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[Q] Help in Backup phone contact on to SD card.

Hello,
I have purchased LG GT540.. and I am really enjoying it,, its really value for money people who wanna try the Android OS..
as there is upgrade is available I would like to upgrade my phone, but I am finding difficulty to make backup of all my contact.
Please advice me on this how I can do so.. I use ASTRO File manager.. but only manage to backup my Application, not the phone contact and sms.
I will appreciate if anybody can help me..
thanks in advance
Cheers|

vievk said:
Hello,
I have purchased LG GT540.. and I am really enjoying it,, its really value for money people who wanna try the Android OS..
as there is upgrade is available I would like to upgrade my phone, but I am finding difficulty to make backup of all my contact.
Please advice me on this how I can do so.. I use ASTRO File manager.. but only manage to backup my Application, not the phone contact and sms.
I will appreciate if anybody can help me..
thanks in advance
Cheers|
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Backup:
go to contacts then go to more options>import/export contacts>Export to SD card.
Restore:
go to contacts then go to more options>import/export contacts>Import from SD card.
But i faced one issue with this method i exported all my contacts to SD card and later i imported all the contacts from SD card again.. but in all the contacts + symbol was missing.. normally i used to save the number in this format (+91-123456789) "+91" is my country code..
After importing all the contacts form SD card the '+' sign was missing(i.e.91123456789). When i tried to call it is dialing with the number 91123456789 and saying plz check the number.
so try to back up only one contact and restore it again and check hw it is??

Thanks mat..
but as mentioned above I checked I dont have option of export only import and when I click on it,. its came with pop up. "No SNS Site search"
Even on the on more option I can only see,.1)View Form, 2) Delete Contacts,3)Hide Picture, 4)Information..
waiting for suggestions..,

Surf the Market, there are lots of free Backup Applications out there!

use LG PC Suite...
works gr8 for me.

vievk said:
Thanks mat..
but as mentioned above I checked I dont have option of export only import and when I click on it,. its came with pop up. "No SNS Site search"
Even on the on more option I can only see,.1)View Form, 2) Delete Contacts,3)Hide Picture, 4)Information..
waiting for suggestions..,
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What ROM you are using??
Mine is Official 2.1 ROM

[Q] Converting SPB to vcf or csv files / Importing SPB without Kies

Hello, guys, i recently backed up my contacts using Samsung Kies.
after that i flashed my galaxy with some stuff.
now. whenever i connect my galaxy it takes tons of time for Kies to load my galaxy and at the end it - when i try to import my contacts from the pc back to the galaxy it shows the error: "Stopped saving contacts to GT-I9000". also when i try to show my current contacts using Kies it says "Device not responding...".
So I thought - maybe I can convert the SPB file of the contacts to the vcf or to csv file and sync it with my gmail contacts?
I saw this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1129091
but I cant seem to find any export to vcf file in Kies 2.0
Thanks in advanced,
Sorry for my bad English.
Din.

anyone? please.. i need this fast..

I too am having problems
I lost my phone ... and all I have is the Kies software on my PC and when you do not have a phone connected then you do not have option to export to .vcf ... so very annoying as I want to move my backed up contacts to an older phone till I can afford to buy a new smartphone. So what to do ?
Is there any way to convert kies .spb format to .vcf format? I have searched the forums and the solutions offered need the phone to be connected to Kies. The other solution something about spb2xml is for something else not kies .spb formatted files. Also this is not a clean solution.
HELP PLEASE !!!! I am very upset at being tied to SAMSUNG ... given this they will never get me to buy a smartphone from them again and any friend I have will also not purchase one! Open development platforms please !!!!!
If all else fails I will borrow a friend's samsung and do the conversion ... however why not allow an export to work without a phone attached to Kies ... really!!!
My questions again ... Is there any way to convert kies .spb format to .vcf format without having to plug in a phone using Kies? Please only tested solutions.

I have a similar issue. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1347559
Any assistance would be appreciated.

amatesic said:
I lost my phone ... and all I have is the Kies software on my PC and when you do not have a phone connected then you do not have option to export to .vcf ... so very annoying as I want to move my backed up contacts to an older phone till I can afford to buy a new smartphone. So what to do ?
Is there any way to convert kies .spb format to .vcf format? I have searched the forums and the solutions offered need the phone to be connected to Kies. The other solution something about spb2xml is for something else not kies .spb formatted files. Also this is not a clean solution.
HELP PLEASE !!!! I am very upset at being tied to SAMSUNG ... given this they will never get me to buy a smartphone from them again and any friend I have will also not purchase one! Open development platforms please !!!!!
If all else fails I will borrow a friend's samsung and do the conversion ... however why not allow an export to work without a phone attached to Kies ... really!!!
My questions again ... Is there any way to convert kies .spb format to .vcf format without having to plug in a phone using Kies? Please only tested solutions.
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Open Kies
Open your saved spb file
Select all the contacts
Click SAVE
Select a location on your PC, create a directory called Contacts.
Browse to this directory and save the file using VCF as your file extension
Yes it doesn't give VCF as a file type option so just manually type it.
Check the directory and it should be full of vcf files.
Copy the directory to your Phone SD Card and import using contacts import.

It works just fine
All I did was follow the steps as describe, remane the extension to .cvf and its going to create as many VCF as U have as contacts....I put it inside my I9000B-ICS4.0.4 and that's it... easy as looks like....

[email protected] said:
All I did was follow the steps as describe, remane the extension to .cvf and its going to create as many VCF as U have as contacts....I put it inside my I9000B-ICS4.0.4 and that's it... easy as looks like....
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Glad it works for you
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Import contacts from SPB file without Kies Software
Hi ApriliaM3,
I exactly did the same set of instructions as directed by your forum post. But it doesnt seem to work.
My phone retailer, reflashed my phone with DarkyRom Extreme edition 10.2 Gingerbread. Due to this Samsung Kies wont recognize my phone.So i did all you have instructed including appending the manual file extension of vcf. while saving Kies contacts. This nicely created as many VCF files as there are contacts. However I get this error message "Reading of VCard data has failed. One or more files could not be read....."
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The individual VCF files are opening nicely including contact photos if any and favorites mark etc in Outlook, suggesting they are valid VCF files. Just that they wont be imported in my Phone's contacts. I tried the Android app 'Import Contacts' this also did not work. Is there any other way around it please. I have thousands of contacts and manually reentering is very difficult so I want to keep that as the final option.
Would highly appreciate your pointers please.
Cheers and thanks in advance. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S happily running on Froyo. This nightmare is since the upgrade to Gingerbread.
ApriliaM3 said:
Open Kies
Open your saved spb file
Select all the contacts
Click SAVE
Select a location on your PC, create a directory called Contacts.
Browse to this directory and save the file using VCF as your file extension
Yes it doesn't give VCF as a file type option so just manually type it.
Check the directory and it should be full of vcf files.
Copy the directory to your Phone SD Card and import using contacts import.
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guppeey said:
Hi ApriliaM3,
I exactly did the same set of instructions as directed by your forum post. But it doesnt seem to work.
My phone retailer, reflashed my phone with DarkyRom Extreme edition 10.2 Gingerbread. Due to this Samsung Kies wont recognize my phone.So i did all you have instructed including appending the manual file extension of vcf. while saving Kies contacts. This nicely created as many VCF files as there are contacts. However I get this error message "Reading of VCard data has failed. One or more files could not be read....."
The individual VCF files are opening nicely including contact photos if any and favorites mark etc in Outlook, suggesting they are valid VCF files. Just that they wont be imported in my Phone's contacts. I tried the Android app 'Import Contacts' this also did not work. Is there any other way around it please. I have thousands of contacts and manually reentering is very difficult so I want to keep that as the final option.
Would highly appreciate your pointers please.
Cheers and thanks in advance. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S happily running on Froyo. This nightmare is since the upgrade to Gingerbread.
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It looks a bit like SOME of your vcf contacts might be corrupted? Have you tried deleting the files reported in the error window and then re-import again?
SGSII GT-i9100 via Tapatalk

Thanks for the prompt reply ApriliaM3.
I did make couple of attempts making sure not to open the file after conversion fearing further format changes/collapses. Despite that no luck.
If VCF is an universally accepted standard, dont know why Samsung need to come up with their own spb format. Its too late to lament though.
Luckily i had a CSV of the same file too. Got it imported to Gmail that did a nasty job of putting everything as a comment/additional info. Also pictures of contacts lost. Google has imported them all with a label 'Imported<importdate>' So I am filtering the contacts by this label and rectifying the entries by putting them in the right fields and removing the label before saving. This way I know i am working with just the ones I had on my phone. On the upside, all phone contacts got into gmail. Which means I am safe in another disaster including losing the phone.
Its about a step short of totally re entering manually. but worked. Samsung/Android phones need to mature a lot.
Despite google, Android is still not as versatile as other Google products. Especially in a recovery situation like mine.
Wish Google made VCF mandatory for all vendors.
Anyway, thanks once again, ApriliaM3. Help much appreciated.
Cheers.
ApriliaM3 said:
It looks a bit like SOME of your vcf contacts might be corrupted? Have you tried deleting the files reported in the error window and then re-import again?
SGSII GT-i9100 via Tapatalk
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ApriliaM3 said:
It looks a bit like SOME of your vcf contacts might be corrupted? Have you tried deleting the files reported in the error window and then re-import again?
SGSII GT-i9100 via Tapatalk
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Not able to Unlock SPB kies file
I have created a backup of contacts using kies 2.0 from my samsung monte S5620 and set the password to open the contact file . But now when I am transferring the contacts back to my new phone samsung galaxy y duos GT S6102 phone its asking for the password and not accepting the password which I had given during contacts' backup creation.....Please help me to unlock this contact file. The contact file is in .spb format. :crying:

problem with kies
ApriliaM3 said:
Open Kies
Open your saved spb file
Select all the contacts
Click SAVE
Select a location on your PC, create a directory called Contacts.
Browse to this directory and save the file using VCF as your file extension
Yes it doesn't give VCF as a file type option so just manually type it.
Check the directory and it should be full of vcf files.
Copy the directory to your Phone SD Card and import using contacts import.
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I tried all this but my kies doesn't save anything to my folder I tried csv & vCard :crying:
Can I send you my spb & send me back a csv or vCard file please ?
thanks in advance

ApriliaM3 said:
Open Kies
Open your saved spb file
Select all the contacts
Click SAVE
Select a location on your PC, create a directory called Contacts.
Browse to this directory and save the file using VCF as your file extension
Yes it doesn't give VCF as a file type option so just manually type it.
Check the directory and it should be full of vcf files.
Copy the directory to your Phone SD Card and import using contacts import.
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work fine, thanks

ICS + Kies + Contacts

Hi everyone,
Recently upgraded to ICS and had all my contacts saved in Kies from Gingerbread. I understand ICS will not work with Kies and therefore I cannot use it to restore my contacts. However, I was wondering if there is another way to use my existing saved contacts from Kies and import it to the phone using another method. Hope that makes sense.

Jsick said:
Hi everyone,
Recently upgraded to ICS and had all my contacts saved in Kies from Gingerbread. I understand ICS will not work with Kies and therefore I cannot use it to restore my contacts. However, I was wondering if there is another way to use my existing saved contacts from Kies and import it to the phone using another method. Hope that makes sense.
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is there anyway to save contacts from Kies as a CSV file? If yes, then you can export contacts as CSV and then import it to you google account and then sync..
(I don't use kies so don't know whether it can be done so asking back )

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ishangoyal said:
is there anyway to save contacts from Kies as a CSV file? If yes, then you can export contacts as CSV and then import it to you google account and then sync..
(I don't use kies so don't know whether it can be done so asking back )
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totally cool~ kies can export contacts as csv file and can be uploaded to Google and sync to phone.
However, i've not figure out how to get the mobile number to appear in correct correct column. It is now appear as NOTES in my phone contact. Any advise?

[Q] Get Contacts from sbu file

Hi, I have installed the ICS in my GT I9000 phone, and it's no more detected by Kies driver. Problem, I need to restore my contacts list, I have the sbu file (from the last back up before I clear the phone) but I can't read it. Am searching for any application, parser, etc to get the contacts.. Any help?

IoriYagamiOroche said:
Hi, I have installed the ICS in my GT I9000 phone, and it's no more detected by Kies driver. Problem, I need to restore my contacts list, I have the sbu file (from the last back up before I clear the phone) but I can't read it. Am searching for any application, parser, etc to get the contacts.. Any help?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=983471
go through the above link.. maybe it'll solve your problem..

That helped a lot! Thank you! I did read the post, but the Kies didn't help, I didn't see the java application .. thanks now I have the VCard file
I'm going to search how to transform it into my contacts list in the phone now

Import/Export contacts

I just upgraded from GB to ICS Stunner ROM yesterday and am loving it.
Unfortunately I exported all the contacts to my SD card and am unable to import them back now.
Can anyone tell me if i can do anything to import that now?
I have a huge list of contact and donno for watever the reason they were not there in Gmail.
Now i dont want to loose the contacts.
Please help.

Open Contacts app --> press menu button --> Import/Export --> Import from storage

matius44 said:
Open Contacts app --> press menu button --> Import/Export --> Import from storage
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I had already tried that option.
It does not even recognize the VCARD in there to import
Is it something to do between GB & ICS ??

Coolkriss said:
I had already tried that option.
It does not even recognize the VCARD in there to import
Is it something to do between GB & ICS ??
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I'm also facing the same issue, unable to import from the vcf file. Can some please help me :-( :-(

i keep my contacts on google.....
try import the contacts in google using the pc web browser..... then they will sync on the phone

antiguangenius said:
i keep my contacts on google.....
try import the contacts in google using the pc web browser..... then they will sync on the phone
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yeah, that is the best option by far!

I have imported without issue in ICS, backed up on GB.
Have you add account first?

Make sure you have a copy of he vcf file on both external and internal sd card/storage. Import multiple, select your file.
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