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[Q] Deleted contacts in Samsung Galaxy S

Hi!, i was going thrue my phone for clearing some memory and deleting cache, but i was accidentaly deleting a thing called "Contact memory" in Settings > Programs/apps > Manage apps, my phone is in swedish so it may differ when i write in english. So i was first on 3rd party apps and then i went on running apps and accidently deleted "contact memory" And now all my contacts are gone and i haven't done backup on kies, so have i lost my contacts forever? I've tried to go to contacts and settings and display to see if they are in my google accounts but no nothing there either, please help i had a LOT of contacts that are important

What you did was to delete all the information in the Contacts application ( = all your contacts). If you have a copy of them on the SIM card it's ok... if you don't then I'm sorry about your loss

Thanks for reply, oh i see , then yea i have lost them permanent. But thats such a shame to be able to delete ALL contacts by a single click without it asking you "Are you sure?" Etc

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Hi there,
I'm a new member here and I have a really bad problem, so I'm so sorry if this wasn't the right place to put my problem in.
My problem is:
using Titanium Backup, I deleted contact icon from my Samsung galaxy s phone. I don't care about the data, I have it somewhere else. I just need to get back my contact icon.
I restored Factory data but it didn't work. it seems like I lost it for ever.
another thing: because I restored factory data, I lost my rom, and my phone now looks ugly. I tried to install another rom but I couldn't. every time it says: installation aborted.
Any expert can help me?!

[Q] Cannot remove phone numbers from phone app with custom rom

I have a rooted Desire S running the VoidU S 1.1a rom (which is great by the way) but I have upgraded to a Sensation and I am giving the Desire S to my dad.
I want to get rid of all of my phone numbers that are in the standard phone app (ie when you press the phone button and the list pops up behind the dialler) but I can't seem to do it.
I started with deleting everything from the contacts app, and then cleared the cache via Application Management, then cleared the cache in CWM, still no luck. Then I did a full wipe and re-installed the rom but the numbers are still there. I have read elsewhere on this forum that you need to have the stock recovery in order to do a full factory reset, is that true?
Any ideas? How risky is it to restore the factory recovery? My dad really does not want to go through all of my phone numbers in order to make a call!!

go to
settings-->application-->manage applications-->all-->contacts storage-->clear data
also remove your gmail account to not re-sync..

loukasz said:
go to
settings-->application-->manage applications-->all-->contacts storage-->clear data
also remove your gmail account to not re-sync..
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I don't believe that its possible to remove your google account as this asks you to perform a full factory re-set.

ben_pyett said:
I don't believe that its possible to remove your google account as this asks you to perform a full factory re-set.
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if he untick contacts sync from google account and clear contacts storage?

Thanks guys, in the end I cleared the data in App Mgmt from every app to do with contacts, people, phone etc and that worked. Clearing just one app wasn't enough, I had to do all of them....
Funny thing though, now I have the numbers that I do want in both the dialler app and the people app, when a new text message comes in from someone that is in the contacts/dialler already, it only shows the number and not the name...hmmm...

[Q] Lost google account on a rooted factory reset

i rooted my thunderbolt a few days ago and everything was working great. I downloaded titanium backup and while messing around, I somehow deleted the “file”/”app” that controls my phones data. After that, the only way I could get an internet connection was if I had wifi… I also deleted the play.google market app..
on the problem. I did a factory reset and the internet is back up and working. The problem is, I still have no market app and that’s where all my previous apps are stored. i logged on to play.google.com, and when I go to re-install one of my apps, it doesn’t bring my current phone up on the list.. I somehow installed the barcode reader but when I go to read an app code, it takes me to internet and says I don’t have permission… any help would be greatly appreciated.

same prob.. solution would be appreciated

[Q] Cannot turn on automatic Backup from Settings

Hello everyone, I am stock and non-Rooted.
During the initial setup I skipped the backup&restore setup, and now I wanted to let it backup again in case I want to unlock the bootloader or something.
Now if I go to Settings > Backup & reset and tick "Back up my data", the button below "Backup account" is disable and grayed out and says "No account is currently storing backed up data".
There is no way that I can setup the account.
I even read somewhere that I should have restarted the phone, I did and my account appeared automagically... but later the same day or the day after it disappeared again!
I have no clue and it really looks like a bug in the system.

Sorry - I do not know what would cause that option to be grayed out (assuming you have set up a google account, and selected that as the backup account on that screen)
But just so you know, this backup will not backup all your data (or even your app data).
It (currently) backs up a very limited set of data (like WiFi settings/app list from playstore/)
It will not backup your pictures (assuming you don't have auto-backup enabled in dropbox/G+), game progress (for games that do not have google play integration), personal files, SMS, call logs - all of which will get wiped if you unlock bootloader.
You may want to look at helium backup as an option to backup all data. (If you were rooted, titanium backup would be my recommendation)

Thanks for the tip.
In fact, I think I prefer an on-demand solution rather than a background process which uses battery and network.
I installed Helium and activated using the desktop application.
I now only have a couple of doubts...
Where does the backup get stored when I save on local storage? I would of course like to transfer those files over to Dropbox instead of leaving them on the same phone.
Do the local settings, like WIFI passwords and such also get saved? It's not clear from the UI.
Thanks again

Alright... I googled around a bit and found out there's actually no way to save my stored WIFI passwords without ROOT...
This pretty much sucks as that was one of my most wanted...
The only option I have is really the Google-own backup system, so if anyone had an answer on how to make it work (my first post) that would be great.

Question Recover deleted text message

Hello,
I have a Galaxy A12 running Android 13, without root.
Unfortunately, my ex has deleted all of my text messages. I have tried to retrieve them using various methods, but have had no luck
Samsung Backup was not activated, so my messages were not stored.
I also checked the trash system, which is set to backup messages 30 days before deleting, but there was nothing there. It's possible that they were intentionally deleted from there too.
I have tried using software such as Disk Drill, Dr. Fone, and Mobi Saver, but none of these have been able to recover any of my messages.
Do you have any suggestions or ideas for how I can recover my deleted messages?
Thank you very much.

Sometimes recovery of such data is possible by specialized companies. You usually pay when the data is recovered.