How to Backup Contact Photos? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Sorry if this is a common questions, when I use the search there are too many similar, but different, threads.
Is there any way I can backup my contacts so that I can save all the high res photos? because I just reapplied everyone's contact picture and so they are nice and pretty. However, when I wipe my phone and re-sync contacts with google, all of their photos are going to go back to being horribly pixelated. Can I use titanium backup or something?
and as an added bonus, is there any way i can backup everyone's custom ringtone?

7heBoss said:
Sorry if this is a common questions, when I use the search there are too many similar, but different, threads.
Is there any way I can backup my contacts so that I can save all the high res photos? because I just reapplied everyone's contact picture and so they are nice and pretty. However, when I wipe my phone and re-sync contacts with google, all of their photos are going to go back to being horribly pixelated. Can I use titanium backup or something?
and as an added bonus, is there any way i can backup everyone's custom ringtone?
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+1! and another +1 for custom ringtone settings

Did you ever find how to do this? I am looking to do the same.
Thanks.

Use Titanium Backup to backup/restore Contacts and Contact Storage.
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Try mybackup app
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just dl backup app frm google play. ^^

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How do you back up Contacts?

Im rather confused by how to go about backing up my contacts. Ever since google started backing up contacts, I haven’t quite understood which contacts (sim, phone or both???) it backs up. Is there any good application which backs up all of your contacts, that is , those saved in your sim, phone and google account, altogether.
I flashed bionix V 1.3.1 last night and used ‘MyBackup Root’ & ‘Titanium backup’
to restore my contacts. First I restored user applications with data and all of my contacts were back. Then I used ‘My Backup Root’ to restore contacts. (I don’t know why I took this step). It started erasing all of my contacts before restoring. When it got done, I realized I was missing my contacts saved in sim card.
This is all sooo confusing that I don’t know how to get my sim contacts back.
why did u use the other software once u had used titanium backup?
kies does it aswell ??
naifs_br10 said:
why did u use the other software once u had used titanium backup?
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shouldnt have done that but i still did
market. backup everthing. and contacts to sd.
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sorry didn't read entire post. I felt the same way u did. But.I found a nice link that helped me out the whole google backup contact deal. When I get home I will send ya the link
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Hi, I used My Backup to backup my contact before & restore it after I change to other ROM.
However, it seems the My Backup will erase all your contacts in your SIM card as well after you restore. The WORST part is it restored the contact & store as Google contact. You can't export the contact to SIM card anymore then.
Luckily I have backup in my old phone & imported back into the SIM card & reload it again.
My advise, try Go Contacts app. This app do the tricks where export your phone contact into SD Card & imported back flawlessly.
Why not just have all your contacts inside of Google? And each time you addd a contact, make sure it's being added to your google account. I've been on Android since the G1... never 'backed up' a contact.. Just logged in to my google account on the phone and had them there.
or you can simply read the noob guide in this forum and follow the steps that are proven to be used by alot of people....
I stoted all contacts in Google account, everytime upgrading to new rom, synchronize contact again, all of them will be availabe in your mobile. It's my simple solution.
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I dont know of a way to get your contacts saved to your google account AFTER you have already chosen to save them to phone or SIM. I'm pretty sure you only get that option once. I would think you'd have to go thru each individual contact(omg, that sux) maybe erase and then resave and choose ur google account as the location to store. As stated before saving to ur google account is the best option to backup contacts
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alexhee said:
Hi, I used My Backup to backup my contact before & restore it after I change to other ROM.
However, it seems the My Backup will erase all your contacts in your SIM card as well after you restore. The WORST part is it restored the contact & store as Google contact. You can't export the contact to SIM card anymore then.
Luckily I have backup in my old phone & imported back into the SIM card & reload it again.
My advise, try Go Contacts app. This app do the tricks where export your phone contact into SD Card & imported back flawlessly.
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This is exactly what happened... I couldnt have explained it better myself. My Backup erased all of the contacts (both on sim and phone) before restoring and restored contacts to google. It is important to note that it did not restore contacts that were saved on sim to google. However, when I go into 'My Backup' app and view the data i have backed up. I can see all the contacts (both sim and phone contacts) in there. I will never use 'MyBackup' to backup my contacts.
The reason I dont save all of my contacts to google is I, for odd reasons, sometimes have to use (though rarely) my old school phone. I just insert my sim in it and i get all my contacts.
Google backup/sync and ubuntu one mobile.
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cervantesjc said:
Google backup/sync and ubuntu one mobile.
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care to explain!
sLiKK said:
This is exactly what happened......................................
The reason I dont save all of my contacts to google is I, for odd reasons, sometimes have to use (though rarely) my old school phone. I just insert my sim in it and i get all my contacts.
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Genius! i didnt think of that good point bro. I to had my vibrant out of commish for a night and had to revert to old flip phone and SIM saved contacts is what saved me come to think of it. Nobody knows anybodies actual number anymore LOL
All of mine are in my Google and Facebook. So everytime I flash a new rom I login and there all there. Simple as that!
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Overstock 2.2.1 o/c 1.2ghz
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kawika said:
Genius! i didnt think of that good point bro. I to had my vibrant out of commish for a night and had to revert to old flip phone and SIM saved contacts is what saved me come to think of it. Nobody knows anybodies actual number anymore LOL
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yea this technology is not your savior all the time.
peecs121 said:
All of mine are in my Google and Facebook. So everytime I flash a new rom I login and there all there. Simple as that!
Simply Galaxy/Sweet Honey 2.7.2 w/speedbooster
Overstock 2.2.1 o/c 1.2ghz
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^This about sums it up
Well .. Vibrant already has the import/exper function. Try using it and after flashing, open the .vcf file in your external mem card and it will extract your contacts to your phone.
http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=30a6a99f562bbb28&hl=en
this link helped me out a lot. I believe this is the issue you need help with.

Backup of High res contact's photos

Hi
Is there a way to backup and restore high res contact's photos in 2.3.3 rom ?
After rom reinstallation and synching with google i get back low res photos of contacts.
Dont sync contacts and reassign the pictures to your contacts should be working all good
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Yeah the manual way is working nice, but the the biggest pain is the fact it is manual
I was thinking about keeping all benefits from having sync on and to be able to restore those high res photos automatically.
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I have searching for the same question.
Everytime re-flash the rom and sync the contact, I have to re-crop the hi-res contact image really furstrating....
Is there any place storing the hi-res contact picture in the system folder so that we can backup and just replace them after contact sync?
or is it I can backup the contact image by backup them in Titanium Backup?
Hope someone will help

full Backup & Restore Contacts

Is possible to save edited contacts from phonebook to another location, like backup and restore. Sure, they are on gmail or sim or..but
I would like to backup my edited contacts, edited with high quality, high resolution contact photos...
After flashing new Roms stupid pictures are low quallity again and i need to set my fav contacts with high resolution photos again. Facebook and other clients are all using low quality photo sync.
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Backup contacts to vcf file.
Look for an app on Google Play.
To sync the Facebook photos with high quality, the app is Facebook Contact Sync, and for complete back-up, look for the Titanium Back-Up.
.VCF is the best option I have done the same, but do take care that if the same are already there in Gmail,when you sync with Gmail the contact are shown twice..
Just try it.
Go to android market and just download "MobileGo" apps. Its wounderful application. It will allow you to backup every thing i.e. Message, Contact, Applicaion including backup and many more.
I am using the same apps.
If it woks just HIT thanks button.

How to: Switch to GS3 from HTC Desire HD

Hi, I just received my Samsung Galaxy S3 in the mail today. I was using HTC Desire HD before. I was wondering how do I transfer everything such as contacts, sms, picture, app and etc from my HTC Desire HD before reseting my Desire HD to factory settings (I wish to resell it). Please advise thanks. I never rooted and don't plan to root my phones =).
Titanium backup.
use the export xml feature to export your sms/mms, call logs, & wifi hotspot configs
use the app backup feature to backup all your apps (mainly the data), then moved the backed up files to your s3 and restore it from there.
use your phone app to export your contacts as a vcard then go to your s3 and import vcard.
Titanium backup is the best way but it might have a problem for some user
it requires root
so u might want to consider that before u plan on using it
Google for your contacts is a sensible start
Thanks for the replies. Do I have to root my GS3 too in order to backup everything from Desire HD to GS3?
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Google for your contacts is a sensible start
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Yeah, however, how does google understand which one is my main account once I have google account on both devices? Wouldn't it delete everything if I remove account on my Desire HD?
To get really really thorough backups, you need to root the DHD. But I bet you can manage without that. For instance, you can backup call logs and SMS with the "Call Log Backup & Restore" and "SMS Backup & Restore" apps on the android market. You'll need to backup, then install these apps on your new phone and copy the backups to the new phone, then use them to restore.
Your contacts should be part of your google account--you can check by logging into http://contacts.google.com and checking. If they're there, you don't need to worry about backing them up. They will exist on your new phone as soon as you enter your google account information while you're setting up the phone.
I'm not sure how to delete your account from your old phone, but that won't affect your new phone. Just don't delete your contacts--removing an account is not the same as changing the data that belongs to an account.
heartnet89 said:
Thanks for the replies. Do I have to root my GS3 too in order to backup everything from Desire HD to GS3?
Yeah, however, how does google understand which one is my main account once I have google account on both devices? Wouldn't it delete everything if I remove account on my Desire HD?
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I makes no odds, the contacts are stored in the cloud! I have two phones, regularly mess with my old S1, if you wipe it you are only wiping the on phone storage, unless you actually delete a contact through contacts on the phone nothing will get deleted from g cloud!
i would suggest you root the dhd so you can use titanium to pull data for you apps as well so any games and apps that you have can easily have their data restored.
and it's also a great app that handles nearly all your backup needs.
root is nothing scary.. it just means you can allow certain programs to access settings that require admin status.
Some answers are just...... Ehhh nvm
Contacts should be stored on your default Gmail account go to settings.... Accounts check which one of our account is syncing contacts
SMS simple answer. SMS backup and restore
Pictures well that should be on your SD card that came with the phone. Same with any other media
Now app data... Without root in think you can forget it. What I normally do is to make a nandroid backup and if need to move this to another phone I use app extractor and restore certain apps I need
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sms back up and restore doesn't seem to do mms for me.. maybe i botched something. titanium though, stores it in xml form and can do all the necessary import and export as needed. why get a separate app if titanium is about as close to a one stop shop as it gets for android users...
and really... if you're on xda, why aren't you rooting your phone and enjoying one of thr biggest reason to be here (for me atleast) : to flash different roms that will suite your needs/wants.
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I moved over from my desire s without root. It was a bit of a faff but ok I the end.
My apps all restored from the market. The other apps that needed side loading were installed using app saver on my DS and copying the files onto external SD.
I restored my sms with sms backup and restore (I don't use mms as I just e-mail), which was fine.
Contacts were saved to my Google account so downloaded automatically. I think you can export contacts from stock app if you want to do it that way, or use something in the market.
Finally I used angry birds backup to restore my progress.
Hope this helps. I do agree with above though, it will be a lot easier with titanium backup provided you are rooted, but if you have to root and don't mind losing all your app data then it may not be any faster.
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[Q] Easiest way to transfer contacts/SMS logs between different ROMs?

It's been a long time since I've switched ROMs, so I'm looking for the easiest way to get my contacts and text messages back when wiping and flashing a new ROM.
Notes:
-I have TiBu Pro, but I'm not sure that'll help much since I can't restore system data. Does it have any other functions useful for this case that I'm just not aware of?
-I'd prefer not to have to sync my contacts to my Google account (same goes for backing SMS on Gmail), just a preference.
-I'd also prefer not to have to install more than one additional app, and I also would prefer not to have to pay for it. Again, just preferences.
-I've heard of other backup apps, but I don't know details of how they work. Yeah, I'm asking for a little spoonfeeding.
-I'm attempting to switch from ShishirROM ICS to Aberration JB, if that makes a difference.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
karate104 said:
It's been a long time since I've switched ROMs, so I'm looking for the easiest way to get my contacts and text messages back when wiping and flashing a new ROM.
Notes:
-I have TiBu Pro, but I'm not sure that'll help much since I can't restore system data. Does it have any other functions useful for this case that I'm just not aware of?
-I'd prefer not to have to sync my contacts to my Google account (same goes for backing SMS on Gmail), just a preference.
-I'd also prefer not to have to install more than one additional app, and I also would prefer not to have to pay for it. Again, just preferences.
-I've heard of other backup apps, but I don't know details of how they work. Yeah, I'm asking for a little spoonfeeding.
-I'm attempting to switch from ShishirROM ICS to Aberration JB, if that makes a difference.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
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You can use TiBu to back up and restore your SMS. Press the backup/restore button and scroll down to Messages entry and hit back up. It backs up as an XML file. Anything yellow in the backup/restore menu can be backed up. I use it for messages, wifi and call log.
I can't answer about your contacts. I let Google restore those.
karate104 said:
It's been a long time since I've switched ROMs, so I'm looking for the easiest way to get my contacts and text messages back when wiping and flashing a new ROM.
Notes:
-I have TiBu Pro, but I'm not sure that'll help much since I can't restore system data. Does it have any other functions useful for this case that I'm just not aware of?
-I'd prefer not to have to sync my contacts to my Google account (same goes for backing SMS on Gmail), just a preference.
-I'd also prefer not to have to install more than one additional app, and I also would prefer not to have to pay for it. Again, just preferences.
-I've heard of other backup apps, but I don't know details of how they work. Yeah, I'm asking for a little spoonfeeding.
-I'm attempting to switch from ShishirROM ICS to Aberration JB, if that makes a difference.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
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I can't say if it will work on stock roms but on aosp going to contacts and hitting menu gives you an option to export to storage
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Just save your contacts to your sim like old school.
blutruck said:
You can use TiBu to back up and restore your SMS. Press the backup/restore button and scroll down to Messages entry and hit back up. It backs up as an XML file. Anything yellow in the backup/restore menu can be backed up. I use it for messages, wifi and call log.
I can't answer about your contacts. I let Google restore those.
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This is the correct answer. I have been doing this since the feature was introduced. Works a peach
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Thanks for your help everyone!
I never noticed the "export to storage" button. Maybe I'll try it, hopefully it'll work since both ROMs are Sammy-based :fingers-crossed: Otherwise I'll give into Google syncing lol
Hit the menu button in tibu. Save data to XML
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Recently there was an app posted here called super backup. It's free and it works. You can back up apps, contacts, calender, SMS, call logs, and bookmarks separately.
If you have gmail then you contacts can all be stored on there. When you flash and sign in to google your contacts automatically get installed. Its like cloud storage.
shoman94 said:
If you have gmail then you contacts can all be stored on there. When you flash and sign in to google your contacts automatically get installed. Its like cloud storage.
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Even sho isn't reading he doesn't want to rely on google
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122ninjas said:
Even sho isn't reading he doesn't want to rely on google
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Lol. ... ya it was late and I was half asleep. ... I should not post when I'm laying in bed.
DERP
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