Hi. My contacts are all from gmail contacts, usually linked with Facebook and Twitter accounts. How do I backup these linkage so that I don't need to go link them again after a flash?
if they are gmail link connects, you should have to do any think as the links are not on your phone, but if you have them saved on the phone or sim card, you have to linkl them again as back up software does not always work across different levels of firmware.
use titanium backup before flashing and backup -> [CONTACTS/CALLS] Contacts storage.
its under backup system data..
restore back after flashing
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what software u guys using to backup all the pics, videos, sms'es, contacts, apps etc?
i heard all data is lost after updating to 2.1
Nocturnal310 said:
what software u guys using to backup all the pics, videos, sms'es, contacts, apps etc?
i heard all data is lost after updating to 2.1
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All data on the phone is, SD card is fine, so pics and videos should be fine.
I've used Titanium for the apps, which in most cases also restores the settings too.
I use google sync, so Contacts are synced as soon as I add my google account to the phone (not sure how the other sync methods work for contact)
Finally, for SMSs I used the SE backup and restore app, and just chose SMS. there is an option for apps on there too, but I haven't used it.
Then, once 2.1 is installed, root, install busybox then use titanium to restore apps (don't restore system settings, as that caused me an issue with WiFi, app setting are fine though), then you will have all of your apps back, then open SE's backup and restore and choose to restore the backup you made earlier for texts
Contacts were auto for me, and photos and other SD contents will need no restoring at all, just view!
Copy and paste for my media files and SD card, and I used gmail and MyPhoneExplorer for my contacts. Titanium should do your apps and settings for them, but being a whole OS I just started from scratch with them.
I just flashed Bionix V over Nero v5. Per instruction from teamwhiskey/sombionix, I only restored third party applications and not system apps. I just realized some of my contacts are missing along with all of the mms, sms and call logs. How can I restore just the missing contacts. Plus How can I restore my mms/sms and call logs. Before flashing, I had backed up 'all user apps + all system data' so I know everything is backed up in titanium backup. What files am I looking for to restore these?
Thanks.
You have to restore system apps to get the mms / sms back. As for the contacts, do you not have them setup on your gmail account or are they on your sim? Putting them in gmail would be the best thing from now on.
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Read through here. You will probably find what your looking for.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849840
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You should be able to restore all of your contacts by clicking to restore "[CONTACTS/CALLS] Contacts Storage" in Titanium Backup. It's one of the green items on your list. After they've been restored, reboot your phone.
That said, I tried doing the same thing and a bunch of my phone-saved numbers were still not restored. It's possible that I re-backed up a bunch of apps and data (including contacts info) on TB before the system had a chance to fully restore everything, therefore deleting a bunch of my contacts when I reflashed Bionix V to fix another mistake I made (what can I say, it was my first time rooting my phone and flashing a ROM), so it was all probably my own fault. Fortunately, I had almost all of my contact information on my old G1 still, so I just saved all of that to Gmail and it automatically synced w/ the Contacts on my Vibrant.
Otherwise, I would have had to use Odin or Heimdall to bring my phone back to stock so that I could restore the nandroid backup from when my phone still had the info. Or, I could have tried to simply flash a JI6 kernel, but with that came the risk of a Android 2.1 kernel severely clashing with a 2.2 system. In your case, it seems like you should be able to reflash Nero v5, restore a nandroid backup from that system, and save all of your contacts the proper way.
After learning the hard way, I will concur with others who suggest saving all of your contacts to Gmail in the future. Or, you can back up your contacts in your phone by choosing to "export" them to your external sd card in the Contacts menu.
I believe that you can retrieve contact info saved to your SIM card by choosing to "import" them in the Contacts menu, as well.
Best of luck!
Is there anyway to backup contacts as the way it is since I merged all my contacts with facebook. By backing up using Mybackup pro it will only restore as separate contact and I have to manually merge it with facebook again, and usually took around ~30mins for it. Is there anywhere to backup everything as it is?
Yes, use SE Backup from the Phonebook....Import export.....
Tried but it still the same. It only restore some with same name as facebook, doesnt restore most of it.
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Yes, use SE Backup from the Phonebook....Import export.....
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It should do the job.may be after you restore contacts,do some setting more in contacts view mode.
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Sync them with Gmail
I already sync with gmail, but still have to manually join if I were to reinstall ROM.
how bout the export/import on the android phonebook?
Hi,
I have a question which might seem too stupid or trivial.
I am currently running CM 7.1.0 ROM on my Legend. I would like to flash ogo2's Gingerbread ROM while restoring all apps and messages/contacts.
Can somebody help me with the procedure of backing up apps and messages, then flashing the new ROM, then restoring all apps/messages
I have no idea for messages since it doesn't care for me.
If you are not going to format/clean your SD card Titanium backup can be helpful for saving applications with data.
The only app you will need to install is Titanium and it restore applications+appsdata for you after flashing.
Make a backup/restore test drive before proceed with flashing.
For keeping your messages there's some apps in market that might help you, haven't tried them though.
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Hi,
I have a question which might seem too stupid or trivial.
I am currently running CM 7.1.0 ROM on my Legend. I would like to flash ogo2's Gingerbread ROM while restoring all apps and messages/contacts.
Can somebody help me with the procedure of backing up apps and messages, then flashing the new ROM, then restoring all apps/messages
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Hi, when i did my root and flashed brand new rom, I used 3 things, I used visionary+ temp root then used Titanium Back for all my apps, I used Go SMS Pro to backup all my sms/mms, and for contacts, I used the built in export contacts to .vcf file the good thing about this is if your contacts are stored on phone (not sim) and you have more than one contact for each name + contact pictures associated they fully restore (so long as you leave the pictures alone on SDcard. If you use only sim for contacts, I have found that you can have problems, only storing the default cantact number, no picture association after backup and restore (lost a whole heap of contacts that way).
How ever, since gaining a lot more knowledge, apparantly you can actually use Titanium to backup your contacts and sms/mms as well as your apps using the "backup system data" from the batch mode, although I haven't tried this yet, I cannot confirm that it works.
for contacts you can export them to sd card, as for the sms and other apps use Titanium Backup
Hello,
I have backed up my messages and contact and all with Kies + Titanium Backup is there any way how to restore only contacts and messages grom these programs? It seems Kies now not responding on my new ROM (before official one) - still connecting device but never connets. Using this mod http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1436817
Can I ask why you didn't backup messages with "SMS Backup & Restore" from the play store? Can I ask why you didn't backup your contacts on to a Gmail or Windows Live account? . Flash back to stock, move contacts and messages back on to your phone, backup with suggested applications then move on to Wanam Lite