So, I recently needed to wipe my Kaiser, but of course did a backup using sprite backup first to take my data with me. Now in a way the most important bit of data I needed to get out of the back up were the SMS (I use Gmail so I planned to just have it resync through IMAP), and other than that, my My Docs and Personal Databases I've been reinstalling everything. However, I've hit a problem with my emails...
My texts have been restored perfectly, however my gmail account is not listed. Initially I though that that was fine, however it turns out that the phone still thinks that the account is set up, even though it's not listed in the Accounts page. Furthermore, SPB Mobile Shell lists it as an available account in the messaging tab, though clicking on it only takes me back to the Account Chooser.
What I want to do is delete all the existing email settings that are hiding on the phone and then re-download my email from Gmail, however I don't know where the account data and settings are stored. I tried deleting the contents of \windows\messaging\ but that didn't seem to change anything...
Any suggestions?
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How do I get rid of IPM.Root from my inbox? since it appeared I can't find my e-mail.
What in the world is IPM.ROOT?
First, I found a solution for SPB backup users. Make a backup. Hard reset. Perform a partial restore, restoring everything except email. Then rebuild the email from scratch, which for me is just creating a POP3 account.
This gets me up and running pretty quickly, although of course losing any emails, text messages, etc. I had saved. But does anyone know what is causing it? This morning my text message folder was gone, replaced with IPM.ROOT, and there were two outboxes in my POP3 account. It is the second time it has happened to me. Clearly my email had gotten corrupted, but how?
Is there a trick to recreate the folders?
One possibility -- I sync with two computers and yesterday had erased one connection, reinstalled activesync, and created a new connection. That could have been the time the email folder was corrupted.
Does anyone know of another way than having to hard reset the device??
I'm currently running the newest MightyROM, but this problem has been happening in the last few releases. After setting up my email accounts, eventually the accounts disappear from the accounts listing. The envelope icons are still on the mail screen, but nothing works. Is there to fix this without a hard reset?
I am using the 1/4 MightyRom and experiencing the exact same problem. I can't delete the invisible account or even make one to replace it. Any help?
omnia38 said:
I am using the 1/4 MightyRom and experiencing the exact same problem. I can't delete the invisible account or even make one to replace it. Any help?
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Found out what the problem was. After flashing to the new ROM, do a clear storage to get rid of any old junk from the previous flash, then do the carrier provisioning before doing anything else. I haven't had a problem since taking those steps.
Same problem here
I have the same problem, want to be on the thread when someone comes up with a solution. Thanks
I done the task29, then ran sprint MR2, then installed BigMaxSense rom. Ran clear storage twice then I started to configure phone back the way I wanted it, but I still losing my email accounts. Any solutions
I have a stock verizon MR1 rom, and I have gotten this a few times. When it happens, I get a screen asking me to reenter my Activesync password. Then my POP account is gone. Still taking up space, but gone. I also lose my cookies with login passwords for all web sites.
Luckily I keep recent backups using Spite Backup, and I restores gets me going again.
Pretty odd.
This may or may not be related...
Original device: WM6.1/Sense2.1
Replacement device: WM6.5/Sense2.1
Backed-up email accounts using HTC backup. Without pre-creating the accounts in the new device, I restored the accounts from the backup. Sense and Titanium both show these accounts and I can access the emails that were restored, but I can't download new emails. I can't delete these accounts because they don't show up in the account selector screen. I had to create a new account (same information as before) with a new "name" to differentiate it from the previous account.
I can find no way to remove these non-listed accounts short of hard-resetting the device and removing the accounts from the list of files to be restored.
Is this related or am I just wasting everyones time?
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This may or may not be related...
Original device: WM6.1/Sense2.1
Replacement device: WM6.5/Sense2.1
Backed-up email accounts using HTC backup. Without pre-creating the accounts in the new device, I restored the accounts from the backup.
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That is actually expected.
I don't know the exact details, but there is a security feature that locks out the email database when the file is simply restored to new hardware like that. There may be some export/import way around it, but just moving the file won't work.
Not exactly related.
I find that there are SIM Contacts, Phone Contacts, and Google Contacts.My plan is that my official contacts are Google Contacts.
Do I need to have a data connection to see them? I don't want to count on a data connection being always there.Not quite sure how to proceed on this.
I find that not all of my Google contacts are on the phone if I select "Google contacts" only for contacts. I don't see a 'Sync' opton either.
Any thoughts?
on my current android device all of my google contacts sync and stay on my device. Mine is set up differently as I only have one set of contacts, but you shouldnt need a data connection once they've all synced unless you make changes.
Thanks.
So what are the thoughts about the fact that I have (maybe only 1) contact/s that are in my Google contacts, but not on the phone.
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I clicked the search, and found the contact. But the contact is no in my list. Only contacts I have displaying are Google Contacts. Maybe one thing I might need to do to be sure I don't get it all confused, is delete them from SIM and phone. But not sure how to do that, and be sure I don't delete from Google Contacts.
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Well not having any luck. I tried adding another account (my wife's), but that won't work. Because there is no selection to synch calendar only. You must sync email. Don't want her email.
Looks like I need to hard reset the phone So, my next order of business is to figure out how to backup everything, so I don't have to do all the config again. Of course, what I don't know is if the restore will just bring the problem back, assumint the hard rest fixes my isse. I'll create a new post on backup topic.
Made a TB backup of everything before I flashed to Cog. Now I cant restore contacts. Am i missing something?
Did you sync your contacts with the AT&T address book online, that is where I store mine before I flash and then I just log on to my account from my pc and sync, then from the phone I click on contacts click the menu button then choose more then settings, then sync with the AT&T address book.
Also did you click on batch in TIBU and then choose your contacts from TIBU, I am not sure about it though.
Never synced with att. I did try to restore contact batch from TB but no luck. Guess I learned my lesson and will be manually adding my contacts. Will sync for sure after that
Why not sync your contacts with GMail or Hotmail? Store all your contacts locally is a disaster waiting to happen.
Reboot
When this first happened to me, I was rather upset. But I found that after I do the TB restore I then reboot my phone, all my contacts and groups are there. So try a reboot...
I also believe that the contacts are in one of the two System Data files (set filter to 'contact'). One is red, the other green. So make sure you backup all system data, and during the restore, if you decide to NOT restore all system data (many say you should not restore system data if changing ROMs, but I've never had a problem), then make sure you do restore those two files. Then reboot.
On a side note, the AT&T contact sync does not support groups. So the contacts will be backed up, but all dumped into one of the three default groups.
So back in October, my wife and I both purchased the Note 5. We started using Google Photos, and I found a way to add both of our google accounts to each others phones so we could share our photos instantly. I had a problem adding her account to my phone, as it would sync everything (contacts, calendar, health data, etc.) immediately, but this did not happen when adding my account to her phone. I messed around with it for some time, and found an option that was not the same on both of our phones. (I think it was the backup account, but can't remember for sure). Whenever I disabled the option, whatever it is, on my phone, it allowed me to add her account without initially syncing. Keep in mind, my method for doing this on both phone was as follows every time I tried it.
1. Turn off Global Auto Sync
2. Add alternate account
3. Turn Off Mobile Data and WiFi so the phone was not online
4. Turn Auto Sync back on
5. Settings>Accounts>Google>(other account) and turn off Auto Sync on everything except Photos (Gmail in the case below)
6. Turn On Mobile Data and WiFi
Kerblam! Success.
However, I am trying to accomplish the same thing with another google account I have an alternate use for, but only want the gmail to sync. But no matter what I try, every time I add the account, it initially syncs everything. (I know this because next to every category, it says "Last Synced on MM/DD/YYY hh:mm) And obviously, all of my other account contacts, calendar data, etc. appear. I don't want to take the chance of just manually deleting everything after turning off the sync for each item in case the sync gets turned back on after some update or somethings, and it syncs the account with the phone and I lose everything. Has anyone had success doing this? I've been scouring the web for quite some time now with no luck. Neither Google or Samsung were of any help. Thanks in advance for any help : )
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