Hi,
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4, which had multiple google accounts added to it. Idiot that I might be, I reset the device, and now I cannot remember some of those email addresses. I know their passwords, they even have my email as recovery email, I just don't know what they were.
The device has been backed up to cloud.
Is there any possible way to recover just the emails of the accounts which were there?
Thanks.
mrQQ said:
Hi,
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4, which had multiple google accounts added to it. Idiot that I might be, I reset the device, and now I cannot remember some of those email addresses. I know their passwords, they even have my email as recovery email, I just don't know what they were.
The device has been backed up to cloud.
Is there any possible way to recover just the emails of the accounts which were there?
Thanks.
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As far a I'm aware, No. Unless you had a TWRP backup done recently or at some point with those email addresses logged in, There's no way. Your best shot is to either remember them or ask a friend if they know them or search your "sent" history if you ever sent yourself emails from another. Sorry.
Yeah, I remembered them in this case, but I wonder, is it possible to somehow manually download android backups from google servers to look at them...
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Is there a problem with the contacts when using more than a few thousand contacts?
hope you guys can help me, been looking everywhere but can't find a solution :S
I am trying to sync a Galaxy S2 (completely stock) with outlook using kies, the thing is that there are about 25,000 contacts in outlook, Kies takes about 1 hour to complete, sometimes it doesn't even complete, it hangs at different % (at 0% or 25% or 65% or 70%, randomly) but once it does, I open the contacts in the Galaxy s2 and it hangs when I want to do anything with the contacts, like search them.
This is what I have tried so far:
Clear Contacts storage cache
Clear Contacts storage completely and re-sync again
used go contact EX form the market
the owner does not want to soft-reset the phone,I don't think it would work anyway because the phone is literally days old everything is fresh and completely stock.
the owner does not want to root the phone and changing a ROM is completely out of the question.
A few thousand.... But it's 25000 with a plus... LOL
Obviously it hangs. Why do you need 25000 contacts??
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The only people with that many contacts are Spammers. Seriously.
Not necessarily. If he has his device hooked up to a corporate account, there could easily be that many employees in Outlook. I think I'd have the same issue if I chose to sync my work contacts.
niabi, I think you'd be better off NOT syncing contacts for that account to the phone. You don't need to. At least, I don't.
wow thanks for all the "nice" replies... first of all I am not a spammer, second it is not my phone, its the company owner's phone... why does he need 25,000+ contacts? god knows! but then again... company owners usually don't explain stuff, but I am sure it is not to send spam, its he's list, and only he has access to it.
I tried explaining it would hang with so many contacts, but the problem is he had an HTC that had the same amount of contacts on it and the phone worked fine, so (without being asked a spammer, thank you) ... is there any chance, anyone knows any way of how to make this work ? or should I just tell him its impossible?
ctomgee said:
Not necessarily. If he has his device hooked up to a corporate account, there could easily be that many employees in Outlook. I think I'd have the same issue if I chose to sync my work contacts.
niabi, I think you'd be better off NOT syncing contacts for that account to the phone. You don't need to. At least, I don't.
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Thank you!
I agree with you, I think I will try to explain him that, and he has to make a decision.
atifsh said:
A few thousand.... But it's 25000 with a plus... LOL
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hehe isn't 25,000+ a "few thousand"?
niabi said:
wow thanks for all the "nice" replies... first of all I am not a spammer, second it is not my phone, its the company owner's phone... why does he need 25,000+ contacts? god knows! but then again... company owners usually don't explain stuff, but I am sure it is not to send spam, its he's list, and only he has access to it.
I tried explaining it would hang with so many contacts, but the problem is he had an HTC that had the same amount of contacts on it and the phone worked fine, so (without being asked a spammer, thank you) ... is there any chance, anyone knows any way of how to make this work ? or should I just tell him its impossible?
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As I said, he doesn't NEED the contacts on the Exchange account synced. I don't have contacts synced to my Exchange account, but when I start typing names when composing emails, the app still finds Exchange contacts that are NOT in my phone.
Why else would he need them synced?
If he needs it to look up company contacts' phone numbers, you could recommend the "Corporate Addressbook" app from the Play Store. I use it. It means I have to update my password in two places when I change it, but I prefer that to having tens of thousands of company contacts on my phone.
This stinks... of really dodgy BS
LenAsh said:
This stinks... of really dodgy BS
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I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. If I synced my Exchange contacts, I'd have tens of thousands of contacts as well.
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As I said, he doesn't NEED the contacts on the Exchange account synced. I don't have contacts synced to my Exchange account, but when I start typing names when composing emails, the app still finds Exchange contacts that are NOT in my phone.
Why else would he need them synced?
If he needs it to look up company contacts' phone numbers, you could recommend the "Corporate Addressbook" app from the Play Store. I use it. It means I have to update my password in two places when I change it, but I prefer that to having tens of thousands of company contacts on my phone.
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Ok, first of all he doesn't use exchange, he does use Outlook, why would he need them synced ? as I said before, I do not know. Thanks for the reply
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This stinks... of really dodgy BS
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whatever... keep your judgment to yourself, I will just add if this was to "spam" why the heck would he do it on his phone?...
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I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. If I synced my Exchange contacts, I'd have tens of thousands of contacts as well.
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hes got contacts from 15 years of clients
Hi,
My girlfriend has just got a Samsung Galaxy S3 on Orange. Whenever she adds an event in the S Planner and tries to select a Participant the contact list is empty but if she load the Contacts application or logs onto GMail from the web they are all there. Anyone come across this before? I've tried clearing the S Planner data and re-syncing but it hasn't made any difference.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks.
James
jimmie_jazz said:
Hi,
My girlfriend has just got a Samsung Galaxy S3 on Orange. Whenever she adds an event in the S Planner and tries to select a Participant the contact list is empty but if she load the Contacts application or logs onto GMail from the web they are all there. Anyone come across this before? I've tried clearing the S Planner data and re-syncing but it hasn't made any difference.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks.
James
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try this go to contacts, menu, contacts to display, select all
Thanks for the response. I've tried that but it made no difference.
Do the contacts have email addresses attached to them?
Thanks -moe- that did the trick! She had associated an e-mail address with a contact on her previous phone but it obviously hadn't synced with her Google account. Adding an e-mail address to a contact means it is now visible in Participants in the Calendar.
Thanks for your assistance.
James
jimmie_jazz said:
Thanks -moe- that did the trick! She had associated an e-mail address with a contact on her previous phone but it obviously hadn't synced with her Google account. Adding an e-mail address to a contact means it is now visible in Participants in the Calendar.
Thanks for your assistance.
James
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No worries mate, had that same problem a couple days ago
so why the HECK cant i add participants who dont have email addresses! this is so stupid. i use s planner to schedule jobs and i'd like to add my employees as participants so that i can keep track of which guys are going to which jobs. i dont wanna have to give them all fake email address just so i can do that.
s4 some problem
crypkilla said:
so why the HECK cant i add participants who dont have email addresses! this is so stupid. i use s planner to schedule jobs and i'd like to add my employees as participants so that i can keep track of which guys are going to which jobs. i dont wanna have to give them all fake email address just so i can do that.
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I have same problem and its stupid. Also on s4 you cant sync favorites anymore to stock browser. And knox is stupid to for civillians. I been a big fan from samsung but it seems they wanna look like apple.
Watch my words: if samsung get more power they gonna screw google!!!
I think my next phone will be a nexus. what is to bad because i like some samsung features but enough is enough
I'm coming from a Windows Phone, and the great thing about it was it synced all my contacts to my main hotmail. Phone numbers, everything. I'm not interested in moving to GMail, Hotmail has always done it for me and that's that.
So as I'm completely 100% new to Android. My question:
Can I sync my hotmail contacts to the S3? As in, will they show up with their numbers and all? And is there a way to keep it syncing? Will changes made to either the phone or Hotmail reflect?
Many thanks guys, and looking forward to getting this beast of a device!
sure haven't said:
Can I sync my hotmail contacts to the S3? As in, will they show up with their numbers and all? And is there a way to keep it syncing? Will changes made to either the phone or Hotmail reflect?!
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Seems like you can, search for Hotmail on Google Play (As a new user, I'm barred from linking).
LosD said:
Seems like you can, search for Hotmail on Google Play (As a new user, I'm barred from linking).
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Cool thanks man. I'll Google it. I want to make sure I can before I pull the trigger.
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A ha, and it looks like we have a possibility.
Official Hotmail app
It says it syncs contacts, but does anyone know if that's just for the email app, or for your phone's contacts???
sure haven't said:
I'm coming from a Windows Phone, and the great thing about it was it synced all my contacts to my main hotmail. Phone numbers, everything. I'm not interested in moving to GMail, Hotmail has always done it for me and that's that.
So as I'm completely 100% new to Android. My question:
Can I sync my hotmail contacts to the S3? As in, will they show up with their numbers and all? And is there a way to keep it syncing? Will changes made to either the phone or Hotmail reflect?
Many thanks guys, and looking forward to getting this beast of a device!
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Yeah when I add a Hotmail account using the built in email client it asks if I want to sync contacts, I usually don't since I use Gmail. I just tried it and it showed one person with a phone number which could be right, but honestly don't know if the number is from Hotmail or something else.
However, you'll have to have a Gmail account to use Play Store etc, and it works really well for new devices/resetting etc, just put in your Gmail and you can restore everything on first boot.
If I was you I'd strongly consider swapping to Gmail, just my thoughts.
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Yeah when I add a Hotmail account using the built in email client it asks if I want to sync contacts, I usually don't since I use Gmail. I just tried it and it showed one person with a phone number which could be right, but honestly don't know if the number is from Hotmail or something else.
However, you'll have to have a Gmail account to use Play Store etc, and it works really well for new devices/resetting etc, just put in your Gmail and you can restore everything on first boot.
If I was you I'd strongly consider swapping to Gmail, just my thoughts.
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Thanks for the help, man.
Well I've had the same Hotmail for like a decade, and just had to switch it actually to Microsoft's new dumbass "@outlook.com" thing. There are so many people who have it, and I like their SkyDrive. All personal taste and all that.
At any rate, I do have a gmail address, and will be using it for Play. But not as my email. Which I do understand is a pain, and a purposeful handicap on my part.
From what you described, it does seem like it imported a number into your phone's contacts. Seems hopeful.
sure haven't said:
Thanks for the help, man.
Well I've had the same Hotmail for like a decade, and just had to switch it actually to Microsoft's new dumbass "@outlook.com" thing. There are so many people who have it, and I like their SkyDrive. All personal taste and all that.
At any rate, I do have a gmail address, and will be using it for Play. But not as my email. Which I do understand is a pain, and a purposeful handicap on my part.
From what you described, it does seem like it imported a number into your phone's contacts. Seems hopeful.
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Yeah I just opened the contact and removed the Google account part from it and it still showed a number and I checked my Hotmail on computer and it listed the number, so it seems like it should work, but I'm still not 100% sure. Hopefully someone here might use it like that and will have a better idea.
Yeah I still use Hotmail for my emails, just Gmail for everything else haha.
Yep, you can I have Facebook,. Google+, Twitter and Hotmail all synced up to my contacts
Kryten2k35 said:
Yep, you can I have Facebook,. Google+, Twitter and Hotmail all synced up to my contacts
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Excellent!! :laugh:
Thanks very much
dantheman122 said:
Yeah I just opened the contact and removed the Google account part from it and it still showed a number and I checked my Hotmail on computer and it listed the number, so it seems like it should work, but I'm still not 100% sure. Hopefully someone here might use it like that and will have a better idea.
Yeah I still use Hotmail for my emails, just Gmail for everything else haha.
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Right on!! I figured that was it.
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Right on!! I figured that was it.
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Yes you can, it was a pain to do at first as you have to configure your hotmail sing m.hotmail.com or something as far as I remember, you'll find on google what to do anyway... I, like you, came from windows phone and I do miss that amazing system but the s3 is sick
dont know if you also know that you can if you want also use activesync to connect hotmail to the built in email app, thats how i use it and it works a treat for me
for your users name its "\[email protected]" and for server use m.hotmail.com
It already has been mentioned that you have an Hotmail app and you can also configure an Exchange account. For what you want, you should go for Exchange account, because the app imports your contacts but it doesn't allow to edit them (I don't remember if you can add a new one, but I think you can't); with Exchange you can edit and add contacts, but you only get the first calendar (Hotmail app can sync all calendars). Since you haven't mentioned calendar I guess it's not important.
I guys, it's possible find all the password for all the account (htc, google, mail etc...) stored in my phone???
i'am not rooted.....
veget83 said:
I guys, it's possible find all the password for all the account (htc, google, mail etc...) stored in my phone???
i'am not rooted.....
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Everything related to Google are the same as the ones on your computer. It's hard to believe that you can't retrieve your gmail password...
Lucky Thirteen said:
Everything related to Google are the as the ones on your computer. It's hard to believe that you can't retrieve your gmail password...
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my request is not related to google, but to all other password existing in my phone (es. dropbox, facebook, evernote etc. etc. etc.).
simply a most convenient way to find all the password in one shot
Again, all those apps have the same password then the ones on your computer.
I'm just going to close this one before it gets out of hand.
Thread closed.
I went into a T-Mobile store today and everything was wiped from my Samsung S8+. They did a back up to google drive but they didn't know at the time Google Drive only backs up contacts, pictures, and media files such as pdfs, word docs, ect. I need to get all my text messages back, notes (it was in the Samsung Notes app which I didn't have attached to a Samsung Account), and voice memos. I also was told my calendar wasn't backed up because all the appointments must have been on the phone memory and not in my gmail calendar. I have no idea of what my schedule is because this was the only thing I used to schedule all my clients for my business. I have tried talking to Samsung, Google, and even T-Mobile tech support but no one can help me. I figured if anyone could find a way to recover lost data someone here would know how to.
Thanks for reading and I hope someone can think of a way to recover my lost data.