lower my blood pressure and prolong my life. Thank You.

do you have a "sim card" if so all your contacts are in it!

Had 2 different places read the sim card. They said there's nothing on it. It's the first thing I tried.

Contacts are on the phone, unless you've specified you want them back-up'd somewhere else, online. I usually use either Outlook account or Gmail to sync my contacts. The contacts on the SIM are retrieved TO the phone, not saved TO the SIM (Settings, People, Import SIM contacts).

One way I see you could backup your contacts this is to get these 2 files from the phone:
"store.vol" and "PimIndex.vol"
These contain the SMS and the contacts.

For that, mandatory reads: this thread and this thread

You could explore the phone with Touch Explorer, but depends on too many things if it will work...

Another idea is to do it "blindly" with 2 phones: yours and another Focus side-by-side and trying to copy exactly where to tap...

There might be an app on Marketplace that backups automatically on skydrive. But you'd have to search for such.

Good luck mate.