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How to preserve contact picture through hard reset?

I was using Dutty's v3.6b. When I add favourite contact and take pictures for the contacts, the pictures will be preserved even after I hard reset my diamond. However, I'm using v4 now, and the pictures wasn't preserved. I couldn't find where the old pictures were, but when I re-added a favourite contact, the picture will automatically be attached.

You can try Spb Backup. On the homepage there is a trial version that lets you back up your whole phone 5 times. But I recommend only backing up Contacts and Messages. If you back up your system data your phone might not work, after you execute the backup file.
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/backup/

Actually, I wanted to ask where are the photos stored, and how come it was stored before and not now?

[OBSOLETE] Contact icon folder location?

Does anyone know where android stores the contact icon pictures? Since I use mybackup pro to backup my contacts, I can no longer sync my G1 with Gmail so I wanted to update the contact icons manually in Gmail contacts. I know that even though you delete the picture that you originally used for the icon, the picture obviously still stays so there must be a folder that it stores them to, I just can't find it and a search turned up nothing.
Also, is it possible to pull these files to my PC from ADB and have Windows XP recognize the file type?
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I never found where they were, but I found an old backup I made of my SD card so there were a lot of the pics I used to make contact icons so I just used those.

DirectMatrix said:
Does anyone know where android stores the contact icon pictures? Since I use mybackup pro to backup my contacts, I can no longer sync my G1 with Gmail so I wanted to update the contact icons manually in Gmail contacts. I know that even though you delete the picture that you originally used for the icon, the picture obviously still stays so there must be a folder that it stores them to, I just can't find it and a search turned up nothing.
Also, is it possible to pull these files to my PC from ADB and have Windows XP recognize the file type?
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Actually I think it is stored with google because I got a replacement phone and all my contact pictures was still there even tho it was a different phone.

Hmm, that would be a problem but I still think the images have to be stored locally somewhere on the phone. When I use mybackup pro to restore my contacts, it includes my contact icons which means that the program is getting them from "somewhere" when I do the initial backup. That somewhere cannot be Google because I haven't synced with Google since the beginning of the year.

The only reason I said that was because of having a brand new phone without my sd card in it and nothing done to it. As soon as I logged into the brand new phone before leaving the t mobile store my contact pictures were there.

Shameless bump.....

DirectMatrix said:
Shameless bump.....
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Hmmmm... try backing up your contacts with Backup for Root Users, then go to your sdcard, open the BackupRoot folder and look inside the folder for contacts and see if you can see your images in there... If you can, try searching for the same folder/filename within root.

Why not uninstall mybackup pro and sync with gmail? Or, is there another reason you're not choosing to sync?

h.nocturna said:
Hmmmm... try backing up your contacts with Backup for Root Users, then go to your sdcard, open the BackupRoot folder and look inside the folder for contacts and see if you can see your images in there... If you can, try searching for the same folder/filename within root.
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The problem is that the images are on the non rooted phone. I was hoping that there was a folder I could gain access to from Linda or Astro file manager and pull them off that way. But I'm not sure if this is even possible.
prettyboy85712 said:
Why not uninstall mybackup pro and sync with gmail? Or, is there another reason you're not choosing to sync?
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I was one of the original users of mybackup pro (before everyone fully understood the syncing with gmail problem). There is an inherent glitch in mybackup pro that makes contacts syncing impossible once you perform the first restore of your backups. Now the problem is know and well documented, then it wasn't. I spent the better part of four hours today restoring my contacts from my rooted spare G1's SIM card in order to partial restore my gmail contacts because those contacts were untouched by the glitch in mybackup pro. Now everything is just the way I want it in gmail contacts with the exception of the contact icons so I was figuring that I could push them from the phone to gmail contacts with a PC as the go between. Then everything will be perfect and I will make sure NEVER to backup my contacts with mybackup pro!

Saving contacts

Hi guis.. i need one thing to ask you..
Is there something that I can do to save contact as backup... but I want to save contacts and pictures on that contacts...
Thanks

Enzo,
simply associate your phone to a Google account and your contacts will be safe even after a ROM flash or a new (Android) phone purchase. No software needed.
Cool eh?
Or, if you really want an app for a local backup, I think that MyBackup is a good app for that.
Ciao
Sent from my MIUI.us Sensation 4G using Tapatalk

I'm agree, the best think is synchronize it with google account! If you want you can exported it by gmail, in many format compatible with many app.

Thanks guys

HTC backup vs Google backup

I'm thinking of using the HTC Backup service.
My questions is what features are missing? I know that it doesn't backup photos and videos as these are backup-ed to Dropbox.
Do contacts still sync with the Google account (as Google backup is disabled) and what about the apps? If I restore from HTC do they install automatically?
Anything else I should know?
Thanks

use google backup. then you can restore to any android device, not just HTC. and yes it does contacts, and apps. its started to do app data too but i've never tested if that works.

I use htc backup because it saves blinkfeed setting and Im kinda ROMaholic that I flash roms 2-3 times a day so I dont need to set my blinkfeed everytime.
if you wanna switch to other brand, just change backup method in settings and back everything up with google before letting your phone go.

ryryzz said:
I use htc backup because it saves blinkfeed setting and Im kinda ROMaholic that I flash roms 2-3 times a day so I dont need to set my blinkfeed everytime.
if you wanna switch to other brand, just change backup method in settings and back everything up with google before letting your phone go.
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So if something happened to the One you wouldn't be able to use the HTC backup to another phone.

Corduroy-21 said:
So if something happened to the One you wouldn't be able to use the HTC backup to another phone.
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sadly yes but it is my preference so... hope for the best then

ryryzz said:
sadly yes but it is my preference so... hope for the best then
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:laugh:
Are there any settings? Because I don't see any.
I want to try it, but I can't seem to choose what to backup or not.
I see it backup-ed to my Dropbox account but don't know what it did.
For example dictionary etc.

Corduroy-21 said:
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Are there any settings? Because I don't see any.
I want to try it, but I can't seem to choose what to backup or not.
I see it backup-ed to my Dropbox account but don't know what it did.
For example dictionary etc.
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Unfortunately there is no real options to tailor your backup. HTC Back up, backups:
Home screen settings: These include your categories and headlines in HTC BlinkFeed, widgets, and Home screen layout.
Accounts and passwords: HTC Backup stores the login credentials for many popular email and social network accounts, including Exchange ActiveSync, Microsoft Hotmail, Flickr, LinkedIn, Evernote, and POP/IMAP.
Apps and settings: These include your web bookmarks, personal dictionary, Wi-Fi networks, TV remotes and viewing preferences, apps you've installed, grid size and sort order in the All apps view, and over 150 other settings.
When it has all been backed up it is encrypted and then sent to your Dropbox folder. What you see in your folder is encrypted files, so there is not much you can do with the files.
Hoped this has helped.

I reset my phone today to test the feature and I am very impressed with it. It restored everything perfectly except the grid size of the app drawer, I had to do that myself. All apps, settings, wi-fi networks and passwords, home screens with all shortcuts, widgets and folders that I created, blinkfeed and pretty much everything I normally spend hours re-customizing after a full reset. Text messages did not restore (I didn't think they would) but I had them backed up to my Handcent account. Bluetooth pairings also did not get restored but that's easy and fast.
Overall I am extremely impressed, it made doing a hard reset quite painless compared to what I usually go through.
I believe that the restore should also work on future versions of HTC phones so if you upgrade to a newer HTC you can restore all your apps and settings to the newer HTC device.

Did it backup and restore all your contacts ?
Thanks

nokevin said:
Did it backup and restore all your contacts ?
Thanks
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Normally, you shall store your contacts in your Google account....

Edit Contacts

Do you guys know how to edit contacts on lollipop, I've tried everything, but still don't find a way how to do that, i was wondering if it's me, or it just not implemented on the new Android 5.x?

Joe-Tech said:
Do you guys know how to edit contacts on lollipop, I've tried everything, but still don't find a way how to do that, i was wondering if it's me, or it just not implemented on the new Android 5.x?
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Open contacts, click on the contact you wish to edit, click on the pencil shaped icon on top right of screen. Complete the editing then click on the back arrow on top left of screen.

Evolution_Freak said:
Open contacts, click on the contact you wish to edit, click on the pencil shaped icon on top right of screen. Complete the editing then click on the back arrow on top left of screen.
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Thanks for the answer mate, but seems like there's not that option, is some screenshots.

Are you editing a Google contact or a contact from a third party source? A Google contact should give you the option to edit. See the photo I've attached. You can't edit a non Google contact from within the contacts app. You would have to go to the original source that contact was synced from, in order to edit that contact.

It is actually easier to go to Google contacts on the web via your PC if you have a lot of edits to do any want to add a lot of pictures that don't exist on your phone.
https://contacts.google.com/preview/all
Then if you're really feeling sporty you can run them through a free program like http://www.scrubly.com/
Sent from my Benzo'd Google N6 on VZ

DebianDog said:
It is actually easier to go to Google contacts on the web via your PC if you have a lot of edits to do any want to add a lot of pictures that don't exist on your phone.
https://contacts.google.com/preview/all
Then if you're really feeling sporty you can run them through a free program like http://www.scrubly.com/
Sent from my Benzo'd Google N6 on VZ
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Thanks, I was just going to edit my post and recommend the same thing. :good:

Evolution_Freak said:
Are you editing a Google contact or a contact from a third party source? A Google contact should give you the option to edit. See the photo I've attached. You can't edit a non Google contact from within the contacts app. You would have to go to the original source that contact was synced from, in order to edit that contact.
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Im not using any third party source contact app, and by the way im on stock ROM 5.1, and i don't sync my contact with the google server, cause when ever i reset my phone, all my contacts pictures blurry, so i used contact backup ultimate to restore them.
Edit: Looks like i can edit my own contacts, but not the other people's contacts.

If you use high resolution pictures in web contacts they should stay high resolution. I have had a few go to low resolution but I don't know what causes it I have it all my contacts synced
Sent from my Benzo'd Google N6 on VZ

Joe-Tech said:
Im not using any third party source contact app, and by the way im on stock ROM 5.1, and i don't sync my contact with the google server, cause when ever i reset my phone, all my contacts pictures blurry, so i used contact backup ultimate to restore them.
Edit: Looks like i can edit my own contacts, but not the other people's contacts.
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That's what I meant by 3rd party contacts. Contacts you've created elsewhere other than gmail or within the contacts app. Specifically, contacts created with other email accounts.