Hi people!
I have an HTC Windows 8X phone locked to AT&T.
I'm a newbie to the forum so please don't hang me for asking but is there any way to backup other phone info besides your app settings?
I had to do a reset but using the cloud backup only allowed my programs and a few other things.
My phonebook, wireless settings, email settings, icon placement etc had to all be redone.
I know it does the apps, pix and texts but I'd at least like to have my phonebook if nothing else.
I had my old phonebook copied from my old phone (a Moto on AT&T) and they (AT&T) copied my phonebook from the old
SIM to the new one. I was then able to copy from the SIM to the phone... but you can't copy back to the SIM so any and all
contact updates and corrections can't be stored on the SIM again for future transfers back and they aren't backed up to the cloud.
I actually do like the phone, I just wish they'd give you more options as to what to back up so I don't have to wind up
writing down all my contacts for manual re-entry should something go haywire.
Any suggestions?
Many thanks!
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I have transferred all my contacts from my mobile phone SIM to my XDA
using the SIM manager. I have now updated my contacts on my XDA
adding addresses and other details.
If I want to transfer these updated contacts back to a SIM, what
details will go across to the SIM? Is it just name and telephone
number?
Thanks.
i think that what your cellphone can display as contact info is what the sim can hold infomationwise
sim contacts
Only the basic names and mumbers will be saved on sim.
If you want tho save the full addresses etc then you need to save your contacts file in full to your memory card, or to your PC. You can also save using backup.
You can also save them in outlook.
Its a real pain but the PDA looses everything but the basics if the battery goes down.
I have a HTC Touch - Windows Mobile 6.0 device and recently changed mobile provider. Now whenever I active the phone on my device I get a pop-up with the same message each time (an ad for backing up the Sim contacts with the provider). If I press ok I get another pop-up 30 seconds later.
I looked for a way to turn off the pop-ups but can't find anything. Does anybody know a way to turn this off?
I don't have a solution for stopping the messages, but might I suggest actually taking the SMS's advice and backing up your contacts, maybe then it will actually stop bugging you?
Thanks Jadel I don't think that will help however, though I won't be able to test until I fully switch providers. My contacts are already backed up in Gmail, Hotmail and Exchange.
May be there is contact backup as sim service? Go to sim services and look for this service if any????? May be you can do something from there.
mirchichamu said:
May be there is contact backup as sim service? Go to sim services and look for this service if any????? May be you can do something from there.
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that's a good suggestion. it seems your provider has something to do with this as i'm not familiar with anything that offers this weird thing automatically.
Hey guys, so i have a problem. I know that in the contacts I can hide all the repeated contacts, meaning the duplicates that show up from google, and t-mobile, and the ones on the SIM card. I have all my contacts linked thro HTC facebook. But when I go to the dialer or to send message it shows all my contacts, so some people show up 4 times!
Is there anyway to hide all the duplicate contacts in dialer and MMS, and secondly, when I receive a message from someone it shows their SIM contact which has no picture and their name as I put it in, and not as it has been "linked"
Thanks in advance!
I am on the same boat. Its annoying cause I only want the Google contacts. Mines has both synced T-Mobile backup and Google. Gonna reset the phone and remove the T-Mobile app before I sync anything and get back to u
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I had this problem and it was unbelievably frustrating when I first got this and after a few days of searching and banging my head against the wall, I found something that worked.
This is how you solve it (or how I solved mine).
1: Sync everything to Google. Edit the contact list in google (use the automatic duplicate deletion), delete useless contacts etc.
2. Remove contacts from EVERYWHERE. Sim card, phone, uncheck google sync. Your phone should then be completely empty for contacts.
3. Re-sync with google contacts. if you want you can copy it back to the SIM and you shouldn't get doubles. I think I just left it with google only but the end result is I don't have 9 different "danny's" show up when I go to compose new message because I know three of them.
Ok great, I'll try that out.. When they gave me my phone, I told the employee at the store that I didn't want the tmobile contacts, and yet, she still set it up. I hope they fix these silly thongs with the update
Try this
I had the same problem, shows same contact more then 1 time. i resolved it this way
1) Go to Contacts (App)
2) Press Menu button (2nd touch button from left)
3) Select View
4) Now select (Check Mark) the contact you want to see. in my case i unchecked all option but Google and Facebook for HTC
5) Select done.
now it will only shows single entry for each contact
Thanks
I posted this in the N00B question thread but I was told to make a new thread.
So my friend got an Unlocked Atrix 2 and she is using it on T-mobile. When the sim is inserted she can make phone calls and send text messages but it says the sim card is full and it wont let her import the contacts from the sim card to her google account. In fact it says there are no contacts but that is definitely not the case because if you put it into the old phone they all show up. That being said I found a thread that apparently has the answer but I don't know what exactly I am supposed to do. Am I going to have to root the phone so that I can modify the XML system files?
Thread with supposed answer
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103967
I since rooted the device just so that I have the ability to do more but the Atrix 4G thread was of no help. I don't know what they did in there to get it to work. Anyone have any ideas?
Why don't you use the old phone to sync contacts with Google, then login with the same Google account on the new phone and sync again.
Sent from my MB865
Hay guys,
Is there a way to retrieve back after phone reset whatsapp, tango and viber accounts to their status before the factory reset.
My problem is that I have left my country for what was planned to be only one month, so I have temporally suspend my cell phone line to cut the monthly fees while I am abroad, so the phone number is still mine and I am paying the minimal fees for it but the line is suspended and can't be reactivated unless I showed up personally at one of my Mobile provider outlets.
I am in Germany now and I am using a German number but I kept my whatsapp, Viber and tango accounts which they are linked to my Home number, so I will be available for all the people they know my number back home.
I want to do a factory reset now because of battery drain problem..and that means that I have to reinstall these application again and I will be asked to provide my original number for verification through sms or call back... since I can't have access to that number now, that means that I will not be available to my back-home contacts anymore...
Is there away to do the Factory reset and then have these application back with my original cell number linked to them??
I have Samsung Galaxy SIII mini, Android ver: 4.1.2
Thanks
Jwan
jwankurdi said:
Hay guys,
Is there a way to retrieve back after phone reset whatsapp, tango and viber accounts to their status before the factory reset.
My problem is that I have left my country for what was planned to be only one month, so I have temporally suspend my cell phone line to cut the monthly fees while I am abroad, so the phone number is still mine and I am paying the minimal fees for it but the line is suspended and can't be reactivated unless I showed up personally at one of my Mobile provider outlets.
I am in Germany now and I am using a German number but I kept my whatsapp, Viber and tango accounts which they are linked to my Home number, so I will be available for all the people they know my number back home.
I want to do a factory reset now because of battery drain problem..and that means that I have to reinstall these application again and I will be asked to provide my original number for verification through sms or call back... since I can't have access to that number now, that means that I will not be available to my back-home contacts anymore...
Is there away to do the Factory reset and then have these application back with my original cell number linked to them??
I have Samsung Galaxy SIII mini, Android ver: 4.1.2
Thanks
Jwan
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if i understood u well ... u simply need a backup to restore the app whenever u need right ????
the best backup app is titanium back up ... use it to backup your wanted apps then have a copy to the new formed folder in SD card with the app name (titanium backup ) as it may be lost
and restore this folder to sd card when u returrn home
and restore your (apps+ there data)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...DEsImNvbS5rZXJhbWlkYXMuVGl0YW5pdW1CYWNrdXAiXQ..
if that helped u plzz hit thanks
Yes, same advice.. Titanium is the best:thumbup:
Sent from my Nexus S using xda app-developers app
plsss helppppppppp
dearrr plssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss helppp me out , i had viber installed on sd card, i removed card , and sim card .. and factory reseted the phone twise , and removed the accounts also,,nowww please telll will old viber still work on that phone?? as i had sold the set[[/I]