Hello to all the XDA family, its been a while for me. You guys have kept on rockin'
I need your help regarding something that got out of my hands apparently!!
I exported my contacts from my HTC One M8 using the native "People" app of the HTC Sense. It prompted me if I wanted to password encrypt the file, I sad yes why not, extra sec. never hurt anybody! Until now !!
It turns out that the file that got exported is a .vef file, very uncommon and I hadn't encountered it before.
I did my research as always, the Google contacts import thing didn't work for me, it accept only .vcf and .csv and I'm hopping you the great community of XDA can help me out here.
I happen to have some very important contacts save there that I must not loose hopefully.
Had anyone ever faced such issue, except from using an HTC phone, which I don't have right now, Is there any other way to get around this.
How do I get my contacts back from an .vef file ?!
Thank you very much to all of you guys and keep on rockin'.
The.Hidden
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Greetings I am very much a greenhorn or a nubie to the world of Android but I must admit I'm having fun playing with my phone's even when I break them. Anyhow if you still need help i solved the exact same problem by not adding a password when i exported (Saved) my contacts to phone storage or is it called internal storage. Anyhow by not using a password the file that was created was "pcsc_pcsc_001.vcf" using my OTG flash drive I transfered the file from my One M9 to my Galaxy S5. It was a little more entertaining figuring out how to get the file to my ZTE it refuses to register any flash drive. In the end that one too got the file insralled. Still trying to fix the USB prob. I hope this will help you or any one else faced with the same problem Many a Blessed Days to all.
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I posted one option for you on your thread but today I realized that if you no longer have an HTC it's useless. If you still need help with your problem then shoot me a text my name is Jose Barrera +1 907 360 7256 I'm in Alaska. If you are willing you can email me your vef file I will use my phone to convert it to a vcf and email you both files back. Up to you my friend.
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Hi there,
I'm fairly new to my Diamond but I love it a great deal.
There is one thing that disturbs me though and that is that I can't sort my phone book other than Name, which is "Last, First", and by Company (I don't bother about Company). I would like to be able to sort my contacts in First, Last Name order, I have a about 300 names in my list and it is really confusing when I don't find who I'm looking for anymore.
I would like to hear with you if there is a way to hack the register or any other solution for my issue.
And no, 3rd party application is not an option, sure, it would do the trick but I want to use and have easy access from the Contact tab.
All help appreciated.
Thanks!
there is a way, but it's not going to be fun, and you may want to do it on the computer in outlook instead.
Outlook on your PC and Windows mobile default to filing contacts as Last Name, First Name as you have found.
however, if you edit a contact, they both have a File as option. here you can select various different options, one of which being first name last name.
it's a bastard having to do it on all contacts, which is why you might want to do it on the computer instead.
hopefully, someone knows of a reg edit that'll fix it.
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there is a way, but it's not going to be fun, and you may want to do it on the computer in outlook instead.
Outlook on your PC and Windows mobile default to filing contacts as Last Name, First Name as you have found.
however, if you edit a contact, they both have a File as option. here you can select various different options, one of which being first name last name.
it's a bastard having to do it on all contacts, which is why you might want to do it on the computer instead.
hopefully, someone knows of a reg edit that'll fix it.
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I developed an Outlook form a few years back that goes through all Contacts and sets the File As fields to First Name Last Name. Is this what you're after? I still have it but haven't used it in ages. Worked perfectly back then.
Feel free to try it (attached and I would recommend backing up your Outlook contacts in a PST first)
mkhattab said:
I developed an Outlook form a few years back that goes through all Contacts and sets the File As fields to First Name Last Name. Is this what you're after? I still have it but haven't used it in ages. Worked perfectly back then.
Feel free to try it (attached and I would recommend backing up your Outlook contacts in a PST first)
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Thanks! This should prove helpful.
L o r d R a j said:
Thanks! This should prove helpful.
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Please post some feedback if you try it as I''m curious to know
Thanks for the all input and quick replies.
mkhattab said:
I developed an Outlook form a few years back that goes through all Contacts and sets the File As fields to First Name Last Name. Is this what you're after? I still have it but haven't used it in ages. Worked perfectly back then.
Feel free to try it (attached and I would recommend backing up your Outlook contacts in a PST first)
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I will definitely try your form and I really hope that it does the trick.
But I think there should be a register hack out there somewhere.
- Mikael -
In your contacts, on the Diamond, you have the option : "save as", but you've gotta do it manually for each one. Open a contact, tab the right soft-key (menu) choose edit, there you go
There is already an existing thread for this topic.
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There is already an existing thread for this topic.
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There is?
And I thought that I search the forum in every possible way!
Can you please provide me with a URL to the already started thread?
- Mikael -
m1kael said:
There is?
And I thought that I search the forum in every possible way!
Can you please provide me with a URL to the already started thread?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=269316
Search terms: outlook search first name
Try using the Google search of the site - it is very powerful
Hi there,
using a touch Diamond and some time ago went through a ROM upgrade and used Sprite Backup.
On the messagign screen I now have some phantom mail boxes on the right hand side. If you click on the envelope it will come up saying "no Messages". If you then click on inbox it will take you to the Select an Account screen (as the selected account doesn't actually exist)
If you go through to the Windows Mobile interface you can only see the current mailboxes which are configured.
I have looked into the option of creating a new backup and hard reset and restore without the mail and configure all over again but would like to avoid this as I have found in the past this leaves me with duplicate records (due to sycing with multiple machines).
I am looking to find where I need to go to remove the phantom mailboxes. Looking around I am assuming there must be some configuration files or registry elements for TouchFlo which tells it to display the folders.
Does anyone know where this information is to edit or delete? All ideas are welcome and encouraged.
Thanks in advance
ghost email
i have the same problem.Did you find the solution for this?Please post.
I have the exact same problem and it's quite anoying
i had the problem once too, and then I was advised to use the file i'm posting here. Copy to phone and run the .exe from phone.
I got it from another thread here on XDA-Devs, but don't remember who to credit.. Post if successful.
chribruu said:
i had the problem once too, and then I was advised to use the file i'm posting here. Copy to phone and run the .exe from phone.
I got it from another thread here on XDA-Devs, but don't remember who to credit.. Post if successful.
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Thanks alot, this worked perfectly
Worked like a charm...
works a treat, thanks.
this is excellent. thank you very much.
Easy to use. Thanx!
Hey guys ive not posted in a while, my phone was stolen out of my car
and i was wondering if there is a way to get my Phone numbers and data from
within the Nandroid backups i have on my PC. I am currently trying to get Eclipse and an emulator working to see if i can load nandroid and create an emulated clone of my old G1 then export all my phone numbers or something. Any suggestions would really be appreciated, i am going to the Leo as soon as i get my numbers and stuff.
If you had Google sync enabled contact info can be found at:
https://www.google.com/contacts
Sign in and view/edit your contact list.
For other data I wish you luck.. it sorta ought to work.. report the imei as stollen if you can. So at least no one will be able to use the phone.
Sorry for the loss people who do such things are beyond crappy.
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Hey guys ive not posted in a while, my phone was stolen out of my car
and i was wondering if there is a way to get my Phone numbers and data from
within the Nandroid backups i have on my PC. I am currently trying to get Eclipse and an emulator working to see if i can load nandroid and create an emulated clone of my old G1 then export all my phone numbers or something. Any suggestions would really be appreciated, i am going to the Leo as soon as i get my numbers and stuff.
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Do a google search for "unyaffs". You run the unyaffs command on your data/system/cache partition images and it'll extract them for you.
WOW thank you both, my contacts are sitting right there at google for me lol i cant believe it! this is why android rules! thank you both.. now i have about 90 percent of my contacts. the more recent ones i may be able to get with that unyaffs thing you mentioned.. im going to go google it now. !! thanks guys!
Hi
Yes i'm a noob , so i hope that i posted in the right forum, other wise i apologize.
I have a problem I need to figure out.
I need to sent out about 100 .vcf with "high" resolution photo, to a 100 people.
The problem is that Htc one only allow me to send out 10 at a time, and i have to find the 100 people in my contacts every time.
There must be a easier way to do it.?
I already tried to sync via gmail, but gmail compresses the contact photo to something not very nice, it needs to keep the "high"resolution contact picture.
All the recipient has got Sony xperia Go with JB 4.1 (company phone)
I'm the only one that has HTC One v4.4.2
I try to search around google for this problem but i could really find a answere to my problem, also tried xda.
Yes i'm a noob and everybody hates me,, (yes i saw the film ) so if the question already has been answere and i didn't find it, I apologize.
Thanks
I need your help regarding something that got out of my hands apparently!!
I exported my contacts from my HTC One M8 using the native "People" app of the HTC Sense. It prompted me if I wanted to password encrypt the file, I sad yes why not, extra sec. never hurt anybody! Until now !!
It turns out that the file that got exported is a .vef file, very uncommon and I hadn't encountered it before.
I did my research as always, the Google contacts import thing didn't work for me, it accept only .vcf and .csv and I'm hopping you the great community of XDA can help me out here.
I happen to have some very important contacts save there that I must not loose hopefully.
Had anyone ever faced such issue, except from using an HTC phone, which I don't have right now, Is there any other way to get around this.
How do I get my contacts back from an .vef file ?!
help please