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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
So the title basically sums it up.
I was doing the usual flashing and modding
and everything went well except, well...
I forgot to backup contacts.
It's not actually my phone but my dad's and now his
700 contacts are deleted and now he wants to kill me
Is there anyway possible way to get the contacts back.
None of them are saved on his SIM Card and there are no backups of the contacts at all.
Am I screwed?
Unless you have a back up or they are in sim (wich you they aren't) you are SOL.
Why werent they saved to his google account ??? Thats the easiest method as soon as you login to google bam all contacts calender events everything is right back to the way tthey were...
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Forgot about that one. Regardless requires you to back up somewhere.
I installed ROM of CM7
And I forgot to save the phone book
I saw in the device's files that he did not delete my files
There are still pictures movies calendar ..
I wanted to ask if there is any way to return the phone book? If he is still on the device?
And if not so the Phone book also exists in on PC SUIT
But after installing the rum is not recognizing my device software ?
Someone? Something?
If you've synced your contacts with your gmail account, then all you have to do is setting up the account in your new ROM, and let it sync.
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If you've synced your contacts with your gmail account, then all you have to do is setting up the account in your new ROM, and let it sync.
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Yup I think you're out of luck mate. Flashing doesn't touch media files like pictures and music, but your contacts are long gone.
Spending some time to sync and organize everything with your gmail account is the way to go (in my opinion). Whatever happens to your phone (flashing, losing, being stolen) you'll always have that (precious) information backed up.
EDIT: Oops, forgot to read the rest of the OP. If your contacts are backed up in PC Suite than I think you should be able to get them back (I still think you should spend sometime putting them on your gmail account though).
I've had issued before (but with a GT540, not O2X) where some ROM's made my device unrecognizable for my PC. So try a couple of ROMs, or even try to put stock ROM back in. Hope it helps.
Do you have lgpcsuite.apk installed on your phone?
No i don't have this app installed ..
Do you have a backup of your previous ROM?
If yes, do a backup of these CM7, go on the previous, sync contacts with your google account or use an app on the market to backup all the contacts, and, with CWM, install your backup of CM7 and sync via your google accounts or using the previous app...
Am I clear?
Where can I find the lgpcsuite.apk
Then I will be able to synchronize with PC SUIT?
Hello i am quite new to this, i looked around on the forum with no prevail to my problem although there was a similar post but that had to do with a Gmail contacts list.
First of all, i rooted my Droid 4 phone just earlier today and found this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1541297
I proceeded to freeze all of the apps listed aside from Facebook Authenticator. After i had done so i went to check to make sure my contacts list wasn't going to crash on me and found myself looking at an empty contacts list; except for a few that i had entered manually when i received the phone. I was guessing that it had something to do with freezing backup assistant and its other features so i un-froze them. Went in to backup assistant and synced my contacts when it said clearly that i had 80 some contacts backed up and when the sync was done, nothing had been added. I am going to try a re-boot right now but if anyone has any suggestions please let me know!
-Andrew
no prevail yet again...
i have restarted my phone, defrosted all of the apps i froze at the start and STILL am missing all of my contacts...in the phone app>recent, everyones name was there but i tapped on one and now they are all unknown. also i tried to sync back my contacts using backup assistant but now my backup assistant account has 0 contacts. why on earth would the sync delete the contacts. no single person would ever do that.
sorry for ranting and not capitalizing, i am highly pissed at me, myself, and i.
Also, when i try to sync my facebook contacts, the phone syncs but yet again, no contacts show up. someone please help me out =/ i will keep trying myself though.
Go to your contacts-menu- display options... and check to see what is being displayed or not displayed...
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thank you for the reply but i fixed it. it must have been the fact that i froze backup assistant and when i did it threw all of my contacts in the trash on the verizon website for backup assistant so this thread can be closed as solved?
Thanks again,
-Andrew
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...
drtweak said:
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.