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.
jaseone said:
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.
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So I had all contacts on the sim copied to the phone.
Which meant I had everybody in my contact list twice.
I thought I'd solve this so yesterday I updated my outlook contact list and made it nice and clean.
I assumed the phone would just update with the new data from outlook and I deleted all numbers from my phone (oops), it appears the phone has the 'leading' contacts list so now it deleted all my outlook contacts as well.
Is there any way to restore this data or do I have to find all the numbers again and put them in the phone again so that I don't lose it all again when syncing?
Grtz!
ed-oorklep said:
So I had all contacts on the sim copied to the phone.
Which meant I had everybody in my contact list twice.
I thought I'd solve this so yesterday I updated my outlook contact list and made it nice and clean.
I assumed the phone would just update with the new data from outlook and I deleted all numbers from my phone (oops), it appears the phone has the 'leading' contacts list so now it deleted all my outlook contacts as well.
Is there any way to restore this data or do I have to find all the numbers again and put them in the phone again so that I don't lose it all again when syncing?
Grtz!
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OOPS indeed! If you delete everything on your SIM and delete everything on your phone and then sync with your PC (which hopefully has ALL your contacts still), then the PC will put everything back on your phone. I always delete all contacts on my SIM. I don't see the point in having any contacts there. After all, all contacts/appointments etc. are always backed up on the PC. It may be worth backing up whatever is left on your phone with PIM backup or similar first though.
Good luck.
Currently, I keep getting force close errors when sending messages and creating or editing contacts, I really want to fix this so I thought I might as well try and root my phone at the same time.
Here are my questions:
1. Should I fix these force close errors before I root my phone. If so, how?
2. Does rooting my G1 mean I'll lose my messages, contacts, etc?
3. Is there anyway I can save my messages, contacts, etc before I root my phone and reinstate them afterwards? (If they are lost in the process).
I hope my questions aren't too stupid!
Thanks!
Giggity giggity...... don't bother fixing the fc's, they would be fixed in the process. You will lose messages, call log, browser bookmarks, internal save apps, almost everything on your phone when you wipe it. Your contacts are synced with gmail and will auto restore, any apps you purchased will be availible for redownload in my downloads in the market, they are also linked to your gmail. Back-up wise, the only programs that I know back-up on root only or you have to pay for use. So you are **** out of luck there
Gridlock pretty much said it all. But I will add one thing tho, there are apps that will allow you to back up your sms first without root. Just go to the market and look up "backup" and you will see a bunch of apps that you might want.
If you are having FC while sending messages my personal opinion would be to not backup and restore anything that has to do with those messages. Just imo.
Make sure you have data sync turned on and you do a manual sync before you root to ensure you have an up-to-date backup of your contacts.
Menu > Settings > Data Sync > Menu button > Sync Now
Thanks for the answers guys. I've come across another damn problem now that I've been trying to back up my contacts. I have a bunch of numbers on my phone that appear to not be in any 'sync group'...I select all contacts in sync group and then make my contacts sync. I check my g-mail account and its just got all my e-mail addresses but not my phone numbers. When I sync My Contacts it sends only a few numbers. I can view "Contacts With Numbers" but I cant seem to sync them.
Also, when I select 'all contacts' to sync I get that damn red exclaimation mark.
In an attempt to sort this, I selected all my e-mail contacts in 'All Contacts' and sent them to a new group called 'E-mail'. Then I selected to delete 'All Contacts' expecting to retain them in my new 'E-mail' group and it deleted ALL my bloody contacts including 'My Contacts'. I've now lost the few numbers under 'My Contacts' (even on my phone somehow...) and all my damn E-mails!
Can someone please tell me how the hell I can sync "Contacts with numbers" onto my g-mail so I can root my ****ing phone!!!
Are the contacts you lost still on your gmail account if so it will prob just resync them and you still have your contacts on your sim card also well just the ones you had before you started using this phone. The most I ever backup is my app data, bookmarks always give me a fc on the browser when I restore. I don't worry bout contacts though since gmail handles that
Well this is my problem. My g-mail had none of my contacts! When I got this phone it was a fresh sim card with nothing on. I put all my numbers in by hand. My numbers were last (fully) synced on 27th Jan 09. Everytime I sync, I get My Contacts only. All the other numbers fail to sync, I'm guessing because they're not in any group. Even if I select all numbers to sync they don't go to my G-Mail. I had about 15 number sync in My Contacts (before I deleted the buggers). Now I'll have to get those back.
I need a way of putting all my numbers that aren't in My Contacts, into My Contacts to Google will sync them! I'm guessing this is because they were put into my phone because the update where Google made all newly entered numbers go into My Contacts...Hmm
Right, I've sorted it.
Downloaded an app from the the market place called ExportContacts. Worked like a treat. It wrote all my contacts to a .csv. Simply imported them on G-Mail. Added them to contacts, deleted all of them on my phone and re-synced. AT LAST I CAN ROOT!
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Right, I've sorted it.
Downloaded an app from the the market place called ExportContacts. Worked like a treat. It wrote all my contacts to a .csv. Simply imported them on G-Mail. Added them to contacts, deleted all of them on my phone and re-synced. AT LAST I CAN ROOT!
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woot glad you got it to work and this is good info for general use as well
When my USIM contacts were not recognised by Whatsapp on my O2x, I converted them all to MS Exchange contacts. Today I froze the stock email app to replace it with a different one. After I did this, all my contacts vanished! I lost all phone numbers stored on my phone. Unfreezing the mail app has not brought them back. What can I do? This is a disaster!
Sorry if this is the wrong forum.
don't have an answer for you but I always sync my contacts with my gmail just in case something like that happens
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don't have an answer for you but I always sync my contacts with my gmail just in case something like that happens
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Unfortunately I didn't sync my contacts with anything..
I don't understand, surely freezing an app shouldn't delete any data? I'm hoping the contacts are still there some how and can be recovered.. but how?
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Nevermind, found a solution. I remembered that, when I first put my SIM card into the O2x, a lot of contacts were there even though I deleted them in the past on my previous phone. So I figured the reverse might be true.. and yes, when I put my SIM card in my old phone, I was able to see my contacts again. Apparently when USIM contacts are deleted they are not actually removed from the phone, although for some reason the phone that deleted them does refuse to read them. Now I just have to manually enter each contact on my O2x and make a back-up.
So I was in a bit of a rush last night while rooting and flashing cm7 on my friends hero and I forgot to make sure his contacts were synced to google, they weren't. Did I make a back up, not really.... I know, I know, stupid. I did copy all his folders over to a computer before doing anything though, but I don't think that will help. So my question is if the contacts were stored on the phone, would they be on the sd card, or are they lost from rooting and wipeing and flashing cm7. If there are no contacts showing are they gone for good or can they ber restored?
Lession relearned... backup, backup, backup.
Thanks in advanced for any help
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When your friend first setup his hero he had to setup a google account. As long as he had his contacts saved at one point threw google he should be fine. "Should be "
Tell your friend to log into his google/gmail account and see if his contacts are stored. If they are then just add the account to his now rooted hero and sync. Also in the phone app if you press menu its an option to export your contacts to your sd. He sould do so. They will then be placed on the sd as a vcard. Hope this helps.
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haha he had a different google log in that he used to set the phone up, such a relief.
Thanks for the help though.
Ok I've done some digging and can't seem to find anything with my exact problem.
Yes I have looked up duplicated read only contacts BUT everyone seems to have this issue with contacts synced from another app. Mine is no.
Got this baby this past Sunday (found out that I can upgrade 7 days early so of course I did it. Love the phone and think I will be okay without root. Got Helium backup to backup my data. Only thing left is for them to add a Restart in the power menu then I'll be fine with no Root. OH and they need to get Lolipop out ASAP)
But ever since then I've been having this issue. I've been having new contacts made, same name as a contact I have, but with not info (most of the time. Sometimes it has their number in it). Now here is where it gets weird.
They are Google contacts that it says are saved under my Gmail. I go to Gmail, No duplicated contacts there, I try to delete, says they are read only and can only hide, AND it seems like the contacts that are getting duplicated are contacts that I seem to call most often. I have all other apps and their contact sync turned off so I know it's not an issue with them, and since they are saved under Gmail and when I turn off the local Phone contacts they are still there so I know they are not local saved/SIM contacts.
If anyone has any suggestions let me know. I felt like I had this issue loooooong ago with another phone but pretty sure it was back when Facebook synced its contacts and I had to link them.
I'm a savvy guy and know my way around Android.
Thanks
Ok well i ended up getting it myself.
For people with this issue:
Turn off google contact sync. Then go to apps in settings and then look for the contact storage app. Force stoo the act and clean all data. Check contacts to make sure its empty. Then enable google contacts sync.
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Contacts in Android are stored in a database, and as they come from multiple sources (synced from Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, LinkedIn and copied from SIM or stored as "local phone" contacts...) it's easy to have multiple instances of same contact with different info or even duplicates. Contacts app let you "join" multiple contacts from different sources so they will appear joined in your contacts list, but they will still be stored inidividually in the database.
Anyway, there are multiple apps that let you manage your contacts at a deeper database level. With MiniContacts https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brapeba.minicontacts you can see all raw contacts one by one showing its original account source (group). And you can delete all contacts from a source (i.e. those coming from LinkedIn, or Facebook) or choosing manually those you don't want. Notice that if you don't disable the syncronization with the source those deleted contacts will reappear again. So, first disable syncronization! If you want to delete the contacts permanently from everywhere instead of just from your Android database, go to the source (LinkedIn, Facebook...) and delete them there.
Hope it helps...
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Ok I've done some digging and can't seem to find anything with my exact problem.
Yes I have looked up duplicated read only contacts BUT everyone seems to have this issue with contacts synced from another app. Mine is no.
Got this baby this past Sunday (found out that I can upgrade 7 days early so of course I did it. Love the phone and think I will be okay without root. Got Helium backup to backup my data. Only thing left is for them to add a Restart in the power menu then I'll be fine with no Root. OH and they need to get Lolipop out ASAP)
But ever since then I've been having this issue. I've been having new contacts made, same name as a contact I have, but with not info (most of the time. Sometimes it has their number in it). Now here is where it gets weird.
They are Google contacts that it says are saved under my Gmail. I go to Gmail, No duplicated contacts there, I try to delete, says they are read only and can only hide, AND it seems like the contacts that are getting duplicated are contacts that I seem to call most often. I have all other apps and their contact sync turned off so I know it's not an issue with them, and since they are saved under Gmail and when I turn off the local Phone contacts they are still there so I know they are not local saved/SIM contacts.
If anyone has any suggestions let me know. I felt like I had this issue loooooong ago with another phone but pretty sure it was back when Facebook synced its contacts and I had to link them.
I'm a savvy guy and know my way around Android.
Thanks
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Thanks for the reply but it is making blank contacts with theur name and storing then as phone contacts. Google is the only source i sync any contacts from but ill give this a try
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Thanks for the tip, @drtweak! This was driving me nuts and I couldn't figure out how to fix it. Good work...
Thanks!
drtweak said:
Ok well i ended up getting it myself.
For people with this issue:
Turn off google contact sync. Then go to apps in settings and then look for the contact storage app. Force stoo the act and clean all data. Check contacts to make sure its empty. Then enable google contacts sync.
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I could kiss you right now. I have been scouring the internet and downloading apps for hours trying to figure out how to fix "read only" and "can't be deleted" contacts on my second replacement dud Turbo 2. Duplicates galore, and they wouldn't go away. Thank you, thank you, thank you! :laugh: No more Verizon Cloud - that really messed it up both times. Merry Christmas! :good:
Christina729 said:
I could kiss you right now. I have been scouring the internet and downloading apps for hours trying to figure out how to fix "read only" and "can't be deleted" contacts on my second replacement dud Turbo 2. Duplicates galore, and they wouldn't go away. Thank you, thank you, thank you! :laugh: No more Verizon Cloud - that really messed it up both times. Merry Christmas! :good:
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The app Simpler Contacts can merge duplicate apps. I've used it on friends' phones to do that.
Of course, Simpler Contacts also would like you to keep using their app and even their backup service, and they have a Dialer app too. But you don't need all that. I just use Simpler Contacts once in a while to check for duplicate contacts.
But this solution above is good too.
I also used Simpler Contacts to export all contacts from a "local" account. Helped to friends do this when they switched from iPhone to Android and the carrier store exported all their iPhone apps to "local" phone account -- which is STUPID. All the contacts need to synced with Google.