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
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I am noticing that my text messaging has a bit of a lag when first going into the app, have been for a while. I'm assuming this is because I don't delete any of them, and I probably send/receive 75-125 a day. I know I can delete them all, but what Iwas looking for was a way to either archive them, or if that's not possible, to delete everything past a certain date. Is this possible?
Also, I would rather be able to have different ringtones for "unknown", "blocked/restricted", and just numbers that aren't in my contacts as opposed to just one ringtone for them all. Is there a solution to that, or was I just spoiled with my Treos?
Other than that, I love this phone. TIA
regarding the text lag, if you're talking about going into a text message from your favorites or something similar, I had the same issue, I hadn't deleted any text messages sense I got my XV6800 (1 year ago) and I transfered all the messages via PIM Backup to my TP2. I deleted all my messages and the lag was gone. I'd suggest backing up all your messages before trying this though, just in case that your 1000's messages isn't the issue.
I'll give that a try, thanks. I'm using the HTC backup app, and the "PIM only" backup function has inbox, contacts, etc., but no specific text message backup. I don't mind doing a complete backup, but will I be able to restore just the texts from the backup?
sixfoot7 said:
I'll give that a try, thanks. I'm using the HTC backup app, and the "PIM only" backup function has inbox, contacts, etc., but no specific text message backup. I don't mind doing a complete backup, but will I be able to restore just the texts from the backup?
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If you don't mind having your info stored on the internet, you can sign up for a myphone account from Microsoft. Its a cab file you install on your phone to upload your PIM info including pics, vids, docs, and text messages. You can set it at increments or sync it manually. It saves it on a account online that you create which gives you up to 200 megs of online space for free. The good thing is that anything you delete, it puts it in an archive section of your account just in case you want to recover something you deleted since your last sync. You can get it here, and its free. The only catch is that you have to have an unlimited data plan or use Wifi. I don't know if you can use your PC's internet connection via activesync/Windows Mobile Device Center but you can give it a shot if you don't have an unlimited data plan. (And No I do not work for Microsoft...lol)
Hey,
I'm using Sergio's CoreDroid 1.5 on my HD2 and I've had this problem in all of the previous Android ROMs that I have used, but there are a good number of ppl who have had no problem with the same builds. Searching Google also does not turn up any suitable answer.
All the contacts in my phone are saved under Google, so whenever I make any updates to my Google Contacts on the web it is sync'd fine to my Phone. On the other hand if I edit any of my contacts on the phone (like adding an extra number or email address or change the name) they are never Sync'd back to Google Contacts on the web... instead it ends up deleting the new info from my phone when it syncs from the web!! Same is the case if I change the primary number for a contact (in case the person has two numbers in his contact) it reverts back to the original choice!
Making new contacts has a mind of its own.. Mostly it does sync back the new contact info to Google contacts, but sometimes it does not.. and the new contact is deleted because no such info exists under Google Contacts. I don't have any proof but I think it only syncs info back to Google if I choose specific groups for the newly created contact.
I have checked every setting in my phone but did not find anything which shows that my phone does not have privileges to edit contacts on my phone and reflect changes back to the web. Neither is there any setting in my Google Contacts which does not let me edit changes to Contacts from my phone.
Does any one else have this problem? My problem does not lie in a bad flash or anything.. as I have already made a lot of fresh flashes but nothing seems to work!
UPDATE: I backed up all my contacts in Gmail to a csv file, and then deleted all the contacts. I then imported all the contacts back to my Gmail contacts. Up till now all the contacts that I edit remain that way, and also reflect the changes back to Gmail contacts. I guess it was a problem with Google or something, cuz when I made all my contact lists last year they were made on Gmail and after that none would update when I changed anything on my phone, as I have already pointed out. But now all work as they are supposed to. You can also backup contacts on your phone and delete from the phone but it is not recommended as the phone backup does not remember the group divisions. So your best bet is to use Gmail as it will preserve the groupings. Also after backing up remember to delete the contacts from Gmail and also from your phone and then import back into Gmail, otherwise it will make a mess of making double contacts. Do let me know if this worked for you.
Whenever I flash a new ROM, i make sure i backed up everything with titanium backup, including call log, sms, contact etc.
But after i restore my backups, some of my contacts are not linked to their facebook/skype accounts, though they were linked when i did the backup.
Does anybody know how to backup these contacts links with titanium backup or any other way?
Thanks!
Alonzzo2 said:
Whenever I flash a new ROM, i make sure i backed up everything with titanium backup, including call log, sms, contact etc.
But after i restore my backups, some of my contacts are not linked to their facebook/skype accounts, though they were linked when i did the backup.
Does anybody know how to backup these contacts links with titanium backup or any other way?
Thanks!
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Don't the contacts re-link once you install and sign into Skype and facebook for the first time? Mine always seem to re-link after re installing the app that has linking. I do seem to have to install those linked apps from the marketplace and not via the backup.
I'm pretty sure crushalot has it right. Facebook only links to your contacts and does not actually modify them. So you would need to re-establish that link through facebook.
Here is an interesting article about google's stance on the way facebook keeps your contact info locked up in facebook.
http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/22/google-facebook-android-contacts/
I should have mentioned it: some of my contacts are re-linked. but some of them don't.
I have contacts which their google name is unrelated to the facebook name (at google's contacts the name is a nickname, at facebook it's the real name).
Anyways, i didn't figure out the 'rule' by which the re-link with facebook works, all i know is that after i flash a new ROM and restore apps+data+settings using titanium backup, not all of my contacts are re-linked to their facebook profile.
When I log back into my Google and Facebook, after a while it randomly notifies me I have more contacts to link, sometimes I have to wait a while after everything syncs and it just randomly appears in my notifications. I always seem to have a few that never link back up... not sure why either.
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.
I've been using Easy Backup to backup my contacts/mms/ms/calendar and it seemed to be working fine, but I just noticed a week in that my contact list keeps duplicating itself every time I backup- some of my contacts have 5 or 6 google contacts that weren't there before. Am I doing something wrong? Should I ditch Easy Backup altogether and use another application to back up my contacts/sms/mms?