Currently, I keep getting force close errors when sending messages and creating or editing contacts, I really want to fix this so I thought I might as well try and root my phone at the same time.
Here are my questions:
1. Should I fix these force close errors before I root my phone. If so, how?
2. Does rooting my G1 mean I'll lose my messages, contacts, etc?
3. Is there anyway I can save my messages, contacts, etc before I root my phone and reinstate them afterwards? (If they are lost in the process).
I hope my questions aren't too stupid!
Thanks!
Giggity giggity...... don't bother fixing the fc's, they would be fixed in the process. You will lose messages, call log, browser bookmarks, internal save apps, almost everything on your phone when you wipe it. Your contacts are synced with gmail and will auto restore, any apps you purchased will be availible for redownload in my downloads in the market, they are also linked to your gmail. Back-up wise, the only programs that I know back-up on root only or you have to pay for use. So you are **** out of luck there
Gridlock pretty much said it all. But I will add one thing tho, there are apps that will allow you to back up your sms first without root. Just go to the market and look up "backup" and you will see a bunch of apps that you might want.
If you are having FC while sending messages my personal opinion would be to not backup and restore anything that has to do with those messages. Just imo.
Make sure you have data sync turned on and you do a manual sync before you root to ensure you have an up-to-date backup of your contacts.
Menu > Settings > Data Sync > Menu button > Sync Now
Thanks for the answers guys. I've come across another damn problem now that I've been trying to back up my contacts. I have a bunch of numbers on my phone that appear to not be in any 'sync group'...I select all contacts in sync group and then make my contacts sync. I check my g-mail account and its just got all my e-mail addresses but not my phone numbers. When I sync My Contacts it sends only a few numbers. I can view "Contacts With Numbers" but I cant seem to sync them.
Also, when I select 'all contacts' to sync I get that damn red exclaimation mark.
In an attempt to sort this, I selected all my e-mail contacts in 'All Contacts' and sent them to a new group called 'E-mail'. Then I selected to delete 'All Contacts' expecting to retain them in my new 'E-mail' group and it deleted ALL my bloody contacts including 'My Contacts'. I've now lost the few numbers under 'My Contacts' (even on my phone somehow...) and all my damn E-mails!
Can someone please tell me how the hell I can sync "Contacts with numbers" onto my g-mail so I can root my ****ing phone!!!
Are the contacts you lost still on your gmail account if so it will prob just resync them and you still have your contacts on your sim card also well just the ones you had before you started using this phone. The most I ever backup is my app data, bookmarks always give me a fc on the browser when I restore. I don't worry bout contacts though since gmail handles that
Well this is my problem. My g-mail had none of my contacts! When I got this phone it was a fresh sim card with nothing on. I put all my numbers in by hand. My numbers were last (fully) synced on 27th Jan 09. Everytime I sync, I get My Contacts only. All the other numbers fail to sync, I'm guessing because they're not in any group. Even if I select all numbers to sync they don't go to my G-Mail. I had about 15 number sync in My Contacts (before I deleted the buggers). Now I'll have to get those back.
I need a way of putting all my numbers that aren't in My Contacts, into My Contacts to Google will sync them! I'm guessing this is because they were put into my phone because the update where Google made all newly entered numbers go into My Contacts...Hmm
Right, I've sorted it.
Downloaded an app from the the market place called ExportContacts. Worked like a treat. It wrote all my contacts to a .csv. Simply imported them on G-Mail. Added them to contacts, deleted all of them on my phone and re-synced. AT LAST I CAN ROOT!
Giggity said:
Right, I've sorted it.
Downloaded an app from the the market place called ExportContacts. Worked like a treat. It wrote all my contacts to a .csv. Simply imported them on G-Mail. Added them to contacts, deleted all of them on my phone and re-synced. AT LAST I CAN ROOT!
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woot glad you got it to work and this is good info for general use as well
Hi,
i want to know two things
1. i have save the contact, but still when the person send me sms, its number is comming on the name why?
2. i have deleted contacts like emails from contact list, but when cell sync with google account it shows again the contacts with emails, how i restrict to show only numbers or delete them permanently?
thx
bump.....!!!!
Hey all,
I updated my phone to 2.3.3 via Samsung Kies and did a factory reset.
So, I synced my contacts from Facebook via adding the SNS account, everything worked fine but I needed to add phone numbers to some of the contacts. Considering you can't edit Facebook contacts, I ended up creating a new contact to phone with the number and the name exactly the same and then using the 'Join Contact' to merge them.
The problem #1:
When I click new message, I can click the 'contacts' button and everyone with numbers are listed. I go to an untouched Facebook contact (With a number assigned to it automatically from Facebook) and click add but it still has an empty field saying 'to'. If I add one of my merged contacts, the number is displayed and it works fine.
#2
When a Facebook contact text messages me, only their number shows up, like its an unknown number which mean I have no idea who it is even though I have them as a contact. I go to that persons contact profile and the number that is assigned to them is identical, so why doesn't it show the contacts name?
If I go to the contact and swipe my finger to the left so it 'messages' them, in the 'To' field is their number only, no contact name.
Last but not least, no contact pictures show up in my Messages, even though they have Facebook pictures assigned to the contact
Can anyone help at all or at least point me in the right direction to solving this myth?
Thanks a lot everyone for helping me.
Hello,
I've flashed my Sensation Xl to JB 4.2.2 with Evervolv-3.2.0-runnymede_20130313. Everythins fine but I've lost two options on contacts.
1. There is no combine option for a contact. For example I can combine contact X's google and/or telephone contact with his/hers facebook, whatsapp, whatsoever account. It also recommends to combine the smilar names, numbers into one.
Then If I do this, I could see all his different account details of the same person from his contact card, if he is already on my other accounts. When I click the contact card, was asking options to call/sms him by mobile no, skype, viber, whatsapp etc.
Now, this option lost. Same contact shows 5 times in the list for his different accounts or none of them shows (only for his phone number).
Is this the new JB 4.2.2 behaviour or this rom somehow has different contact app?
2. Again there was another option named 'Contacts to display' and I can chose "Phone only", "Simcard". "Google Contacts", "Facebook" etc.
Now, "Simcard" and "Phone only" options gone. Also I can not add a contact to phone or simcard (No option for this anymore). Google only.
If I delete my google contact then try to add a contact, it asked either login to goole or the new contact will be stored in local.
Answering no, goes to local and add the contact to card. But as soon as I log into google it transfer this local contact to my gmail account and delete from google.
Long story short; I can not store my contacts in local(sd card) and backed up to google at the same time like I did before.. One or the other only. But what if I do not want to store my contact details in my gmail account only. I want to be sure to keep them in my sdcard and/or sim, Just in case I couldn't reach my gmail account in the future. Btw; no option the see my simcard contacts anyway.
What did I do wrong.
I appreciate for any kind of help.
Thank you
For a few week i used whatsapp without any problem on android auto. Since 2 days it does not work anymore.
When i want sent a message and call the name of a person, i get a message that the person is unkwown. This happens with every person.
Can someone give me a solution?
I think you might have swapped the SIM cards or either you have deleted the cache memory of the whatsapp or contacts application, you should backup it from the email provided by sync the detailed database or through the address book of the email address.