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i recently flashed rom to my 3d. i did a full wipe and everything but i was told my contacts wouldnt dissapear but theyre gone. also my sd card has 121 mb free but there is only 1 app on it? does that make any sense? thanks for your help.
Your contacts should have backed up to googles servers. Did you ever deselect that option on your previous ROM?
Can you explain the last part? What do you mean you have only one app?
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wizsenseisablur said:
i recently flashed rom to my 3d. i did a full wipe and everything but i was told my contacts wouldnt dissapear but theyre gone. also my sd card has 121 mb free but there is only 1 app on it? does that make any sense? thanks for your help.
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Your contacts should come back when you sign into your google account and let it sync. No idea about your sdcard.
i cant seem to find out why so much space is missing from my sd? could it be the actual rom itself? the only thing i have on there before using tb to get my apps back is adobe app.
and my contacts didnt come back even after sync.. is there anything i can do ?
wizsenseisablur said:
i cant seem to find out why so much space is missing from my sd? could it be the actual rom itself? the only thing i have on there before using tb to get my apps back is adobe app.
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I'm going to assume you are using the 8GB card. Umm, you don't have anything on it, like movies or music? Did you create a nand backup before flashing? Those can take up like 1GB of space. Do you use a lot of apps?
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and my contacts didnt come back even after sync.. is there anything i can do ?
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Did you log onto your Google account?
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nope nothing on it. and yes i did. about 3-4 times. no on the apps.
View the files on your SD card with a file manager. You should see what's on it.
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nope nothing on it. and yes i did. about 3-4 times. no on the apps.
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Wait, what three or four times? Log onto your google account four times or make a nand backup four times?
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Let me get this straight...
Your taking about your micro sd card right? Is it the 8GB one, or did you swap it?
You say you have nothing on it, but the ROM you downloaded right? Also you say you only have one app also.
Can you view in what's in your sd card?
I'm really trying to understand.
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nand backup 4 times. my google has nothing on it. how can i restore my contacts?
wizsenseisablur said:
nand backup 4 times. my google has nothing on it. how can i restore my contacts?
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You nand backed up four times? Then that can be the problem consuming all your space on the SD card. About the other one idk.
Did you ever uncheck the boxes in the privacy settings in your last ROM? If not, then I really don't have a sufficient answer for you.
I still can't see how nand backing up would take up all of the space, but with all the given information. Theres not much I can say.
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thanks for your help. can i undo what ive done regarding overdoing the nands?
wizsenseisablur said:
thanks for your help. can i undo what ive done regarding overdoing the nands?
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You can delete them. Or move them all to your computer to be safe. Just keep one handy, and restore back to it. You'll probably get your contacts back doing that.
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When you have your contacts back. Go to your Peoples app. Press the menu button, select import/export. Then your going to select export to sd card. Select the export to phone and google options. So next time if they go missing, you just import them.
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thanks you have been very helpful. one last thing please. lol. how do i go about deleting or moving some of them? =)
wizsenseisablur said:
thanks you have been very helpful. one last thing please. lol. how do i go about deleting or moving some of them? =)
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Do you know which folder they are in? If you do, then you just go to the folder and right click it. Select whatever option your going to do then voila! Your good to go.
Are you doing it by phone instead of using a computer? Just use astro file explorer and navigate to the folder. Long press it to bring up a list of options.
I assume you know how to move them to your pc right?
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i did a nan restore of my most recent backup then rebooted. my screen is stuck on the htc logo. i pulled battery twice. am i dumb or did something bad happen?
wizsenseisablur said:
i did a nan restore of my most recent backup then rebooted. my screen is stuck on the htc logo. i pulled battery twice. am i dumb or did something bad happen?
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Try doing a full wipe (factory reset) before restoring the nandroid backup. If you're using the latest version of TWRP, go to the advanced settings menu, and then choose format menu. Wipe cache, data, system, and boot. DO NOT WIPE SD CARD. Then try restoring one of your backups. Make sure you have your phone unplugged when restoring and rebooting (sometimes it can be problematic when plugged in). If that doesn't work, then try flashing a new rom from scratch.
The easiest way to delete your nand backups, or store them to your computer, is to plug your phone into the computer, and choose mount as disk drive. Then navigate into your sd card, and find the TWRP folder, then choose backups, then navigate into the next folder (labeled as your phone's serial number), then you'll see your backups, which are labeled with the date and time they were created. Delete the ones you don't need, or move them to your computer for safe keeping. That should free up a good amount of space on your sd card, as each backup ends up between 800-1500mb.
hello everyone
i upgraded my evo 3d to ics last night. i did a full system backup using 4ext before the upgrade (incase i wanted to go back to gb) but i forgot to backup my contacts to a vcard and i added a lot of numbers since the last vcard backup which will be lost to me
my question is can i use my backup from gb rom to restore my contacts (and/or apps) to ics?
i installed 4ext on ics too and when i choose the backup there are options to restore boot, system, data and cache which one(s) should i choose?
i also have some general questions.
1: facebook imported pictures of my contacts are low res, i had this on gb and still have it on ics. how can i fix this?
2: why doesn't the delivery report notification on the notification bar disappear on its ownafter a while? (it does on my friend's sensation xe) it stays there until i clear, is this normal for evo3d?
3: when i install a new rom on my tablet my apps are synced through market when i sign in with my gmail account. why didn't my evo3d do that eventhough the option was selected on the gb rom?
thanks
Unfortunately it's not that easy to import data from incompatible ROMs. I think the best option would be to keep your contacts synced on Google instead of on your phone. But that doesn't help you right now.
Unless there is magic I don't know about, backup your ICS, restore the GB, backup the contacts, and restore the ICS again.
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1: facebook imported pictures of my contacts are low res, i had this on gb and still have it on ics. how can i fix this?
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No fix, blame Zuckerberg.
3: when i install a new rom on my tablet my apps are synced through market when i sign in with my gmail account. why didn't my evo3d do that eventhough the option was selected on the gb rom?
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It was never really meant to work on GB. On ICS, it's fully working.
plaidcounty said:
Unfortunately it's not that easy to import data from incompatible ROMs. I think the best option would be to keep your contacts synced on Google instead of on your phone. But that doesn't help you right now.
Unless there is magic I don't know about, backup your ICS, restore the GB, backup the contacts, and restore the ICS again.
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yeah that's what i thought but i am looking for an easier solution (if there's one)
isn't there a way to extract contacts from the backup?
or what happens if i restore the data part of the backup for example, can it cause problems with ics rom?
If data file is zip, you could try to unzip it on your cpu
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flashallthetime said:
If data file is zip, you could try to unzip it on your cpu
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yes, backup consists of not zip but tar files of data system etc. does anybody know where android os keeps contact files?
ok i got it
if anybody else has the same problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8329322&postcount=4
I put CM7 on my X2 and for some reason my contacts are not syncing to my gmail account..?? Does anyone know how to take contacts from the phone and transfer to the computer using a usb hookup....what file would they be in..?? I flashed the paranoid android rom to my phone and found out they were not there....thank god for a nandroid ..i got them back....I know how to transfer the files ,I just can't find them in file explorer...any help would be appreciated..!!
As far as I know, you just setup your google account, then turn on automatic sync. Give it time to work.
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As far as I know, you just setup your google account, then turn on automatic sync. Give it time to work.
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I already have a Gmail account..but after I flashed cm7 my phone is not syncing ..??? Why
Do you have Titanium Backup? They can be transferred that way too since yours aren't syncing for whatever reason. Never had that problem personally. When you activated the phone again after the flash did you select the box during setup that says restore from google?
I'm not sure if I did that after I flashed...I do have titanium back up...but don't know where to find the contacts file to. Restore back to my phone...looked through the entire program and can't find it..??help would be greatly appreciated....!!
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I put CM7 on my X2 and for some reason my contacts are not syncing to my gmail account..?? Does anyone know how to take contacts from the phone and transfer to the computer using a usb hookup....what file would they be in..?? I flashed the paranoid android rom to my phone and found out they were not there....thank god for a nandroid ..i got them back....I know how to transfer the files ,I just can't find them in file explorer...any help would be appreciated..!!
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I am having the same issue with the contacts. I was never given the option to restore my contacts. After I added my Gmail account it took me directly to the play store.
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I already posted in your other thread. But I'll say it again here too. It sounds like you didnt flash the gapps zip along with CM7. If you didnt do that, get the zip file and flash it in recovery. And if you havent already, use the patched CM7 recovery in that thread as well. Not the one you used to flash CM7.
Sign into gmail on a PC and see if your contacts are still in there.
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jaxgmfb said:
I put CM7 on my X2 and for some reason my contacts are not syncing to my gmail account..?? Does anyone know how to take contacts from the phone and transfer to the computer using a usb hookup....what file would they be in..?? I flashed the paranoid android rom to my phone and found out they were not there....thank god for a nandroid ..i got them back....I know how to transfer the files ,I just can't find them in file explorer...any help would be appreciated..!!
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if you go to contacts press menu button
should be a import/export option select export to sd card/storage
should be save as a .vcf file
connect phone to pc
open gmail on pc go to contacts more/import
navagate to your mot sdcard, select .vcf file
then retry syncing
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sd_shadow said:
if you go to contacts press menu button
should be a import/export option select export to sd card/storage
should be save as a .vcf file
connect phone to pc
open gmail on pc go to contacts more/import
navagate to your mot sdcard, select .vcf file
then retry syncing
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Thanks sd_shadow......u are the bomb dude...that worked great man....many thanks for the help...!!!
I rooted my xperia x10 mini around a year ago, and all was fine. I recently unlocked the bootloader, and decided to try flashing a new rom and kernal as Sony refuse to do any further updates. I backed everything up on titanium back up, videos, contacts, apps etc. And also followed the instructions to do full back up when I flashed the new rom. I followed everything to the letter, but when the new rom was installed, I could find no contacts, music, apps or anything? I thought the best option was to use cwm and restore back? That looked as if it had gone ok, but there was a message at the end to say something? img? could not be found, and it didn't revert back, just hung at nAa screen, and would do nothing else.
After reading a few threads, I thought I'd go back to SE stock firmware - better than a dead phone! But although the sd card is showing all my back ups, including titanium back up, nothing is showing in the phone apps, or folders, all my contacts are missing, pictures, notes, everything :crying:
How do I get everything back to where it shoud be?? It may be a stupid question, but I hope you can offer some advice please.
The phone is rooted again. Thanks in advance from a newbie flasher
Did you restore your backup using Titanium again then?
The other way is to do advanced restore from CWM and choose data only.
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Did you restore your backup using Titanium again then?
The other way is to do advanced restore from CWM and choose data only.
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I wasn't sure how to restore from Titanium, but I've now downloaded Titanium backup app, and it has restored some of the things I lost, not everything :crying:
It hasn't restored any of my text messages and I have quite a lot of pictures missing. Is there anyway to get messages or pictures back?
Thanks :fingers-crossed:
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I wasn't sure how to restore from Titanium, but I've now downloaded Titanium backup app, and it has restored some of the things I lost, not everything :crying:
It hasn't restored any of my text messages and I have quite a lot of pictures missing. Is there anyway to get messages or pictures back?
Thanks :fingers-crossed:
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Pictures are usually stored on the sd-card, so they won't get affected if you change your rom or kernel, not sure what happened with that, but the best way to get everything back would be to use CWM and choose advance restore to get your data back I suppose, it will restore everything that was on internal memory.
The reason you got stuck at the nAa-kernel logo when you restored from cwm previously is because you also restored your old rom, which doesn't run with the nAa-kernel.
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SmG67 said:
Pictures are usually stored on the sd-card, so they won't get affected if you change your rom or kernel, not sure what happened with that, but the best way to get everything back would be to use CWM and choose advance restore to get your data back I suppose, it will restore everything that was on internal memory.
The reason you got stuck at the nAa-kernel logo when you restored from cwm previously is because you also restored your old rom, which doesn't run with the nAa-kernel.
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Thanks for your reply. I got most of the pictures back, but some seem to have vanished, and something a little weird happened, as in my photo gallery, I now have pics of little android men, a tick, camera, tools etc Guess I should just delete them??
Do you know of any way to get text messages back?
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Thanks for your reply. I got most of the pictures back, but some seem to have vanished, and something a little weird happened, as in my photo gallery, I now have pics of little android men, a tick, camera, tools etc Guess I should just delete them??
Do you know of any way to get text messages back?
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It may be that just the thumbnails of those pictures are messed up, not the pictures itself. I would suggest copying your pictures to a folder on your computer, deleting them from sd-card and open the gallery, so it can update it's thumbnails (it will delete them all). If you then move back your pictures to your sd-card it will generate proper thumbnails again.
The txt-messages should be in your CWM-backup.
I don't know if you had CWM installed on your phone before you flashed the kernel, and what kernel you used when you made the backup. It can be a bit tricky if you tried JellyBean, but not impossible. I need a bit more information from you to be sure about how to go about that.
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It may be that just the thumbnails of those pictures are messed up, not the pictures itself. I would suggest copying your pictures to a folder on your computer, deleting them from sd-card and open the gallery, so it can update it's thumbnails (it will delete them all). If you then move back your pictures to your sd-card it will generate proper thumbnails again.
The txt-messages should be in your CWM-backup.
I don't know if you had CWM installed on your phone before you flashed the kernel, and what kernel you used when you made the backup. It can be a bit tricky if you tried JellyBean, but not impossible. I need a bit more information from you to be sure about how to go about that.
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Hi. Yes, I installed CWM before hand, and did a complete back up, I used the miniCM7 robyn rom and the nAa-2.6.29.6-nAa 14 kernal. I had considered jelly bean, but thought I'd just start with this one, before working my way up! Someone suggested ST15i 4.2.0.A.62 but it didn't sound right for the X10mini? I only bought the phone 18 months ago, so its a shame there are no further updates.
I did try to restore through the advanced setting on cwm, but it didn't work, I had the same message as before about something being missing.
I noticed another thread about a similar problem, a mismatch between numbers?? Not too sure, but it sounded similar to the problem I had.
At least I have back most of my pictures Thanks for your help.
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Hi. Yes, I installed CWM before hand, and did a complete back up, I used the miniCM7 robyn rom and the nAa-2.6.29.6-nAa 14 kernal. I had considered jelly bean, but thought I'd just start with this one, before working my way up! Someone suggested ST15i 4.2.0.A.62 but it didn't sound right for the X10mini? I only bought the phone 18 months ago, so its a shame there are no further updates.
I did try to restore through the advanced setting on cwm, but it didn't work, I had the same message as before about something being missing.
I noticed another thread about a similar problem, a mismatch between numbers?? Not too sure, but it sounded similar to the problem I had.
At least I have back most of my pictures Thanks for your help.
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hmm, it sounds almost like your sd-card is experiencing some problems, maybe you could copy the whole thing to your computer and reformat it. but i don't think the backup will be valid anymore.
The number mismatch is the md5-checksum, The backup calculates a number when the backup is created, which is stored alongside your backup.
The restore function then uses the same method to create a checksum from the backup-file and compare it to the number created when the backup was made. If they don't match, the most likely option is a corrupt backup file, which is a pain.
And no, the st15 is the 2011 xperia mini i think, you better stick with E10-kernels and robyn-ROMS for the x10mini (if it doesn't have a hardware keyboard)
Hey guys. I need some help with a nandroid.
First of all, does a nandroid backup the data from the internal storage?
I made a nandroid a few days ago before switching from an aosp ROM to a touchwiz ROM. I wiped the data during the flash. Didn't really like it so I went back. Now I've lost all my ringtones and about 140 pictures. I've always wiped data during flashes and never had this happen. I have nandroid manager and I see there's a couple 1.5 gig folders and a few 500 meg ones as well. Is there a way to go through my nandroid and try to find my pictures? I mean if a nandroid really backs up everything then there's gotta be a way to get my stuff back, right?
Help please!
E30Nova said:
Hey guys. I need some help with a nandroid.
First of all, does a nandroid backup the data from the internal storage?
I made a nandroid a few days ago before switching from an aosp ROM to a touchwiz ROM. I wiped the data during the flash. Didn't really like it so I went back. Now I've lost all my ringtones and about 140 pictures. I've always wiped data during flashes and never had this happen. I have nandroid manager and I see there's a couple 1.5 gig folders and a few 500 meg ones as well. Is there a way to go through my nandroid and try to find my pictures? I mean if a nandroid really backs up everything then there's gotta be a way to get my stuff back, right?
Help please!
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Is Not wiped, your pictures are moved to a new file structure to support multi user. Flash the downgrade zip from cm10.1 thread. Also, no anan does not backup photos
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Is Not wiped, your pictures are moved to a new file structure to support multi user. Flash the downgrade zip from cm10.1 thread. Also, no anan does not backup photos
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this is what cloud storage is for backup all photos automatically dropbox is your best friend i have all photos on there since my first smartphone
Bfitz26 said:
this is what cloud storage is for backup all photos automatically dropbox is your best friend i have all photos on there since my first smartphone
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Yep, drop box photo sync is the best. All 1000 pics of mine are nice and secure
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E30Nova said:
Hey guys. I need some help with a nandroid.
First of all, does a nandroid backup the data from the internal storage?
I made a nandroid a few days ago before switching from an aosp ROM to a touchwiz ROM. I wiped the data during the flash. Didn't really like it so I went back. Now I've lost all my ringtones and about 140 pictures. I've always wiped data during flashes and never had this happen. I have nandroid manager and I see there's a couple 1.5 gig folders and a few 500 meg ones as well. Is there a way to go through my nandroid and try to find my pictures? I mean if a nandroid really backs up everything then there's gotta be a way to get my stuff back, right?
Help please!
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Aosp is 4.2.2 file system format which is in the /sdcard/0/ folder. TW is 4.1 which is in /sdcard/.... I've found that if you use ROM toolbox go into explorer, navigate to /data/media and move everything from the /data/media/0 back to /data/media except the TWRP file if you're using Team Win recovery.
This is covered pretty good in the Galaxy Nexus forums...
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Is Not wiped, your pictures are moved to a new file structure to support multi user. Flash the downgrade zip from cm10.1 thread. Also, no anan does not backup photos
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I did flash the downgrade zip after flashing the TW rom, but I still couldn't find my pictures or ringtones...even after going back to aosp.
Bfitz26 said:
this is what cloud storage is for backup all photos automatically dropbox is your best friend i have all photos on there since my first smartphone
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Yeah, I've had the box checked for sync-ing photos on my google account ever since I got the phone, but it never sync'd. Suddenly now I have a folder in my gallery called "auto backup"...
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Aosp is 4.2.2 file system format which is in the /sdcard/0/ folder. TW is 4.1 which is in /sdcard/.... I've found that if you use ROM toolbox go into explorer, navigate to /data/media and move everything from the /data/media/0 back to /data/media except the TWRP file if you're using Team Win recovery.
This is covered pretty good in the Galaxy Nexus forums...
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Weird, if I go to the /data folder on my computer, there's no media folder in it. But if I use root explorer, the media folder is there and all my pictures are too.
BUT, I copied all the pictures and pasted them in /storage/sdcard0/DCIM/camera thinking they'd show up in the folder, but it didn't work. I even tried booting into recovery and fixing permissions and wiping both caches, they still don't show up.
Am I doing it wrong?
Wow wtf?
I turned my phone off last night and turned it back on today, decided to check my gallery, and BAM!
All my pictures are back in the gallery!
Thanks guys!