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Hi guys
Got an issue here and was wondering if someone can help
I have got my contact list how I want it with all phone numbers correct and all contact pictures. I have backed this up to SD card.
All of a sudden I noticed that I was missing some contacts. They had just vanished.
I have my phone set to sync with Gmail as I want to get my emails however, I have a feeling this is where the problem lies. I uploaded my saved contacts file to gmail so that my phone contacts and gmail contacts were identical. All was ok for a few hours then I noticed that contacts were missing again.
Can someone help me out? Is there a way I can sync with gmail and not contacts? I have been through all the options and turned off all sync settings (except mail) but its still happening.
Maybe this is not a sync issue and actually a problem with the phone?
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help
Hmmm perhaps u can try make sure your contacts r al saved in gmail correctly.. take sync off, delete al your contacts aswel as your backup in sdcard, reboot then turn sync on?
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I found when gmail sync'd back to the phone the contact pics were really low res and not worth using
What are you using to back up your contacts...? the installed SE backup will not backup synced contacts, and the android contact backup (you use from the contacts menu) will not backup pictures in the full x10 resolution... With a whole lot of stuffing around, I think I got the best results backing up my system with Sprite Mobile and recovering it through the SE Backup (they're both made by Sprite, but seem to have different options (one's got better backup, the other has better restore - yeah, it's odd, but worked for me, whereas any one on its own would not)
Oh, and have you asked your girlfriend about it...? Mine frequently goes into my phone and deletes contacts she doesn't think should be in there...
k1sr said:
Oh, and have you asked your girlfriend about it...? Mine frequently goes into my phone and deletes contacts she doesn't think should be in there...
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Lol, thats funny!
The only way I have found to stop it is to completely stop syncing even with gmail and to use maildroid to get my mail instead
k1sr said:
Oh, and have you asked your girlfriend about it...? Mine frequently goes into my phone and deletes contacts she doesn't think should be in there...
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and she still is your girlfriend?
Hi GUYS!
I just bought the Thunderbolt, My very first Droid very very happy!
My question is how do i back up my contacts..
I rooted my phone last week, and have installed perfect storm ROM. and backed everything up with Titanium Back up.
However, I realize that every time a new ROM or updated version comes out, I would have to wipe all my data. I only restore User Apps and no the System Data, becomes this is a new rom. Or should i restore all??
So my question is what files do i need to restore from Titanium backup to restore my contacts. because it gets very annoying having to link my contacts between Google email account, and Exchange each time.
**is there a way I can save all the phone contacts i have from exchange, and link that to Google permanently?
So when i updated my Google account, all my number would come out..
or is there a file i can restore through my Ti Backup to save all that hassle, Everytime I wipe.
Thanks Guys!
Your contacts should have sync'd to your online Google account.
That's the beauty of Android. Once everything is sync'd up. You can change phones, log into your google account and just resync all your info immediately.
hey buddy,
how do i sync all my contact to my google account now?
Dnakaman said:
Your contacts should have sync'd to your online Google account.
That's the beauty of Android. Once everything is sync'd up. You can change phones, log into your google account and just resync all your info immediately.
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yea importing contacts can be bad if you have google sync on, it will create duplicate contacts if you restore contacts and alot of hassle removing the dupes
If you add your contacts as Google contacts you can edit them/view them online at http://www.google.com/contacts . They will automatically sync up then. Also, there are programs on Market you can get to save the contacts as well. Lastly, with most roms, once you get going with it, you don't *always* have to wipe; oftentimes you can just do it as an upgrade. At least that's what I can tell.
MisterDonut said:
hey buddy,
how do i sync all my contact to my google account now?
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check under accounts and sync and make sure your google sync is on, contacts calendar and mail. when you save contacts on your phone you are given 2 options, phone contact or google contact. always choose google contact if you want them auto synced. Phone contacts wont get backup unless you use Verizon's Backup Assistant or use a 3rd party program like Ti Backup Pro or some other software to do it. Easier to use google contact and forget about it.
I came from a blackberry with Exchange mail.. So all my contacts are actually stored in my exchange mail. So is there a way where I can just sync all my contact information from Exchange mail to Google account.
I hate having to link both google info with my exchange mail info.. A couple of times i don't mind, but if i want to play around and update roms frequently i rather not deal with this type of problem if its avoidable.
Once you are all updated on your Google account, anytime you change roms and you get the "Welcome to Android" startup screen (If you wipe your phone prior to changing roms), once you put in your google ID and password, your phone will "pull" the contact information to your phone from your google account, so you won't need to re-input anything.
Only time you may have an issue is if you had a contact on your phone and for whatever reason you did not sync before wiping, you may lose any added contacts that didn't get sync'd up.
The easiest way I backed up my contacts was just make a vcard back up from the menu in messaging app to your SD card and then restoring it from your SD card when your done flashing. It was very fast and easy for me.
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Quick question. When i export my contacts out of my phone book, to my sd card. when i do a wipe. does the wipe, wipe everything on the sd card as well.
sorry i'm very new.. been using a blackberry for the last 4 years.. and this has been an amazing moment in my life.. the only thing i miss is the keypad on my bold.. but the gingerbread keypad is making my transition a silky smooth one.
*i just imported my contact info from my exchange to Google.. Now my google is up to date.. i think i'm ready to play.
MisterDonut said:
Quick question. When i export my contacts out of my phone book, to my sd card. when i do a wipe. does the wipe, wipe everything on the sd card as well.
sorry i'm very new.. been using a blackberry for the last 4 years.. and this has been an amazing moment in my life.. the only thing i miss is the keypad on my bold.. but the gingerbread keypad is making my transition a silky smooth one.
*i just imported my contact info from my exchange to Google.. Now my google is up to date.. i think i'm ready to play.
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wipe wont wipe your sdcard, unless you physically do so in clockwork recovery.
Sounds like you got everything set up. Congrats on your new phone!
On a side-note. You have an Android, not a Droid. The Droids are a specific set of Verizon Android devices.
skinien said:
Sounds like you got everything set up. Congrats on your new phone!
On a side-note. You have an Android, not a Droid. The Droids are a specific set of Verizon Android devices.
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Yea, we don't need George Lucas coming here and demanding money for using the name
Lol... Btw Wat does cw recovery do?
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Hey XDA!
I have a rooted Samung Infuse with AT&T and am currently running ZEUS with few problems. I love this ROM but I am going to switch up and flash a newer ROM within the next few days. However, (back in January) before I got ZEUS, I went from the Stock ROM to MIUI and I used Titanium Backup to transfer all of my data. When I backed up contacts in the Stock ROM through Titanium and tried to restore them once I had MIUI, I kept getting force close messages that made the phone unusable because they were so frequent. I isolated the problem to be related with contacts and just deleted my saved contacts. The problem went away, but I ended up switching to ZEUS later, now with no contacts.
Anyway, I don't know if that was a random occurrence that happened only to me in my flashing process, but to avoid anything like that again, I'd like to be able to backup my contacts to Google. I've seen it mentioned several times here and on Google's site, but never did I find a how to or any sort of procedure. Can someone explain to me (as comprehensively as possible) how to backup my contacts to Google?
Any guidance or redirection would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a lot!
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Actually, you only need to activate the sync option on Settings >Sync (or account settings, I dunno). All your contacts will be uploaded to your GMail account, and downloaded to your phone the next time
You can also make a manual backup, doing this:
Go to Phone >Contacts >press Menu key >Import/export >export contacts to SD. So, when you need your contacts, follow the same procedure, choosing now Import contacts from SD.
RoberGalarga said:
Actually, you only need to activate the sync option on Settings >Sync (or account settings, I dunno). All your contacts will be uploaded to your GMail account, and downloaded to your phone the next time
You can also make a manual backup, doing this:
Go to Phone >Contacts >press Menu key >Import/export >export contacts to SD. So, when you need your contacts, follow the same procedure, choosing now Import contacts from SD.
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Thanks a lot! I tried every manner of playing with the settings possible. I had the account sync multiple times, but none of the contacts actually stored when I checked on a computer. I'm just gonna settle with the backups from Titanium, my SD card, and my Sim. No worries!
i had to clear the data from "contacts" and "contacts data" to clear an error that kept popping up after i flashed the latest task aokp rom, coming from a previous 4.1 version of the rom.
but now i cant sync the contacts back into my phone from the google servers/gmail. ive been trying regular syncing and resyncing but im still not getting my contacts back. the contacts are on gmail but i cant get them back on my phone.
does anyone have any solutions to this? tried searching google and xda but im getting much luck. thanks
metalhawj said:
i had to clear the data from "contacts" and "contacts data" to clear an error that kept popping up after i flashed the latest task aokp rom, coming from a previous 4.1 version of the rom.
but now i cant sync the contacts back into my phone from the Google servers/gmail. ive been trying regular syncing and re-syncing but im still not getting my contacts back. the contacts are on gmail but i cant get them back on my phone.
Does anyone have any solutions to this? tried searching google and xda but im getting much luck. thanks
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-Did you try deleting your Google account in accounts from your phone and then add it back? That might work. Since you checked online and your contacts are still on Google, it sounds like a sync-focused problem and not an account issue. Is your Google Calendar syncing? Also are other accounts syncing?
I once installed a rom (not Tasks) and the contacts did not show up until I reloaded gmail and sent myself an email. (I don't normally use Gmail, but did for that issue!)
Sorry, I don't have more recommendations!
Good Luck!
markbc01 said:
-Did you try deleting your Google account in accounts from your phone and then add it back? That might work. Since you checked online and your contacts are still on Google, it sounds like a sync-focused problem and not an account issue. Is your Google Calendar syncing? Also are other accounts syncing?
I once installed a rom (not Tasks) and the contacts did not show up until I reloaded gmail and sent myself an email. (I don't normally use Gmail, but did for that issue!)
Sorry, I don't have more recommendations!
Good Luck!
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thanks. i found a temporary solution. i exportedthe contacts from desktop gmail into the svc? format and imported that list on the phone
metalhawj said:
thanks. i found a temporary solution. i exportedthe contacts from desktop gmail into the svc? format and imported that list on the phone
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good job! However, I would be concerned that they may not sync or stay updated. . . You might still have a sync issue.
Does your calendar sync? Also gmail on the phone stays sync'd with the desktop /web versions? That's the issue!
markbc01 said:
good job! However, I would be concerned that they may not sync or stay updated. . . You might still have a sync issue.
Does your calendar sync? Also gmail on the phone stays sync'd with the desktop /web versions? That's the issue!
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unfortunately, this is actually my gf's phone and she doesnt use google services so the only thing she has with google are her contacts. so as of right now, shes not pissed that she didnt lose her contacts so im ok for now. lol
Hi,
I installed CM 11 M7 recently and i noticed one thing. When i reboot the phone, Some of my contacts disappear from the list.
Say suppose i have 300 contacts; after rebooting the phone there will be 230 contacts.
Then i have to load the latest .vcf file from storage to get updated contacts.
Any possible reason for this? and also Any working solution?
thanks
SubraiSambary said:
Hi,
I installed CM 11 M7 recently and i noticed one thing. When i reboot the phone, Some of my contacts disappear from the list.
Say suppose i have 300 contacts; after rebooting the phone there will be 230 contacts.
Then i have to load the latest .vcf file from storage to get updated contacts.
Any possible reason for this? and also Any working solution?
thanks
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I suggest you to keep your contacts on sim card so you can't lose them. I have both CM and google accounts so everytime I install a new version of CM, automatically I find my contacts directly set. But I don't really know wich one saves them
Giobio said:
I suggest you to keep your contacts on sim card so you can't lose them. I have both CM and google accounts so everytime I install a new version of CM, automatically I find my contacts directly set. But I don't really know wich one saves them
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That's a good idea. SIM. but the only problem in saving it in sim is that you can't store multiple numbers under one contact and you can't use big names. that's why i prefer phone. i do a back up of that and keep the .vcf file.
All my contacts are synchronized with google account, i have no problems and all contacts are there after flashing
Well.. i guess we need to sync the contacts (people) with google account. After that it does not loose some.
I synced the contacts with google account and now its working good after rebooting.
The same thing happened to me 3 to 4 months ago, after doing some experiments, I came to know that this happens when I restore my contacts from a app or a .vcf file. So I just synced all the contacts with google. So now when ever I update or flash a new ROM, all the contacts get synced when I finish the Setup Wizard thingy.
driverless said:
The same thing happened to me 3 to 4 months ago, after doing some experiments, I came to know that this happens when I restore my contacts from a app or a .vcf file. So I just synced all the contacts with google. So now when ever I update or flash a new ROM, all the contacts get synced when I finish the Setup Wizard thingy.
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I thought this got resolved.. but yesterday it happened again. I had synced the contacts with google account but still after the reboot it lost some of them. :|
SubraiSambary said:
I thought this got resolved.. but yesterday it happened again. I had synced the contacts with google account but still after the reboot it lost some of them. :|
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Well, after the google sync thingy, I did not loose any of my contacts. Maybe its your ROM or maybe an application in your phone which is causing that problem?
driverless said:
Well, after the google sync thingy, I did not loose any of my contacts. Maybe its your ROM or maybe an application in your phone which is causing that problem?
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Well i guess i'll have to stick to may be...
SubraiSambary said:
Hi,
I installed CM 11 M7 recently and i noticed one thing. When i reboot the phone, Some of my contacts disappear from the list.
Say suppose i have 300 contacts; after rebooting the phone there will be 230 contacts.
Then i have to load the latest .vcf file from storage to get updated contacts.
Any possible reason for this? and also Any working solution?
thanks
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welcome to xda ! now was that so hard ? now you can do all the flashing yourself feel free to contact me.
shriom_manerker said:
welcome to xda ! now was that so hard ? now you can do all the flashing yourself feel free to contact me.
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LOL! not really. But yes.. it was scary! :laugh:
I'll surely contact you when in dilemma!
same problem with my SGS plus
I am using CM11 custom ROM on my mobile.Few days it worked fine but after that came to know that contacts are getting disappeared completely after reboot and I need to restore again from storage and it keeps on happening for me.
Actually when I am doing contact import from storage,I am getting pop window saying Trebuschet not responding.I could see initially in the import contact process it is trying to import the contacts to cache and then may be to actual location.
Is that contacts remaining in cache itself which is causing to disappear after reboot?
Also found that not every reboot causing this problem only sometimes.
Please let me know how to resolve and I don't want to restore my contacts from sim.
sandeep dhavileswarapu said:
I am using CM11 custom ROM on my mobile.Few days it worked fine but after that came to know that contacts are getting disappeared completely after reboot and I need to restore again from storage and it keeps on happening for me.
Actually when I am doing contact import from storage,I am getting pop window saying Trebuschet not responding.I could see initially in the import contact process it is trying to import the contacts to cache and then may be to actual location.
Is that contacts remaining in cache itself which is causing to disappear after reboot?
Also found that not every reboot causing this problem only sometimes.
Please let me know how to resolve and I don't want to restore my contacts from sim.
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Update your rom.