I was wondering if all my contacts and messages (and settings and programs) will be deleted when I update my ROM. If so, is it possible to back those things up?
yes rom update will remove everything.
you can synchronize your contacts and calendar info in Outlook.
once the rom update is complete, they will be synched back to the device.
programs will have to be installed again after a rom update, no solution for that.
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I wanted to get my wife's phone current and on CM7 (she was still on a rooted froyo), so I did a backup via cwm, flashed a stock rom, flashed stock recovery, unrooted. Then I did a LGUpdater update (worked fine :O), then flashed cwm and cm7.
Somewhere along the way, her contacts were lost, and for some reason, weren't all on her google contacts list. There are only 57 contacts on her google contact list, but she had many more than that. So, I went and reloaded the froyo backup from before unrooting and upgrading (did a factory reset too), but it still required me to re-sync with google and only retrieved the contacts that are on her google.com/contacts list.
Is there anyway I can get into the froyo backup and retrieve her complete set of contacts? I thought that they'd come back when I restored that backup, but asked me to re-enter her gmail and password (like it was starting fresh).
I don't know how she got into a state where her contacts weren't syncing with google, but I imported the contacts from the SIM card incase she was somehow saving them there, but that didn't get them.
Any recommendations? Another way to get the contacts by going into the rooted froyo backup itself, or perhaps a way to reflash that backup and have it "remember" the contacts?
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Hi all,
I have an X10 which had 2.1 stock FW installed.
-got root, dualtouch, xRecovery all working
-synced contacts to google
-made a backup with xRecovery
-flashed FreeX10 beta 4, gapps, hotfix, market, all sucessfully
Everything worked so far. And then when I synced again, all contacts were without phone numbers. So I logged on to google to check and yes all contacts were without numbers there too. So I though what the hell, I'll revert to the backup and sync again. But the backup kept WLODing. I tried all possible combinations of wiping cache and restoring and whatnot. So I decided to do things manually:
-extracted data.img
-found contacts2.db
-opened adb shell and deleted current contacts2.db file and replaced it with the old one with all the phone numbers, changed ownership to app_1.
And I thought that should be it... Instead what happens is that as soon as I launch Contacts app, the contacts get reverted to the first state, ie. without phones. The funny thing is, if after the whole procedure I tap really fast on the call log, I can see al the old calls and the old contact names - everything - but just for a second, and then from nowhere one by one everything gets overwritten again by the just-deleted ones. How is that possible, and what am I doing wrong?
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This is my problem (except for Nexus S) and this thread got no replies. Thought I might check if the Nexus S community has any thoughts.
Hello,
I booted into recovery using the Down Volume and Power button. It seems to have restored the interface to factory default, although all my pics on the phone and SD card are there.
I cant find any contacts,SMS or previous apps. The app files are on the device. I can see them from my PC, but they are not installed.
After booting into recovery mode I just returned there a couple times. Finally I was able to boot normally, but into a fresh UI.
How can I restore or get back my (wife's) contacts and SMS's? I think that they should be there on the phone still. They were not backed up.
Thanks.
Wind Mobile Canada LG Optimus 2x / same as t-mobile G2x / p999
Android 2.2.2 Froyo
Build Number FRG83G
Is the phone rooted? Are you using clockwork mod recovery? Contacts are usually backed up with a google/gmail account. Go into her settings>sync settings and hopefully her gmail account is there. If it is, just click on it and her contacts should restore. You can also backup your apps through the gmail account as well. I believe the playstore has an option to automatically update via wifi, try looking in there for options about that. If her contacts were not backed up via gmail, then they are probably lost. I'm going to assume that you do not have a nandroid backup on the device via CWM that you could roll back to?
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Is the phone rooted? Are you using clockwork mod recovery? Contacts are usually backed up with a google/gmail account. Go into her settings>sync settings and hopefully her gmail account is there. If it is, just click on it and her contacts should restore. You can also backup your apps through the gmail account as well. I believe the playstore has an option to automatically update via wifi, try looking in there for options about that. If her contacts were not backed up via gmail, then they are probably lost. I'm going to assume that you do not have a nandroid backup on the device via CWM that you could roll back to?
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Thanks for your reply. No, it is not rooted. No CWM (yet). It seems there is no backup of the contacts because syncing was off. I used the phone first and then passed it to my wife, so she did not want all my contacts, she just managed contacts manually. That is why syncing was off. I kept my google account on the phone to manage apps.
I do not have a Nandoid backup. I looked at Helium, but it does not seem to work on Android 2.2.2. How would you recommend I back up the device to prepare for a custom ROM like CM7.2?
I am more worried about her manually added contacts and SMS's.
I did not install anything like CWM yet, just booted into recovery mode. Then the phone started asking me questions like in the initiall setup ei "Add a Google Account"
Is there a way that I can extract the contacs and SMS's from a directory on the phone. (Most of her data and directories seem to be there when viewed from a PC as USB storage).
Why would this happen from a simple reboot into recovery mode? Did I hold the Volume Down and power too long?
Thanks,
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Is the phone rooted? Are you using clockwork mod recovery? Contacts are usually backed up with a google/gmail account. Go into her settings>sync settings and hopefully her gmail account is there. If it is, just click on it and her contacts should restore. You can also backup your apps through the gmail account as well. I believe the playstore has an option to automatically update via wifi, try looking in there for options about that. If her contacts were not backed up via gmail, then they are probably lost. I'm going to assume that you do not have a nandroid backup on the device via CWM that you could roll back to?
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Thanks for your reply. No, it is not rooted. No CWM (yet). It seems there is no backup of the contacts because syncing was off. I used the phone first and then passed it to my wife, so she did not want all my contacts, she just managed contacts manually. That is why syncing was off. I kept my google account on the phone to manage apps.
I do not have a Nandoid backup. I looked at Helium, but it does not seem to work on Android 2.2.2. How would you recommend I back up the device to prepare for a custom ROM like CM7.2?
I am more worried about her manually added contacts and SMS's.
I did not install anything like CWM yet, just booted into recovery mode. Then the phone started asking me questions like in the initiall setup ei "Add a Google Account"
Is there a way that I can extract the contacs and SMS's from a directory on the phone. (Most of her data and directories seem to be there when viewed from a PC as USB storage).
Why would this happen from a simple reboot into recovery mode? Did I hold the Volume Down and power too long?
Thanks,
To be honest I do not know if there is way to extract the lost contact information. I am only knowledgeable about recovery protocols with a rooted device utilizing a custom recovery software such as cmw. I have never entered recovery prior to flashing cwm. There are plenty of guides in the stickies that show how to flash cwm via nvflash and guides on how to use it in order to flash a custom rom like cm7.2
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Your contacts are unfortunately gone. With the stock recovery holding the buttons too long equals a data wipe which is where contacts and such are stored.
Been there, done that. I had a similar situation on my wife's phone and ended up creating a dummy Google account for her so contacts would be backed up automatically.
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In the absence of a valid argument, 2+1=3 may be used to explain why the g2x did not get the ICS update!
I was hoping you would jump in here mansa! Thanks!
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Hey guys,
I've recently changed my rom to slimkat and I had some important notes that i stashed in my google keep. Luckily i have a backup of the app and data on my titanium from when i used to run that version of google keep on beanstalk.
I've tried restoring the app on my current slimkat rom, but it wont let me. Whats the easiest way for me to retrieve those notes?
Cheers
Mubs
google keep notes are backed up with your google account, you dont need to backup the data using titanium backup.
log in to https://drive.google.com/keep/ and sign in with your google account. does the notes appear? if not then you will need to set auto sync on your phone and make sure keep is synced.
Mubs said:
Hey guys,
I've recently changed my rom to slimkat and I had some important notes that i stashed in my google keep. Luckily i have a backup of the app and data on my titanium from when i used to run that version of google keep on beanstalk.
I've tried restoring the app on my current slimkat rom, but it wont let me. Whats the easiest way for me to retrieve those notes?
Cheers
Mubs
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Google keep should be synced across your devices.. ? Check https://keep.google.com/
If your notes are there then they've been synced and syncing to your new rom should be fine. If they're not there then either you didn't sync it and now would need to restore the app's data rather than the whole app.
Thanks for the replys.
I've tried that and my old notes don't appear. Maybe I didn't sync them using Google before.
Whats my next option? Ive also gone and installed keep off play store. Now that I try to uninstall it using titanium it says failed to uninstall apk file. Come to think of it, its doing the same thing for all the system apps.
If you really need those notes, you may have to reinstall your old ROM, restore the data and sync properly. And restoring system data between different ROMs is often a bad idea.
I managed to sort it.
I installed a fresh copy of keep but had the data transfered over from titanium backup.
I still have the problem where I can't delete system apps though. Can anybody advise on this?
Cheers
Hi everyone,
hope this is the right place for my question:
The facts:
Device: Evo 3D GSM
Old Rom: CM10.2 Android 4.3.1
New Rom: CM11.0 Android 4.4.4
Recovery: 4Ext Recovery Touch v.1.0.0.6 RC2
Available Backups: Full Nandroid, Partial TB (including contacts storage)
I upgraded my phone from CM10.2 to CM11. Before I made a complete backup using the CWM recovery and backupped some things, including the contacts storage, manually as well with Titanium.
Now everything is running fine, except for the contacts, which for some reason are not restorable. After an restore attempt and before opening the contacts app the contacts2.db has the correct size (about 38mb) and still has it after a reboot. But opening the contact app after reboot and waiting for it to finish its update process somehow resets the contacts2.db file.
I used contacts+ as contact app, and had several contact accounts on my old setup (whatsapp, facebook, and contacts+ and maybe more).
What I already tried:
- Restoring via Titanium -> Contacts app loads after reboot but contacts app stays empty
- Restoring from Nandroid backup using Titanium -> same result after reboot and opening contacts app
- Restoring from Nandroid using AppExtractor -> Contact app crashed continuously until contact storage data were deleted, but contacts2.db stayed at correct size
- Extracting data from contacts2.db but no satisfying outcome, either all contacts from all accounts or only phone numbers.
When I connected the phone in debug mode I got these interesting debug messages out of LogCat in Eclipse:
"E/ExternalAccountType(3258): Problem reading XML in line 92 for external package com.contapps.android"
"E/ExternalAccountType(3258): com.android.contacts.common.model.account.AccountType$DefinitionException: Undefined data kind 'photo/Contapps'"
As com.contapps.android is the package name of the Contacts+-App I suppose the error is somewhere in the things it has done to my contacts database.
But I'm unable to figure out what it is or how to resolve the issue.
Any help is appreciated, I'm already quite desperate with this problem
Cheers,
Chris
Edit:
Resolved this by backing up the new ROM, reverting to the old backup and uninstalling Contacts+ there which fixed the database.