You can get the contact database in simulator from here. ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/Library/AddressBook/AddressBook. Sqlitedb but I am not sure how you can transfer it to device.
I have not tried this but you can save contacts as nsdata (using archiving) when you run on simulator. Extract the nsdata and save individual contact using ABAddressBookAddRecord to the phone.
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