Im writing here because i have to where to go to ask for at problem like this
to night i updated my moms x8 because of an error with the market and gmail app on the phone. not rooted btw. and there wasent any gmail attached to the phone.
but after i had run the backup and restore application on the phone running 1.6 at that time. it backed everything up. then i plugged in the phone and updated to 2.1. after the install and i turned the phone on. i find out that i only got 4 contacts on the phone. and 1 contact in fav section there's no contacts on the simcard and backup and restor took about 1 min to restore contacts when i restored from the backup.
Any idea where the contacts have run away to or are they just lost for good?
They could have been attached to a google account. So when you backed up the files, you only backed up what was actually on the phone, which could be those 4 contacts.
Try doing a sync.
can't access that gmail. and i dont know if they have been synced to that gmail. i will try to get access to it, but as far as i know the phone hasent synced it contacts with it, not manually it hasent, dont know if it does so automaticly?
I think it does it automatically. One day I went to look at the contacts that were actually stored on my phone. Apparently none of them were, they were all tied to the gmail account.
So yeah, I'd say it does it automatically. I could be wrong though.
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just about Since i updated to JF ADP 1.42h i have been unable to sync contacts- i backed them up using mybackup and reinstalled them using this- the phone automatically synced all google stuff with gmail at the start and it wiped all but 5 of my contacts in gmail but all are still on my phone.
now when i try to sync contacts with gmail it says: "sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly"
Anyone else having/had this problem? How to fix?
thx
yes I am having this issue also. It really sucks. I notice it syncs the contacts but not completely thru. At first I thought it was something I did but now I am thinking it has to do with the 1.42(RC33) update I did.
Looking for a fix myself. I am just about to do a wipe to see if that does the trick. If it does I will report back but if someone knows anything about this please let us know .
hi,
i had the same problem and it deleted about 50 contacts before i realized it was doing so. mybackup if flawless on other versions of jesusfreke but its odd there is a problem this time. I think it might be jf's gear or maybe I partition the card and now its weird. i don't know....
Happy Valentines!
hbguy
i have decided to just live with it- all my contacts are backed up with mybackup anyway, just not in gmail anymore. Maybe next time install contacts first before syncing with gmail......
but am not gonna wipe again or anything- my wife would kill me getting all my settings right again- i will wait for the next update in a couple of weeks- hopefully cupcake
It as a job but I got it fixed by doing a complete wipe a few times. I lost radio for awhile for some reason flashed the latest radio update but contacts now sync perfectly.
I am about to do a partition test ... if it messes up after that then I know that's the cause. This all started now that I remember because I did a restore with MyBackup for my contacts & that was a mistake it seems like.
We shall see though.
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This all started now that I remember because I did a restore with MyBackup for my contacts & that was a mistake it seems like.
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me too! wonder what i/we did wrong? gmail after backup?
Hi guys, this is my first post but ive been lurking here for a while trying to learn more about my phone.
This is a bit long winded so please bare with me..
I bought this phone about a week ago from rogers wireless. It's locked to rogers and i updated the phone with the SE updater to the latest version they have. I bought the phone under my contract and then gave it to my wife (her old phone broke so i thought it would be nice to give her a new one)
She's now using her old simcard in the phone and other than the phonebook contacts keep disappearing, everything else works fine and all the txt msgs are intact.
1) whenever i switch sims from her's back to mine, the phonebook will be cleared.
2) today she told me that the phonebook cleared even though she didnt touch the simcard.
any idea as to why this is happening? she thinks the phone is defective i think its just something software. Im going to try and do a factory reset on the phone and setup the entire phone w/ her sim instead of mine (which is what i originally done) and then update again on SE updates.
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Hi
I've had the problem too. It turned out that the synchronization with Gmail was the culprit. The phone saw that a given contact was not in the contact list in Gmail and therefore deleted it from the phone instead of adding it to the Gmail contact list. The same goes for changes to contacts - if I change something on the phone, it disappears when the phone syncs. If I want to keep the changes, I have to make them in the Gmail list. I don't know how to change that behaviour.
- Martin
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I've had the problem too. It turned out that the synchronization with Gmail was the culprit. The phone saw that a given contact was not in the contact list in Gmail and therefore deleted it from the phone instead of adding it to the Gmail contact list. The same goes for changes to contacts - if I change something on the phone, it disappears when the phone syncs. If I want to keep the changes, I have to make them in the Gmail list. I don't know how to change that behaviour.
- Martin
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Yeah that's just BS. I didn't sync with Gmail right at the start, so when I finally did it last weekend, I lost all of my 249 contacts. Luckily, I had them backed up on my old sim card, so I restored them, but all the contact pictures, facebook links etc were lost
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wow! thanks for solving the mystery Martin!
Any idea how i can either import all those contacts to gmail's contacts (other than manually inserting them.. )
Man it's so friggin annoying to have to restore my contact book every time the damn google sync does a check.
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wow! thanks for solving the mystery Martin!
Any idea how i can either import all those contacts to gmail's contacts (other than manually inserting them.. )
Man it's so friggin annoying to have to restore my contact book every time the damn google sync does a check.
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You could just turn off google sync
well it seems like ive turned off google sync and yet it still has this problem. I figure it might be attributed to her having to log into google accounts??? there is a message on the notification bar sometimes that asks her to log into her google account. Could that be it?
Every time it doesn't detect a password/or has the user logged in, will it purge all the contacts? Is there even a safe way of backing up the contacts on SD card and then transferring that file to my HD so i can reformat the phone for her?
Hi guys,
I have to say, since I bought the Wildfire I'm amazingly unhappy.
This phone is seriously ****.
It's slow, it freezes, it crashes, it reboots by itself.
Today I tried to do a factory reset.
I used MyBackup to do a backup of everything.
Obviously it was a failure: it didn't save the apps, so now I have to reinstall everything by myself. It didn't save the data of the apps. I lost nothing important, only the data of some stupid game, but I lost it. It saved apparently all my data and settings.
I restored the contacts and now I have another problem.
They are duplicated. I delete from my gmail accounts the duplicates, but they are still there on the phone. And the ****ing phone synchronizes again all the contacts to my gmail account. And over and over and over.
Is there any solution to this problem beside removing manually on my phone? There are more than 300 duplicates!
Turn auto sync off... Is that so hard? As for the slowness, nothing wrong about mine or most other peoples phones.
When youre restoring your contacts make sure you only list to display one of your accounts e.g your gmail acc
This is obviously a user end problem and not the phone.
Turning off Auto sync doesn't fix the problem. It just avoids the problem. I already did it!!!
In this way, I will not able to sync anymore my contacts to Gmail since as soon as I started autosync again it starts again to sync in only one direction!
Yes sure, an end user problem caused by the lack of functions of the phone.
And for the slowness....probably you missed all the comments about people overclocking and complaining about it.
The overclocking complaints aren't about the phone being slow, its just not working on some sense roms. And imo the phone has all the necessary functions. Perhaps you should get it fixed.
Whenever i feel my wildfire is sluggish, i back up the phone, do a full factory reset and flush a new rom. Makes a huge difference. Sadly i still havent figured how to solve the duplicated..... no quadriplicated contacts that appear.
i think you guys should do a factory reset, add all your contacts once, back them up to sd card, and then when you install a rom, don't sync your contacts, just import them from the sd card file.
although i haven't had any issues with duplicates with syncing my contacts anyway. :S
Must admit the phonebook setup is a bit pish on the Android system, it tries to link everything together when all you want is just a simple phonebook with peoples numbers and emails.
So i've spent ages deleting all duplicates and unlinking ****. Finally after a number of hours it resembles a simple phonebook with people linked only to there facebook accounts and nothing else. Sometimes the software just tries too hard!
Did you sync facebook contacts ? I would recommend you to not do so. Facebook gave me quite a problem with contacts when i just got the phone.
Other than that, google contacts sync works just fine for me.
Finally the continuous synchronization stopped. I was able to remove duplicates from my gmail account. But....surprisingly several contacts disappeared. I used the "merge duplicates" function on Gmail.
Now I installed again the backup I did. My phone book is not synchronizing at all with gmail. Moreover, something else happened. It is not synchronizing with Facebook. When I go to view it says Facebook for HTC sense 0 contacts. But if you go do Online directory, they are there! But I cannot see to link in the contacts.
Oh yeah, obviously I still have 4 contacts per person.
so i used this before upgrading a ROM but i cant seem the get my phone contacts back. everything else restored though.. but i cant seem to get my contacts.. any suggestions? i didnt save a copy oof my contact to the card cause i thought titanium would save it.
Didnt you sync them to your Gmail account? thats automatic.
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Didnt you sync them to your Gmail account? thats automatic.
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Doesn't sound like it, he expected titanium to backup his contacts for him.
no i didnt have it synced to my gmail.. but its okay i actually had an old copy of the vcf file at home which i can load. wheeew.. but yeah i had those on my sd card but erased it thinking it was old..
Next time just make sure you go to Settings -> Accounts and Sync -> Google and check the box for contacts. Then you won't have to backup your contacts manually.
Also, although Titanium is an awesome app and certainly has it's uses, for things like backing up and restoring of basic things like apps, contacts, call log, bookmarks, and SMS/MMS, I find MyBackup much easier to use.
I searched the web and this site along with other sites...so either no one has covered it??.. which seems unlikely. OR I just do not understand.
Regardless. I am obviously new to this, so please bare with me. Last night I rooted my phone for the first time, a True Root. I then flashed Virtuous Unity Sense 3.0. All has gone well and love it. But cannot seem to find a way to sync my old contacts. Before doing this, I used to be able to sync my phone to T-Mobile in order to get my contacts. It no longer shows this option.
So... I am now out of all my contacts. Is there a way to recover this? I am not talking about contacts that were synced with Gmail or Yahoo. I am looking for all the contacts that were previously on my phone??
Again, I am noob and will continue to search but have been searching for the past 3 hours with no luck.
Thanks,
Suecyde
Had that issue awhile ago, check this thread, post 6-ended up not finding any answer except to import into gmail so don't have to worry about it anymore...you lose some info which sucks and have to manually update/clean up through gmail to get it to how you used to have it but will save you in the long run (once google takes over the world)....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=979554
So basically, since I wiped my phone and never used that security program.. I lost all my contacts?
Using Google Contacts and keeping them organized there will prevent this from happening again?
Thanks again,
Suecyde
Not all roms have the t-mobile sync, but if you have gmail and sync it with your phone, then yes, you will always have your contacts and info no matter how many times you wipe and flash. You could maybe revert back to a nandroid that had the sync, let it sync up with your phone, then find some app that will back up contacts, then reflash the rom you are on now and restore the data. Then just make sure to back up your contacts before flashing a new rom...or just import them to gmail....
So I did just that. I began to rebuild my contacts.. but now through Gmail. At least now if I get another phone, I can use gmail to re-sync my contacts.
I am still learning and will continue to learn. I am still in wow over rooting and roms. This is all amazing to me and want more.
Thanks for your quick response and help.
-Sueycde