My girlfriend's chacha needs to be rooted so she won't have to deal with the tiny internal memory. Unlocking the bootloader is the first step right? Does doing that change anything in the phone? Does it erase any data (contacts, apps, etc)? I can't test it myself because the phone isnt mine and she'll kill me if I mess around with her phone and end up erasing stuff...
Everything gets deleted, you'll get the contacts again if they are synced with google and progrmas will install again from market, but you will lose sms, and all other data.
Oh alright. Guess I'll look for an app that can backup contacts and app data without root...
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Yesterday my G2x was caught in a reboot cycle and I could do nothing but use a hard reset. I did not wipe any data however. My phone booted up like the day I bought it, but none of my apps are are in the app drawer. After media scanning, gallery found all my pictures and music app found all my music. I used a file explorer and saw that all my app data is still there too. Is there any way I can make android recognize these apps? There is some personally important data in those apps. My device was almost new and unrooted, but I would be willing to root.
Factory resets wipe user data and apps. You will have to reinstall them. Once reinstalled any data they had stored on your sd card should show up. In the future it would benefit you to use a program like titamium backup to keep your apps backed up.
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!
Optimus-Prime said:
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.
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.
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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.
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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...
i have an unlocked and rooted TMoUS-branded HTC One S. it's still running the stock T-Mobile-released Jelly Bean (4.1.1) OS. before rooting the phone, I backed up my data (contacts, SMS, Skype data, etc.) using Helium, then unlocked the bootloader which wipes the phone clean, and rooted, after which I restored my data again with Helium. my only problem now after my unlock and root is that my Google and Skype contacts refuse to stay linked together in the People app after each reboot and that my Skype contacts don't all appear in the People app (and some of the ones that appear have lost their profile pictures). it might be related to a bad backup restore done with Helium, but i'm not sure. has anybody encountered such a problem before? any ideas on how to fix this?
ok, so i moved Skype back to the internal storage (i had moved it to the SD card at some point in the past), then cleared the caches for Skype and for People apps using Titanium Backup. after all this, all my Skype contacts now show up in the People app. However, most of them still don't show their profile pictures! i'm out of ideas...any suggestions?
hi,
i am looking to pull the call history off of my phone since i got the phone a year and a half ago. Is there any way to do this without unlocking the bootloader?
If i do unlock the bootloader, how do i ensure to keep the call history data since inception on the phone?
Thanks all.
Hi
Well if you unlock the bootloader it will erase all the data including photos, music and of course your call history.
If you want to make a copy of the call history there are several apps on the playstore to backup your data.