So most of my contacts have the option under contacts>edit> to set individual ringtones for my contacts but for some reason there are certain ones that do not have the option to change the custom ringtone. Is there a reason why this is? And how can i set them up?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788498
that didnt help, but thanks for the thought!
do the contacts in question have a profile saved to the phone? I had the same issue and what I did was back up all my contacts to sd card, and then reload them up so each entry has a phone profile not just linked to gmail,
How do you back up contacts to sd? I know how to do it individually, but is there a way to do all of them at once?
ukulele_ninja said:
How do you back up contacts to sd? I know how to do it individually, but is there a way to do all of them at once?
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Go into contacts and hit menu then hit more and the inport\export and export them to your sd card and then clean up your contacts and then reinport them
ukulele_ninja said:
How do you back up contacts to sd? I know how to do it individually, but is there a way to do all of them at once?
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Nevermind, figured it out that worked!
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How can i tell where my contacts are saved?
When i first got my phone I synced my phone with my outlook contact on my pc. Now when i want to add a contact using my phone it's asking me if i want to save the contact to either my phone or my sim card. I would like to keep things consistent and save it in the same place as the rest of my contacts. So does anyone know how to find out where my current contacts are saved?
Thanks.
PeePeeHead said:
How can i tell where my contacts are saved?
When i first got my phone I synced my phone with my outlook contact on my pc. Now when i want to add a contact using my phone it's asking me if i want to save the contact to either my phone or my sim card. I would like to keep things consistent and save it in the same place as the rest of my contacts. So does anyone know how to find out where my current contacts are saved?
Thanks.
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Good questions, I don't have the answer but I'd like to know. I have a similar thread that no one has answered yet.
BTW, when I go to add a new contact I don't get your options!
My choices are:
1. Phone
2. Google mail
That is very strange. I'd like to get SIM card as an option.
If you want to know where your contacts are saved then go to your contacts, click the settings button, go to display options and from there you will be able to select what contacts to view, sim, phone and google. Click on one to view and that way you will know where they are all saved.
No idea why you cant have sim contacts mark, maybe your sim is full??
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Cicinho said:
If you want to know where your contacts are saved then go to your contacts, click the settings button, go to display options and from there you will be able to select what contacts to view, sim, phone and google. Click on one to view and that way you will know where they are all saved.
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First of all, if you have your phone set up as I do,
Settings/Wireless Networks/Flight mode, 99% of the time, then you won't see SIM card as an option when you go into Contacts/Settings/Display.
This is one of many deficiencies of the SGS. I hope they change this in the next upgrade.
No idea why you cant have sim contacts mark, maybe your sim is full??
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See above.
Furthermore, having just experimented with the SIM card setting now, it is quite 'limited'. It will only save the name, tel. number and e-mail address of your contacts, nothing else. You lose pics, home addresses, groups, and any other fields that you added etc.
But back to my original question.
How can you find the folder/files that the contacts are stored in on your phone?
Also, if you export your phone contacts to your SD card and then delete your phone contacts, will importing the contacts from your SD card bring EVERYTHING back faithfully? No lost pics, home addresses, groups etc.?
Has anyone here tried this?
TIA
Ok...I totally F'd up. I flashed from 2.1 to COG 2.2-6 not knowing that my contacts on the simm card were going to be erased. Is there a way to get them back?
Click on the phone icon, then click on contacts, then click on the far left button on the bottom of your phone the one to the left of the home button(forgot what its called) there will be a import option. Your contacts may be saved to your memory card if you put them there. Worth a look.
Also next time use this to export contacts before flashing.
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well...I'm really hosed now...back to square one...I tried Titainium back to get contacts....that f'd up the contact app in the phone app...keeps force closing...then I tried to restore to JH7 using Rom manager.....that f'd up my log on. Now it gets stuck at the welcome screen....so I then tried to go back to my very first backup.....same results....looks like its Odin to JF6 for me....
But...I was wondering.....does a rom manager back up save the contacts stored on the simm card?.....could of saved myself a bounch of trouble if I knew the answer to that question ahead of time....
Contacts saved on the sim card should not be effected by flashing a rom at all, it is only contacts saved on the actual phone that would be lost. I'm amazed that so many people these days don't sync their contacts with the cloud, all I need to do after flashing a ROM is enter in my Google account info and then all contacts etc are synced up automatically.
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Contacts saved on the sim card should not be effected by flashing a rom at all, it is only contacts saved on the actual phone that would be lost. I'm amazed that so many people these days don't sync their contacts with the cloud, all I need to do after flashing a ROM is enter in my Google account info and then all contacts etc are synced up automatically.
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I did try and sync from sim and the numbers were not there.....thats why I was trying to go to a previous restore to see if they would be there....going from eclair7 to cog 2.2-6 blasted all my data out....
also...I did try the gmail thing but it was interfereing with personal ringtones when sync'd...so like a dumb ass I deleted them off of gmail.....that wont happen again
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also...I did try the gmail thing but it was interfereing with personal ringtones when sync'd...so like a dumb ass I deleted them off of gmail.....that wont happen again
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Either use Ringdroid from the market to assign ringtones to Gmail contacts or just create a phone based contact with the same name that should automatically link to the gmail contact and allow you to set a ring tone, kind of annoying to do though but much better than losing your contacts.
jaseone said:
Either use Ringdroid from the market to assign ringtones to Gmail contacts or just create a phone based contact with the same name that should automatically link to the gmail contact and allow you to set a ring tone, kind of annoying to do though but much better than losing your contacts.
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UPDATE...got phone back up and running on Cog 2.2-6. Found my .vcf backup with Astro....uploaded it to Google and then sync'd back to phone...all better....on side note...for whatever reason my phone is not picking up the .vcf when I try and restore it from the contacts menu. I Googled the issue and seems to be common. Thanks for the responses.
Same problem, but I found that turning on car mode caused the contacts to suddenly appear. After turning off car mode contacts worked properly. I saved the contacts to the sim card between update tries & the contacts import would never find it. Guess Titanium had it but left it hidden for some reason.
Hey, here's a better answer. You'll something like Root Explorer. Seems the contact app saves the contacts in /sdcard/sd (provided you exported them to the sd card. When you try to re-import them the app claims nodda. That's because the app is looking at /sdcard/external_sd for whatever reason. I just copied the .vcf file over to that location & bam contacts will import.
I have my contacts set up on Google. Is there a way to remove all Contacts on my Sim Card to remove old and outdated stuff and Mass Export all my Google Contacts to it?
Thanks
I should had looked for Apps 1st,I found App to do this.
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I should had looked for Apps 1st,I found App to do this.
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Since the thread is now here it would be nice if you shared that info for anyone else that might be interested.
For the future, you can do this without an app. Simply go into the menu while in Contacts, select Display Options, turn off everything except SIM Card so that only the contacts on the SIM are displayed, then just click Delete, Select All, and get rid of them. Then go back to Display Options and turn on the ones you want.
Why would you want them on your sim card?
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MikeyMike01 said:
Why would you want them on your sim card?
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I didn't, they were there from previous phones where I had used the SIM as a backup. Unfortunately, when you copy contacts to the SIM you lose their original formatting and the SIM splits contacts with more than one number into individual contacts making them useless for exporting. Better to just keep the SIM clear and backup your contacts via Google or, as I do, via Android Manager, which I use to sync to Outlook.
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I should had looked for Apps 1st,I found App to do this.
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Contacts2Sim App
Miami_Son said:
Since the thread is now here it would be nice if you shared that info for anyone else that might be interested.
For the future, you can do this without an app. Simply go into the menu while in Contacts, select Display Options, turn off everything except SIM Card so that only the contacts on the SIM are displayed, then just click Delete, Select All, and get rid of them. Then go back to Display Options and turn on the ones you want.
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Thanks. I knew there was a way to do this but never had seen.
Is it possible to set Google as my default contact when adding a new contact? By default it saves to LG PC Suite.
Right now i need to manually select it each time I add a new contact, and if i forget to change the default, there is no way to change it later on.
Is there a way to change the default? Or can i remove the pc suite without damaging the the phone OS? I have the stock rom on my phone.
Thanks
100% agree
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Is it possible to set Google as my default contact when adding a new contact?
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Im afraid not.
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and if i forget to change the default, there is no way to change it later on.
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Actually there is. In the contacts application you can export all contacts you saved in the phone memory (pc suite) to the sd card as a vcf file, and then import the same vcf file and select to save the contacts as Google contacts. Afterwards just remove them from the phone memory. [/QUOTE]
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Is there a way to change the default? Or can i remove the pc suite without damaging the the phone OS? I have the stock rom on my phone.
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no, sorry
I use a programme called VAULT where i can save lots of private number ect.
i recently installed a new rom, so before i did that i went into vault and it asked me do i want to save all numbers to phone and remove them from vault. i said yes and then went ahead and cleared data ect.
now on the new rom, i cant find these contacts.
where will the be?
their not on my phone list?
it saves the contacts to some file in the internal storage... install vault again and search for them.. or if its stored in VCF format, use the import/export option in the contacts menu
nokiamodeln91 said:
it saves the contacts to some file in the internal storage... install vault again and search for them.. or if its stored in VCF format, use the import/export option in the contacts menu
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thanks for the reply,
I'm not that clued up when it comes to phones ect.
can you please explain a bit more where i'll be able to find these contacts.
I really do need them.
search in internal SD card for new folders .... check for .vcf files... open contacts app and hit the menu button and select import.. and it will scan the SD card for you., also try to install vault again and check the restore feature
nokiamodeln91 said:
search in internal SD card for new folders .... check for .vcf files... open contacts app and hit the menu button and select import.. and it will scan the SD card for you., also try to install vault again and check the restore feature
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I've installed it again and it has no restore feature.
i think it has 1 if you pay for the full VAULT, but i dont have that.
it clearly asked me before i erased it, do you want to transfer your contacts to phone memory, and i clicked yes.
so they must be saved somewhere
I just tried to go into contacts, click menu and import from storage, it then come up saying 'searching for vCard data on sd card'
and after a few minutes it comes back with nothing
Why don't you ask the developer of the product where the exports are stored?
hmmm may be in that case it may have moved it back to your contacts and when you installed a new rom.. if you wiped data then it got erased again,.,
ThaiDai said:
Why don't you ask the developer of the product where the exports are stored?
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this is the programme...
Vault-Hide SMS, Pics & Videos
NQ Mobile Security (NYSE:NQ)
so would the developer be NQ Mobile Security?
if so, how do i go about contacting them?
I also went into my sd card and searched for .VCF files but nothing come back.
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hmmm may be in that case it may have moved it back to your contacts and when you installed a new rom.. if you wiped data then it got erased again,.,
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So there is a chance i've lost them all?
ah please dont say that.
did you make a backup of the old rom?
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did you make a backup of the old rom?
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no, their was nothing i was really concerned about losing, apart from these numbers,
i've changed roms a few times and always just went into the play store to re-install anything i wanted back.
all my pics and videos stayed where they were.
its just this time, i totally forgot to write down the numbers i wanted to keep off this programme.
the only change of getting them back is if the app stored those numbers on the SD card.. if it moved it back to contacts .. same as it deletes when we add a private contact, then its lost... still as ThaiDai said... go to playstore and there is an option to email the dev...
i have also used this program but where is the option to restore the contacts back, other than cloud?
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the only change of getting them back is if the app stored those numbers on the SD card.. if it moved it back to contacts .. same as it deletes when we add a private contact, then its lost... still as ThaiDai said... go to playstore and there is an option to email the dev...
i have also used this program but where is the option to restore the contacts back, other than cloud?
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no idea, but i remember seeing something on there a while back, about paying for a premium something or other, and then you can alot more things.
problem is, i dont even know what it is to look for in the sd card ect.
im on the play store now but cant work out how to contact the dev on there, cant find any options to do so.
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im on the play store now but cant work out how to contact the dev on there, cant find any options to do so.
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just above the screenshot is the option for email developer. Here is their email address [email protected]
treacherous_hawk said:
just above the screenshot is the option for email developer. Here is their email address [email protected]
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thank you.
i've just sent them an e-mail, hopefully they can guide me to where they get saved.