cannot backup contacts to SD Card anymore - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

all of a sudden when i try to backup my contacts to SD Card from the contacts app the only options showing are for the sim card, it does not show any option for the SD Card .......was working fine before.
The SD Card otherwise is fine, every other app can see it and i can mount it on my desktop.
Any ideas pls!
(pls don't just suggest google sync because i always have problems with it so don't use it, .....i like to be able to backup my contacts to a physical file that i can transfer off my phone)
thanks
[JS3 with voodoo 5.4.1]

and anyone know which file exactly holds the contacts data in titanium backup?

well if anyone was interested (which is doesn't look like) i have determined that it is a bug with JS3 .....a pretty big bug if you ask me, which might explain why JS2 came out a day later

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MyBackup

Hey i don't know how popular it is but i love this app! It backs up bookmarks, system setting, sms and more and puts the backup on your sd card. For those flashing phone alot saves alot of headache if you need to wipe. I know there are other ways to backup but hey i like it.
Yea i actually found it as soon as i flashed to jf 1.3, saved me from a whole lot of trouble during my first wipe flashing a theme.
I think its a perfect app. Helps so much after a wipe. If you back up your apps with Astro all your data is saved too .
MyBackup is a must have...
This app is great. Its fast and reliable... Everyone needs a backup of their phone and this app does it best...
now we need to add the app backup capability found in astro into mybackup and it would be the ultimate end user backup utility.
korndub said:
now we need to add the app backup capability found in astro into mybackup and it would be the ultimate end user backup utility.
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Yeah that would be sweet!!!
App backup now available
The new version of the application backs up apps now... and has capability to schedule a daily or weekly backup... Complete backup utility now
It would be so perfect if it could install all of the backd up apps without you having to click install and done for every single one.
That would be noicee.
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It would be so perfect if it could install all of the backd up apps without you having to click install and done for every single one.
That would be noicee.
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I agree with that. Astro is the same way isn't it?
if you rooted you g1, and put your apps on you sdcard, you never need backup you apps, even if you flash/factory reset/wipe/anything else that erases your phone you apps will still be on the ext2 partition on your sdcard i think you can even copy them to your computer if you have a linux machine
Astro is even slower when it comes to reinstalling apps.
As for putting apps on the sd, im gonna wait til google does something about that because i have enough memory left for now. Especially cuz i moved the caches.
Problems with MyBackup
ok, so i did the whole multitouch thing, and now im trying to restore my phone with MyBackup, i backed up all my apps, and all my data to an SD card. Now, i have RC33 with the multitouch add in, and i downloaded MyBackup but when i try to restore the data from the SD card, it gives mr this message: "I/O error: unable to write to SD card. Make sure the SD card is mounted properly and is not connected to your PC."
has anyone else had this problem? The apps restore fine, its only my data (sms,contacts,settings) that gives me that message. Thanks for the help
A reboot fixed that problem for me, though I'm not on RC33.
Yeah it was giving me problems, what it was doing to me is when i restored my system settings the topbar was freaking out and it played ringtones like someone was calling me but no one was, like it is getting the system sounds mixed up. No error messages but still i got rid of it.
Feel lucky. Do *not* restore your contacts using MyBackup. Just re-sync with the google server... I restored using MyBackup and I got duplicates of everyhting and it broke the syncing of my contacts.. For everything else, it worked flawlessly (fantastic for SMS!) but gmail has a backup of your contacts, so there's no use.
Yea, the application says in the opening notes to use either the gmail contact backups or the app, not to use both. There are known issues for sync messing up, but I don't think it is because of the app. Because even without this app people are having a lot of problems with their sync...
I dont know if its just me but when ever I restore my home screen shortcuts all of the shortcuts inside my folders are all messed up or even missing.
For example my games will be in my media folder and my browser short cuts will be in my shopping folder. And some folders will be empty for example my apps folder will be empty and it wont be in anyother folder.
Anyone else have this same problem?
MyBackup Pro
Check it out. This new version solves almost every problem. Restoring all the apps at once does not have any problems at all.. And its just a buck, can not go wrong... Love it!
anybody know where to download this app ? thank you
u tried the market?

I know this is a way noob question but I just want to be sure...

I am giving my Captivate to my wife tomorrow and I am picking up the Inspire 4G. That being said, if I should backup my Captivate with Titanium Backup, will I be able to recover all of the data back on to my Inspire? Or will all or certain items be lost? i.e. contacts, pictures, apps, etc.
You should have your contacts synced to google through your gmail account.
Pics can be taken off the phone by plugging it via usb and mounting the phone, you can then drag and drop the pics to your pc.
Apps that you have downloaded are attached to your market account(gmail) so you will be able to restore them as well.
the only thing you need to worry about is your data for your apps. (copy the contents of your sd card to your pc)
Running titanium backup on the phone creates a backup for that phone, trying to restore it on a different device might not work work out so well.
Just copy everything to your external sd and swap it or copy over via computer into the htc and if you backup everything else with google it will update automatically.
Edit....enjoy the htc I am going to check them out tomorrow and may wind up with one as well.

[Q] Scanning media (SD)

Hello dear
I've got a 32gig Samsung class 10 card. Every time I turn on the phone, it takes about 5-10 min to scan for media files in the SD card. Is that normal? I cannot take some screenshot to prove it (Quickmeno doesn't take screen in the notification bar), but it takes a long time for me (my old DHD didn't take so much time, indeed didn't show even the message of the scan).
I've always had that too, with all my devices. Are these microSD card filled up with allot of data?
I think this is necessary to update changes in the Android OS. Like for example: update your mp3 songs list or picture gallery, check for apps on the microSD, ...
Maybe there is a setting to disable that?
I'm not bothered by it, I just let the phone idle for a moment. I have a Class 4 card, so it even takes longer for me xD
Edit: It could always be related to the microSD card. If so and you're running on Windows, just copy all the files to a folder as backup. Format the microSD card with default cluster size. And right after that go to properties of the card to scan for and fix filesystem errors and bad sectors. Copy your files back to the card and try again to see or it takes the same amount of time.
If you have very important data on that microSD card I recommend to also backup an image from it through a backup tool.
Arne_B said:
I've always had that too, with all my devices. Are these microSD card filled up with allot of data?
I think this is necessary to update changes in the Android OS. Like for example: update your mp3 songs list or picture gallery, check for apps on the microSD, ...
Maybe there is a setting to disable that?
I'm not bothered by it, I just let the phone idle for a moment. I have a Class 4 card, so it even takes longer for me xD
Edit: It could always be related to the microSD card. If so and you're running on Windows, just copy all the files to a folder as backup. Format the microSD card with default cluster size. And right after that go to properties of the card to scan for and fix filesystem errors and bad sectors. Copy your files back to the card and try again to see or it takes the same amount of time.
If you have very important data on that microSD card I recommend to also backup an image from it through a backup tool.
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I have about 18 gig of data on the SD
I'll try to search for errors and bad sectors, then
Arne_B said:
I've always had that too, with all my devices. Are these microSD card filled up with allot of data?
I think this is necessary to update changes in the Android OS. Like for example: update your mp3 songs list or picture gallery, check for apps on the microSD, ...
Maybe there is a setting to disable that?
I'm not bothered by it, I just let the phone idle for a moment. I have a Class 4 card, so it even takes longer for me xD
Edit: It could always be related to the microSD card. If so and you're running on Windows, just copy all the files to a folder as backup. Format the microSD card with default cluster size. And right after that go to properties of the card to scan for and fix filesystem errors and bad sectors. Copy your files back to the card and try again to see or it takes the same amount of time.
If you have very important data on that microSD card I recommend to also backup an image from it through a backup tool.
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The best is unmount the card on the phone, "erase SD card" and mount the card on the phone, guess thats how the phone format the card.
Do a backup first, I think that unmounting and mounting will delete your data, what is normal...
Some devices only accept cards formated by themselfs, cards formated in a computer don't work on them, not saying that is the case but, it will be better I think.
Same
Same here. It's really irritating. I was about to ask for solutions. I guess it's the phone's problem since my other phones like O2X don't experience that at all.
I just tested again with my Class 4 32GB microSD. It has about 12GB data on it. It takes only 1-2 minutes for me.
Looks like something is going wrong with your phones than?
Maybe you can try this app: Rescan Media Root, and disable scan on reboot.
giovandrea said:
Hello dear
I've got a 32gig Samsung class 10 card. Every time I turn on the phone, it takes about 5-10 min to scan for media files in the SD card. Is that normal? I cannot take some screenshot to prove it (Quickmeno doesn't take screen in the notification bar), but it takes a long time for me (my old DHD didn't take so much time, indeed didn't show even the message of the scan).
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Folders contained a file named .nomedia wil not be scanned. You can create this file manualy for every folder without media files...
But using StudioKUMA .nomedia Manager from Google play can make it more easy
Try an app named "Rescan Media"
carlosreina said:
Try an app named "Rescan Media"
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Arne_B said:
Maybe you can try this app: Rescan Media Root, and disable scan on reboot.
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Problem with stock file manager and music app

I have a problem opening the file manager and the music app. I get the 'Unfortunately, the file manager/music has stopped.' Also when i open the gallery, it sais its empty when i got pictures.
Some info about my problem:
~This all started when i took my ext. micro sd card 16gb and put it in my old phone ( sony ericsson: aino )
~When i unmount, or remove the sd card the problem goes away.
~ I 've tried clearing cashe and data of almost every single app , plus i deleted the contents of my ext. sd card no change
~Also i sometimes get the 'Unfortunately, Google+ has stopped.' message. Don't know if it's related, though i never got it before.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I would suggest formatting your external SD card. Not sure if it will help, but if it started happening after having put itin another device, I guess that's your best shot.
As for the Google+ FC, I got that myself too every once in a while when I was on stock, so I guess it's unrelated.

Google Photos backup issue?

Since moving to the Note 9 I have been having issues with Google Photos backing up to my Google account. It has been working perfectly for years on my Note 8, Note 5, etc...
Now, on the Note 9, the backup sticks at "Getting ready to back up" until I go into a folder that backup is enable on and toggle the option off then back on. This makes the application begin the backup. I have it configured for High Quality but it did the same when I tried Original quality settings.
I initially though it was a problem with photos that I moved over from my Note 8, but I cleared out all of my on device photos and it is still having this same problem. I tried all the usual steps of clearing Photos cache and data. Uninstall and reinstall, clear Play Services Cache and data. I haven't performed a factory reset, but I don't feel like taking the time to reconfigure everything for something that might not even work.
Does anybody else have this problem also?
No issues. Did you disable any services?
Photos works fine on my 960F/DS...
Yes and I can't figure out how to solve the problem. What have you found?
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jezaz said:
Yes and I can't figure out how to solve the problem. What have you found?
Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk
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Hello,
I have similar issue on a French SM-N960F/DS (Dual Sim)
Somehow, the Google Photos App is stuck while retrieving my Photos (from Google Web Server) an I can only view a couple of them (the most recent ones), without being able to scroll down and view the older ones.
Also when taking photos, it wont upload them
And finally if I try to toggle the switch (for backup) inside one directory, I have a popup asking me to first enabe Backup and Sync in Google Photos Apps, which is ALREADY enabled.
I suspect this is linked to the SD Card.
I removed it (just unmount it is sufficient, no need to physically remove it) and I reconfigured the Native Samsung Photo App to store all photos on the internal memory.
And now Google Photos Apps is just working fine. Full access on old pictures and proper upload.
EDIT1:
I have RE-mounted the SD Card without changing the Samsung Photo App settings, which means all taken Pictures are still stored on the Internal Memory.
By doing so, when I get into the Google Photos App, I see the new picture, and I see that there is "1" new photo to be uploaded on the upper right corner, but it is stuck there. The round icon keeps circling and it never gets uploaded (I cannot see the new Picture on the Google Photos website from my laptop)
If I Unmount the SD Card again, then the new Picture gets properly uploaded and the App is not stuck.
There is definitively an issue with the SD card.
This is quite annoying as I store lots of TV Series on my SD Card, hence I have it always inside the Phone.......
EDIT2:
I have formatted the SD Card from the Phone menu and now it works fine , even if the Card is present.
EDIT3:
I have copied back 10x MKV Files onto the SD Card (while Note9 was connected to laptop), and now the problem re-appears. If I delete the directory containing these MKV, back to normal, functioning fine.....
Then I tried to configure the Samsung Photo App to store taken pictur on the SD Card. In that case, the Google Photos App is correctly synching the new picture.
So now I'm more thinking there is an issue with some of the files stored on the SD Card. This card had been used for +2 years on a Galaxy Note 4 without issue. I do think the Note 9 might have a flaw while handling content from the SD Card.... ?
EDIT4: SOLVED
I just simply put a text file called ".nomedia" inside the directory containing the MKV files and VOILA
Hope that helps someone else
SD Card Issue with Google Photos
Damin0u said:
Hello,
I have similar issue on a French SM-N960F/DS (Dual Sim)
Somehow, the Google Photos App is stuck while retrieving my Photos (from Google Web Server) an I can only view a couple of them (the most recent ones), without being able to scroll down and view the older ones.
Also when taking photos, it wont upload them
And finally if I try to toggle the switch (for backup) inside one directory, I have a popup asking me to first enabe Backup and Sync in Google Photos Apps, which is ALREADY enabled.
I suspect this is linked to the SD Card.
I removed it (just unmount it is sufficient, no need to physically remove it) and I reconfigured the Native Samsung Photo App to store all photos on the internal memory.
And now Google Photos Apps is just working fine. Full access on old pictures and proper upload.
EDIT1:
I have RE-mounted the SD Card without changing the Samsung Photo App settings, which means all taken Pictures are still stored on the Internal Memory.
By doing so, when I get into the Google Photos App, I see the new picture, and I see that there is "1" new photo to be uploaded on the upper right corner, but it is stuck there. The round icon keeps circling and it never gets uploaded (I cannot see the new Picture on the Google Photos website from my laptop)
If I Unmount the SD Card again, then the new Picture gets properly uploaded and the App is not stuck.
There is definitively an issue with the SD card.
This is quite annoying as I store lots of TV Series on my SD Card, hence I have it always inside the Phone.......
EDIT2:
I have formatted the SD Card from the Phone menu and now it works fine , even if the Card is present.
EDIT3:
I have copied back 10x MKV Files onto the SD Card (while Note9 was connected to laptop), and now the problem re-appears. If I delete the directory containing these MKV, back to normal, functioning fine.....
Then I tried to configure the Samsung Photo App to store taken pictur on the SD Card. In that case, the Google Photos App is correctly synching the new picture.
So now I'm more thinking there is an issue with some of the files stored on the SD Card. This card had been used for +2 years on a Galaxy Note 4 without issue. I do think the Note 9 might have a flaw while handling content from the SD Card.... ?
EDIT4: SOLVED
I just simply put a text file called ".nomedia" inside the directory containing the MKV files and VOILA
Hope that helps someone else
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Evening
I also had the same issue since I got my Note 9, photos was stuck uploading, I uninstalled the App and cleared the cache still the same, upon reading your forum. I bought 512gb SDCard was working perfectly fine since PIE 9, after rolling back to Oreo; I unmounted the SD card closed Google Photos and checked the camera setting to make sure it was Internal. I opened Google Photos and it had already uploaded screenshot I took earlier and also seen in online. I then re-mounted the card by rebooting the phone for fresh install and worked normal again. Took a few screen shot's and google photos was uploading them as normal.
So anyone else check your card first, baffled me for a few day's

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