I know most of the files on the SD card are pretty clear as to what they contain....but I am wanting to clean my card up to regain space and dont know exactly which folder contains my contacts. I can pretty much figure out the media files and downloads...but what folders have to remain to keep you from losing contacts? I bricked my phone one time before when I was updating to a new ROM. I ended up having to go back and install back to totally stock then had to do the rooting again, s-off, etc.
The problem I am having is that when I go to make a back up my phone screws up again and I have to take the battery out to get it to shut off and then have to reboot. I am guessing that there are still some files on my SD from the original screwup I did. Any help would be appreciated. And yes, I am a totally lost noobie trying to read and learn as I go. So please be gentle.
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I know most of the files on the SD card are pretty clear as to what they contain....but I am wanting to clean my card up to regain space and dont know exactly which folder contains my contacts. I can pretty much figure out the media files and downloads...but what folders have to remain to keep you from losing contacts? I bricked my phone one time before when I was updating to a new ROM. I ended up having to go back and install back to totally stock then had to do the rooting again, s-off, etc.
The problem I am having is that when I go to make a back up my phone screws up again and I have to take the battery out to get it to shut off and then have to reboot. I am guessing that there are still some files on my SD from the original screwup I did. Any help would be appreciated. And yes, I am a totally lost noobie trying to read and learn as I go. So please be gentle.
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I was not aware that contacts are stored on the SD card, unless this is something you intentionally did. Mine are all synced to google, so it doesn't matter what I do to my SD card. As far as keeping everything neat, and folders that I make myself, I use all capital letters for fast navigation.
Copy your entire SD card to your computer. then format the SD. put it back in the phone and reboot. (Leaving the SD card completely blank during this process) ...Once done, check your contacts 10 minutes later, NOT immediately. Let me know the results
Note: I know that my reply is not a full answer. It was done that way on purpose. We are doing this a few things at a time, instead of flooding you all at once with everything. I know when I was new to this, a flood of info completely overwhelmed me.
Contact Profile Pictures
I have realized over time & time again with wiping & new ROMs and what not that Google DOES NOT backup profile pictures from your phone to your Google account.
That being said, the phone DOES import any profile pictures FROM Google onto your phone when you sync. That means that if you want profile pictures on your phone, you must set them up on Google FIRST.
This of course sucks, as i never use Gmail, and always add phone contacts on my, well, PHONE.
In addition, if you 'link' your phone contacts to your Google contacts, the Google profile picture takes precedence.
Little_Ant said:
I have realized over time & time again with wiping & new ROMs and what not that Google DOES NOT backup profile pictures from your phone to your Google account.
That being said, the phone DOES import any profile pictures FROM Google onto your phone when you sync. That means that if you want profile pictures on your phone, you must set them up on Google FIRST.
This of course sucks, as i never use Gmail, and always add phone contacts on my, well, PHONE.
In addition, if you 'link' your phone contacts to your Google contacts, the Google profile picture takes precedence.
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Not sure why your phone is doing this... I can add pics on my phone, and they update on Google just fine. Just now did it to verify. There has to be a setting somewhere that you are missing. Either on Google, or your phone.
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I went through Windows Mobile Device Center, synced all my settings before I installed a new Rom, but now it's all gone!?
Please help, I had over 200 contacts and important events!
I also did a "Microsoft my phone", and I can access it, but I have no idea what do to with it.
Thank you.
Install and run My Phone on the new rom, and sync it.
Your contacts should Sync again from your PC when it sees the new ROM. You might have to delete and re-establish the partnership.
For the future, use Sprite Backup. It has a great Restore Merge Feature that will re-install all your apps and settings to a new ROM. They even claim it will move them to a different phone.
Sprite also keeps self-executing backups on your SD Card. If you botch up something, you can quickly put it back the way it was at the last Backup. It will also backup to your your PC for another level of protection. Don't forget to periodically copy the contents of your SD Card to your PC and another safe place. I'd be more concerned about loosing that then anything on my phone.
I don't know if MS cloud backup works but I certainly wouldn't rely on it. Just ask the Sidekick users. I guess if your house burned down it might be helpful. You can do the same thing by just copying your Sprite Backups to another form of online storage. Most email providers provide some for free.
If it is important. BACKUP. BACKUP. BACKUP. BACKUP.
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Install and run My Phone on the new rom, and sync it.
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So I lose all my current contacts in Microsoft My Phone?
schneid said:
Your contacts should Sync again from your PC when it sees the new ROM. You might have to delete and re-establish the partnership.
For the future, use Sprite Backup. It has a great Restore Merge Feature that will re-install all your apps and settings to a new ROM. They even claim it will move them to a different phone.
Sprite also keeps self-executing backups on your SD Card. If you botch up something, you can quickly put it back the way it was at the last Backup. It will also backup to your your PC for another level of protection. Don't forget to periodically copy the contents of your SD Card to your PC and another safe place. I'd be more concerned about loosing that then anything on my phone.
I don't know if MS cloud backup works but I certainly wouldn't rely on it. Just ask the Sidekick users. I guess if your house burned down it might be helpful. You can do the same thing by just copying your Sprite Backups to another form of online storage. Most email providers provide some for free.
If it is important. BACKUP. BACKUP. BACKUP. BACKUP.
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But they should still be somewhere on the computer. It synced on the last ROM.
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So I lose all my current contacts in Microsoft My Phone?
But they should still be somewhere on the computer. It synced on the last ROM.
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Once you run myphone and login on the new ROM, sync it and your contacts should be there.
Also when you first plug in your phone to WMC you have to setup the phone and choose which items to sync(Contacs, Outlook, Music, etc) make sure that's setup correctly.
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Once you run myphone and login on the new ROM, sync it and your contacts should be there.
Also when you first plug in your phone to WMC you have to setup the phone and choose which items to sync(Contacs, Outlook, Music, etc) make sure that's setup correctly.
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1) It didn't do anything except update the sync date on the Myphone site.
2) I can't check "contacts, events, etc", because there are none on the phone.
Ah, here we go.
It didn't connect properly. Thanks for the help!
You should have a fail-safe or two. I back up my contacts 3 different ways-Pimbackup (you should get this), SK tools backup, and I also copy pim.vol onto my storage card (this is not hard-you should do this). Weird things can happen. I mainly use sk tools to restore, because pimbackup has issues with 6.5 in my experience, but it's good to have multiple options (and doesn't take much effort). I also save a copy every so often on my pc, in case my card crashes.
Hi, is there any way I can save the pictures to the phones memory and not the sd card? Cuz if i lose the phone then my pictures will easily be accessible. Kindly let me know. I try moving the pictures to a folder in the phone manually through root explorer but they get deleted upon reboot.
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Hi, is there any way I can save the pictures to the phones memory and not the sd card? Cuz if i lose the phone then my pictures will easily be accessible. Kindly let me know. I try moving the pictures to a folder in the phone manually through root explorer but they get deleted upon reboot.
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I don't know how this would work. Surely if they're on the phone and you loose the phone you'd loose all the photos stored on the phone.
Have you tried looking at Picasa Web Albums ? I personally haven't used it but it looks like it has the option to sync with the phone, then they're stored externally to the phone so always available. I've nut used Picasa Web Albums but have used Picasa in the past.
You could also look at your gmail account off a standard PC browser, top left there is a photos link, look in there. Seems linked in with Google+ though.
Hey guys, so I decided I wanted to flash a new ROM, to try it out and stuff. When i completed the backup of my original ROM, i used ROM manager, and thought that it was ok, so I flashed the new ROM, wiping out all my data, including my contacts. Now these contacts, I had only saved them to my phone, not my SIM card, but was planning on doing so, but since I had gained the contacts 2 days before, I didn't think too much on it. Bad idea. The MD5 from my old backup with all my contacts was never created, so I no longer have the ability to back up to the file. So now i'm here, and I'm wondering, is it possible to access the Data file that was created when I made the backup, since only the MD5 is gone, and access the contacts saved on it? Thanks again!
It's default for your phone to backup your contacts to your Google account. Did you disable that? If not then you still have them all.
always backup your contacts when working on your phone I think it's the most precious part of my phone and always have a backup of it and as for getting it back like mentioned should be on your google account
Tried that already, no dice, i never disabled it, so no idea >_< I found the contacts app in my old backup that I made today that didn't have the MD5, but when i transferred it into a different backups system.tar, it stayed at the front of the folders, so i couldn't transfer them into the system folder itself.
Just copying the app itself won't do anything. Have you logged onto your gmail account (on a PC browser) and checked your contacts?
Yup, no dice, nothing there. As a note, i have no way of contacting these people other than this number, sooo ffffff-
That's bizarre. I've found the automatic syncing of contacts and what-not to be nothing less than magical! Sorry it doesn't help in this case - hopefully someone will be able to tell you how to extract the data from the ROM image that you have. Good luck.
Thanks, as a note, my old ROM was Juggernaut 5.0
So I get how the google account you associate with your phone can keep track of apps you have installed on your phone and contacts that youve chosen to sync with the account etc but how would I alter these? How do I view what apps it will reinstall in the case my phone gets lost and I grab another android? Sometimes I dont want alot of the old things I had on my phone. At the same time I like the setup I have right now and all the apps I have so I want those saved for a future restore. Ive found it pretty unclear on how to go about doing this. Any help would be much appreciated!
Hey guys, I just updated my phone, all stock updates, no root or custom roms. Now all my music and pics are gone, as well as contacts but the messages are still there
Has this happened to anyone else, it's really stressful for me and I don't what to do :/
You're contacts should have been stored in google and when you went through the device set up after update they should have been restored after you sign into google? In the future there it's a application called my backup and it doesn't require root to use it. You can backup you're applications data and contacts that way if you are updating or things of that nature. In your contacts is there a way to see if they are stored on your sd card? It's been a long while since I was running stock but I think I remember settings that you can restore the contact's from your sd card back to your device. Look into the contract menu and see if that option is available . I'm a bit confused as to why they were not restored automatically when you signed into your google account? Being stock your very limited as to what you can and can not do. If all else fails contact your provider, they might know of a way to restore your contacts on there end. I wish I could be of more help but I'm not sure what kind of options you have available to you running stock .
Perhaps try a reset again and sign in through your google during set up and google should restore them automatically after sign in. I know when I flash roms and change my software, once I sign in the initial set up through google my contacts are all restored . This might work. It wouldn't hurt to try it. I wish you the best and hope you can get your issue resolved soon ! Hopefully they are not gone but stored to your sd card. If you have a card reader you can put the sd card in it and see which files are stored on it, including pictures. Unless the update erased them somehow. I wish I could be of more help. Best wishes.
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No but a recent update by htc ****ed up my wifi real bad. I don't like it when HTC updates my stuff because they always **** **** up.