Ok so basically I exported my contacts into my sd and have 2 vcards.
I factory restored after I updated to 4.4 stock, first one says Failed to Import, The format is not supported
The other it just says contacts will be imported and takes extremely long and doesn't import even after 20 mins...
Any way I can get these contacts back? They didn't sync to my google account
Does it work if you manually copied them to internal storage and then tried to import?
jmjoyas said:
Does it work if you manually copied them to internal storage and then tried to import?
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I basically exported them to a sd card before I factory reset everything.
I tried to look at the vcards on mac osx, not all the contacts were there, only about 20% of them. I exported 2 vcards just to be safe....one says none are found and the other barely has 20% of the contacts
hmm well I think I did do a titanium back up, not sure if it is a full backup but I only have access to 4.4 S4's which are stock....I see a titanium backup folder on the sd card though
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ok, so in my attempt to format my SD card at 4 am because of corrupted data, i accidently went to CLEAR STORAGE under SYSTEM and i guess i just formatted my device =\
now i have 2 problems. how do i format my memory card and is there a way i can restore my contacts at all? Activesync help says go to BACKUP/RESTORE but i dont have that under TOOLS for some reason. i think i have a backup of all my files in my ACTIVESYNC dir and DOCS AND SETTINGS.
i really messed up this time. someone please help.
thanks in advance.
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ok, so in my attempt to format my SD card at 4 am because of corrupted data, i accidently went to CLEAR STORAGE under SYSTEM and i guess i just formatted my device =\
now i have 2 problems. how do i format my memory card and is there a way i can restore my contacts at all? Activesync help says go to BACKUP/RESTORE but i dont have that under TOOLS for some reason. i think i have a backup of all my files in my ACTIVESYNC dir and DOCS AND SETTINGS.
i really messed up this time. someone please help.
thanks in advance.
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I you have previously synced your contacts with Outlook through ActiveSync all you have to do is to Restore your contacts is to connect your device to your computer and the contacts are autmatically sent to your device. If you also want to sync all other files from your active sync folder on the PC back to your device you could to this: After you sync for the first time, ActiveSync will probably make a new ActiveSync-folder, using the new name of the device. Go to the old AS-folder and copy all files. Paste those in the New AS-folder a sync again.
i resyned and it kept the same ACtivesync name, but none of my information came back! im screwed!!!!
how do i format my miniSD card? it is corrupted and File Explorer wont let me delete the info and my laptop wont detect the card with the SD adapter.
Help!
Hi there,
I just upgrade my hd2 to Android (Mdeejay_eVo_sense), may i know how to use PIM Backup to restore all of my contacts, SMS, etc since i already switch to android? I haven't seen much information on PIM for Android so I was wondering if anyone else had other suggestions? Anyone have any experiences with them? The PIMbackup file is still in my SD card. How to retrieve and put in the Android?
I cant seem to connect to my laptop after install Android? Any idea?
Appreciate your help. Thanks a bunch!
What file type is you Pim backup? You can load some contact files straight into gmail using your browser, as for pc connection you need to activate it in android
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sync with gmail account then when you're on android, it will load all your contacts and agenda
Funambol is good for contacts. Haven't used it in a minute tho. Not sure of any new features. There is a winmo version and and android one, making the tranfer fairly painless
Try this: it's the method to convert pim backup files (pib) into some files android can read BUT you have to replace Step 4 with the following:
4. Put the csv file on the root of your SD Card.
5. When on Android (AOSP/Cyanogenmod builds) Home screen, press the phone icon, then go to the contacts tab, press the windows key (acting as the menu key), then select import contacts, import from sd card, and wait until it finds the csv file, then select it and wait (better plug your phone to the charger, it can take up to 10 minutes depending on how many small files you have on your SD card), et voila.
Done
p.s: it looks a lot like this, but it takes you 3 to 4 minutes to be to step 5.
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edit: you don't need to sync with Gmail if, just like me, you don't want Google to have a copy of all your contacts.
Thanks guys for the tips! Truly appreciate it!
I'm now using forelli's method, i followed the step till the 5th step. However, when i press "Import from SD Card", it shows that "Scanning Sd card failed (Reason" No vCard file found on the SD card)?? But i already inserted csv in SD card. any idea??
I had to do a hard reset and I have lost all of my contacts. Before doing the reset I saved all the files on my HD2 to my computer.
Anyone know where contacts file is located so I can import it?
you can use pim backup to save your contacts and many other things
Wasn't aware of that one, will definitely use that in the future.
Given that I wasn't wise enough to back up with PIM first, and only saved all the files onto my computer...any idea how to restore contacts now?
What format did you save them onto your computer in? You might be able to import them into Outlook and synchronize them.
I just copied the folder in the root directory and the storage card folder and pasted them onto pc
Which folder? To my knowledge there is no such folder.
contacts are not stored in a folder. They are stored in a "database". The file is PIM.VOL located at the root of the device. Theoritically, I guess you could copy it to the PC (or SD card) and overwrite it after a hard reset. Except it's locked by the system, so you would first have to kill the handle to the file. Many tools allow this kind of trick on PC's but I haven't found one on WM yet
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I am using HyperdroidV1.7 with windows Mobile Artemis V 50. Unfortunately I lost my phone contacts under windows. Using android all contacts are still there. Is there a way to copy them back to simcard using android or copy files back to windows mobile ?
Thanks for your help.
So, I've never had to use Titanium Backup's restore, although recently my LE I/O tab soft-bricked and I had to flash a new ROM, which, I think, formatted all my user data, which I assume is where TB saves it's backups since there is no SD card on this version... I hadn't actually installed TB on the device yet, so I didn't have any backups, but I will never let that happen again, if I can help it. Losing everything sucked.
So, that said, what is the best workflow for backing up and restoring applications and settings when there is no SD card on a device?
Check out Titanium Media Sync
Let's you sync your back-ups to the cloud via drop box or FTP.
So even if your phone is run over and the SDcard (internal or removable) is destroyed; you still have your back-ups.
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Check out Titanium Media Sync
Let's you sync your back-ups to the cloud via drop box or FTP.
So even if your phone is run over and the SDcard (internal or removable) is destroyed; you still have your back-ups.
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Awesome. I actually found out the Pro version of TB has built-in support for synchronizing with Dropbox. I now have my entire tab backed up in the cloud. Hopefully I'll never have to use it
Hey there,
so today I upgraded my phone to the KitKat OS, but I lost all my contacts! It would appear that the contacts for my Droid X was actually stored on the internal memory for some reason (unless I'm mistaken. Where are they usually stored if they were stored on the SD card? I can't seem to find them). I never synced it to my Gmail account either. I think there should be a way to recover them if I could get into my internal memory, but I can't seem to be able to access it. Is there anyway to access the internal memory on the Droid X?
Unless you made a nandroid backup in cwm, before installing ROM, contacts are gone.
Use Gmail to control your contacts