Hello to all,
My question is simple. When I export my contacts with built in export procedure of gs3 or with MC backup all is okay.
When I restore this vfc file the images of contact are small and the resolution is really low!
How can I make a good backup with images at full resolution?
Thanks!
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mattiadj said:
Hello to all,
My question is simple. When I export my contacts with built in export procedure of gs3 or with MC backup all is okay.
When I restore this vfc file the images of contact are small and the resolution is really low!
How can I make a good backup with images at full resolution?
Thanks!
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Synchronizing with Gmail works fine. Full resolution images are supported in JB. The images used to be downsized in ICS.
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Oomahey said:
Synchronizing with Gmail works fine. Full resolution images are supported in JB. The images used to be downsized in ICS.
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I'm using jb of course but I don't want sync it with Gmail. I want take all my contacts only on phone. It's possible?
Or using Gmail I'll not need anymore to backup and restore when I change rom?
Thanks
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mattiadj said:
I'm using jb of course but I don't want sync it with Gmail. I want take all my contacts only on phone. It's possible?
Or using Gmail I'll not need anymore to backup and restore when I change rom?
Thanks
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No clue about backing up on the phone. But once you sync, you can always restore from Gmail. When you flash a new ROM it first syncs all your contacts and you'll have the full resolution contact pictures, provided you've set good resolution contact pics in the first place when synchronizing. That's what I've been doing for a long time now.
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No clue about backing up on the phone. But once you sync, you can always restore from Gmail. When you flash a new ROM it first syncs all your contacts and you'll have the full resolution contact pictures, provided you've set good resolution contact pics in the first place when synchronizing. That's what I've been doing for a long time now.
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So your suggestion is to not have contact on phone but have them sync with Gmail and stop?
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mattiadj said:
So your suggestion is to not have contact on phone but have theme sync with Gmail and stop?
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Precisely. Very safe that way, even if the SD card goes tits up and/or internal memory gets buggered.
Once synced, the contacts are always available to you. Even if you lose your phone too (I hope that never happens, though)!!
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Oomahey said:
Precisely. Very safe that way, even if the SD card goes tits up and/or internal memory gets buggered.
Once synced, the contacts are always available to you. Even if you lose your phone too (I hope that never happens, though)!!
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Ok mate so not need to restore but is always restored when I sync my Gmail account in Android right?
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mattiadj said:
Ok mate so not need to restore but is always restored when I sync my Gmail account in Android right?
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When you first setup your Gmail account after flashing the ROM, they are synced. Just give it some time to fully download.
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When you first setup your Gmail account after flashing the ROM, they are synced. Just give it some time to fully download.
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I'm doing that... I'll report my experience
Thank you for your support
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mattiadj said:
I'm doing that... I'll report my experience
Thank you for your support
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Good luck! :thumbup:
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Hey guys im thinking about switching over to this Rom but I need to know if this Rom has any VZM apps like backup manager,ect thanks for the help
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It does have backup assistant. It is debloated though.
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Just use TitaniumBackup to remove any apps you don't like.
Yea I just like to use it for my contacts tb for some reason don't like to save all my contact info like the phone numbers
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Your google account will back up contacts for you, numbers emails even pics
I also tried that but for some reason my phone dont sync also tried htc sync and it syncs but options like contacts are locked hence the topic Noon lol
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Sorry for the double post but just tried to use Google sync again and it just skips right past it when I push sync all when I click on contacts it has the sync symbol show up for a quick second then view away without saving anything. I am under accounts and sync BTW unless their is a different way
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make sure your contacts are google contacts thats the only way they will sync
Ok thanks for the help ill Google search on how to make my contacts Google contacts
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bwolf417 said:
Sorry for the double post but just tried to use Google sync again and it just skips right past it when I push sync all when I click on contacts it has the sync symbol show up for a quick second then view away without saving anything. I am under accounts and sync BTW unless their is a different way
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Call me an idiot...but I thought Google sync was obsolete with android, considering most of the devices are powered by Google! ....am I wrong....be nice !!
I will reiterate - Titanium Backup works great for restoring, in my case programs with data like Timeriffic.
studiorat said:
Call me an idiot...but I thought Google sync was obsolete with android, considering most of the devices are powered by Google! ....am I wrong....be nice !!
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You are wrong. Google sync is an android feature. It's one of the benefits to logging in with your gmail account when you setup a new ROM.
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I will reiterate - Titanium Backup works great for restoring, in my case programs with data like Timeriffic.
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I've never been able to get Titanium Backup to backup and restore contacts...
You could just export your contacts to your SD card then import them back after you flash a new ROM. While in people, hit menu then export.
Hi. I'm coming from a stock samsung 2.3.3 rom, I'm all ready to root it and give it a new firmware but will I lose my contacts which are integrated with facebook and all? I backed up a copy of it onto the sd card, but I'm not sure if it keeps the integration.
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provided you have synced with your gmail account, you should keep your contacts. you just log in once you boot up after flashing and your contacts will be refreshed
How do I know if I synced it to my gmail account? Does the backup to sd card function keep the integration with facebook?
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you could also move them to sd card and if they,re on sd csrd, u won't lose them and you would, they still would be in your nandroid backup and you could take them from there with appextracktor
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Crypt!c said:
Hi. I'm coming from a stock samsung 2.3.3 rom, I'm all ready to root it and give it a new firmware but will I lose my contacts which are integrated with facebook and all? I backed up a copy of it onto the sd card, but I'm not sure if it keeps the integration.
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Makrilli said:
you could also move them to sd card and if they,re on sd csrd, u won't lose them and you would, they still would be in your nandroid backup and you could take them from there with appextracktor
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Before you do anything BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP. Use titanium to backup your apps. To find out if your gmail is syncing your contacts go to settings - accounts and sync. You should clearly see if your gmail is syncing your contacts. When you flash a new rom it will ask you to enter your gmail. This will then sync all your contacts to your phone. When you get clockworkmod installed backup a full image of your phone so you wont lose anything. Goodluck!
Thanks for the help guys! Okay gonna see if its syncing but I'm more worried about the facebook integration because I don't want to repeat the tedious process of merging my contacts painstakingly again!
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Ohh another question, erm I can see that my google account is under the list of things syncing, is there somewhere I can check the contacts whether they are saved correctly or not? Thanks guys!
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Hi,
Is anybody know how to get hi-resolution picture loaded into google contacts? Everytime I upload a hi-res picture "google" schrimp it so it look like crap if I use as contact photo??
This has asked again and again and Google doesn't seem to have this as a high priority. If you upload the hi res picture directly into the web version of Google Contacts it will convert it to low res. However, if you update the picture directly on your phone it will stay as a high res picture. Unfortunately if you wipe flash your phone you will need to change all your pictures back to hi res since when you resync your contacts it will bring down the low res images again.
Hi,
Yes I know.....I just thought that there maybe was a thirdpart app out that could do the job.............I got nearly 250 contacts.............it is a pain to edit all and update photo, just to do it again afrher flashing!!!!!
Preaching to the choir. I have updated my photos more times than i can count. Thankfully I am on CM9 now and planning to stick with it for a while which should minimize the amount of times I need to do this. I am amazed that one of the selling points of ICS at their launch event was the hi res contact photos but they are not updating Gmail to accept the sync. I suppose they had planned on a greater adoption of Google + but still i should be able to choose the photos I want and keep the synced with the cloud.
As if by magic (well as close as I could find) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621031
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Someone on the CM9 thread just brought this up. Haxsync from the market works as an alternative, I've been using it since native syncing was removed.
FYI.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/22/google-android-facebook-contacts/
Isadora said:
As if by magic (well as close as I could find) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621031
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Nice find, I'll have to give this a try.
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kchino said:
Someone on the CM9 thread just brought this up. Haxsync from the market works as an alternative, I've been using it since native syncing was removed.
FYI.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/22/google-android-facebook-contacts/
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Haxsync is good if you want Facebook photos. I prefer to choose the photos I choose for my photos.
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As if by magic (well as close as I could find) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1621031
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Thank you so much, tried the program out and works like a charm.
Hi, I am on a Jellybean leak custom ROM and I found that I could set full screen call contact picture, precisely half screen picture. It took me quite some time to change the pictures from a small square pic to the half screen one... I backup my ROM through recovery.
Unfortunately, after I flashed a new ROM and restored from recovery, I found that the half screen pictures were lost! Only small pics left.
Does anyone know how can I backup the big pictures so that I would not lose them after setting again? It would be helpful if I could know which folder are they stored. And is it possible to have them survive after flashing another ROM?
Thanks in advance.
Anyone is gonna help on this? Thanks.
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Anyone is gonna help on this? Thanks.
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Why not go back to the backup before you did all the editing.
Kangburra said:
Why not go back to the backup before you did all the editing.
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Actually I did backup and restore it but most of the pictures were gone. Only some (not all) in my "Favorites" remained. It's weird... That's why I would like to know the answer.
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tczhang said:
Actually I did backup and restore it but most of the pictures were gone. Only some (not all) in my "Favorites" remained. It's weird... That's why I would like to know the answer.
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Are these Google contacts? If so you probably synced them to Google.
JB now supports hd contact images, all you have to do is change the contact images to hd one and sync it with your Google account, and the second step make sure you synced properly
Once you finish this process all you contact images will be in hd on all the jb roms you flash.
Sometimes you need to force sync more than one time to get back hd contacts images back...
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bala_gamer said:
JB now supports hd contact images, all you have to do is change the contact images to hd one and sync it with your Google account, and the second step make sure you synced properly
Once you finish this process all you contact images will be in hd on all the jb roms you flash.
Sometimes you need to force sync more than one time to get back hd contacts images back...
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Really? I didn't know. I will try it out again. Opening background sync all the time though... Thanks for your answer.
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Kangburra said:
Are these Google contacts? If so you probably synced them to Google.
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Yes I am using Google contacts with background syncing.
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Hey guys how to make a backup of high resolution phone book contact pictures.
I restored the phone book contacts from phone memory backup but seems like original large size contact pic are gone
Where are these pics are stored in the phone?
Plz help
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How did you set the Contact pictures? if they were synced straight from Facebook you could try "contact-sync" from the play store but if you just assigned them manually via camera photos, they may be in your gallery.
bsam46 said:
Hey guys how to make a backup of high resolution phone book contact pictures.
I restored the phone book contacts from phone memory backup but seems like original large size contact pic are gone
Where are these pics are stored in the phone?
Plz help
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The best way now is to set the high resolution pics for your contacts once and sync your contacts with Gmail. This way, every time you flash a ROM, all you have to do is sync contacts and you'll have high resolution contacts. Google has implemented this in JB. Sync in ICS brings up low resolution contact pics.
This is better, actually. In case the backup gets corrupted, you have a backup in the cloud with full resolution pics.
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Ok thanks I ll give it a try.
Has anybody noticed a little lag in loading phone book when you have high resolution contact pics? When I go back from contact detail to the main contact list whole screen goes off for a fraction of sec and than comes back. Any ideas to fix this ?
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