Hello,
I have a droid x and recently ordered an sIII. I had a few times where the x went out and when linking it back up to google i always had contacts that were missing that never got synced over. Currently some of the recent contacts I have entered are showing up in my work outlook contacts. I want to make sure that all of my contacts at minimum will transfer from my x to my new phone when I get it. What is the best method of doing this?
Anything else I should consider backing up when moving to the phone? I am not concerned as much about the applications as I can download those again.
Any suggestions welcome. Thanks for the help.
Should I have posted this to a different location or is this the right spot for this sort of question?
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I have a wierd situation I am wondering if someone else may have had the same experience with. My wife and I just got 2 HD2 Leo from Tmobile. I installed the Droid Nexus ROM on it. Everything seems ok except the wierdest thing keeps happening. In Droid if one of us adjusts our contacts somehow it affects both phones. I was at work today when she made some changes to her contacts and it deleted some of mine. How could this be happening? The phones are miles apart. Does anyone know whats up? Also is there an easy way to delete all contacts in the Nexus one without having to select one by one. Thanks for any help!
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You don't mean SIM contacts, right? Because both of you guys have different sim cards so I'm leaning toward google contacts or other web-based email contacts?
well actually I mean sim card phonebook contacts. On my phone last night I was in windows and copied all my contacts to the SIM, Then I booted DROID and imported the contacts to the directory. Well this morning my wife noticed all my contacts had been stored in her phone. I thought that was wierd but what made it crazier is that she then deleted all but a few contacts from her phone. On my way home this evening I noticed I only had a few contacts in my list. Really Wierd. What she changed also affected my phone. We have HD2 Leos running DROID Nexus,
Any Thoughts?
Are both of you running the droid ROM? So you flash the same ROM onto both phones, correct? I'm sure the explanation here is very simple just that I can't articulate it in a manner that is best understood by you. It couldn't have been SIM contacts because those are unique to the SIM, and you can't delete/add contacts to that SIM unless it's actually on the phone that you're operating. Under winmo, if your contact is saved onto a SIM, then you should see the sim card icon next to their name, if it's a PHONE contact, then it has a figure of a person next to their contact.
Imagining if I'm using an IM client, if I add a friend's screen name on the computer, and that new screen name is linked to my account on a web server, then I expect the new screen name to show up on the chat client on my phone. I suspect the same thing is happening with your phone. You probably set both phones up with the same account and whatnot, and when you add/delete/sync new contacts, it affects whoever is using that account. I don't think this has anything to do with SIM contacts at all, but has to do with google accounts when you first set up the phone with the droid ROM. Again, that's just my guess.
I think I understand what you mean. We did actually use the same Gmail account to set up each ROM. So we should use different Gmail accounts huh? I didn't realize there was such an intricate connection between Gmail and DROID OS. I am totally new to the DROID, actually this is my first smartphone period.
So what do you suggest is the fix? Hard reset one phone ? How to I get it back to where I can put a different gmail account on the phone?
How do i delete my contacts off her phone now ? lol
You don't need to hard reset. You're running android off of an SD card so just delete (or format if you want) everything android related off of that SD card and put in another copy. When you go through the setup/registration process, use a different gmail account. WHAM!
So I can just delete the android folder from the phone? I really don't want to have to format it if I can get around it. doesn't that wipe everything off the drive?
what drive? I meant formatting your SD card. Anyway, I think i'm just confusing you even more.
Yes, delete the android folder and create a new one on the SD card.
Hey guys, just installed the latest version of hyperdrive for NC5 builds on my verizon galaxy s4 using safestrap. All is well except for my contacts. I only have about 5 of them still remaining...When I was stock, I had contacts backed up to verizon backup assistant, as well as both of my gmail accounts. I've setup my gmail accounts and attempted to sync contacts with no luck. I also went to gmail on my desktop and attempted to restore contacts from an earlier date, but the same 5 or so contacts pop up. I should also add that I did quite a bit of searching and tried several methods but with no success.
I feel like there has to be something obvious I'm missing here, but I'm pretty sure I've checked all the basics. I'd rather just restore my contacts rather than restore my phone and attempt the whole thing again.
Appreciate the help!!
The same thing happened to me. I believe I ended up getting them back by logging on to my Samsung account.
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Tried my samsung account as well and with no luck. I was really surprised my google account didn't do the trick. It's always worked in the past when switching devices.
I restored my stock rom, got my contacts back, then exported them all to my external sd card. Probably gonna give hyperdrive another go and hopefully can import them from there. I'll post back with results!! Hyperdrive seems super awesome btw...
I'm thinking some contact file needs to be deleted somewhere that's over writing my google contacts or something...no clue. If anyone knows why my google backup isn't working the way it should share your thoughts!
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Hey guys, just installed the latest version of hyperdrive for NC5 builds on my verizon galaxy s4 using safestrap. All is well except for my contacts. I only have about 5 of them still remaining...When I was stock, I had contacts backed up to verizon backup assistant, as well as both of my gmail accounts. I've setup my gmail accounts and attempted to sync contacts with no luck. I also went to gmail on my desktop and attempted to restore contacts from an earlier date, but the same 5 or so contacts pop up. I should also add that I did quite a bit of searching and tried several methods but with no success.
I feel like there has to be something obvious I'm missing here, but I'm pretty sure I've checked all the basics. I'd rather just restore my contacts rather than restore my phone and attempt the whole thing again.
Appreciate the help!!
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Super Backup from the Play Store. Backup contacts, call logs, sms conversations, calendar info; all to a zip you can save to your external sd card and email to yourself or keep on cloud storage as well.
Cool, I'll give that a try. Thanks!
Success! As long as your contacts are somewhere on your external sd card you'll be good to go. Exporting from contacts or using super backup both work well. Still not sure why my google account didn't get them in there though.
Thanks again for the help! Loving Hyperdrive
Does anyone else have a problem using the G3 and saving contacts? I have a Bumbped Verizon G3, and my Girlfriend has the T-Mobile G3, but BOTH of us are unable to SAVE new contacts. I have ben usuing/Flashing android since the OG Droid and have never had a problem with my google account, but it just strikes me odd as we've never had problems until we've been using the G Series phones.
Does anybody else have this problem? Any Ideas?
I'm Running Skydragon Also. I like to stay as close to stock as possible.
Are you checking to see if the number is being saved to the phone or your google account.
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when I first add a contact it'll bring up which account i'd like to save it to and I make sure its my gmail, then I go to my actual gmail in my settings and sync everything about a good ten thousand times, and once I flash a new rom it's all gone again.
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when I first add a contact it'll bring up which account i'd like to save it to and I make sure its my gmail, then I go to my actual gmail in my settings and sync everything about a good ten thousand times, and once I flash a new rom it's all gone again.
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I would suggest you make sure you have all the contacts you want on your device, then log in on google contacts from your PC and erase everything and re-sync your phone. I had to do this before my contacts would stick or stop duplicating themselves when I first got this phone.
I always save the contacts to the sd card. And restore from the sd card.
Hi,
I have a problem that might be to do with the new google contacts, at least it happened within the past couple of weeks or so.
Problem is I can not add any contacts, or rather I can, but they do not stay for very long. I save them to my google account where I have around 900 contacts.
I have now tried Contacts Fix Sync, and it reports that I have 25,000 contacts! So I am assuming the reason why new contacts are not added is because it is full. Using Contacts Optimizer, it turns out they are all duplicates (which is not the case when logging into my contacts on my PC).
So somehow it seems the google contacts keeps on downloading until it is full.
I have tried everything I can think of: reseting/erasing my phone (One Plus One), and now I have just tried on another different phone (LG G2), and it is the same problem.
It seems that recently, I am not sure when, google implemented a new Google contacts system, perhaps that is the problem, perhaps not.
Anyhow, it is quite annoying to say the least, basically I am not able to add new contacts. Any suggestions?
I have also asked this question in the Gmail Help Forum, so I hope I am not violating any rules. If I am, let me know and I will delete this. I also asked a similar question in the OPO XDA forum yesterday as I then thought it was to do with OPO (had not tried on the other phone at that time) - I will delete that one if I can.
Thanks in advance.
Hi all,
This past weekend I have noticed that a lot of my contacts are now gone. I know of two contacts that I have made in the past couple of weeks that I know for certain are gone. I still have their messages in my phone, but no name is attached to the number. It is like the contact information has completely vanished!
I read that there is a way to restore all contacts to the way they were in the past, but now there is a message that now says:
"Contact recovery may not work if you're restoring to a date prior to March 21, 2016. We are currently investigating the issue"
Does this explain something on Google's end that is messing up my contacts?
Any help would be appreciated.
Mikeinstlouis
Alright this is getting freaky. I updated about a dozen contact names that were lost. And five minutes later every one of them had disappeared. Any help would be appreciated thank you
I've searched for several hours to find out more about the issue. So far, I haven't found any first-party websites that have more details on the issue. As far as restoring contacts go, unless you have them saved on another app or something of the sort we just have to wait until Google gets it's crap together. Ironic because March 21st is the date my phone decided to go ballistic on me and do a memory swipe. But yes, if anyone has any further information it would be greatly appreciated.
Contact restore functioning again.
Google contacts restore is back up and running. I had a warning on my phone saying that there was an issue with google and contacts. With the return of the restore, I was able to get all of my contacts back and I am happy.