I was using Dutty's v3.6b. When I add favourite contact and take pictures for the contacts, the pictures will be preserved even after I hard reset my diamond. However, I'm using v4 now, and the pictures wasn't preserved. I couldn't find where the old pictures were, but when I re-added a favourite contact, the picture will automatically be attached.
You can try Spb Backup. On the homepage there is a trial version that lets you back up your whole phone 5 times. But I recommend only backing up Contacts and Messages. If you back up your system data your phone might not work, after you execute the backup file.
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/backup/
Actually, I wanted to ask where are the photos stored, and how come it was stored before and not now?
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ive searched and cant find the answer to my question. anyway how can i retrieve deleted contacts? for some reason my contacts were deleted so i tried to sync with outlook and copy contacts from outlook but now those are gone too. please tell me there is a way to retrieve them.
Did you do a backup recently? If you have a backup you'll be okay. If not, well maybe someone else can help ya.
As far as I know once they are gone there's no way to bring they back. Next time get PPCPimBackup. Keep it on your storage card in a folder marked backup. It backs up contacts, calendars, and other info onto your memory card. so if you lose everything you can restore it immediately.
Actually if he did a sprite back up with the contacts on his phone he'll be okay. Otherwise you can go into xp & do a system restore. You'll be okay. Just slow down & be patient. I'm sure you either have a ppc back up with the cotacts or XP system restore enabled, right?
i did not do a backup recently. i usually just sync with outlook to have another copy of my contacts. i can try to xp system restore. did not think of that. thanks.
No problem. Yeah, it's a pain & I had to sys restore from losing them a few yrs ago w/ Wireless Sync. Just make sure your device doesn't overide your desktop after you sys.m restore or you'll come full circle.
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No problem. Yeah, it's a pain & I had to sys restore from losing them a few yrs ago w/ Wireless Sync. Just make sure your device doesn't overide your desktop after you sys.m restore or you'll come full circle.
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i did a system restore and my contacts do not come back.
check yr outlook's "deleted items", there could be a copy over there.
thanks everyone. i found a copy of the outlook archive on a flash drive i used to transfer info between work, school, and home. got most of my contacts back. now i guess my question is switch between phones for big parties to avoid losing or breaking my tilt so i copy my contacts to the sim. how do i get it to copy in the same format as in outlook? ex. in outlook the names are filed as first and last but when its copied to the sim its filed as last and first.
I usually find items deleted during synchronization in the Deleted Items folder.
Gosh! You've replied to a thread which has died seven years ago, dealing with active sync/outlook.
Wonder if the hint you've given will be any remedy here at all
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Does anyone know where android stores the contact icon pictures? Since I use mybackup pro to backup my contacts, I can no longer sync my G1 with Gmail so I wanted to update the contact icons manually in Gmail contacts. I know that even though you delete the picture that you originally used for the icon, the picture obviously still stays so there must be a folder that it stores them to, I just can't find it and a search turned up nothing.
Also, is it possible to pull these files to my PC from ADB and have Windows XP recognize the file type?
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I never found where they were, but I found an old backup I made of my SD card so there were a lot of the pics I used to make contact icons so I just used those.
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Does anyone know where android stores the contact icon pictures? Since I use mybackup pro to backup my contacts, I can no longer sync my G1 with Gmail so I wanted to update the contact icons manually in Gmail contacts. I know that even though you delete the picture that you originally used for the icon, the picture obviously still stays so there must be a folder that it stores them to, I just can't find it and a search turned up nothing.
Also, is it possible to pull these files to my PC from ADB and have Windows XP recognize the file type?
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Actually I think it is stored with google because I got a replacement phone and all my contact pictures was still there even tho it was a different phone.
Hmm, that would be a problem but I still think the images have to be stored locally somewhere on the phone. When I use mybackup pro to restore my contacts, it includes my contact icons which means that the program is getting them from "somewhere" when I do the initial backup. That somewhere cannot be Google because I haven't synced with Google since the beginning of the year.
The only reason I said that was because of having a brand new phone without my sd card in it and nothing done to it. As soon as I logged into the brand new phone before leaving the t mobile store my contact pictures were there.
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Hmmmm... try backing up your contacts with Backup for Root Users, then go to your sdcard, open the BackupRoot folder and look inside the folder for contacts and see if you can see your images in there... If you can, try searching for the same folder/filename within root.
Why not uninstall mybackup pro and sync with gmail? Or, is there another reason you're not choosing to sync?
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Hmmmm... try backing up your contacts with Backup for Root Users, then go to your sdcard, open the BackupRoot folder and look inside the folder for contacts and see if you can see your images in there... If you can, try searching for the same folder/filename within root.
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The problem is that the images are on the non rooted phone. I was hoping that there was a folder I could gain access to from Linda or Astro file manager and pull them off that way. But I'm not sure if this is even possible.
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Why not uninstall mybackup pro and sync with gmail? Or, is there another reason you're not choosing to sync?
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I was one of the original users of mybackup pro (before everyone fully understood the syncing with gmail problem). There is an inherent glitch in mybackup pro that makes contacts syncing impossible once you perform the first restore of your backups. Now the problem is know and well documented, then it wasn't. I spent the better part of four hours today restoring my contacts from my rooted spare G1's SIM card in order to partial restore my gmail contacts because those contacts were untouched by the glitch in mybackup pro. Now everything is just the way I want it in gmail contacts with the exception of the contact icons so I was figuring that I could push them from the phone to gmail contacts with a PC as the go between. Then everything will be perfect and I will make sure NEVER to backup my contacts with mybackup pro!
Sorry if this is a common questions, when I use the search there are too many similar, but different, threads.
Is there any way I can backup my contacts so that I can save all the high res photos? because I just reapplied everyone's contact picture and so they are nice and pretty. However, when I wipe my phone and re-sync contacts with google, all of their photos are going to go back to being horribly pixelated. Can I use titanium backup or something?
and as an added bonus, is there any way i can backup everyone's custom ringtone?
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Sorry if this is a common questions, when I use the search there are too many similar, but different, threads.
Is there any way I can backup my contacts so that I can save all the high res photos? because I just reapplied everyone's contact picture and so they are nice and pretty. However, when I wipe my phone and re-sync contacts with google, all of their photos are going to go back to being horribly pixelated. Can I use titanium backup or something?
and as an added bonus, is there any way i can backup everyone's custom ringtone?
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This belongs in the Q&A section. Also have you tried clicking menu and clicking import or export? You can save a vcf file that backs up your contacts don't know about pictures or ringtones
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When you export your Contacts to a vcf backup, it will save your contact photos but as a thumbnail.
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Sorry if this is a common questions, when I use the search there are too many similar, but different, threads.
Is there any way I can backup my contacts so that I can save all the high res photos? because I just reapplied everyone's contact picture and so they are nice and pretty. However, when I wipe my phone and re-sync contacts with google, all of their photos are going to go back to being horribly pixelated. Can I use titanium backup or something?
and as an added bonus, is there any way i can backup everyone's custom ringtone?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1518741
Please take a little more time to search in the future. This was only maybe the second page of the General forum.
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Back in the day when I had windows mobile, I had a program that synced my text messages, picture mail (sprint mms) and call logs to Outlook. When I upgraded to Outlook 2007 and this app ceased to function, I found a backup program that I could schedule to run each night that would backup these items to the SD card, retaining 3 days worth of backups on the card. If I forgot to restore them when I wiped, no problem the backup program could add only the new or missing ones back to the device. I would like to find a way to backup the same way with Android, does anyone know of anything like this for Android? :cyclops:
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Back in the day when I had windows mobile, I had a program that synced my text messages, picture mail (sprint mms) and call logs to Outlook. When I upgraded to Outlook 2007 and this app ceased to function, I found a backup program that I could schedule to run each night that would backup these items to the SD card, retaining 3 days worth of backups on the card. If I forgot to restore them when I wiped, no problem the backup program could add only the new or missing ones back to the device. I would like to find a way to backup the same way with Android, does anyone know of anything like this for Android? :cyclops:
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for contacts and pics you can sync with your google account.
For messages you can use sms backup & restore.
I think there is no way to sync with outlook atm.
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Blu3Fr0g said:
Back in the day when I had windows mobile, I had a program that synced my text messages, picture mail (sprint mms) and call logs to Outlook. When I upgraded to Outlook 2007 and this app ceased to function, I found a backup program that I could schedule to run each night that would backup these items to the SD card, retaining 3 days worth of backups on the card. If I forgot to restore them when I wiped, no problem the backup program could add only the new or missing ones back to the device. I would like to find a way to backup the same way with Android, does anyone know of anything like this for Android? :cyclops:
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Yes you can set schedule backup to SD card for SMS, MMS, and call log(and much more) with Titanium backup, with flexibility to select frequency as well number of backup.
Read 'How to keep device backup up-to-date' on my signature.
dr. ketan, does Titanium Backup offer the flexibility to backup the entire phone (ROM, application programs, data, pictures, videos, etc.)? Thanks in advance for your reply.
No, TB can't backup ROM/Kernel or Pictures/Video.. TB can backup application(system and user) and data of application. It needs root to backup system app and data of app(syst/user)
ROM/Kernel can be backup by Nandroid.
Use sms backup+ to backup & restore all your messages, MMS, Contacts, Call logs to your Gmail account(s). It;s Freeware.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS56ZWdvZ2dsZXMuc21zc3luYyJd
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You can also use this.
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So my phone died and is now miraculously working. So now I am backing everything up in case it happens again.
Here's the thing. Google sync never works perfectly for me and the HTC backup doesn't either.
I've tried MyBackup in the past but whenever I used it it would mess up the contacts. It backed them all up but upon restoring each entry of a contact (i.e. home phone, mobile home, notes, etc.) became a new contact with that name. So instead of having one Bob in my contact list I would have six bobs, one with the cell number, another with an email, and so on.
I was wondering what backup apps you guys could recommend that restore the contacts properly. I only care about the contacts. MyBackup works well with SMS and call logs so if need be I can use different apps for different backups and what I need now is a good contact solution.
Thanks
Helium from Clockworkmod. Its the best method of backup for non rooted users IMHO. https://www.clockworkmod.com/carbon
I have never experienced a problem restoring my Google account contacts, I take it you have removed the account and tried to set it up again to see if it will let you save the contacts. You can verify that they are saved if you log onto gmail when using a browser.
BrownTrout said:
Helium from Clockworkmod. Its the best method of backup for non rooted users IMHO. https://www.clockworkmod.com/carbon
I have never experienced a problem restoring my Google account contacts, I take it you have removed the account and tried to set it up again to see if it will let you save the contacts. You can verify that they are saved if you log onto gmail when using a browser.
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Thanks for the suggestion but trying out the free one it backs up apps but the people/contacts app doesn't show up in the list meaning it doesn't do what I need...