hey guys i recently rooted my phone and one of the steps included me making a backup of my data. the root resulted in me losing all my contacts info and the app i used (Superbackup) did not save any of my contacts. i was wondering if there was a way i can access my backup file in order to retrieve my contacts or if there was any other method of restoring old contacts after a factory reset?
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hey it wont let me select my backup? do i need to set up the path for my backup (located on my sd card)?
Did you make a nand backup through CWM or TWRP? or did you use Superbackup to make your backup? If you made a nand you can use TB to retrieve contacts from it.
Now that I'm reading this again it seems like you didn't back up all of your phone only used superbackup. I this case unless superbackup can restore your contacts I'd have to say your starting fresh.
Unless maybe you used kies to back them up or have a copy on your sim card.
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i used CWM to make a nandroid backup and when i open the CWM folder for backups on my sd card i see the file Nandroid.md5..can i use Titanium Backup to restore my contacts from this file?
ryanryan007 said:
i used CWM to make a nandroid backup and when i open the CWM folder for backups on my sd card i see the file Nandroid.md5..can i use Titanium Backup to restore my contacts from this file?
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You didn't sync your contacts with your Google account?
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no, sadly i relied on superbackup to save my contacts and my sms logs however those folders are now empty. i dont think it ever saved any of my data..
ryanryan007 said:
no, sadly i relied on superbackup to save my contacts and my sms logs however those folders are now empty. i dont think it ever saved any of my data..
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Never heard of super backup. Use titanium backup and dig through your backup and pull out the contacts.
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hey guys thanks for all the help TB restored all my contacts
thanks everyone
md5 is just some kinds of verification code for the files. You should look under data or something. Either titanium backup or appextractor should work.
ryanryan007 said:
hey guys i recently rooted my phone and one of the steps included me making a backup of my data. the root resulted in me losing all my contacts info and the app i used (Superbackup) did not save any of my contacts. i was wondering if there was a way i can access my backup file in order to retrieve my contacts or if there was any other method of restoring old contacts after a factory reset?
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how did you lose anything by rooting, what steps or post did you read to root
Rooting didn't cause his problem he just doesn't know wtf he is doing by default Google backs up contacts to your Gmail or they get saved to your sim card
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Illnevertell said:
Rooting didn't cause his problem he just doesn't know wtf he is doing by default Google backs up contacts to your Gmail or they get saved to your sim card
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i know, thats why i asked him the question, but looks like hes gone until he mucks something else and posts another newb question
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Currently I have an Evo and love it, but when the day comes that a better phone is released, would it be possible to use nandroid to transfer my data over?
Obviously, I would need to wait for the phone to be rooted and flashing a custom recovery before doing this.
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In my opinion the best solution would be to use some backup software like Titanium Backup to save apps data, use SMSBackup+ or something similar to store SMS online. Copying Titanium Backup folder in the new SD you will able to restore apps data while with the other software you will be able to restore sms.
the pc? similar to mybackup pro? but instead of sd card it can send it to PC and with ability to restore everything including sideloading?
I used My Backup Pro and just copied and pasted the entire SD card directory to the computer, pasting it back on the Sd card and overwriting everything when I wanted to restore
Titanium backup syncs to dropbox with can then be synced to a PC.
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I mean restore it from of since I haven't been able to restore since sideloading is disabled
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you can just create a nand backup, or many of them, and copy the nand backup to your pc. i have a few nand backups sitting on a pc somewhere just in case all hell breaks loose and i need one to restore my phone, i just grab it and restore.
I meant directly from pc
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tmt64 said:
Titanium backup syncs to dropbox with can then be synced to a PC.
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Ditto, or you could use TiBu and any other external synch utility like SugarSync and just synchronize the entire backup directory.
Hey Guys -
I had taken a backup from the system using CWM (backup menu selection)
After flashing a new ROM i realized I lost all my contacts.
Is there a way to recover only contacts from the back up? I don't want to do a full restore.
Cheers,
Brightidea.
your contacts are never included in a backup. its best that you sync them to your gmail account so that they can be restored after you flash a rom.
sweetnsour said:
your contacts are never included in a backup. its best that you sync them to your gmail account so that they can be restored after you flash a rom.
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Oh thank you for the response. Does anyone know in which files the Android OS keep the contacts stored in the phone memory?
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brightidea said:
Hey Guys -
I had taken a backup from the system using CWM (backup menu selection)
After flashing a new ROM i realized I lost all my contacts.
Is there a way to recover only contacts from the back up? I don't want to do a full restore.
Cheers,
Brightidea.
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The only way I know how to do it is to: 1) do full restore 2) sync your contacts with google 3)reflash ROM 4) resync contacts with google.
Hope this helps.
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Oh thank you for the response. Does anyone know in which files the Android OS keep the contacts stored in the phone memory?
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not that i know of. but i do know that if you go to your contacts list>menu button>import/export>export to sd card, it creates a file of your contacts on your sd card. you can restore this file by hitting import from sd card
brightidea said:
Oh thank you for the response. Does anyone know in which files the Android OS keep the contacts stored in the phone memory
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Have a look into the data storage area of the com.android.providers.contacts package. The contacts2.db database holds your contacts.
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What exactly are you trying to backup?
If you already have a Titanium Backup, copy that folder to your PC
Also, SMS Backup and Restore, Call Log Backup and Restore and APN Backup and Restore to backup those items, then copy the folders to the computer from your phone.
We need a little more info to give you a good answer but that should help
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What app do you Use
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To backup your phone, complete Andorid OS, system files, apps and all.....you need a nandroid backup. This you would acheive with Clockworkmod Recovery. This a complete 1:1 backup that will be an exact replica of your phone. Everything........you then copy the backup folder to your computer.
Now if you want a backup like syncing your files, music, pics and folders, you need Kies, which is the samsung software for this. HOWEVER, it may or may not backup your SYSTEM files and settings......I have not used Kies in a while, so dont know what it does anymore
And finally, you can use a file manager like Astro File Manager, Root Explorer and then copy all files to your external SD card.
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And u say I'm in every thread? I leave for a few hours and u handle all the questions lol, what I'm I supposed to do now?
chappatti said:
To backup your phone, complete Andorid OS, system files, apps and all.....you need a nandroid backup. This you would acheive with Clockworkmod Recovery. This a complete 1:1 backup that will be an exact replica of your phone. Everything........you then copy the backup folder to your computer.
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What he said... ^^^^.... with one exception. .. a Nandroid backup does NOT backup the modem partitions (mmcblk0p17 and mmcblk0p13).
Uncle Irish said:
What exactly are you trying to backup?
If you already have a Titanium Backup, copy that folder to your PC
Also, SMS Backup and Restore, Call Log Backup and Restore and APN Backup and Restore to backup those items, then copy the folders to the computer from your phone.
We need a little more info to give you a good answer but that should help
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I agree with Uncle Irish, Titanium Backup will do all that for you.
To sync to a windows pc, just get my phone explorer from Google play.
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EDIT: MyPhoneExplorer lets you sync to Outlook, Thunderbird, and several other apps on your PC. You'll need to download the PC version, too. I use this to back up my contacts and calendar to Outlook.
The other posts here have great advice for backing up your phone's files. ROM Toolbox is a great app that does a lot of what you want on a rooted phone. It can do app backups just like Titanium Backup (I actually like RTB better than TiBu). I also back up calendar and contacts to google for easy syncing after a wipe.
I'm going to factory restore my phone to see if it will fix my internet connection issues. I do not want to lose everything though. I have made a nandroid backup, used titanium backup, used MyBackup Root for music and pictures, and have my Google account synced. What else do I still need to backup to not lose all my stuff?
Sounds like everything important anyway. Only thing else is to make sure you've backed up important files on /sdcard (internal storage) to an external sdcard.
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