[Q] Only a portion of my contacts. - Verizon Droid Charge

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.

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Quick Question about app

Hey I just rooted my gf's Inspire using the GUI method and everything went flawlessly. Still waiting till more devs get in on this phone because I have an Evo and there is a great deal more development (of course because it's been out for much longer). Anyways, does anybody know the .apk name for the Learn More app so I can delete it through RootExplorer. It is completely useless. Once that question is answered then this thread can be deleted.
bump. Also stupid question but is there no front facing camera on this phone? Also I accidentally have it so every contact is syncing to google twice. Under every contact when you go to link it shows up google twice. Is there any way to fix this.
Well i know you cant remove an account from.gtalk without wiping the phone. Any chance you put same acct. In twice?
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freekquency said:
Well i know you cant remove an account from.gtalk without wiping the phone. Any chance you put same acct. In twice?
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No what actually happened is a synced her google account which has all of her numbers and then I accidentally imported all her number from her sim to google so they were syncing both for some reason. I reset the phone and now the google contacts won't sync. I'm going to try some things and see if I can get everything working. But do you know the .apk name for Learn More?
Quick fix for the contacts us to go to Google contacts on the computer and use their dedupe toil in the top tool bar.
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id10terrordfw said:
Quick fix for the contacts us to go to Google contacts on the computer and use their dedupe toil in the top tool bar.
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Thanks, I still can't find the .apk name for the Learn More app and I desperately want to delete it for her cause she keeps nagging about it. However I did get the google contacs fixed and everything is up and running. Now if only someone would tackle an SBC, undervolted kernel to attack this terrible battery life.

Contact pics not showing up inside sms app

Am I the only one with this problem? And is there a fix?
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This happens to me sometimes. I usually just backout of messages, and go back in and it works fine. Hasn't hapened for a few days though.
Happens to me ALL the time...
Yeah from my searching it's been happening to all of us at one point or another. I usually delete my facebook account from the phone and re-add them. Pics come back.
Here is the fix - you probably ran permission fix in CWM. This is one of the results...
Go into Applications - Manage applications
Go to ALL applications tab
Scroll down to Contacts Storage and click it.
Clear its data
Scroll down to Market
Clear data
Open market - accept agreement
Resync your contacts. This only erases the picture cache not your numbers. It gets corrupted when you run permission checks in CWM.
I had this same problem, it wasn't storing the picture right in the SMS app, and other apps like LauncherPro weren't able to pull any of the contact pictures. I also had it not syncing my Facebook picture with my local contact (which I find annoying).
What I did is added the Facebook for HTC Sense account, and let this sync. When I installed the FB app I told it to not sync anything.
Now everything is working great.
Well my problem was due to the cwr and cuz I was saving contact to the phone and not to Google ! How can I have saving to Google default
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adrianh85 said:
Well my problem was due to the cwr and cuz I was saving contact to the phone and not to Google ! How can I have saving to Google default
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Just do yourself a favor and edit your contacts at gmail.com... they push to your phone.
does anyone know of a mod that will defult the contacts to save to ur google account =instead of degfluting to the phone?
adrianh85 said:
does anyone know of a mod that will defult the contacts to save to ur google account =instead of degfluting to the phone?
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First of all:
psufan5 said:
Just do yourself a favor and edit your contacts at gmail.com... they push to your phone.
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Second of all, don't ever save your contacts on your phone, that's what google sync is for. When you start restoring saved contacts and letting google sync run, you're creating a huge mess.
In your case I would clean up the contacts on google, then wipe your phone (not restoring any contacts saved on the phone) so that everything you have on google is what you have on the phone.
I did this a while back, and have been happy ever since.
seandalton0 said:
First of all:
Second of all, don't ever save your contacts on your phone, that's what google sync is for. When you start restoring saved contacts and letting google sync run, you're creating a huge mess.
In your case I would clean up the contacts on google, then wipe your phone (not restoring any contacts saved on the phone) so that everything you have on google is what you have on the phone.
I did this a while back, and have been happy ever since.
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Absolutely agree with you. After I rooted, i dont know what I did, but after i rooted, all my facebook contacts ended up on my phone. )And no, I didnt tell the facebook app to sync all) I think i added the google account and facebook accounts too fast and then hosed it up when it brought up suggested linked contacts. I just went to Google contacts, cleaned what i didnt want, made some changes to other contacts, cleared contact storage data, and had them all back how i like less than 2 minutes later. and i still had facebook for htc sense setup and it had everybody synced in about 5 minutes. been perfect ever since.

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

Contact/Calendar Sync WITHOUT needing HTC Software

For those of you who are experimenting with AOSP ROMs on your HTC phone and want to synchronize contacts and calendar items with your desktop, have a look at this application. You can install the Android version via the market, the desktop install is freely available from the developer's website below.
http://global.mobileaction.com/product/product_AM.jsp
Also have a look at MyPhoneExplorer. It is also free from the market and very similiar software. You can view your phone's screen on your monitor and operate your phone with your mouse and keyboard. It is a proven software.
Agoattamer said:
Also have a look at MyPhoneExplorer. It is also free from the market and very similiar software. You can view your phone's screen on your monitor and operate your phone with your mouse and keyboard. It is a proven software.
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Interesting. I like the less cluttered look of this desktop version, but what worries me is the non-english support forum. I wonder if using both of these tools, in addition to the HTC sync software, might create some sort of incompatibility.
ETA: I also wonder how these utilities will respond when switching between ROMs or versions. I don't know how they track synchronization sessions. It'd be a disaster if contact items were duplicated or triplicated when updating or experimenting.
I dont know if this goes here but i have been searching around for a answer.. on my inspire I had to reinstall my rom and when i did for some reason i cannot find my phone contacts.. how in world would i get them back I did have titanium but even it says theres nothing there.. i also just two days ago did a fresh backup on titanium.. strange huh.. so far everything has been replaced but my dialer contacts..
any help will be deeply appreciated
thanks
tashsru said:
I dont know if this goes here but i have been searching around for a answer.. on my inspire I had to reinstall my rom and when i did for some reason i cannot find my phone contacts.. how in world would i get them back I did have titanium but even it says theres nothing there.. i also just two days ago did a fresh backup on titanium.. strange huh.. so far everything has been replaced but my dialer contacts..
any help will be deeply appreciated
thanks
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Did you have them synced with Google? If you did then just resign into your google account and they will be restore. As for TIBU it doesnt back up contacts by default as they are stored in System Data and restoring any system data, like contacts, sms, emails, wifi settings and things like that can cause huge issues when changing roms.
I had them synced but for some reason i cannot no matter what find them.. and they did not resync on the cell when i set it up again
tashsru said:
I had them synced but for some reason i cannot no matter what find them.. and they did not resync on the cell when i set it up again
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Check the sync and account settings to make sure it is selected.
tashsru said:
I had them synced but for some reason i cannot no matter what find them.. and they did not resync on the cell when i set it up again
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once your sync options are double checked as Zel mentioned, sign in to gmail from the gmail app and get your email, this puts it into a forced sync. Should have all your stuff back.
Thanks for sharing, BillTheCat. I was not familiar with this app. I'l check it out. I've been using Google to sync my stuff.
I use airdroid it syncs contacts pics calender date and file and you can even answer texts on your desktop when your using it
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th3lawmak3r76 said:
I use airdroid it syncs contacts pics calender date and file and you can even answer texts on your desktop when your using it
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i never seen this app before, loving it. Thank you!
+1 for Airdroid

[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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