[Q] Importing contacts to PC with broken display and no Google account - General Questions and Answers

So my mom's HTC desire C has a partially messed up display after a bit of water got in it. Only this one rectangle area on the left half of the screen is working properly, I have a picture attached to explain what I mean. What I'm trying to figure out is how to get the contacts out of the phone. The biggest problem is that she never synced the phone with a google account so the contacts aren't saved anywhere but on the phone. I was hoping someone here would know of a way to import contacts to a PC without having to touch the phone too much since the display is barely working. I've tried HTC sync manager but it'll only import outlook contacts for some reason.
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There are different ways to back up contacts with adb.
One is like
Code:
adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts2.db
This should backup the whole contact database to your adb folder on your pc

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Contact Pictures?

What size do the contact pictures have to be?
In Outlook they are correct size, but every single one in Phone is cropped.
example, I want to add AMC Theatres.
this is what i made
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in outlook it is not cropped.
and on the phone i get this
doesn't matter if i add the picture on the phone, or if i do it to outlook contact. every single time it gets cropped.
also tried 480x480, 480x640, picture in the phone always gets cropped.
I'm using the Energy Rom BTW
Hmm, not sure of the correct res, but i use S2V to add contact images, if i simply use the inbuilt way (through contacts) the images become very low quality - as it worked when i use S2V i never bothered looking further!
S2V is Here or you can grab it from AC's own site.

Google Calendar treats me like a guest? Invites me to each new event and so on...

Hello everybody,
since the last time the Google Calendar apps treats me as an guest.
All events I add using the app are indeed sync'd correctly, but contain other settings as the ones I create using the online version on my desktop.
This is how the event looks on my desktop (I assume those symbols to stand fo "guest" and "anticipation" or something like this):
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If I enter the edit-view of this event I've got additional options for invites and so on.
If I edit the event on my mobile I can set the following:
("Datenschutz" translates to "privacy" )
I think they have an impact on the settings, described above...but I'd have to set them for each new event.
What can I do? There is no menu to define the standard-velues
Thank you
lg
no one`?
Got the same problem in G Calendar app, hope to find out some solution... this is annoying

[Q] Calendar sync icon always on in account settings.

Under my Google account in settings my Calendar sync icon never goes away. I've noticed a drop in battery life lately and Google Play services has been topping my battery charts, I'm wondering if this has something to do with it. The icon does stop spinning but it never disappears like it does for all the other items. I found someone else who had the same problem and he said he deleted then recreated his google account and that fixed it. I tried that and now not only is the sync icon still stuck there for Calendar but now it's stuck there for Google Play Newstand as well. Just curious if anyone else has found a solution to this problem?
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BTW that's not my picture, hence the dates way off, it's from the post of the other guy that had the same problem (he's on a Nexus 6).

Deleted photos

Hello everyone,
My fiancee has an A8 and we are close to upgrading, but her memory was running low so she decided to go into phone clean up mode just to get us to the upgrade.
She normally just deletes old photos (I have tried explaining the cloud to her, but not yet...) but this time she found herself in the files section of the phone. She deleted something in the files that then deleted all her photos. Now, when we go to trash as she normally would to restore those photos, it shows 1300+ photos and 8 vids are in the trash, but they are all greyed out with an i button. When we click restore, it says they were successfully restored but are nowhere to be found.
I suspect what is happening is she deleted a folder, and when we restore the photos they disappear because that folder path cannot be found anymore? Any thoughts?
See attached picture of here trash bin.
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Any help is appreciated. She is convinced they are all gone, but I am more hopeful!

Question File handling issues

Hello,
I recently tried to export a WhatsApp conversation to Gmail (on my Poco X3 Pro, latest MIUI 12.5.1), and I'm getting very weird results.
On the export window, I do not see a text file, but a random code-like name.
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When Gmail is started, I get an error saying "Unable to attach file"
When working with Gmail and composing any email, any file I'm trying to attach fails. I simply cannot attach anything.
I have checked permissions for each app, everything seems to be in order. I even tried doing a factory defaults on the phone, did not fix the issues.
I also noticed small things like Google Photos showing notifications for memories, but upon clicks, I only see a blank screen, or videos I shot with the phone being shown as pictures and no playback buttons.
Anybody else encounter these? Any ideas how to fix them?

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