Hey all,
I wanted to try one of the 2.2 ROMs floating out about there (and I actually did). With the 2.1 ROMs, it was pretty easy to sync my contacts, calendar, etc with Kies. However, when I tried a 2.2 ROM, the only Kies option was for a firmware update and it wouldn't do anything else.
I did a search and didn't come up with anything. Anyone have an idea for how I can sync the contact so I can have them back when I go to 2.2. I didn't like the idea of not having my contacts, etc, and restoring from Titanium backup didn't work. I wasn't going to enter them all again manually.
Thanks in advance,
Super
Superguy said:
Hey all,
I wanted to try one of the 2.2 ROMs floating out about there (and I actually did). With the 2.1 ROMs, it was pretty easy to sync my contacts, calendar, etc with Kies. However, when I tried a 2.2 ROM, the only Kies option was for a firmware update and it wouldn't do anything else.
I did a search and didn't come up with anything. Anyone have an idea for how I can sync the contact so I can have them back when I go to 2.2. I didn't like the idea of not having my contacts, etc, and restoring from Titanium backup didn't work. I wasn't going to enter them all again manually.
Thanks in advance,
Super
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You can go back to stock and restore your backup presuming you have one. Then go to contacts, click export which makes a file on your sd, click import then select google as to where you want to import. Then when you go to 2.2 log into your google account and your contacts will sync with googles
Not sure if this is what you were looking for. Hope this helps
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That will work well enough to give this a try. Thanks!
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This is my first question; so apologies f I'm not clear.
I've been messing around a little with my phone. I have root, Amon_Ra's Recovery and I'm currently using MoDaCo's Enhanced ROM. Out of curiousity, I thought I'd try CyanogenMod and see what that was like.
So I wiped my Nexus, flashed Cyanogen and booted up. After linking to my Google Account, I noticed that none of my settings or apps from the cloud had been synced and nothing I did allowed me to access them. (I think I remember seeing that there is no automatic option for this, so that might have been the reason.)
Next, I tried MoDaCo's Froyo ROM for rooted phones, as I'm really curious about it. Same problem, nothing was synced.
Rather worried, I restored my phone to the Original Shipping image (keeping Amon_Ra's recovery) and not only did nothing sync, but starting any update would restart the phone, load up the Recovery and then fail to update with a verification error.
Rather irritated, I wiped and then flashed to MoDaCo's ROM. Lo and behold, all my apps and settings were restored from Google's Cloud.
I am so unbelievably confused, it's not funny. If I made a backup using Nandroid, would that restore my apps and settings when I changed to a new ROM? Or am I way off base here?
(I'm rather new at this, so apologies in advance.)
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks a lot!
The last cyan rom I used (5.0.6?) did not have cloud restoring of apps, I always thought this was a froyo feature/?
Nandroid does a complete backup of your system including apps, settings, rom etc... so technically yes it does restore your apps, just not from the cloud.
Thanks behelit, but I'm not interested in restoring the original ROM, just the Apps and settings should I change to a different ROM.
Anyone have an idea why I can't access cloud from Froyo or Original stock ROM? Maybe I'm doing something wrong...
Bear with a noob, please!
Flashed my first ROM (Cognition) this morning, but in my rush forgot to check to see if Google synced my contacts beforehand. It did not.
I used ROM Manager to backup my stock setup.
I then flashed Cognition without a problem, but my contacts are gone.
Can I backup my current ROM, restore stock, sync contacts, and then restore Cog again?
Anything I need to know before I do this? (disable lagfix, wipes, etc?)
Phush said:
Bear with a noob, please!
Flashed my first ROM (Cognition) this morning, but in my rush forgot to check to see if Google synced my contacts beforehand. It did not.
I used ROM Manager to backup my stock setup.
I then flashed Cognition without a problem, but my contacts are gone.
Can I backup my current ROM, restore stock, sync contacts, and then restore Cog again?
Anything I need to know before I do this? (disable lagfix, wipes, etc?)
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I would presume you are on the most recent cog. Make sure you disable lag fix. Then flash odin stock. Then restore backup. Do not just try to restore the backup directly from cognition.
Once on stock backup go to contacts then export. A file is saved to your sd. When you are on cog you can then go to contacts then click import. I sync my contacts through google.g. Any time I flash I log into my googlr account and bam, restored
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Hello everyone,
I recently flashed CM7 and everything went well, it runs smooth and everything works as far as I tested... However, Kies is a b*tch . As expected, it no longer recognizes my phone, but the problem is : I have done a backup of all contacts I had, and now I can't get it back, since they are stored in a 2.2gb (along with loads of videos, pictures, etc.) .sbu file that kies won't touch unless I plug a "i9000m" phone in it.
So, is there any way to open those .sbu backup files or to retrieve the information stored in them? I guess if there's no other way I could flash back to stock ROM, restore with kies, find another way to backup and then reflash CM7, but I really don't feel like it ...
By the way, I also have a CWM backup from before the flash that I could use, but I'm not sure if it would work with CM7. If I only restore "data" will I get those contacts back? and will it mess up my phone because of CM7?
Thanks for the answers
Edit: Ignore this, the contacts are actually in a separate .spb file... So, how do I open/use that?
koflem said:
Hello everyone,
I recently flashed CM7 and everything went well, it runs smooth and everything works as far as I tested... However, Kies is a b*tch . As expected, it no longer recognizes my phone, but the problem is : I have done a backup of all contacts I had, and now I can't get it back, since they are stored in a 2.2gb (along with loads of videos, pictures, etc.) .sbu file that kies won't touch unless I plug a "i9000m" phone in it.
So, is there any way to open those .sbu backup files or to retrieve the information stored in them? I guess if there's no other way I could flash back to stock ROM, restore with kies, find another way to backup and then reflash CM7, but I really don't feel like it ...
By the way, I also have a CWM backup from before the flash that I could use, but I'm not sure if it would work with CM7. If I only restore "data" will I get those contacts back? and will it mess up my phone because of CM7?
Thanks for the answers
Edit: Ignore this, the contacts are actually in a separate .spb file... So, how do I open/use that?
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easy flash back stock and put your backups back on your phone then back them up to google mail
P.S sorry for awaking a old thread but im having the same prob got some naughty pics i want back
Hi I have searched but failed to find help so ...
I will ask here (sorry about the new user status. I just can't remember my password so new account.)
Well I have standard ROM from telstra and standard SGS I9000 from bigpond.
I have never been able to back up or update my contacts via kies.. (have not tried other sync apps).
this has not been an issue for me until now I would like to upgrade the ROM in my SGS to something a little later, but need to backup stuff so I can restore it later like phone contacts and GPS locations as I'm Courier I have large numbers in both contacts and the GPS apps.
is there a way to backup this without having conflicts with new OS. also on a side note will I loose access to all the apps I have paid for...???
If you update through kies, kies will restore everything for you (quite everything, root is excluded).
In any case you can use Titanium Backup which is really powerful even in its free version, and give you the ability to back up everything on the SD.
You can also choose a repository to store you contacts before updating (outlook, google, and so on) and restore later on using the reverse way you did before.
Use google for you're contacts, kies is a pile of rubbish,backup with google and they should be forever safe
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Hi all,
I wanted to give cyanogenmod a go as I really liked the security guard idea so I used the HTC sync manager to backup my contacts and messages and set about getting cyanogen installed.
All went to plan (pretty much) until I tried to retrieve my contacts etc. I didn't realize the Sync Manager was dependant on Sense which obviously isn't there anymore so the phone won't sync with the software.
What can I do?
I think I can revert to stock if I can find an image and then retrieve the contacts, is there then another way to back everything up?
I hope you can help because my phone's looking very empty and sorry for itself
Thanks
Sync your contacts with google and back up your messages with an app from the play store. I use SMS Backup and Restore.
Thanks, do I need to 'de-root' my phone or can I install a stock image? Would I get this image from HTC?
I went into bootloader and clockworkmod to try and restore the original rom from there, does cyanogen not make a backup of the previous rom?
No ROM makes a backup before it Flashs that is up to you to do yourself. You will have to flash a stock based ROM.
Thanks for the reply. I did a bit of reading before installing and CM seemed like a quick and easy option to get the job done and try an alternative ROM. I even said over on their forum that I had backed up using the Sync Manager and no one thought to mention that I wouldn't be able to restore any data. No one said make sure you take an image yourself because CM won't do it for you.
And to top it all off I'm not that happy with CM, the battery life is atrocious.
Ah regrets!