ok, being new to this I should expect hiccups in the process, but when I upgraded to Bionix Frost over the weekend from stock, I LOST ALL MY CONTACTS! I did everything that the guides said I should (backups with Titanium backup, etc) and apparently did not properly back up my contacts. If I did, I have no way of figuring out where the back up is, or how to recover them. Any ideas where back ups get put?
Also if I switch to another rom, what is the proper way to back up contacts so this never happens again, lol.
Sounds like you saved your contacts to your device, when adding contacts in the future save them as Google contacts/Gmail contacts, that way they are always at gmail.com under contacts and go from device to device. Yours are more than likely gone for good
I usually make sure that when contacts are created that they are saved to my google account and that usually works for me without any hiccups.
also, in the contacts app, if you hit the menu button and select import/export, there is an option to back up to the sd card.
Try put you contact on gmail or SIM card.
jackhuny said:
Try put you contact on gmail or SIM card.
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save you contacts on sim card
1.go in to contacts
2.press menu
3.navigate to import export
4.press export to simcard (will save on your simcard)
5.press SD (will save it to SD so u can copy over on to computer)
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Is there a way to back-up, move and or copy your lists of contacts onto the SD card? Had all of my contacts entered then I rooted and had to re-enter them all back in. I would love to just move files then inputing them over and over.
They should be backed up with google. Try settings>accounts & sync>your gmail>sync contacts
Or something. Haha
Irish Whiskey said:
Is there a way to back-up, move and or copy your lists of contacts onto the SD card? Had all of my contacts entered then I rooted and had to re-enter them all back in. I would love to just move files then inputing them over and over.
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You can back them up.
Dialer > People > Import/Export > Export to SD card
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You can back them up.
Dialer > People > Import/Export > Export to SD card
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Thanks alot.
Make sure if you don't want to backup your google contacts to uncheck the backup to google account. Otherwise you will have duplicates.
The last reply is the best method. It is always better to have it synced through gmail or another email server. Does anyone know how to force 'phone' contacts over to say gmail or exchange server without doing an export?
awesome info here - learning more everyday
Without backup assistant from Verizon, why can I not restore my contacts? It's making switching roms really a hassle.
Are you positive that your contacts are in gmail? Do they show up when you go to gmail from a computer? They may be saved on the phone directly and wiping the phone wipes them too. But you are right. Assuming that your contacts are in gmail, they should auto-backup and restore. Just make sure you are signed into your gmail account and sync is set-up.
Yeah, sync is on. This is really my issue I run into anymore.I've even tried to find an app just to make contact backups. Ugh...
When you make your contacts you have to select them as Google contacts, otherwise they're just stored locally on the phone. Go to gmail on your computer and look at your contacts. If they're there, they should be on your phone. If not, you may have lost them.
I saw a post earlier that described the best way to get this to work. Basically the phone saves the numbers locally by default, and does not back them up to google (which is stupid). The way I read to fix it is as follows:
1. Backup all you contacts to your sd card.
2. Delete all your contacts.
3. Restore all backups from sd card and set them as google contacts.
4. In the future always check that you are saving them as google contacts instead of phone only.
This wasn't my idea, but it worked for me.
You can always back up your phone contacts and then email the file to yourself. Then, on a desktop computer, go to gmail.com and under contacts you can import your contacts file. Then the next time your phone syncs with google they will show up.
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When saving new contacts it ask if I want it save to phone, sim card or Microsoft Exchange. I want the contacts saved to my SD card so which one do I check?
Choose phone then it will save on your phone... The next time you make a contact backup, it will backup your contacts save on your phone to the sd card... I'm haven't seen an option tosave each contact to sd... I might be wrong on that...
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Save to phone.
A nice option is to sync your contacts to your Google Mail account and then you always have them, and they are backed up. It is a great solution.
Hey XDA!
I have a rooted Samung Infuse with AT&T and am currently running ZEUS with few problems. I love this ROM but I am going to switch up and flash a newer ROM within the next few days. However, (back in January) before I got ZEUS, I went from the Stock ROM to MIUI and I used Titanium Backup to transfer all of my data. When I backed up contacts in the Stock ROM through Titanium and tried to restore them once I had MIUI, I kept getting force close messages that made the phone unusable because they were so frequent. I isolated the problem to be related with contacts and just deleted my saved contacts. The problem went away, but I ended up switching to ZEUS later, now with no contacts.
Anyway, I don't know if that was a random occurrence that happened only to me in my flashing process, but to avoid anything like that again, I'd like to be able to backup my contacts to Google. I've seen it mentioned several times here and on Google's site, but never did I find a how to or any sort of procedure. Can someone explain to me (as comprehensively as possible) how to backup my contacts to Google?
Any guidance or redirection would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot!
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Actually, you only need to activate the sync option on Settings >Sync (or account settings, I dunno). All your contacts will be uploaded to your GMail account, and downloaded to your phone the next time
You can also make a manual backup, doing this:
Go to Phone >Contacts >press Menu key >Import/export >export contacts to SD. So, when you need your contacts, follow the same procedure, choosing now Import contacts from SD.
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Actually, you only need to activate the sync option on Settings >Sync (or account settings, I dunno). All your contacts will be uploaded to your GMail account, and downloaded to your phone the next time
You can also make a manual backup, doing this:
Go to Phone >Contacts >press Menu key >Import/export >export contacts to SD. So, when you need your contacts, follow the same procedure, choosing now Import contacts from SD.
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Thanks a lot! I tried every manner of playing with the settings possible. I had the account sync multiple times, but none of the contacts actually stored when I checked on a computer. I'm just gonna settle with the backups from Titanium, my SD card, and my Sim. No worries!
Ok - this will sound like an incredibly newbie question. I have a bunch of contacts created on my phone (ie: when I created a new contact, I chose to save it in Phone). I was expecting this to sync automatically with gmail contacts, but that doesn't seem to be the case. There don't seem to be listed anywhere in my google account.
Is there any way to easily sync these contacts? I am running Gingerbread 2.3.3 and am very surprised at this.
Thanks,
Eric
ebenze said:
Ok - this will sound like an incredibly newbie question. I have a bunch of contacts created on my phone (ie: when I created a new contact, I chose to save it in Phone). I was expecting this to sync automatically with gmail contacts, but that doesn't seem to be the case. There don't seem to be listed anywhere in my google account.
Is there any way to easily sync these contacts? I am running Gingerbread 2.3.3 and am very surprised at this.
Thanks,
Eric
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Open contacts and export your contacts to your SD card. Go to settings, accounts and sync, uncheck background data transfer. Go back to settings, apps, all, contact storage and choose delete data. Turn background data transfer back on. Import your contacts from your sd card and make sure to choose google.
I had to do this on a family members phone the other day.
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Open contacts and export your contacts to your SD card. Go to settings, accounts and sync, uncheck background data transfer. Go back to settings, apps, all, contact storage and choose delete data. Turn background data transfer back on. Import your contacts from your sd card and make sure to choose google.
I had to do this on a family members phone the other day.
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Thanks for the tip. Very helpful. Although, I think you mean to export your contacts to your SIM card - I don't have an option to export to SD Card.
The other way I found was to use Kies. I've pretty much avoided it, but it did a great job syncing everything to my gmail contact list. Once there, I was able to disable sync, wipe the contacts clean on my phone and renable sync. Now everything is listed as a google account and sync'ed to the cloud.
Tx,
Eric
I think it just automatically creates a file on your sd card when you hit export. I also had to do some digging online a while ago to find this out, seems like a pretty big oversight on Google's part, but once everything is synced up, it's like butter.
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