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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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!
Does anyone have any info regarding the froyo update for Bell Canada users ?
is it avail yet? via kies?
I haven't rooted or lag fixed - strictly stock here.
Whats the best way to back up all my apps -- can Titanium pro do this ?
Titanium Backup is one of the best IMO. But you'll need root acces to run it. If you want to know why! Because Titanium also back up your paid apps and system apps. Be carefull about system apps as you really don't want to restore them on a different firmware than the one they've been back up from. So make sure you only restore apps you really installed yourself. When you will be ready to restore your apps on froyo just go trough the list and make sure you uncheck any apps you don't know about cause it could cause you problem to restore gtalk from eclair on froyo (exemple). Once you start the restore process on Titanium Backup you won't be prompted for your approval for every application by android as you would be if using another program to restore them. TB will install all of them on his own and even restore their market link. Once complete just restart the phone and open the market to see all you installed apps again and be informed about available update.
This is really the best available program to back up and restore apps but you need a rooted phone. Don't worry about warranty you can always unroot a phone after your procedure.
Regarding the availability of froyo update just do a little research and you'll find an approximate date cause it's not there (officially) for now but should be soon.
sp991 said:
Titanium Backup is one of the best IMO. But you'll need root acces to run it. If you want to know why! Because Titanium also back up your paid apps and system apps. Be carefull about system apps as you really don't want to restore them on a different firmware than the one they've been back up from. So make sure you only restore apps you really installed yourself. When you will be ready to restore your apps on froyo just go trough the list and make sure you uncheck any apps you don't know about cause it could cause you problem to restore gtalk from eclair on froyo (exemple). Once you start the restore process on Titanium Backup you won't be prompted for your approval for every application by android as you would be if using another program to restore them. TB will install all of them on his own and even restore their market link. Once complete just restart the phone and open the market to see all you installed apps again and be informed about available update.
This is really the best available program to back up and restore apps but you need a rooted phone. Don't worry about warranty you can always unroot a phone after your procedure.
Regarding the availability of froyo update just do a little research and you'll find an approximate date cause it's not there (officially) for now but should be soon.
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Thanks alot buddy. I just downloaded the Z4 Root app. Does this work with i9000m ? can anyone confirm ?
If so I'm gonna root my phone this aft. and back up my stuff!
When updating, i hear the best thing to do is a factory reset after update.
Once I boot back into the phone with Froyo, do I install Titanium Back up ? then open the app and hit "restore" ? I'm assuming it would look on my SD card for my "old" back up of apps ? I can only assume it doesn't back up stuff to a cloud/server.
Also, is this internal SD it backs up to or external SD
There was the first week of December floating around, and now I don't even know anymore.
Seems everybody has it now except us...
Yeah a good number of us I9000M users have updated to an unofficial bell ROM leaked a week or so back.
If you want the official rom, the last I heard was mid December.
If you do the unofficial route do some reading before hand before you decide. Many I9000M users have had corrupt internal SD cards, which result in a trip to a bell store for service.
You have been warned !
Sup XDA... first time poster... on/off lurker... just a quick question i was messing with my captivate today trying to load 2.2 on it... kies wasn't working for me so i did a whole lotta messing around with the phone... in the process i backed up my stuff on TB... while trying to restore it, it restored from a previous upgrade i did in dec. i ended up losing most of my text messages, profiles i set up and important memos... anything i can do to restore it or am i screwed...?
I think i accidentally hit the back up user apps instead of user apps+data and restored user apps+data... could that be the reason...?
I don't think that TiBu backs up text messages. I use SMS backup+ on the market for that. It backs it up to my Gmail account. It does this automatically, and has the option to restore if I flash a new ROM.
I read somewhere that TiBu system data back ups can cause issues if you flash a new ROM and try to restore system data from a different ROM. So I have always been afraid of system data in TiBu.
If you back up the apps without the data, then the app will install, but it's a fresh install. That way anything you did in the app is lost. For example if you back up just the app Facebook, when you restore you are not signed in anymore. If you backup app + data, when you restore you are already signed in again. That could be how you lost memos from an app, but Text messages is another animal.
If you are playing with Kies, you should try the custom ROMs. They are extremely easy to install, there's lots of guides, and they run so much better than the 2.2 from Samsung/AT&T.
Don't really think you can do anything at this point to get your stuff back. You should do a nandroid backup before flashing new firmware, though. If the rom you flashed didn't work, or if you couldn't restore something with TB (or forgot to even do a TB backup), you can always roll your phone back to your previous firmware, complete with all your data.
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I don't think that TiBu backs up
If you are playing with Kies, you should try the custom ROMs. They are extremely easy to install, there's lots of guides, and they run so much better than the 2.2 from Samsung/AT&T.
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Agree a ROM is the way to go. Huge improvement over just using a bloated 2.2.
Sorry but I'm really newb on this.
I have done the update from 2.2 to 2.2.1 with Kies, the first day I had my Galaxy. Now I'm waiting official Gingerbread to update, always with Kies, because my Galaxy does not have the "3 keys combo".
I have now many apps installed, and many files I need, both into internal and external SD. When I will update to Gingerbread, what I will lose ?
Is there a way to backup all installed Apps, and reload them after the update ?
thank you !
Ginosergio
if you flash officially through kies, then all your apps should get backed up and restored,
if you are going to flash using odin or similar software, you will lose your apps, so you should use a tool like titanium backup (requires root)
Yes I can only use KIES, no other way !!
So, it does save and restore automatically ? Or I should set this thing in some option ?
Thanks for your answer
i'm pretty sure the same thing applies from Eclair to Froyo via Kies, which is what i did with my i9000m. it changed it from 2.1 to 2.2 as above, automatically and none of my settings or apps were affected at all, including apps i had paid for.
it only reset the home pages - the shortcuts on those pages by default (all my ringtones/notifications/wallpaper etc remained the same).
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!