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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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!
After I flashed the new rom I used titanium backup to restore my stuff like usual...however this time after I restore all my apps and system data the phone acted very unstable! I reflashed and now I am wondering if anyone knows what the file name is for my contacts and Sms messages? I really would like to get my contacts back up. Thanks for all the help!
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Use google for your contacts, then a soon as you log into your gmail account it will sync them.
SMS may not be recoverable if you change Android versions (2.1 -> 2.2, 2.2 -> 2.2.1, etc)
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Your sms's are gone unless you used an app called sms back up!
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A good rule of thumb is to restore system data. Keep your contacts backed up with Google or on your SIM card and simply redo the rest once the new ROM has settled (10 minutes and a couple reboots).
There's a simple reason for this: If the author of your new ROM tweaked one of the system files that you're restoring, restoring from a backup could destabilize your ROM, or worse, send you into boot-loops.
3rd party apps (Angry Birds and the like) are usually safe, while System apps (SMS, Launcher settings) are unsafe often enough to want to avoid restoring them.
One other thing, you did not say which rom you changed to. If it was MIUI, then titanium does not fully work. You will have to restore one at a time on the non-system apps per the above post.
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After I flashed the new rom I used titanium backup to restore my stuff like usual...however this time after I restore all my apps and system data the phone acted very unstable! I reflashed and now I am wondering if anyone knows what the file name is for my contacts and Sms messages? I really would like to get my contacts back up. Thanks for all the help!
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Here's what I'd do:
1. Restore the NANDROID you made before flashing the new rom
(or in case you didn't)
1. Flash the ROM you were previously on, and restore your titanium backup'd stuff
Next
2. Enable "sync contacts" with google (as suggested above)
3. If your Sms messages are restored, back them up as suggested above
Then
4. Flash your new rom
5. Enable "sync contacts" with google to get your contacts
6. Use the Sms restorer thingy mentioned above
Moving Rom and want to do a Factory Reset
Have ex Dialer and GoSms. With GoSms I can back up the texts
What I want to do is back up my contacts and their images so when I install the new Rom I can restore the contacts and their images. Don't have my contacts synched to the Google Server
Had a look at the play store and there are plenty of options but they all seem to export them to csv files
Any recommendations on an app that can back up and restore contacts and the images assigned to them?
Thanks in advance
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Moving Rom and want to do a Factory Reset
Have ex Dialer and GoSms. With GoSms I can back up the texts
What I want to do is back up my contacts and their images so when I install the new Rom I can restore the contacts and their images. Don't have my contacts synched to the Google Server
Had a look at the play store and there are plenty of options but they all seem to export them to csv files
Any recommendations on an app that can back up and restore contacts and the images assigned to them?
Thanks in advance
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Use stock dialer and export contacts to Ur sd card.... I used it every time when flashing rom as I also dont like to put my contacts in google...
why not just make a nandroid backup using CWM and keeping this backup somewhere safe on your PC (it can be found in /sdcard/clcokworkmod/backup/<your backup,copy this file to your PC>
Back contacts up with Google always restore first time every time for me.
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why not just make a nandroid backup using CWM and keeping this backup somewhere safe on your PC (it can be found in /sdcard/clcokworkmod/backup/<your backup,copy this file to your PC>
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I use CWM to back up the ROM but how can you back up contacts using CWM?
I was on stock, did a TB and twrp backup.
Flashed to beans 12 ROM.
Now none of my contacts have phone numbers.
Anything I can do to get them back?
Or do I have to restore stock, then save contacts separately (how) and reinstall beans 12 ROM?
Found it.
Under settings in phone I hit import from SD card.
Then everything was duplicated. But can select show only contacts with numbers.
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Doesnt ur google account back up all your numbers..make sure ur phone is backed up with google and as soon as you sign into your account all your nbers should be there
so here goes the story.
My dad's galaxy s3 had an Omega rom on 4.1.2
I decided to update with CM12 Unofficial from Temsek few days back. I didnt take any backup because there was nothing important there to be saved and I believed all the contacts are backed up to Google server.
So I flashed the latest TWRP and did clean install of CM12 and gapps and everything was fine.
But after logging into google and installing apps again. I reaslised all the contacts are missing! I have checked Google accounts and I cant see any contacts there. I am not sure what happened. Because I am pretty sure when I installed Omega earlier, contacts were backed up with Google.
In the end, I believe I have lost all the contacts ( 20 yrs worth of contacts).
But I found on my PC a nandroid backup of Stock FW from 2012 which I must have backed up using CMW.
My questions are:
- Do I have to flash Clockworkmod recovery again to restore the backup?
- And if I do successfully restore the backup, will the contacts be still there?
- Will there be an issue if I am going back from CM12 to Stock backup from 2012.
Please help guys. I don't want my dad to loose all his contacts!!
Instead of trying to restore the nandroid, which will lead to loss of imei and serial number, just use titanium backup to extract your contacts from the backup file.
thanks for ur reply..
but this will work even if it was not a titanium backup?
Best go read about titanium backup.