Hi all,
Does anyone else get dashes int the phone numbers when you backup the contacts to the SD card?
If you restore or look in the lastest *.vcf file in /sdcard/system/PIM, the contacts look like this for me:
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:Bob Jones;;;;
FN:Bob Jones
TEL;CELL:012-345-67890
END:VCARD
Using Generic UK 2.1 (also got this with Generic NCB), anybody have any thoughts on how to change it?
Got the same problem. There seems to be a parser in the contact database which assumes that all phone numbers must somehow comply with US AT&T format. Hence even if your number is +44 121 555 3111 it can be be parsed and restored as +44 1-215-553-111.
Strange, very strange. Will dig more Thanks for confirming
SaintyUK said:
Strange, very strange. Will dig more Thanks for confirming
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I confirm that this happens to me too and it is SOOO annoying!
What I've came up with as a "workaround" is to backup my contacts via Titanium Backup. It stores them on the SD too, so you won't have to worry more about losing them, and the app is free on the Market. Only downside is, it needs root to work. But rooting is easy nowadays!
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how...or am i really having a bad blonde moment????
as i need to sent my hero back and i have all contact on the phone and not my new sim card
i have been pressing everything and no joy.....doh!
Never found a way.....I gave up and switched all the contacts to Google. Less hasle in the end.
Contacts to Sim
Hi,
You can only copy a single contact to the Sim at a time...
Open people
Select Contact
Press Menu
Press more
Copy to Sim is available there
There is no way to copy all your contacts to the sim in one go except by using an application from the android market called Contact2Sim (Search Contact To Sim)
thanks for the help......
i have just sat in the van for 30 mins and did figure it out myself....
but im sure many other people will have the same question...so i hope this will help some else
liamhere said:
how...or am i really having a bad blonde moment????
as i need to sent my hero back and i have all contact on the phone and not my new sim card
i have been pressing everything and no joy.....doh!
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You can actually save the contacts back to the SIM... one by one. It is tedious. It takes time. And it is BORING!!!
I mean, we can import all the contacts from the SIM to either the phone or to Google in one go but not the other way around. What if I change SIM card and absolutly want my contacts on the new card too?
Hmm... Contact2SIM? will check it out.
Edit: I have tried Contact To Sim now and it works... almost. It really writes the contacts to the sim but it does some very weird stuff though... it doesn't tell the default People/Phone application that the contents on the SIM have changed so they don't show the changed data untill you reboot the phone...
It seems that the contents on the SIM only get read on the startup sequence of the phone, any changes after that to the SIM will have to be made from People to refelct the changes. If some other application changes the information it won't be updated in People or the Phone apps.
I don't like using the public clouds, simply due to privacy issues.
I am however on the road most of the time.
I have a number of hosted domains.. and the server(s) they are hosted on... (relics from a past venture).
Is it possible to Backup my SG SIII online?
I want to back up regularly, Until last week I stored all photos and extra content onto my 32gb sdcard, I've meant to set up titanium backup to use the card, but filled my card up and it never happened... anyway.. the sdcard died never to return! was only luck that had me backup my camera photos earlier..
So I would like to backup online, securly to my own domain.
Is there anything that would do that?
Thank you
edit: found FTPSyncX lite/pro which seems ok, anything else? anyone had experiance with this (gunna do a search next)
ok, I've looked, but no simple solution found just yet.
Looks like, to backup my phone (text, phonebook, calendar) I'll have to use titanium backup and then upload the file...
this doesn't necessarily have to be a manual, I think it is possible to add auto schedules to both tasks, but still looking for an all in one solution.
any idea?
Titanium provides a back up (titanium media sync).
So, because Im completely OCD, I was cleaning out my Android folders to try and organize things and I deleted the external_SD folder.
As you guys probably know, now the files on my SD card are unreadable.
Its a quick fix, first smack yourself in the face for being a noob, then jes copy everything on the card to my computer, reformat the card, and copy everything back..
however,
I use this app called Audio Manager where it hides specific files like text messages, videos, pictures, etc.
I've looked everywhere for those files on the card but can't find them.
Is there anyway I can recover those files? They should be on the card considering everything else still is, I just can't find them.
Anyone every have a similar problem and resolved it? Help would be greatly appreciated
Sorry, Audio Manager is the disguise for the app, the actual app is called Hide It Pro
Is the Audio Manager App still installed in your phone? In that case you can check inside the vault that the hidden files are there.. If that doesnt help you.. Send a mail to the developer of the app.. His email id is as follows.. [email protected]
amith007 said:
Is the Audio Manager App still installed in your phone? In that case you can check inside the vault that the hidden files are there.. If that doesnt help you.. Send a mail to the developer of the app.. His email id is as follows.. [email protected]
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Yes, all my apps are installed in internal memory, and I'm pretty sure (and hoping) that only my external SD card was affected by my foolishness.
When I go into the vault, it lists nothing, same as Apollo (music player) and MX Videos because all my media was on my 64GB external card. There's an option to s"can for media" in Hide It Pro, so I did that. Baddddd move, now nothing is listed on my external card.
Googling led me to a program called PhotoRec, and it lists my card as having 59 GB free out of 64 GB. I ran it, and it found nothing.
I'm pretty much resigned to having possibly lost all my dumb drunk party videos oh well, guess St. Patrick's day is the best time to make more
More seriously tho, I lost a few recordings I did of organic chemistry lectures which really sucks if I cant get those back.
Hello there, I bought my grandmother a galaxy s 3 yesterday. When I inserted the SIM card into it I found that some contacts were missing so, i took out the SIM card and the contacts were still in the phone although that I didn't import them. So I deleted them from the SIM card (since my grandmother SIM card is old and can't accommodate more than 130 contacts) and insert it into the old phone (nokia 7230) again to copy the remaining contacts. But when I inserted the SIM card back into the galaxy the contacts I moved them in the first place were gone!! Please help me..
reem6006 said:
Hello there, I bought my grandmother a galaxy s 3 yesterday. When I inserted the SIM card into it I found that some contacts were missing so, i took out the SIM card and the contacts were still in the phone although that I didn't import them. So I deleted them from the SIM card (since my grandmother SIM card is old and can't accommodate more than 130 contacts) and insert it into the old phone (nokia 7230) again to copy the remaining contacts. But when I inserted the SIM card back into the galaxy the contacts I moved them in the first place were gone!! Please help me..
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do you still have the contacts stored on the Nokia? If so copy again, if not, you will have a challenge in recovering them. You could try some tool to restore the data on the S3 though.
Usually a good practice is to sync all contacts with your Google Account, that way you always have a backup!
Try RECUVA
jje
JJEgan said:
Try RECUVA
jje
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that's the tool's name that I could not remember thanks @JJEgan
The other one from Play might be Delete pro or something like .
jje
Back up your contact with GMAIL @ Google Account. You will restore them automatically whenever you did a factory reset or switch phone without hastle.
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do you still have the contacts stored on the Nokia? If so copy again, if not, you will have a challenge in recovering them. You could try some tool to restore the data on the S3 though.
Usually a good practice is to sync all contacts with your Google Account, that way you always have a backup!
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unfortunately not, and that's the problem. I did search for some recovery applications but i didn't know how to make them recognize the phone memory ( i'm a mac user).
thank you for the help.
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Try RECUVA
jje
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this is for windows. im i mac user. i might try the other one in the play store when my grandmother comes back. she traveled to another city today but i have the nokia. is it possible to recover the data from the nokia?
thanks a lot.
YRAJ23 said:
Back up your contact with GMAIL @ Google Account. You will restore them automatically whenever you did a factory reset or switch phone without hastle.
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i always do that i just forgot to sync since the phone was just unboxed. I'v learnt the lesson of course.
thanks for the advice.
HI Guys- first post here. Hope you can help
Rooted my phone HTC desire HD last night and now trying to restore my sms- I used android app SMSbackup (I took a note of the name of the app before rooting). It turned out to be that there are 10's of SMS backup apps with this name. I could not remembr which one I used to back up my folders through to the SD card!! I don't recall a visual image of the logo.
I have the back up folders as I can see them on the SD card but so far all back up app I downloaded from PLAY could not recognise the sms files. I suspect that this is due to the fact they have been backed up in an db. format and not xml???
Can any one please advise how to go round this issue (e.g. is there db. converter to xml? is there a known sms back up app which reads db.? etc)
thanks in advance