I export my contact to the usb memory to factort reset a friend phone because play store was fc every time it opens. When it factory reset and i try to find the vcf file and the pictures all was deleted. Why? This never happends to me in any android device. What I did wrong. He loose almost 1000 contacts about his work and people that ows he money is there a way i can find back all of his contacts?
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Are his contacts synced with google/gmail?
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Are his contacts synced with google/gmail?
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Not all of them. Just 74 out of 1000
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Have you checked his contacts using the link on Gmail? Google backs up contact changes for 30 days, so he may still have them stored under his contacts in Gmail.
by "usb memory" do you mean you exported/saved the vcf file to a flash drive, micro sd or some other form of external storage? if so, and you connect that storage media to a PC, i'm assuming you cannot locate the file?
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After a pretty bad experience and almost loosing all my contacts with the basic export contacts feature, I decided to do what I should have done in the first place...
Is there a decent app that allows you to export all contacts (to an excel doc for ex.) after which you could edit them from the PC and import them back on to the phone? Doing this without loosing linked contacts and synced to FB.
Why don't you use Google contacts?
Do you have a Gmail account?
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can you export from phone contacts to google contacts easily or do you have to add them manually to google contacts?
Do you have a Gmail (/Google account). If so plus you connected it to your phone than it's very easy.
Which phone/version of android do you have?
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Ofcourse Google itself is the best option.
But there is an app which exports all contact in to once single .vcf file.
Try searching marketplace.
rackspace said:
Ofcourse Google itself is the best option.
But there is an app which exports all contact in to once single .vcf file.
Try searching marketplace.
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Exporting to .vcf is the method I used without any app installed, using the phone's basic function, but after reimporting back I lost the FB synced contacts and besides opening and editing the .vcf file in excel is not so user friendly
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Do you have a Gmail (/Google account). If so plus you connected it to your phone than it's very easy.
Which phone/version of android do you have?
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I have an account and I will probably try it also, using android 2.1-update1.
www.google.com/contacts
Yea it worked great with google in 15 minutes or so... wish I thought of that before wasting 2 hrs with other methods
That's fine. You'll see the true benefit of this method soon. ;-)
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Ok, so: my main goal is to load my contacts that I saved on an app called iDrive Lite from my iPhone 3GS.
I now have my Vibrant. I am able to load my contacts on to my Vibrant using the iDrive Lite app from the marketplace no problem. However, once the phone gets restarted...those contacts are gone. And they will not sync with Google, for whatever reason. So my next guess is to try and use an app called UIA Backup Contacts....which should let me back up my contacts that I have currently on my phone (after using iDrive to restore) and I should be able to save as a CSV and email to myself, and upload to my Gmail account.
Well, when I try doing this, it backs up to about 44%, and I get this error:
Sorry! The application Backup Contacts (process no.uia.android.backupcontacts) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. dumpstate_app_201009022121_no_uia_android_backupcontacts.log has been saved. Use *#9900# to copy out log. and all I can click is force close.
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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve this? I don't want to manually add my contacts if I do not have to.
Apparently no one knows, 40 views and no replies.
Bump....
Can you export those to a pc then use that pc to add them into gmail via your desktop? Then they would be in your contacts.
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Not sure...have not tried. Don't know how to do that either?
Ok so I figured out I can't export either. I try and it can't read my contacts when I try to import. Only imports my manually added ones.
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This calls for a bump.
there's the old fashioned way - covert to (iirc) .csv file and upload from your pc to google, and let google download them automatically or go do a sync manually (Menu > settings > accounts and synch)
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there's the old fashioned way - covert to (iirc) .csv file and upload from your pc to google, and let google download them automatically or go do a sync manually (Menu > settings > accounts and synch)
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I have tried both of these methods. The conversion didn't work, it didn't recognize the ones that I loaded from the iDrive Lite app. Only recognized the contacts I manually added.
Same with the syncing manually.
Additionally, I am unable to edit any of the contacts that I restored from iDrive Lite... it says:
Unable to edit SNS contacts on phone
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Very strange.. but my other contacts that I sync with google or add manually, I can edit fine.
Hmm, still no solution.
Time for a bump.
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Hmm, still no solution.
Time for a bump.
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Do you still have your 3gs? If so do a google sync backup to the google server then they will transfer to your phone. I have been doing this since my G1 and i went through two iphones and another not to be mentioned phone.
No I do not still have my 3GS.
Can you load the file into outlook then sync with Google?
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For all those "bumps" you could spent that time doing research. A quick visit to their site reveals there is an android app. Since youve trusted them with your contacts already...install it on your vibrant and restore them from the idrive cloud. http://www.idrive.com/idrive-lite/index.html
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Ill eat crow. I forgot you have already done that. My fault.
Try uninstalling the app and reinstalling it on your vibrant.
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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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Where do android contacts store data locally? I mean the data of the contacts as vcf or whatever file on the phone.
And are the data in the same place with third party synced contacts like Facebook sync?
I believe that they are stored in the phone's internal memory
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if you back up your contacts to a "v" card file saved on your pc then you can import/export to your hearts content.
or save em and update via google if you run a gmail account.
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Where do android contacts store data locally? I mean the data of the contacts as vcf or whatever file on the phone.
And are the data in the same place with third party synced contacts like Facebook sync?
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I think in /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/
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I think in /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/
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Found it there. Thx
I'm unable to sync my Google Contact from the last 2 weeks.
And I've been try some Rom like JellyShot, TSM, greenblue's Rom, rasbeanjelly, but the error still occurs.
Anyone has the same experience?
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I'm unable to sync my Google Contact from the last 2 weeks.
And I've been try some Rom like JellyShot, TSM, greenblue's Rom, rasbeanjelly, but the error still occurs.
Anyone has the same experience?
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Does it happen via data or WiFi?
Or both?
Did u verify that they didn't sync by going to desktop site to actually see if they didn't actually sync?
Is it all Google accounts, or just certain ones....
contacts, gmail, voice, pictures, books... etc?
Worse case, sign out and resign in to see if helps
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Zahih said:
I'm unable to sync my Google Contact from the last 2 weeks.
And I've been try some Rom like JellyShot, TSM, greenblue's Rom, rasbeanjelly, but the error still occurs.
Anyone has the same experience?
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From time to time I have problems with contacts not displaying the pictures and/or numbers etc.
I clear the data for the "Contacts Storage" in Apps and then re-sync. Maybe you could try that and see what happens - Just make sure that you can correctly see your contacts in Gmail on your PC or laptop first and they are backed up!
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Does it happen via data or WiFi?
Or both?
Did u verify that they didn't sync by going to desktop site to actually see if they didn't actually sync?
Is it all Google accounts, or just certain ones....
contacts, gmail, voice, pictures, books... etc?
Worse case, sign out and resign in to see if helps
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This sync error occurs both for mobile data and Wifi.
And the sync errors only for contacts. Gmail, browser, photos, and calendar successfully synchronized.
I have tried to sign out then sign in again, but not works, still unable to sync for contacts.
Thanks anyway.
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From time to time I have problems with contacts not displaying the pictures and/or numbers etc.
I clear the data for the "Contacts Storage" in Apps and then re-sync. Maybe you could try that and see what happens - Just make sure that you can correctly see your contacts in Gmail on your PC or laptop first and they are backed up!
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Thanks, I will try your step later once I get home, I left my laptop at home.
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Zahih said:
This sync error occurs both for mobile data and Wifi.
And the sync errors only for contacts. Gmail, browser, photos, and calendar successfully synchronized.
I have tried to sign out then sign in again, but not works, still unable to sync for contacts.
Thanks anyway.
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maybe your contac database at gmail was corrupted make another gmail account and copy your contacts to the new gmail and try your phone with the new gmail to sync.
I seem to be seeing after looking that I have the same issue. So I did a couple things like signing in and out and that didn't work. I backed up my contacts and deleted my contacts and that didn't work. However I did find something that works.
1. Export your contacts to SD card so you don't lose anything.
2. Go to Settings and find your Google Account and uncheck Contacts to sync.
3. Go to Settings/Apps slide over to all apps.
4. Go down to Contacts. Force stop and clear data.
5. Go to Contact Storage. Force stop and clear data.
6. Go back to your Google Account and recheck Contacts to sync.
At that point you should notice it takes a few seconds longer to sync but when finished showed it completed. If you lose any contacts actually in the Gmail remember you exported your contacts so you still have them.
To export contacts:
Go to Contacts, hit Menu, then click Import/Export and save to SD card.
I recommend exporting contacts on a reasonable basis anyhow uncase anything happens to the phone and/or Gmail so you still have a hard copy on your SD card. You can never be to sure.
I hope this helps and remember to thank me by clicking the thanks.
Edit: I'm also finding if you are running HaxSync that the problem happens more. May be a bug.
Great alternative to HaxSync is Facebook Contact Sync. Link Below:
http://goo.gl/zL8dM
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I seem to be seeing after looking that I have the same issue. So I did a couple things like signing in and out and that didn't work. I backed up my contacts and deleted my contacts and that didn't work. However I did find something that works.
1. Export your contacts to SD card so you don't lose anything.
2. Go to Settings and find your Google Account and uncheck Contacts to sync.
3. Go to Settings/Apps slide over to all apps.
4. Go down to Contacts. Force stop and clear data.
5. Go to Contact Storage. Force stop and clear data.
6. Go back to your Google Account and recheck Contacts to sync.
At that point you should notice it takes a few seconds longer to sync but when finished showed it completed. If you lose any contacts actually in the Gmail remember you exported your contacts so you still have them.
To export contacts:
Go to Contacts, hit Menu, then click Import/Export and save to SD card.
I recommend exporting contacts on a reasonable basis anyhow uncase anything happens to the phone and/or Gmail so you still have a hard copy on your SD card. You can never be to sure.
I hope this helps and remember to thank me by clicking the thanks.
Edit: I'm also finding if you are running HaxSync that the problem happens more. May be a bug.
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Hey.. It works...
My Google contacts now able to synchronized again.
Many thanks.. :thumbup:
And yes I also using haxsync.
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Zahih said:
Hey.. It works...
My Google contacts now able to synchronized again.
Many thanks.. :thumbup:
And yes I also using haxsync.
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Another great alternative to HaxSync is Facebook Contact Sync. I will update my above post with the Play Store link.
It happened for me also with Haxsync when I used the upload pics back to Google option. I unselected it, readded the Google account and it was fine again.
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I can say without a doubt that HaxSync causes this problem. 3 phones now this has happened with and I can reproduce it.