So I have 2 problems with the contacts:
1) When I go in messaging and then add a contact, all are doubled. Doing some research it seems the messaging application displays all contacts, in my case phone + sim. Now one of the solutions would be to delete the contacts from the sim, but then there's the other problem.
2) For some strange reason I cannot edit or delete contacts from the sim. I used to be able, but then I suddenly couldn't anymore. Then I did a factory reset (because of another small problem) and I was able to edit contacts. After some time it didn't allow me to do it, again...
Any ideas as to why? I don't use any third party application and don't have a google/facebook/whatever account connected. Galaxy 3 updated to Froyo.
3) I currently have a SanDisk 4GB class 2 card. It's quite old (3-4 years) and it has been formatted a couple of times. I also need more space so I'm planning to buy a new card.
I know our phone supports up to 32GB but that is really too much for me, so I was thinking to buy a 8/16 GB class 6/8/10. Any particular suggestions (brands, sizes, speeds)? I'm buying on Amazon UK.
Thanks for any help.
trey77 said:
So I have 2 problems with the contacts:
1) When I go in messaging and then add a contact, all are doubled. Doing some research it seems the messaging application displays all contacts, in my case phone + sim. Now one of the solutions would be to delete the contacts from the sim, but then there's the other problem.
2) For some strange reason I cannot edit or delete contacts from the sim. I used to be able, but then I suddenly couldn't anymore. Then I did a factory reset (because of another small problem) and I was able to edit contacts. After some time it didn't allow me to do it, again...
Any ideas as to why? I don't use any third party application and don't have a google/facebook/whatever account connected. Galaxy 3 updated to Froyo.
3) I currently have a SanDisk 4GB class 2 card. It's quite old (3-4 years) and it has been formatted a couple of times. I also need more space so I'm planning to buy a new card.
I know our phone supports up to 32GB but that is really too much for me, so I was thinking to buy a 8/16 GB class 6/8/10. Any particular suggestions (brands, sizes, speeds)? I'm buying on Amazon UK.
Thanks for any help.
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huh...well...for contacts: just delete them all
that are on phone...backup the ones you need with any app capable of backup contacts...then only import the ones you want from sim...and restore the ones that were on phone before & aren't doubled...
for sdcard:
i personaly use Verbatim 8Gb class 10...it's great sdcard...
what is above 8Gb...on our phone takes long time on boot up for media scanner to scan if the sdcard is filled a lot...
anyway...i'm more than happy with this one i've bought from some Slovenian online store....
I hope that helps a bit
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Thanks for the reply.
What I would like to do with the contacts is edit the ones in the sim, but as I said I can't.
As for the SD card I went ahead and bought a Samsung 16GB class 10 card. It has a good price and positive reviews.
About the media scanner taking long, it shouldn't be a problem since I add only music to the card and I do it only once in a while.
My suggestion would be to open a google account.
And never worry for your contacts.
Registering takes just a couple of minutes.
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There's also one another solution if you want to hide double contacts.
Go to more from the menu option select display option. open up the drop down list of sim..uncheck "all contacts."
You are done.
Also If you want to backup all your contacts select Import/ Export--> export to sd card..
You have backuped all your backups in your sd card as a vcf file.
Whenever you format/factory reset your phone and want your contacts back..go to import/export--> import from sd card .it will automatically search for vcf files in your sd card and you are done
For editing purpose you will have to use kies if its working still after flashing or else try my phone explorer its an app that will backup messages, contacts, menu, call logs etc
Hope it helped.
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as already said:
open a google mail account, store your contacts online at google
-> no need to worry about loosing the contacts at next format/wipe!
For speed and classes, please have a look here.
no real need for fast and expensive cards.
Taken from this thread.
The choice is yours.
Cheers
qaysed
Thanks guys for the replies.
I will probably link it to my google account.
Regarding the memory I already suspected it but I use my card on a card reader so class 10 makes a difference.
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Hello people
with my touch cruise I have a small but annoying problem.
I have all the SIM contacts in the phone together with the normal contacts and this creates double contacts.
I have tried to modify the register HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Control Panel / Phone --> Show Sim from 1 to 0 and this works great only in the contacts.
When I access the phone and look for contact by using the Smart Diealing, I continue to have double the contacts that is very annoying.
Is there any work around to solve this issue ?
thanks for helping
miazza
Only way around this known to me is to delete contacts from SIM.
Which, IMHO, is not a bad thing - SIM is very limited regarding data it can store for each contact. And you will regulary make backups/syncs, right?
Bodisson said:
Only way around this known to me is to delete contacts from SIM.
Which, IMHO, is not a bad thing - SIM is very limited regarding data it can store for each contact. And you will regulary make backups/syncs, right?
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Yes. U R right but the SIM is the only safe back-up I have.
Anyhow I will follow your suggestion. The risk is worth .
It remains a silli limitation for a mobile so advanced and with a SO on board.
Thanks for the assistance.
miazza
Regarding SIM being only backup.... you do have SD card in your Polaris?
I'm using PIM Backup (scheduled) to auto-backup daily all contacts, messages and tasks to my SD card. Then you only have a matter of copying those backups to your PC, CD, DVD... whatever...
It's freeware and fits my needs for unattended backup.
Of course, I do also have a sync with Outlook...
Thanks for the suggestion. I will follow this.
miazza
hi guys,
i have been using the new 3G sim card which can store 500 contacts for more than 3 years now. i change the sim card between phones very often and i want to backup the contacts just incase anything happens to the card (most imprtantly is the contacts as i store them on sim card only)
i just bought a 3G sim card reader however ther software included (simedit) could not read/display more than 250 contacts (older sim cards, be it 2 or 3G)....i have checked and i have more than 300 contacts inside and i am trying to find any software that can read the full 500 contacts, in other words, software that supports these new cards
PS: i was surprised i googled for so long and cannot even find one despite having/using this sim card for more than 3 years...i thought it would be in the market alrdy
any help?
thanks
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sianzb0i said:
hi guys,
i have been using the new 3G sim card which can store 500 contacts for more than 3 years now. i change the sim card between phones very often and i want to backup the contacts just incase anything happens to the card (most imprtantly is the contacts as i store them on sim card only)
i just bought a 3G sim card reader however ther software included (simedit) could not read/display more than 250 contacts (older sim cards, be it 2 or 3G)....i have checked and i have more than 300 contacts inside and i am trying to find any software that can read the full 500 contacts, in other words, software that supports these new cards
PS: i was surprised i googled for so long and cannot even find one despite having/using this sim card for more than 3 years...i thought it would be in the market alrdy
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you should be use PIM Backup
Hakim Rahman said:
you should be use PIM Backup
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thanks for the reply bro, however my contacts are in the SIM CARD and not the phone....and i need a software to backup the (more than 250) contacts in the SIM CARD....
any more recommendations from others?
up for some recommendations
This on reverse way
Hope it helps
Hi everyone,
I'd like to store my contacts on the local phone storage. Unfortunately the contact app doesn't seem to support that. If I remember right the one from "Vanilla ICE v2" did.
Is is possible to just flash the apk from Vanilla/CM9/whatever supports local storage? Can I perhaps change the settings in the current app to support local storage? Or is there a option somewhere and I am just stupid^^?
Thanks for the help.
Best
Teorax
PS: I am not really keen on syncing my contacts with google or anyone else so thats not really a solution...more of a dealbreaker. :/
There should be an option to Import/Export from storage in contacts.
Go to Contacts > press menu button > Import/Export
You'll then get the options to:
Import from Sim card
Import from Storage
Export to Storage
Share visible contacts
If the options are not there, then it must be a bug in BlindIce v8.
Oh, and be sure to turn off Google's contacts sync!
Sent from my HTC Desire S
Teorax said:
Hi everyone,
I'd like to store my contacts on the local phone storage. Unfortunately the contact app doesn't seem to support that. If I remember right the one from "Vanilla ICE v2" did.
Is is possible to just flash the apk from Vanilla/CM9/whatever supports local storage? Can I perhaps change the settings in the current app to support local storage? Or is there a option somewhere and I am just stupid^^?
Thanks for the help.
Best
Teorax
PS: I am not really keen on syncing my contacts with google or anyone else so thats not really a solution...more of a dealbreaker. :/
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may i ask why u dont want to use google to sync as trillions of people use it ?
Hi,
@miz_pimp
Thanks for the help. If I understand you right, I should just use the Google account but not sync it. I already thought of that but hoped there would be a real local storage (like in other roms I have used).
@htc-phones
I just not comfortable with Google constantly integrating my contacts into my other web activations. And also I find it kind of rude that they use this data for there business.
And also I don't think the masses are a good adviser...
To precise my original question: is there a possibility for "real" local storage like some roms are able to (without the fear of accidental sync)? Does it depend on the contact app used?
Thanks again.
Teorax
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Maybe I misunderstood you. I have my contacts saved to my SD card, and do NOT have it synced with Google. Every time I flash a new ROM, I just restore my contacts from my SD card, but before doing so, I do not sync my Google account yet.
While my account is syncing, I quickly turn off "Sync Contacts", before any of my contacts are synced with my Google account.
Sent from my HTC Desire S
I think I understood what you meant, but if I got you right your still linking your contacts to your Google-Account (the one you e.g. log into the market with), you just don't update (sync) the contacts within its "online address book".
But what I am infact looking for is the possibility to NOT link the contacts. In Endymion for example (but I remember correctly Vanilla as well) you can select "phone storage" as location to import your .vcf to. That option I am missing.
The workaround you suggested might work, but after flashing most roms auto sync is on and you have to be quick.
The point is since you can not really take back any mistakes in that field (since leaked informations can not be retrieved) I would really prefer a local solution.
But thank you for your help!
Best
Teorax
PS: Perhaps I would not be so "paranoid" if I had not received a mail from Google congratulating me to my new Galaxy Nexus after flashing Vanilla >.<. Or if I would be able to delete the serial of my old DesireS which I returned after fried eMMC...
I'm not so sure then, as I don't recall seeing that option, sorry.
Sent from my HTC Desire S
here's my fix http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1808037
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idea.backup.smscontacts&hl=en
Hope it helps!
I don't sync my contacts with Google either, all my contacts are backed up with TB then restored after a new Rom by just restoring data not app and data, as a backup I export to sd card.
Swyped from my desire s running blindIce
I have no idea how it happened. I'm old school and prefer to have absolute totalitarian authority over my contacts. I don't link/sync contacts to Google, or use Sim Card. I prefer to store them in Phone memory via import/export.
It's not a big deal since I don't store my contacts on the sim card; however, the [6] default Verizon Wireless (USA) Sim Card contacts are not there anymore--now there are [0] contacts stored there. Again, it's not a big deal, but I'd like to be able to restore them back if I knew what the names/numbers were--hence this thread.
Can anyone out there post a vcard, or csv file, etc or whatever of the STOCK DEFAULT Sim Card Contacts off the Verizon Wireless HTC One M8 please? There were 6 of them. I'd appreciate it.
It's just one of those things--if something's not there, and one didn't mean to do it--usually one would like to correct it, lol.
Thanks.
smokejumper76 said:
I have no idea how it happened. I'm old school and prefer to have absolute totalitarian authority over my contacts. I don't link/sync contacts to Google, or use Sim Card. I prefer to store them in Phone memory via import/export.
It's not a big deal since I don't store my contacts on the sim card; however, the [6] default Verizon Wireless (USA) Sim Card contacts are not there anymore--now there are [0] contacts stored there. Again, it's not a big deal, but I'd like to be able to restore them back if I knew what the names/numbers were--hence this thread.
Can anyone out there post a vcard, or csv file, etc or whatever of the STOCK DEFAULT Sim Card Contacts off the Verizon Wireless HTC One M8 please? There were 6 of them. I'd appreciate it.
It's just one of those things--if something's not there, and one didn't mean to do it--usually one would like to correct it, lol.
Thanks.
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er......nevermind...I flashed an RUU and they came back..weird cuz prev rom showed nothing.
Hi,
I have a Samsung Galaxy Express 3 J120A and would like to be able to store the contacts information online, and update it when I want to or have it do it automatically however that would work, and then be able to load it onto another phone when I want to. Can anyone tell me how to do that or suggest a tutorial explaining how to do it? I have more than one of that type phone and want to move the sim card from one to another to get familiar with and practice doing things like this. Also hopefully to use one phone for a few weeks and update it, then do the same with another, and then a third, and then go back to the first one and hopefully it will retain some of the info so it will only need some updating... Will that work? Also there's a micro SD card I plan to move along with the sim card. Service is with AT&T if that matters much.
Thank you for any help learning this stuff!
David
You're best off creating all new contacts as Google Contacts, so that when you add the Google account on another device, all the contacts are synced to any device using that account.
You can then remove the contacts on the SIM card and anytime you add a contact on one device under that Google account, it'll sync and appear on the others using that same account.
Backup
Backup all your contacts to a Excell sheet or to the Google contacts. This can help you to retrieve all your details from anywhere at any time.