i recently did a nandroid switching roms, now im left with no contacts on my new rom. i tried syncing my contacts from gmail but i used to always save them to my ohone, not in gmail. so is there a way i can restore them from a nandroid? what file contains my contacts from a nandroid..? and how to restore them?
much appreciated.
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I do a fair amount of flashing/restoring ROMs on my Aria... One thing I've noticed is whenever I restore a ROM, my contact list's custom ringtones, send-to-voicemail settings, etc., get reset.
Anyone know the reason? Or have a way to keep them backed up?
Im a little confused. So you back up your phone, for example in ROM Manager, then flash a new ROM and run your backup and none of those things are there, or just the contacts and other things you said above?
Where are your contacts saved to? SIM, Phone, Google, etc?
Contacts are all on an Exchange server. I do not sync to Gmail at all.
The contacts are all there, but the custom ringtones set for different contacts nor the "send to voicemail" state get restored.
Seems to happen on Liberated as well as CM...
I was having the same problem switching roms I would lose everything but that's because I did a complete wipe and factory reset. I learned that switching between similar roms like cm6.1 and cm6.2 u don't have to do the factory reset just wipe cache and all my stuff was still there. I've done a restore through rom manager wiped cache only and samething still had my stuff. Hope this helps
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Did you try backup CONTACTS with titanium backup?
i recently did a nandroid switching roms, now im left with no contacts on my new rom. i tried syncing my contacts from gmail but i used to always save them to my ohone, not in gmail. so is there a way i can restore them from a nandroid? what file contains my contacts from a nandroid..? and how to restore them?
much appreciated.
Restore nandroid, sync contacts with Google, return to previous rom.
or just backup contacts to SIM card then import them to phone
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.
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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?
I am running ViperXL and it was acting up a bit so I backed up my contacts using titanium backup and reinstalled the rom. I then tried to restore the backup and it will not restore. It claims it does but I have zero contacts in my phone. Because I value my time I really need to get the numbers and names out of the files that I have saved (the backups). Is there a way to view them that is understandable? I decompressed most of the files but it's just a jumbled mess.
Thanks for any help!
Hi,
I installed CM on my phone and did a backup and restore through the CWM, but it seems all my contacts that were stored locally on my phone have been deleted. Is it possible to get them back?
Thanks!