So last night I backed up my contacts to my google account because I knew I was getting a new phone.
So upon syncing with the google account today any phone number with an email linked to it had the email restored and not the number. As well as any contact that was part of a text conversation was completely not backed up.
I have recent (less than 20 days old) backups of BAMF roms made with Clockwork Rom Manager. I there any way I can dig through those files on my SD card and find the contacts storage data.
I also backed up every last thing Titanium backup would let me backup to google drive. I have thus far had no luck restoring with Titanium Backup.
I'm kind of completely lost here.
If you guys think you can help but you need more information then I will provide it as quickly as I can if I can dig the info up.
Much appreciated for your giving this some though.
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Found a program called AppExtract. It worked pretty well. Gave me back all my SMS/MMS and all my contacts from one of the backed up BAMF roms I mentioned.
I don't understand why I wasn't able to restore back into those very same roms with Clockwork though and just have all that info included. I suppose I'm missing some details here.
JoeDantes said:
So last night I backed up my contacts to my google account because I knew I was getting a new phone.
So upon syncing with the google account today any phone number with an email linked to it had the email restored and not the number. As well as any contact that was part of a text conversation was completely not backed up.
I have recent (less than 20 days old) backups of BAMF roms made with Clockwork Rom Manager. I there any way I can dig through those files on my SD card and find the contacts storage data.
I also backed up every last thing Titanium backup would let me backup to google drive. I have thus far had no luck restoring with Titanium Backup.
I'm kind of completely lost here.
If you guys think you can help but you need more information then I will provide it as quickly as I can if I can dig the info up.
Much appreciated for your giving this some though.
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Found a program called AppExtract. It worked pretty well. Gave me back all my SMS/MMS and all my contacts from one of the backed up BAMF roms I mentioned.
I don't understand why I wasn't able to restore back into those very same roms with Clockwork though and just have all that info included. I suppose I'm missing some details here.
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Not sure if I fully understand your question, but alternatively, I think you could've recovered your contacts through gmail online. Log into your gmail account, click on contacts, then more, then towards the bottom of that list is a restore option. You can then choose the parameters for your restore. As for SMS, most of the roms I've flashed recently have had SMS back up, but I haven't really used it.
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I tried to search for this but really didn't know what to even search for.
I've hard reset my phone twice after adding and deleting lots of apps while trying to find my favs. Both times I've used the Sprite Backup that came with my phone (ATT Tilt) and both times I've had to set up a new Oulook account for my Gmail. This isn't really an issue, just a pain.
What is an issue is that it won't allow me to reuse the Account Name. Not to big a deal, I just don't like having to come up with a new name every time. Is there a way to delete the old names somewhere? Are they in the registry somewhere?
Sorry if this has been asked before, I've just never seen it in the 3 months I've been following this forum and had no luck finding it myself.
bosox15 said:
I tried to search for this but really didn't know what to even search for.
I've hard reset my phone twice after adding and deleting lots of apps while trying to find my favs. Both times I've used the Sprite Backup that came with my phone (ATT Tilt) and both times I've had to set up a new Oulook account for my Gmail. This isn't really an issue, just a pain.
What is an issue is that it won't allow me to reuse the Account Name. Not to big a deal, I just don't like having to come up with a new name every time. Is there a way to delete the old names somewhere? Are they in the registry somewhere?
Sorry if this has been asked before, I've just never seen it in the 3 months I've been following this forum and had no luck finding it myself.
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I'll be the first to tackle this, but need some clarification on it. You hard reset then do a restore using sprite? Or you hard reset and then restore only the apps? Any extra information would be greatly appreciated.
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I'll be the first to tackle this, but need some clarification on it. You hard reset then do a restore using sprite? Or you hard reset and then restore only the apps? Any extra information would be greatly appreciated.
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Sorry, yeah, backup "My Documents, Email, and Personal Databases" with Sprite backup. Hard Reset, Restore from backup, then reinstall all apps. Both times it hasn't actually restored my email account so I've had to do it manually, but when I click "New E-Mail Account" and go through the steps, I get a warning screen that says "That name is already assigned to another account. Enter a unique name and try again". Is it possible it only half restores, putting some type of info file somewhere but not actually listing it under "Messaging" screen.
The last time it also didn't back up my contacts, had to get those through ActiveSync from Outlook on my PC. Needless to say, I don't think I'll rely on Sprite again.
bosox15 said:
Sorry, yeah, backup "My Documents, Email, and Personal Databases" with Sprite backup. Hard Reset, Restore from backup, then reinstall all apps. Both times it hasn't actually restored my email account so I've had to do it manually, but when I click "New E-Mail Account" and go through the steps, I get a warning screen that says "That name is already assigned to another account. Enter a unique name and try again". Is it possible it only half restores, putting some type of info file somewhere but not actually listing it under "Messaging" screen.
The last time it also didn't back up my contacts, had to get those through ActiveSync from Outlook on my PC. Needless to say, I don't think I'll rely on Sprite again.
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By doing the backup and then restoring you are allowing some previous settings from your device to be redone. This is usually good in the big picture of things, but when it comes to email, by restoring even a little bit, it will recognize that account. I never back up my email, unless I do it via outlook on a daily basis and such. By doing that I can restore it to outlook if it crashes or if I need something from the past that I had deleted. I wish I could give you some good news and say it shouldn't happen, but it does. Try only backing up everything but your email accounts. Also what device are you using. Some have quirks that others don't.
I thought that might be it. Too bad I just did it and don't feel like reinstalling and getting my settings the way I like em. Its the ATT Tilt, don't know if that really matters.
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I thought that might be it. Too bad I just did it and don't feel like reinstalling and getting my settings the way I like em. Its the ATT Tilt, don't know if that really matters.
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Just remember it when you go to do it next time.
I was wondering about the device, because older PPC/Phones had different issues with backup and restore. It seems a lot better now in our techno world we live in.
Hi everyone,
So I just flashed Cyanogenmod on my G2X and it's fantastic. However, I made a stupid mistake of not backing up my sms and calendar events through titanium backup. I did however, before I erased everything from my phone, copy all the contents to my computer. Is there a specific folder where these were stored? Can I just copy and paste them to my phone?
The Calendar I didn't even think of because I thought it's automatically getting synced with google but apparently not because when I loaded it after the flash, the contents are about a month old...so I'm assuming that everything that was up to date was stored only on my phone and I'm hoping I can save it! I really need to get that info back...
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
If you were signed into your Google account and you had data your calendar events should have automatically and almost immediately uploaded to Google's servers. All of the data is stored in an sqlite database on the phone. I don't know any way to access the data on the database in a backup file. Maybe some more expert users can help you.
Hi thanks for the reply.
I thought my account should be getting updated too, which is why I never even bothered to back it up (I guess I should have checked first). My calendar information is like a month old...I have no idea why this happened.
I was hoping it would also be on a file stored somewhere on the phone or SD card which I can just copy and paste to my phone (since I moved everything to my computer before deleting).
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Hi thanks for the reply.
I thought my account should be getting updated too, which is why I never even bothered to back it up (I guess I should have checked first). My calendar information is like a month old...I have no idea why this happened.
I was hoping it would also be on a file stored somewhere on the phone or SD card which I can just copy and paste to my phone (since I moved everything to my computer before deleting).
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Did you have multiple accounts signed into Google. Sometimes the wrong account is syncing with the calendar entries you created. Check your other accounts and the events might have backed up to that account, instead of the one you intended.
Hey guys, so I decided I wanted to flash a new ROM, to try it out and stuff. When i completed the backup of my original ROM, i used ROM manager, and thought that it was ok, so I flashed the new ROM, wiping out all my data, including my contacts. Now these contacts, I had only saved them to my phone, not my SIM card, but was planning on doing so, but since I had gained the contacts 2 days before, I didn't think too much on it. Bad idea. The MD5 from my old backup with all my contacts was never created, so I no longer have the ability to back up to the file. So now i'm here, and I'm wondering, is it possible to access the Data file that was created when I made the backup, since only the MD5 is gone, and access the contacts saved on it? Thanks again!
It's default for your phone to backup your contacts to your Google account. Did you disable that? If not then you still have them all.
always backup your contacts when working on your phone I think it's the most precious part of my phone and always have a backup of it and as for getting it back like mentioned should be on your google account
Tried that already, no dice, i never disabled it, so no idea >_< I found the contacts app in my old backup that I made today that didn't have the MD5, but when i transferred it into a different backups system.tar, it stayed at the front of the folders, so i couldn't transfer them into the system folder itself.
Just copying the app itself won't do anything. Have you logged onto your gmail account (on a PC browser) and checked your contacts?
Yup, no dice, nothing there. As a note, i have no way of contacting these people other than this number, sooo ffffff-
That's bizarre. I've found the automatic syncing of contacts and what-not to be nothing less than magical! Sorry it doesn't help in this case - hopefully someone will be able to tell you how to extract the data from the ROM image that you have. Good luck.
Thanks, as a note, my old ROM was Juggernaut 5.0
Hi,
If installing a new rom wipes all data, when will we have a backup apps like the titanium Backup for Android????
Windows sinc is cool to restore the contacts but doesn't restore emails and apps
Emails should generally be left on the server (by default the phone only caches them for a few weeks anyhow) but yes, the app data is an issue. There's supposedly a good backup app coming, but I've yet to see it in any way other than a teaser screenshot so I can't tell you how close it is to readiness. There are other backup options, but (while I've never used Titanium Backup and therefore can't compare it) none of the currently-published ones are *really* easy.
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Emails should generally be left on the server (by default the phone only caches them for a few weeks anyhow) but yes, the app data is an issue. There's supposedly a good backup app coming, but I've yet to see it in any way other than a teaser screenshot so I can't tell you how close it is to readiness. There are other backup options, but (while I've never used Titanium Backup and therefore can't compare it) none of the currently-published ones are *really* easy.
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where did you see the screenshot???
having done this exercise recently let me tell you of my experience:
1. i had a a backup in zune, incase i wanted to return
2. switched to Tango based rom, used SMSbackup to restore. Though it restored the text messages it kinda screws up the contact list and e-mail accounts. Currently, not stable and fixed. Known issue.
3. Zune backup restore didn't happen, got 801812E0 error and got screwed
4. Though you will lose your saved games, achievements will be there. You can look into using WP7 root data and use it to backup data. I had backed whatsapp messages through this method.
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darthveda said:
having done this exercise recently let me tell you of my experience:
1. i had a a backup in zune, incase i wanted to return
2. switched to Tango based rom, used SMSbackup to restore. Though it restored the text messages it kinda screws up the contact list and e-mail accounts. Currently, not stable and fixed. Known issue.
3. Zune backup restore didn't happen, got 801812E0 error and got screwed
4. Though you will lose your saved games, achievements will be there. You can look into using WP7 root data and use it to backup data. I had backed whatsapp messages through this method.
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Is SMSBackup a built-in app for the computer, the phone or does it have to be downloaded from the Marketplace? I really want to be able to backup my SMS messages.
Yeah, I just installed a custom rom and I was under the impression that Zune does a backup and when you re-connect, it will restore at least some things. hahaha. No way. Then I found out that the restore will only restore your phone after it does a software update through Zune. I am used to WebOS, which was great in restoring almost everything over the air.
Hope we get a good backup soon.
But, does anyone know if there is a place on the local computer that would have at least the Internet shortcuts from WP? I looked under some of the Zune folders but didn't see anything.
Hi,
I have my Sensation rooted and I have CWM installed and the ROM Manager app. I had to go back to a backup I made with the ROM Manager app the other day and from experience I've found that if I restore to a backup a few weeks old I lose the contacts added in the intervening time and also all the text messages I've received since the backup.
I have from experience remembered to back up the contacts and the text messages using the inbuilt contacts backup and text message back up functions. I don't back my contacts up to my GMail account because there are years worth of duff contacts and crap in there that I don't want synch'd to my phone so I rely on backing them up myself. With me so far? Good.
Ok, I restored the phone to the 2 week old back up and obviously I have lost the new contacts and new text messages as I expected so I restored the contacts from backup. Mistake number one was forgetting that the restore doesn't check to see if the contact already exists, it merely adds a duplicate so I had to delete all the contacts and restore them back. No problem. I did the same with the text messages. One reboot later and the text messages app picked up the contact names rather than showing the numbers and I'm now back up and running with a stable phone with the latest contacts and text messages.
My problem is that for some stupid reason the contacts backup doesn't seem to remember what groups people were in. It remembers the groups just fine but they're now all empty. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
Cheers,
/snert