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where are my contacts after restoring with TB

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.

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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.

[Q] Restoring Contacts from Titanium Backup

I changed phones just recently and I backed up all of my apps and contacts using Titanium Backup. Everything went smoothly when restoring, except my contacts aren't being restored. I rooted my old phone and I've been able to restore them every time I switched roms, however with my new phone, they're not. I have gone to the specific file (contact/calls storage) and tried to restore it, rebooted, and everything, but that still doesn't work. Could someone please help me with this? Thank you. If it helps, I'm on a Droid Eris running 2.1.

I just sync all my contacts to Google, just more painless like that. But in backing up contacts on the phone, I'd use MyBackupRoot and Titanium Backup for Apps.
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I didn't really mention this but I can't access my old phone to get my contacts. It's broken lol. I just have a backup from before it broke. Any ideas?

I'm having the same issue:
've made on my previous phone Samsung Galaxy S II a full backup with titanium backup. Now, I have One S (s4) and I want to restore my contacts. It doesn't work with old fashion way (by entering in titanium backup and restoring everything). Can you help me out with this? There is a way to find the contacts in the titanium backup folder and add them manually in the last case?
@SaturnUnleashed did you find out how to do it?

I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but after searching around for a solution to this issue I came up with nothing useful. Unless you can restore to a phone with the exact same ROM the backup was made on, it cannot be restored.
Nobody (as far as I can tell) has found a solution to your problem, so unless you've sync'd your contacts with google I'm afraid they're lost forever.

Lost some contact info after factory wipe, need some advice.

I tried to flash to a different ROM and it either bricked, or I was just impatient(waited almost 2 hours), but I stopped it. And then the infuse wouldn't boot up, was just stuck on "samsung". So I used the Odin unbrick method found on these forums.
After this, it booted up, but most of my apps wouldn't work properly, and I couldn't dl anything from the market, so I factory reset.
So now it works, but I've lost some contacts that I recently added, and all of my texts. All of the contacts from my old phone are still there, so I guess only the ones on the sim card are saved. Can anyone advise me if its even possible to recover any of the stuff I lost?
Also, how can I make sure that the contacts are being saved to sim, so that there's no risk of losing them?

Sync with Gmail account. Its better.
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ATT offers to back up your contact lists on their server at least they do mine. not sure of if there's a charge or not. I have mine set to auto sync everynight. good thing about that is if you brick or get a new phone its just a dl away

what is the lesson here... BACK TO GMAIL ACCOUNT!

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what is the lesson here... BACK TO GMAIL ACCOUNT!
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Yup. My contacts are always synced to my Google account, so I can wipe all I want.
SMS Backup and Restore works for texts, same for Call Logs Backup and Restore for call logs, but be careful - a full-blown factory wipe in Settings will nuke your SD card and that's where the backups reside by default. Copy them off your device before doing any significant changes.
Another option is to do occasional Nandroid backups in CWM.

[Q] TweakStock TitaniumBackup not restoring data?

So I just installed TweakStock and I would comment on how awesome it is but I'm more concerned about the fact that Titanium won't restore the data for my Go SMS Pro/PowerAmp(so i lost all my texts and my music playlists). The weird thing is, it restored data for most apps but theres a select few that just wont restore. It's become very problematic and I'm hoping it's not just me.

I'm not familiar with Go SMS Pro, but if it's like ChompSMS and some other replacement apps, it still uses the phone's built in SMS database, and not its own. If so, SMS data is not backed up with app data. Chomp has a backup function of its own. Go may have something similar.

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I'm not familiar with Go SMS Pro, but if it's like ChompSMS and some other replacement apps, it still uses the phone's built in SMS database, and not its own. If so, SMS data is not backed up with app data. Chomp has a backup function of its own. Go may have something similar.
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Still isnt explaining why PowerAmp wasnt backed up :/

Did you back up all before flashing?
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Yeh, I chose the option to back up all apps with modified data. If you check the date the last backup was made it says 12/25/11 so I'm sure everything was backed up correctly but it just doesn't want to restore the data :[

Try flashing a different rom and seeing if it does the same thing. If it does, it just didn't back up your data.
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ill try that...

So I tried flashing TweakStock in Odin this time(originally did it with CWM, coming from Infinity) and it didnt work, my messages/playlists still wouldnt restore... So I flashed back to the original ROM i was on, EXT4 non-TSM Infinity and alas, to no avail. I tried 3 different versions of Titanium Backup, all 3 with and without Pro just to be sure(there were problems with Pro on Infinity), i tried restoring it manually and i tried batch restoring and of course i can't get my messages back. That's the biggest loss, I had thousands of text messages that are apparently gone forever. Makes me want to throw this phone at a wall :/ oh well

blarrick said:
So I tried flashing TweakStock in Odin this time(originally did it with CWM, coming from Infinity) and it didnt work, my messages/playlists still wouldnt restore... So I flashed back to the original ROM i was on, EXT4 non-TSM Infinity and alas, to no avail. I tried 3 different versions of Titanium Backup, all 3 with and without Pro just to be sure(there were problems with Pro on Infinity), i tried restoring it manually and i tried batch restoring and of course i can't get my messages back. That's the biggest loss, I had thousands of text messages that are apparently gone forever. Makes me want to throw this phone at a wall :/ oh well
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Did you make a CWM backup before you flashed Tweakstock? I suspect it may be too late for the text messages. You may want to try to install Go SMS on a blank ROM, send some texts, manually create a backup with Titanium, flash a blank ROM, and try to manually restore the backup to see if it is even possible using Titanium. My standard procedure to to create a backup in CWM before change ROMs. I use version 4.0.1.4. I know there are several apps that can back up texts. I suggest trying to use one to see if it is capable of backing up texts from Go SMS if you find that Titanium is not capable of backing up the texts.

Sorry to hear about the restore issues. There have been one or two instances reported where titanium backup didnt play nice when restoring certain apps data. At this point it seems as if it's a TiBu issue - I've even had problems with restoring app data on stock ep4d. If there is app data I'm interested in keeping, I've found more success with doing a CWM backup prior to flashing and then using the advanced restore > data feature.

I have Titanium Backup pro and am unable to restore apps. It scrolls across but does not actually install any of my apps. I have had the issue across 2 different Charges and 3 different roms.
Not sure what causes it, but the only way I have been able to resolve is by going back to the old manual install option that makes you confirm each APK before installing.

SuperFan86 said:
I have Titanium Backup pro and am unable to restore apps. It scrolls across but does not actually install any of my apps. I have had the issue across 2 different Charges and 3 different roms.
Not sure what causes it, but the only way I have been able to resolve is by going back to the old manual install option that makes you confirm each APK before installing.
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This ^^
When I first switched from froyo to gingerbread (I think I didn't switch until EP3H) thats what I had to do. The batch restore would sort of work on some apps, but it would often freeze up while doing so and require a restart to the process. I have become lazy since then and tend to cwm advanced restore data, especially if Im switching around on things using the same base build.

since when does TB back up text messages? I have never seen it

For whats it's worth I had no problems restoring all data with tweakstock and tb.

I've had no problems either. I had issues with EP3, and I had issues with Infinity, but not with stock EP4 or TweakStock

chiahead52 said:
since when does TB back up text messages? I have never seen it
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Not with the stock messaging app. It MAY back up if you use a 3rd party app if messages are saved as app data.
I had this problem several times (TiBu just breezing through the restore without actually restoring). Usually, I updated SU, then restarted my phone, then trying again. Maybe you could try flashing imoseyon's kernel, installing better busybox (Terminal -> su -> install_bb), etc and trying again. I always get it to work eventually.
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I don't use a 3rd party sms/mms and I always get mine back. I make sure to backup and restore [SMS/MMS/APN] Dialer Storage and [SMS/MMS PREFS]Messaging.

emtee_skull said:
I don't use a 3rd party sms/mms and I always get mine back. I make sure to backup and restore [SMS/MMS/APN] Dialer Storage and [SMS/MMS PREFS]Messaging.
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I back up the Dialer Storage every time, and that takes care of my messages (both text and MMS). I haven't backed up (or noticed, for that matter) the Messaging item. I'll try backing that up as well and see what else it gets me.
One other thing I have used is a program called SMS Backup & Restore (from the market). This worked well, although it can't back up your MMS messages. If you're the kind that likes to see your call history as well, they also have a sister program that will back up your entire call log.
I would still prefer to have Titanium back up my messages, not just because of the added MMS backups, but because the backup and restore become part of your batch process.

[Q] How to restore SMS from Titanium Backup of Hangouts

I updated my ROM today, and before that I backed up all my apps via Titanium Backup. I restored the backup after the install, and everything is good except for the SMS.
I use Hangouts as the SMS app, and the titanium backup has my SMS data stored in it and it gets restored to hangouts, but only for a few moments. After restoring the app data, I can see my old messages but as soon as I do anything on the app all the old messages are gone and only the ones I received after are there.
I tried restoring the data multiple times and it has been the same case every time. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a lot of important messages relating my education and job saved on there. Thank you.

Try installing SMS Backup & Restore, see if that enables you to pull the data out of hangouts and use it.

I did try that. But, sms back and restore doesn't seem to get the data from hangouts at all. It only gets the data from the default messaging ap.

So, I was able to successfully restore my messages.
Instead of restoring the hangouts data, I restored the messages data, followed by a reboot. This worked like a charm
I immediately backed the messages up with SMS backup and restore.

theshanthan said:
So, I was able to successfully restore my messages.
Instead of restoring the hangouts data, I restored the messages data, followed by a reboot. This worked like a charm
I immediately backed the messages up with SMS backup and restore.
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I'm assuming you have the pro version of Titanium? You should have no issues using the built in sms/mms backup feature in that.