Hi, a friend of mine removed my entire contact list plus the phone applications. How can I get it back? Cannot call anybody right now nor see my call history. Please advice. Thank you for any help!!
AppStore?
At worst you could reinstall the system, but this shouldnāt be necessary.
Are you sure the app is removed, and not just the shortcut?
At first, please ask your friend what he or she exactly did. With this information it will be a lot easier for us to help.
Completely removing these applications requires superuser rights. Please consider protecting superuser access with a passcode, especially if you hand your phone to others! This can be done in the settings.
Perhaps the applications were only deactivated. If this is the case, they can be reactivated through the list of all installed applications (also in the settings).
Hi Zoid, unfortunatelly itās not even showing in my appllcation list 
so, itās not just a removed short cutā¦shall I reboot it now?
First, try to search for the āPhoneā and āPeopleā apps on the app store.
Thatās what Iād try first but I donāt know much about Smartphone, so maybe thereās a simpler way.
āReinstallingā your phone is a big thing, youād lose everything.
Iād wait for some more enlightnend adviceā¦
Just to clarify, did he delete your contact list, as in all your contacts, or your actual contacts app?
Cause I donāt see a way of getting your contacts back if you havenāt done a backup.
Again, just to clarify: you did go to Settings/Apps/All and couldnāt find the apps āContactsā and āPhoneā listed there?
Now, first of all Iād heed @haffenloherās advice, if you could tell us what your friend did it would help us to help you in the best way.
Second, if he removed system apps from your phone, are you sure it was only these two? If he tampered with your system in root access without knowing what he was doing Iād consider a hard reset just to be sure. Read how itās done here: How to perform a Hard Reset on my Fairphone.
Lastly, I donāt know how to get the stock apps back, again knowing what was done would certainly help. However you could try if alternative apps from the Play Store work for you, on a quick search I found this: ExDialer - Dialer & Contacts.
Edit: I did find the phone & contacts stock apps for ICS (Android 4.0), for a HTC phone apparently. I donāt know if theyāll work on a Fairphone running 4.2.2.
Thanks guys!
Unfortunately, my friend hasnāt any clue what he was doing and hence, cannot tell which buttons etc. he pushed.
If I go to Settings/Apps/All, I can see the apps āContact storage (2.78 MB)ā and āPhone (116 KB)ā as well as āPhone/ Messaging storage (1.61 MB)ā listed there - but once I open them, the functions/ buttons of āDisableā, āMove to Phone storageā, āClear cacheā, āClear defaultsā and āLaunchā seems to be deactivated and are in a greyish color. I cannot push them.
I donāt have many systems apps, and the remaining ones seem all to work fine (Messages, Skype, Whatsapp, etc). Therefore, yes I think just these two applications are effected.
Okay, I think I just encountered a bug in the (otherwise great) forum software. Will have to type my reply again.
Seems like the āContactsā application is disabled. I just tried disabling it myself - this puts the appās entry all the way to the bottom of the list in Settings > Apps > All. Please check if you can find it there.
āContactsā provides both the āPhoneā and the āPeopleā UI, so after re-enabling it, you should be fine again!
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Yeeeeah! Thank you haffenloher, youāre my hero 
All fine now.
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