Hey guys im thinking about switching over to this Rom but I need to know if this Rom has any VZM apps like backup manager,ect thanks for the help
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It does have backup assistant. It is debloated though.
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Just use TitaniumBackup to remove any apps you don't like.
Yea I just like to use it for my contacts tb for some reason don't like to save all my contact info like the phone numbers
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Your google account will back up contacts for you, numbers emails even pics
I also tried that but for some reason my phone dont sync also tried htc sync and it syncs but options like contacts are locked hence the topic Noon lol
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Sorry for the double post but just tried to use Google sync again and it just skips right past it when I push sync all when I click on contacts it has the sync symbol show up for a quick second then view away without saving anything. I am under accounts and sync BTW unless their is a different way
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make sure your contacts are google contacts thats the only way they will sync
Ok thanks for the help ill Google search on how to make my contacts Google contacts
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bwolf417 said:
Sorry for the double post but just tried to use Google sync again and it just skips right past it when I push sync all when I click on contacts it has the sync symbol show up for a quick second then view away without saving anything. I am under accounts and sync BTW unless their is a different way
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Call me an idiot...but I thought Google sync was obsolete with android, considering most of the devices are powered by Google! ....am I wrong....be nice !!
I will reiterate - Titanium Backup works great for restoring, in my case programs with data like Timeriffic.
studiorat said:
Call me an idiot...but I thought Google sync was obsolete with android, considering most of the devices are powered by Google! ....am I wrong....be nice !!
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You are wrong. Google sync is an android feature. It's one of the benefits to logging in with your gmail account when you setup a new ROM.
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I will reiterate - Titanium Backup works great for restoring, in my case programs with data like Timeriffic.
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I've never been able to get Titanium Backup to backup and restore contacts...
You could just export your contacts to your SD card then import them back after you flash a new ROM. While in people, hit menu then export.
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What is the best way to backup contacts now that we can't use the backup /restore option in android 2.3
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What is the best way to backup contacts now that we can't use the backup /restore option in android 2.3
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this had to go to Q&A, but anyways, just install them on sim card and they will sync everytime you reflash the phone or do something else or use titanium backup or any other 3rd party application.
I have all my contacts stored in my gmailaccount and let it sync after I put a new ROM on my phone.
Before I went to the trouble of storing all my contacts in my gmailaccount, I used the backup to .vcf function in Go Contacts app.
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I do same as ldeleeuw, just synch it with your google account
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Awesome guys.
How do I do that?!
And will my calendar be synced as well?
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Yes it will!!
I will recommnend Google sync.. it also helped me many times when I am running out of battery.
Also editing is also powerful in Gmail acct.
Another tool I found was, fjsoft's mobile phone explorer. It will give you many options to customize backup. Google fjsoft and dload. "Mobile Phone Explorer" is free.
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Awesome guys.
How do I do that?!
And will my calendar be synced as well?
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On my PC, I imported a vcf-file into my gmailaccount, which I created with GO Contacts. It's is a single vcf-file with mutiple contacts, so importing it is very easy.
To sync it with your phone, you'll need to setup syncronisation somewhere in settings
What about going into settings and pressing the sync button to sync with my gmail account ?
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sounds like you are already synced, have to checked your contacts page in gmail on a pc?
also you can got Phone book - menu - more - Backup contacts - memory card
I would go for MyBackup as i dont sync often.
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I'm using MyPhoneExplorer and I think it is the best back up way. You can sync,archive,export, import your contacts, messages and calendar.
It can save your contacts with pictures. See this page:
http://www.se-house.net/pc-programs/myphoneexplorer.html
just use old backuprestore.apk.....it is working like charm...see my post..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1196908
Backup & Restore from v2.1 can be installed on v2.3.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1196908
I set up 5 months worth of events and it just wont sync to mmy phone. I've tried manually syncing as well. I also tried 3 third party calendar apps which wont sync either.
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More details might help. What rom are you running, have you done anything special to it, what steps you've taken to try and fix it, is this your first android phone?
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Stock rom, just rooted. Ive tried syncing manually, clearing the calendar data, trying to fix it via google calendar website, tried a few calendar applications. Not sure what to do now.
Its my second phone, Inspire was my first
Does everything else sync?
From your response it sounds like you have looked this up already. So with that in mind maybe it's more of a small detail.
Are the calender events you're saving being saved to your Google calender or your local calender?
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Does everything else sync?
From your response it sounds like you have looked this up already. So with that in mind maybe it's more of a small detail.
Are the calender events you're saving being saved to your Google calender or your local calender?
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Well I dont really sync anything honestly. This is pretty much the first time I've tried to sync with this phone. The event is being saved onto my Google Calender.
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When I go into Settings>Accounts and Sync>My Gmail, it only shows Contacts, Gmail, and Picasa. No calendar here.
Wow. That's a first for me. How did you root your phone?
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I set up 5 months worth of events and it just wont sync to mmy phone. I've tried manually syncing as well. I also tried 3 third party calendar apps which wont sync either.
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So when you access your calendar none of the events show up?
And you have tried opening the menu once you access the calendar going to settings->Calendar Sync-> selecting gmail syncing that way?
I know that with my calendar, contacts, etc. it took a long time before the information updated. I would say about 10-15 minutes and I did not create 5 months events more like major holidays and 250 or so facebook related events.
I would suggest giving it more time or rebooting the phone and trying the whole thing all over again.
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Wow. That's a first for me. How did you root your phone?
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I used Odin and I followed Zedomax's instructions on his YouTube channel, found here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-2Z2dKsuio
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So when you access your calendar none of the events show up?
And you have tried opening the menu once you access the calendar going to settings->Calendar Sync-> selecting gmail syncing that way?
I know that with my calendar, contacts, etc. it took a long time before the information updated. I would say about 10-15 minutes and I did not create 5 months events more like major holidays and 250 or so facebook related events.
I would suggest giving it more time or rebooting the phone and trying the whole thing all over again.
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The events show on my desktop but not on my phone.
Yes, settings>Calendar Sync> my gmail is already checked. Ive given it over 12 hours now lol. Thanks
hopefully this helps (read the 2nd reply):
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=3b49d25b819c0c92&hl=en
that was for the Nexus 1 but maybe it'll work for you. Add a 2nd gmail account and see if that calendar sync option reappears.
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hopefully this helps (read the 2nd reply):
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=3b49d25b819c0c92&hl=en
that was for the Nexus 1 but maybe it'll work for you. Add a 2nd gmail account and see if that calendar sync option reappears.
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Ok I added my 2nd gmail account, I get "Sync Contacts, Sync Gmail" only
If it were my phone I'd flash stock to see if that fixes it. Seems like the software is messed up. I can't think of any reason Calender wouldn't show up under sync.
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If it were my phone I'd flash stock to see if that fixes it. Seems like the software is messed up. I can't think of any reason Calender wouldn't show up under sync.
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Well I didnt flash any ROM, i just rooted so I can get a few rooted apps. Im new to this, but that means im still on the stock ROM right?
Correct, you're still on stock then. I really like entropy512's method, as it flashes stock (can help fix most system problems if you're running a stock rom) and it's rooted.
I'm not promising you wont lose what apps you've installed, but I've had a few times I've done it now and all my apps stayed installed. Pretty quick process all in all.
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Hi. I'm coming from a stock samsung 2.3.3 rom, I'm all ready to root it and give it a new firmware but will I lose my contacts which are integrated with facebook and all? I backed up a copy of it onto the sd card, but I'm not sure if it keeps the integration.
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provided you have synced with your gmail account, you should keep your contacts. you just log in once you boot up after flashing and your contacts will be refreshed
How do I know if I synced it to my gmail account? Does the backup to sd card function keep the integration with facebook?
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you could also move them to sd card and if they,re on sd csrd, u won't lose them and you would, they still would be in your nandroid backup and you could take them from there with appextracktor
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Hi. I'm coming from a stock samsung 2.3.3 rom, I'm all ready to root it and give it a new firmware but will I lose my contacts which are integrated with facebook and all? I backed up a copy of it onto the sd card, but I'm not sure if it keeps the integration.
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Makrilli said:
you could also move them to sd card and if they,re on sd csrd, u won't lose them and you would, they still would be in your nandroid backup and you could take them from there with appextracktor
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Before you do anything BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP. Use titanium to backup your apps. To find out if your gmail is syncing your contacts go to settings - accounts and sync. You should clearly see if your gmail is syncing your contacts. When you flash a new rom it will ask you to enter your gmail. This will then sync all your contacts to your phone. When you get clockworkmod installed backup a full image of your phone so you wont lose anything. Goodluck!
Thanks for the help guys! Okay gonna see if its syncing but I'm more worried about the facebook integration because I don't want to repeat the tedious process of merging my contacts painstakingly again!
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Ohh another question, erm I can see that my google account is under the list of things syncing, is there somewhere I can check the contacts whether they are saved correctly or not? Thanks guys!
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I have two different gmail accounts. One of them (not my main one) syncs contacts fine by the main account doesn't sync them at all. I keep getting an error, and have had the error since I bought the phone. Anyone know whats up?
Also, I can add any team I want to google now except the Lakers. Everytime I add them, they show up in the list of teams, then I close the page, come back to it, and the team is gone. Anyone know why?
Thanks!
Couldn't say I've experienced this. As far as the Google account that won't sync, have you changed the password and forget to update it on ur phone?
As far as Google now, try clearing cache and date. Start from scratch and see if that helps. Sorry I don't have any solution that would just solve ur problems. Best thing till someone comes out with a sure solution is trouble shoot. Let us know what happens!
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Couldn't say I've experienced this. As far as the Google account that won't sync, have you changed the password and forget to update it on ur phone?
As far as Google now, try clearing cache and date. Start from scratch and see if that helps. Sorry I don't have any solution that would just solve ur problems. Best thing till someone comes out with a sure solution is trouble shoot. Let us know what happens!
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The problem isn't a changed password. Everything else syncs. Its just thecontacts. As for google now, thats a great idea. Let me ty that now! Thanks.
curryinaninstant said:
The problem isn't a changed password. Everything else syncs. Its just thecontacts. As for google now, thats a great idea. Let me ty that now! Thanks.
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Also, do u use facebook and sync ur contacts? I've heard that can be causing issues. I recommend first removing facebook, the export ur contacts to external storage, going into it apps and clearing data under contact storage then importing all ur contacts. I highly recommend removing facebook before anything else. If its not facebook but u have other applications that sync contacts, uncheck contact sync and proceed with clearing contact storage, then import contacts and resync. Try that out and let us know
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I'm not using facebook or any other apps that sync contacts.
The google now thing worked perfectly! Thanks.
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I'm not using facebook or any other apps that sync contacts.
The google now thing worked perfectly! Thanks.
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Ok. Then skip those steps about other apps that sync and try the export and clearing data.
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I'm afraid of doing this because I have contacts in my phone that are new that aren't synced yet. Will this get rid of them?
That's why u export ur contacts first
Go into ur contact list and tap menu. Then export, when it asks u where, send it to sd card/external memory. Unsync ur Google accounts from contacts so it doesn't effect it and then clear it. You'll have a back up on ur other Google account and have a vcf file in ur device storage
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i just did that and its still not syncing the contacts. Similarly, its not syncing the internet.
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i just did that and its still not syncing the contacts. Similarly, its not syncing the internet.
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That's weird. The internet does work on ur phone. Correct?
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Hello,
How to FULLY delete (only from Mobile) those 1000s of email contacts which were synced earlier in my S2 (JB 4.1.2 Neatrom) from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc.
I have totally disabled automatic 'Sync' on all accounts added, and I only need to manually sync for new emails only. I can manage to 'display' contacts with a number only, but when I run a 'search' it brings up all email contacts again ffrom the db.
I simply don't want any email contacts but phone contacts in my phone.
Tried couple of tools which helped purge duplicates, but not email contacts itself.
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Hello,
How to FULLY delete (only from Mobile) those 1000s of email contacts which were synced earlier in my S2 (JB 4.1.2 Neatrom) from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc.
I have totally disabled automatic 'Sync' on all accounts added, and I only need to manually sync for new emails only. I can manage to 'display' contacts with a number only, but when I run a 'search' it brings up all email contacts again ffrom the db.
I simply don't want any email contacts but phone contacts in my phone.
Tried couple of tools which helped purge duplicates, but not email contacts itself.
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Is it a option to delete your account and add them again but only select "Sync Email"?
Clear data for your contacts app and the contacts storage from Application Manager.
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AriGold said:
Is it a option to delete your account and add them again but only select "Sync Email"?
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That can help for avoiding future contact sync, but here I am worrying about those contacts which synced in the past
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Clear data for your contacts app and the contacts storage from Application Manager.
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What'll happen if I '' Clear data for your contacts app and the contacts storage from Application Manager'' ? Will it purge my original phone/SIM contacts anyway???
insaf_mohd said:
What'll happen if I '' Clear data for your contacts app and the contacts storage from Application Manager'' ? Will it purge my original phone/SIM contacts anyway???
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Anything that is stored on your phones contact database will go, and Sim contacts which are stored on the sim card you will have to manually clean. Anything and everything else should go.
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king_below_my_lord said:
Anything that is stored on your phones contact database will go, and Sim contacts which are stored on the sim card you will have to manually clean. Anything and everything else should go.
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Dude I am sorry, but I don't think you've got my question properly. I don't want everything and anything to go, only 'e-mail' contacts to be booted out of my Mobile....any feeds?
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Dude I am sorry, but I don't think you've got my question properly. I don't want everything and anything to go, only 'e-mail' contacts to be booted out of my Mobile....any feeds?
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Couldn't you just backup whatever you need using some app and restore back into a cleaned database, I have done it before myself.
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Allright guys, I fixed my problem by myself....lots of thanks to all tried to help
Wondershare Mobilego for PC was the key tool to manage Android contacts from PC, where I had option to pick e-email contacts and purge them!
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Couldn't you just backup whatever you need using some app and restore back into a cleaned database, I have done it before myself.
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Yes I could, but you should really consider this 'whatever I need take a backup and restore only what I need', because excluding 3000+ email contacts from the required 500 contacts in a mixed contacts pool is HARD JOB...I had'nt find any tool to isolate them, all threads recommend 'SELECT' only what u need and export....do you find it easy to select one after one among the junk/needed contacts...NOooooooooo :cyclops:
Anyway I fixed it :good: