Ever since I got my TB, I realized that my Gmail doesn't sync correctly. I put contacts on my device and it does not show up on my contacts list in GMail. on my PC. What do I need to do?
04CiviCon20s said:
Ever since I got my TB, I realized that my Gmail doesn't sync correctly. I put contacts on my device and it does not show up on my contacts list in GMail. on my PC. What do I need to do?
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an annoying feature of sense is that new contacts entered onto the phone dont get saved as gmail contacts but rather contacts saved in the internal memory of the phone. to change that either when u edit or make a new phontact there is an option to set the contact type and u gotta always select gmail. it doesnt default to it which is annoying thing to remember coming from an AOSP phone
ddarvish said:
an annoying feature of sense is that new contacts entered onto the phone dont get saved as gmail contacts but rather contacts saved in the internal memory of the phone. to change that either when u edit or make a new phontact there is an option to set the contact type and u gotta always select gmail. it doesnt default to it which is annoying thing to remember coming from an AOSP phone
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Thanks for the Speedy quick response. I will try that right now. That "Link" icon that always pops up when booting from a wipe, Confuses the hec out of me. I always choose "Dismiss". I checked my contacts the other day and I had doubled what it was supposed to be and had to manually delete all the dups..Never had this issue w/DX..Guess am still learning Droid still..Thanks again..
edit..That worked. i had no idea that was the case. You're right..That's annoying and there's no way to make that "Google" option a default setting. That's just wrong considering goolge runs android..
Thanks ddar, for answering my question so forum moderator may delete this posting please. Thanks
Saved my contacts from my iPhone on a CSV format.
I put this file on the external SD card (how do U know which is the external and which is the internal by the way?)
Went into the Infuse contacts, then "import/export" and I get "could not find Vcard contacts" (or something like that).
Any help?
Thanks so much
benyben123 said:
Saved my contacts from my iPhone on a CSV format.
I put this file on the external SD card (how do U know which is the external and which is the internal by the way?)
Went into the Infuse contacts, then "import/export" and I get "could not find Vcard contacts" (or something like that).
Any help?
Thanks so much
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Import them into gmail and they'll sync right to your phone.
Entropy512 said:
Import them into gmail and they'll sync right to your phone.
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THANK YOU!
Why would anyone want their entire GMAIL contacts synced to their phone? Please, is there no other way?
Thank you
benyben123 said:
THANK YOU!
Why would anyone want their entire GMAIL contacts synced to their phone? Please, is there no other way?
Thank you
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I think you can set up gmail and the phone to only sync a subset of contacts.
Entropy512 said:
I think you can set up gmail and the phone to only sync a subset of contacts.
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You can. Best set up at gmail.com
You can set too sync...not to sync and can set predetermined groups. (in the past user created groups would not sync I have not played with that in several months)
once set up properly the whole google sync thing is pretty slick.
One can also login to multiple gmail accounts on the phone.
I have two currently...the main log in which is personal/phone
And a secondary account which is work
Keep in mind that changing the main phone account requires a hard reset.
Within the phone you can set up which contacts are pulled from gmail like including only contacts with phone numbers etc.
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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).
FrantikChicken said:
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.
I dont know what i'm doing wrong but hoping someone can tell me. Whenever i save a contact I save it as a google contact. I store the number but if i flash a new rom I lose that contact I saved. I tried going into settings>accounts&sync and syncing all the accounts to see if it saved it but when I go on my pc and check my google contacts it doesnt appear. What am I doing wrong? Ive lost many numbers I needed....
Saving contacts
bx10r said:
I dont know what i'm doing wrong but hoping someone can tell me. Whenever i save a contact I save it as a google contact. I store the number but if i flash a new rom I lose that contact I saved. I tried going into settings>accounts&sync and syncing all the accounts to see if it saved it but when I go on my pc and check my google contacts it doesnt appear. What am I doing wrong? Ive lost many numbers I needed....
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I have the same problem and have solved it by backing up my contacts on both my phone and my google account and then restoring them after booting the new ROM. I also use the backup with the contact program and I use GO launcher as my "menu manager". I use the GO Backup tool as a third level of backup. Any other method from anyone else would be useful as it is bit of a messy solution. BUT it does stop me losing contacts. I have also used the Microsoft Outlook tool as yet another backup when I sync. Can't have too many backups when the gremlins are out get your contact list.
Anyone?
I have a Google Voice backup(Titanium and TWRP) with my contacts that are lost from my Google account and I've been trying to recover them with all the associated data(pic/birthday/etc). I've had no luck on my own or asking elsewhere.
https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/mqeb7n
Newbie8000 said:
I have a Google Voice backup(Titanium and TWRP) with my contacts that are lost from my Google account and I've been trying to recover them with all the associated data(pic/birthday/etc). I've had no luck on my own or asking elsewhere.
https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/mqeb7n
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From the reddit thread you have
--> Disable Sync
--> Restore Backup
You can see your contacts here
--> Go to contacts app
--> Select all contacts
--> Click share button
You will get a .vcf file
--> Download .vcf file
--> Go to contacts on web and import the .vcf file.
--> They should be available on Sync again
karandpr said:
From the reddit thread you have
--> Disable Sync
--> Restore Backup
You can see your contacts here
--> Go to contacts app
--> Select all contacts
--> Click share button
You will get a .vcf file
--> Download .vcf file
--> Go to contacts on web and import the .vcf file.
--> They should be available on Sync again
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Contacts are only in Voice not the contacts app
Newbie8000 said:
Contacts are only in Voice not the contacts app
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Thats a bit weird. Contacts sync was an issue in older androids that's why I had .vcf backups
Well, I am not sure what DB google voice uses, but if it's not encrypted, you can view it in DB viewer for SQLite and export the contacts as CSV.
and probably import that into you google contacts.
Still no luck
You should save a couple copies on multiple hdds/flash drives. People forget to back up these small databases... until they're gone
Maybe there's a copy on a old sim card?
blackhawk said:
You should save a couple copies on multiple hdds/flash drives. People forget to back up these small databases... until they're gone
Maybe there's a copy on a old sim card?
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Yeah never thought to back them up. I just really hate that I can see them but have no idea how to get them to anywhere else. Unfortunately they have only ever been in my Google account.
Newbie8000 said:
Yeah never thought to back them up. I just really hate that I can see them but have no idea how to get them to anywhere else. Unfortunately they have only ever been in my Google account.
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I had a similar experience and but had backed them up. For whatever reason chunks of the contacts vanished.
It's important to keep copies that aren't on that device at all. In a blink of an eye a virus or rootkit could destroy them all.
I use multiple hdds that aren't synced at the same time so at least most of my data is safe no matter what happens. Cloud stuff can get wiped or become inaccessible too so I put little faith in it.
Maybe an old phone you have, some is better than none. Backed up on a laptop or by a forgotten app maybe?
Maybe still stored on Google... worth a try? Google backup might take a day or so to restore them and may not even indicate they were saved. May work even if backup has been disabled by enabling it again. Google's a mess.
Offer still stands
Newbie8000 said:
Offer still stands
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You need to search your brain if the Google backup is gone.
Maybe you backed them up long ago on another hdd or flash drive.
Samsung cloud?
A carrier based app?
Think and search. An old laptop or PC hdd?
You can't retrieve what isn't there though...
blackhawk said:
You need to search your brain if the Google backup is gone.
Maybe you backed them up long ago on another hdd or flash drive.
Samsung cloud?
A carrier based app?
Think and search. An old laptop or PC hdd?
You can't retrieve what isn't there though...
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I've looked and no luck unfortunately.
I can see them in the GV app and at this point it isn't a huge deal to retype them from scratch, but at least some of the photos are irreplaceable.
Newbie8000 said:
I've looked and no luck unfortunately.
I can see them in the GV app and at this point it isn't a huge deal to retype them from scratch, but at least some of the photos are irreplaceable.
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Not familiar with the GV apk. You can see them but not retrieve them? WTF?
blackhawk said:
Not familiar with the GV apk. You can see them but not retrieve them? WTF?
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Exactly, they are cached somehow/where but no way to export them.
Newbie8000 said:
Exactly, they are cached somehow/where but no way to export them.
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You're rooted? So you should have full access, right?
Try MIXexplorer to search for them.
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blackhawk said:
You're rooted? So you should have full access, right?
Try MIXexplorer to search for them.
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From what I can tell they are buried in some sort of database.
Newbie8000 said:
From what I can tell they are buried in some sort of database.
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You will find it then
Maybe in a backup file.
blackhawk said:
You will find it then
Maybe in a backup file.
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Don't know which or how to browse the database :\
Newbie8000 said:
Don't know which or how to browse the database :\
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Learn by doing... by file type, size or location.
Play with it until you figure it out.
blackhawk said:
Learn by doing... by file type, size or location.
Play with it until you figure it out.
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I've been fruitless for months. Doesn't help that I have no clue what I'm actually doing haha
Newbie8000 said:
I've been fruitless for months. Doesn't help that I have no clue what I'm actually doing haha
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Well it's there... you need to find out where.
Assuming it's accessible on an unrooted phone.
I've never gotten into that mess. Hopefully someone here has and can give you better advice.