21/04/2023
How to View Old Call History on Android
By default, Android Call History is limited to the most recent 500 logs. As such, new calls made, received or missed after this limit will cause the oldest logs to be permanently deleted from the device.
To prevent a loss of information, we strongly recommend that you regularly export your call history to your computer for safekeeping.
It is possible in some cases to recover lost call history, however, it's not easy.
If you back up your Android to a cloud service like Google Drive, you can restore your backup (including Call History) to your device, but you'll need to reset the device first (potentially losing data gained since the backup was made). Find more information on backing up and restoring from Google Drive.
If you don't have a backup containing your Call History, your phone carrier might have this information stored on their servers. For example, you can access up to 1 year of phone records through T-mobile.
How to Export Android Call History to computer
Regularly exporting call history prevents losing older call logs which spill over the 500 log limit. It also ensures that your call data is safe should anything happen to the Android device itself.
Exporting call history is also crucial for professionals who need to keep a track of their calls.
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Droid Transfer
Droid Transfer works alongside the Transfer Companion app to allow you to access copy content between Android and PC.
All Call logs functionality is absolutely FREE of charge.
View all Call Logs stored on your Android device.
Export Call Logs as HTML, PDF or CSV.
Print out Call History.
Droid Transfer
(Windows PC):
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Transfer Companion
(Android):
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Here's how to export Android Call History with Droid Transfer...
Download Droid Transfer on your PC and the Transfer Companion app on your Android.
Connect your Android with Droid Transfer using a USB cable or Wi-Fi.
Open the "Call Logs" feature section.
Select a contact from the list to view the call history of that number.
Click "Copy Call Logs", "Save PDF", or "Save CSV".
Choose where on the PC you wish to save your exported file, and hit Save!
Available Export formats
Copy Call Logs saves the selected call logs as HTML. You can open HTML files in web browsers such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox.
Save PDF: saves your call logs in the popular format "PDF" (Portable Document Format). This format is recommended if you wish to share the file via email.
Save CSV: exports your call logs as Comma Separated Values. This format is perfect for use in spreadsheet management programs like Microsoft Excel.
By default, Droid Transfer will save each contact's call logs in a separate file. If you wish to save call logs from multiple contacts in a single file, you can enable this in Droid Transfer's options! You can select multiple contacts by ctrl+clicking them, or select the entire list using ctrl+A.
