contacts lost - Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

guys i lost all of my contacts while copying data from the phone to pc...all i did was copy all the data from the phone to pc..nothing related to contacts... already tried data recovery...any solutions??
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You havent synced your contacts with any of your google accout? Also dont you copy contacts once a while in your SD Card or PC using apps such as Superbackup?
Just asking cause the best thing with android is that your contacts are always safe of you sync it with your google account.
As far as your problem is concerned I dont know why this would happen. Did you try a reboot or check the settings as to what contacts are shown. Else i am sorry to say but i think your contacts are gone.
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bid4sumit said:
guys i lost all of my contacts while copying data from the phone to pc...all i did was copy all the data from the phone to pc..nothing related to contacts... already tried data recovery...any solutions??
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If u have a google account on ur phone justs go 2 " google.com/contacts " when u sing up in the ur browser, and try 2 restore ur contacts and make some export on the pc in vcard format.
If u have no a google account, that's is bad for u. Also u can wach the vcard file on ur memory card, m8bee u make export contacts before.

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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.

Strange bug in gingerdx

After i do a full wipe, i extrat my contacts from sim and its all right and after a few time it copied 5 times the same contacts. Every number. What i need to do to stop it......
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Can any one help me?
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Maybe you had turn on ur auto syns. To solve it, try to turn off ur auto syns, and extract the contact again....Hope that can help..^^
Thanks. I will try it.
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Set up synchronization service and store Your contacts in your PC, Google or other provider. That is far more flexible than restoring contacts from SIM - a lot more information per contact is stored.
I´m backing them up as a .vcf to my sdcard via ROM´s stock contacts app, and it works fine.

Need help!!!!

How many contacts i can save on my gmail account bcz whenever i save new contact and select gmail acc to save it asks me some data may be deleted. I even ignored it but eventually i lost some contacts. Pls can some one tell me is it like this only or i mistakenly did something wrong bcz it really creates prob to load contacts when changing roms or i always have import contacts to sdcard.
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no limit as I know.
How many contact do you have ?
77 for now but when i add new contact in phone and select to save in gmail acc it says some data may be deleted in nova 8 and stock rom both do u have any idea why and yes even cm7 aint ask like that but in cm7 even my all contact are not synchronizing.
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See i loading some pics of my prob.
See in first pic i select to save in gmail acc and in second pic it says some data may be deleted. So what is the best method to save all my contacts saving to gmail without loosing any other.
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And this happens only when i try to add contact directly from call logs. But if i make contact manually then its fine that popup did not come which says some data may be deleted.
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According to my experiences this is only a warning that data might be overwritten - but for me it never happened. Also appears when importing contacts from file, e.g. VCF. I would suggest just to ignore the message without worrying. ;-)
Even u have this message when saving contact to gmail?
Is is safe bcz its saying some data may be deleted, rather than data maybe overwritten.
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dpockets said:
Even u have this message when saving contact to gmail?
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No, not "even", but "only".
dpockets said:
Is is safe bcz its saying some data may be deleted, rather than data maybe overwritten.
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I don't know, but so far I have never lost any data. Or at least I haven't recognized...

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
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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.

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.

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