I'm not sure wat went wrong there,
But apparently sync deleted few of my contacts and allocated different names for few people (I assume its sync cause I've not done anything manually). Overall contact list is being pretty weird.
Anyone experienced the same?
wis3m0nkey said:
I'm not sure wat went wrong there,
But apparently sync deleted few of my contacts and allocated different names for few people (I assume its sync cause I've not done anything manually). Overall contact list is being pretty weird.
Anyone experienced the same?
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What did u do last? What ROM? Do you backup? Do you save contacts to phone instead of Google? Need more info.
Do you BONSAI?
I'm on frozen syndicate rom.
And this has been happening for last 2 days I suppose.
Before that most probably I did was -- Fix permissions (from recovery)
and took backup -- titanium (These are the only things I suppose r different than installing and using apps).
I guess messed up contacts happened before as well but with sync it used to fix itself, however this time its different..
All contacts r on google, fb or twitter (none on phone).
Thanks
when I change roms I always just before flashing do a export of contacts via (contact/menu/import,export) after flashing I just import my contacts and all is well.
I've had this problem with 2 android phones, but not all of them. I ended up going through the contacts settings and hitting display for ALL, insteas of just favorite (or the default option). It seemed to work after that.
I think the problem is when adding contacts, when you save them to the phone, sync erases them when syncing contacts from the google account. A major flaw in my book.
hmm,
I'll try few things and let u guys know if something fixes it
Looks like exporting and importing them back seems a good option
Thanks
wis3m0nkey said:
hmm,
I'll try few things and let u guys know if something fixes it
Looks like exporting and importing them back seems a good option
Thanks
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I had to restore them from an sd card export then restore contact data from Titanium to get the ringtones and pics back, then it stuck after that. Before that it was a fight to keep the contacts on.
So, when you get them all there, export to sd card then import them back and then restore the titanium data for them.
I never restored contacts from titanium but sounds like a good option
so apparently it was lookout and thankfully they have restore option, I need to restore 1084 :-o contacts
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sirgawain123 said:
WARNING:
There are some contact picture file formats likely to make the sync process server-to-phone to stall.
Nearly one third of my contacts info remain in Microsoft servers, without being able to recover them to my phone. Process always freezes at aprox. 250 transfered out of 355!
It is not an isolated case
There are several reports at MS forums since service started as beta!
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I suggest cookers not to include Myphone in their ROMs until worked out!
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I suggest cookers not to include Myphone in their ROMs until worked out!
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Never had an issue with it. What formats are you using that you think is causing the problem?
I've already had to deal with this when MyPhone first came out... there is a problem with some contact photo's, though i don't know what type (gif, jpg, jpeg, etc)... but the fix was easy... just remove the pic (from your's you might just want to remove contact 250 and beyond) and then the sync will work just fine.... actually still use the program. I have my contacts set to get the pic from facebook contacts or through the one they have on my outlook...
Well its abit harsh to tell chefs to remove something that many people are using without faults? Just because something does not work for some due to user initiated error shouldn't be reason to remove it from all roms?
How about just give a warning to all users that they should use either photos taken from their phone camera or photos from facebook sync to be safe, otherwise myphone may not sync.
Personally I have used photos from my DSLR with no compression etc, facebook sync'd pictures and photos from my phone camera with no problems at all. I have been using it since its inception.
Again no need to be hasty and tell chefs to take something out that many are using without problems. If anything, you have now learning a lesson that involves making more than one backup using PIMbackup and myphone?
i know it can be a pain, i had that problem once but i was able to narrow it down to the contacts that where giving me problems i only have 63, in your case it may actually be only one contact that is making it freeze, i guess one thing you could do is use outlook or delete the contacts that aren't on the phone already via online, or try to figure out which ones are messing up.
The only bug i had is that it created duplicate contacts. The funny things was that not all contact where created dubble, only some..
Same Contact bug here.
Even more anoying are the shifted dates (by 1h) for 'all day' appointments only. After the next sync these appointments are doubled =(
any solutions for that?
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Well its abit harsh to tell chefs to remove something that many people are using without faults? Just because something does not work for some due to user initiated error shouldn't be reason to remove it from all roms?
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OnlinePredator said:
If anything, you have now learning a lesson that involves making more than one backup using PIMbackup and myphone?
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I´ve just decided to delete my comments
I can confirm this bug, as it happened to me aswell...
When I had the HTC Diamond I installed SPB mobileshell 3 and since it hde facebook "integration" I used profile-pictures from facebook as pictures for my contacts. and here somewhere is where the bug is located I believe: when you use SPB to crop the images from facebook on your phone, something gets messed up - you can sync and backup to "My Phone" as usual but when you want to re-sync/restore you're not able
what I had to do was to use a .gif picture I think it was and change it on all contacts on MyPhone and then sync " one page of contacts" at a time
so just a warning with using MyPhone and SPB Mobile Shell
Hello,
I am currently using a stock-based ROM and want to switch to Azure. My problem is that I spent a lot of time to collect profile pictures, link contacts to their FB accounts etc.
Is there a way to backup my contacts to include everything as it is now? The in-built export does not save every information.
My Legend is rooted, so I thought there could be a way to backup the contacts app including it's data as it is stored on my phone now but I have no clue how to do that.
Every idea or solution is highly appreciated! Thanks for you help!
I have the same query ... maybe someone with some expertise can help ??
Sent from my HTC Legend using XDA App
Ok I just tried it risking to go through everything again (especially manually linking contacts to their FB Accounts with different names and merging FB-only accounts with my phone contacts took a long time).
I just found out about Titanium Backup and am pretty sure that it gets the job done easily, just in case you want to spend the money for it, which I can't
What I did:
- Copied "/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts2.db" to my SD-Card using Root Explorer.
- Installed Azure
- Installed Root Explorer again
- Moved contacts2.db back overwriting the new empty one.
- Installed Facebook
- Synced my contacts again.
- Restarted my phone
Worked great. My contacts are back, everything is linked correctly even the ones with different names, FB-only accounts are merged with phone contacs again.
Maybe someone with more experience knows an easier method or a good app for this to save some time.
First off I am a total newb so please excuse me for being stupid.
I just rooted my phone with the help of a friend (my phone was force closing everything), we used titanium backup and installed the new rom.
The problem is that I do not have contacts in the new rom. I restored using the backup file and the contacts are still not listed in people. Everyone is there when I open up 'phone' and I can type in and call people as if they are a contact, but they arent in listed in 'people' The phone still has all the same problems in the original restore so I would definitely like to use the new rom.
can I used backup assistant to get my contacts on the new rom? How do I do it?
Thanks.
First thing I would go to is the people icon, select menu, then view. See if the folder that has contacts listed is checked off.
There should be no reason you can see the contacts when you use PHONE but not people.
The other thing you should do is have all your contacts sync'd with Google. When you flash a ROM, you should Backup existing and wipe all. You will then need to re-setup all your settings/Email accounts. If you use Titanuim, you should use it to install apps only, not data as well.
If you have all your contacts as Google contacts, when you re-set up your GMAIL, it will automatically re-load your contacts.
spence341 said:
First thing I would go to is the people icon, select menu, then view. See if the folder that has contacts listed is checked off.
There should be no reason you can see the contacts when you use PHONE but not people.
The other thing you should do is have all your contacts sync'd with Google. When you flash a ROM, you should Backup existing and wipe all. You will then need to re-setup all your settings/Email accounts. If you use Titanuim, you should use it to install apps only, not data as well.
If you have all your contacts as Google contacts, when you re-set up your GMAIL, it will automatically re-load your contacts.
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I use BA also. how can I get it?
v941726 said:
I use BA also. how can I get it?
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What Rom are you running? If you are on Redemptive like the OP stated they were, after you flash the Rom (2.1.2 or 2.1.3), there will be a folder on your SD Card named Redemptive. In that folder is a flashable zip for BU Assistant.
As I stated in my previous post, Syncing with Google it the easiest way to do this. I do not have anybody saved under PHONE contacts, they are all Google or Exchange Active Sync.
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What Rom are you running? If you are on Redemptive like the OP stated they were, after you flash the Rom (2.1.2 or 2.1.3), there will be a folder on your SD Card named Redemptive. In that folder is a flashable zip for BU Assistant.
As I stated in my previous post, Syncing with Google it the easiest way to do this. I do not have anybody saved under PHONE contacts, they are all Google or Exchange Active Sync.
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yeah. I found it. i dont like syncing with Google though
Backup Assistant created issues for me though because I would be getting 3 or 4 duplicate entries for the same person. Even though you can link the entries together which is very convenient, if you have to edit one you would get a choice of editing the home number under google and sometime 2 or 3 copies of the other number listed under "phone". What I would do is export a copy of the contacts to the SD card as a csv file, and then import them again immediately under the "google" option. That way everything you have is all under one label.
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Backup Assistant created issues for me though because I would be getting 3 or 4 duplicate entries for the same person. Even though you can link the entries together which is very convenient, if you have to edit one you would get a choice of editing the home number under google and sometime 2 or 3 copies of the other number listed under "phone". What I would do is export a copy of the contacts to the SD card as a csv file, and then import them again immediately under the "google" option. That way everything you have is all under one label.
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BA worked very nice with other roms. but id rather use this rom
my phone has stopped syncing from phone> gmail (at least as far as contacts go) gmail>phone works fine. if i change a last name, add a phone number to a contact on the phone it does not update the contact list in gmail. in fact gmail will override the changes on the phone and put it back the way it was. is there a setting somewhere where the 2 actually sync?
that happen to me to im tryin to find that out to
Glewis21 said:
that happen to me to im tryin to find that out to
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stupid samsung... i'm trying to flash a rom and i'm afraid i'm gonna lose numbers now
Well.... how are you saving contacts on your device? When you create a new contact on the device, are you selecting Google or Phone?
If you select Phone, then it won't sync over to Google because the contacts are locally saved.
If you select Google, then everything is saved on their servers and then replicated to your device.
murso74 said:
stupid samsung... i'm trying to flash a rom and i'm afraid i'm gonna lose numbers now
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To export your contacts on your phone, the breadcrumbs are: Contacts > Menu key > Import/Export > Export to SD card.
After that you can import those directly into Google contacts on the webpage.
If you don't want to use Google, then just import that export file into contacts on your device after your flash.
You could use a backup application like Titanium Backup or MyBackup Root.
murso74 said:
stupid samsung... i'm trying to flash a rom and i'm afraid i'm gonna lose numbers now
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Under contacts hit menu and export contacts to sd card. You can also export them to your gmail. Then always choose google as a save option when adding phone numbers.
Do you BONSAI?
This is a frustrating problem. Randomly, I will notice Google has somehow lost some of my contacts. All the information is gone. Right now my phone is set to sync contacts and I know I am not physically deleting anything. I have searched around and some people have been having this, but I have not seen any solutions for it.
Anyone else ever experience this or know what I can do? I have even seen my contacts data mixed with other contacts and have pictures which are completely wrong. I am running NSCollab so could it possibly be the rom? I don't see anything in the thread regarding that issue so I don't think it is.
Any help would be appreciated.
This also happened to me. Strangely enough if I look for the contact with go contacts it's there - you might try that.
i got this problem on the stock rom, using go contact i managed to restore my contact list by exporting the list to sdcard then import in the stock phone contact list ( it also restored old deleted contact :S )
i also lost random photo ...
backup your data !!