hi. i need some help. i have Samsung Galaxy S. instal Android 4.0.4 Dark Knight 3 on my phone. before i had Android 2.3.4. i backup my contacts and now i can't restore it. my phone doesn't connect to kies. how can i fix it?
Custom roms can not connect to kies! You should've known this by now.
The best way is to save your contacts in google account. Search in the kies folder the extension of that backup, if it was saved in .csv you just have to import it in google and that's it, if not, bad luck.
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Synchronize Your contacts with Google Account. It is really helpful! And after installing a fresh ROM contacts are downloaded automatically - so You won't even see the difference.
full_crash said:
hi. i need some help. i have Samsung Galaxy S. instal Android 4.0.4 Dark Knight 3 on my phone. before i had Android 2.3.4. i backup my contacts and now i can't restore it. my phone doesn't connect to kies. how can i fix it?
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you can restore you contacts by using file manager
1) launch file manager
2) select the file xxx.vcf
3) your contacts will import to you phone.
hope this will help, good luck.
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i did backup for my contacts when i m in android 2.1........
Now i just updated officially to android 2.2...............
but then after opening KIES . i m selecting my contacts backup file and
when i press transfer all to device..........
its loading upto 4% and giving me error as
FAILED DUE TO LOAD,DUE TO ERROR..............
PLZ I NEED MY CONTACTS...................
iTS VERY URGENT MY FRIENDS..........
HOPE U SOLVE MY PROBLEM......................
I am facing the same problem while trying to copy contacts from Phone to PC.
This error also occurs when trying to view messages using Kies.
Somebody have any soultions????
Samsung Kies Error Message when contacts are being backed up
Hi,
I too had faced an identical problem after upgrading the O.S. to Froyo on my Galaxy S.
I was able to solve this problem, after I deleted all my Contacts on my Galaxy S and then reloaded all my Contacts from the Contacts Backup file that I had fortunately created before upgrading to Froyo.
I am now able to backup, once again, all my Contacts on my PC and also synch effortlessly with Outlook.
Hopefully, you too have a backup for your Contacts. If so, do try this out. It should work. Good luck.
Best way İs:
Go to kies
open contacts
save as your contacts as vcf files
take this file to your phone
in contacts, choose take from sd
Thanks for the tips I will try that later today...Has anyone been able to update their outlook calender to the phone? I used to be able to now it does not work after upgrading to Froyo.
I do have the same problem, I updated to Foyo 2.2 and since then I just can't back up my contacts....Kies just sucks.
I have the same problem with Froyo Samsung GT-I5800 too using Kies. Can't load contacts from phone. It means can't backup, manage. It was easy to add pictures and etc. Interesting where is problem: Kies or Froyo? It would be nice to get fix for that.
Fail!
Whenever i try to do anything with my contacts ... on the read from the phone itself it says "Failed to load, due to error"
Similar is the case with the sms read by KIES
I can read all contacts on my sim card though
Samsung support just sucks, they can't resolve the problem.
Any alternative to Kies? I need to save my contacts or backup the whole phone.
Any idea how to resolve this??!!!
put a SD card . .and export contacts to SD card,
this is the way i have managed it
I have a kies contacts backup from when i was using 2.2.1 ROM, but now i have a 2.3.4 custom ROM that doesn't have an MTP so cannot connect to kies to restore the contacts (was going to sync with gmail but hadn't done it yet).
Anyone know how i can get it working again, or just reimport my contacts from the SPB file I have on my PC?
i recently flashed my galaxy s i9000 onto onecosmic ics rom RC1
i found that there is no option to use kies.
i had all my content backed up through kies especially contacts
can anyone please tell me how to get kies working or any other solution???????
2. there is no my files in it n kies air seems to be not working
plz provide a solution???????????
You wont get Kies working with RC1, because RC1 is no Samsung Firmware.
Save you Contacts with your Google Account
can u plz tell me how to do that????
how can i backup my contacts with my google account?
is there any way i can get back my contacts which is in .spb file as stored by kies???
go into Settings->Accounts, select your Google account, and enable contact sync. If you want to check if they've been synced, you can just log into GMail from a desktop or laptop and check.
If you did a nandroid backup from you last ROM where you had all your contacts, you can go back to it and sync your contacts with you google account, then go back to ICS and now you are able to get your contacts with your google account.
Hi
Ok now as I do not have stock rom I cant access kies, so cant get contacts to my phone, I have more then 150 contacts converted in .vcf from outlook, I tried keeping them in "Contacts" folder but phone couldnt find it while importing...
tried keeping 10 contacts on the root folder of "sdcard", the phone couldnt find it while importing...
How do I get the contacts to my phone..
any help?
thanks
p.s. - using emanon v4
Well, I was successful importing .vcf files into Phone Contacts on CM7. But CM9 couldn't do this, as it said "File format not supported."
Anyways "My Phone Explorer" ( http://www.fjsoft.at/en/ ) is good for syncing contacts to PC and back to Phone. But only works on a Windows platform.
EDIT: I guess its also possible via Titanium Backup, but I myself haven't tried. Maybe some one could help with this.
I think you can upload this file to your Gmail contacts and, then, sync your mobile with your Gmail account...
Have you tried that?
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First download 'super backup'(a free app) from market.Then backup ur any contacts or sms or logs.(its included in my procedure)It will automatically create a file on sd card as 'smsContactsBackup'.Then transfer ur (.vcf )file to that folder.
Now go to the super backup app and select contacts->restore option. This will restore all ur contacts...
Inform me if it helps...
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Thanks guys for your help I managed to do it via Kies.
I will try to download and see My Phone Explorer, I guess its a must app, I also heard it in some other threads..
thanks
Recently tried flashing different roms on my Galaxy Note. Now that I'm done, I'm having problems restoring my contact list which I backed up using Kies.
My Note is on ICS 4.0.4 and I can't connect to Kies. I know a lot of people have encountered the same problem. How do I get Kies to recognize my Note again? Used to work fine before I upgraded.
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Uninstall kies completely, then install new updated kies from Samsung website,u can also use another usb port (main ports like rear ones) ,for the contacts if they are backed to google just make sync,if not u can import the csv file directly from ur google account-contacts -import, then make sync or wait for it.
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Hello kuplet, a relatively hassle free method of keeping a backup of your contacts without using Samsung Kies is,
Contacts > Menu key > Import/Export > Export to SD card.
The backup of your contacts will be saved in your external storage (memory card) as a .vcf file.
YLNdroid said:
Hello kuplet, a relatively hassle free method of keeping a backup of your contacts without using Samsung Kies is,
Contacts > Menu key > Import/Export > Export to SD card.
The backup of your contacts will be saved in your external storage (memory card) as a .vcf file.
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+!
Or
Just sync with your google account. You will never loose your contacts for life until you delete them manually
@kuplet.
Make sure USB debugging is disabled in Settings>Developers Options>USB Debugging.
Cheers
kuplet said:
Recently tried flashing different roms on my Galaxy Note. Now that I'm done, I'm having problems restoring my contact list which I backed up using Kies.My Note is on ICS 4.0.4 and I can't connect to Kies. I know a lot of people have encountered the same problem. How do I get Kies to recognize my Note again? Used to work fine before I upgraded.
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Above thing works to backup, OP doesn't have contacts on his device, above mentioned trick works if he already have backup with Import/export function or he had already sync contacts to google server.
instead OP have backup his contact to kies
Though no words from OP since creating thread, he might have manage to get device connected. still writing here solution if someone have same situation.
Here is solution.
1.Open kies (dont worry if you unable to connect)
2.Select contacts - Open contact backup file (spb format)
3.Now you can see contacts on page
4. Create a folder e.g. Contacts (on desktop PC)
5.Now from kies screen where you can see all contacts - select all
6.select Save as and browse to folder you have create, Now it will give option to save in spb, dont do that but just add .vcf in file name.
7.All contacts will be there in new folder
8.Copy contacts folder to SD card
9.From device open contact - menu - import/export - import from (select USB storage/Ext Sd depend on you put contact folder)
10.select multiple/all vcf file
Done !
PS : Let me know smthing missing, except to install driver I never using Kies
Sorry for the later reply guys.
@sahilarora2003
I tried unchecking usb debugging and the Kies prompts me to "check it" again before it tries to connect to my Galaxy Note. In short, the Kies doesn't want to run with my device without the usb debugging unchecked.
@Dr ketan
Trying it now and hopefully it works. You have any suggestions on how can restore my text messages? Made the mistake of just backing it up via Kies. I should have used backup and restore. Lastly, whats the best way to backup contacts, etc since Kies is so unreliable.
kuplet said:
Sorry for the later reply guys.
@Dr ketan
Trying it now and hopefully it works. You have any suggestions on how can restore my text messages? Made the mistake of just backing it up via Kies. I should have used backup and restore. Lastly, whats the best way to backup contacts, etc since Kies is so unreliable.
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Use titanium backup with schedule (find link to thread how to keep device up to date on my signature)
Text msgs i think won't work, but do try this
Rename your SMS backup file SMS.sme to SMS.xml
Install SMS backup restore app fro market, copy above renamed file to SMSbackuprestore fiolder (creates automatically once you install this app) and open that application and try to restore by pointing that file. I doubt it work or not, it depends on format which kies uses.
@Thanks Dr Ketan
Was able to move my contact list from the Kies to my device but was not successful with moving the SMS backup. When trying to restore, an error occurs. Oh well....thanks again!
Dr Ketan how to restore Snote i had taken backup via kies now have move to RR rom so need to restore it and also backup via titanium backup but while restoring it didnt restore Snote
kuplet said:
@Thanks Dr Ketan
Was able to move my contact list from the Kies to my device but was not successful with moving the SMS backup. When trying to restore, an error occurs. Oh well....thanks again!
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Yeah it was expected.
sandy_thegame said:
Dr Ketan how to restore Snote i had taken backup via kies now have move to RR rom so need to restore it and also backup via titanium backup but while restoring it didnt restore Snote
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Difficult from kies backup, but titanium backup may be a hope. have you tried restoring data only?
ya have tried but no success
dr.ketan said:
Above thing works to backup, OP doesn't have contacts on his device, above mentioned trick works if he already have backup with Import/export function or he had already sync contacts to google server.
instead OP have backup his contact to kies
Though no words from OP since creating thread, he might have manage to get device connected. still writing here solution if someone have same situation.
Here is solution.
1.Open kies (dont worry if you unable to connect)
2.Select contacts - Open contact backup file (spb format)
3.Now you can see contacts on page
4. Create a folder e.g. Contacts (on desktop PC)
5.Now from kies screen where you can see all contacts - select all
6.select Save as and browse to folder you have create, Now it will give option to save in spb, dont do that but just add .vcf in file name.
7.All contacts will be there in new folder
8.Copy contacts folder to SD card
9.From device open contact - menu - import/export - import from (select USB storage/Ext Sd depend on you put contact folder)
10.select multiple/all vcf file
Done !
PS : Let me know smthing missing, except to install driver I never using Kies
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Thanks Dr .. it worked had to choose individual export/import if entire device is backed up it fails to recognize the backup files.