my phone got soft-bricked (black screen of death) with stock froyo on it two days ago
i decided to install cyanogenmod this time, but lost all contacts and data while installing the ROM; and i obviously could not back up anything because the phone was not working
my contacts were synced with AT&T Address Book, though
but cyanogenmod, or i guess any custom ROM for that matter, does not have the option to sync with att address book.
please help me get the contacts back without having to go back to stock
i am desperate right now
maybe replacing the contacts apk with the stock one works?
any help is much appreciated, ppl
njgalaxy said:
my phone got soft-bricked (black screen of death) with stock froyo on it two days ago
i decided to install cyanogenmod this time, but lost all contacts and data while installing the ROM; and i obviously could not back up anything because the phone was not working
my contacts were synced with AT&T Address Book, though
but cyanogenmod, or i guess any custom ROM for that matter, does not have the option to sync with att address book.
please help me get the contacts back without having to go back to stock
i am desperate right now
maybe replacing the contacts apk with the stock one works?
any help is much appreciated, ppl
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Can you get them by logging into your account on AT&T's web site? If so, you might be able to export them as a CSV and then import them into your phone or another contacts manager.
KreepyKen said:
Can you get them by logging into your account on AT&T's web site? If so, you might be able to export them as a CSV and then import them into your phone or another contacts manager.
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i can access contacts through the website. but i did not find any options to export the contacts saved there, only see the option to import into the att address book
found no way to sync with AT&T Address Book on the custom ROM.
finally gave up and had to put the numbers on my phone one by one
replacing contacts apk or adding the att_wssyncmids apk does not work, ffr
njgalaxy said:
found no way to sync with AT&T Address Book on the custom ROM.
finally gave up and had to put the numbers on my phone one by one
replacing contacts apk or adding the att_wssyncmids apk does not work, ffr
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You should sync your contacts with google imo.
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Hey there,
this maybe a nooby question... but i read a lot, tried a lot and did not find an answer to the following:
I am using CyanogenMod-4.2.15.1 with Wysie Contacts V2.7 on my G1 and i'm looking for a way to import my contacts to the phone offline.
So to say, a simple import without using google account.
I never used google to take care of my private data and that's why i don't want to put everything up on their servers to simply import my personal addresses.
I'd simply like to have all phone numbers, e-mail addresses and other contacts fields right in place, that's it.
I followed several how-to's but nothing worked out like it should.
The possibility of Wysie Contacts to import my SIM contacts is no proper way, because any additional information is gone.
Also some of the apps on the market (e.g. Andook Lite, vCardIO) did not work out properly using Wysie Contacts.
Is there any way to create a database or anything on my host.
Maybe also an editor or anything.....
It is really annoying
Aynone tried this using CyanogenMod-4.2.15.1:
http://blue-imc.blogspot.com/2009/05/contacts-importer-user-manual.html
Any help or hint would be appreciated!
Regards,
scholbert
I don't think there's a way. Also, G1 will sync all contacts to Google anyway, so might as well go that route.
Hey borodin1,
thanks for the reply!
borodin1 said:
I don't think there's a way. Also, G1 will sync all contacts to Google anyway, so might as well go that route.
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G1 will only sync all contacts if you allow the phone to do so...
I know it sounds little crazy, but it should be possible to use a Google OS without using Google services.
Apart form that, this project looks promising.
http://www.android-sync.com/
Come on guys.... there must be a way.
All i need is a simple import function...
scholbert
scholbert said:
Hey there,
this maybe a nooby question... but i read a lot, tried a lot and did not find an answer to the following:
I am using CyanogenMod-4.2.15.1 with Wysie Contacts V2.7 on my G1 and i'm looking for a way to import my contacts to the phone offline.
So to say, a simple import without using google account.
I never used google to take care of my private data and that's why i don't want to put everything up on their servers to simply import my personal addresses.
I'd simply like to have all phone numbers, e-mail addresses and other contacts fields right in place, that's it.
I followed several how-to's but nothing worked out like it should.
The possibility of Wysie Contacts to import my SIM contacts is no proper way, because any additional information is gone.
Also some of the apps on the market (e.g. Andook Lite, vCardIO) did not work out properly using Wysie Contacts.
Is there any way to create a database or anything on my host.
Maybe also an editor or anything.....
It is really annoying
Aynone tried this using CyanogenMod-4.2.15.1:
http://blue-imc.blogspot.com/2009/05/contacts-importer-user-manual.html
Any help or hint would be appreciated!
Regards,
scholbert
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Just so you know... if you manage to accomplish this and then later (for whatever reason) attempt to sync with Google it may cause problem and even duplicate entries. Unfortunately I am not aware of any such resolution.
Perhaps import everything to your gmail, let it sync, remove the Contacts sync and then remove them from you gmail via pc. this way you should have everything in your contacts and the google.com server should be clear of your entries. This is all theoretical though. Good luck!
Hey Binary100100,
thanks for the reply.
Binary100100 said:
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Perhaps import everything to your gmail, let it sync, remove the Contacts sync and then remove them from you gmail via pc. this way you should have everything in your contacts and the google.com server should be clear of your entries. This is all theoretical though. Good luck!
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Though i really thought there'd be another way... looks like this is the only way to go for now.
BTW, anyone knows something about the format of the contacts database?
Best regards,
scholbert
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.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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
Chargerdude70 said:
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.
Hi all,
I moved from HD to HD7 a day ago and its going pretty well however,
am having problem finding my sim contact as it seems the only way to get my contacts from my old HD to the new one and now I can't find any SIM manager on HD7!
Any advice? please
you can upload your contacts to a gmail or hotmail acct through activesync on your hd, then sync that acct with your new phone.
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you can upload your contacts to a gmail or hotmail acct through activesync on your hd, then sync that acct with your new phone.
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You know I have never used this activesync you speak of but I will give it a go when I get home
One thing I realized is you can't do much customization on HD7, awaiting January "Big" (hopefully) update.
Thanks for the speedy response
the easiest way is:
1- go to settings.
2- go left to applications.
3- then people.
4- tap Import SIM Contacts.
: )
Wallah I checked this people tap a number of times but never noticed the import sim option.
Thanks Saud for your help. am OK now
Still needs a SIM manager though. What if I want to put contacts onto the card so I can use it with another phone?
Hi,
I am having a very strange problem with my SGS. Before I had a Nexus S and all my contacts are in my google account. I have my SGS sync with the google account apparently with no issues.
BUT when I edit a contact the changes are not saved! I press save and it says the the changes were saved, but when I go again to the contact the old info is there... I have tried to edit the address or to add/remove number in the contacs.
This only happens when editing existing contacts. If I add a new contact is OK or if I delete an existing contact it also works.
Any clue what can be wrong???
Thanks
PS: I have a stock ROM 2.3.6 JWZ
same problem here ....
sometimes my contacts get synced via googlemail - somtimes not ..
Really? How can something so basic give issues... and this is one of the latest official firmwares!!
Does anybody know if in other earlier/later roms work?
Or something better, where can I find the original contact manager from Gingerbread to replace Samsung's garbage? I have rooted and I guess I could get rid of it with root explorer, true?
Nobody else with the same issue?
I really don't want to flash again. And even less if I don't know other stock roms might have the same problem.
Nobody can tell me if they have any problems editing contacts from the google account?
What could I do, copy contacts to phone?
Hi, I have updated to the lasted official firmware for my samsung galaxy GT I9100 and am having the exact same problem as you. Yet it was working fine before update.
Did you find a solution?
Cheers
If u are on ICS,after making changes u need to confirm it at the top of the screen before leaving the contact
Any ideas how to recover my contacts lost after updating my locked bootloader Moto X (AT&T)? It was not even rooted. I did nothing special within the update, but some contacts were lost fully. Some still have just WhatUp accounts (not phones). All rest is working like needed exept "system/applications update" within every reboot. I can't even return to 4.4.4 back or reflash 5.1 in order to check system without the bug. Can I recover and copy contacts on another Android phone? (my Google Autosync is switched on)
If your Sync is ON, you're safe!
Vivjen said:
Any ideas how to recover my contacts lost after updating my locked bootloader Moto X (AT&T)? It was not even rooted. I did nothing special within the update, but some contacts were lost fully. Some still have just WhatUp accounts (not phones). All rest is working like needed exept "system/applications update" within every reboot. I can't even return to 4.4.4 back or reflash 5.1 in order to check system without the bug. Can I recover and copy contacts on another Android phone? (my Google Autosync is switched on)
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If your Sync is On, your contacts should have been saved in your google account right?
You can log into your google account in any phone and get then there by Synching
nijom said:
If your Sync is On, your contacts should have been saved in your google account right?
You can log into your google account in any phone and get then there by Synching
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No, nothing happen on another phone. How OTA could corrupt my userdata?
Vivjen said:
Any ideas how to recover my contacts lost after updating my locked bootloader Moto X (AT&T)? It was not even rooted. I did nothing special within the update, but some contacts were lost fully. Some still have just WhatUp accounts (not phones). All rest is working like needed exept "system/applications update" within every reboot. I can't even return to 4.4.4 back or reflash 5.1 in order to check system without the bug. Can I recover and copy contacts on another Android phone? (my Google Autosync is switched on)
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Try my troubleshooting steps posted here if you use AT&T Address Book. Be sure to check online to see what contacts are saved on your account via your PC.
If you use Google Contacts then I would check on your PC and then go to Settings > Accounts > Google > Email > Contacts > UnCheck and then check the sync option. If you have over 1K contacts it may take a while to sync.
Mark
Motorola Support
MarkAtMoto said:
Try my troubleshooting steps posted here if you use AT&T Address Book. Be sure to check online to see what contacts are saved on your account via your PC.
If you use Google Contacts then I would check on your PC and then go to Settings > Accounts > Google > Email > Contacts > UnCheck and then check the sync option. If you have over 1K contacts it may take a while to sync.
Mark
Motorola Support
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Thank you. I will try. David Schuster confirmed the issue with 5.1 for AT&T phones only https://plus.google.com/+DavidSchuster/posts/5qMzkiFGQQg
Vivjen said:
Thank you. I will try. David Schuster confirmed the issue with 5.1 for AT&T phones only https://plus.google.com/+DavidSchuster/posts/5qMzkiFGQQg
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No problem. Any info you can give with your specific use case will be helpful. Certainly if you have any contacts on phone memory you should move to the cloud (Google Contacts) if you decide to reset or Clear Contact Storage App.
Mark
Motorola Support
MarkAtMoto said:
No problem. Any info you can give with your specific use case will be helpful. Certainly if you have any contacts on phone memory you should move to the cloud (Google Contacts) if you decide to reset or Clear Contact Storage App.
Mark
Motorola Support
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Dear Mark,
The issue was not solved. As I have found that I have never used AT&T Address book on this phone. Google sync was switched off as well (It's too late to switch it on now).
Any another ideas how to find lost contacts? Which application keeps contacts in case of non-registering into AT&T Address book app?
Vivjen said:
Dear Mark,
The issue was not solved. As I have found that I have never used AT&T Address book on this phone. Google sync was switched off as well (It's too late to switch it on now).
Any another ideas how to find lost contacts? Which application keeps contacts in case of non-registering into AT&T Address book app?
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But if you log into Google Contacts and check, are your contacts in there? If they are then they should sync back down to the phone.
If not there, then they were 1 either never syncing before KitKat, were in AT&T Contacts or were only in phone's memory. If in AT&T Contacts then you should be able to log on to AT&T Addressbook and find the contacts and then disable and reenable app to resync to the phone. That would only work if you are an AT&T user and not if you were using AT&T phone on another network.
If contacts were in phone's memory then they should have been there after the upgrade to Lollipop. If you have reset the phone then the contacts wouldn't be restored after the reset as they were local and never in the cloud.
Any contacts on the SIM card?
Mark
Motorola Support