Database Info

Sdcard

Does resseting my mytouch wipe the memory card?
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Barry:// said:
Does resseting my mytouch wipe the memory card?
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Nope. Not unless you intentionally format sdcard from the settings or in recovery

Here's the thing I saved my friends contacts on the memory card and I can't rstore it ..idk why its saved as 0000.vcf but I can't restore it
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When you restore it I assume you're doing it from the More>Import/Export>Import from SD card>Phone then it'll start scanning for v card data....right?

Yes that's how I'm doing it ...is it wrong way?

Nope. That's the right way. But another thing is if you're not seeing the contacts show up they might not be set to show up..... just to double check.... Contacts>Menu>View>make sure checkbox next to SIM is marked.... That's the only thing I can think of aside from a buggered up export.

try copying your vcf file to your computer and importing it to outlook. then, sync your phone with outlook contacts and lemme know what you find out.
even easier... go to the market and check out something like vCardIO
because... guess what... yeah, we've got an app for that too, but ours is free.

Just wanted to add gmail backs up contacts as well. I've flashed multiple times not saving and gmail restores all of them everytime. It won't save texts though gotta use a sms backup, nandroid, tb or backup them yourself.
And reflashing won't touch the sd card unless you hit format by mistake which would stink if you were installing a custom rom lol.
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Droidmoder said:
Just wanted to add gmail backs up contacts as well. I've flashed multiple times not saving and gmail restores all of them everytime. It won't save texts though gotta use a sms backup, nandroid, tb or backup them yourself.
And reflashing won't touch the sd card unless you hit format by mistake which would stink if you were installing a custom rom lol.
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Gmail only backs up contacts if you have it set to backup contacts AND save them to your gmail account when you add a new contact to your phone. I have come across more people that don't than do. Mostly the uninformed/first time android users that still think you're supposed to save them to your sim card like back in the old days.
OP: MyBackup Pro is probably the easiest solution to backing up contacts, call logs, bookmarks, dictionary, sms, mms, settings, android home, etc. I use MyBackup Pro for all the mentioned and have it on a schedule to backup each night in case I decide to flash a rom on a whim and TiBackup for my apps/game data even though MyBackup Pro does it too but I just don't like the way it restores them.

Thanks guys buh I figered out the problem.....'y google acoount had a pink sign on sync so theierfore all of my contacts were on my phone (not synced) and I only had 2 contacts on my gmail since sync wasn't functioning properly...any way when I backed up by expoorting I choose to export from google acount which had only two contacts and the rest 219 contacts were on the phone itself unsynced ..any way I wiped without knowing and boom all gone and no backup either....bummmer
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Barry:// said:
Thanks guys buh I figered out the problem.....'y google acoount had a pink sign on sync so theierfore all of my contacts were on my phone (not synced) and I only had 2 contacts on my gmail since sync wasn't functioning properly...any way when I backed up by expoorting I choose to export from google acount which had only two contacts and the rest 219 contacts were on the phone itself unsynced ..any way I wiped without knowing and boom all gone and no backup either....bummmer
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Bummer. That def sucks. Well I guess it's time for you to start going through your T-mo bill and putting a face to each call you placed lol j/k. I did that....a very long time ago and I still remember the horrible amount of time I had doing it lol.

Word 219 contacts dam that's to much
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You can manually sync them as well. I normally sync up once a week. Find a wifi or use a friends phone to tether. Its worth it I have about 110 contacts myself and more if I sync facebook lol.
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tmobile contact backup app from the stock rom may have saved your contacts for you. when i bricked my mt4g i thought i lost all my contacts but when i got the mt4gs that app brought them back automatically

[Q] Transferring contacts between OS's?

I just started reading up on rooting about 3 days ago so a lot of this is new to me but i couldn't find anything about this. I'm currently running CM9 ICS on on my infuse 4.0.4 and before i ever did any of this i used titanium backup and backed up all apps + system data while i was on froyo 2.2.1 and transferred it to my pc. I noticed they have a whole new people app on ics and i'm going to assume the old back up data is formatted for froyo, but i think they have the same destination?
data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/database
Something like that, how would i go about transferring them if possible? Apparently google never backed them up either. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

One of the many possible issues when testing unfamiliar roms...lack of homework....
But when you log on to the phone..and setup your google accts it is not...syncing your contacts....?

Well its either they were never synced or it's just not working, i could just wait until the roms complete i guess but for the time being it would be a lot more convenient to have them if possible

Is data working for you...on the phone? Can you log on gmail on your pc and see your contacts there?

Nope just the contacts I've added recently added since switching to ics. i never had any other google accounts. any thing i can do with these?
com.android.providers.contacts-0155e16b1e02ab3e1f83406632029fc7.apk
com.android.providers.contacts-20120409-230535
com.android.providers.contacts-20120409-230535.tar
com.google.android.syncadapters.contacts-4a9248374bf4af8864bea57f2100d9d9.apk
com.google.android.syncadapters.contacts-20120409-230544
com.google.android.syncadapters.contacts-20120409-230544.tar
com.android.contacts-20120409-230533
com.android.contacts-bf86983ea79f37363d8d86c9b701b7b4.apk
com.android.contacts-20120409-230533.tar
Extracted using titanium backup on froyo

Just gonna quickly warn you. Never back and restore system data between roms. It could cause problems to arise. If you're gonna restore, restore missing apps with data. Don't restore system data or anything with system in it
Try a pizza taco sometime, if you don't know what it is, look it up then

Haha yeah i learned that.. i was screwing around with it with pretty much zero knowledge about this and ended screwing up 3 or 4 system processes and had to re flash it. Any suggestions? any way to make the files into vcard data? By the way i have no idea what that really is i just tried importing from sd and it said "Cannot find Vcard data."

Go back to froyo, restore your contacts with TB. Once you have contacts restored click the "menu" soft key. Click the import/export option. Choose export to sdcard or export to memory or something like that...that will create vcard data
Now flash cm9 and restore contacts from sdcard by importing from sdcard
I know, its a lot of work but its the only way I can think of to create the card data
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Devugly said:
data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/database
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I can confirm that's where contacts are located, just used es file explorer and opened up the files as text...however I can not confirm changing the files in that directory with your old ones will work...
However if you do try to replace those files make sure you reboot after replacing
Good luck hope you get your contacts back
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I was hoping i didnt have to go back to stock, will try just replacing the files let you know how it goes thanks

i honestly think you shouldnt reaplce ICS apks with FroYo apks..
youre gonna screw things up trust me
do the long way and go back to froyo export a Vcard then go back to ICS and import
youll be safer and itll save ya the headache

No luck, contacts were just blank with a small scroll bar as if there was a lot on the page. probably going to re flash tomorrow i have work in 5 hours haha thanks again

SUCCESS. I have all my contacts and numbers thanks to this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1432962
I did this with no command prompt knowledge, let alone common sense. Thanks again!

Glad you found a simple way to get your contacts
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Yes, glad it worked out for you...

Wow, I haven't "transferred" contacts in years! A google email account solved all that headache

Jep56 said:
Wow, I haven't "transferred" contacts in years! A google email account solved all that headache
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that was exactly what I was saying...he must have had his contacts sync off or sync off in general...

Yes i always synced contacts from facebook, but this rom doesnt have that feature and market apps such as facebook sync only synced names and pictures. All backed up now though =]

Devugly said:
Yes i always synced contacts from facebook, but this rom doesnt have that feature and market apps such as facebook sync only synced names and pictures. All backed up now though =]
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I dont use facebook much less sync with FB,...but ok, at least your up with your contacts.
I loaded the preview of the ICS and my contacts loaded up great when I log into google...?

bigjoe2675 said:
I dont use facebook much less sync with FB,...but ok, at least your up with your contacts.
I loaded the preview of the ICS and my contacts loaded up great when I log into google...?
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Yeah same here... I think contacts loaded up faster with ICS compared to GB and FroYo lol
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how to back up messages

im having a trouble backing up my texts! i try to back them up, and once i flash a new rom, theyre all gone, even after restoring. im using the 4.0.3 ICS mms app from the market...

Dee Hos said:
im having a trouble backing up my texts! i try to back them up, and once i flash a new rom, theyre all gone, even after restoring. im using the 4.0.3 ICS mms app from the market...
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I've always used SMS Backup & Restore from the market, never had a problem with it and it's quick, even when you have 5,000+ texts to backup/restore.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&hl=en

go SMS has an integrated backup feature

hd2k10 said:
I've always used SMS Backup & Restore from the market, never had a problem with it and it's quick, even when you have 5,000+ texts to backup/restore.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&hl=en
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hd2k10 said:
I've always used SMS Backup & Restore from the market, never had a problem with it and it's quick, even when you have 5,000+ texts to backup/restore.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&hl=en
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I use this app for my daughter's phone. I don't care if mine get erased. For the number of her texts to restore, it takes quite a while for the phone to be usable because it takes a while for the message database to stabilize. But, it works.

I use SMS Backup +.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS56ZWdvZ2dsZXMuc21zc3luYyJd
Works great.
Automatically backup SMS, MMS and call log entries using a separate label in Gmail / Google Calendar. It is also possible to restore SMS and call log entries back to the phone (MMS not supported yet).
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You can configure it to backup automatically, once an hour, once a day, etc. I set it for once a day so it doesn't tax my battery usage all the time.
It backs up to a free online account.

hd2k10 said:
I've always used SMS Backup & Restore from the market, never had a problem with it and it's quick, even when you have 5,000+ texts to backup/restore.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&hl=en
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+1 Ditto
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Have you tried using an app in the market called My Backup Pro?

CZ Eddie said:
I use SMS Backup +.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS56ZWdvZ2dsZXMuc21zc3luYyJd
Works great.
You can configure it to backup automatically, once an hour, once a day, etc. I set it for once a day so it doesn't tax my battery usage all the time.
It backs up to a free online account.
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I've been using this one also for over a year. I love how it backs up to my Gmail so that 1) I never lose my texts and 2) I can search through them in Gmail if I need to. It works great to restore and I haven't ever lost any when switching between roms or different phones. It also backs up my phone call log to Gmail.

Steve Jobs® said:
Have you tried using an app in the market called My Backup Pro?
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This is what I use as I prefer to have a local backup vs cloud based (data privacy reasons).

jayrod88 said:
This is what I use as I prefer to have a local backup vs cloud based (data privacy reasons).
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I back my dialer storage up via TiBu, but it's only safe if you're returning to the same base or at least same android version. It backs up SMS/MMS and everything. I however use SMS Backup/Restore for everything else.

[Q] Only a portion of my contacts.

Hey all. I just got done with a full factory restore then I flashed eclipse. Before any of that I backed up with titanium and backup assistant. Now when I got to contacts I only see a portion of what I once had. It seems like the numbers that are not associates with a google account are showing up. Any thoughts?
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Have you set up your Google account? Backup assistant and TiBu only backup what's on your phone, not what's on a Google account.

I have. I noticed this ROM uses people in stead of the orange Contacts app.I wonder of that has anything to do with it.
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WuTangWindu said:
I have. I noticed this ROM uses people in stead of the orange Contacts app.I wonder of that has anything to do with it.
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Contacts are stored in your phone/google. Apps like contacts, people, phone, messaging, email etc. just read them.

Ok I am noticing it's only my google contacts and not the ones I saveed to my phone. I guess I didn't back up the right Douglas files
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WuTangWindu said:
Ok I am noticing it's only my google contacts and not the ones I saveed to my phone. I guess I didn't back up the right Douglas files
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You should never save contacts to your phone anyways... some people just have to learn the hard way.
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I believe I just did.

Update from CleanROM 2.5 -> 3.0

How would I be able to go from 2.5 -> 3.0 without losing my settings etc.
Can I just dirty wipe and install 3.0 or do I have to do a complete wipe?
How can I backup my information?
I dont have games, but it's just the contacts, sms and settings.

You have to wipe. New base. Suck it up lol
I mean you can try a dirty flash but DO NOT report problems in the thread as they are DEFINITELY your fault. As for contacts, your Google account saves those. As for texts, not sure how to back those up
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emckai said:
How would I be able to go from 2.5 -> 3.0 without losing my settings etc.
Can I just dirty wipe and install 3.0 or do I have to do a complete wipe?
How can I backup my information?
I dont have games, but it's just the contacts, sms and settings.
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It's the settings your going to have to do again. Google handles the contacts and an Sms backup app from the play store can assist you with the texts.
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hopesrequiem said:
You have to wipe. New base. Suck it up lol
I mean you can try a dirty flash but DO NOT report problems in the thread as they are DEFINITELY your fault. As for contacts, your Google account saves those. As for texts, not sure how to back those up
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Wow so hostile
RCOVA said:
It's the settings your going to have to do again. Google handles the contacts and an Sms backup app from the play store can assist you with the texts.
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Okay :] Thanks!

Rom Toolbox (under misc. data), and I assume Titanium Backup, seem to be able to do *some* of the settings. You can also backup & restore system apps with them, but I"m not sure if that's recommended.

You can backup texts with SMS Backup & Restore.

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Dont worry about it. I just cleaned wipe and put my sms and contacts back on.
I used MyBackup Pro