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[Q] CM6-1.0-RC-1 In Aria

[Q] CM6-RC Post Flash: What The HECK Happened to my CONTACTS???!!!
OK, I flashed the ROM to the CM6-RC. I lost every single contact on my SIM card, which means I lost ALL of my contacts!!!!
What the heck did I do? I used the Lookout restore, (yes, they all backed up successfully during the normal Lookout process), but they don't restore to the SIM!
Is there a setting somewhere in there that I missed?
Also, is there a better Contacts App then this one? I really don't like everything defaulting to Google!

Does ANYONE know if anything has been done via nightly releases or any other means that addresses the issue that the CM6 does NOT read the SIM card? I desperately need to get my contacts info off of the SIM and into the phone!
I DO NOT want to:
A) Re-flash my phone, get my contacts, and re-flash the phone again
B) Manually add my contacts 1 by 1
C) Have all of my contacts entered as Google contacts, (which the CM6 will do if they are on the phone) so that I can sync them back to the phone.
(THERE IS A REASON MY CONTACTS WERE ON THE SIM IN THE FIRST PLACE! TO PROTECT THE PRIVACY INFORMATION OF MY CLIENTS!)
Are there other Contact apps out there that DO read the SIM card that I can install? As far as I am concerned, this is the only major drawback of this ROM. Everything else is phenomenal!

You could use Funambol then export to a *.vcf. Then import in to Google then it should sync from then on...

Have you checked that you are not filtering them out of the list. There is a menu setting to hide SIM contacts.
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bob in northern nj said:
ok, i flashed the rom to the cm6-rc. I lost every single contact on my sim card, which means i lost all of my contacts!!!!
What the heck did i do? I used the lookout restore, (yes, they all backed up successfully during the normal lookout process), but they don't restore to the sim!
Is there a setting somewhere in there that i missed?
Also, is there a better contacts app then this one? I really don't like everything defaulting to google!
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stop opening new threads!!!

Merged threads.
This is a question, it is NOT development. Please stop making new threads in development for them, as you already had a thread open (albeit in the wrong place).
Refer to the forum rules for more information.

Bob in Northern NJ said:
I DO NOT want to:
A) Re-flash my phone, get my contacts, and re-flash the phone again
B) Manually add my contacts 1 by 1
C) Have all of my contacts entered as Google contacts, (which the CM6 will do if they are on the phone) so that I can sync them back to the phone.
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God forbid you should have to do ANYTHING to work around something that is not working in a RC rom...
Flash your phone back to one of the htc based roms I think all of them (liberated/stock) can read sim contacts, export your contacts to a vcf on your sd card or your pc, reflash cm6, turn off google sync, import your contacts.
I know its totally rocket surgery.

pquegg said:
I know its totally rocket surgery.
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LOL
Another problem with this RC-1 is that some apps do not install... Anyone else having this issue?

chilimac02 said:
LOL
Another problem with this RC-1 is that some apps do not install... Anyone else having this issue?
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Yeah, I think I have that issue as well, its trying to load or install it, it just sits there!
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bkmo said:
stop opening new threads!!!
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Sorry for opening the duplicate thread. It was an honest mistake. I would delete the duplicate if I were able to. Again, my apologies.

Pquegg, Sarcasm is for those who do not know how to be understanding of others' needs, and have no people skills! If I were well versed on how to work with the code I would be able to do as you imply! To me, it is like rocket science. That is why I am asking for HELP! DUH!

carltont said:
Have you checked that you are not filtering them out of the list. There is a menu setting to hide SIM contacts.
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Please give me the menu selection path to get to the filter you are refering to.

Master reset Hd2 android

Just gave my wife my Hd2 running the hdone build. Wanna master reset the Android side so she can put her own gmail on there and take mine off. Tried doing it through the menus the normal way and it just reboots the phone and all my settings are there. Want her to be able to customize the phone her way. Also I believe master resetting the Windows side won't fix the prob as it will not reset the Android stuff that's on the SD card. Or am I mistaken about that?. Thanks for any help.
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Just delete the "data.img" file in the HD2One folder. Once you boot the second time it will create a new data.img which should set everything back to factory setting in Android.

Why not just add another mail account? Then delete yours.
Go to the gmail account, hit the start key on the hd2 go to accountas then hit add account at the bottom, then simply log out of your own mail account and dont log back in, wont remove it but its an easier way to go about it.

norodaigh said:
Why not just add another mail account? Then delete yours.
Go to the gmail account, hit the start key on the hd2 go to accountas then hit add account at the bottom, then simply log out of your own mail account and dont log back in, wont remove it but its an easier way to go about it.
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This doesn't work.
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CP_Finest said:
Just delete the "data.img" file in the HD2One folder. Once you boot the second time it will create a new data.img which should set everything back to factory setting in Android.
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This ^^^

jose makalolot said:
This doesn't work.
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Really? I thought it might have, I know you can add two accounts onto G-Mail I just "thought" if you logged out of one then it would have been ok, still some things to learn

norodaigh said:
Really? I thought it might have, I know you can add two accounts onto G-Mail I just "thought" if you logged out of one then it would have been ok, still some things to learn
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Ive not tried it myself, but AFAIK once you associate a google account with the phone, that's it. You need a "hard reset" of Android to get rid of it.
I suppose it's not an issue for a real Android phone, as you would just do a hard reset. I guess not everyone gets how to do the same thing with Android on our HD2s.

johncmolyneux said:
Ive not tried it myself, but AFAIK once you associate a google account with the phone, that's it. You need a "hard reset" of Android to get rid of it.
I suppose it's not an issue for a real Android phone, as you would just do a hard reset. I guess not everyone gets how to do the same thing with Android on our HD2s.
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Yea it dosn't un-register the e-mail, but using the idea I posted then you can just keep one e-mail logged in and the other one out at all times, instead of having to change anything on the OS system.

norodaigh said:
Yea it dosn't un-register the e-mail, but using the idea I posted then you can just keep one e-mail logged in and the other one out at all times, instead of having to change anything on the OS system.
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Yeah, but the phone itself is registered to a google account, for contacts and calendar, not just emails.

where do i find the hd2one folder??

If you didn't rename the folder, it could simply be the Android folder on the root of your SD card.

joshk1025 said:
If you didn't rename the folder, it could simply be the Android folder on the root of your SD card.
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Tried it; no dice. Anything else I can try? I'm open to suggestions.

thanks or all informations

Contacts to sd card or titanium backup

Can someone ttell me how to save all my contacts to my sd card so for whenever I switch roms? Or can I also do this on titanium backup?
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Is there something wrong with using your google mail account for your contacts? That's how I did it when I tried out different ROMs. So you don't have to have the issue with saving it and restoring it. All you'd have to do is sync your phone with your google mail account.
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kingvaj23 said:
Can someone ttell me how to save all my contacts to my sd card so for whenever I switch roms? Or can I also do this on titanium backup?
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Yes you can do it with Titanium backup.

Sv3nt3k said:
Is there something wrong with using your google mail account for your contacts? That's how I did it when I tried out different ROMs. So you don't have to have the issue with saving it and restoring it. All you'd have to do is sync your phone with your google mail account.
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+1 what's wrong with Google contacts??
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Everytime I save them and sync and get a new rom I no longer have those contacts but I just backed up everything with titanium
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Make sure your contacts are being created under your mail account and not on phone storage.
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+5 on wtf is wrong with google?
however... as a criminal throttler (according to tmobile) if I want to flash a rom after a wipe and I am not near wifi my only alternative is to manually restore ****. Why? Because resyncing a **** load of data back to my phone while throttled makes me want to eat my phone in front of a tmobile rep. infuritating! (Its like driving a WWII era moped on the expressway)
but thats one reason why i sometimes need to avoid the gumminess of google. because it pisses off tmobile.

Another reason some people may not use Google for all of their syncing is if they use Google for personal contacts, but still have business/miscellaneous contacts (and their business does not use something like Google or MS Exchange that they can set up a sync for).
Granted, they could set up another Google account for the business ones, but maybe it's not allowed due to corporate IT policy or something. Everyone's usage model is different...

[Q]is there any program like kies?

is there any program like kies?
mainly for contact back up or edit ,

There are plenty of apps to backup contacts. I don't know why you'd ever want to use Kies though, so I can't really offer something that's like it.

There is also myPhoneExplorer:
http://www.fjsoft.at/en/
When i backed up and restored my contacts with Kies, i recognized that the resolution of the caller pictures was reduced dramatically. Maybe a misconfiguration or maybe fixed in newer releases (?)
To backup my contacts i use the builtin feature save to/restore from SD card. This saves everything except the call groups. And be sure to check that you don't import your contacts to your google account when you restore the contacts from SD card

thanx i will try it

You could always try the ever popular "mybackup" from the market...
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Why not just sync with google?
Always backed up in real time.
Or am I missing something.
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Not everyone likes to have his/her contacts uploaded to Google

True. I was thinking that, but somehow I think Google gets them anyway.
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[Q] how do i back up txts to a computer, so i can print them?

ive searched, and searched, but nothing comes up... i need to save my txts to a computer so i can print them... there was a way with WM, but so far havnt found anything for android... any ideas?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore
Install this app and backup your sms (texts). It says it can even email you the backup. You can then view the file on your computer and do what you'd like with it. The data format is going to be a little raw though. Personally, I'd just import into Excel and clean it up, but you'll have to see if this does what you need for now.
I'm sure someone else will have a better suggestion. This was just off the top of my head.
Smoke.007
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SMS Backup version 1.1.1. This sends all your text messages to your gmail account. I've been using it for a long time and it works great. The author of this app is Christoph Studer.
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Or you can use Google voice which will save a copy on your Google account automatically after setup that you can pull up anywhere and check just like gmail.
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steveo314 said:
Or you can use Google voice which will save a copy on your Google account automatically after setup that you can pull up anywhere and check just like gmail.
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thanks guys, i ended up trying "sms backup +" and while not ideal really, it should work. kinda weird seeing them as emails, but itll have to do for now

mattatat said:
thanks guys, i ended up trying "sms backup +" and while not ideal really, it should work. kinda weird seeing them as emails, but itll have to do for now
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Its saves as a html. No reason you cant open that and pull the texts you want out and print them. Could change them and restore too, then you have text from someone that never happen. Hmmmm. Lmao
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