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[Q] Is there ne way to recove my contacts?

I made mess of it by not knowing to back up my contacts before rooting my evo to froyo 2.2 rom...i flased my old rom it complety wiped out my phone memory where i had some contacts that wasnt backed up in my google acount so now i lost all the contacts saved to my fone ne way i can recover it?
thanks in advance...

I'm sorry to say that there is no way that you can recover them. When you flashed, did you do a master clear?

banglawiz said:
....i had some contacts that wasnt backed up in my google acount so now i lost all the contacts saved to my fone ...
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This concerns me because I am counting on mail, contacts, and calendar to be safe on Google after I wipe and install a new ROM. How is it even possible to have contacts that are not on Google?

CAL7 said:
This concerns me because I am counting on mail, contacts, and calendar to be safe on Google after I wipe and install a new ROM. How is it even possible to have contacts that are not on Google?
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beacuse they were saved to my fones memorey and not gmail....

iffrett said:
I'm sorry to say that there is no way that you can recover them. When you flashed, did you do a master clear?
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Its ok i thought the same that nothing can be done but i just had little hope u guys here with more knowlege then me might knw something to save me frm my mistake...but yeah i did wipe everything out from my fones meomory but my sd card is still same...i had the misconsumption that contacts were saved to the card memory n not fone internal memory...

banglawiz said:
beacuse they were saved to my fones memorey and not gmail....
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Contacts are synced to the cloud by default so unless you unticked this option any new contacts should have been added automatically. Have you checked the 'Contacts' section in gmail?
Beyond that they are gone for good once you've flashed a ROM (without doing a manual backup).
If you followed rule#1 of flashing then you should have a Nandroid backup of your stock ROM, taken just before flashing the custom ROM. Why not backup your ROM as it is now, reinstall the stock Nandroid, backup your contacts and then return to your custom ROM?

[Q] Android contacts and user data

Where does android save the contacts?
Where does android save the sms?
Where does android save the notes?
Does android permanently erase contacts after clear data?
Can I restore erased data from pohone?

summone said:
Where does android save the contacts?
Where does android save the sms?
Where does android save the notes?
Does android permanently erase contacts after clear data?
Can I restore erased data from pohone?
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Depends, which phone you're using. On motorola, the contacts get saved over the blur network. On samsung, you can probably sync contacts through Keis although i've never used a samsung phone. Notes are probably saved in the internal memory of the phone which can be accessed through rooting the device and using a root file manager?

summone said:
Where does android save the contacts?
Where does android save the sms?
Where does android save the notes?
Does android permanently erase contacts after clear data?
Can I restore erased data from pohone?
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i think that contacts are sync to the google account.once you delete all the contact,after a sync with ur google account you can restore your contacts i dnt know path where they all saving.if you want to backup yr contacts,sms try :"MY BACKUP PRO" app in market

Can you back your phone to you're computer

What app do you Use
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What exactly are you trying to backup?
If you already have a Titanium Backup, copy that folder to your PC
Also, SMS Backup and Restore, Call Log Backup and Restore and APN Backup and Restore to backup those items, then copy the folders to the computer from your phone.
We need a little more info to give you a good answer but that should help

xxsicknessxx said:
What app do you Use
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To backup your phone, complete Andorid OS, system files, apps and all.....you need a nandroid backup. This you would acheive with Clockworkmod Recovery. This a complete 1:1 backup that will be an exact replica of your phone. Everything........you then copy the backup folder to your computer.
Now if you want a backup like syncing your files, music, pics and folders, you need Kies, which is the samsung software for this. HOWEVER, it may or may not backup your SYSTEM files and settings......I have not used Kies in a while, so dont know what it does anymore
And finally, you can use a file manager like Astro File Manager, Root Explorer and then copy all files to your external SD card.
Have fun !!

And u say I'm in every thread? I leave for a few hours and u handle all the questions lol, what I'm I supposed to do now?

chappatti said:
To backup your phone, complete Andorid OS, system files, apps and all.....you need a nandroid backup. This you would acheive with Clockworkmod Recovery. This a complete 1:1 backup that will be an exact replica of your phone. Everything........you then copy the backup folder to your computer.
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What he said... ^^^^.... with one exception. .. a Nandroid backup does NOT backup the modem partitions (mmcblk0p17 and mmcblk0p13).

Uncle Irish said:
What exactly are you trying to backup?
If you already have a Titanium Backup, copy that folder to your PC
Also, SMS Backup and Restore, Call Log Backup and Restore and APN Backup and Restore to backup those items, then copy the folders to the computer from your phone.
We need a little more info to give you a good answer but that should help
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I agree with Uncle Irish, Titanium Backup will do all that for you.

To sync to a windows pc, just get my phone explorer from Google play.
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EDIT: MyPhoneExplorer lets you sync to Outlook, Thunderbird, and several other apps on your PC. You'll need to download the PC version, too. I use this to back up my contacts and calendar to Outlook.
The other posts here have great advice for backing up your phone's files. ROM Toolbox is a great app that does a lot of what you want on a rooted phone. It can do app backups just like Titanium Backup (I actually like RTB better than TiBu). I also back up calendar and contacts to google for easy syncing after a wipe.

Access my Root Backup to retrieve my contacts

hey guys i recently rooted my phone and one of the steps included me making a backup of my data. the root resulted in me losing all my contacts info and the app i used (Superbackup) did not save any of my contacts. i was wondering if there was a way i can access my backup file in order to retrieve my contacts or if there was any other method of restoring old contacts after a factory reset?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wxLDEsImNvbS5oYW5keWFuZHkuYXBwZXh0cmFjdG9yIl0.

select backup
hey it wont let me select my backup? do i need to set up the path for my backup (located on my sd card)?

Did you make a nand backup through CWM or TWRP? or did you use Superbackup to make your backup? If you made a nand you can use TB to retrieve contacts from it.

Now that I'm reading this again it seems like you didn't back up all of your phone only used superbackup. I this case unless superbackup can restore your contacts I'd have to say your starting fresh.
Unless maybe you used kies to back them up or have a copy on your sim card.

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i used CWM to make a nandroid backup and when i open the CWM folder for backups on my sd card i see the file Nandroid.md5..can i use Titanium Backup to restore my contacts from this file?

ryanryan007 said:
i used CWM to make a nandroid backup and when i open the CWM folder for backups on my sd card i see the file Nandroid.md5..can i use Titanium Backup to restore my contacts from this file?
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You didn't sync your contacts with your Google account?
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no, sadly i relied on superbackup to save my contacts and my sms logs however those folders are now empty. i dont think it ever saved any of my data..

ryanryan007 said:
no, sadly i relied on superbackup to save my contacts and my sms logs however those folders are now empty. i dont think it ever saved any of my data..
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Never heard of super backup. Use titanium backup and dig through your backup and pull out the contacts.
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hey guys thanks for all the help TB restored all my contacts
thanks everyone

md5 is just some kinds of verification code for the files. You should look under data or something. Either titanium backup or appextractor should work.

ryanryan007 said:
hey guys i recently rooted my phone and one of the steps included me making a backup of my data. the root resulted in me losing all my contacts info and the app i used (Superbackup) did not save any of my contacts. i was wondering if there was a way i can access my backup file in order to retrieve my contacts or if there was any other method of restoring old contacts after a factory reset?
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how did you lose anything by rooting, what steps or post did you read to root

Rooting didn't cause his problem he just doesn't know wtf he is doing by default Google backs up contacts to your Gmail or they get saved to your sim card
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Illnevertell said:
Rooting didn't cause his problem he just doesn't know wtf he is doing by default Google backs up contacts to your Gmail or they get saved to your sim card
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i know, thats why i asked him the question, but looks like hes gone until he mucks something else and posts another newb question

[Q] Backing before going from non-sense ROM back to sense ROm

I have some general questions about how best to backup data across Sense and non-Sense based ROMS.
I'm using MIUI now and it took some doing to get my contacts up to where it was because it doesn't use Sense contacts. Do you guys just stick to Gmail contacts? I also tried copying all my contacts to my gmail account but then it wouldn't sync with Gmail because Sense apparently stores XML somewhere in the contact data which was causing errors during the sync process.
Secondly, is it possible for me to make a full backup so if anything doesn't work I can reboot into recovery and restore? I'm not sure if this is related but what is a nandroid backup?

I would copy all contacts to the SIM card, then just import them after a rom installation.
And yes, you can make a backup in TWRP recovery and then just restore it later if you want.

Goatshocker said:
I would copy all contacts to the SIM card, then just import them after a rom installation.
And yes, you can make a backup in TWRP recovery and then just restore it later if you want.
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Doesn't the SIM have a limit and can it store all the different fields and so on?