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[Q] AHH what did I do??!!

Ok so a few hours ago, my phone is working perfectly fine. Then all I did was change to LauncherPro to check it out, clicked the contacts app and it somehow sent me to the dialer, I then checked the contacts tab in the dialer and there were NO contacts. So, I went back to my usual ADW and my contacts are gone there too!!
Yes, I made sure it was "all contacts" and I treid resetting my phone several times but with no results. Another interesting thing I noticed, my MotoBlur account is GONE from my accounts. So, when I take my sim card out and turn my phone back on, the phone does not ask for me to put in my motoblur account (good thing?).
Could the lack of a motoblur account somehow deleted my contacts (I have no idea how I got rid of the motoblur account). I have made no backups of my contacts (sadly) so my only option that I know of is to manually add them back, but hopefully maybe someone can shed some light on this situation. TIA
Edit: losing contacts not a huge problem, can manually put them back, but still want to know how i got rid of motoblur account.

Thats very odd indeed, your blur account got deleted... have your tried simply adding it back I think this would also bring back your contacts and when you said you went back to standard launcher did you uninstall it? I installed launcherpro once but that never happened to me.

drock212 said:
Thats very odd indeed, your blur account got deleted... have your tried simply adding it back I think this would also bring back your contacts and when you said you went back to standard launcher did you uninstall it? I installed launcherpro once but that never happened to me.
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I tried adding it through "add account" but all it showed was accounts for facebook, myspace, last.fm etc. no motoblur adding
Also, i logged into my motoblur account through motoblur website, and it still has my phone information

Do.you have a custom rom flashed?
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dmappdev said:
Do.you have a custom rom flashed?
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nope, just launchers

wait youre running multiple launchers? try uninstalling them and see...
Also does anyone know where blur account info is house? Im in root explorer trying to find it with no luck, the only think I can imagine is (which I dont know how it would have happened) that one of your launchers did something to the root of where that information is house deleting the blur account but again I've never heard of this happening before
Edit: well this situation now makes two of us lmao while trying to solve your problem I seem to have replicated it. So now I just need to find out how to log back into blur... hey if anyone can it it would be greatly appreciated. So brief summery, I seem to have reset blur on my phone so that I am no longer logged into it I still have all my other emails and FB synced up but blur has disappeared and I cant find a way back in.

drock212 said:
wait youre running multiple launchers? try uninstalling them and see...
Also does anyone know where blur account info is house? Im in root explorer trying to find it with no luck, the only think I can imagine is (which I dont know how it would have happened) that one of your launchers did something to the root of where that information is house deleting the blur account but again I've never heard of this happening before
Edit: well this situation now makes two of us lmao while trying to solve your problem I seem to have replicated it. So now I just need to find out how to log back into blur... hey if anyone can it it would be greatly appreciated. So brief summery, I seem to have reset blur on my phone so that I am no longer logged into it I still have all my other emails and FB synced up but blur has disappeared and I cant find a way back in.
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LOL how did you replicate it?
and do you still have your contacts?

nope no contacts lol, no anything and the way I did it was using root explorer I went into system/framework/ and in there is a file called blur-res.apk I ran it to see what it would do and it wiped my blur lol I also noticed that my social networking app or whatever it maybe called is no longer functioning when I try to use it it states that i need to create an account but when I try it doesnt go anywhere. does your social networking app still work?

drock212 said:
nope no contacts lol, no anything and the way I did it was using root explorer I went into system/framework/ and in there is a file called blur-res.apk I ran it to see what it would do and it wiped my blur lol I also noticed that my social networking app or whatever it maybe called is no longer functioning when I try to use it it states that i need to create an account but when I try it doesnt go anywhere. does your social networking app still work?
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does not work, same problem as you, but i usually have it frozen anyways

Supish said:
does not work, same problem as you, but i usually have it frozen anyways
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yeah it seems that one of your launchers may have ran this apk then causeing this issue lol Im going to titan back up then reset, I cant seem to find a solution to get that social network app working again

drock212 said:
yeah it seems that one of your launchers may have ran this apk then causeing this issue lol Im going to titan back up then reset, I cant seem to find a solution to get that social network app working again
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yeah whatever, i dont need motoblur account

Supish said:
yeah whatever, i dont need motoblur account
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funny enough I forgot I had backed up all my contacts via vcards to my sdcard so I just imported them lol

Social Networking stopped working along with blur

Hey guys I somehow managed to wipe my blur account and make my social networking app stop working when I try to run the app it tells me that I need an account to make it work but when I click to set one up nothing happens it just goes back to the menu. Any suggestions how how to fix this pickle Ive gotten myself into lol.
If anyone wants Motoblur account deleted and social networking app to not function this is what I did.
using root explorer system/framework then I ran blur-res.apk after than nothing worked lol

sorry, this happened cuz of me

Supish said:
sorry, this happened cuz of me
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no worries friend, its an easy fix with a reset Im sure at least now we know how to force blur to stop along with the social networking app. also a very similar thing happened to someone else where their social networking app stopped working right too so now that we know how to do this it we might be able to find a solution

well this isnt good, without a motoblur account, we cant update >.<

Supish said:
well this isnt good, without a motoblur account, we cant update >.<
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after factory reset it allowed me to setup blur again

I had that problem I didn't want to to a factory reset since that kills early usb enumeration I read so I just deleted everything from /data using rm -r *
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[Q] Accounts disappearing from accounts and sync

Hi all can someone help me with the accounts on my San Francisco Blade running cyanogenmod 7.1. When I add an account it disappears after a few days, the only account that remains is the google account itself. I would like the phone to remember quite a few other accounts such as WhatsApp, Viber, Hotmail, Facebook and Skype. I have experimented with using different profiles but so far no luck at all, cheers.

Do you clear data for the above apps you've mentioned?
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Not that I am aware of, I guess I could add an account and then clear the data in order to check this out. Where would I delete data and how could I check to see if this was happening? Thanks for your help.

pompeyrodney said:
Not that I am aware of, I guess I could add an account and then clear the data in order to check this out. Where would I delete data and how could I check to see if this was happening? Thanks for your help.
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it is not data and cache mate. I am having the same problem i have had this problem from day one cant find a proper answer to it :/
Apps i have in sync:
1) whatsapp
2) gmail
3) facebook
if i reboot the synced apps disappear from the sync menu and if i reboot my phone the apps will also disappear.
it is an annoying problem and wish i could find the answer to it too mate

after asking a few talented devs that i know in real life i was given a simple solution to try and move the apps to the phone instead of sd card and see if the sync settings will save properly.
Although i am sure that on my testing device (my testng toy) the vodafone 858 smart i keep all apps on the sd card and they sync properly so this could be a device problem or something not 100% sure.

Ok. So did it work? I thought maybe its something to do with Dalvik or Cache.
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This is because u have the apps on ur memory card
When the phone boots, it loads the accounts before loading the SD card and since the apps aren't loaded, the accounts disappear.
Move them to phone memory
I think this will help you. if it does please THANK me.
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karthiknr said:
Ok. So did it work? I thought maybe its something to do with Dalvik or Cache.
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after leaving the phone on while sleeping like always i woke up rebooted the phone and the sync settings were gone to so leaving them on the phone instead of the s card is not the solution

What do u think? Rom.? Or cache?
I think this will help you. if it does please THANK me.
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i am not sure still trying to figure out the problem

Just moved WhatsApp back to the phone, added the account and rebooted and this works, the account is still there, I will now try moving the other apps one by one and report back.

pompeyrodney said:
Just moved WhatsApp back to the phone, added the account and rebooted and this works, the account is still there, I will now try moving the other apps one by one and report back.
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for some reason its working for me to now but i am 100% sure that on my vodafone smart 858 it would sync the apps from the sd card also

I have just moved Hotmail and Facebook back to the phone and rebooted. All accounts are still present in Accounts and Sync settings, thanks for the help people.

great to see that moving the app to phone has also worked for you

pompeyrodney said:
I have just moved Hotmail and Facebook back to the phone and rebooted. All accounts are still present in Accounts and Sync settings, thanks for the help people.
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U know its easier to press the thanks button, right
I'm sure everyone would appreciate it
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[Q] Contact photos missing?

Today while I was on a foreign wifi access point, my contact photos all decided that they were too cool for me. Google contacts still shows all the contact photos, but the phone either has blank ones, or defaults to google+/skype profile photos. I can't sync contacts to make them reappear on the phone either. Anyone know what this might be?

Bump. Mine did this yesterday and I have no idea why. I'm running stock rooted 4.2.3 or whatever. I noticed that "People Details" is stuck trying to sync and hasn't sync'd since 6/25/2013.

MERKJONES said:
Bump. Mine did this yesterday and I have no idea why. I'm running stock rooted 4.2.3 or whatever. I noticed that "People Details" is stuck trying to sync and hasn't sync'd since 6/25/2013.
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Hey man. Just wipe you contacts and contacts storage data in settings -> apps. It worked for me.
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For all future readers, you'd only need to delete the data for contacts storage.

johnd.the.cuban said:
Hey man. Just wipe you contacts and contacts storage data in settings -> apps. It worked for me.
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That seems to have worked. Thanks!

MERKJONES said:
That seems to have worked. Thanks!
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No problem man, I'm glad I could help.

I found out something very curious. When I have skype installed on my phone, and it's set to sync contacts, it makes all the contact photos blank, and defaults to either google plus' photos, or skype's photos. Anyone else have this problem?

My contacts pictures disappeared the moment i updated to latest android.. But then i put then again.
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Wifi Passwords did not Sync from Google

Hi, Just got S5 and for some reason google sync did not sync any applications or wifi password to my phone and i don't know how to force it... i am manually installing all apps, but passwords would really like to sync with google. any ideas how to force it? I still have them on my old phone...

arkady2k said:
Hi, Just got S5 and for some reason google sync did not sync any applications or wifi password to my phone and i don't know how to force it... i am manually installing all apps, but passwords would really like to sync with google. any ideas how to force it? I still have them on my old phone...
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Google doesnt sync WiFi passwords. Those are saved in the phone, not to your google account. You have to manually enter all WiFi passwords on the new phone.

Gargamel198024 said:
Google doesnt sync WiFi passwords. Those are saved in the phone, not to your google account. You have to manually enter all WiFi passwords on the new phone.
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Yes google does. It just usually never works

jjlean said:
Yes google does. It just usually never works
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Damn, learn something new everyday.

Yup very annoying. It says right on the setup screen it syncs wifi passwords but I've never seen it work.
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hibby50 said:
Yup very annoying. It says right on the setup screen it syncs wifi passwords but I've never seen it work.
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It has always worked for me actually... no matter what phone or tablet, wifi passwords always synced... but with S5... it's like it does not even know me...

I'll add that the network names and passwords were there for me as well when I activated my account on the S5. I was actually kind of surprised to see it all there.

Looks like I'm one of the unlucky ones it didn't sync for. Anyone find a way to force a sync from Google or a 3rd party workaround? I'm trying to get passwords from a rooted VZW GNex to a rooted VZW S5. I already tried backing up the Wi-Fi access points on the GNex in TiBu and restoring them on the S5 but no go. Thanks in advance for any ideas anyone might have.

KarlStyles said:
Looks like I'm one of the unlucky ones it didn't sync for. Anyone find a way to force a sync from Google or a 3rd party workaround? I'm trying to get passwords from a rooted VZW GNex to a rooted VZW S5. I already tried backing up the Wi-Fi access points on the GNex in TiBu and restoring them on the S5 but no go. Thanks in advance for any ideas anyone might have.
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You can download Wi-Fi recovery from play store on both devices, on the one with all your Wi-Fi password hit export file then on the s5 you can import the file, then your all set.

I would *NOT* recommend using app for exporting WiFi data, mentioned above. Looking at the reviews many are saying that it doesn't work and is malware, which is actually feasible since it requires root. All the app is really doing is copying/pasting the /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf file. So instead of trusting a badly reviewed root-required app just get Root Browser and copy paste the file.
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After a hard-long internet search I've discovered that there's an alternative way in which you can eventually recover the information from google's own servers since that's where your device (or past devices) backups/backed up your data. The following link is a guide to this option.
http://jftr.de/2014/01/fairphone-and-android-backups-to-the-google-cloud/
As a reminder, you're the only one responsible for any possible damages involved when "tinkering" with your phone. Adb and root are necessary, so please refrain yourself from continuing if you don't even know these words!
Cheers