Hey guys, I just updated my phone, all stock updates, no root or custom roms. Now all my music and pics are gone, as well as contacts but the messages are still there
Has this happened to anyone else, it's really stressful for me and I don't what to do :/
You're contacts should have been stored in google and when you went through the device set up after update they should have been restored after you sign into google? In the future there it's a application called my backup and it doesn't require root to use it. You can backup you're applications data and contacts that way if you are updating or things of that nature. In your contacts is there a way to see if they are stored on your sd card? It's been a long while since I was running stock but I think I remember settings that you can restore the contact's from your sd card back to your device. Look into the contract menu and see if that option is available . I'm a bit confused as to why they were not restored automatically when you signed into your google account? Being stock your very limited as to what you can and can not do. If all else fails contact your provider, they might know of a way to restore your contacts on there end. I wish I could be of more help but I'm not sure what kind of options you have available to you running stock .
Perhaps try a reset again and sign in through your google during set up and google should restore them automatically after sign in. I know when I flash roms and change my software, once I sign in the initial set up through google my contacts are all restored . This might work. It wouldn't hurt to try it. I wish you the best and hope you can get your issue resolved soon ! Hopefully they are not gone but stored to your sd card. If you have a card reader you can put the sd card in it and see which files are stored on it, including pictures. Unless the update erased them somehow. I wish I could be of more help. Best wishes.
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No but a recent update by htc ****ed up my wifi real bad. I don't like it when HTC updates my stuff because they always **** **** up.
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I know most of the files on the SD card are pretty clear as to what they contain....but I am wanting to clean my card up to regain space and dont know exactly which folder contains my contacts. I can pretty much figure out the media files and downloads...but what folders have to remain to keep you from losing contacts? I bricked my phone one time before when I was updating to a new ROM. I ended up having to go back and install back to totally stock then had to do the rooting again, s-off, etc.
The problem I am having is that when I go to make a back up my phone screws up again and I have to take the battery out to get it to shut off and then have to reboot. I am guessing that there are still some files on my SD from the original screwup I did. Any help would be appreciated. And yes, I am a totally lost noobie trying to read and learn as I go. So please be gentle.
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I know most of the files on the SD card are pretty clear as to what they contain....but I am wanting to clean my card up to regain space and dont know exactly which folder contains my contacts. I can pretty much figure out the media files and downloads...but what folders have to remain to keep you from losing contacts? I bricked my phone one time before when I was updating to a new ROM. I ended up having to go back and install back to totally stock then had to do the rooting again, s-off, etc.
The problem I am having is that when I go to make a back up my phone screws up again and I have to take the battery out to get it to shut off and then have to reboot. I am guessing that there are still some files on my SD from the original screwup I did. Any help would be appreciated. And yes, I am a totally lost noobie trying to read and learn as I go. So please be gentle.
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I was not aware that contacts are stored on the SD card, unless this is something you intentionally did. Mine are all synced to google, so it doesn't matter what I do to my SD card. As far as keeping everything neat, and folders that I make myself, I use all capital letters for fast navigation.
Copy your entire SD card to your computer. then format the SD. put it back in the phone and reboot. (Leaving the SD card completely blank during this process) ...Once done, check your contacts 10 minutes later, NOT immediately. Let me know the results
Note: I know that my reply is not a full answer. It was done that way on purpose. We are doing this a few things at a time, instead of flooding you all at once with everything. I know when I was new to this, a flood of info completely overwhelmed me.
Contact Profile Pictures
I have realized over time & time again with wiping & new ROMs and what not that Google DOES NOT backup profile pictures from your phone to your Google account.
That being said, the phone DOES import any profile pictures FROM Google onto your phone when you sync. That means that if you want profile pictures on your phone, you must set them up on Google FIRST.
This of course sucks, as i never use Gmail, and always add phone contacts on my, well, PHONE.
In addition, if you 'link' your phone contacts to your Google contacts, the Google profile picture takes precedence.
Little_Ant said:
I have realized over time & time again with wiping & new ROMs and what not that Google DOES NOT backup profile pictures from your phone to your Google account.
That being said, the phone DOES import any profile pictures FROM Google onto your phone when you sync. That means that if you want profile pictures on your phone, you must set them up on Google FIRST.
This of course sucks, as i never use Gmail, and always add phone contacts on my, well, PHONE.
In addition, if you 'link' your phone contacts to your Google contacts, the Google profile picture takes precedence.
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Not sure why your phone is doing this... I can add pics on my phone, and they update on Google just fine. Just now did it to verify. There has to be a setting somewhere that you are missing. Either on Google, or your phone.
Alright i have 2 other threads made but not all my questions were answered and i have a couple more
1) I wanna know how to backup my stuff so its not all lost just in case... Like a good app that at LEAST gets my contacts, sms and perhaps some app data? Only because i have ultimate password manager and it is a pain putting them all in
2) Im having trouble getting the drivers for my phone on my computer... i know i can press install driver in kies to get them but my computer keeps failing at that... what mode does it ahve to be in? Samsung ezupdater, media or mass storage?
3)can i just get a download link so i can install kies mini because i guess that is what i need... Correct me if im wrong
4) the main thing i want from rooting is the under/over clocking thing and i wanna get rid of the sms messages from my call log... Does the infused gingerbread kernel from the thread in the link below help me get that or do i ahve to find a rom first?if so what is a good rom?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1197248
5)Any help is much appreciated... thanks a bunch
Download the drivers from Samsungs web site.
Contacts - open contacts, tap menu, tap export. If you have an external micro card save them to that.
Once rooted, use Titanium Backup to back up your apps & app data.
Not sure how to save sms messages.
Overclocking can make your phone unstable.
I like Infused 2.1.0. Very stable and gets rid of the sms in the log.
Cranky...
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Download the drivers from Samsungs web site.
Contacts - open contacts, tap menu, tap export. If you have an external micro card save them to that.
Once rooted, use Titanium Backup to back up your apps & app data.
Not sure how to save sms messages.
Overclocking can make your phone unstable.
I like Infused 2.1.0. Very stable and gets rid of the sms in the log.
Cranky...
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Try SMS Backup and Restore for free in the market. Works like a champ
Contacts - I strongly recommend syncing contacts to a Google account. If you do that, backup/restore of contacts is seamless and automated.
Apps/app settings - Titanium backup. Don't use it for system apps/settings. Note that you still need to manually copy the TiBu backups from the SD card though.
SMS and Call Logs - There are two apps, SMS Backup and Restore and Call Logs Backup and Restore. Just like TiBu, you'll need to manually copy the backups off of your SD card periodically.
Entropy512 said:
Contacts - I strongly recommend syncing contacts to a Google account. If you do that, backup/restore of contacts is seamless and automated.
Apps/app settings - Titanium backup. Don't use it for system apps/settings. Note that you still need to manually copy the TiBu backups from the SD card though.
SMS and Call Logs - There are two apps, SMS Backup and Restore and Call Logs Backup and Restore. Just like TiBu, you'll need to manually copy the backups off of your SD card periodically.
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@truckerglenn -i cant find the drivers from samsung website, but i heard infused is sick so ill get that... you able to help me get that? Should i do that root from that forum i linked to? Thanks man?
@irish - Yea i got that thanks
@entrop - Yea i thought of that too, but when i went to try it, i saw that my phone already had the check in sync contacts, i have the gmail app signed in, but my gmail doesnt have them... what should i do?
joeym11 said:
@truckerglenn -i cant find the drivers from samsung website, but i heard infused is sick so ill get that... you able to help me get that? Should i do that root from that forum i linked to? Thanks man?
@irish - Yea i got that thanks
@entrop - Yea i thought of that too, but when i went to try it, i saw that my phone already had the check in sync contacts, i have the gmail app signed in, but my gmail doesnt have them... what should i do?
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As far as drivers go just download samsung kies on your pc and install it. Then you can uninstall it if you want.
Infused should have some instructions to flash in the op. Just make aure you read through them a couple times before going ahead with it.
And honestly syncing contacts with google never worked for me lol. So i couldnt help you with that one
Sent from my friggin huge Samsung Infuse
Truckerglenn said:
Download the drivers from Samsungs web site.
Contacts - open contacts, tap menu, tap export. If you have an external micro card save them to that.
Once rooted, use Titanium Backup to back up your apps & app data.
Not sure how to save sms messages.
Overclocking can make your phone unstable.
I like Infused 2.1.0. Very stable and gets rid of the sms in the log.
Cranky...
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Uncle Irish said:
Try SMS Backup and Restore for free in the market. Works like a champ
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Entropy512 said:
Contacts - I strongly recommend syncing contacts to a Google account. If you do that, backup/restore of contacts is seamless and automated.
Apps/app settings - Titanium backup. Don't use it for system apps/settings. Note that you still need to manually copy the TiBu backups from the SD card though.
SMS and Call Logs - There are two apps, SMS Backup and Restore and Call Logs Backup and Restore. Just like TiBu, you'll need to manually copy the backups off of your SD card periodically.
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Reynaldinho111 said:
As far as drivers go just download samsung kies on your pc and install it. Then you can uninstall it if you want.
Infused should have some instructions to flash in the op. Just make aure you read through them a couple times before going ahead with it.
And honestly syncing contacts with google never worked for me lol. So i couldnt help you with that one
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It doesn't work when i try and install the drivers... It keeps failing... hope my phone isn't screwed. Is the infused gonna work on my canadian infuse 4g on rogers? and ill try the contacts another way... maybe an external sd card... thanks
I would recommend going to the market and searching for "contacts to SIM", it will backup all your contacts to your SIM Card so you can just pop it in if you get a new phone.
Also, Titanium Backup is great for applications (and their data).
For the drivers I'm not sure, I would say uninstall Kies and plug your phone into mass-storage mode, if you're on Windows it should download and install the drivers automatically...
Alright contacts to sim worked perfectly... Titanium says I need to have root access so maybe I will need to copy those pws... And for the driver situation... I'm on windows 7,and when I plug in my phone on mass storage, it comes up with the windows that has like browse files and that stuff, kind like when you put in a dvd, it has play and in all the programs you can play it with... Does this mean I'm all set?
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The SIM is very limited in terms of what contact info it can store for each contact. I'd strongly recommend syncing to Google, as it should backup nearly everything.
If you want a "non-cloud" backup, GMail supports exporting contacts in multiple file formats.
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The SIM is very limited in terms of what contact info it can store for each contact. I'd strongly recommend syncing to Google, as it should backup nearly everything.
If you want a "non-cloud" backup, GMail supports exporting contacts in multiple file formats.
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I wanted to do that but it doesn't seem to work... the check mark is there to sync them in my gmail app, but it doesn't actually show up on my gmail. i just bought an external sd card so i guess that'll do...now one more thing... If i want to root my device and have infused 2.1.0, do i still need to do the root that i had linked to below?http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1197248
Like what i am thinking has to be done, correct me if im wrong, i would root the device with taht, then that allows me to use the rom, im thinking in the rom downloader?
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 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 ?
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@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.
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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.
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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
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.