I put the Sprint Protection App on my phone, and in the process of trying to get rid of some contacts that were duplicates between Google and the phone, I managed to delete the "my profile" card. It lets me back into the edit screen, but doesn't actually enter or save any information. Does anyone know how I can restore this, either with an app or some other way? I tried restoring with the Protection app, but it didn't work... it just created a new card with my name, it didn't restore the "my profile" card.
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Something happened (probably some kind of sync) and now I've got for almost every contact (this is the strangest part) all phone numbers duplicate. For some contacts, they (the numbers) have more than duplicated.
Is there a way to clean this mess?
i have this same problem
even if i try to delete ALL my contacts to start again it says it deleted them... but they are still there!.... then if u try to delete again u cant cos it thinks they are gone... but they are not.
The same thing happened to me.
Assuming you made a backup I think you should once again delete all your contacts, then go to phone, contacts, menu, import contacts, SD card.
They should be restored.
The duplicates happen when you restore/import your contacts more than once from both the memory card and your Google account.
Do you know if Titanium backs up contacts as well?
for me the problem is now that i cant delete all the contacts... i did delete them... but they are still there.... when i go to delete again it says "no contacts" but they are there..... arrrrrghhhh!!
anyone know where phonebook keeps its contact list? so i can go in and manually erase them all?
infact i can see now that my "phone contacts" are deleted but the "twitter" and "facebook" contacts are still in the phonebook... how can i remove them?
thanks
edit: i figured it out.... u need to go into phonebook > settings > timescape settings & account sync settings and the DELETE ur facebook / twitter accounts
Well... decided to delete them all and restore.
Also, I have disabled the auto sync.
Guess no more problems from now on...
telmoabff said:
Do you know if Titanium backs up contacts as well?
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If you backed them up using Titanium then it should be able to restore them.
is there anyway to MANUALLY asign a facebook / twitter profile to some of my contacts?????
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telmoabff said:
Something happened (probably some kind of sync) and now I've got for almost every contact (this is the strangest part) all phone numbers duplicate. For some contacts, they (the numbers) have more than duplicated.
Is there a way to clean this mess?
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The problem is you can not do Restore and then enable sync. I deleted all contacts then just enabled sync (g-mail), no problems since then.
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)
Something happened to my contact database a few days ago and now whenever I access any contacts, look at texts, etc. my phone is very slow to either start the SMS program (the force close/wait dialog continually comes up) or the contact takes a while for the data to appear. If I look in SystemPanel, the contact app is also using between 20-50% of CPU. This makes me think that the contact database has somehow become corrupted.
Is there a way to erase all the contacts out of the database and resync them all from my various accounts? If so, how and will it also erase call history, etc? If it does is there a way to not lose this information?
I used "Contact Remover", from the market.
Does that just delete the contact from the phone or does it also delete it from the server?
The description in the Market isn't very clear...
mjsztainbok said:
Does that just delete the contact from the phone or does it also delete it from the server?
The description in the Market isn't very clear...
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here is a easy way no need to install an app...
Setting>>application>>Manage applications>>on tabs you will see downloaded, running, All, Media area, select "All" then find "Contacts Storage" go into that and click "clear data"...this should delete all the contacts from your phone...and yest it will erase call history...
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I need to restore my phone contacts and i'm looking for a program with which to read all phone memory - especially the "free memory".
Phone operating system has been installed in service, but have not saved contacts before, so I need your help.
Thanks
marian_dumitra said:
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I need to restore my phone contacts and i'm looking for a program with which to read all phone memory - especially the "free memory".
Phone operating system has been installed in service, but have not saved contacts before, so I need your help.
Thanks
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It's hard for me to understand what you mean but let me guess, you have changed devices and you want to restore your contacts from your previous device to this device.
Method One - Google (If your previous phone is a smartphone with android)
Log into your Google account on your old device. Go to Settings, look for the "Accounts" section. Select Google. Once in the new window. Select your account (usually displayed as an email).
Open it, and and touch "Contacts" wait for it to sync. Once done. Log into your Google account from the DX and do to settings look for accounts. Open Google. Open your account. And select "contacts" it should sync every contact from the old device to your new one.
Method two - sim card.
Simply go into contacts in your old phone (make sure your sim is in there) mark all contacts and save it to sim.
Take sim out and insert in DX, go to contacts, and import the contacts from sim.
To see all your free memory. Go to settings>storage.
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I was not very explicit, so i'm back with clarifications:
- my phone, a HTC Desire X, had problems with screen and I went to the service;
- before that, I sync contacts with gmail account, but I didn't copied more than 500 contacts from 2000 and I saw this only after I took the phone from the service;
- the service has changed the screen and reinstalled the operating system Android 4.1.1, so I can not see contacts;
- I restored the phone book - only 500 contacts from gmail and for the rest I need a program to read the memory of the phone which now appears to be free;
- I tried with wondershare dr. fone for android but it didn't work. I think I need a program wich "read the memory", not "restore the memory".
Thanks again
Marian
marian_dumitra said:
I was not very explicit, so i'm back with clarifications:
- my phone, a HTC Desire X, had problems with screen and I went to the service;
- before that, I sync contacts with gmail account, but I didn't copied more than 500 contacts from 2000 and I saw this only after I took the phone from the service;
- the service has changed the screen and reinstalled the operating system Android 4.1.1, so I can not see contacts;
- I restored the phone book - only 500 contacts from gmail and for the rest I need a program to read the memory of the phone which now appears to be free;
- I tried with wondershare dr. fone for android but it didn't work. I think I need a program wich "read the memory", not "restore the memory".
Thanks again
Marian
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The memory doesn't "seem" free, it IS free. Your contacts are not stored in any special place, they are stored along with your other settings on your android data partion, the one they would've wiped. Due to the nature of the ext4 filesystem it's not even worth it to try and recover them (I've had experience with this before , just a bunch of hashes). It's vital to always check the validity of backups before going through anything that may destroy the original data. Sorry.
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Thanks for the advice. I will listen them in the future, but now we have to put right what was wrong.
I need a program to read phone memory byte by byte. I interpret the information myself if I have something to interpret!
Thanks
Try using dd to backup the partition of phone memory, use cat /proc/emmc first to determine it.
This kind of got lost in the midst of bigger stuff in the other thread so I figured I'd try one specifically for it, since it's my main issue.
My contacts were saved to my device (or SIM maybe?), not my google account. I know, bad idea, but it was unintentional and it's done. Due to another issue I had to remove and re-add my google account to my phone. When I did this, all of my contacts disappeared. Nothing shows up in my contacts app and when I get a call from someone that I had as a contact I only see their number, not their name/contact info.
I don't know what the relation is between my contacts that were stored on my device and my google account being temporarily removed from my phone, but I don't think those contacts are actually deleted. If I go into the app manager I see something there called "contacts storage" that is 9.2mb in size. I'm guessing this still has the contact's info? Is there any way to retrieve this and/or get them to show up again?
You can change which storage you want to use for contacts. While in contacts hit the menu button.. From there it's relatively easy..
When you get your contacts to didplay it's worth merging with google and filter the storage to google only.
shivadow said:
You can change which storage you want to use for contacts. While in contacts hit the menu button.. From there it's relatively easy..
When you get your contacts to didplay it's worth merging with google and filter the storage to google only.
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None of these work for me. If I change the contacts to display to "device" it shows only the built-in AT&T contacts (view your bill, etc). If I choose SIM card it displays nothing.
Same deal with import. Shows nothing found.
If you have an American model of the s3 then you are in the wrong forum, this is for the i9300 only.
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