Yes, i know, i am an idiot, but i just wanted to see what the worse that could happen was, and well now i cant use the phone app and none of my contacts are synced with google, facebook, or twitter and i cant reinstall it with Titanium Backup, doing it manually or even pushing it with ADB, i could really use some help here, id rather not reset my phone back to the factory settings
I don't think doing a factory reset will fix it either. you will most likely have to wait for an spf.
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Here u go!
go to droidxforums .com > droid x2 forums > support > about page 5 > click the thread "system/app folder if any one needs it" .. download that.
take the contacts apk or odex file or whichever one you need.
copy it and paste it in ur system -> app folder. u need to use root explorer to do that (make sure u click the R/w to paste it then click the r/o when ur done).
once it is back in there, long press the contact file and select permissions. match the permissions to an apk that actually works.
hope that fixes it. let me know if u need help. [email protected]
i just installed cm10 onto my phone and doing so it wiped all my contacts from my phone but before doing so i uploaded my contacts file to my computer through kies. but now kies wont recognise me phone it just says connecting the whole time. since the file is on my computer can i just copy and paste it by going through my computer and finding the right folder on my phone? if so what folder do i go to i cant seem to find it
Did you not save them to Google..?
nope i was never sure how to
When you're in Contacts, Menu->Merge with Google.
Not even.. if you add a contact to your phone it should just automatically sync with Google servers.
flash back to stock with triangle away, reinstall contacts, merge with Google, then flash to cm10 again
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i see that its set to £1.49? what will it do exactly before i make the purchase and do i have to go find a stock rom? and is it easy to install? like just wipe/factory reset, wipe cache and dalvik then install from sd card?
actually scratch that i just tried opening the contacts file in kies and it appears to be blank but it was fine last time. only option is to acquire them all again over time
I found the solution just incase anyone wondered. i dont know if its CM or jellybean but i was able to use "people" to import my contacts by copying the file onto my internal storage (incase anyone else gets the same issue)
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
sent on my Evil Evo running the so called developers kernel
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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
So, my x10 crashed 2 months ago and I'm really eager to recover the contacts from the phones memory. Have tried searching for a way to do this but so far I haven't. The phone is stuck in a reboot loop, but I hope the data is still there to be recovered somehow. The only backup I have is a 5month+ old .sbf file, and I'm having trouble restoring the contacts from that on my new phone.
I KNOW now, that I maybe should have backed up more frequently to google (last done in december 2011..) but the sbf file is what i have that is recent. Any suggestions/threads/tools for this?
niklasson said:
So, my x10 crashed 2 months ago and I'm really eager to recover the contacts from the phones memory. Have tried searching for a way to do this but so far I haven't. The phone is stuck in a reboot loop, but I hope the data is still there to be recovered somehow. The only backup I have is a 5month+ old .sbf file, and I'm having trouble restoring the contacts from that on my new phone.
I KNOW now, that I maybe should have backed up more frequently to google (last done in december 2011..) but the sbf file is what i have that is recent. Any suggestions/threads/tools for this?
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If your phone is backed up with your google play account then you should just use the email in another phone and you will restore your contacts if not then not so likely
aymensx said:
If your phone is backed up with your google play account then you should just use the email in another phone and you will restore your contacts if not then not so likely
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It wasn't.
Looking for a way to extract the user data partion from the phone
If You can access the phones memory go to data>data folder and search for the phone folder. There should be a whole database of Your contacts
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jakuburban said:
If You can access the phones memory go to data>data folder and search for the phone folder. There should be a whole database of Your contacts
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And what program can i use to access this?
niklasson said:
And what program can i use to access this?
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I hope You have root and USB debugging enabled.
If so, You can use my program to connect the phone in xrecovery mode and access the system files.
If You don't have root, You can try to root it, install good kernel (like doomkernel), backup Your current os, flash new ROM and restore the data.
Here's how to root the phone: http://adfoc.us/4207223735421
So i've been playing with a Stable and Up-To-Date Custom ROM with my Ace-i (i won't say it so there will be no problem, but it is for personal use only)
i've tried to delete some .apk on the .zip file of the ROM and flash it, and so. but later on i experienced some crazy error or bug maybe. whenever i reboot my device safely, my SIM Contacts keep missing .. i think its being deleted .. it is saved in SIM Directory,
also i am shutting down and restarting my phone properly using the power button.
i also tried to reinstall a fresh, clean, copy of the ROM i use and still happens, anyone know why this odd problem happens ??
please help thank you
UPDATE: i reverted to Stock Ace-i GB ROM, as usual none of the contacts saved in my SIM Directory showed but after i added 1 contact, it all showed up. i'll try to reflash the rom and see if it will happen again. this is really really odd to happen
xlSKYFiRElx said:
So i've been playing with a Stable and Up-To-Date Custom ROM with my Ace-i (i won't say it so there will be no problem, but it is for personal use only)
i've tried to delete some .apk on the .zip file of the ROM and flash it, and so. but later on i experienced some crazy error or bug maybe. whenever i reboot my device safely, my SIM Contacts keep missing .. i think its being deleted .. it is saved in SIM Directory,
also i am shutting down and restarting my phone properly using the power button.
i also tried to reinstall a fresh, clean, copy of the ROM i use and still happens, anyone know why this odd problem happens ??
please help thank you
UPDATE: i reverted to Stock Ace-i GB ROM, as usual none of the contacts saved in my SIM Directory showed but after i added 1 contact, it all showed up. i'll try to reflash the rom and see if it will happen again. this is really really odd to happen
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I think that time you are on custom kernel...
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amolgosavi said:
I think that time you are on custom kernel...
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yes i am using rafael's kernel.
UPDATE: so it seems that the SIM Contacts were not deleted after all, they are just missing and does not show up. anyone has an idea ?? please ??
xlSKYFiRElx said:
yes i am using rafael's kernel.
UPDATE: so it seems that the SIM Contacts were not deleted after all, they are just missing and does not show up. anyone has an idea ?? please ??
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Next time before you flash a new rom, you can take a backup of your existing contacts. To do that go to Contacts>Contact Setting>Export to SD. You will get a .vcf file in SD Card. Once you have finished installing new rom, you can restore this backup by doing Contacts>Contact Setting>Import from SD Card and click on the .vcf file. Or your contacts are also synced with your google account. So whenever you log in to your google account, it will automatically sync you contacts back to your phone. Hope I Helped
mahithm said:
Next time before you flash a new rom, you can take a backup of your existing contacts. To do that go to Contacts>Contact Setting>Export to SD. You will get a .vcf file in SD Card. Once you have finished installing new rom, you can restore this backup by doing Contacts>Contact Setting>Import from SD Card and click on the .vcf file. Or your contacts are also synced with your google account. So whenever you log in to your google account, it will automatically sync you contacts back to your phone. Hope I Helped
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no it's not that i didn't know that they are deleted after flashing .. my contacts are saved on my SIM Card Memory so either if i flash a new rom or factory reset they don't disappear .. the problem is, i discovered that they are still inside my Sim Card memory .. the only problem is, they won't appear on my contacts .. and everytime i add a new contact, it disappears after reboot ..
nonetheless, i'll just try using Cloud Contacts from now on, :angel:
xlSKYFiRElx said:
no it's not that i didn't know that they are deleted after flashing .. my contacts are saved on my SIM Card Memory so either if i flash a new rom or factory reset they don't disappear .. the problem is, i discovered that they are still inside my Sim Card memory .. the only problem is, they won't appear on my contacts .. and everytime i add a new contact, it disappears after reboot ..
nonetheless, i'll just try using Cloud Contacts from now on, :angel:
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You can use the google sync to save your contacts.
You see in an other device if your contacts is insite and you cant see it with your ace?
xlSKYFiRElx said:
no it's not that i didn't know that they are deleted after flashing .. my contacts are saved on my SIM Card Memory so either if i flash a new rom or factory reset they don't disappear .. the problem is, i discovered that they are still inside my Sim Card memory .. the only problem is, they won't appear on my contacts .. and everytime i add a new contact, it disappears after reboot ..
nonetheless, i'll just try using Cloud Contacts from now on, :angel:
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Lol it's quite simple. The entire contact is in your SIM card but for them to be displayed into your phone, you just have to import them. Go to Contacts>Contact Settings>Import from SIM card. That's it. It will import all the SIM contacts to your phone. You will be now able to see all your contacts. Hope I Helped
mahithm said:
Lol it's quite simple. The entire contact is in your SIM card but for them to be displayed into your phone, you just have to import them. Go to Contacts>Contact Settings>Import from SIM card. That's it. It will import all the SIM contacts to your phone. You will be now able to see all your contacts. Hope I Helped
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already did that, but it also shows "No Contacts" .. considering that when i plug the sim to an non-android device like asha, it reads all of my sim contacts, im telling you it is really really odd
manos_mand said:
You can use the google sync to save your contacts.
You see in an other device if your contacts is insite and you cant see it with your ace?
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yes correct, when i plug my SIM Card to another Device (iOS or Non-Android) it shows completely all of my contacts, but in my Android it doesn't .. this is the first time this happens to me .. i also tried flashing TouchWiz v9.5 but still happens,
only in stock rom does my contacts shows properly
xlSKYFiRElx said:
yes correct, when i plug my SIM Card to another Device (iOS or Non-Android) it shows completely all of my contacts, but in my Android it doesn't .. this is the first time this happens to me .. i also tried flashing TouchWiz v9.5 but still happens,
only in stock rom does my contacts shows properly
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Use stock kernel
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xlSKYFiRElx said:
already did that, but it also shows "No Contacts" .. considering that when i plug the sim to an non-android device like asha, it reads all of my sim contacts, im telling you it is really really odd
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I know this happens sometime. Same thing happened to me once. Custom rom couldn't read the contacts from SIM but when I put this SIM in a Nokia phone, it could be easily read. But I always use Google sync which solves my problem.
mahithm said:
I know this happens sometime. Same thing happened to me once. Custom rom couldn't read the contacts from SIM but when I put this SIM in a Nokia phone, it could be easily read. But I always use Google sync which solves my problem.
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i guess my only option now is to shift to google contacts lol .. thanks mate thumbs up for you
OP, you're not alone, I'm also having this problem.
Suggesting one should rely on google to store contacts is not very helpful. One shouldn't have to rely on google. It's not an explanation or a solution.
Using the 'Import Contacts' function doesn't work, and that too should not be necessary.
This seems to be a problem with the 5830i only; I've tried using my SIM card with 4 different 5830s and all SIM contacts show up automatically (no 'importing' necessary).
People are suggesting it's something to do with the kernel? It would be nice to know which kernels contain this bug, and which custom ROMs address it. I'm running GB 2.3.6, and the kernel is 2.6.35.7 [email protected] #1.
zatarra86 said:
OP, you're not alone, I'm also having this problem.
Suggesting one should rely on google to store contacts is not very helpful. One shouldn't have to rely on google. It's not an explanation or a solution.
Using the 'Import Contacts' function doesn't work, and that too should not be necessary.
This seems to be a problem with the 5830i only; I've tried using my SIM card with 4 different 5830s and all SIM contacts show up automatically (no 'importing' necessary).
People are suggesting it's something to do with the kernel? It would be nice to know which kernels contain this bug, and which custom ROMs address it. I'm running GB 2.3.6, and the kernel is 2.6.35.7 [email protected] #1.
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if you have backup of contacts in memory card then..go to file manager there you see your contacts backup file..just extract that file ...
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amolgosavi said:
if you have backup of contacts in memory card then..go to file manager there you see your contacts backup file..just extract that file ...
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Should not be necessary, and only possible if one has another smartphone that doesn't suffer from the same problem. The 5830i can't copy contacts from the SIM card to the SD card because it can't detect them.
zatarra86 said:
OP, you're not alone, I'm also having this problem.
Suggesting one should rely on google to store contacts is not very helpful. One shouldn't have to rely on google. It's not an explanation or a solution.
Using the 'Import Contacts' function doesn't work, and that too should not be necessary.
This seems to be a problem with the 5830i only; I've tried using my SIM card with 4 different 5830s and all SIM contacts show up automatically (no 'importing' necessary).
People are suggesting it's something to do with the kernel? It would be nice to know which kernels contain this bug, and which custom ROMs address it. I'm running GB 2.3.6, and the kernel is 2.6.35.7 [email protected] #1.
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Buddy, if you can't get import to work, then you should rely on other services to store your contacts. We have already provided you with solutions that we know off. It's up to you to use them or not. Also I think @amolgosavi meant the Rafael Baugis stock kernel. Here is the link,
Rafael Baugis stock kernel
Make sure to use the "stock kernel and modules". Hope I Helped
mahithm said:
Buddy, if you can't get import to work, then you should rely on other services to store your contacts. We have already provided you with solutions that we know off. It's up to you to use them or not. Also I think @amolgosavi meant the Rafael Baugis stock kernel. Here is the link,
Rafael Baugis stock kernel
Make sure to use the "stock kernel and modules". Hope I Helped
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rafael baugus kernel is not stock kernel..its stock based custom kernel..
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Bro, I know. That's why I said Rafael Baugis stock kernel meaning a stock based custom kernel made by Rafael Baugis
zatarra86 said:
OP, you're not alone, I'm also having this problem.
Suggesting one should rely on google to store contacts is not very helpful. One shouldn't have to rely on google. It's not an explanation or a solution.
Using the 'Import Contacts' function doesn't work, and that too should not be necessary.
This seems to be a problem with the 5830i only; I've tried using my SIM card with 4 different 5830s and all SIM contacts show up automatically (no 'importing' necessary).
People are suggesting it's something to do with the kernel? It would be nice to know which kernels contain this bug, and which custom ROMs address it. I'm running GB 2.3.6, and the kernel is 2.6.35.7 [email protected] #1.
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It seems the problem is with the kernel. Try flashing this kernel edited by Rafael Baugis and provided to us by @cooperke. It seems to have solved the problem for some users. Here is the link,
Can't read/show sim card !
Make sure to go through the entire thread. Hope I Helped