Ok...I totally F'd up. I flashed from 2.1 to COG 2.2-6 not knowing that my contacts on the simm card were going to be erased. Is there a way to get them back?
Click on the phone icon, then click on contacts, then click on the far left button on the bottom of your phone the one to the left of the home button(forgot what its called) there will be a import option. Your contacts may be saved to your memory card if you put them there. Worth a look.
Also next time use this to export contacts before flashing.
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well...I'm really hosed now...back to square one...I tried Titainium back to get contacts....that f'd up the contact app in the phone app...keeps force closing...then I tried to restore to JH7 using Rom manager.....that f'd up my log on. Now it gets stuck at the welcome screen....so I then tried to go back to my very first backup.....same results....looks like its Odin to JF6 for me....
But...I was wondering.....does a rom manager back up save the contacts stored on the simm card?.....could of saved myself a bounch of trouble if I knew the answer to that question ahead of time....
Contacts saved on the sim card should not be effected by flashing a rom at all, it is only contacts saved on the actual phone that would be lost. I'm amazed that so many people these days don't sync their contacts with the cloud, all I need to do after flashing a ROM is enter in my Google account info and then all contacts etc are synced up automatically.
jaseone said:
Contacts saved on the sim card should not be effected by flashing a rom at all, it is only contacts saved on the actual phone that would be lost. I'm amazed that so many people these days don't sync their contacts with the cloud, all I need to do after flashing a ROM is enter in my Google account info and then all contacts etc are synced up automatically.
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I did try and sync from sim and the numbers were not there.....thats why I was trying to go to a previous restore to see if they would be there....going from eclair7 to cog 2.2-6 blasted all my data out....
also...I did try the gmail thing but it was interfereing with personal ringtones when sync'd...so like a dumb ass I deleted them off of gmail.....that wont happen again
Chargerdude70 said:
also...I did try the gmail thing but it was interfereing with personal ringtones when sync'd...so like a dumb ass I deleted them off of gmail.....that wont happen again
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Either use Ringdroid from the market to assign ringtones to Gmail contacts or just create a phone based contact with the same name that should automatically link to the gmail contact and allow you to set a ring tone, kind of annoying to do though but much better than losing your contacts.
jaseone said:
Either use Ringdroid from the market to assign ringtones to Gmail contacts or just create a phone based contact with the same name that should automatically link to the gmail contact and allow you to set a ring tone, kind of annoying to do though but much better than losing your contacts.
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UPDATE...got phone back up and running on Cog 2.2-6. Found my .vcf backup with Astro....uploaded it to Google and then sync'd back to phone...all better....on side note...for whatever reason my phone is not picking up the .vcf when I try and restore it from the contacts menu. I Googled the issue and seems to be common. Thanks for the responses.
Same problem, but I found that turning on car mode caused the contacts to suddenly appear. After turning off car mode contacts worked properly. I saved the contacts to the sim card between update tries & the contacts import would never find it. Guess Titanium had it but left it hidden for some reason.
Hey, here's a better answer. You'll something like Root Explorer. Seems the contact app saves the contacts in /sdcard/sd (provided you exported them to the sd card. When you try to re-import them the app claims nodda. That's because the app is looking at /sdcard/external_sd for whatever reason. I just copied the .vcf file over to that location & bam contacts will import.
I ported my contacts onto my SGS by putting my sim card into my old phone and copying my contacts to sim.
I then copied the contacts to my SGS phone. In "Contacts" I can choose to view contacts from phone only, but if I try to forward a text to a contact I am shown the contacts from the phone and the sim card which means that with the exception of new contacts there are two copies of every contact.
Is there any method of deleting all sim card contacts en block, or do I have to delete each one individually, I have over 100 contacts so it will take a long time.
Thanks in advance for any help.
So my issue is that when i go to messaging and compose new, then select contact it displays double info... and it looks identical(no sim symbl). Have already checked my contact display options. Everything is cool if i just go to contact app... it displays only one set of contacts, the one saved to phone. Can someone please help?
Had the same problem with Stock 2.1
I had this same problem when I first got my phone in November. It was because the contacts were on my sim card and saved to my phone. The display contact info is only for when you are in contacts i think. If you have all of your contacts on your phone I wwould delete them from your sim card or vise versa. Personally I sync everything with google that way I don't have to worry about them being on my phone at all.
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I had this same problem when I first got my phone in November. It was because the contacts were on my sim card and saved to my phone. The display contact info is only for when you are in contacts i think. If you have all of your contacts on your phone I wwould delete them from your sim card or vise versa. Personally I sync everything with google that way I don't have to worry about them being on my phone at all.
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Thanks will try that.. it worked. just don't think i had to do that on any other rom....
It worked, thanks.
Hi
2 weeks ago my all phone numbers and contacts disappear
Ok, so i wipe my phone to get everything like new in phone. I've sync contacts with gmail... And now i have contacts but without phone numbers I login to may gmail and in group phone book there are contacts with phone numbers...
What i'm doing wrong? I try everything in display section nothing helps... The contacs in phone are only name and surname, inside they are empty... How can i repair it?
Thanks!
Thomas
Hi all,
SGS running 2.3.3.
I have setup my Contacts to display only the contacts in the phone memory and not the SIM contacts. That works fine when I go into Contacts.
However, if I go into messaging and select Contacts I get both the SIM and phone memory contacts. How can I get only the phone memory contacts via messaging?
TIA
Greg
No ideas anyone?
TIA
Greg