Hello there, I bought my grandmother a galaxy s 3 yesterday. When I inserted the SIM card into it I found that some contacts were missing so, i took out the SIM card and the contacts were still in the phone although that I didn't import them. So I deleted them from the SIM card (since my grandmother SIM card is old and can't accommodate more than 130 contacts) and insert it into the old phone (nokia 7230) again to copy the remaining contacts. But when I inserted the SIM card back into the galaxy the contacts I moved them in the first place were gone!! Please help me..
reem6006 said:
Hello there, I bought my grandmother a galaxy s 3 yesterday. When I inserted the SIM card into it I found that some contacts were missing so, i took out the SIM card and the contacts were still in the phone although that I didn't import them. So I deleted them from the SIM card (since my grandmother SIM card is old and can't accommodate more than 130 contacts) and insert it into the old phone (nokia 7230) again to copy the remaining contacts. But when I inserted the SIM card back into the galaxy the contacts I moved them in the first place were gone!! Please help me..
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do you still have the contacts stored on the Nokia? If so copy again, if not, you will have a challenge in recovering them. You could try some tool to restore the data on the S3 though.
Usually a good practice is to sync all contacts with your Google Account, that way you always have a backup!
Try RECUVA
jje
JJEgan said:
Try RECUVA
jje
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that's the tool's name that I could not remember thanks @JJEgan
The other one from Play might be Delete pro or something like .
jje
Back up your contact with GMAIL @ Google Account. You will restore them automatically whenever you did a factory reset or switch phone without hastle.
chrismast said:
do you still have the contacts stored on the Nokia? If so copy again, if not, you will have a challenge in recovering them. You could try some tool to restore the data on the S3 though.
Usually a good practice is to sync all contacts with your Google Account, that way you always have a backup!
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unfortunately not, and that's the problem. I did search for some recovery applications but i didn't know how to make them recognize the phone memory ( i'm a mac user).
thank you for the help.
JJEgan said:
Try RECUVA
jje
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this is for windows. im i mac user. i might try the other one in the play store when my grandmother comes back. she traveled to another city today but i have the nokia. is it possible to recover the data from the nokia?
thanks a lot.
YRAJ23 said:
Back up your contact with GMAIL @ Google Account. You will restore them automatically whenever you did a factory reset or switch phone without hastle.
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i always do that i just forgot to sync since the phone was just unboxed. I'v learnt the lesson of course.
thanks for the advice.
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how...or am i really having a bad blonde moment????
as i need to sent my hero back and i have all contact on the phone and not my new sim card
i have been pressing everything and no joy.....doh!
Never found a way.....I gave up and switched all the contacts to Google. Less hasle in the end.
Contacts to Sim
Hi,
You can only copy a single contact to the Sim at a time...
Open people
Select Contact
Press Menu
Press more
Copy to Sim is available there
There is no way to copy all your contacts to the sim in one go except by using an application from the android market called Contact2Sim (Search Contact To Sim)
thanks for the help......
i have just sat in the van for 30 mins and did figure it out myself....
but im sure many other people will have the same question...so i hope this will help some else
liamhere said:
how...or am i really having a bad blonde moment????
as i need to sent my hero back and i have all contact on the phone and not my new sim card
i have been pressing everything and no joy.....doh!
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You can actually save the contacts back to the SIM... one by one. It is tedious. It takes time. And it is BORING!!!
I mean, we can import all the contacts from the SIM to either the phone or to Google in one go but not the other way around. What if I change SIM card and absolutly want my contacts on the new card too?
Hmm... Contact2SIM? will check it out.
Edit: I have tried Contact To Sim now and it works... almost. It really writes the contacts to the sim but it does some very weird stuff though... it doesn't tell the default People/Phone application that the contents on the SIM have changed so they don't show the changed data untill you reboot the phone...
It seems that the contents on the SIM only get read on the startup sequence of the phone, any changes after that to the SIM will have to be made from People to refelct the changes. If some other application changes the information it won't be updated in People or the Phone apps.
Hi all,
Does anyone else get dashes int the phone numbers when you backup the contacts to the SD card?
If you restore or look in the lastest *.vcf file in /sdcard/system/PIM, the contacts look like this for me:
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:Bob Jones;;;;
FN:Bob Jones
TEL;CELL:012-345-67890
END:VCARD
Using Generic UK 2.1 (also got this with Generic NCB), anybody have any thoughts on how to change it?
Got the same problem. There seems to be a parser in the contact database which assumes that all phone numbers must somehow comply with US AT&T format. Hence even if your number is +44 121 555 3111 it can be be parsed and restored as +44 1-215-553-111.
Strange, very strange. Will dig more Thanks for confirming
SaintyUK said:
Strange, very strange. Will dig more Thanks for confirming
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I confirm that this happens to me too and it is SOOO annoying!
What I've came up with as a "workaround" is to backup my contacts via Titanium Backup. It stores them on the SD too, so you won't have to worry more about losing them, and the app is free on the Market. Only downside is, it needs root to work. But rooting is easy nowadays!
Hi guys I have a request to you that do all ste mod but you can have on gs2 settings heading as gs1 on gs1 you can see only the heading and the sim card instead heading gs2 you can't see it sees only one phone and one of the account and no one sim card, you can enable this feature in section gs2
Thanks to everyone and help
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Hi guys I have a request to you that do all ste mod but you can have on gs2 settings heading as gs1 on gs1 you can see only the heading and the sim card instead heading gs2 you can't see it sees only one phone and one of the account and no one sim card, you can enable this feature in section gs2
Thanks to everyone and help
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Help me and risolution is questions
More to the point anybody understand your post .
jje
JJEgan said:
More to the point anybody understand your post .
jje
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wanted to be helped to enable reading of phonebook on sim card as it is in settings gs2 rubric of gs1
now I hope I have been clear
I don't think you can display the sim card contacts, just import them from the sim card to the phone. Contacts, Menu button, Import/Export
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I don't think you can display the sim card contacts, just import them from the sim card to the phone. Contacts, Menu button, Import/Export
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you know this already but I wanted to see how sim card phonebook on galaxy s1 that gives you the option to save your contacts to the sim card and see the contacts from sim card to import
luitruda said:
you know this already but I wanted to see how sim card phonebook on galaxy s1 that gives you the option to save your contacts to the sim card and see the contacts from sim card to import
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i know sgs II doesn't have this option and i find it such a let down. this was very handy for me.
Hello everyone,
I am using galaxy sIII international version with android 4.1.2 installed.
There is a huge problem I am having with my contacts. My contacts storage file kept getting larger and larger, yesterday it got to 3gb and now when i look at contacts storage it shows it has a size of 5gb. All my phone memory is thus now full, and I don't have that many contacts.
I am not able to open contacts, however. I can not view any contacts when I connect my phone to my pc with Kies also. And while doing these I have been really patient for them to load, and no, they do not load. I have deleted facebook and haxsync thinking they may be filling it, but still, no change.
So now I have a contacts file that takes 5gb of space (it is stuck to that as it got my memory full) and can not be opened. It is as if my phone has a huge cancer.
Anyone, who can advise anything, I am desperate, waiting for your help. I just want to save my contacts that have a phone number.
Camekan said:
Hello everyone,
I am using galaxy sIII international version with android 4.1.2 installed.
There is a huge problem I am having with my contacts. My contacts storage file kept getting larger and larger, yesterday it got to 3gb and now when i look at contacts storage it shows it has a size of 5gb. All my phone memory is thus now full, and I don't have that many contacts.
I am not able to open contacts, however. I can not view any contacts when I connect my phone to my pc with Kies also. And while doing these I have been really patient for them to load, and no, they do not load. I have deleted facebook and haxsync thinking they may be filling it, but still, no change.
So now I have a contacts file that takes 5gb of space (it is stuck to that as it got my memory full) and can not be opened. It is as if my phone has a huge cancer.
Anyone, who can advise anything, I am desperate, waiting for your help. I just want to save my contacts that have a phone number.
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have you tried doing a wipe data/factory reset.
squ89r97 said:
have you tried doing a wipe data/factory reset.
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If I wipe the data I will lose all the contacts that I use. I aim to find a better solution, yet in the end if someone can't help that seems to be what I will have to stick to.
Any other ideas?
Camekan said:
If I wipe the data I will lose all the contacts that I use. I aim to find a better solution, yet in the end if someone can't help that seems to be what I will have to stick to.
Any other ideas?
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Sync your contacts via your google account if they aren't already! You'll get them back that way, or download an app and save them to your external sd card!
squ89r97 said:
Sync your contacts via your google account if they aren't already! You'll get them back that way, or download an app and save them to your external sd card!
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Thank you sir, a lot! I had forgotten that Google synced all my contacts, I cleared the data and now all are restored from Google.
Again thank you so much, this had made me busy all day, and now it's solved
Hi guys, usually when you're going to format/change another roms for your phone,
how did you backup your whatsapp chat/pictures/videos ?
(Not to mention the newer version of whatsapp that can upload to GD)
Because usually what I do is connect phone to PC and copy the entire Whatsapp file to PC, once I done format, copy it back to phone and install back Whatsapp and restore.
But I notice that some pictures might be gone or replace by other pictures twice or above.. but the chat history is ok
Any solution to fix? or this is normal situation?
You will be hard pressed to get a good answer. Most here have stopped using whatsapp almost a year ago and have moved on to more secure options.
Well most users in the states. I know it is popular in other countries. Like India. Maybe one of those members will have an idea.
zelendel said:
You will be hard pressed to get a good answer. Most here have stopped using whatsapp almost a year ago and have moved on to more secure options.
Well most users in the states. I know it is popular in other countries. Like India. Maybe one of those members will have an idea.
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Yeah it's true, btw thanks for reply
Any idea guys?
Any helps?
U should install titaniyum backup. apk from plystore and backup all apk with data.or u can back up only data when u installed a new rom or new version of whatsapp.
Try it dear
Just move whatsapp folder from your internal storage to sd card and then after flashing move it back to internal.
Or use titanium backup.
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Speedspaz said:
Just move whatsapp folder from your internal storage to sd card and then after flashing move it back to internal.
Or use titanium backup.
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Say I have formatted my phone, then do I move the whole WA folder to the internal storage after reinstalling WA or before that?
zelendel said:
You will be hard pressed to get a good answer. Most here have stopped using whatsapp almost a year ago and have moved on to more secure options.
Well most users in the states. I know it is popular in other countries. Like India. Maybe one of those members will have an idea.
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More secure option?
What is it? Please tell me
Thank you