Hello XDA Community,
I'm changing roms from Stock (XWLPG) to Chameleon Hybrid Rom (XWLPU)
I'm having a problem where I can't restore my contacts from the Stock TW Contacts app to the AOSP People app.
I've managed to restore messages & calendar events via Titanium Backup (data restore), but not the contacts.
If there's a way doing this manually extracting from nandroid or other, please share.
I tried searching the forums but I can't seem to find a solution.
Thanks!
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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!
Hi all!
Using Titanium Backup I deleted the stock contact app on my SGS2. I did it on purpose since I wanted to use GO contacts instead... However after deleting the stock contact app I found myself unable to edit or create new contacts.
Can you please help me get this functionality or the stock app back?
Restore via your Titanium backup .
jje
I have tried but can't.
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.
thevhunk said:
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
Hey Guys.
I'm looking for an backup application which will allow me to backup my apps and system data on roms based on stock ICS and restore to JB and vice versa.
Titanium backup does the job but after restoring on a new rom I get a lot of fc's and none of the apps works. I cannot restore call log and text messages, accounts, etc.
There's a lot of backup apps, I know. But I would like to be sure that they work as they should. Can someone recommend me an app which will do the job?
Thanks in advance.
Just digging out
I uses mybackup root and it works just fine(if it force closes then you need to clear the app cache)
Abagnale said:
Hey Guys.
I'm looking for an backup application which will allow me to backup my apps and system data on roms based on stock ICS and restore to JB and vice versa.
Titanium backup does the job but after restoring on a new rom I get a lot of fc's and none of the apps works. I cannot restore call log and text messages, accounts, etc.
Thanks in advance.
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I might be reading the question wrong or not be knowledgeable enough, but if you are flashing to a non stock based rom then stock won't work without a whole lot of work and possibly some legal issues from whichever company wrote that code. Sense for HTC, Motoblur, Touchwhiz based apps and so on don't work cross platform and the change from ICS to Jellybean would corrupt most apps and if you find a way to force it the results are going to be FC at the least. That's what I gather anyway! But if you find a way let a brother know because there are some stock apps I liked, just not enough to give up my AOKP.
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there is lots of apps in play store. I use backup sms contact
Which allows you to back contacts, sms, apps, call logs
I had official 4.1.2 jellybean and i backed up contacts with titanium. I put cyanogenmod 10.1.3 and was trying to restore contacts but after i restore i get error message "android.process.acore" all the time. I did factory reset and error was gone but my question is how to restore contacts without having that error??
skyline91 said:
I had official 4.1.2 jellybean and i backed up contacts with titanium. I put cyanogenmod 10.1.3 and was trying to restore contacts but after i restore i get error message "android.process.acore" all the time. I did factory reset and error was gone but my question is how to restore contacts without having that error??
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It's because you can't restore a system app (ie contacts, the phone app, messaging app etc) from ROM to ROM, if the ROM itself is different to the last one you made the backup on. So the end result of what you'll have to do is sync your contacts to your google account. Then when you sign in to your google account on the new ROM, your contacts will sync to the new ROM. At least that's how I do it.
As far as getting your contacts back, if you had a nandroid backup of your system before flashing CM, just restore that and sync your contacts to your gmail account. Go back to your CM nandroid (assuming you have one, if not make one before starting this process) and sync your contacts down from your google account.
If you didn't make a nandroid of your stock setup before flashing CM, then re-flash the stock ROM you were on previously using Odin or Mobile Odin. Now you should be able to restore the Titanium backup of your contacts app (yes, the app itself) successfully onto the stock ROM. From this restored app, sync your contacts. Then go back to CM and sign in, voile, contacts have synced.
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It's because you can't restore a system app (ie contacts, the phone app, messaging app etc) from ROM to ROM, if the ROM itself is different to the last one you made the backup on. So the end result of what you'll have to do is sync your contacts to your google account. Then when you sign in to your google account on the new ROM, your contacts will sync to the new ROM. At least that's how I do it.
As far as getting your contacts back, if you had a nandroid backup of your system before flashing CM, just restore that and sync your contacts to your gmail account. Go back to your CM nandroid (assuming you have one, if not make one before starting this process) and sync your contacts down from your google account.
If you didn't make a nandroid of your stock setup before flashing CM, then re-flash the stock ROM you were on previously using Odin or Mobile Odin. Now you should be able to restore the Titanium backup of your contacts app (yes, the app itself) successfully onto the stock ROM. From this restored app, sync your contacts. Then go back to CM and sign in, voile, contacts have synced.
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so there is no way to get that contacts without getting back on previous rom, restore from titanium, sync them on google acc and then flash it on CM??
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Nope. As Hopper said, restoring via Ti restores the app itself (plus the data obviously) and that won't work from Android version to Android version (or framework to framework - I.E TouchWiz to AOSP & VV). His suggestion should take all of 15 minutes.
tnx for your tips
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