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Which is the best way to back up Contacts?

After continuosly flashing my device smt I have to format so all contacs are lost,
Ususally I use the export to sd card feature to restore contacs,
I`ve tried the outlook and Kies Sync, also Google sync,
but it seems none of them is perfect, because many joined contacts and icons are lost,
Which is the best way, without using any back up Apk?

u can export ur all contacts from contacts menu...u can backup them in ur sd or sd card and copy them in ur pc and then after flashing import back the contacts......this is the best way i do.......coz in this contacts remain as same as last time.......nothing is change no pic and associated contacts of gmail and other remove.

The best was is move your contacts to your Gmail account and let them sync.
Then if you have to wipe your device you can get everything back by just entering your Gmail email address and password.
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I only sync my contacts and calendar to google. Don't technically use the phone or sim at all. Every flash I add my google account again and it's all back!
That's the way to do it.

Sorry for being stupid but how do I sync my contacts to gmail
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The export as stated in the second post is my way to go.
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What about the joined contacts with facebook, do they come back after restore?
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I use both local back up (SD ) and google sync
I prefer Google Sync .
Google sync is good, it actually can restore your contacts to early time , I backed back to SD card too but till now , I haven't use it .

Google all the way, so easy! I really can't see what the problem is!
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sonci said:
What about the joined contacts with facebook, do they come back after restore?
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They do in my case. Or you could try an add-on contact manager app like GOcontacts which has the capability to search for duplicate contacts and then merge.
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i back up with my google account

EliaYek said:
i back up with my google account
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Me too, never lost any contacts or calendar entries...

i backup phone numbers in sim and all of them in google and facebook contacts stays there as it will synch back

backup contacts to sd card.... move them to PC then export them to your gmail contacts... gmail will join same contacts.
thats it... never lose your contacts again

vCards
I often us the share option and send the contacts a vCard to my gmail, and after flashing i just go to that email and download the vCard and all my contacts are restored. The other plus in that way is that i can choose which one to sand as vCard

MyPhoneExplorer has always done it for me
1. Backup Contacts, SMS, Events
2. Installs APKs
3. File Explorer and lots more
Have never touched Kies....

I save my contacts to ext sd card
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melorib said:
Me too, never lost any contacts or calendar entries...
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Same here, Google sync is most reliable !

try Uia backup contact

synchronising your contacts either with your google acc. or an exchange account is a very reliable solution to protect your contacts. if you setup your fon from scratch you just have to hook up to the network and get connected to your 'cloud service' - the sync function installed on your fon will do the rest in seconds / minutes.

Contacts to SMS go pro

Hey, I downloaded SMS go pro, got bored of the stock app. But for some reason my contacts on att contacts show rather than the contacts I have from fb or on my Sims.. does anyone know how to transfer those contact I can't seem to find it on settings
Thanks
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I had the same problem.... you have to import you contacts from the sim to the phone and then they will show up.
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Doubled/triples calendar items and contacts

Since I updated to the official 4.0.4 I constantly get contacts and calendar items duplicated. Do you guys have this? Is there a possibility to wipe just the calendar and contacts and resync? Just taking the tickboxes out and putting them back.in the account settings doesn't cut it.
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may be the contacts are in your sim too.

Hi
You're not using multiple computers to sync by any chance? Further, if the information comes from Exchange Server, don't bother as you will never get it straight. I've tried everything to sync with Outlook and gave up, MS and Android just don't match

n.vasiliu said:
Since I updated to the official 4.0.4 I constantly get contacts and calendar items duplicated. Do you guys have this? Is there a possibility to wipe just the calendar and contacts and resync? Just taking the tickboxes out and putting them back.in the account settings doesn't cut it.
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I am having the exact same problem...
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jaraya13 said:
I am having the exact same problem...
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Got the same problem here. Copy of my exchange calendar up 6 time.
If I Clear the account and re install if works fine for while but suddenly it start copying. ?

Hvdm57 said:
Got the same problem here. Copy of my exchange calendar up 6 time.
If I Clear the account and re install if works fine for while but suddenly it start copying. ?
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ı got the same problem. Can changing the contacts application solve it. I will give a try. I will change the contacts app with galaxy s3

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801605
See this thread and try some of options stated
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I found a solution. First export exchange contacts to your ext usb and then open outlook and delete exchange contacts. When you delete from your pc your phone contacts will be deleted. Finally import the contacts from your ext usb and sync with your exchange. 2 days left nomore dublicated contacts.
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I found a solution. Just flashed Crash ROM v8 based on LRK and problem solved no more duplicate contacts nor calendar items. I am happy again! 4 days now and everything is perfect

Check this thread for solution. Apparently an update to gmail app solves it!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1799582

having the same issue contacts creating one additional copy each time it syncs. I have 7 copies of each contact. although you can select show contacts having number only will display only required contacts.

Stupid ICS contacts

When you create a new contact, it saves as default on sim card. This is really stupid, because it's not sync with Google and there's no options like email or address on that storage. Also, I used to add my friends address from maps adding a star to their home and then adding as a contact, but since the contacts app saves as default on sim, the position is lost even if you change it to google after that, so for now it's impossible to add coordinates to your contacts.
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Nop.
When you create a new contact, it saves as default on phone, not SIM card.
If you go to settings in phone book and set all contacts you will have new contact by default on phone.

Not on mine! As you can see in the picture attached, it doesn't have a phone as option to save the contact. Are you using v30a?
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use export/import function when going into the contact.
it is always safer to keep your contacts on the SIM card
if you`re too lazy to do such a simple thing then i dunno what to say :laugh:

KamikazeRO said:
use export/import function when going into the contact.
it is always safer to keep your contacts on the SIM card
if you`re too lazy to do such a simple thing then i dunno what to say :laugh:
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Keep the contact at simcard is absolutely not the safer option. You can loose your phone, and if your contact was not synced with Google or whatever you're f.....
And why are you calling me lazy? I think you're the lazy one, since you didn't read the post entirely and didn't realize that I explained that it's impossible to add coordinates from gmaps to your contacts' address.
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I use v30A stock an have phone, google account and sim when i try save contact.
Save all your contects on some save place and do hard reset on phone or flash again latest version FW, becouse, now you have something wrong with this fw.

Mine shows: Phone, Gmail and Sim.
If "Phone" is missing in yours then I guess that would be a rom problem.
I would also like Gmail as default but I don't know how to do it, if you figure that out let me know

Contacts not visible

Hello guys
I changed my phone to z. Restored all the contacts from my old phone to new one.
After this is done. For few contacts I can't find their name or number when I search it using smart dial or phonebook search. But when that user calls me up his name n no. Flashes on the screen n stays in the call log. Later vanishes.
Could anyone help me to get all those hidden contacts.
Thank you.
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Did you make a backup of all your contacts on Googleaccount on your previous phone
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Nope. I dint backup to a Google account.
I used wondershare mobilego.
My old phone was HTC wildfire we could not keep 2 Google accounts in it old version of android so I dint backup n dint want to mess up my primary account.
N in this phone I backed up all the contacts to a gmail account.
But I can't find it in phone.
I.e. When I try to find contacts In phone home screen last tab after favorites. Three persons icon where u can find local groups n Google account
In Google account the count is 0 , though I backed up the contacts.
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Go to your contacts, optiond -> filter, expand the gmail account you used and make sure the correct group has a tick in the checkbox.

Thank you.
But in gmail account I checked all the sub fields.
When I backed up all my contacts to that gmail account.
After logging into gmail from my pc I'm able to see those contacts.
But in phone I can't find them under the Google account tab.
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karthik0001 said:
Thank you.
But in gmail account I checked all the sub fields.
When I backed up all my contacts to that gmail account.
After logging into gmail from my pc I'm able to see those contacts.
But in phone I can't find them under the Google account tab.
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Re-sync maybe?

Could be duplicated numbers or names?
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Yup.
I had so many duplicates must be *3
Coz I had the Facebook sync on old phone.
That's the reason I used mobilego app to delete the duplicate. It worked well.
Still I have few duplicates. Very few I don't bother much with it.
But if I factory reset n sync my gmail account will I be able to restore my contacts.
I doubt coz I'm not able to find them in my phone.
I'm planning to root. So will have to be doing a factory reset many times. I'm new to root.
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Resynced everything contacts calender etc.
No change
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Sync your contacts to Google than open your gmail on your pc and check if all your contacts are there before doing a factory reset.
In gmail there is an option to merge all duplicated contacts
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This happened to me too. I found out the contacts merged somehow O_O it's apparently a problem that other people have (Google it) as well. I painstakingly just unmerged every single one manually
Check if the contacts are merged!

apkapkapk said:
This happened to me too. I found out the contacts merged somehow O_O it's apparently a problem that other people have (Google it) as well. I painstakingly just unmerged every single one manually
Check if the contacts are merged!
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My Z merges contacts with every single reset or flashing of the phone. Became a bit wearisome.