i was running modaco 2.2 for a few days, then i installed aosp 1.6 which i like a LOT better. I did a nandroid backup before the 1.6 install, and then did a wipe.
now, is there any way to get my contacts that were backed up with nandroid onto my current rom? i have a backup of modaco and an aosp backup, i need to get JUST the contacts out of my modaco backup...
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Try mounting the SD to your computer, going into the nandroid folder, and see what you can find.
- restore your Nandroid backup
- back up your contacts with a known working app (e.g., WaveSecure)
- zap back to the AOSP ROM
In the future, I recommend syncing your contacts with Google... MUCH easier to manage. Pay attention to the "sync groups" option to avoid syncing contacts you don't want.
x99percent said:
- restore your Nandroid backup
- back up your contacts with a known working app (e.g., WaveSecure)
- zap back to the AOSP ROM
In the future, I recommend syncing your contacts with Google... MUCH easier to manage. Pay attention to the "sync groups" option to avoid syncing contacts you don't want.
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i was thinking about restoring the backup, then syncing all contacts with google, restoring the 1.6 backup, and importing...
another question real quick; in aosp1.6 how can i get the contacts app that i am used to, that syncs with facebook? is it possible?
x99percent said:
- restore your Nandroid backup
- back up your contacts with a known working app (e.g., WaveSecure)
- zap back to the AOSP ROM
In the future, I recommend syncing your contacts with Google... MUCH easier to manage. Pay attention to the "sync groups" option to avoid syncing contacts you don't want.
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I thought syncing with google is one-way. That is, the phone pulls contacts from your google contacts but does not update your google contacts with new numbers/contacts you add on your phone. If I am incorrect, I'd like to know how to keep the contacts both on my phone and google in sync.
bboydru said:
I thought syncing with google is one-way. That is, the phone pulls contacts from your google contacts but does not update your google contacts with new numbers/contacts you add on your phone. If I am incorrect, I'd like to know how to keep the contacts both on my phone and google in sync.
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I can add as a google contact on my phone when I log in later online its their...its how several of my contacts have been put into Gmail. Also, when I need to add a new one with lots of contact info I type it on at the gmail website, then it appears on my phone shortly after.
I think that appointments are only one way.
Kcarpenter said:
I think that appointments are only one way.
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Appointments sync both ways.
Syncing contacts with google is your friend, even if you don't like the idea of backing up contacts in the clouds. I'd suggest making backups online and on your desktop. A little overkill, but you never know if you'll lose one or the other
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In the future, I recommend syncing your contacts with Google... MUCH easier to manage. Pay attention to the "sync groups" option to avoid syncing contacts you don't want.
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I can't find this option for the life of me.
I can't find this option for the life of me.
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On your phone open up your contacts app and using the trackball scroll to the right until you highlight "groups". From there, you can press Menu and be given the options to sync whichever contacts you want. Now, since your contact list is already establish you'll have to do some re-arranging so everything is organized both on the phone and online.
srkmagnus said:
On your phone open up your contacts app and using the trackball scroll to the right until you highlight "groups". From there, you can press Menu and be given the options to sync whichever contacts you want. Now, since your contact list is already establish you'll have to do some re-arranging so everything is organized both on the phone and online.
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Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
but is there a way to get them from a nandroid backup, i unfortunatly have one, but i cant use it, as it just restarts after the lockscreen. idk how to open the files from it.
A new answer to an old question...
If I should just leave this thread alone and make a tutorial, let me know. I was searching for the answer to the question in the OP, and when I couldn't find an answer, I just messed with it for a while. This is for anyone else who ever is looking for this and does a search that pulls this up like I did...
1) Be rooted, have a root file explorer on your phone, and have 7zip on your computer,
2) Put your SD with the Nandroid backup in your computer. Open the backup with 7zip.
3) In 7zip open the data.ext4.tar file.
4) Navigate to ~/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/
5) Pull the databases folder out of the Nandroid backup
Now that you have the databases folder out of the backup, you need to push that to your phone. There are several ways to do this, (adb etc...) but here is one way.
1) Plug your phone in to your computer and enable USB Mass Storage.
2) Drag the folder into your phone somewhere where you will be able to find it.
3) Use your root file explorer to copy the databases folder from your backup, and replace the current databases folder located at ~/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/
VIOLA!
When you open your contacts, all your old contacts from the Nandroid backup will be there.
*** Please let me know if I should put this somewhere else. I know resurrecting an old thread isn't usually good, as it doesn't help the OP. I can post a tutorial if needed, just let me know what forum to put it in, I am new around here. Hopefully this will help someone in the future who has this question. I wasn't able to find it anywhere.
wow your an idiot thx for bumping a thread thats over a year and this shouldnt even matter u can back up all your contacs on your sd card or through your google acount so epic fail for u
Wow man, I already said sorry in advance for pulling up an old thread. There are times where your fancy little backup idea doesn't work out, especially if it isn't your phone, or its too late... I searched for a long time for a way to do this and didn't find anything.
If my post didn't help you, that's your loss, but don't flame me for trying to help guys in the future...
And your fail comment doesn't quite account for all situations. Chill out and be a little more receptive. I'm new to the forums, and that right there makes we want to say "screw helping people" --- I don't think this is the message you would like to send to new members of a forum that you might ask questions on some day.
I'll take my advice elsewhere... As for you, go read a forum that helps you and quit flaming me.
Can we have a moderator delete my original post? Clearly it wasn't appreciated.
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I agree with that
drewahner said:
If I should just leave this thread alone and make a tutorial, let me know.
*** Please let me know if I should put this somewhere else. I know resurrecting an old thread isn't usually good, as it doesn't help the OP. I can post a tutorial if needed, just let me know what forum to put it in, I am new around here. Hopefully this will help someone in the future who has this question. I wasn't able to find it anywhere.
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Dude, I needed this exact procedure tonight. Way faster than a backup/restore/restore, even if your backup works. So we can both be idiots together, I guess. Thanks!!
I constantly flash my phone monthly and its a pain in the [email protected]# to setup all 4 of my email accounts. Is there an APP that saves the info and can easily restore every time we flash?
ZzFDKzZ said:
I constantly flash my phone monthly and its a pain in the [email protected]# to setup all 4 of my email accounts. Is there an APP that saves the info and can easily restore every time we flash?
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What you want to look for is something called RapiConfig
It will get provisioning info, email accounts wifi info from your device and make it into cab files for you.
Got to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=366337
Then search that thread for RapiConfig. There is a lot of info there but it should get you going.
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What you want to look for is something called RapiConfig
It will get provisioning info, email accounts wifi info from your device and make it into cab files for you.
Got to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=366337
Then search that thread for RapiConfig. There is a lot of info there but it should get you going.
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Another option for building the files yourself is here http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=113189
I did not know about RapiConfig...I'll check it out as well.
One more option is Makisu, which is a MortScript app for generating XML files with your credentials. I've used it for my email accounts and for storing my wireless network keys. It comes bundled with Sashimi over at winmo-experts.. if youre constantly flashing your phone, its well worth spending a couple hours learning and setting it up
Damn they are all so complicated. Anything simple like PIM Backup?
ZzFDKzZ said:
Damn they are all so complicated. Anything simple like PIM Backup?
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SPB Backup will backup and restore the PIM data. I've never actually tried to see if it restores the email settings, but I believe that would work. I've used it to restore all the appointments and contacts, but the email accounts were always already on the phone.
It is not free, however.
You can try this also
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=630094
Hey guys I'm currently working on an app that interfaces with contacts. Is there a way in which i can create a dummy phone buck containing 1000+ contacts to stress test the application?
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Hey guys I'm currently working on an app that interfaces with contacts. Is there a way in which i can create a dummy phone buck containing 1000+ contacts to stress test the application?
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you can make a gmail account and sign into the newly created one and just add 100 fake emails/contacts to test the app
hope that helps
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you can make a gmail account and sign into the newly created one and just add 100 fake emails/contacts to test the app
hope that helps
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I was kinda hoping there was some sorta dev tool that would just create that many fake contacts without having to do it manually, but thanks =]
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I was kinda hoping there was some sorta dev tool that would just create that many fake contacts without having to do it manually, but thanks =]
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Export an existing Google Contacts list into a csv and edit that. Make the names something like name 1, name 2 and so on. Basically do the same with the phones numbers and you can easily with very little effort just pull that information back into a gmail contacts again and use that.
Ok guys I know this may have a simple answer but I haven't been able to pinpoint it.
In Accounts & Sync under my Gmail account there is the option to sync Google Docs, ok , where do they sync to? I have looked all through my SD card and system folders with Root Explorer and haven't been able to find it...
Thanks ahead for any input from all of you...
there is a google docs app u have to install
It must be a temp folder as those documents are not stored in the phone
Well I do have Docs installed but if it's syncing then it must be putting the files somewhere to make them readily accessible....
But I may be wrong
/data/data/com.google.android.apps.docs/
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/data/data/com.google.android.apps.docs/
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Hey thanks jhotmann.... I sent you a thanks too...
Ok I hadn´t gotten as far as that folder. Aight I saw in there a database list that I opened with SQLite and it has all the names of everything I had in google docs, so am I to assume that it doesn't physically download anything, just keeps a list of what is there and keeps up with changes in those documents?
cdzo72 said:
Hey thanks jhotmann.... I sent you a thanks too...
Ok I hadn´t gotten as far as that folder. Aight I saw in there a database list that I opened with SQLite and it has all the names of everything I had in google docs, so am I to assume that it doesn't physically download anything, just keeps a list of what is there and keeps up with changes in those documents?
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I dont know of any app that actually keeps a full copy of all the google docs in the phone.
However my solution is use ( kind of limited but... )
1. syncdocs.com to sync google docs file to PC and
2. use missingsync to sync folder in PC with my sd card.
The result is anyfile that i edit in phone gets synced to google docs and vice verssa.
Hi, I would love to have an app similiar to colornote which saves the notes into a .txt file so that I can easily sync it with "FolderSync" (or smiliar) via my own server and simply open the .txt file on my computer. Is there anything like that? :S
Maybe a simple notepad would do it as well ?
Thanks
You really could have googled this... or just searched the market.
Even dropbox saves ".txt" files.
I need an app on android which will let me edit .txt files.. which are saved on the SD-Card.
And **** dropbox. I want to sync the files on my own server. Preferable as soon as the file changes. Maybe FolderSync will do the syncing job. Still I need an note-taking app. ColorNote would be awesome but it doesn't save the notes on the sd-card?
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I need an app on android which will let me edit .txt files.. which are saved on the SD-Card.
And **** dropbox. I want to sync the files on my own server. Preferable as soon as the file changes. Maybe FolderSync will do the syncing job. Still I need an note-taking app. ColorNote would be awesome but it doesn't save the notes on the sd-card?
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F nothing, stop being noob in a development forum.
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.paulmach.textedit
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Thanks.. now I just need to figure out how to sync the file on my ftp as soon as it changes :>
Looks like tasker will do that.