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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.

Problem with contacts

I'm not a fan of synching contacts to the cloud. I've only tried Google as I accidentally forgot to disable it. I have around 200+ contacts locally (phone only) . But when I export it to sd for backup, it's synching 800+. I'm guessing somewhere, either Facebook, Skype or viber copied some data over (my fault maybe) .
Is there a way I coul remove all the synched data and just leave the local contacts?
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kolo2x said:
I'm not a fan of synching contacts to the cloud. I've only tried Google as I accidentally forgot to disable it. I have around 200+ contacts locally (phone only) . But when I export it to sd for backup, it's synching 800+. I'm guessing somewhere, either Facebook, Skype or viber copied some data over (my fault maybe) .
Is there a way I coul remove all the synched data and just leave the local contacts?
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I'm not sure what your question is, if you want to remove contacts from your backup before importing, or if you want to remove contacts from gmail, or just prevent then showing on your phone, so here are a couple of answers.
To only display locally stored contacts enter the contacts app, press menu, Display Options (may have to select "more..." first) and tick the boxes for what kind of contacts you want to display. (Local=PC Suite)
To remove contacts from the exported file just edit it in a proper editor like notepad++ or notepad2, it's a regular text-file.
To prevent the phone from syncing contacts enter Settings/Accounts and Sync., enter each type of account and untick contacts.
To delete contacts in the cloud the easiest way is to log on to the service, i.e gmail/facebook/skype/twitter on a computer and delete them from there, alternatively select to only display that service's contacts on your phone, then delete them all one by one (while sync. is still on).

I was looking for a way to prevent non-local contacts into the Vcf file.
I'll go with editing the vcf and just restore from there. Thanks
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Hi, since i have a question about "contacts" i thought i should just use this thread instead of making a new one.
All my contacts are saved on my SIM card but when i put my SIM in my phone, go to Contacts > Import from SIM then it says "No contacts on your SIM card". Is there a way to get my contacts to show up or will i have to add them all again . Thanks.

[Q] Instagram and Facebook Questions

I got my Galaxy Note on tuesday, been playing around with it for a few days. But since downloading Facebook my contacts have messed up. So I restored it to factory settings.
Since relaunching when I try and download Instagram it says it's incompatible, yet I had it before I restored and there is no update for my phone, when I done it first time or now. I'm on 2.3.6.
Also before I log in to Facebook again, is there a way to get it not to mess with my contacts? I don't just mean under contacts, I mean under when you try to add a recipient to a text, I don't want it to list all my Facebook friends, contacts on my phone and contacts on my sim.
I've also had a few crashes for no apparent reason and on reload no error message?

Before i installed facebook it told me to select which method to use, either sync contacts or not so i choose not to so hopefully mine is cool but it said go into settings in your phone and look for facebook tab then uncheck it to not sync contacts. Should be siimple
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Actually deleting photos from Picasa permanently... HOW?

People are fooled by the numerous videos on Youtube on how to remove those annoying Picasa photos from being seen on your device. But all those videos show the exact same instructions which only remove the photos from syncing to that device. It does not delete them. Once you buy a new phone, those photos will show up again.
I would like to know where they are coming from. and delete them permanently.

All photos backed up from your phone are in Google+ Photos. If you delete them there it will ask you if you want to delete the photo everywhere.
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heyjoojoo said:
People are fooled by the numerous videos on Youtube on how to remove those annoying Picasa photos from being seen on your device. But all those videos show the exact same instructions which only remove the photos from syncing to that device. It does not delete them. Once you buy a new phone, those photos will show up again.
I would like to know where they are coming from. and delete them permanently.
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Use an app called Picasa Tools. From there you can change the albums to Hangouts. Select and delete the pictures you want.
I'm guessing that any Picasa gallery app would work?

There are a few ways to delete from Picasa.
1) open google photos. delete from there. It will warn you that it will delete pictures even off of your device, however.
also remember to open the side menu and empty the trash, they don't get deleted immediately.
2)go to your google + photos on an actual computer. you can delete them through there without worrying about them being deleted from your phone. However, if you have auto backup on, it'll just reup them again anyways.
to change what gets uploaded, open the side menu in google photos, go down to "on device" and uncheck(disable the cloud icon) the folders you don't want backed up. if you don't want any backing up, make sure you turn off the photo syncing in your google account settings on your phone. (settings - accounts - google - *your account* - uncheck Sync Google + Photos) Then clear the cache on your gallery app and reload the app, it'll all be gone.

If they keep reappearing try this: Get on a desktop computer > sign into google account > go to picasaweb.google.com/lh/myphotos?noredirect=1 and delete the actual photos at the source.
It will give a huge list of the places that the photo is being deleted from! Caution: this deletes the photos from EVERYWHERE including blogger posts, etc

missing contacts

Any idea how to get back one of my contacts (there might be more) that just vanished the other day?

log on to contacts.google.com, from there you can restore previous versions of your contacts, make backup of current ones and export them too.

Ta. Will try that. Syncing my contacts didn't restore it.

Eggstones said:
Ta. Will try that. Syncing my contacts didn't restore it.
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Syncing doesn't restore contacts. It just sync it with Google servers and updates​ it as per changes on your phone.
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Still don't understand why it disapeard

The usual explanation for contacts vanishing usually is when user deletes a sync service like an Exchange/Office 365 account and one or a couple of contacts exist in this realm making you "lose" them when account is no longer in the phone. But if the contacts where Google contacts that vanished it does sound strange to me if the vanish without some app interfering with these contacts, maybe..

It was a Google contact so no. Have reimported him now.

You can try this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vjayraj.deletedcontacts it worked for me in the situation that i deleted a contact then wanted to restore it