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I want to root but have questions first!

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!

Giggity said:
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

Titanium Backup is scary, how do I work it?

What do I WANT it for, exactly?
Secondly, I just want to backup my contacts because Google Sync won't Sync my contact photos. I want my contact photos to save. Do I... backup the contact app?

Tibo is for flash junkies who like to flash roms like crazy It basicly restores your apps without loosing any data. My google sync works fine It saves Pictures with contacts.
I personally don't like to backup becouse for some reason when you update those aps that were restore dont work or it downloads and hangs. But to each its own.

chibixzero said:
Tibo is for flash junkies who like to flash roms like crazy It basicly restores your apps without loosing any data. My google sync works fine It saves Pictures with contacts.
I personally don't like to backup becouse for some reason when you update those aps that were restore dont work or it downloads and hangs. But to each its own.
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I just want my contact pictures to save to my contacts, and for my contacts to be saved to Google.

To backup your contacts to your phone you could just click menu from the contact list and select export.
To backup them with google you just have to select the option Sync Contacts under Settings -> Accounts & Sync -> your gmail account
it is usually selected by default though...
after that, wait for it to sync and check your google account from your computer and go to contacts to check if they are there
the pics are backed up as well; they will not show on the contact list on your gmail account, but click on a contact and it will show you the picture
just as easy as that, if you flash/change/etc your phone, when you put your google account afterwards it will download all your contacts with their pics from google

rastanthology said:
To backup your contacts to your phone you could just click menu from the contact list and select export.
To backup them with google you just have to select the option Sync Contacts under Settings -> Accounts & Sync -> your gmail account
it is usually selected by default though...
after that, wait for it to sync and check your google account from your computer and go to contacts to check if they are there
the pics are backed up as well; they will not show on the contact list on your gmail account, but click on a contact and it will show you the picture
just as easy as that, if you flash/change/etc your phone, when you put your google account afterwards it will download all your contacts with their pics from google
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It's never synced with my account. Never.

I have a video for this please check out my thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=877652

From what I can tell google does not sync a contact if it dies not have and email address. If I am wrong can someone tell me how to do it/ I have created contacts under google on my phone that do not have emails and they do not show up in my Google contacts on my computer. Google does not sync any of your "Phone contacts", at least not on my phone

Try going into Settings -> Accounts & Sync -> your gmail account again and this time press the menu button and click Sync Now.

Thanks! I tried but it did not work.

Something is wrong with your phone. On mine, every contact entry that I made on the phone shows up on my gmail contact list. Some don't have email addresses at all.

you could also try to make a backup by exporting the contacts, flash a new rom and try to sync again
are you on stock or on a custom rom?

visitador02 said:
Something is wrong with your phone. On mine, every contact entry that I made on the phone shows up on my gmail contact list. Some don't have email addresses at all.
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Are your contacts saved to your phone or Google. My Google contacts sync, phone contacts do not. Google contacts without email don't sync either.

LBCaptivate said:
Are your contacts saved to your phone or Google. My Google contacts sync, phone contacts do not. Google contacts without email don't sync either.
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I am confused. Why would I need Google Contacts to Sync?
I have no Google Contacts. I copied all my SIM Contacts to my Phone. From there on out, how to make them Google Contacts, I'm at a loss.

I don't need my Google contacts to sync since they sync fine. It is the contacts that are saved to my phone that will not sync to google. I do not want to backup my contacts to the sim card since some of them have multiple #s. When you backup to the sim card each phone number under one contact is saved as an individual contact giving you multiple entries for one contact. My phone is still stock. I did a master reset to see if it would help with the shutdown issue, which by the way, did not help. It just created problems with all my contacts. Some were lost and others now have the wrong numbers associated with them. The only contacts that stayed the same were the Google contacts. The phone contacts were all messed up. I plan on getting the phone replaced under warranty and don't want to go through the headache of having to redo all the phone contacts again.
Just looking for a way to completely backup a stock phone. AT&T address book is useless now because of the JH7 update.

[SOLVED] Sync contacts to gmail problem

i want to transfer my contacts from phone to gmail account. But although it's 'sync on' @my O 2x, it syncs everything except the contacts. I'm using fr19. Any idea how to solve this?
thanks.

Sync on doesn't mean all options are, if you tap on the account you'll get a breakdown of what's available.

Yes, everything is checked. I even pressed the sync button. But still when i open gmail from PC, all my contacts aren't there. Only the starred contaacts. Is that what the star is all about?
EDIT: the only contacts that i have in PC's gmail are the ones i sent emails to. Other than that, no contacts are sync from phone to gmail.com

might be worth checking at http://www.google.com/contacts instead of GMail, but I shouldn't think it's any different.
Starred contacts are exactly that, contacts you've starred. Fire up the contacts list and tap a contact... top right will be a star.

or maybe because i'm using LG's gmail app? still can't sync to gmail contacts.

fifi139 said:
i want to transfer my contacts from phone to gmail account. But although it's 'sync on' @my O 2x, it syncs everything except the contacts. I'm using fr19. Any idea how to solve this?
thanks.
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When you make a new phone contact it defaults to an LG PC Suite contact. These wont sync with your Gmail account.
You will need to recreate them and select your gmail acc instead of the above and then they will sync with gmail on the web etc.
Absolute pain in the backside I'm afraid but don't think there is another option

If you have to change them all into google contacts from lg suite contacts (if that's your problem) then I found using my phone explore (app and PC software) quite easy.
I exported all my contacts to a csv file and then converted them so google contacts could read them and then imported into google contacts.
Seems quite long winded but seemed quicker to me than copying each contact.

Fulwood Sedge said:
If you have to change them all into google contacts from lg suite contacts (if that's your problem) then I found using my phone explore (app and PC software) quite easy.
I exported all my contacts to a csv file and then converted them so google contacts could read them and then imported into google contacts.
Seems quite long winded but seemed quicker to me than copying each contact.
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thanks.. i use the app u mentioned and i can sync with gmail contacts. But only problem is for every entry i have two details, one is from gmail contacts and the one is pc suite. So, i stop sync gmail contacts. But i upload all my LG contacts using myphonexplorer. At least now if i want to change to another android phone the contacts are still there.

Well if you have all your contacts in google then just use my phone explorer to delete them off the phone so you are left with just google contacts. Bit risky if you missed one but if you keep an original file with them all in.
This way if you update contacts then they will be auto saved and backed up with google incase something happens to your phone before you have chance to back up your contacts.

Is there any benefit of one method over another? I mean, besides the obvious that Gmail contacts can be sync directly with the phone? Maybe LG's version is same advantage over gmail's?

I just prefer google contacts as i know they are saved 'in the cloud' and if i ever change my phone i know they will work (as ill be sticking with android). Also, if my phone dies on me i know they will have been backed up almost instantly after i updated/changed a contact.
Also I can access my contacts from anywhere if i havent got my phone with me or my phone has run out of battery life. But that is completely personal opinions.

Problem with contacts

I'm not a fan of synching contacts to the cloud. I've only tried Google as I accidentally forgot to disable it. I have around 200+ contacts locally (phone only) . But when I export it to sd for backup, it's synching 800+. I'm guessing somewhere, either Facebook, Skype or viber copied some data over (my fault maybe) .
Is there a way I coul remove all the synched data and just leave the local contacts?
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kolo2x said:
I'm not a fan of synching contacts to the cloud. I've only tried Google as I accidentally forgot to disable it. I have around 200+ contacts locally (phone only) . But when I export it to sd for backup, it's synching 800+. I'm guessing somewhere, either Facebook, Skype or viber copied some data over (my fault maybe) .
Is there a way I coul remove all the synched data and just leave the local contacts?
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I'm not sure what your question is, if you want to remove contacts from your backup before importing, or if you want to remove contacts from gmail, or just prevent then showing on your phone, so here are a couple of answers.
To only display locally stored contacts enter the contacts app, press menu, Display Options (may have to select "more..." first) and tick the boxes for what kind of contacts you want to display. (Local=PC Suite)
To remove contacts from the exported file just edit it in a proper editor like notepad++ or notepad2, it's a regular text-file.
To prevent the phone from syncing contacts enter Settings/Accounts and Sync., enter each type of account and untick contacts.
To delete contacts in the cloud the easiest way is to log on to the service, i.e gmail/facebook/skype/twitter on a computer and delete them from there, alternatively select to only display that service's contacts on your phone, then delete them all one by one (while sync. is still on).

I was looking for a way to prevent non-local contacts into the Vcf file.
I'll go with editing the vcf and just restore from there. Thanks
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Hi, since i have a question about "contacts" i thought i should just use this thread instead of making a new one.
All my contacts are saved on my SIM card but when i put my SIM in my phone, go to Contacts > Import from SIM then it says "No contacts on your SIM card". Is there a way to get my contacts to show up or will i have to add them all again . Thanks.

Infinix hot2 6.0 sim contacts display problem

I can't no longer save or find save option on where to save new contacts or view my sims contact..every number are been saved to Google account..

desorockstar said:
I can't no longer save or find save option on where to save new contacts or view my sims contact..every number are been saved to Google account..
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this is true... but you could import existing sim contacts... could this be Infinix's problem?

A bug with the MM update is that contacts are not tied to incoming calls. The caller Id shows the number only. I have to manually add that number to the existing contact , then future calls show the contract name and info.

After updating to Marshmallow, for the best experience & smoothness is to format after.
However, these are common Problems and Their Solutions
Problem 1: Contact not displaying names after making or receiving a call*
Go to your google settings and remove all google account, after some minutes, add them back and your problem should fixed then.
Problem 2: The phone was successfully upgraded to Mashmallow but fails to boot up
You can go back to Android One using the same steps you used in upgrading. But*
If you have Mashmallow Update on your device or PC, run it again or flash it via SP Flash Tool.*
Problem 3: Not having access to files and document
During initial setup most of us mistakenly put ourselves in*guest account. This means the phone sees you as a guest. Hence, it restricts your use of the phone. Please check if guess mode is enabled, if you’re on it, reset your phone to factory settings.*
Problem 4: Battery drain
Wait for few days for the software to settle, if the problem persist, then go to settings>>>Apps>>check apps that are currently running**on your phone and force stop the ones you are not using.
Important Notice
If you’ve not yet*upgraded to Android 6.0*and you wished to do so, please back up your files, document, videos etc on your memory card and then remove it from your device before you start the upgrade.

i suggest u to use zenfone contact (playstore),
u can fully customize ur contacts view there. gmail, internal phone, simcard, even skype contacts.
for missing name contact when receiving call issue, i've fix with just using gmail account instead internal phone as contact storage.
(u can copy all ur internal, simcard contact to gmail accont with zenfone contact)
wish it will be helpfull.

setainfinix said:
i suggest u to use zenfone contact (playstore),
u can fully customize ur contacts view there. gmail, internal phone, simcard, even skype contacts.
for missing name contact when receiving call issue, i've fix with just using gmail account instead internal phone as contact storage.
(u can copy all ur internal, simcard contact to gmail accont with zenfone contact)
wish it will be helpfull.
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There is nothing like that in play store I saw zenui dialer and contact

You have to save each incoming call to the already existing Gcontact. Then those #s/contacts work.

just clear contact storage in app management.
after that begin contact sync.