Recently I just lost all of my contacts because I updated to jelly bean and gmail synced all the email to my contacts so by eror I deleted even the useful ones.
So anyway, I had backed up before updating, but now, when I try to restore the backup, the backup is stuck on "pending". Does anyone know why?
I'm using the memories exchange swap, but even tried with the memories exchange disabled. What should i do? Or is there anyway to red the .sbf file?
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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!
Alright I tried searching for this but couldn't come upon any proper solution. I'd like to know if this is actually possible? Right now I have contacts coming from 3 different sources, WhatsApp, my Google account, and Facebook. I've been trying to merge all 3 so I don't come up with multiple entries for the same person. Unfortunately all the contacts come unjoined whenever I do a full wipe and upgrade to a new version of the same ROM. I am currently running on Foxhound. I've tried backing up contacts and restoring via Titanium backup but I still find myself losing the contacts I joined previously. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks!
hello,
i've upgraded my s3 from stock rom 4.0.4 to Cyanogenmod 10 4.1.2.
now some contacts got lost, i tried importing them from my nandroid backup over titanium backup pro.
After importing my contacts application crashes though so i had to delete all contact data.
is there any program to open contacts2.db which displays the contacts in a nice, readable way?
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Hi,
I am having a similar problem. For some reason not all my contacts were synced up, and I want to recover them.
Were you able to resolve this, if so, how?
Thanks in advance for any info you can provide.
secreit said:
hello,
i've upgraded my s3 from stock rom 4.0.4 to Cyanogenmod 10 4.1.2.
now some contacts got lost, i tried importing them from my nandroid backup over titanium backup pro.
After importing my contacts application crashes though so i had to delete all contact data.
is there any program to open contacts2.db which displays the contacts in a nice, readable way?
sorry if this is in the wrong section
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secreit said:
hello,
i've upgraded my s3 from stock rom 4.0.4 to Cyanogenmod 10 4.1.2.
now some contacts got lost, i tried importing them from my nandroid backup over titanium backup pro.
After importing my contacts application crashes though so i had to delete all contact data.
is there any program to open contacts2.db which displays the contacts in a nice, readable way?
sorry if this is in the wrong section
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Search "sqlite" in play store and download one of those sqlite database managers.
If you're using Google contacts, then remove yourself from Google on your phone in settings. That will clear everything.
Then go to google contacts on the web and check if any contacts are missing. If not, just add Google I'd again and let it resync.
If you're not sure or if contacts are missing. Then Google has nifty little feature of reverting contacts to a specific date. Kinda like windows restore. That should get you back on track, then after restore, add the google account to sync and you're set.
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Shankre said:
Hi,
I am having a similar problem. For some reason not all my contacts were synced up, and I want to recover them.
Were you able to resolve this, if so, how?
Thanks in advance for any info you can provide.
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Preface (skip if you want):
So a week ago, my data and wifi both stopped working alltogether. If I did a factory reset, it worked, but when I restored my synced apps, it stopped working again. I reset without syncing, so I backed up everything using Titanium, and did an upgrade to Jelly Bean AOKP.
Now, my contacts won't restore.
When I try, nothing shows up in my contacts book, even though when I view my db files in .txt format, I can see jumbled info.
Titanium can't back up my contacts probably because I was using "Contacts" in Ginger Bread, and Jelly Bean has "People". I don't know, I'm a noob. I'm just guessing.
I've JUST finished restoring via Titanium and redownloading all my apps. And now I read I have to go back to stock firmware and back it up again and go back to AOKP?!
PLEASE help me figure out another way!
I only had computer access yesterday while visiting family (my own is broken).
Idea 1 (attempt in progress):
Remove "People" app on JB, restore original contact book, back up there, remove old GB book, reinstall People.
Problem is, I don't know where to find "People" again. Nor do I know how to uninstall it.
So, trying to figure that out.
Idea 2
Dissect my compressed backed up files and retype everything out, or replace my People files with them.
- com.android.contacts-20121205-121353.tar
- com.android.contacts-63595028103eedc350c975b39a6e23f4.odex
- com.android.contacts-e358929a51f0e35200269216062cfd41.apk
- com.android.mms-1eb9bc46bf5a27dcf82f70a4c46e23ac.apk
I managed to scavenge (out of other things):
- contacts2.db
- contacts2.db-journal
- profile.db
- profile.db-journal
...NO IDEA how.
Sync yout contacts with your google account before flashing JB. After flashing JB set your Google account and your contacts will be restored to your device.
If upgrading between stock roms you can also backup and restore contacts using Samsung Kies.
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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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