If your Android device is synced with your Google account, the odds of recovering missing contacts are definitively in your favor.

Gmail has a nifty feature, that allows you to restore a backup of all your contacts, which can date up to 30 days back.

Most Android devices don’t get timely operating system updates, but Google is updating more and more of the Android operating system in the background.Certain apps wouldn’t run on devices without Android 4.0.Google Chrome required Android 4.0, so devices that were never upgraded from Android 2.3 Gingerbread still can’t use Google Chrome today. Android 4.1 was also extremely important, making the interface much more smooth and less laggy with “Project Butter.” Compared to Android 4.0 and Android 4.1, the most recent versions of Android are minor updates.Android applications ("apps") can be downloaded from the Google Play store, which features over 2.7 million apps as of February 2017.Android has been the best-selling OS on tablets since 2013, and runs on the vast majority, Android has two billion monthly active users, and it has the largest installed base of any operating system.