Ok... just installed the Aura rom. Nice... but also just realized that my contacts were mostly stored on Blur... not Google. Used ROM Manager to backup my previous stock ROM. Is there a file anywhere in the backups that can be used to restore the contacts from Blur or something like that? Or do i have to go the route of installing the Aura ROM that still has the Blur accounts stuff?
edit: nevermind. getting too late, and need my contacts, so i just downloaded the Accounts version of Aura and installed that.
Not 100% sure how it works, but I'm pretty sure that the Motoblur website has your contacts synced up there. I think you can download them as a csv and then import to Google or whatever.
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just go to the website and download the file so u can import your contacts to your phone.
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Ok so I flashed my girlfriends phone with Axura 2.1 and ran into problems. I have since ODIN'd about 3 times and reflashed different roms with the same results. I have narrowed it down and tested on my phone. What is happening is when I go to restore contacts I will start getting force close on not only contacts but swype and google framework as well. I was able to place her contacts backup in my titanium folder and produce the same results. I was able to back out of this also by deleting her contacts backup and restoring my own, no force close.
At this point all I want to do is retrieve the contact info. I am able to open the contacts.db file and view in wordpad but it's all over the place and huge. The contacts don't line up with there info. Is there another way to open this file and view this info in a properly formatted way so that I can copy over the info?
You might try attacking the problem from a different angle. All your contacts "should be" synced to your Google account. If so, why not just log into GMail on your computer? Click "Contacts" on the left and then export them as a .vcf (VCard format). You can later import them straight from that exported file on the phone itself using the import/export selection from the contacts app menu.
Yeah unfortunately she never synced her contacts with her google account and they were only saved on the phone. I strictley have mine saved to google just for this reason.
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Ok so I flashed my girlfriends phone with Axura 2.1 and ran into problems. I have since ODIN'd about 3 times and reflashed different roms with the same results. I have narrowed it down and tested on my phone. What is happening is when I go to restore contacts I will start getting force close on not only contacts but swype and google framework as well. I was able to place her contacts backup in my titanium folder and produce the same results. I was able to back out of this also by deleting her contacts backup and restoring my own, no force close.
At this point all I want to do is retrieve the contact info. I am able to open the contacts.db file and view in wordpad but it's all over the place and huge. The contacts don't line up with there info. Is there another way to open this file and view this info in a properly formatted way so that I can copy over the info?
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I had the same thing happen to me, but only after trying to restore a titanium backup of my contacts, that was made while running stock jk6, to a jk2 rom. I don't what the difference is between the two, perhaps framework, dialer, contacts app, all of the above or none. I keep my contacts on my sim card as a backup, so for me they were easily restored. Have you tried to reflash axura then restore contacts to that rom since that was the source rom the backup was made from? If it works, then export contacts to sim, sd, or both.
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I had the same thing happen to me, but only after trying to restore a titanium backup of my contacts, that was made while running stock jk6, to a jk2 rom. I don't what the difference is between the two, perhaps framework, dialer, contacts app, all of the above or none. I keep my contacts on my sim card as a backup, so for me they were easily restored. Have you tried to reflash axura then restore contacts to that rom since that was the source rom the backup was made from? If it works, then export contacts to sim, sd, or both.
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I'll give that a try. Actually the source was stock JK6 and now it's Axura
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I'll give that a try. Actually the source was stock JK6 and now it's Axura
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That makes perfect sense, as the stock jk6 is what did it to me too. I would go back to that one temporarily while you try to retrieve her contacts. Good luck.
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Br1cK'd said:
I had the same thing happen to me, but only after trying to restore a titanium backup of my contacts, that was made while running stock jk6, to a jk2 rom. I don't what the difference is between the two, perhaps framework, dialer, contacts app, all of the above or none. I keep my contacts on my sim card as a backup, so for me they were easily restored. Have you tried to reflash axura then restore contacts to that rom since that was the source rom the backup was made from? If it works, then export contacts to sim, sd, or both.
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Thanks I've been going back and forth all day with this. Flash back to JK6 stock saved contacts both to SIM and Google re-flashed Axura and not a single force close. Worked like a charm, thanks again.
Glad it worked
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Hi,
I did a backup from nandroid before to upgrade to a other ROM. Could we just restore contacts from one of nandroid backup?
If so, which part of the backup should i restore? There are boot,system,data,cache,sd-ext.
Thanks
No, i really don't think there's such app. Just no point to creat it. Spend 20mins and you'll get your stuff back. Backup current ROM -> restore old one -> backup contacts -> restore just created ROM back up.
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Arf, my backup didn't include contacts. I may have done it after downgrading from 1.72 to 1.34 :S
Anyway, i did your solution I went back to RUU, transfer data from my old phone, export contacts to SD. Back to GV1.5 and import contacts from SD.
Could we save contacts from Titanium backup free, because the contacts/call...cts storage 2.3.2 seems to store only call log...
Your phone should automatically backup and restore contacts from whatever google account you have or setup on your phone. There's no need to have a contact backup utility on this OS. If you don't have a data plan then use wifi to do it.
Not everyone wants to sync with google
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Well that's understandable.
There should be an option when you're looking at you contacts to export them to the sdcard. Just pull up the menu and click 'import/export' then export to sdcard. When you restore your phone do the same thing except import from the sdcard. Not sure why 2.3 only exported your call log though, maybe you have to switch the contacts to phone storage o something.
I have synced with google and got many more contacts that are not supposed to be there or the same contact in triple...
How i can delete all contact and try again? Delete one by one is quite annoying
EDIT: I'm on Gingervillain 1.5
just loaded liberty 1.5 on drod x how do i put contacts and games back on my phone
geo1464 said:
justed loaded liberty 1.5 on drod x how do i put contacts and games back on my phone
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When you log into google it should automatically sync your apps and contacts.
Added Gmail still no luck
geo1464 said:
Added Gmail still no luck
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Did you sync all your apps and contacts before you installed Liberty?
No I did not have a gmail
geo1464 said:
No I did not have a gmail
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They only other way would be going back via backup and syncing your stuff with google..you made a backup before installing Liberty right?
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Yes I did will try that
I had the same problem when I flashed Liberty. The way I got around it was by flashing back to my previous ROM, backed up my apps and data with Titanium Backup, and performed and Export of my contacts (found in the menu options while in the Contacts app).
Flashed Liberty again, Imported my contacts (also found in the Contacts menu), and performed a Batch Restore with Titanium Backup.
I've been in love ever since.
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thanks, I have all my apps now but still no contacts when i try to import says no vcard file found
geo1464 said:
thanks, I have all my apps now but still no contacts when i try to import says no vcard file found
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At first glance of this I thought your SD card wasn't being recognized...
But that wouldn't make sense because of the fact that you were able to restore your apps from your SD card.
Check your SD card for a file named 00001.vcf in your SD's root. If you can't find it, then the Export wasn't successful.
Since you already have your APPs back, I would suggest you make a Backup of that in the case that you wanted to try it again. If you do try it again, then make sure that (after you export, but before restoring Liberty) you check your SD card for that file (00001.vcf). If it exported succesfully, then restore Liberty and Import.
Sorry I can't be of more help.
You could simply back up your contacts with mybackup pro and restore them after flashing the rom
Hey all,
OK, so as the title suggests.
I installed and did a backup of my contacts and apps using the MyBackup app and saved my contacts and apps to my SDCard, but they've gone walkabout! Don't ask, cos I don't know how or where they've now gone! Searched the SD card completely and there's nothing! I've since updated to 2.3.3 but MyBackup files have disappeared!
I've found I still have an old *.sbf file that was from my 1.6 to 2.1 update. Hopefully all is not lost and someone can point me in the direction of an app that can strip out the contact info/vCards from here?
Not too fussed by the apps... but a bit concerned I've lost all my contacts?
So... *.sbf app anyone??
Fingers crossed!
Ta
Check if the backups are in sdcard/rerware/
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Check if the backups are in sdcard/rerware/
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Thanks, but as I say, I searched the SDCard and the rerware folder doesn't exist!
The exact same thing happened to me. Luckily I sync all my contacts with google and was able to use back up and restore app to restore my messages and such from an older backup I made a while ago.
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zodiac100 said:
The exact same thing happened to me. Luckily I sync all my contacts with google and was able to use back up and restore app to restore my messages and such from an older backup I made a while ago.
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Thanks... that'll be my last ditched attempt. My GMail account it heaving with contacts so I don't really want to sync my phone unless necessary.
I'm still hopeful there's a legacy .sbf file convertor out there somewhere (?)
Hi everyone, before installing Paranoid. downloaded and had everything backup. Now, trying to get restore everything but my contacts are lost. I did recover everything except my contacts. Where do i find it?
Thanks.
Did you sync them to your Google account? You can re-sync them.
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Tried getting it from my gmail account. but email app says " app isn't installed"
teamjm said:
Hi everyone, before installing Paranoid. downloaded and had everything backup. Now, trying to get restore everything but my contacts are lost. I did recover everything except my contacts. Where do i find it?
Thanks.
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Did u synchronize your gmail account?
That i dont think i did. not sure.
What i also did is copied all my files to desktop. So it has to be here somewhere. Anyone knows which file name? no contacts file or any